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G-Force Raises the Bar on 3D Graphics

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Recently I got a chance to sneak a peek at Disney's new film, G-Force. No, we aren't doing movie reviews here at Gearlog, but I wanted to see if the 3D graphics were all they're cracked up to be. Truth be told, the movie looked pretty cutting-edge.

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Reality doesn’t get more real: 2 iPhone views of the NYC subway

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Filed under: iPhone, App StoreThere are two bits of knowledge that all native New Yorkers are gifted with: where to get "the best" pizza (Grimaldi's on the Brooklyn waterfront, in case you were wondering), and exactly where to stand on the subway platform so as to arrive at the destination station...

Back-to-School Savings: Wal-Mart’s Colorful Laptops & Accessories

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Need to add some zing to your dorm room or bedroom? Wal-Mart is offering some colorful laptops and accessories as part of its back-to-school sale.Dell Inspiron 1545 Laptop - $498Featuring a 250GB hard drive, 3GB RAM, a 15.6-inch screen, and an Intel Celeron Dual Core T3000 processor, the 1545...

Heavy breathing on the internet is almost a reality

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Breath over IP is a project that uses a bunch of DIY gear to send breath over the Internet. Breathe into the sensors on one end, and make a fan spin somewhere else in the world!

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft Armory App for iPhone looks darn good

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This is the only World of Warcraft iPhone App you'll ever need. Blizzard has just released World of Warcraft Mobile Armory, which gives players of the game full access to the Armory. (The Armory tracks player and item stats and the like. It's essential for “real” players of the game.)

UnPirate: Checking out alternatives to Dragon Naturally Speaking

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Section: Computers, Software / Applications, Gadgets / Other, Lifestyle, Peripherals, Web, Web Apps Dragon Naturally Speaking is the bestselling software that offers speech recognition technology. With the software, you can use a headset to dictate and have your words turned into emails,...

The LG BL40 is real, is long

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If there were any doubts in your mind that the LG BL40 (otherwise known as "the longest phone in the entire world") video that got out a few days ago was anything but real, let them be cast away.

Nintendo has no plans to ship black Wii to the US or any other colored Wii

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What? Did you really think that Nintendo was going to send the US something as cool as a black Wii? Straight from the horse’s mouth via GameDaily.

Palm opens the Mojo SDK for all, new Pre apps forthcoming

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Prepare yourself for the onslaught of tip calculators and flashlights, friends, because the Mojo SDK for Pre’s WebOS is out and ready to rock. You can download it right here and start coding immediately, if not sooner.

Dynamism Special Event: Free Accessories with Viliv S5 MID

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Starting at 1 p.m. EST today and running through August 5, 2009, you can get a free spare battery, car kit, and leather pouch with your purchase of the $600 Viliv S5 Premium Mobile Internet Device (MID) on Dynamism.com.

Nikon acknowledges D5000 power-on issue, fix coming next week

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So apparently the Nikon D5000 DSLR has a small problem where it doesn’t always turn on. Nikon has just issued a service advisory where the company address the issue. In short, if your D5000 has a certain serial number, you will be able to ship it off to Nikon starting on July 23, 2009.

ASUS Eee PC 1101HA gets video unboxing

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What’s that, you say? Why, it’s ASUS’ Eee PC 1101HA, the 11.6-inch Atom Z520 model from the company’s slippery Seashell range, and it’s sat next to the packaging it so recently was unboxed from.

Intel push for CULV “ultra-thin” adoption over netbooks

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Intel has continued its attempts to coax the industry into CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) so-called “ultra-thin” notebooks rather than netbooks, highlighting the shortcomings of the latter devices which, ironically, are generally based on the company’s own Atom N270 processor.

Palm Mojo SDK Released

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Palm has just released it’s Mojo SDK for WebOS, it is now available to download, and anyone with a valid email address can download the SDK.

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Gizmodo ’79

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Gizmodo's been gadget bloggin' the 70s. Essential reading. [Gizmodo]

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Apple G3 Wall Clock

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Some of our readers may remember the cool Apple G4 Clock that we featured on the site back in January, now there is a new version available, the Apple G3 Wall Clock.

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D.C. police chief doesn’t want you to use iPhone Apps to detect traffic cameras

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This is a few days old, so apologies in advance for that. Anyway, the Washington D.C. police chief, Cathy Lanier, has chided people who use radar-detecting technology, including iPhone applications, for their “cowardly tactic.”

HTC Hero unboxing video and Sense UI overview

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It feels like we’ve been waiting ages for the HTC Hero to arrive, but the company’s third – and perhaps most exciting – Android smartphone is finally on the SlashGear test-bench.

Continue Time Clock

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Continue Time designed by Sander Mulder. This clock is connected the seconds hand to the minutes han..(more...

Stage lights go green

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Even "treading the boards" is going a bit greener: that there is the Vari-Lite VLX, the world's first high power LED theater light, designed by British firm Cambridge Industrial Design.

Japanese trials: Generating electricity from footfalls

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Turning treadmills and revolving doors into power sources is a neat, if somewhat obvious, idea; a less intuitive concept is to reap power from a flat floor, which was recently tested by NEDO, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan.

No, @Oprah doesn’t really want you to watch that pirated copy of Harry Potter

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If you’re following celebrities like Oprah, Michael Arrington, and Justin Timberlake you might find that folks are retweeting some odd stuff purportedly originally posted by the aforementioned celebrities.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 dated for PSN, XBLA

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Get ready to throw down $15 Capcom’s Marvel vs. Capcom 2 via the PlayStation Network on August 13. Xbox 360 owners will get the downloadable title two weeks before on July 29. That is all.

Attacking the Laptop Hunters Ad Attacker

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Seeing Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner croon about Apple’s legal boys calling him up about the Laptop Hunters Ads, I was reminded of this smug and dismissive rant by cockyjeremy. He typifies the I’m-better-than-you attitude of the Steve Jobs fans club.

Google Reader stops being a wallflower, gets more social

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Section: Web, Web 2.0, Web Apps, Websites, Google Google Reader is down with the whole social scene, just like Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed with 4 new ways to share content. Google Reader is adding “fun” social elements like following, liking, and searching. But is it...

LucasArts will show some Star Wars love at San Diego Comic Con

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The San Diego Comic Con is next week, and there’s bound to be more than a few video game announcements worth paying attention to. Chief among them, maybe: what’s LucasArts up to?

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