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Tupper Home: the future of catalog shopping?

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Designed in the spirit of demonstration marketing for products like Tupperware and Avon, Spanish firm Andrés Jaque Architects’ Tupper Home is a modular project and the first in the company’s catalog of architectural merchandise. Want a new porthole-style window?

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Xbee 900 rf – Transmit Data 15 Miles

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Wow, this tiny Xbee 900 rf module is supposed to have a range of 15 miles. We all know that these specs are always best case scenarios that are not attainable in the real world but it probably means that we could get 9 or 10 miles out of it.

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Movable Power Strip

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Designer Jeff Carter has creatively designed the Movable Power that allows you to adjust the entire strip according to your needs and convenience at that point of time. Sadly, it is only a concept.

www.techfresh.net/movable-power-strip/

MSI CS120 Nettop PC

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MSI has added another tiny PC to their growing range of Nettop’s and Netbooks, the MSI C120 Nettop PC. The MSI C120 features an Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive, there is also two front USB 2.0 ports and a 4-in-1 card reader.

www.geeky-gadgets.com

Traces of an Imaginary Affair

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Sometimes you need faking bite marks, carpet burns, bondage marks, love bites, scratches and bruises... by Björn Franke. So don't believe your eyes!Traces of an Imaginary Affair is a kit containing a set of nine tools which can be used to create an imaginary affair.

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New iPod Shuffle Torn Open: Innards Weigh Less Than a Sheet of Paper

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The new iPod Shuffle is so tiny that we knew there couldn’t be much inside. What is a surprise is that there is just one screw holding the whole thing together — clear evidence that Steve Jobs is still influencing design despite being on leave, doing yoga and drinking mango smoothies.

Military wrist computer takes over your forearm

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This isn’t quite exactly what I pictured for a wrist computer, but it’s a start I suppose. It looks more like a blood pressure machine that you’d see at Wal-Mart. The Zypad WR1100 is a 23 ounce, rugged, wireless computer operating with a Linux OS.

www.crunchgear.com

Endo Magnet Clip

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Thanks to Scott Amron for sending us a few of these cool Endo Magnet Clips to have a look at. It’s the strongest fridge magnet I have ever used. The design is cool since you don’t have to pry it off the item it’s holding, simply press the top and it rocks the bottom out of the way.

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You’ve never seen so much cabling, so neatly arranged

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My god, it’s so beautiful… should have sent… a poet… No, it’s not a rainbow air duct. It’s geek porn of the highest order. My own wire-wrangling skills are pretty limited, so I can only stand in awe of this amazing job, which is unfortunately a bit of a mystery.

www.crunchgear.com

Self-repairing plastics could lead to a scratch-free world

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Plastic has be given Wolverine-like self-healing capabilities thanks to the work of Biswajit Ghost and Marek Urban, material scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi. The scientists have created a new polymer that can repair itself when scratched using UV light from the sun.

www.crunchgear.com

Bad Traveler: PinkWolf Suitcases Likely to Attract Attention

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If you ever want to get on airplane, you should probably not carry around these suitcases. An artist in France has created a line of boxy luggage that uses toy weapons for decoration.

Stopper Postcard By The DAG-designlab

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Check out this innovative design concept ‘Stopper Postcard’ by the DAG-designlab . Each postcard comes with an actual digital timer with an LCD display that will measure the time between sending and receiving, so you’ll know exactly how long it takes for the whole process.

www.techfresh.net/stopper-postcard-by-the-dag

Scosche earphones for the new iPod Shuffle

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Yesterday we wrote about the new iPod Shuffle and one of the first comments to that post was that it was too bad that the remote was so tightly integrated into the earphones as the standard earphones that comes with the player is considered quite bad generally.

Loewy’s star still shining: “Designs for a Consumer Culture” goes up at U. of Houston

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It's been sixty years since Raymond Loewy was on the cover of Life Magazine, but they're still holding exhibitions on the man. The latest retrospective is up in Houston: A gem of an exhibit at the University of Houston Gerald D.

Two from CNET: Camera Reveala, and Inside Dell’s Consumer Design Lab

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Kind of looks like a Terminator version of a camera, no? CNET's Stephen Shankland shot these pics of Sony's A900 camera in various stages of undress. We don't know what half of that stuff is, but it definitely looks like you shouldn't spill coffee on it.

Solar powered I-Slate – cheap electronic replacement for chalkboard

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Slated for release in about 18 months, we know, the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is getting ready the second generation XO-2 laptop with a low-powered ARM processor installation.

