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Fake iPod Generation 5

How to make an iPod fake: Step 1: Remove signature scroll wheel. Step 2: Replace streamlined interface with wonky computer-like controls. Step 3: Add every bit of software, hardware, and functionality you’d ever imagine anyone wanting. Step 4: Photoshop! But hey, you could use Salling Clicker on the iPod 5G to control your cellphone to…

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Motorola MPx Owners Manual Leaks

PhoneMag got a whole of a draft copy of the Motorola MPx user manual, chock full of typos like “Protrait mode,” but also with lots of, you know, actual technical details. If you’ve had your heart set on this phone for a while, thumbing through the draft manual is a lot more fun than thumbing…

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World’s Fastest Electric Car

Dispelling all notions of what an electric car can be, a group of students from Ohio State University have developed the first entirely electric-powered car to capitalize on the aerodynamic shape of a tumescent schlong. http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/alternative-energy/ohio-state-students-design-fastest-electricpowered-car-023835.php Oh, and it’s the world’s fastest electric schlong, too, attaining 314 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Ohio State…

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RCA Scenium HDTV in West Coast Best Buys

DLP (Digital Light Processing) is a great technology, and as Om Malik reports, it’s making serious inroads into living and board rooms, with sales of DLP televisions outselling plasma in North America. RCA just dropped a release today saying that their extremely slick Scenium DLP HDTVs are now available in Best Buys in So-Cal this…

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HP Demos Flexible Plastic LCD

Although it’s far from being put into a commercial product, HP Labs showed off a flexible plastic LCD panel Monday in London that they hope will be used in signs and other static display devices. It’s not fast enough for video yet—it takes about half-a-second to switch to a new image—but it does have the…

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Swatch Paparazzi SPOT Watch

Remember when Swatch was cool? They share sort of the same weird out-of-time space that companies like Oakley do—possibly their explosive introductory success knocked them right out of the style/time continuum, where they persist in producing products that are ridiculously out of touch with consensus fashion reality. Like this MSNDirect SPOT ‘Paparazzi’ watch, which offers…

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Kyocera Contax, WPC Expo Tokyo

SorobanGeeks has pictures and videos up from the show floor of the Tokyo WPC Expo, with a lot the same stuff we’ve already covered (like the NEC fuel cell laptop) but definitely a lot of new things, too, like this Kyocera Contax point-and-shoot which I think is 6.5 megapixels with a 2.8x optical zoom and…

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Mini-ITX Darpa Challenger

Some of the designs for next year’s DARPA Grand Challenge are starting to pop up, as teams show off their entries into the contest to build completely autonomous vehicles. This go-kart sized unit is built by two kids called “The Prodigies,” and is computationally powered by a Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard (Via happens to be…

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TimeTrax and Hybrid-Mobile XM to PC Interfaces

Despite XM’s removal of its USB tuner from the market, the time-shifting radio fans aren’t giving up easily, and neither are the companies that make the hardware and software that make it possible. We reported last week about a cable from Hybrid Mobile Solutions that let you connect an XM tuner to a PC, although…

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Jens of Sweden MP-400

Jens of Sweden has announced a new flash memory player, the MP-400, a pendant-style unit with a 20 hour battery life and a blue and orange OLED screen. Available in snow white and four other limited-edition colors, the tiny players won’t come cheap—about $500 for the 1GB model. The MP-400 has all the features that…

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Nextel Motorola i860 Available

Nextel fan Chris Lohroff tells me that the much-awaited Motorola i860 cameraphone is now openly available on Nextel’s website. Go get ’em, tigers! If you’re already already using Nextel, you probably know why the i860 is hot, but for the uninitiated, it’s the first cameraphone Nextel has ever offered. Strange but true! i860 Product Page…

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Claro ‘Holographic’ TV

I’d really like to see one of these Claro ‘holographic’ televisions in person. The idea is great—suspending a rear-projection screen a sheet of glass, giving the illusion that it’s suspended in air—but it has some obvious downsides (besides the inevitable drunken crash into your $27,000 television). The default installation places the projector on the floor…

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Roamio: Disposable Solid State Videocamera

An Australian company is hawking a new “disposable video camera” called the ‘Roamio,’ capable of taking up to 64 1.3-megapixel still images and recording 10 minutes of VHS-quality video (I could never quite determine if that included sound—I suspect not). The idea is much like the idea behind disposable still cameras—drop $50 (AU) on a…

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Topaz-1: Cold War Electro-Accordion

I was plenty impressed with the recently-announced Roland V-Accordion synthesizer as any right-thinking nerd should be, but I was perhaps most impressed by the originality of its design. How wrong I was! Russian bayan players (the Soviet Bloc-rockin’ accordion equivalent) were kicking out jaunty tunes on battery-powered squeeze boxes as far back as the 1950s.…

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Ceiva Adds Cameraphone Option to Digital Picture Frames

It’s cool that the Ceiva digital picture frames can now receive pictures directly from your camera phone—putting one of these on someone’s desk and then entertaining them all day with strange pictures sounds highly fun—but you still have to pay a monthly subscription fee to use the frames, since instead of hooking directly up to…

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More (Slight) Details on Samsung’s 5-Megapixel SCH-250

MobileTracker grabbed a larger picture of the new 5-megapixel SCH-250 from Samsung, along with a bit more information about it, including a price: $800. It also appears that the new cameraphone will have 90MB of built-in RAM and an MP3 player—nothing real notable, but details are so slim at the moment everything seems more important.…

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MegaSIM

GigaOm reports on MegaSim, the UltraAwesome SuperRad SIM card that has up to 256 MegaBytes of HyperRAM on board. The gist is, any phone in the future will be able to squeeze a little extra flash memory on board inside the SIM slot itself, plus allow the user to carry along a lot more data…

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Dell Laptop 50% Coupons

Dell is having a massive one day sale on many of their laptops—we’re talking like $750 off $1,500 laptops here. TechBargains has a good breakdown of how it works out, but there’s some serious savings to be had if you’re in the market for an x86 laptop. I’m not a huge fan for Dell’s laptops,…

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Sky+ Fashion PVRs

This is how stupid I am: it actually took me a few minutes to figure out if UK company ‘Sky’ was a cable service or a satellite service. Sky—I know, I totally eat paint. Anyway, now that I’ve determined exactly what kind of service Sky offers, I can more better explain that they’ve launched a…

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Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone Concept Competition

Ach! We almost missed these Chinese mobile phone concepts, entries all to a contest sponsored Sony ericsson. There’s a lot of silly, unrealistic shlock, but sometimes those are half the fun. A lot of them look like existing phones, like this concept that looks like a cross between a Sony Ericsson P910 and a Motorola…

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Fake iPod Generation 5

Motorola MPx Owners Manual Leaks

World’s Fastest Electric Car

RCA Scenium HDTV in West Coast Best Buys

HP Demos Flexible Plastic LCD

Swatch Paparazzi SPOT Watch

Kyocera Contax, WPC Expo Tokyo

Mini-ITX Darpa Challenger

TimeTrax and Hybrid-Mobile XM to PC Interfaces

Jens of Sweden MP-400

Nextel Motorola i860 Available

Claro ‘Holographic’ TV

Roamio: Disposable Solid State Videocamera

Topaz-1: Cold War Electro-Accordion

Ceiva Adds Cameraphone Option to Digital Picture Frames

More (Slight) Details on Samsung’s 5-Megapixel SCH-250

MegaSIM

Dell Laptop 50% Coupons

Sky+ Fashion PVRs

Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone Concept Competition

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