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Friday Fish Fry

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I woke up in a mood today, and suddenly decided to haul out the deep fryer and do a good, old-fashioned fish fry for dinner. I’ve still got some trout and salmon in the freezer from last fall, so it’s definitely a go.

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Car Signs With Hidden Condom Compartment

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Remember those rear window signs for cars that read #8220;Baby on Board?#8221; What about those people who love having sex in the car, but would rather not make a baby while on board? That#8217;s where these special car signs come in.

Foosball Streaker Set Keeps It Real…Very Real

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Let#8217;s face it, streakers are a part of the game. So, if you want to keep your Foosball experience authentic, you are going to need this set (and probably a few policemen action figures to cart them off).

Plastic Life

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Plastic Life flickr set. I love it! Click 2 enlarge!

HP releases gorgeous Apple-like custom UI for Ubuntu netbooks

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As netbooks grow more popular, the custom Linux OSes being offered for them become more and more appropriate to the form factor, with larger, more smartphone-like icons.

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Richard Hutten’s ‘Playing With Tradition’ Carpet

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By Andrew Liszewski ‘Playing with tradition’ was Richard Hutten’s entry for the Strawberry Fields project, which brought together many different artists who were considered “outsiders to the culture of traditional carpets” to see what unique designs they would come up...

Hot Toys 1/6th-scale Dark Knight Batmobile looks awesome

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Despite my being a big geeky kid at heart, SlashGear wouldn’t fly me out to Japan for the Tokyo Gift Show.

Oregon Scientific’s Twisting World Time Clock

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By Andrew Liszewski Quick! What time is it in Paris right now? Well if you live anywhere but Paris, you probably had to hunt down an online world time clock, or switch to some widget to figure that out.

Samsung Memoir: First 8MP Camera Phone in the US

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Is this a camera or a phone? The answer is, of course, both, although it certainly looks more like the former. Samsung' new 8 megapixel Memoir is to be carried by T-Mobile, and is the touchscreen successor to the Samsung Behold, itself a passable 5MP shooter.

FinePix F200EXR First PnS Camera with 1/1.6-inch Super CCD EXR sensor

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FujiFilm’s FinePix F200EXR digital camera was introduced. F200EXR is a point and shoot 12 MPix camera which packs 1/1.6-inch Super CCD EXR sensor to give a high resolution, high sensitivity, and a wide dynamic but less noise.

Read Google Books on Your iPhone

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Google has launched an optimized version of Google Books for the iPhone. This means that iPhone owners now have instant access to 1.5 million books, brow-sable by genre or search-able by, well, any criteria you like.

DIY ring-flash for your DSLR

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In the right hands, a ring-flash can produce some great shots with a DSLR; problem is, that “right hand” also likely needs to have a deep pocket to dip into, as DSLR accessories don’t tend to be cheap.

Custom made Eee PC is lighter with touchscreen

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Yet another game played with the Eee PC. Modded into a folding look like the Origami R2H, from which the modder draws inspiration, this custom made Eee PC does away with the buttons and adds a touchscreen to it.

Wearable projection computer project: Internet ’sixth sense’

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A group of MIT students have developed a wearable computer that projects its display onto any nearby surface, and is controlled by hand gestures and voice-recognition.

DIY Fiber Optic Camera Flash Ring

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For about $5 you can build your own DIY Fiber Optic Camera Flash Ring. It allows you to extend the camera flash using fiber optic to illuminate your subject from many tiny points of light all around the camera lens. "This is a fibre-optic flash extension for your DSLR’s popup flash.

Creepy Japanese Doll Impersonates its Owner

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Is this creepy enough for you? By sending just your photo and a couple of thousand dollars to Japanese company "Little Island", you can have your own miniature self, a robotic copy which can, as dreamed of by every small child, be sent to work or to school to toil on your behalf, leaving...

The Downloading Rug

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Here’s a fun geeky accessory for your apartment, that will remind you of the gold old dial-up modem days, The Downloading Rug. This fun rug was designed by Richard Hutton and is intended to remind you what images used to look like when they failed to load over a dial-up modem.

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Asus Unveils Slim and Stylish External USB DVD Writer

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Asus has revealed a slim and stylish DVD burner which sports vertical disk insertion. It even features a Disc Encryption technology through which you can password protect your DVD’s , it complies with USB 2.0 standards and is self powered via USB without requiring any external power adapter.

Jim Balsillie Booted Off Research In Motion Board

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Research in Motion just reached a settlement agreement with the Ontario Securities Commission that requires several RIM executives to pay back over 90 million in fines, investigation costs, and reimbursements to RIM.

Yellow Motorcycle to be a superfast robot controlled vehicle

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The Yellow Motorcycle from Igarashi design is a concept controlled by high performance motorcycle robots. Powered by an electric motor, the concept is controlled by swinging the boom through hydraulic actuators.

Westinghouse’s budget 52-inch television

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Section: Video, HDTV With consumers today looking to enjoy the comforts of home like never before, Westinghouse Digital offers an affordable way for the entire family to relish in the beauty of high-definition TV with its large-screen 52 inch TX-52F480S 1080p LCD HDTV. The TX-52F480S offers...

SIMply A-GPS – new SIM card tech can transform every mobile phone into a GPS sat-nav

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The SIMply A-GPS SIM card from Sagem-Orga and BlueSky Positioning embeds A-GPS satellite navigation onto a standard 3G/GSM SIM card, thereby [...

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Recumbent Exercise Bike – relax and pick up the pace at the same time

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Isn’t a Recumbent Exercise Bike a bit of an oxymoronical product? What, lie back and enjoy the ride? A little less pain, [...

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Laptop Mouse Case – protect the precioussss

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This Laptop Mouse Case has given us some huh moments to cherish today. Huh One. Pink? Huh Two. Mouse protection? Huh Three. Pink? We [...

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Snowball Blaster – because throwing is just too good for ‘em

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The Wham-O Snowball Blaster is one of those epoch defining products that so rarely cross our desk. I mean, we’re talking [...

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Microsoft Tegra-based phone rumors reignite; Poppycock says firm

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Microsoft is once again being tipped to announce a new, homegrown smartphone that would not only use the company’s software but their own hardware too.

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