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New Skype feature allows for more discounted calling

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

Section: Communications, Mobile, Web With eBay’s Skype users have the ability to communicate with others across the globe at little to no cost. Now, Skype is providing Skype to Go with the ability to make outgoing national and international calls from both landlines and mobile phones.

www.gadgetell.com

RISD Undergrad Industrial Design Senior Show

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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If you are in Providence this evening, support your local design student: RISD Undergraduate Industrial Design Senior Show 6:00-7:30pm Woods-Gerry Gallery 62 Prospect Street Providence, Rhode Island(more...

MM-103 mobile A/V cabinet is a great home for gadgets

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

In a typical household it is easy for gadgets to take up place as per the owner’s convenience. But those furniture sellers would have us believe that the way to go is to get a classy cabinet for our A/V equipment. And you know what, they make a very valid point.

www.gizmowatch.com

Apple shareholders will re-elect board

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Steve Jobs, AppleEarlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Steve Jobs would not attend Apple's shareholder meeting, scheduled for this week. It would be the first one Steve missed in 10 years.

Lingerie-drying appliance concept

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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If you're a bachelor who grew up without sisters, perhaps the biggest surprise you'll find upon cohabitating with a woman is that the shower becomes a drying ground for lingerie. To get around this, a California-based company named Infilta has come up with a concept design called the Bra Dryer: ...

Flotspotting: Matias Conti’s vehicle concepts

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Designer Matias Conti's Transformable Spin Vehicle ...was designed to provide the rider with a number of options, pertaining to driving stance and style. Drivers can choose different driving positions on this three-wheeled concept.

Apple MBP 17-inch Unibody: Benchmarked and Thoughts

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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The Unibody 17-inch MBP completes the circle of Apple laptops that received the new aluminum enclosure. The design is absolutely gorgeous, and with all the additions, including a huge battery and twin graphics chipsets, Apple still kept it feathery light; it's the lightest laptop in its class.

www.gearlog.com

How publishing can learn from Valve

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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In an effort to beat this Kindle horse closer to pulp, I present an excellent essay by Ed Champion, a guy who knows publishing. He points out that the publishing industry is stuck in one or two models that just don’t work and things need to change.

www.crunchgear.com

Vintage Synths get mini felt-homage

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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With classic synthesizers fetching huge prices on eBay, never mind what you’d pay in a specialist music shop, those of us with a fondness for retro music design could do far worse than turn to Australian fabric artist pulsewidth and her incredible miniature replicas.

www.slashgear.com

Dell Inspiron Mini 10 on sale now from $399

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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From a behemoth of a Dell to a much smaller proposition: the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook has finally gone on sale in the US.

www.slashgear.com

Tiny models of classic Sega sit-down arcade games

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Space Harrier. Super Hang-On. Out Run. Thunderblade. All are immortal hydraulic monsters released to arcades by Sega in the mid-1980s. And all are now tiny wee things that sit on your desk.

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/26/tiny-models

Planar Introduces Entry-Level Version of StereoMirror™ 3D/Stereoscopic Display

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Planar Systems today announced the new entry-level version of its StereoMirror™ 3D/stereoscopic display.

desinformado.com

i-Luv i1166 PMP – iPod Docking & DVD Player

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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i-Luv will be releasing the i1166 PMP which is also a DVD Player and a iPod Dock. The i1166 is a pmp that sports a large 9-inch LCD display, a DVD Player and an iPod Docking Station.

www.loopygadgets.com

Samsung: AMOLED laptop displays in 2009, flexibles in 2010

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Samsung has publicly declared its goal of doubling AMOLED production in 2009, with a further doubling in 2010. According to Daniel Lamberti, brand manager at Samsung Mobile, AMOLED will reach economy of scale sometime this year, with TVs, laptops and monitors all commercially viable.

www.slashgear.com

Google Me Business Cards

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Forget boring business cards with tons of your contact details on them, what you need is one of these fun ‘Google Me’ business cards from designer Ji Lee.

www.geeky-gadgets.com

Berlekamp’s switch game

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

Retromodo: Berlekamp's switch game.. I hear you :) Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this!

blog.makezine.com

Animalights

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

It's not rocket science [Thelermont Hupton via DVice]

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/25/animalights

Madre De “DIOS” Fridge From LG

February 26th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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The “Dios” fridge, aka R-T757GCHW is the latest refrigerator from LG. It boasts a gigantic 750l space, 35.9kWh consumption as well as Green, White and Blue LED lights to reduce fresh vegetable oxidation. To make it more elegant the front panel is decorated with a nice flower design.

www.techfresh.net/madre-de-dios-fridge-from-l

Freeze-Proof 65-inch Sony TV Available Soon. For $20,000.

