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Sony Rolly culled in US? Price slashed to $99

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As my mother once told me, there’s only so long you can roll around on the floor, bleating and waving your arms around, before they put you out to pasture.

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Ducati RC Motorcycle with Leaning Rider

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Ducati RC Motorcycle with Leaning Rider This bike is an RC motorcycle built to look just like a Ducati at a scale of 1:12. It features auto stabilization to prevent it from falling over, has a fully proportional digital control with working suspension.

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Is information visualization the next frontier for design?

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Fast Company published a (very) introductory article on the emerging field of "information visualization," an offshoot of graphic design devoted to the clear display of complex information.

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The Okko LED Alarm Clock With Electronic Bird

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Here’s something different to wake you up in the morning, the Okko LED Alarm Clock With Electronic Bird. This lovely electronic bird will wake you up gently and sweetly with the chirping sound giving you the feeling of being with nature.

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Asus U Series Notebook PCs

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Asus comes back with three new members of its designer U series laptop that looks like the Apple MacBook Air.

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Eye-Fi now works with more hosting sites

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People that use Eye-Fi video memory cards know that they can directly upload pictures and videos to websites like Flickr and YouTube. But a new update announced today makes it so you can upload to three more supported sites, and it’s still just as easy.

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$100 LED lamp uses “quantum dots” to imitate more natural light

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As we move away (as a species) from wasteful incandescent bulbs, we’re going to have to deal with some changes in how the world looks. The cold, bright light of a white LED array is great for a flashlight, but a little clinical for mood lighting.

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Electronic House’s ‘Home of the Year’

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Sure, 2009 isn’t even halfway over yet but that didn’t stop Electronic House from crowning a winner in its “Home of the Year Awards.” It’s a quaint little 7,000 sqare foot spread located in the Hollywood Hills with none other than a dedicated game room complete with...

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Panasonic GH1 Camera Can Record 1080p Video

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Panasonic GH1 camera is called a revolutionary camera with a reason. Arrive in a platform called ‘Micro Four Thirds’, Panasonic GH1 packs the same size image sensor found on DSLR but use smaller interchangeable lensescapable to give shallow DOF.

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Can a mouse be too small?

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There are quite a few mini PC mouses coming out of Japan, but now Tokyo-based TEC is saying their Lingo, a wireless device, is the smallest of them all [JP]. The Lingo weighs only 23g and is sized at 27.5 × 60 × 19mm so the claim doesn’t sound too outrageous.

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Unusual design collaboration: The Kitchen of the Future, brought to you by James Dyson and the Borg

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Bless those guys who take the time to find cool stuff by sifting through reams of patent applications. The latest find: James Dyson has apparently patented an all-in-one kitchen kit that combines all of your appliances, in the patent-drawing at least, into a series of Borg-like cubes.

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The Egg Printer

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This would be the ideal gadget for Easter, the Egg Printer. Unfortunately there aren’t to many details about exactly how the Egg Printer works, but as you can see from the photo it uses a pen to draw on the eggs surface.

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Twenty-One Years of Photoshop: Screenshots

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Amazing. Photoshop is almost as old as I am! (Well, if you add several years to its age). That’s over twenty years of pirated copies helping freelancers make a living helping companies manipulate graphics and designs to their and their clients’ advantage!

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X-Rayed Games Consoles

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X-ray technician and Flickr member Reintji has combined his passions into a rather splendid peek inside the workings of game consoles. Presumably sliding the hardware into the x-ray machine between fracture victims, he offers a glimpse inside the old and the new, from NES to XBox 360.

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RipNas Statement

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mCubed has launched a new NAS drive, with the launch of the RipNas Statement. The RipNas Statement is more than a standard NAS drive, as it has a built in CD slot that lets you rip your CDs direct to the hard drive, it is designed to work without the need for a keyboard, monitor.

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New Kindle DX to sport 9.7-inch screen, weird proportions

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Some sexy person has decided to leak out some pictures of the Kindle that’s coming later this week. It’s reportedly going to be called the Kindle DX, and it’s got a 9.7-inch screen.

