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Rare Gemini spacesuit reaches the block, could fetch $500k

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For all who want to be associated with humans out of the earth ventures, and are fond of collecting space used debris, comes this wholesome goodie - an ultra-rare spacesuit to be auctioned at Regency-Superior.

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NW-X1000: Sony finally announces OLED Walkman with touchscreen (video)

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Sony Japan today announced the NW-X1000 series [JP], consisting of two Walkman, the NW-X1050 with 16GB internal memory and the 32GB NW-X1060. The so-called X-Series was introduced to the general public for the first time back in January (during the CES 2009).

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Multifunctional Survival Kit

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Here’s another multifunctional survival kit ‘Reborn’ by a Chinese designer Xue Zhichao.

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The HP-34: The most important Reverse Polish Notation calculator in the world

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The beloved HP-34, one of the first scientific calculators able to “perform transcendental functions such as trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions” with an LED display just received an IEEE Milestone Award. The award commemorates important steps in computing technology.

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Nikon 12.3MP D5000 Digital SLR gets official

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First the spy shots, now the official announcement. Nikon has today unveiled the much-speculated D5000 12.3MP DSLR — essentially the D90 in a compact chassis at cheap price — aims to compete with the newly announced Canon Rebel T1i.

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$899 20-inch Aluminum iMac For Schools

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Apple has quietly announced this week to start selling an aluminum 20-inch iMac configuration for schools. Each $899 iMac features a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, 8x double-layer SuperDrive, and a nVidia GeForce 9400M graphics card.

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Zalman 6-Channel Surround Sound Headphones

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Brando offers the Zalman ZM-RS6F+M headphones that host multiple speakers to produce a real surround field. These headphones are colored in white, grey and black representing front, rear and center audio outputs, respectively.

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Best Bookstore Ever: Powell’s Technical

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I'm in Portland, OR today. Powell's Bookstore is huge, wonderful and renowned. However, I only just discovered their smaller, yet sizable "technical books" annex around the corner. HOLY MOLY. This is the mother lode for all the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things.

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Mitra Mini PC, Stylish Solar Powered Mini PC

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An innovative yet stylish mini-pc concept is revealed. Mitra is the name of a mini pc designed by Yogesh, an Indian-based industrial designer. Designed for rural Indian which lacks of electricity, Mitra mini pc will pack Solar panel complete with on board battery.

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Sebastião Salgado’s Leica M7 up on eBay

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Sebastião Salgado (time.com & Wikipedia) has photographed some of the world’s most impoverished citizens. His photographs, while visually stunning, are often eye-opening for another reason. Perhaps by using cameras presented to him by Leica will improve your budding photography skills.

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Brion Vega RR227 radio

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Brion Vega is an Italian manufacturer of radios, at least one of which (this RR227) is based on a vintage designmdash;and all of which look like they could be.

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Heat maps of hot buzz

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Elizabeth Currid and Sarah Williams (University of Southern California [L.A.] and Columbia, respectively) built "The Geography of Buzz", a mapping of cultural events of relevance mined from photograph archives at Getty Images.

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Rocking Chair powered lamp

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Energy crisis is clouding the globe slowly but steadily, and we soon need to think of alternatives other than the solar powered lighting.

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UK farm grows 1301 fluorescent light bulbs

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Artist Richard Box' idea of a well-cropped farm involves 1301 fluorescent light bulbs powered by electrical fields running through the power lines above them.

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Intelliscanner – The Portable Barcode Scanner

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Intelliscanner - The Portable Barcode Scanner The Intelliscanner is a portable barcode scanner that allows you to track all of your belongings at home that contain a barcode. The device allows you to scan up to 250 items before downloading the data to your PC.

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Sigma A.P.O Bluetribe Bluetooth Headphone

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The Bluetribe from Sigma A.P.O is a Bluetooth 2.1 headphone that is sold with two different earpads (two different shapes). The Bluetribe is now available in Japan in Brown color. Stay tuned for more details.

