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Inside the Minds of Motorola’s Design Team

I have to hand it to Motorola. Design-wise, most of their phones have been spot on (I should know ’cause almost all of my cellphones have been Motos). But I can’t help but chuckle over this video, where you have Moto’s top designers proudly displaying their creations and then you try to send a text…

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Liquid Fidelity TVs: Giant Screens, Less Cash

MicroDisplay is hoping you don’t mind a little junk in your trunk when it comes to TVs. This summer they’re debuting a new breed of rear projection TVs based on their LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) chip dubbed liquid fidelity. The chip was originally meant for use with virtual-reality goggles, but since that didn’t pan…

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Garmin and TomTom Eyeing the Cell Phone Market

Ok, so maybe they’re a little late to the party, but rumor has it that Garmin and TomTom are finally gonna make a move into the GPS-enabled cell- phone market. We’ve already seen a few phones encroach on their turf, so this move comes as a no-brainer from the two GPS giants. In the long…

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iRobot’s New Bots Clean Your Pool, Bring You Mai Tais

iRobot’s new pool-cleaning bots make me wish I had a pool. Both the Verro 300 and Verro 600 can vacuum up leaves, algae and bacteria from your pool, but what makes them extra cool is that they can do all of this while making sure the chemicals in your pool are distributed properly and water…

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Sansa Connect Unboxed and Touched

Whether or not it has the chops to dethrone that other player is still unknown, but one thing’s certain, Sansa’s new Connect is mighty slick for its diminutive size. The folks at Wired got first dibs on one of the players and despite a few setbacks (cheap plastic feel, can’t sync wirelessly with a PC…

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M.A.R.S. Floating Wind Generator Expected in 2010

It may not look like the flying power plants we posted about last week, but the M.A.R.S. Floating Wind Generator follows the same concept. The blimp-like craft will be filled with helium and hover 1,000 feet above ground level where it’ll take advantage of the stronger winds to capture energy (which is then transferred back…

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Real-life Zelda Shield for Link Wannabes

Hardcore Zelda fans will be able to start their descent into Hyrule once they pony up $74 for this bad boy. It’s a real-life Hylian shield big enough to wear on your arm or hang on a wall. And if you’ve got the cash to splurge, you can get a matching sword for $44. Then…

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Samsung Releasing a Hybrid High-Def DVD Player in July?

Currently, LG’s BH100 is the only DVD player that can play both HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. That might change soon, however, with Samsung’s Duo HD BD-UP5000. The rumored player is expected to be compatible with both high-def DVD formats, supporting all of their features like Blu-ray (BD-J) and HD DVD (HDi). https://gizmodo.com/first-review-lg-bh100-hybrid-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player-ve-231149 It’ll also…

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Personal Trainer Has Couch Potatoes Sweatin’ to the Wii

It was bound to happen soon or later. A personal trainer out in the UK is using Nintendo’s Wii to get his potato chip-snacking clients to lose weight. Research shows that you can burn up to 1,830 calories in a 12.2-hour Wii gaming week. That definitely beats gaining weight, but I’d be annoyed if I…

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Mirrored Radiator Packs Ambilight and Digital Clock

Radiators aren’t what I’d call sexy gadgets, but this one here kicks things up a few notches with a mirrored finish, built-in digital clock, and a halo-like lighting effect. Designed by Italian company Radiatori Tubor, the Tubor Mirror Radiator works on both water and electricity. It’s available in two sizes, and thank to its amblight…

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Apple TV Hack Brings RSS Feeds to Your Living Room

So now that Apple TV has gotten the mandatory Mario hack, the guys at twenty08 are giving Apple’s slim box another feature, the ability to read basic RSS1.x/2.x feeds. Once downloaded, the plug-in gives Apple’s box an extra channel, letting it display your favorite news headlines. ATOM feeds and video RSS support are coming soon.…

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Nokia N95 Gets Gutted in Public

As much as it pains us to see this, a Flickr member by the name of DevilsRejection has cracked open Nokia’s new N95 uber phone and splayed its insides all over the Web. The phone, which just launched here in the States this weekend, is going for $749. Highlighted in the dissection are the phone’s…

