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Use Lye To Deal With Dead Relatives, Unclog Drains

Forget those GPS graves in the jungle we brought you a few weeks ago, because in the future what we're really going to do is pour—yes pour—our loved ones down the drain with the help of some lye and an iron coffin contraption from BioSafe Engineering. The last hurdle, as always, will be to overcome the yuck factor many people experience when they realize this really does mean turning mom and pops into coffee syrup.
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1:00 PM on Sun May 11 2008
By Jack Loftus
4,722 views, 36 comments

Latest by VENAT0R: Can someone explain why they want to make this illegal? more »

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Letter from a Moto Insider: How Stupid Execs Ran Moto Into the Ground

Geoffrey Frost was Motorola's Chief Marketing Officer, and the RAZR was his baby. Last month, we got a letter from his former personal adviser, Numair Faraz, written to current Motorola CEO Greg Brown about how a cabal of inept, out-of-touch executives more worried about their golf score than the company drove once mighty Moto into the ground. It got lost in our bloated inbox, but with Moto splitting up today, Engadget reminded us we had it. For anyone wondering what the hell happened to Moto, with its endless string of RAZR knockoffs and crappy handsets, it's a must-read:
I've always considered it Motorola's dirty little secret that the strategy for their entire profit machine was run by the company's CMO—not the rest of the company's executives, who are as inept now as they have ever been. Many close to Geoffrey believed Ed Zander worked him to death, putting the pressure of the fate of the company in his hands.
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3:15 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By matt buchanan
21,285 views, 81 comments

Latest by bobvilla: Who is the handset division being sold to, and what happens to it from here? Is this going the more »

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Motorola CEO Looking for Fresh Blood to Lead Battered Handset Division

A month after he personally seized the reins at Motorola's beleaguered handset division, CEO Greg Brown is already looking to hand off the responsibility—and maybe the flak?—to someone from outside. Maybe a new perspective is what it needs, all those RAZRs start to look the same after a while. Oh wait. [Into Mobile]

6:00 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By matt buchanan
1,747 views, 19 comments

Latest by N/A: We recently did an article on the same topic. Entitled "How the RAZR cut Motorola", we blame the falling more »

cellphones

Motorola Gifts Personalized Copies of Its ROKR E8 to Oscar Nominees

Just like they did at last year's ceremony, Motorola is gifting 2008's Oscar nominees with personalized versions of its as-yet-unreleased ROKR E8.
Yeah, yeah, you probably think we are turning into a celebrity website, but, given the past few weeks of will they, won't they? speculation as to whether they are getting out of the handset market, this announcement means, IMO, one thing. More »

7:54 AM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By AddyDugdale
3,297 views, 14 comments

Latest by N/A: So this is the only way they can get people to use their phones? more »

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Motorola CEO Seizes Control of Slumping Cellphone Division

Amid rumors that Motorola may spin off the handset division into its own company, CEO Greg Brown has announced he will be taking control of the unit in an effort to remedy its poor performance. With 3GSM around the corner and all eyes on Moto, they better have something good in the pipeline. [Reuters via RCR Wireless News]

9:58 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Adrian Covert
2,111 views, 11 comments

Latest by N/A: Because, if things are going REALLY BAD at a tech (?) company, you need a former software salesman to make more »

Zune Outsells Every Player on Amazon Thanks to the Zune 2 firmware update and the $89 deal, the Brown Zune is outselling every other player (flash or hard drive) on Amazon. [Amazon]

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Not only is Woot offering brown Zunes for $79, but that if you already bought one in that color, you're eligible for an extra $20 off any item worth more than $20.

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Sony Ericsson K770i is Slim, 3.2 Megapixel Cyber-shot and Brown

Sony Ericsson's K770i Cyber-shot cellphone has been announced today: it's only 14.5 mm thick, has a 3.2-megapixel camera with Photo fix function and is expected to launch in Europe sometime in the last quarter of this year. Hopefully it will make the jump to the US soon. Full specs and press release after the jump.
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4:49 AM on Tue Aug 14 2007
By AddyDugdale
22,222 views, 16 comments

Latest by dws: The phone looks amazing, the model even more so. But why on earth did they dress her up in the more »

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iWalk is So Much More than Just a Prosthetic Foot

