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HP Exec Accuses Marc Hurd of “Repeatedly Lying”

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The HP/Oracle soap opera continues. It's a tale that's been marked by sex, intrigue, lying, creepy billboards, bad direct-to-video movies, lawsuits name calling, and a very angry Larry Ellison.

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Custom Carbonites, Give Yourself That Han Solo In Carbonite Look

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Han Solo in carbonite is one of those iconic images from the Star Wars movies, we have seen it re-created in many forms , like the awesome Han Solo in Carbonite desk. You can now have your very own custom carbonite, and instead of Han Solo you can have a model of yourself encased in carbonite.

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Lego MInDroid Android App Provides Controls For Your Creations

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Lego Mindstorms have just released a new Android app that allows you to convert your Android Phone (running 2.1 or above) into a motion controller for your NXT robots. The MINDdroid app is a remote-control application that allows you to create a wireless connection directly with your NXT device.

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HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Turns Up On Amazon For 599 Euros

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HTC has only just officially announced the HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 smartphone, but it has already appeared on Amazon.de priced at 599 Euros, which is about $830 or £523.

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Greenpois0n And PwnageTool For Apple TV Coming Soon

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The Greenpois0n ios 4.1 jailbreak tool was recently released, and now it seems that the iPhone Dev Team will be releaseing PwnageTool for Apple TV very soon, according to a recent tweet by @musclenerd.

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Kindle Singles target attention-short readers

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Does anybody have the patience to read a full book any more? That’s obviously tongue-in-cheek, but the launch of Amazon’s Kindle Singles – in-betweener texts that fall somewhere in the gap between a New Yorker feature and a full novel – does seem to suggest that the...

Chronic Dev Team releases greenpois0n jailbreak tool

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Via Twitter, MuscleNerd announced the release of the Chronic Dev Team's iOS4 jailbreaking tool, greenpois0n.

ZooGue Updates Its iPad Case

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The oddly named ZooGue Smart Kase has become a popular choice for iPad owners due to its versatile design, which can hold an iPad at any angle. It even comes with adjustable straps for mounting to a car headrest. Now that case has been updated, and the inventor is making a bold statement about it.

HTC Desire HD Orders at T-Mobile UK Now Available

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T-Mobile in the UK is now accepting orders for the HTC Desire HD over here in the UK.The device is available for free on some of the higher end contracts of £40/month and above.

NASA: Obama Charts “New Path in Space”

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President Obama this week signed bi-partisan legislation mapping the path of NASA for the next three years and extending operations of the International Space Station through 2020. NASA administrator Charles Bolden issued a statement commending the President on his decision.

Modu Launches Lightest Touch Phone In The World

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Modu has just unveiled the modu T, a 3.5G touch phone which has been awarded a Guinness World Record for being the lightest touch phone in the world.

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Gaint Mushroom Concept Tackles LA’s Black Water

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Giant solar evaporators shaped like mushrooms have won first prize in the Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition.

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Medal Of Honor: The First Reviews Are In (And They’re Largely Positive)

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EA’s Medal of Honor is available today, and the very first reviews have already appeared online. The general verdict: not too bad. Not perfect by any means, but bad at all.

Olympus Micro Four Thirds plans could eclipse entry-level DSLRs

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Olympus expects its ageing entry-level DSLRs to be replaced by Micro Four Thirds models, rather than new DSLRs, according to product manager Toshiyuki Terada.

Unlocked Windows Phone 7 Pricing Begins

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aw the confusion of Windows Phone 7 handsets announced yesterday, and now – whilst still reeling at the overload – you’re wondering how much they will cost. Don’t worry, we won’t dump all the prices on you at once.

HTC 7 Trophy, HTC HD7 and LG Optimus 7 all up for unlocked preorder

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Windows Phone 7 devices aren’t showing up on carriers in Europe until October 21st (and November 7th for North America) but that hasn’t stopped preorders for unlocked, SIM-free devices from beginning to sprout.

Vienna Design Week 2010: Vandasye collaborate with Chronometrie Sulzberger

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Vandasye, top, in front of their concept store installation, pictured bottom. A nice concept for the Passionswege component of Vienna Design week (see earlier post about Mark Braun's collaboration with J&L Lobmeyr) brought Vandasye to work with Dietmar Sulzberger at his clockmaking shop,...

Handheld X-Ray Device Powered By 2 D Batteries

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Japanese business daily The Nikkei is reporting that at team of researchers at Kyoto University developed a palm-size X-ray generation device with a special power source: two D-type batteries. According to the paper, the current prototype is just 5cm long and 3cm wide.

Vienna Design Week 2010: Julia Landsiedl & the Snowglobe Maker

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Top: What if you put a toy gun into the Utopian world of a snowglobe? Bottom: How many Eiffel Towers does it take to make a memory?

Hungary Toxic Sludge Mapped Imaged by NASA

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If all of those shots of Hungarian citizens wading through corrosive pools of red sludge weren't enough to help you realize the scope of the country's environmental disaster (which may be well on its way to becoming an international one), perhaps these satellite images from NASA will do the trick.

DIY Hard Drive Activity Skull Mod (video)

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Are you a little bored with the hard drive activity lights on your computer? Fancy something a little more original? Well your could try this modification over the weekend. MetkuMods have created a cool mod that show your hard drive activity as glowing eyes in a skull.

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Kite Taken Aerial Images Added To Google Maps

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Rather than using satellites Google has now added high resolution kite taken images to its Google Maps. As you can see in the photo below the kite photos are a much higher quality then the ones taken from space with a satellite.

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SSC Ultimate Aero II, The Worlds Fastest Production Car

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We don’t feature many cars here at Geeky Gadgets, the certainly have to be pretty special for us to feature them, and this one definitely falls into that category, the SSC Aero.

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Cricket Crosswave Mobile WiFi Hotspot

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Cricket unveils its new mobile WiFi hotspot device by Huawei. It is called the Huawei Crosswave WiFi hotspot device and was designed for users to share their 3G connection over WiFi.