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Frog Design, ID card makeover

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Suddenly in the ongoing economic recession, social security in the US is found stranded. Those security cards have started losing importance, still minds at FrogDesign feel there is scope within them, and have thus taken liberty to move past the orthodox, to redesign the social security ID cards.

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Direct Digital Manufacturing as seen in BMW motorcycle concept

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Lighter, smaller, more agile: That was the mandate that Machineart Industrial Design followed for their BMW R1200GSM concept bike, which was designed used Direct Digital Manufacturing techniques: GSM body parts were modeled in Alias Studio Tools and SolidWorks 3D CAD software, and produced in...

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iriver’s new P7

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The latest rectangle-that-goes-in-a-dock-and-improves-your-life is iriver's P7, a portable media viewer that lets you view photos, watch movies/TV shows and listen to music.

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ALP Horn Headphones by WeSC

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The Folding WeSC's ALP Horn Headphones($175), it looks stylish and with big and soft earcups, I like this! Featuring"Premium streetwear headphones, as tech as they are stylish, with lightweight and well-padded earcups and soft, adjustable headband.

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More Details on Samsung MBP200 Pico Prejector

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Samsung has unveiled more details for the Samsung MBP200 pico projector. It comes with a Projection Panel with a HVGA resolution of 480×320, a 3.5 mm standard stereo earphone jack, a microSD slot (up to 16GB capacity), and a 2.2 inch 320×240 QVGA LCD.

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Samsung Fuel Cell For The Military

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Samsung has successfully developed fuel cell batteries and this ethanol-powered fuel cell is set to power military paraphernalia next year. However, it is not going to run laptops for a month as originally promised. The DMFC (Direct Methanol Fuel Cell) is able to power a laptop for 72 hours.

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Peapod – eco solution to control pollution

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Peapod eco solution to control pollution. New jail-breaking electric vehicle from Peapod the Friendly electric vehicle engineered by Chrysler's Global Eco Mobility it appears to be a neighborhood vehicle being restricted for highways due to its top speed amounting to 20 miles per kilometer.

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Kenwood Hibachi Speakers

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Kenwood has recently introduced the Hibachi speakers, that are still in the concept stage. These wireless speakers work on the 2.4 Ghz band along with the SLG-7 transmitter which uses incompressible linear PCM. The speakers also illuminate based on the sound effects.

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Cutomise your NY trip at the NYC Information Center

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Multimedia applications of such great caliber have never before found a place beneath a single roof! Appreciation is random, and you run short of words, when you have on view, the NYC information center designed by WXY Architecture.

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Strobist Designs Real Open Source Remote Trigger

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When I wrote about the Lumipro Flashgun (yes, the review is coming), a strobe designed by actually listening to the people who would buy it, I called it ‘open source’ (with the quotes). While, technically, it wasn’t true, it certainly followed the spirit of the project.

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Sony XEL-1

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The famous 11-inch OLED TV from Sony, the Sony XEL-1 and first marketed domestically, and is marketed in Europe and also in Spain, as announced two weeks ago. What is striking is the variety of prices from one country to another, as reported in XATACA.

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Claudio Colucci: Squeezophone 360 Degree Speakers

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Manufactured by Kenwood, these innovative speakers are made of Corian - the stuff that counter tops are often made of.

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The Kisai Denshoku From Tokyo Flash

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Tokyo Flash is out with its latest wearable gadget known as the Kisai Denshoku. Crafted from aluminum and stainless steel, the watch tells time using a unique set of 12 stacked orange LED bars.

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OXCART: The Real Secret of Area 51

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Since the government has finally declassified the program, the people who worked at Area 51 can now talk about A-12 OXCART, a Wicked Secret program to build an test a Mach 3 spyplane at Nevada's Groom Lake. (You may know it as the SR-71 Blackbird.)

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Former Apple designer turns to grills

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If you’re in the market for a nice-looking grill but you aren’t too keen on spending thousands of dollars, Fuego’s new “Element” series might be more to your liking.

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Egg Transport Vehicles

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This is latest egg transport vehicle are representing luxury design and whole part of body is very conceptual and based on latest technology I mean used technology for this egg transport vehicle is very unique and conceptual.

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