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Measurement Work Gloves

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The Measurement Work Gloves($25) with rules made from lightweight 100% polyester with acrylic resin grips. "Useful for protecting your hands and improving your grip when doing chores, gardening, driving or playing sports."

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Rubik’s Cube Salt and Pepper Mills

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Here’s a fun geeky accessory which will add some geeky style to your apartment, the Rubik’s Cube salt and pepper mills. These fun salt and pepper mills are shaped like Rubik’s Cubes and your turn the top of the cube just like a real Rubik’s Cube to grind the salt or pepper.

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Cheap Geek: $5 Grammy Album, Roll-Up Piano, Free DVD

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's finally Friday. So, take a load off and check out Gearlog's deals for Friday, Feb. 6: 1. The Grammies are getting nearer, so buff up on your artists. Part of Amazon's Friday 5 Albums for $5 Each sale, you can get the 2009 Grammy Nominees CD.

Harman Develops Add-On GPS for Mercedes-Benz

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Automaker navigation could get cheaper with a hybrid navigation unit developed by Harman International for Mercedes-Benz. It's partly integrated into the car and doesn't require the automaker to lock in a navigation design three years in advance.

Google introduces mobile versions of its entire book collection

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Section: Web, Google Google has announced the launch of mobile versions of its entire book collection. The books are now accessible via the T-Mobile’s G1 Android based phone and the iPhone. Some say this will give the Amazon Kindle a serious run for it’s money but as a happy...

Google adds multiple inboxes to Gmail

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Section: Communications, Email / IM, Web, Websites, Google Google has been on the ball lately, adding many new features to their Labs component of Gmail. For example, a little over a week ago they made Gmail available offline, added more label features to the top of Gmail, and now they have...

Morning Tech Deals Roundup

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#8998; MP3 Player ndash; The 2GB Sansa Express MP3 player, which can be expanded with microSD, can be ordered for as low as $16, shipped, directly from SanDisk. It's not in stock, but I bet they'll make more. [Slickdeals] #8998; Roomba ndash; iRobot 110 Dirt Dog Workshop Robot for $100, shipped.

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Lisp machine, its keys

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Lisp Machine Keyboard [Global nerdy via Make]

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Robots will soon start conquering buildings, Japan says

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Japan-based tech powerhouses Shimizu and Yasukawa Electric think that robots can make life easier for all of us and initiated the “Smart Robotics Building” project to prove it - even if at this point, a show room must do.

Pong Clock

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The Pong Clock by Sander Mulder. The Pong Clock displays the time, but you can also switch to game mode. While this game of Pong randomly plays, the so called 'players' score the time.

Panasonic Toughbook CF-52 now with Touchscreen

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Panasonic announcing another upgrade for its Toughbook CF-52 semi-ruggedized notebook. Toughbook CF-52 now comes in two models, the new 13.3-inch touchscreen model with XGA resolution and a 15.4-inch non-touch screen model with WUXGA resolution.

Valentine’s Day Gifts for Your Geeky Girl

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I know this might surprise some of you, but there are women in the world who like things done a certain way--in a nerdy way, to be more specific. For example, they prefer their marriage proposals to arrive via a video game, or at least tangentially related to video games.

Sony Vaio P gets handled, verdict: hate it

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Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Netbooks, Wireless When Howard Stringer showed off the Vaio P on stage at the Sony Keynote by pulling this laptop out of a suit jacket, I was curious. I stayed curious right up until I heard the price, then I wondered, who is going to love that? ...

CPU’s of the future will store and process data

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Researchers have geared to get magnetic data storage capabilities of semiconductor materials to our daily use devices, intending to make them smaller and faster. Computers and other devices use CPU to execute programs and have separate units for storage.

Steam Powered R2-D2 (R2 Steam Too)

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Check out this fun R2D2 which is powered by steam, created by the guys over at Crabfu. This fun steam powered R2-D2, now called R2-Steam Too was created using a broken Hasbro Interactive Droid, in which the electric motors were replace with a shaft and sprockets which were attached on the outside.

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Samsung Memoir SGH-T929

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Samsung has recently announced that they will be launching their Memoir SGH-T929 on T-Mobile’s network. The Memoir features a 8 megapixel camera that has a 16x digital zoom, Xenon flash and five shooting modes.

Chameleon Guitar is many guitars in one guitar

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Electric guitars aren’t anything new, but this Chameleon Guitar from MIT’s Media Lab student Amit Zoran brings electric guitars very close to their acoustic counterparts.

Samsung Acme i8910 Smartphone Caught in the Wild

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Another Samsung’s smartphone is leaked. This time is unwired view who catch the Samsung Acme i8910. Samsung Acme o8910 is a touchscreen smartphone packs 8 MPix camera which capable to shoot HD video, GPS, Wifi, DNLA, 3.5 mm jack and might be HDMI. Its intrnal memory is either 8GB or 16GB.

NASA’s robotic Hillary, ah a mountain climbing robot

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It’s coming of age in robotic science, and next from NASA’s backyard is another all terrain robotic rover, but if it’s from NASA, we can expect novelty there.

Discovery 640E Bluetooth headset connects with many audio devices at once

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Bluetooth headsets are a common site, therefore only the ones with a difference survive in the competitive battle. Bragging on the embedded multipoint technology, we have Plantronics deliver Discovery 640E Bluetooth headset.

Samurai Sword Handle Umbrella

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Bored of carrying round a standard umbrella? what you need is one of these fun Samurai Sword Handle Umbrella’s.

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Is Gmail way better with Google Labs?

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Section: Web, GoogleGeekSugar has a feature on what it calls the “Top 10 Labs That Make GMail Better.“ I’m not sure I agree with them.

Umbrella with the hilt of a samurai sword

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This fantastic umbrella features a hilt the very simulacrum of that of a samurai sword, but regrettably does not actually turn into one under rain-smattered yakuza attack...

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Eee 701 modded into swank tablet netbook

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Over at the Mobile01 forums, user design529 hasn't just installed a touchscreen in his Asus Eee PC 701... he's fully converted it into a tablet with a custom chassis that weighs half a pound less than the original netbook.

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Review: SensorKlear Loupe

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It’s notoriously hard and scary to for amateurs to clean the image sensors inside digital SLRs. Just by touching the delicate surface of the sensor you risk permanent damage or misalignment, which is why some DSLRs now offer dust detection and removal software - they basically say don’t...

Samsung Yepp Q1 Special Edition

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After releasing the Samsung F480 “La Fleur”, this Korean giant company also release the special edition Yepp Q1 “La Fleur”. This player offers a new User Interface matching their Flower concept. As a reminder, “La Fleur” means “Flower” in French.

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