Peek gets secure blogging abilities
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The Peek tweaks continue, with the latest reported hack being the ability to securely post from the simplistic emailer to a WordPress-based blog.
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Globalsat GPS Director GD-101 digital compass
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Globalsat have unveiled their latest digital compass, the GPS Director GD-101. A compact 60 x 60 28 mm and weighing just 45g complete with two AAA batteries, the GD-101 has a 96 x 95 pixel monochrome display for showing compass direction or guiding you back to your car in the parking lot.
Ulysse Nardin Chairman – Self Winding Mobile Phone
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Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin has just released details of a new mobile phone that they are about to release, the Ulysse Nardin Chairman.
Moviewedge: Commence kicking yourself
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Why didn’t you think of this? This is such a good idea! It’s a little bean bag that holds up your iPod or iPod touch or phone or whatever and it only costs $9.95. What’s that? You were busying getting a Doctorate in Particle Physics for the past few years?
MediSlate MCA i1040XT Mobile Clinical Assistant
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TabletKiosk rolling out a new portable PC for mobile clinical assistant called MediSlate MCA i1040XT.Come in a water resistant exterior design, MediSlate MCA i1040XT sport a 10.4-inch TFT LCD touchscreen display and packs double hot swappable batteries.
Planes with ellipse wings, creative oddity of the past
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Are these really weird or is it just my presumption, we’ll figure out, but for aeronautical engineers in Belarus these planes are real creations of valued engineering. Adorning ellipse wings these planes look more from Saturn than they do from our own inhabited planet.
Sony FP97 and FP67 Portable Photo Printers
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Sony offers two new lightweight photo printers that will make it easy for those who want to print photos anywhere and anytime. The $120 DPP-FP67 and $200 DPP-FP97 are able to create 4 x 6 prints in 45 and 67 seconds, respectively.
Raider S705 Small Rugged PC
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General Micro Systems offers a compact and rugged PC which is dubbed as the Raider S705. Measuring 4.6 inch x 4.6 inch x 1.6 inch and weighing 2 lbs, the computer comes equipped with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 2GB of 667 MHz DDR-2SDRAM with about six wireless connections...
Panasonic Z1 Plasma TV
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Panasonic has recently announced the Z1 Plasma TV. The Z1 measures only one inch thick but comes with a bigger price tag than that of the Philips Cinema 21:9. It is a 54 inch plasma packing Neo PDP technology and features a 1080p and wireless HDMI.
SmartSwitch – Hard to Operate when Using Lots of Power
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We have seen lots of intelligent methods of monitoring and curbing energy usage recently. The hacked Kill-a-Watt comes to mind. This SmartSwitch device is a prototype device that would allow you to feel how much energy you are using.
Samsung Q1EX Tablet
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Samsung has just unveiled the Samsung Q1EX Tablet which is a refreshed version of the Q1 touchscreen UMPC. The new version of the Q1 comes with a really nice exterior design but unfortunately it has more competition this time around.
The O2 Joggler – Touchscreen Multimedia Device
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The Joggler is the latest touchscreen multimedia device from O2. It serves as a personal family organizer to help you manage your family busy life.
This Just In-box: Drawing Tops by Thomas Forsyth
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Drawing Tops designed by Thomas Forsyth. LINK "A spinning-top, that uses a pen as the spindle, represents many of the core ideas behind my current work. It is recognizable, un-intimidating, and invites people to interact with objects that can lead to unpredictable results, or an emergent property.
Watchmen, X-Men, and Jimmy Corrigan: Putting Our Favorite Comics on the Kindle
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About three weeks ago I wrote a post for Gearlog called "The New Kindle: Not for Comics." Essentially I lamented the lack of sequential art-friendly features on the device--it doesn't have a color screen, and the zoom feature is, at best, lacking.
Mimio Interactive Solutions Make Any Surface Interactive
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Education technology is not our usual beat, but Brian and I saw a cool demo today that impressed us. It was by mimio, which makes a series of classroom tools that can turn regular old surfaces--blackboards, dry-erase boards, even just walls--into interactive surfaces.
CrunchDeals: Dell Crystal 22-inch LCD for $499
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Dell’s Crystal 22-inch LCD monitor is no doubt sexy, but the $999 price tag is kind of joke. After all it, the monitor is essentially the $249 2208WFP monitor with a bit of glass, a webcam, and some crappy speakers.
Mouse Computer Releasing LuvBook TW600X Laptop
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LuvBook TW600X is the newest family member of Mouse Computer Japan’s LuvBook laptop series.Running on Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 OS, LuvBook TW600X packs an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 processor, 4 GB of DDR2 RAM, 320 GB HDD and a Blu-ray burner.