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Sony's TV division has apparently decided that the next great feature in televisions has nothing to do with image contrast, brightness, or green efficiency standards. Instead, they’re going to make rain- and freeze-proof TVs.

Michael Jackson’s arcade games to be auctioned off on April 24th

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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For a full grown man, Michael Jackson sure has a lot of arcade games. Weird, huh? If you’ve got some money burning a hole in your pocket, why not head out to Beverly Hills in late April to see if you can pick up some of these machines at deep, deep discounts.

www.crunchgear.com

Sneak Peek: Musical Instruments of the Future

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Futuristic musical instruments will hold center stage this weekend in Atlanta, where Georgia Tech will be hosting a competition and performance to showcase innovative instruments.

OWC Mercury Pro BDR-203 External Blu-ray Burner

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

Other World Computing (OWC) offers its Mercury Pro BDR-203 quad-interface external Blu-ray burner that comes with 8x write speeds. It is able to burn up to 2GB worth of data per minute. Some of the connectivity options include FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 and eSATA.

www.techfresh.net/owc-mercury-pro-bdr-203-ext

NS02, Flip phone from Pantech and AU

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

Pantech teaming up with AU relesing their latest flip CDMA 1X WIN phone called NS02 in Japan. Come in a flip phone design, NS02 has 51×102x19.4mm dimension and 220 grams weight. NS02 sport a 2.7-inch display with QVGA resolution, 2 MP camera and a microSD card slot ( up to 2 GB).

www.lifeatmost.com

World’s smallest GPS Module from CellGuide

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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CellGuide release a new GPS module measured at only 0.21″ x 0.18″ x 0.04″. With this dimension, we can expect to see tiny GPS enabled devices in the near future.

www.lifeatmost.com

What’s small, cold, and invisible in my kitchen?

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

As a bachelor, I am used to friends stopping by my apartment and making the same comment upon opening my nearly-empty refrigerator: "That's all you've got in there?" Yet this hulking white appliance sits in my kitchen and dominates the space, completely out of proportion to my relationship with it.

The 16943 concept TV swings both ways

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

Here’s an idea: Create a television that maximizes both 16:9 and 4:3 viewing area. Too bad it would confuse the hell out of old folks. I love it! The 16943 - get it? - is a few years too late but just look at it and imagine how it would work.

www.crunchgear.com

10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2… and 10 reasons not to

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

From xkcd Having used both Kindles 1 and 2, I thought it would helpful to list where the new Kindle excels and where it falters.

www.crunchgear.com

Toshiba OLED TV Wallpaper

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Imagine a future where we no longer have a large LCD or Plasma TV cluttering up our living room, instead OLED wallpaper which delivers our content direct onto the wall.

www.geeky-gadgets.com

Authors Guild, Roy Blount Jr. still fighting against robo-speech

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Infingement. That’s what Blount called Amazon’s text-to-speech feature. Roy Blount, Jr., president of the Authors Guild, wrote an op-ed in the NYT today about the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature. Heavens to Betsy - we’re still talking about this? I’m a writer.

www.crunchgear.com

Sony demo hybrid fuel-cell concepts

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Sony has been demonstrating a number of fuel-cell concepts, ranging from portable power units to rechargers and even home speaker systems that have their own methanol power-source.

www.slashgear.com

Sony Walkman NWZ-X1051 & NWZ-X1061 priced

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

Sony’s AMOLED touchscreen Walkman PMPs, the NWZ-X1051 16GB and NWZ-X1061 32GB, have both been priced, at least in the UK.

www.slashgear.com

iPhone-style earphones

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

Nixon has been with us so far mainly by watches (especially the great Dictator product) made noticeable - but when it comes to the iPhone boom ranzuhängen looks is obviously happy times on the rim.

gadgetsngizmos.org/2009/02/25/iphone-style-ea

Panasonic and European Online Content Partners to VIERA CAST Service

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

The VIERA CAST service is introduced in Europe with three series of the new Panasonic line-up of NeoPDP flat screens – Z1 Series, V10 Series, and G15 series – as well as two full-HD LCD series – V10 Series and G15 Series.

desinformado.com

iPhone Accessories – Mini Capsule 3G iPhone Microphone

February 25th, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago

Here’s another accessory for your 3G iPhone from the guys over at Brando, the Mini Capsule 3G iPhone Microphone.

www.geeky-gadgets.com

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