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World’s Smallest Micro-Camcorder Makes Your Voyeuristic Pleasure Its Command

We’re not exactly sure what kind of evidence you’ll be gathering with this so-called “world’s smallest” micro camcorder. But whatever that is, you’d better get ‘er done in two hours, because that’s how long its battery lasts. You can see how tiny this thing is—small enough to literally pull out of your ass—but despite its…

800MHz G4 Macs Are Dead to Leopard

Time to put the old girl out to pasture. Though it’s not from the Mouth of Steve, rumors are confirmed that Leopard won’t support the following 800 MHz G4 systems: PowerBook G4 Titanium, PowerMac G4 Quicksilver, iMac G4, iBook G4 and eMac. If you were lucky enough to hold out for the 867MHz G4, you…

MySpace Mobile is Coming; MySpace Still a Horrible Site

News Corp, the daddy of MySpace, has announced that it’s launching a mobile version of the social networking behemoth. It’s great news for the people who still use MySpace, although that number is plummeting quickly. I mean, come on, who uses MySpace anymore? It’s all spam these days, and the ads are overwhelming. It’s a…

Virgin Digital, a Branson-owned online music subscription and download service, is shutting down operation in the US and UK next month, probably because you never even heard of it. [IDG/Yahoo]

LEGO Master Builds Halo 3 Master Chief

Just in time for the big Halo 3 rollout tomorrow, master LEGO builder Nathan Sawaya creates a likeness of that mofo Master Chief, which he says is his most-requested object these days. The video shows a lot of the other amazing creations done by this attorney turned LEGO artist. As you can see by his…

ThePudding.com Phone Service Listens to Your Calls, Makes You Watch Ads

It sounds like a double-whammy of a bad idea: a free phone service that determines which ads to target to you by applying speech-recognition to all your conversations. To make things worse, the home page of ThePudding.com insults potential customers by saying it’s “a breakthrough technology that makes your phone calls interesting.” Hey, my phone…

How to Make a Human Flipbook from 150 T-Shirts

Sub company Erbert & Gerbert was looking for a cheaper way to advertise its food than the usual $365,000 that’s usually needed to film a commercial. And this is what they came up with. Cool and clever. [Human Flipbook via Fresh Creation]

Sony Updates VAIO AR Laptops with Blu-ray and CableCARD

Sony’s AR series of VAIO notebooks with their Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 and T7500 processors are already in our catbird seat but now the company’s goosed its 17-inch versions, giving them the ability to do a lot more both on the road and in the home theater. How does a Blu-ray drive on board…

Starbucks To Start Up iTunes Wi-Fi Store with 50 Million Free Songs

From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7, more than 10,000 Starbucks shops will be handing out free “Song of the Day” iTunes download cards. Starbucks estimates it will hand out 1.5 million songs per day, over 50 million in all, to promote the iTunes Wi-Fi store to which Starbucks will grant free access over its T-Mobile…

In the past two years, the Australian Navy has paid for 13 women to get breast implants for reasons of morale. But whose morale? [Danger Room]

Lenovo Interactive Water Wall Makes Visitors Have to Pee

Lenovo installed an interactive water wall at its home office in North Carolina, and it reacts to passersby with an optical tracker, rippling along as they get closer to the projection-based display. Maybe Lenovo was thinking about its waterproof keyboard when it created this installation. We’re thinking they should have installed more than one water…

UXV Combatant Warship Made for Drone Battles Heralds Robot Apocalypse

Here’s the UXV Combatant, a new class of warship being developed by BAE Systems to fight in the drone wars. BAE believes that the future battlefield will be full of intelligent robots fighting against each other, probably until they realize they can join together to eliminate all humans from Earth. The ship looks and specs,…

The Ultimate Gadget Lover Takes Pics of Same Vending Machine Daily for Two Years

If you ever wake up in the morning and think: “Every day is just the same old same old,” then maybe you need to look at Ryuuichi Terada’s blog. Entitled “I Take a Picture of the Same Vending Machine Every Day (or so). I’m Very Sorry,” the Sapporo-based man has spent the past two years…

Dell got in bed with GOME Group, the Chinese equivalent of Best Buy, to improve poor sales in China. Lenovo is market leader with 35 percent; HP has around 12. By comparison, Dell’s market share is “single digit.” [Reuters]

Bugstepper for Kids Heralds Computer Games that Gauge Boredom

This is Bugstepper, a kids’ electronic game that Danish scientists are hoping is the first step in developing computer games that can detect a player’s boredom and up the ante accordingly. Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense tried out the active electronic game on 56 eight- to ten-year-olds to create a program…

This is What 1GB of Storage Looks Like Now and 20 Years Ago

How times change, eh? Clicky for bigger. [Best Pic Ever via Spluch]

Next Generation of Spy Cameras Could be Launched from Shotguns

Super-expensive surveillance cams in danger spots could soon be a thing of the past. Researchers at DARPA have been experimenting with cheapo-cheapo cameras that are tough enough either to be shot into position or dropped from a high-altitude aircraft. And when you think about today’s ever-shrinking technology, how difficult would it be to design a…

iRiver G10 May Become Reality After All

The iRiver G10 may be coming out in December after all, even if only for the Korean market. The release has been hinted by KT Cooperation, the WiBro carrier that was developing it with iRiver. It still looks as sweet as when it was last seen in Barcelona’s 3GSM last year and the specs are…

Kaleidolight Gives your Wall Ringworm

Designed by Ali Ganjavian, the Kaleidolight uses the light conduction of glass tubes to connect the outside wall with the inside. Each module consists of a clear glass cylinder with aluminum lid inside a Teflon-lined aluminum tube that you insert into the outside wall. You can see a pic of one of the modules after…

Trumpet Call Harmonica Lacks Balls for Keepy Uppy

This somehow ridiculous but irresistibly cool Trumpet Call Harmonica by Hohner will appeal to pros, amateurs and assorted failed blues musicians like myself. Tuned to C-major and made of solid pearwood and brass, the Trumpet Call is a 1907 design which includes five bells for some deep vibrato effects. Or so they say. And for…