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Winter 1972

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The Winter 1972 by i-never-kissed-a-dog. The beautiful note home! Check out see more.

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How Much Time Do You Have Left? – New Special Edition Black PVD Coated Accurate and Decider Watches by Mr. Jones

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Mr Jones Watches have produced two new special edition watches. Both modelsfeature black PVD coating which gives a hard-wearing, elegant finish.These are serious watches for the serious times we find ourselves in.

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CrunchDeals: 1TB external drive for $95

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Data hoarders unite! Buy.com has a 1TB Verbatim USB hard drive for $94.99 with free shipping, today only. The drive itself is a 7200 RPM affair and the package includes BounceBack Express software for automated archival of all your important and/or sexy files.

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Dell unveils the Studio One 19 all-in-one desktop

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The new Dell Studio One is, well, sex defined. There is no doubt where the designers got the inspiration but they surpassed anything out of Cupertino with this all-in-one.

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Samsung Q1EX-71G UMPC reviewed: disappointing

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It’s taken Samsung some time to refresh their UMPC range, and with the combined experience from the Q1 Ultra and their award-winning NC-netbook range, you’d expect fine things from the new Q1EX-71G.

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Getac V100 rugged Tablet PC tested: blindingly good

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There’s sturdy, and there’s a laptop so rugged you can throw a punch at the display and not expect it to crack.

www.slashgear.com

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic with Slider QWERTY

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Nokia has added a slide-out qwerty to its XpressMusic line, The newest member is the Nokia 5730 which comes with a full slider Qwerty Keyboard.

www.loopygadgets.com

Brother rolls out A4-sized e-document reader

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Amazon’s Kindle isn’t available in Japan and nobody over here bought the Sony Reader (Sony stopped sales over here already). Japanese people love reading (and even writing) stuff on their mobile phones too much.

www.crunchgear.com

Vital Jacket: Wearable system to monitor heart rate and ECG

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All sorts of huge machines are used by hospitals to monitor a patient’s vitals, but with the pace in which technology is miniaturizing, there are no real doubts about fabrics becoming the next genuine machines.

www.gizmowatch.com

Retro Bright Whitens Dirty, Yellowing Geek Toys

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You don't have to be a smoker to know the pain of yellowing hardware. Any beige box of a certain age starts to darken and stain like an Englishman's teeth, turning beautiful retro hardware into the equivalent of a filthy, leering uncle, something to hide, not flaunt. The reason? Retards.

Play on the Road

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Play on the road, big pic!

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NitroCream N2-G4: is $75k too much for ice-cream?

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Looking like an espresso machine with a slicked-back haircut, this is a custom NitroCream N2-G4 Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Machine. Billed as the best ice cream maker ever made, this particular N2-G4 is hand-made and costs a cool (ahem) $75,000; the standard N2-G4 is priced from $34,900.

www.slashgear.com

Zero Mouse Concept By Oliver Rosito

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Here’s another futuristic mouse concept called the Zero Mouse by German designer Oliver Rosito. Finished with brushed aluminum and rubber, the mouse combines a high-tech design with lightweight materials. The mouse itself can be powered by either small batteries or a charger.

www.techfresh.net/zero-mouse-concept-by-olive

Philips Xenium X530 Flip Phone

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Philips today launched its new flip handset, the Xenium X530. The handset offers a super long battery life that allows you to talk for up to 8 hours non-stop.

www.techfresh.net/philips-xenium-x530-flip-ph

MIT engineers remodel the Li-ion battery to recharge in a matter of seconds

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MIT engineers, led by Professor Gerbrand Ceder, have developed a type of high-speed tunnel for transporting electrical energy through lithium iron phosphate. Why should we care what those snooty MIT engineers are up to?

www.crunchgear.com

Virgin America now tells you which planes are Wi-Fi ready

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Just a quick update for the transcon flying tech folk. Virgin America updated their online booking system to show you which flights are wired for Wi-Fi so, you know what you’re getting yourself into before you board the plane.

www.crunchgear.com

Ancient Gearlog: The Telephone is 133 Years Old

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Yesterday was the 133rd anniversary of the first telephone call, Pocket Gamer reports. That's the call where Alexander Graham Bell famously transmitted a message in 1876 to his assistant that said, "Watson, come here! I want to see you!"

www.gearlog.com

Mitsubishi 3D Touch Panel tracks proximity, hover

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Mitsubishi have been demonstrating a “3D Touch Panel” that can recognize both direct contact and finger proximity.

www.slashgear.com

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