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Cyclops R/C Car with Wireless Camera

I can t tell you how many times the pimply-faced teenage me wished I had something like this Cyclops Camera Car for covert ops like investigating the girls locker room. If nothing else, I could have been a more popular guy with my more athletic gym terrorpuppets classmates, as we huddled around the controller and…

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Tokyo Game Show TV

I have a feeling you aren’t quite sick of looking at videos from the Tokyo Game Show, especially if they include more footage of the new Playstation, PSP, and neverending lines of bouncing, beret-bearing booth babes. Sony has that same feeling, it would seem, with a whole mess of streaming videos for your perusal. Seriously,…

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Samsung Yepp YP-T6

The YP-T6, unveiled in Korea this week, follows Samsung s YP-ST5 as yet another “world’s smallest” tiny form-factor flash player with USB 2.0 support. It comes in similar capacities (128 MB, 256 MB, 1 GB) and supports MP3, OGG, WMA, and ASF. Bored yet? The snazziest feature, aside from its teeny-tiny size, is its ability…

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iPod Mini Promotions

Free iPods for everybody! Or at least discounted! We’ve gotten heads up from readers about a couple of new ways to get your hand on an iPod mini; one for free, one for $150. J&R (and maybe other retailers) is running a promotion where a one-year subscription to audiobooks vendor Audible.com ($15 a month) gets…

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Life Imitates Star Trek: SonoPrep Needle-less Injection

It isn t called HypoSpray, but the SonoPrep is a similar means to an identical end: painless injections. After 20 years of research and development, Prof. Joseph Krost of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel (there is a beer-by-injection joke in there somewhere) has developed the device which applies ultrasonic waves to a small area of…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Brother QL-550/QL-500 label printers [BIOS] • Fujifilm Printpix CX-550 photo printer [BIOS] • Plush FM Radio [GlobalSources] • Designer Sex Toys [CoolHunting] Business • Adobe proposes new format for images [TheStar] • Microsoft Prepared to Strip Media Player [InternetNews] Reviews • A Close Look at Sony’s E-Book [Poynter] • Acer AL1721hm –…

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Smoke Screens for Tanks

You know when you pick up a toad and it sort of wets itself all over you? I can’t help but thinking that’s sort of like what a smoke screen for tanks would be like – a pointless last-ditch attempt that would only serve to sort of embarrass everyone involved. No matter what these people…

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Diesel Powered Boeing 737 Limousine

A Mexican limo company has converted a Boeing 727 airliner into an 18-meter, 50-person limousine powered by a 6-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine. They’ve thrown out the cramped quarters to include a bar, a dancefloor, a lounge, and even a “romantic space” in the back (romance is near the engines, it seems). For just $1,500, the…

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DIY iPod Flashlight

If you don’t want to shell out the $20 for the new Griffin iBeam flashlight (and laser pointer) accessory for the iPod, you can always shell out $20 for parts (fine, a little less) and build your own using this German fellow’s design. It won’t be all white and shiny like a Griffin one, though,…

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Toshiba Meta Brain Television

You know a new television is starting out on the right foot when its manufacturer shows a picture of its mainboard on its product page. The Toshiba Meta Brain is an 37-inch LCD television that bridges the space between dumb display device and home media PC, with dual Ethernet, FireWire, and USB ports that allow…

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Epson P-2000 Photo Fine Player

Epson joins the personal video club with the P-2000 Photo Fine Player, a 40GB PMP that focuses primarily on photos – for a while I wasn’t sure it played anything else – but also manages to play back MPEG4, MP3, and even AAC. The P-2000 has on-board CF and SD card slots and USB Direct…

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Pollsters Ignore Cell Phones

Wired News points out a growing issue troubling political polling groups like Zogby and Gallup: they don’t call people on cell phones. That might sound like a positive thing at first, but consider the number of people who use only mobile phones and don’t have a land line (about 3% of Americans at the moment).…

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Sorell SF1100 Pendant MP3 Player

I have a funny feeling that wearing a silver stop sign around your necks to listen to music isn’t anybody’s idea of a good time (as usual, we are exempting RUN D.M.C.). Then again, I don’t know too many people here in the States who are really into these pendant flash memory MP3 players like…

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Alpine KCA-420i iPod Interface Reviewed

Lots of people have been looking forward to Alpine’s KCA-420i iPod interface unit for the Ai-NET head units (which is to say, a nice way to hook up an iPod to your Alpine car stereo). Playlist Magazine got a hold of review unit and took it out for a spin, but I can’t say I’m…

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HP iPod Content Week Two

So about that HP iPod contest we’re running – I’ve got good news and better news. The good news is that everyone who has entered so far is going to get a free entry into the contest, even if you flubbed a question or two, because I sort of screwed up one of the questions.…

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New Playstation 2 is Top-Loading

Did you know the new, smaller Playstation 2 was top-loading? No, I didn’t either. Rumor Control: The top-loading, no-HDD, neo-PS2 [GameSpot]

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Olympus AZ-2 Zoom

Here’s that picture of the Olympus AZ-2 Zoom we promised you. I bet it looks better in person, but it looks sort of junky here. I think it’s that weird little lens in the corner. Related Olympus Evolt E-300 DSLR and More [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/olympus-evolt-e-300-dslr-and-more-22103

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Olympus Evolt E-300 DSLR and More

While we’re on the camera tip, Olympus has announced a fistful of new cameras, including this Evolt E-300, an 8-megapixel DSLR that “is not bound by the conventions of traditional SLR film camera designs” and has a “radical new body shape…that gives the camera its unique “flat-top” appearance.” I think that means Olympus just created…

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Fujifilm F440 Review

I’ve been a bad man. Fujifilm lent me a couple of cameras well over a month ago for review and I’m just now getting around to writing up my impressions of them. Normally I dawdle on these sort of things because I don’t want to write them, usually because the product is so poor or…

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Sony PSP Video from Tokyo Game Show

So something happened to me while I was watching this video of the Sony PSP from the Tokyo Game Show. I think it was in the middle of the Darkstalkers game that I realized that all my worries about battery life, size, and durability were sort of moot, because I want to play portable games…

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Cyclops R/C Car with Wireless Camera

Tokyo Game Show TV

Samsung Yepp YP-T6

iPod Mini Promotions

Life Imitates Star Trek: SonoPrep Needle-less Injection

Morning Bits

Smoke Screens for Tanks

Diesel Powered Boeing 737 Limousine

DIY iPod Flashlight

Toshiba Meta Brain Television

Epson P-2000 Photo Fine Player

Pollsters Ignore Cell Phones

Sorell SF1100 Pendant MP3 Player

Alpine KCA-420i iPod Interface Reviewed

HP iPod Content Week Two

New Playstation 2 is Top-Loading

Olympus AZ-2 Zoom

Olympus Evolt E-300 DSLR and More

Fujifilm F440 Review

Sony PSP Video from Tokyo Game Show

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