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Woot has the white Microsoft Zune up for $149 today. [Woot – Thanks Marco!]

First iRobot Roomba 560 Video

Click to view One of the quirkier features of iRobot’s new 500 series Roomba vacuum bots is the voice recorded tutorial that is built into the device. Here’s the robot-guided tour, complete with spinning sidebrush and a blinking blue dirt detector light. https://gizmodo.com/mod-friendly-5th-gen-irobot-roomba-first-vacuum-291906

Talking Photo Ball Reminds How Family Has Wronged You

Brookstone’s Talking Photo Ball is the perfect gadget for those of us who’ve always dreamt of putting our family and friends into a ball and recording personal voice memos about them. The gadget is simple to use; place 4 pictures in the various slots around the ball, record any message you’d like — as long…

Mod-Friendly 5th Gen iRobot Roomba – First Vacuum

Click to view Roomba is among the most successful consumer robots ever made, having sold well over 2 million units. And iRobot’s newly released 500 series is the first major revamp of the floorvac line since 2004. Nearly everything about the bot has been changed or improved; it’s stronger, quieter, smarter and will last five…

Nooka Rubber Watch Tells Time in Dots

Nothing screams “cool” like the Nooka rubber and plastic Zub-20 Zot watches. Coming in six different colors (because who doesn’t want an orange rubber watch?) the Nooka watches display hours as a progression of 12 dots while the minutes flow along the horizontal line below. The date and seconds — because the company ran out…

Grow Plants with the USB-Powered Mini-Greenhouse

We’ve all dreamed of having a mini-greenhouse that we could plug into our computer, but until today it was just that — dreams. But dream no longer. Geeks.com is selling a USB-powered Mini Greenhouse that includes a computer interface which helps you monitor growth rate and that includes a calendar, wallpaper and bookmark settings to…

Suissa Computers Introduces Wooden External HD

Who needs new and slick when you can have old and wooden? The Shadow hard drive from Suissa is a beautifully-made wooden 750GB external hard drive that faintly resembles something your grandmother would store jewelery in. Compatible with any computer, the inappropriately-named Shadow has four USB 2.0 ports that are prominently visible on the front…

V.I.O. DivX Helmet Cam is Waterproof and DVD Res

The V.I.O. helmet cam is remarkable in several ways. First off, it’s a self contained unit that has a lens, and recorder/converter, both water and shockresistant to 1m. It captures to DivX/MPEG4 to the tune of 720×480 pixels at 1GB/40 minutes. The camera is functional to -40 to 185 degrees F, and has a preview…

Topway’s PMP Thinner Than Thin Itself

The TOM-019 from Hong Kong’s Topway is so thin it can practically double as a shiv. At 6mm (or 0.24 inches) and weighing a mere 26g, the gadget offers support for MP3, WAV and WMA audio files—it also plays MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG2.5 and MPEG4 videos on its 1.8-inch TFT display. The media player also allows…

Loewe Connect Series TVs Offers Built-In Network Media Player

Loewe’s network media center concept promises an intelligent TV set in a modern design. Loewe Connect has 3 sizes ranging from 32 to 42 inches, each with a built-in network media player, USB port, Ethernet port, WiFi and an integrated HD tuner. An additional model labeled the Connect Media DR+ has a built-in HDD recorder…

iPhone Update 1.02 Out, Hacks Still OK [UPDATED]

More as it comes…reported to be just bug fixes, but it is a 92.1MB download. Maybe there are hidden features inside like the iLife integration that is rumored to have been delivered in 1.01. We’ll see. Anyone notice anything? UPDATE: I’m set downloading a 91.2 MB file, but others are reporting a 3.7MB file. Could…

Sharp UK’s HD1 Flagship LCDs with 1080p, 160GB HDDs

Sharp UK is announcing an interesting flagship model at IFA that might not ever see the US shores, but could point the way for the next gen LCD coming from the company. This HD1 designated LCD has a 160GB HDD presumably for DVR functions and a USB drive for photo viewing. Stats like 46 and…

Toshiba’s 320GB Notebook Drive Biggest Ever

Toshiba released 320GB SATA HDDs in 5400 and 7200 RPM flavors (MK-GSX and MK-GSY) series. They run on the 3-GBit SATA inteface, and support drive head parking on falls over 10 inches. [Gearlog]

Woz Pulled over Doing 104mph in His Prius

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak knows how to get his name in the news. First there was the rumor of his extraordinarily creepy romance with unfunnylady Kathy Griffin, and now we find out that he got busted going 104mph… in a Prius. https://gizmodo.com/woz-and-kathy-griffin-notmaybe-hooked-up-291477 The best part? What he told the judge. I pleaded guilty, with an…

Cellphone Keyboard Turns Tones Into Tunes

The cellphone piano is for those who love making music with a cellphone, if there are any. Each key on the keyboard is wired to a key on the cellphone, no longer restricting a cellphone musician to single keypad.[we make money not art via textually]

MAME Emulator Developed for the iPhone

I’m not really sure how well Pac-Man could be controlled on a touchscreen, but adventurous iPhone owners will now get a chance to find out. That’s because a MAME emulator has been made for the iPhone by a gent by the name of kaisersoze, allowing you to play such classics as BurgerTime and Q*Bert on…

Japanese Arm Wrestling Game Breaks Arms and Takes Names

Game developer Atlus has decided to recall all of its 150 arm wrestling simulators from arcades across Japan. Despite only being out a month, Arm Spirit has broken three arms. In the game, players lock hands with a fake arm and battle on screen characters such as a french maid, a drunken martial arts master,…

Level 3, a big time internet service provider, had large swaths of its network cut out on Sunday night by a cable that apparently had been shot at by a gun or a shotgun. That’s totally not the way to deal with internet trolls. [PCWorld]

iPhone EU Carriers Confirmed in France, UK, and Germany

Apple Insider confirms that T-Mobile Germany and Orange of France and 02 of the UK will have exclusive rights to the iPhone. The report was based on an article in the Financial Times, so we can be pretty sure of accuracy, and if it’s not true, we can at least point fingers at the limey…

PS3 Folding@Home Gets Update 1.2

The latest update for Sony and Stanford’s Folding@Home PS3 project has a couple of new interesting features that fans will enjoy using. There’s PSP Remote Play to control and view folding information on the go, a screensaver mode, protein visualization enhancements, and an “Advanced Mode” that’s only available to people who run Folding@home for more…