Afternoon WTF: Swiss Watchring in a 400 year old tomb
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While some mysteries are occasionally solved, the majority tend to live on forever without the truth being revealed. One in the latter category concerns the recent discovery of a century-old Swiss watch discovered in an ancient Chinese tomb that has been sealed for more than 400 years.
Sony CMT-Z100iR iPod Dock
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Details have been released about Sony’s latest iPod dock, the Sony CMT-Z100iR iPod Dock. The Sony CMT-Z100iR iPod Dock is designed to be a high end iPod dock, as you can see from the photo it certainly looks very stylish, it will come a built in CD player.
Konami releases first screenshots of the iPhone’s Metal Gear Solid Touch
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Right around Christmastime was the last time we heard anything about Metal Gear Solid Touch, Konami’s first game for the iPhone/iPod touch. (Why do people refer to the iPod touch as the “iTouch”?)
Two from Ben Mickus: The Relief Chair and Refill Pillow
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Designer Ben Mickus' cool-looking Relief Chair makes its world debut today at the Cooper-Hewitt, as part of the "Fashioning Felt" exhibition. The chair is a sculpted assembly of rapidly-renewable felt sheets, supplanting foams, upholstery and anything applied.
Slimmest Bluetooth Headset Unveiled at CeBIT
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Here is the World’s smallest Bluetooth headset that was unveiled at CeBIT 2009. Measuring 49.3mm x 15.8mm x 4mm, the device has a special aluminum casting holds together the latest CVC echo and noise cancellation technology to ensure your conversations will remain crystal clear even with...
Boxee update: Hulu RSS, auto-update & app store
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Boxee have released an updated version of their eponymous media center software, but the much hoped-for Hulu reintroduction is not part of it. Instead, the new Boxee adds a software download store called App Box, an RSS reader (which can display Hulu video feeds) and auto-update functionality.
Personal, wearable device designed to keep track of your burn rate
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We've seen devices before that measure power consumption around the house, but this is the first we've seen that measures it around your body. Minnesota-based design firm Worrell did the ID for the Gruve, a personal energy-burning monitor based on research by Dr. Jim Levine of the Mayo Clinic.
Leica S2 still coming this Summer
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The Leica S2 AKA the crazy camera with a freaking 37.5-megapixel sensor that will cost under $20,000 is still on track for a Summer appearance. Says Leica product specialist Justin Stailey: “A lot of it has to due with fluctuations in the Euro.
Physically Save Numbers and Messages With the Icon Notepad
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Your computer's desktop is riddled with icons. Now you can add some to your physical desktop as well with the Icon Notepad.
The surfeit of content: Life in the post-optical world
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As William Gibson said, “The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed.” A few years ago I thought streaming video was an impossible dream. Networks were too slow, we said, and no one cared about streaming.
The Virtual Cocoon: Why leave the house when you can put on a helmet and ‘go’ places, right?
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This is the Virtual Cocoon, a British device that promises to allow “armchair travelers… hear the roar of lions on safari, smell the flowers of an Alpine meadow or feel the heat of the Caribbean sun on their face - all from the comfort of their sitting room.”
GE announces a waterproof point and shoot, the G3WP
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As an amateur photographer, I generally look down on point and shoots because their image quality stinks something fierce on top of other things, but once in a while a few gems pop up like Fujifilm’s F30 and upcoming F200EXR.
TUAW Review: The Haptique hard shell case
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Filed under: Accessories, Reviews, MacBookAs someone who usually likes to go "commando" with his tech, I was highly skeptical as to the usefulness, at least to me, of the new Haptique hard shell case for the 13" aluminum MacBook.
PMA: Hands On with the Panasonic DMC-GH1’s HD Video
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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1, which the company is showing off on the floor of this year's PMA, is the first D-SLR competitor that can auto-focus on command while recording HD video (up to 1920-by-1080 at 24 frames per second).
Olympus Micro Four Thirds cameras due this summer?
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If there is one thing for sure, it’s that this Olympus camera concept has captured the hearts of geeks every way. Hopefully when Olympus’ Micro Four Thirds finally drop, there will be one model just like this retro mock-up.
IBM’s “Antique Attic” gallery
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You canmdash;and shouldmdash;lose hours digging through IBM's "Antique Attic", an online catalog of the actual old machines they hold on hand for posterity's sake. This Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator is circa 1948; it looks straight out of an Asimov paperback backdrop.
This Just Inbox: Perspective table, The Power of Cute Thesis Project, and Pinball Publishing’s Scoutbooks
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A New Perspective By James ToozeThis table is the start of a project illustrating the reality of objects in terms of their materials, manufacture and possible use. This piece means to encourage investigation into how things are made. With a little effort our curiosity is satisfied.