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Drobo: The Storage Robot That Keeps Your HDDs in Check

With a name like Drobo, you can’t expect this robot to spit fire or scare little kids. Instead this $699 bot guards your hard drives from sudden death by automatically sensing when things go awry with one of your HDDs. Should it detect any data corruption, Drobo springs into action repairing any foul play. The…

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FastMac Upgrades Your Mac with Blu-ray Drive

Wanna give your Mac a high-def kick in the nads? FastMac’s new Blu-ray optical drive lets you load up your spankin’ new iMac or MacBook Pro with a slot-loading Blu-ray drive that’ll give you 1x BD-RW speeds and support for 50GB Blu-ray discs. Unfortunately, because it’s a slot-loading drive, there’s no Mac Pro support (although…

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Asus’ XG Station Cracked Open, Easily Upgradeable

Asus gained lots of brownie points back in January when they demoed their XG Station. (The unit was essentially an external video card for your lappie). Well, now they’re getting even more props ’cause thanks to the guys at 4Gamer, who got the chance to crack one open, we now know that the unit is…

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Wii Zapper Coming May 1st

Nintendo is bringing its Zapper days back. The folks at Gamestop have just added the Wii Blaster to their Wii arsenal, claiming it’ll ship on the 1st of May for $20. Couple it with a few Virtual Console games like Hogan’s Alley, Gumshoe, or Duck Hunt and it’s 8-bit nirvana all over again. Now all…

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Intel Inks New Blueprints for UMPCs, Plans on Better Battery Life

Intel is having a tough time getting their UMPCs to take off, so in an attempt to give their oversized handhelds a jolt, they’re building an entirely new UMPC platform. The platform will be dubbed McCaslin and will be based around chip named Stealey. The CPU will support the Premium Vista OS, yet it’ll be…

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Toshiba Prepping High-Def Qosmio with HD DVD Burner

Today’s second leak of the day comes from France, where images of a new Toshiba laptop have been spotted. One of the cool things about the Qosmio G40 will be its high-def capabilities. It’ll be one of the very few laptops with an HD DVD-R burner. https://gizmodo.com/i-mates-2007-phones-leaked-online-250212 And what good is an HD optical drive…

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Apple Patent Brings Multi-Size Icons to the Finder

Looks like Apple has some hidden tricks up its sleeve for OS X. A recent patent shows how the Mac OS X Finder may one day be able to display different-sized icons. So the bigger the icon, the more important it is in that particular window. (Users will also be able to assign which icons…

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i-Mate’s 2007 Phones Leaked Online

We’ve given you a heads-up on a couple of i-Mate’s forthcoming phones, but now someone at the company has done us the favor of leaking the company’s entire roadmap for ’07. Aside from the new Ultimate models, there’s also an X Series that looks particularly interesting with HSDPA/Edge support and Wi-Fi. The series consists of…

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Inside the Minds of Motorola’s Design Team

Liquid Fidelity TVs: Giant Screens, Less Cash

Garmin and TomTom Eyeing the Cell Phone Market

iRobot’s New Bots Clean Your Pool, Bring You Mai Tais

Sansa Connect Unboxed and Touched

M.A.R.S. Floating Wind Generator Expected in 2010

Real-life Zelda Shield for Link Wannabes

Samsung Releasing a Hybrid High-Def DVD Player in July?

Personal Trainer Has Couch Potatoes Sweatin’ to the Wii

Mirrored Radiator Packs Ambilight and Digital Clock

Apple TV Hack Brings RSS Feeds to Your Living Room

Nokia N95 Gets Gutted in Public

Drobo: The Storage Robot That Keeps Your HDDs in Check

FastMac Upgrades Your Mac with Blu-ray Drive

Asus’ XG Station Cracked Open, Easily Upgradeable

Wii Zapper Coming May 1st

Intel Inks New Blueprints for UMPCs, Plans on Better Battery Life

Toshiba Prepping High-Def Qosmio with HD DVD Burner

Apple Patent Brings Multi-Size Icons to the Finder

i-Mate’s 2007 Phones Leaked Online

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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