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Self-Lubricating Skis Go Fast

Wildfire Snowsports has developed a ski attachment that will auto-wax skis while in use. And while the idea seems gratuitous for the average skier who’s just out to chase some snow bunny tail, the technology could offer a 1-2% speed increase, which is apparently the difference between 1st and 20th place in the Olympics. Or…

How to Claim Your $100 “Early iPhone Owner” Credit

Apple has released the magic three steps it’ll take to snag your $100 in store credit, which can be redeemed either at retail locations or the online store. According to our intern Benny, the process actually is as easy as it sounds: Fill in your phone number and your iPhone’s serial number; you’ll get a…

UBS analysts are predicting 3 million iPhones sold by the end of the year, expecting 2 million sold in Q4. [gigaom]

Proud new owners of iPod classics, particularly the 160GB flavor, are finding their honeymoon interrupted by random crashes and lockups apparently tied to an album art issue. Apple’s in the know and churning out a fix, but in the meantime turning off album artwork and resyncing makes for a temporary bandaid. Any of you guys…

Sony, Sharp, Hitachi Team Up for Green LCDs

Sony is big on making friends in the LCD business. First they open a joint manufacturing plant with Samsung, and now they’ve announced an initiative with Sharp and Hitachi to create an LCD display that can be powered through only half the electricity needed by today’s models. Re-engineering LCD architecture coupled with advanced LED backlighting…

USB Greenhouse May Save the World

Get a leg up for the day Man blocks out the sun to block the harmful potentials of skin cancer (due to the extreme inconveniences of wearing thick SPF 1000 that simply refuses to rub in). Because the USB Greenhouse allows you to grow plants without the reliance on aging nature. Including marigold seeds and…

Paper Trails Not the Golden Ticket to Secure E-Voting

One of the most commonly cited ways to rectify, or at least mollify, the rampant security issues that have plagued e-voting is a solid paper trail to check the results against. Well, one think tank, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, is coming out with study saying it just ain’t so—in fact, they allege in…

Apple’s scouting space for a new flagship store in—wait for it—Brooklyn. Yeah, it was only inevitable. [Racked]

Weird Webcam and USB Hub Lilli and Oscar are Ethical, Expensive

If you want to throw some crazy shapes on your work table, maybe you’d be interested in United Pepper’s Lilli and Oscar, two recyclable peripherals made from sustainable materials such as sand and paperboard. Lilli is a 1.3-megapixel webcam and Oscar a USB hub. Your green credentials will remain intact as, not only are they…

Bedtime Stories Seem Darker with the Darth Vader Bedside Light

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let me breathe heavily. Schooooooooooooo. Once upon a time, there was a Jedi Knight called Anakin Skywalker, who went in search of the Dark Side. Schooooooooooooo. If this lamp had been available to light up those long, lonely evenings, and throw patterns on his matching Darth Vader bed linen, Schooooooooooooo,…

Video of World’s Largest RC Airplane, the B29 Dina Might

From Belgium, the B29 Dina Might is the world’s mightiest remote-controlled plane. With a wingspan of almost 30 feet, it weighs 463 pounds and runs off four 160cc engines. Spin those propellers, mate. [Live Leak]

Slim Apple Wireless Keyboard Ships, Still No Sign of the Apple Logo

The Apple Wireless Keyboard is now shipping. Here’s the unboxing of one of the very first, sent by a Giz reader. Looks as razor-sharp as when we had our first grope, but of course, still no sign of the “Apple” on the Command key. All thanks to Steve Jobs and Swedish campgrounds full of sculptural…

The new version of Winamp can stream your music library to your Wii. You know, if you still use Winamp or for some reason want to listen to MP3s through your Wii. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/anyone-remember-winamp%3F/new-winamp-will-stream-songs-to-your-wii-299772.php

Parents Think Wii Zapper Might As Well Come With an NRA Application

NJ.com, your source for “everything Jersey” asked people what they thought of the “gun-like” Wii Zapper in their weekly Question of the, um, Week segment. The responses poured in and they were extremely negative. The catch, though, is that the site had originally posted a picture of a gun other than the Wii Zapper, which…

Non-Stick Chewing Gum Invented by British Scientist

Thanks to a breakthrough by a British chemist, sticky streets could be a thing of the past. Professor Terence Cosgrove of Bristol University has come up with a chewing gum that dissolves in water and can be removed easily. And it’s all to do with a new polymer, apparently. As well as taking some of…

Tested: iPhone Screen Better Than the iPod Touch Screen

Click to view The iPhone and iPod touch are presumed to have the same screen quality. But they don’t, according to some testing and reader feedback we did today. The iPod touch’s screen turns black areas somewhat grayish, washed out shadow detail, with absolute blacks appearing shimmery. (The top image is the touch. Look at…

Verizon’s In a Pissy Mood This Week; Mad at FCC and Bob Marley’s Family

First, they’re peeing on the FCC’s auction rules for the 700mhz spectrum that Google and others want a chunk of to do potentially cool stuff with. They’re suing to overturn the open-access rules that would force buyers of certain slices of the spectrum to allow any safe device to use it. For an encore, after…

Nintendo DS Gets VoIP Courtesy of SvSIP

A member of GBAtemp forums, samuelv, has whipped up a homebrew app that lets you use VoIP on the DS with an SIP account. Yes, phone calls from your DS. Some of the guys in the forum had a bit of difficulty nailing down the settings, but another user, subb, pretty much lays out most…

Killacycle Inventor Crashes at NextFest

I forgot to tell this story. Apparently one exhibitor on an electric motorcycle took his ride out for a spin, and his throttle jammed. That’s bad on any motorcycle cough*joebrown*cough but really bad on an electric drag racer with a zero to sixty time of one second. Creator Bill Dube hit a bus, possibly a…

Hands On: iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store

Click to view Video By Richard Blakeley. One new feature that came with the announcement of the iPod touch was the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Aside from the limited interaction we had with it at the Apple event on September 5, we got our first real crack at it today. All in all, it’s pretty…