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HyperMac = portable battery for all MacBook models, get up to 32 hours of juice

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Praise Jeebus! Today in Sunnyvale, CA, Sanho announced the world’s first external battery pack for all MacBook laptops. The HyperMac is available in 60Wh, 100Wh, 150Wh and 222Wh capacities with built-in variable power tech that adjusts output based on the MacBook model that’s being charged.

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iLamp By Systemdesignstudio

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ilamp Last Version by Systemdesignstudio. A flexible reading lamp, Cool!The iLamp is made of white s..(more...

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3D Laser Scanner

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Cornell University has just completed their ECE 4760 Designing with Microcontrollers Final Projects. There are lots of great projects, this 3D Laser Scanner by Ryan Dunn and Dale Taylor looks to be a flexible scanning system. Code and schematics are provided so that you can learn from their project.

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“Mobility” concept wins Buckminster Fuller Challenge

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It took a team of nine to win the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, namely, a team of MIT researchers and students led by professor William J.

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Hybrid plant-human virtual pets for your desk

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A cool new way to keep tabletop plants in the house without the hassle of fallen leaves: Domsai, or little light-bulb-shaped bipedal plant-people with ceramic legs and a variation of plant-heads by Italian artist Matteo Cibic.

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Virgin Galactic Spaceship Caught on Video

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This was supposed to have been a secret. But due to the fact that "several recent published articles have been sufficiently inaccurate and negative," Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites together want to "set the record straight" by demonstrating that White Knight 2, the company's current...

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Folding Skate Deck – A Concept Board

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See more here - Thanks Loren!(more...)

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Altec Lansing VS2620 & BXR1220 value speakers

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Altec Lansing have announced new speakers in its Value Series, promising that low price doesn’t have to equal low quality sound.

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Tesla's Lab, for sale

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If you want to buy a genuine mad genius laboratory, its yours for $1,650,000. But beware the toxic ground.

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U.S. Continues to Lead on Innovation, Says LCD Pioneer

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It is difficult to picture consumer electronics products without Liquid Crystal Displays or that one man was responsible nearly 46 years ago for the paper that would set the ball rolling for the use of LCDs.

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Ryan Welch’s blimp

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We're loving Ryan Welch's retro-futurist zeppelin concept, which he designed in Alias and produced a CNC model of. Best of all he's got photos of his entire process, from initial sketches right up to what looks to be a grueling model-finishing process, up on Coroflot.(more...

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Hook and Go skeletal shopping cart

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A contraption called the Hook and Go, "the smart cart for the urban shopper," seems like a good idea as gets rid of the "cart part, folds into a compact shape, and will hold 70 pounds of hanging bags when unfurled. I say "seems" because although it was invented in 2007, I've yet to see one.

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MID Concept By Jan Rytir

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Designer Jan Rytir has come out with this awesome looking piece of Mobile Internet Device (MID) concept.

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IBM kick-start private cloud computing

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IBM have announced their first computer that relies on a private cloud for both storage and processing power.

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Power-on-demand electric bike

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Getting around in the city ends up being a pretty complicated problem. Depending on where you work, what you do, and what sort of terrain you’ve got going on, you may want to take the bus, subway, a car, a bike, or a scooter. I bike, but I also live on top of Capitol Hill in Seattle.

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New Debaufre Aircraft-8 Chronograph

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Debaufre just announced their new Aircraft-8 Chronograph, and I have to admit. I want one. Vaguely B&R inspired, the square black case with the red hands on the sub dials just speaks to me.

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Ciclotte Exercise Bike

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See the Ciclotte, the bike looks so cool, this concept was exhibited in Milan, designed by Luca Schi..(more...

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The Box that Rates the Web

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Have you ever wondered how the Nielsen Company compiles their TV ratings? That's right, by giving people the fugly People Meter above to record their viewing habits. If the set-top box looks dated, that's because it is--it dates back to 1987.

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