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Comprojector concept syncs portability of a projector with computer

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It’s often difficult to comprehend what the designers wish to do with multi-utility gadgetry. Trying to make life reach the simplest of its habitation, the concepts that we come across at times reach a stride of unconceivable illusion, such is this Comprojector concept we saw at Behance network.

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Sony Ericsson MS500 Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker

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Sony Ericsson has just launched a new Bluetooth speaker which is designed to be used outdoors, the Sony Ericsson MS500. The Sony Ericsson MS500 features a a durable splash proof casing, and a handy strap so that you can hand it from a bag or your wrist.

www.geeky-gadgets.com

If Computers Were Bikes, What Bikes Would They Be?

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If computer operating systems were bikes, what bikes would they be? The question is, of course, absurd — but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to answer. Computers have quirks which attract a certain kind of person, just like bikes. And different computers are good for different things.

SRS Labs iWow iPod Adapter

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Users tend to complain about the audio on iPods. Yes, there are some really great docs that make that sound really lift off. But what is a person to do when on the go? SRS Labs brings their technology to the iPod as an adapter. And it really makes the sound lift.

PETEC printed electronics facility kick-starts UK production

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Printed electronics may soon bear the legend “Made in UK” if PETEC (the Printable Electronics Technology Center) has its way.

www.slashgear.com

Philips Xenium X810 3.2MP touchscreen EDGE phone

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A touchscreen quadband GSM cellphone from Philips has leaked, marking a change in design direction for the company. The Philips Xenium X810 has a 240 x 400 TFT touchscreen and what looks to be a panel of touch-sensitive buttons underneath, together with a 3.2-megapixel camera with flash.

www.slashgear.com

Inventive, attention-getting bathroom advertising

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A human reaction to extreme fear is evacuation of the bowels. An advertiser in Japan has capitalized on this, and acrophobia, to make one of the craziest-looking bathrooms I've ever seen: The product advertised (on the toilet paper dispenser and the unseen fourth wall) has nothing to do with...

New speaker system cancels its own noise to deliver better sound

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Toshiba, in collaboration with a university professor and a company called Actimo [JP], has developed the “accurate sound reproduction technology”, which might pave the way for better sound coming from speakers in the future.

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Soviet-Era Accessories Make Digicams Usable

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The one thing stopping from buying a Lumix LX3 is the lack of a proper optical viewfinder. Well, that and the fact that I love my Canon G9, which also lacks a proper optical viewfinder (Canon opted to put a glass-filled pinhole in its place).

Iomega StorCenter ix2 NAS gets torrents & remote access

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Iomega have announced an update for their StorCenter ix2 NAS, bringing torrent downloads, remote access with optional custom domain names, folder quotas and native support for the Apple File Protocol (AFP).

www.slashgear.com

Dell Adamo

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Dell's Adamo is .65-inches thick at its thickest point, weighs four pounds, has a 13.4" "HD" display, 2GB of RAM, and Intel GMX4500 video. Dell claims 5 hours of battery life, and it has 2 USB ports and a USB/eSata combo port. It has a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and comes in black or white.

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/17/dell-adamo.

Apple iPhone OS 3.0 LiveBlog today: Mac Tablet as “one last thing”?

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The countdown is on and it’s just a handful of hours until Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event, which we’ll be liveblogging at http://live.slashgear.com We know Apple will be demonstrating some of the upcoming features we can expect from iPhone OS 3.0 - hopefully including MMS...

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Design – The iStick

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Here is an interesting design concept, which would definitely rival the new iPod Shuffle, the iStick. The iStick features a touchscreen interface on every side of the device, it also features a silver cube at the end which is used as a scroll wheel, to navigate through your favourite tunes.

www.geeky-gadgets.com

Time Machine Radio: Enter the past

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The Time Machine Radio lets you go back in time and listen to those old songs which will bring up happy memories. You set the knob to the year you want to listen music from and the radio will start to play the stuff you like.

www.crunchgear.com

Italy Gets Pizza Vending machines

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Check this out, the next time you visit Italy be sure to stop by a shopping mall in Trentino, there you’ll find a fully automatic Pizza vending machine, that’s right the first and only vending machine that will cook pizza for you.

www.techfresh.net/italy-gets-pizza-vending-ma

Review: A month with Ooma, the lifetime free VoIP system

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Photo: burningairlinesgiveyous omuchmore Ooma is the VOIP system for people who think long-term and hate bills. $250 up-front gets a lifetime subscription, an attractive space-age unit with integrated answering machine, and an additional "scout" extension unit.

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/17/review-a-mo

Review: An afternoon with Autonet

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Autonet is a 3G-enabled cellular router intended for use on the road: a mobile hotspot that provides Wi-Fi coverage for your car and anyone tailgating it.

