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Tim Wigmore’s Upcycled Giddyup Rocking Stool

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Each Giddyup is unique, no two saddles will be the same. Tim Wigmore's Giddyup Rocking Stool($940) is made from old worn leather saddle, FSC certified gaboon marine grade plywood & natural oil finish. If you want to ride horse? Let's go from this."

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Cow USB Hub

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Here’s a fun new USB 2.0 compliant 4-port hub for those of you who enjoyed the colorful USB cow speaker that we wrote about here at GeekAlerts late last year.

The Shoe Phone

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Here’s a gadget for all the James Bond fans out there, ideal for those secret spy missions when you need to conceal a mobile phone, the Shoe Phone .

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64 Bit Processor Issues

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This is a warning to anyone that is going to purchase a new computer. It seems that major computer stores are really starting to push 64 bit processors. Now, that’s great and all, but there are some things you need to consider before you do that.

Panasonic Z1 1-inch wireless plasma costs $6k

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It’s 54-inches, it’s plasma, it’s just 1-inch thick and it’s got wireless HDMI - are you really all that surprised that the Panasonic Z1 Plasma HDTV is expensive?

OCZ Set to Release the Neutrino, a Customizable Netbook

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Many netbooks are fine the way they are, but what if you were able to pick your hard disk, RAM, and OS?

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Top 5 Free Web-Based Instant Messengers

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How many times you faced a situation wherein you are not able to access your favorite instant messenger just because it is blocked at your work place. Also, sometimes it becomes very difficult to manage so many instant messengers at the same time installed in your system.

CrunchDeals: Boston Acoustics 5.1 setup for $249.99

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In case you missed the Marantz speaker bar CrunchDeal from yesterday, Amazon is back with a decent deal on a true 5.1 setup from Boston Acoustics. It may not be as sexy as the speaker bar, but it will probably sound better thanks to dedicated rear speaker placement.

Philips GoGear Spark PMPs with OLED display

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Philips has rolled out a new range of super-compact PMPs, the Philips GoGear Spark. Each measuring 41 x 41 x 15 mm and featuring an OLED display, the new PMPs are available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities, as well as with optional FM tuners. The OLED display measures 1.46-inches and comes in at...

Western Digital 8TB ShareSpace NAS

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Western Digital comes back with an 8TB ShareSpace NAS that is priced at a hefty $1,700. This DLNA-certified NAS is perfect for media streaming purposes to devices including the Xbox 360 and PS3.

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Some guy says the Palm Pre is “officially delayed”

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Some guy over at some blog is spouting off about the Pre being delayed. He says a Palm design employee tipped him off “that the Pre is officially delayed.” Palm went on the defensive this morning on Twitter and said it was still on track for first half of 2009.

Morning tech deals highlights

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#8998; Hard Drive ndash; Newegg is selling the Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA hard drive for $90, or about $10 off. It won't be long before my Infrant NAS gets a big upgrade, considering its four drives currently don't even RAID up to a single terabyte.

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Interview with designer Ronald Shakespear: “Making the City Legible”

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Icograda has posted an interview with Ronald Shakespear, a man who has spent fifty years as a designer and educator, including a long-running stint as head professor of the University of Buenos Aires' Division of Architecture, Design and Urbanism.

Steampunk Architecture by David Trautrimas

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Canadian artist David Trautrimas has created a series of digitally composite steampunk style Habitat Machines. These are compositions of residences made from everyday machines like coffee pots and sprinklers, staplers...

BlackBerry App World Launches

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RIM has launched their ‘App World’ application store for BlackBerry handsets, where BlackBerry users can download applications much like the Apple iPhone App store.

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The Beatles: Rock Band–Date, Pricing Revealed

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I'm not sure who these "Beatles" are, but apparently a lot of people have taken to them. I think they might be new. Of course that hasn't stopped them for getting their own video game. Harmonix and MTV have come together to bring the world a Beatles-centric version of Rock Band.

Transcend New StoreJet Portable Hard Drive

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Transcend Information today releases the new addition to its StoreJet portable hard drive series. Dubbed as the StoreJet 25M-R, this external hard drive is currently available in 250GB and 320GB storage capacities.

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Amazon starts video game trade-in service

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Hot damn, you can trade your old crappy video games in to Amazon now and get Amazon gift cards dropped into your account. As someone who buys a lot of crap from Amazon.com, I can best describe my feelings about this as “excited” and “happy”, among others.

CrunchDeals: Xbox Live Gold membership for $40

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In the off chance that you guys haven’t logged onto your Xbox in the last few days I wanted to tell you that there’s an in-dash special on Xbox Live Gold memberships. For a limited time Silver members can upgrade to Gold for $40. That is all.

Is Kindle for iPhone killing sales of Kindle for your hand?

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BusinessWeek talked to some analysts about the Kindle for iPhone and we all know where that leads: disappointment and discouragement. The Kindle for iPhone will cut into sales of the $359 Kindle, allowing cheapskates to pay $9.99 for books they can read on their iPhones using free software.

New Samsung Q1 UMPC, the Q1EX

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Remember UMPCs? They’re like netbooks but smaller, less keyboard-y and more expensive? Samsung helped pave the way for the UMPC movement with the Q1, released waaay back in the middle of 2006, a time when the phrase “netbook” was used to describe literature pertaining to braided strands of...

MSN Web TV, “Just like a computer only cheaper! :-)” says craigslist ad

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Oh, my. Remember the MSN Web TV thingie? Yeah, it hooked up to your tube TV and gave you access to the internet - or something like that. Anywho, this wonderfully descriptive and accurate craigslist ad for one landed in my RSS reader this morning.

Victorian Ghostbusting Robot

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"Who ya gonna call?" "My good man, I shall 'call' no-one. I have Doktor A's Automatic Medium and Seance Engine, replete with phenomenological extrapolator and patented mechanised tasseomancer, to assist in this ghostly extirpation. I SAID GOOD DAY."

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RIM sets $2.99 minimum paid-app price. There will be no fun trash at App World

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Paid apps at the BlackBerry App World will have a minimum price of three bucks. It costs money to submit to the store, too, which could impact the kind of freebie that appears.

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Virtual Cocoon Brings Five Senses into Virtual Reality

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Virtual reality is a thing for the sight only no more - at least that's what a team of scientists from the Universities of York and Warwick wants us to believe.

Mitsubishi Picks up “Best New Technology” Award for Advance All-wheel Drive

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Mitsubishi scored Automobile Journalists Association of Canada's (AJAC) highest honor yesterday for its advanced vehicle dynamics control system called Super All-Wheel Control (S-AWC).

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