Cash Stash Keychain
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The Cash Stash Keychain(GBP 5; about $8) will let you store a £20 note or a $20 bill in a wate..(more...
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Shure Introduces Pro Headphones Line
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Today, Shure announced a new line of "professional" headphones. The good news for you: They aren't any more expensive, really, than the company's mid-level earphones for consumers.
BlackBerry Desktop Software for OS X coming in September (!!!!!)
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RIM has been blasted for years about not have a native OS X BlackBerry application but that should stop in September when BlackBerry Desktop Software will be released.
Review: HTC Hero
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There is a fairly standard montage in the canon of bad 80s movies. It involves the protagonist(s) working hard to build/do/invent something to beat the stuck up and dismissive antagonists.
Distant Early Warning cards
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Help yourself to a a Flickr set of Marshall McLuhan's Distant Early Warning cards, presumably inspiration for Eno/Schmidt's Oblique Strategies; "designed for you to pick a card when you need inspiration from a McLuhanesque thought."(more...
Microsoft releases Office 2008 Service Pack 2
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Filed under: SoftwareToday, Microsoft released the Office 2008 Service Pack 2 update. This update brings many improvements and fixes to Office 2008, including improved speed and stability to Word and Excel, new features in PowerPoint, as well as improvements to connecting to SharePoint servers.
So what happened to the original Apollo tapes, anyway?
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Sure, it's awesome that NASA is restoring the footage they have of the Apollo 11 moon landing, but what really happened to the original slow-scan telemetry tapes that the highest resolution footage was recorded on? Rumors abound about them being lost forever, or found again.
Apollo Missions Driving Moon Lander Design at NASA
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The Apollo missions marked a turning point in human history. They changed the political climate of the day, made many tech advances possible, and inspired future scientists and astronomers the world over.
Citroën Creates Real Car Based on Video Game Version
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Citroën has confirmed it will build six examples of a $2.1 million GT supercar based on the automaker's design for the PS3 game Gran Turismo 5, according to the New York Times.The two-seater GT will feature gull-wing doors and a carbon fiber body.
Special edition Street Fighter IV arcade sticks at San Diego Comic Con
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To celebrate the awesomeness that is the San Diego Comic Con, which makes the New York Comic Con look like single-A baseball, Mad Catz will be handing out special edition Street Fighter IV arcade sticks to attendees. Well, “handing out,” for a price.
Apollo Anniversary NYT Puzzles
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The NY Times published a set of eight space-themed puzzles to commemorate the Moon landing. The answers will be published tomorrow. Until then, good luck!
Toshiba Digital Media Frames with photo downloads & streaming media
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Toshiba have announced three new digital photo frames, and we’re pleased to see that they’ve squeezed WiFi into them. The new range of “Digital Media Frames” consists of an 8-inch model, available in black (DMF82XK) or white (DMF82XWU), or a black 10-inch frame (DMF102XKU).
Fast & Furious Blu-ray gets iPhone Profile 2.0 app
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Fast & Furious and finger-friendly? Universal Studios have revealed that the Blu-ray special edition version of the film Fast & Furious will be accompanied by an iPhone and iPod touch app that allows viewers to navigate a virtual garage on their big-screen TV.
Lexar rolls out fastest Crucial SSDs to date, the M225
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SSDs are still mad expensive, but Lexar has just announced a wicked fast line of Crucial SSDs, M225. Available in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, the 2.5-inch drives boast 250MB/sec read speeds and 200MB/sec write speeds (256GB model). All three drives sport a SATA 2.0 interface and a five-year warranty.
Moon Landing Pics: “Gee-Whiz” Afterthought
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This is, perhaps, the most famous photo from the Apollo Moon landing. It was taken by Neil Armstrong, who shot most of the pics taken on the Lunar surface using a Hasselblad 500EL camera outfitted with a Zeiss Biogon f-5.6/60 mm lens and 70mm Kodak film that was "thin-based and thin emulsion...
Top 10 coolest light gadgets
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Here is a new Top 10 list containing the coolest lamp and light gadgets out there at the moment. Above you can see the Lightblade Umbrella that got the 4th place on the list. A lot more after the jump. 10.)
2009 Ideas that Matter deadline extended
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We're excited to announce that Sappi Fine Paper has extended the deadline for their 2009 Ideas that Matter competition to July 31st.
HP ProBook 4310s ultraportable hits shelves from $779
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It’s not just HP’s blunt-edged Mini 5101 netbook that has gone on sale today; the ProBook 4310s ultraportable is also a débutante to HP’s online store.
Universal Remote Control debuts the MX-5000 touchscreen remote
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URC has thrown down the gauntlet and let loose the sexy MX-5000 universal remote. Look at that thing. It’s stunning, but the looks is only have the equation as this is the first remote on the market with a haptic feedback touchscreen.
Continue Time: The Best Damn Clock Ever
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Really awesome: Continue Time is a clock with only one hand, which isn’t as limiting as it sounds. You see, the single arm is broken into three segments, which rotate independently to represent the hour, minutes, and seconds respectively.
Urban McHugly
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The Urban McHugly($TBA) is an iPhone crony to house your iphone, as soon as your iPhone rings, his L..(more...
Palm looking to release game-friendly webOS framework?
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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Gaming, Mobile As the iPhone App Store continues to grow, Palm Pre owners are stuck with a rather slim selection of apps so far. The recently released SDK will help alleviate that problem, though there are some major differences between the...
Pocket-sized Thermal Imaging Camera From LumaSense Technologies
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LumaSense Technologies has released the brand new Mikron MikroSHOTTM-B thermal imaging camera that can capture both infrared and visible images by a single click in temperature ranges of 5F to 122F (-15C to 50C).
Calling out, around the world?
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Why Japan's Smartphones Haven't Gone Global is a toe-dip into the case study of factors that have limited export of Japan's cutting-edge mobile phone innovations.
Universal Remote Control MX-5000 haptic touchscreen remote
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Universal Remote Control (URC) have announced their latest mode, the MX-5000, offering a haptic feedback touchscreen. Based around the same technology as the URC MX-6000, only with a more traditional form-factor, the MX-5000 supports two-way communication via WiFi b/g and RF.
Shoulder shrug: Kazaa is coming back, legally
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So it looks like the hot, new trend is to buy the name of old peer-to-peer applications, then “resurrect” said application. Such is the case with Kazaa, which was the biggest P2P application in the post-Napster extravaganza of the early 2000s.
