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Bike Vending Machine Looks Cool, Dispenses Goofy Bikes

Springtime’s Bike Dispenser allows you to rent a RFID-equipped bike from one vending machine, ride it to your destination, drop it off at another vending machine, and walk away. The Dutch company won an award at the 2007 Spark Design & Architecture Awards for their idea, which is perfectly suited for an urban environment. Unfortunately,…

Paper-Thin, Flexible Batteries Developed

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MIT have developed a battery that uses carbon nanotubes and paper to make a flexible battery that can be cut by scissor and could eventually be printed. The energy density is fair, at about 110mAh/gram, and small prototypes are powerful enough to power small fans. But the flexibility is…

Netflix Download for Macs and TVs Coming in 2008

Steve, the developer behind Netflix’s download service, gives us explanations for Mac, Firefox and TV support, as well as the reason why the Netflix online collection is so tiny. The OS X hold up til 2008 is, of course, the lack of studio-sanctioned DRM, since Apple doesn’t license theirs. (Like it matters, since WM11 and…

LV 2008 Mega Cameraphone Has a Huge Lens, Pathetic 1.3 MP Rating

1.3 MP ain’t bad, but if you’re giving a cameraphone a huge telescoping lens with it with a 3x zoom optical, you might want to aim for a higher pixel count. China only, and thankfully, only $130. UPDATE: Forehead slap. Obviously, this is not a DSLR, mechanically speaking. [Slashphone]

ShapeServices brings Skype IM chat to the iPhone via webapp, but there’s no real Skype voice chat over Wi-Fi. [PRNewswire]

Disney Flix Camera (Plus iPod Docks and TVs)

Along with that news is the Disney Flix Video Cam that includes Disney Director software, packed with storyboards, sound effects, character voices, and music, guaranteeing your rug rats are able to cobble together movies of at least the same quality as the straight-to-video kind of Cinderella IV or whatever. Along with this, there are the…

Inflatable Jet Ski Video Game Makes Exercise Sort of Fun

Rather than sending your kids outside to exercise, why not just modify their video game addiction so it requires a little bit of physical exertion? That’s the idea behind this Jet Ski Simulator video game. Featuring “realistic 16-bit graphics” (ha!), it’ll make your chubby little offspring bounce around on the inflatable Jet Ski all day…

Camouflaged Bibles: A Haiku

When I’m out hunting I need Jesus on my side. Jesus hates wildlife. [Yahoo]

Fifteen years of the Pentium brand came to an end today when Intel formally announced the availability of its 3GHz quadcore Xeon X5365 processor, while quietly confirming the phase-out of the last seven Pentium 4 single-core and Pentium D dual-core chips. (Sniff.) [TG Daily]

Microsoft Xbox 360 XNA Game Studio 2.0 Available, Adds Multiplayer Support

Microsoft XNA Game Studio, the user-creation tool that allows you to make Xbox Live Arcade-quality games for the Xbox 360, has just been upgraded to 2.0. The most interesting improvements in the new version are the multiplayer networking APIs, which means you can actually create games like Jason Chen’s Big Boob Robots that take advantage…

Might Nokia Drop the Lame Proprietary Charge/Data Cable?

Some have noticed that the Nokia 8600 “Luna” phone is the first (or one of the first) to have a single microUSB cable for charging and data, instead of a proprietary cable that almost all Nokia’s have had. (The N95 and N76 have miniUSB cables for Data, but not power.) Sounds like a good idea…for…

A few more cities like LA, SD, Denver, Houston, and two in the Wang of America were added to Google’s Street View. [Google]

How to Comment: Big Monitors

I’m thinking of getting a big 30-inch Dell 3007WFP. It’s pricey, so I’m not sure where to head to for deals. Anyone have any tips? Oh, and this guy does work at native 2560×1600 resolution on a MacBook Pro, right? Don’t know how to comment? Here’s how: 1) Click on the “Register” link on the…

PlayStation 3 Stress Tested, Found Virtually Unbreakable

With all the coverage of how the Xbox 360s are failing left and right in the past few months, there hasn’t been much coverage of how sturdy the PS3 is. PS3 Vault took a PS3 into harsh environments, continuously using it for 108 hours with various games and Blu-ray movies. Their findings? The PS3 is…

Archos 105 Coming September for $90?

Very unconfirmed now, but Archos Lounge is saying the Archos 105 will be coming in September for a tiny $90 each. The 105 will be a small iPod-sized player (unlike the back-breaking Archos units we’re used to) and will have 2GB of memory, a 1.8-inch OLD screen, WMV/MP3 playback and measure 3.3×1.8×0.3 inches. No official…

China to Map Entire Moon in Detail, Send Unmanned Vehicle to Surface

What in the hell is China doing these days? First they install 20,000 cameras in one city to track every single resident, and now they want to make an inch-by-inch map of the moon. They’re launching a lunar orbiter called the “Chang’e One” later this year that’ll take pictures that’ll be stitched together into a…

Screenshots of ACCESS Linux Platform (The Next Gen Linux-Based Palm Treo OS?)

Here are some new ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) screenshots from Linux World. Interesting for the sake of the idea of an alternative mobile OS, like OpenMOKO‘s, but also because Treonauts believes that this’ll run on a Treo arriving in 2008. We’ll see. [Treonauts]

Yamaha’s YSP-4000 Flagship Surround Bar Does Upscaling, HDMI, XM/iPods

Today, Yamaha introduced a new flagship in its YSP “sound projector” faux-surround bars. The YSP-4000 is a follow-up to the YSP-1100, with a similar setup: 40 individual “beam” drivers that have individual amps, and two midbass speakers. The YSP-4000’s main upgrade seems to be HDMI pass-throughs, and analog/720p/1080i upscaling to wonderful 1080p. No word on…

Home-made Steampunk Clock

What’s better than waking up to a face full of steam in the morning? A face full of steam and a loud alarm. This steampunk clock was made by a Boing Boing reader out of a 1910 clock case, some parts from Home Depot, and various car wrecks. It looks pretty interesting, but we would…

Contest Reminder: One More Day For Winning a Gamepod Chair

There’s only one more day left to enter the Flash Gordon home entertainment chair contest. Click the link to see how you can enter and win your own. Only one day left! Contest ends tomorrow! https://gizmodo.com/flash-gordon-contest-win-a-super-comfortable-gamepod-h-285878