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Spherical Playstation 2

Not content to play on any old Playstation, an Irish artist entered his spherical PS2 into a Dublin arts competition and won … second place. See the other entries at the Dub3D site, including the first-place winner. (What is up with European designers and their poorly-designed site links? Look under ‘Projects > PS2′.) And while…

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Reefmaster DC310 Digital MAXX Dive Camera

Around here we like to say that ‘There is nothing worth doing that can’t be done more expensively,’ so why skimp on a dive camera when you can have something like the Reefmaster DC310 Digital MAXX? The $1400 MAXX system has Sealife’s so-so 3.3 megapixel camera with all the basic features you’d expect from a…

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Relisys RLP2000 Projector Review

TrustedReviews has a write-up on the RLP2000, a mid-range LCD projector from Relisys. While packing some surprising features, such as the Faroudja DCDi signal processing unit, which uses ‘motion adaptive algorithms’ to help crappy interlaced video look tolerable on a progressive scan projector, they find a poorly-positioned internal fan causes vibration, making some images look…

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What’s in Your Gadget Bag, Cory?

Cory Doctorow is the Nerd Prince of Blogging: co-editor of the popular BoingBoing.net, acclaimed science fiction author, and advocate for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A man this busy needs as much helps as he can get, and Cory isn’t shy about what gadgets he finds useful (or awful): Fido Vtech prepaid mobile: this is the…

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Wurlitzer Digital Jukebox

Wurlitzer’s new ‘Digital Jukebox’ revamps an old stand-by with modern-day features, sacrificing classic jukebox charm for sleek modern lines. Designed to be a drop-in home audio system replacement, the Digital Jukebox includes a 3.5″ color touch-screen remote that operates over WiFi for long distance control and a built-in 80GB hard drive for storing your ripped…

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HP LightScribe Disc Labelling

HP has developed a technology called ‘LightScribe’ which can inscribe via laser a ‘silk screen-like, high-contrast’ label on the top of CDs and DVDs with a special coating. First burn your data, then flip over the LightScribe media to burn an image on the label. While it’s an HP technology, at least six different manufacturers…

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Mosquito Repellent Watch

Soon Spring will set its hazy stench upon us, warming up the sluggish jelly insides of our enemy, the mosquito. And like last year and the year before, many of you will purchase some inane gadget to protect you from being bitten, despite the fact that we all know they don’t really work. If you…

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Three New Sony Ericsson Phones

Sony Ericsson announced three new Tri-band phones, the K700, S700 [right], and Z500. Notable features include the K700’s VGA camera with 4x digital zoom, the S700’s 1.3 megapixel camera, MemoryStick Duo, and slick twist-out keypad, and the Z500 flipphone’s external 4,096 color display. Mobile9.com has a roundup and press photos. Read

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Student Builds Seeing Eye Robot For Schoolchum

An 18 year-old Oxford-bound student has built an 80 robot named ‘Wilson’ to help a young blind boy negotiate the halls of his new school. Despite the high-tech nature of the project — the robot uses a grid of lasers to scan the floor for obstacles — the entire project ends up being much cheaper…

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Motorola MPx Pictures

The upcoming Motorola MPx is so hot that it’s getting otherwise non-techy geeks excited. Tycho, who co-authors the popular web comic Penny Arcade (and who is an avid Hiptop user), describes his lust for the device in the post that accompanies today’s comic. Not only that, but he found a few pictures of the different…

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ZigBee Home Automation

Rafe Needleman has a breakdown on ‘ZigBee’, the newest iteration of home automation protocols. Unlike the X10 standard, made infamous by the troubled X10 Wireless Technology corporation, this new system uses a wireless mesh network to allow two-way communication between control units (like remote controls and computers) and devices (like lamps, electronics, and home heating-and-cooling…

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O-ZONELite

We’re all about convergence of function here at Gizmodo, so something like this O-ZoneLite light ‘source’, that not only provides photonic goodness but acts as an air purifier, gets a thumbs up from us. The bulb (if you can call a coil a bulb) is coated with titanium dioxide, killing microorganisms with which it comes…

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‘Toothing!

Britain’s innovative sex hobbyists have just evolved ‘dogging’ (sex with strangers in public places) into ‘toothing’, where ambitious and horny cellphone users use anonymous Bluetooth messages to scout out potential partners. From the ‘Beginner’s Guide to Toothing: What is Toothing?’: ‘Toothing is a form of anonymous sex with strangers – usually on some form of…

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New Smartphone OS: Saveje OS

Just when we’d gotten comfortable with three different operating systems for our smartphones, SavaJe Technologies steps into the muck with their Java-based ‘Savaje OS.’ Lest you think this is just another company that will disappear without making a splash — and if you think this, well, you’ve got a pretty good chance of being right…

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Handhelden: Retro Plastic Electronic Games

Handhelden is an online database of electronic plastic handheld and tabletop games from the 70s and 80s. Anyone who spent time searching through the couch cushions for a spare AA battery will find something of interest while browsing the archives for pictures and details of over 600 games. They even do exhibitions of their collection…

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Swedish 3G ‘Big Brother’ Big Success

From our Swedish corespondent, Ted Persson: After a quite slow start Scandinavian 3g operator ‘3’ has grown its customer base considerably after launching a Big Brother service, where subscribers can watch the popular reality show live, 24/7. You start seeing them everywhere in the streets of Stockholm, people looking into their handsets while walking, sitting…

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Virtual iPod: The pPod

With all the cache of a street-corner Bolex, British developer Starbrite has developed a way to give your clunky PocketPC the looks of Apple’s crown jewel, the iPod. Dubbed ‘pPod’, the software emulates the trademark interface of the iPod, allowing users to use the touch screen of their PDAs to play MP3s — but notably…

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Study Finds Upgrades Better For Environment

A new United Nations University study has found that about 1.8 tons of raw materials are required to produce an average PC with monitor, comparable in weight to the materials used in a mid-sized car. From this they draw the logical conclusion that product life should be extended as long as possible, making incremental upgrades…

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Steel Battalion Controller Reissued

In Japan, Microsoft’s flailing Xbox has found its best success in niche markets, like the obsessive, girl-pillow hugging otaku market, and the ‘willing to shell out $200 for a giant robot videogame controller’ market. We may not get the sexy pillows here, but Capcom’s 40-button ‘Steel Battalion’ controller is still big enough to keep us…

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Packard Bell i xtreme MC 6112 Review

Trusted Reviews picks apart the new Windows Media Center PC from that august brand, Packard Bell. The “i xtreme MC 6112” is a good example of how not to build a Media Center PC, with substandard specifications, poor sound choices, and an awful price. It does looks sort of cool, in its way, but that…

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Spherical Playstation 2

Reefmaster DC310 Digital MAXX Dive Camera

Relisys RLP2000 Projector Review

What’s in Your Gadget Bag, Cory?

Wurlitzer Digital Jukebox

HP LightScribe Disc Labelling

Mosquito Repellent Watch

Three New Sony Ericsson Phones

Student Builds Seeing Eye Robot For Schoolchum

Motorola MPx Pictures

ZigBee Home Automation

O-ZONELite

‘Toothing!

New Smartphone OS: Saveje OS

Handhelden: Retro Plastic Electronic Games

Swedish 3G ‘Big Brother’ Big Success

Virtual iPod: The pPod

Study Finds Upgrades Better For Environment

Steel Battalion Controller Reissued

Packard Bell i xtreme MC 6112 Review

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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