A group of MIT and Brown researchers and engineers have debuted a prosthetic foot that propels the user forward using "tendon-like springs and an electric motor," meaning it is even more like the real thing than traditional prostheses. Professor Hugh Herr, head of biomechatronics at MIT's Media Lab, and a double amputee himself, tested the device, describing it as "wild—like you're on one of those moving walkways in the airport." More »

7:49 AM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By AddyDugdale
2,862 views, 11 comments

Latest by dolo54: IF I SEE ONE MORE i PREFIX I WILL GO CRAZY!!!!!!! more »

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Kooky Brit Marries Aussie Woman After Text Encounter

It doesn't get any wackier than this, folks. 24-year old David Brown says he woke up one morning with a random telephone number in his head. So later that day he decides to text this number and randomly finds 22-year-old Michelle Kitson on the other end. More »

6:20 PM on Wed Apr 11 2007
By Louis Ramirez
1,602 views, 11 comments

Latest by Worf: I've gotten lots of mis-sent SMSes... usually stuff saying like "can you pick me up?" and such. I've considered calling more »

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3GSM Telecom Conference in Barcelona = iPhoneClone Launchpad


3GSM was a show I'd always been happy to cover from afar. It's not that I didn't want to visit Barcelona, of course. It's just that the news had always been less than spectacular for me, so It was a hard trip to justify to the bosses. This year, things are turning out to be more interesting than usual.
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5:54 AM on Mon Feb 12 2007
By Brian Lam
1,333 views, 7 comments

Latest by king_of_fools: FurySting says: Monday morning haven't even let my coffee cool yet and already two iPhone mentions on more »

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Zune's Brown Color Sucks, Analyst Says

Microsoft marketing geniuses figured out that brown is the new black (or white), painting up the Zune in a color that a lot of people associate with a brick of shit. Now here come the second-guessing analysts, and one named Rob Enderle from the Enderle Group says that Microsoft stands alone in its edgy choice of brown as a hot new color. Is brown cool? "No other hardware company has come to that conclusion," he said, blaming the color for the player's somewhat slow intro. More »

10:12 AM on Thu Nov 30 2006
By Charlie White
3,840 views, 45 comments

Latest by Sexybabe16: I think that no one should have a Zune so damn ugly! It truely does look like a pile of more »

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Plastic Battery Breakthrough: 100x Today's Alkaline Cells

It's about time we had a battery breakthrough, and researchers at Brown University say their plastic battery produces 100 times the power of today's alkaline cells. The technology combines the power surging capabilities of a capacitor with the storage characteristics of conventional batteries. The result is a battery that can be charged quickly but at the same time can deliver its energy over an extended period. It's versatile, too. Inventors Tayhas Palmore and Hyun-Kon Song explained how the composite material used to build the batteries is a virtual shape shifter. Said Palmore:
"You start thinking about this polymer and you start thinking that you can create batteries everywhere out of it. You could wrap cell phones in it or electronic devices. Conceivably, you could even make fabric out of this composite."
The next problem to be solved is the batteries' decreased storage capacity after they've been repeatedly recharged. No word on when the technology might find its way to market. – Charlie White More »

12:03 PM on Mon Sep 18 2006
By Charlie White
1,250 views, 12 comments

Latest by mayurgogoi: great invention but threat to bomb attacks. more »

cellphones

Sony Ericsson K800i Available Soon In Brown

If the basic black and grey color of the standard K800i isn't to your liking, perhaps you'll enjoy the 3.2 megapixel cameraphone in something a bit more...poopy? The Sony Ericsson k800i is going to be available in brown starting September, exclusively in the Hong Kong and Taiwan region. After that, it'll flow all over Asia, into Europe, spreading its caramel goodness into hands of eager consumers everywhere. More »

5:19 PM on Thu Aug 17 2006
By Jason Chen
6,518 views, 4 comments

Latest by Kricket: i picked up a k790i just a few weeks ago for tmo here in the u.s. - i decided to more »

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Why the Da Vinci Code is Full of It

Amidst all the chatter—"Jesus wasn't divine and slept with the ladies," "Tom Hanks has bad hair"—very few people were brave enough to bring up the real issues in Dan Brown's smash best seller, The Screenplay for the Da Vinci Code Movie. Brown, it seems, doesn't know anything about technology, biology, or art. More »

12:42 PM on Thu May 18 2006
By johnb
197 views, 14 comments

Latest by product designer: the cia have micro tracking devices, there are ufos stored away in nevada and davinci didn't invent a thing, not more »