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/16/review-an-a

Review: An hour with the Acoustibuds

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Acoustibuds are little rubber things that one wraps around standard earbuds to make them more comfortable. A series of concentric fins means they snuggle nicely in your ears: great for joggers or anyone else fond of the form, but not the feeling, of buds.

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/16/review-an-h

Headphones For Portable Consoles

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Audio Technica comes back with four headphones that were specially designed for both the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS. Known as the ATH-EQ300G, ATH-C100G, ATH-C500G and ATH-CK300G, these headphones allows you to control the volume directly from the headphone (a small remote is located on the cable).

www.techfresh.net/headphones-for-portable-con

Astronauts On Alert Again Tonight–Space Junk

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Last week astronauts aboard the International Space Station hustled themselves into a Russian space capsule as protection from some errant space junk. Orbiting the Earth at approximately 17,500 mph nearly any object can cause catastrophic damage. Tonight another alert!

www.gearlog.com

Hong Kong Dealer Selling Fake Mac Clone (Huh?)

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A Hong Kong company is promoting a netbook that sports a backward Apple logo on its case and desktop wallpaper. Oddly enough, the computer doesn't ship with a hacked version of the Mac operating system.

Hoodies Made From Blow-Up Dolls

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"I customize existing tracksuit tops with parts of the blow-up dolls ¨C the head, the breasts, the vagina, the anus. These dolls are so ugly and vulgar that turning them into something beautiful has become a challenge for me. The doll is a means to convey something else."

www.likecool.com

Hardware geek heaven: a pictorial history of Intel motherboards

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If you’ve been computerizing a long time, you’ll probably remember the days of putting together systems with 4MB of RAM, freaking out about the Turbo button, and you may remember a few of these motherboards.

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The Sound Advice Project, waveforms as bracelets

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Designed as a jumping-off point for parents to discuss drug use with their children, the "Sound Advice Project" converts voice recordings into bracelets with rings representing the waveform of a parent's recorded admonishment. They're $18.

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/16/the-sound-a

Coveroo Be Less Boring Contest Winners

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As you may remember, we ran a contest last week with Coveroo and announced nine winners of Coveroo’s etched cellphone covers as well as an iPhone Nano etched with anything your little heart desired. And so the contest comes to a close and all is right with the world.

www.crunchgear.com

The Wii remote, used for the spraying of paint

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I actually just said “oh, wow” in reaction to reading about this thing right here, the Wii Spray. It’s a Wii remote-based spray paint can, for graffiti. It uses Flash, the Wii Flash Server and, yes, the Wii itself to simulate graffito-tagging. It’s the handiwork of Bauhaus students.

www.crunchgear.com

“Such a jangle of meaningless noises had never been heard by human ears.”

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Another excerpt I read this morning from John Brooks' "Telephone: The First Hundred Years" (now sadly out of print, but recommended to anyone who is captivated by the Bell saga):Apart from policy differences within the company, there were technical problems. ...

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/16/such-a-jang

Unsung ID’ers: Allen Samuels

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It's not exactly the MoMA, but a gallery showing at Michigan's Washtenaw Community College features work by an impressive lineup of industrial design luminaries, including the Eameses, Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf.

amadana SAL: Japanese company rolls out stylish mini pocket camera

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A Tokyo-based design company called amadana today announced the amadana SAL [JP], a palm-sized video camera that can be pre-ordered in Japan starting April 17. Non-Japanese people interested in the stylish gadget can ask Japan Trend Shop, Gizmine, Geek Stuff 4 U or Rinkya to list it.

www.crunchgear.com

Japanese HRP-4C robot is a supermodel wannabe

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Japan’s HRP-4C humanoid robot is quite different from the sci-fi robots that you would think of, it is specifically made for catwalk.

www.gizmowatch.com

Automatic Breakfast Machine Fails to Awake Interest

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The teasmaid and its close relation, the automatic coffee maker, are fundamentally flawed. Not as designs, but at a conceptual level: The only time you actually need coffee before you can leave the bed is when you have a monstrous hangover — which means that, by definition, you were unable to...

Kogan GPS Watch has Bluetooth and bulk

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Last week it was their first netbook; before that, Android smartphones. Now Kogan have set their sights on our wrists, but be warned: you’ll have had to do some serious arm exercises before wearing the Kogan GPS Watch.

www.slashgear.com

Apple iPhone Event could water Palm Pre launch

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Since its creation Palm has been a follower and with the introduction of the Palm Pre, Palm was hoping to take on Apple shiny Apple believing that the iPhone success blinded Apple out, but contrary to what Palm and its executives thinks, Apple isn’t sleeping nor wasting time and tomorrow we...

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Guy Loses Finger, Replaces with Flash Drive!

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Jerry Jalava is a hack and lost a finger in a motorcycle accident last May. "When the doctor working on the artificial finger heard he is a hacker, the immediate suggestion was to embed a USB "finger drive" to the design..." Now he has a 2Gg USB Finger! Awesome! More pics at his flickr.

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