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South Korea to Build Robot Land, Robots Rejoice in Electronic Bliss

If there’s one thing the world sorely needs it’s some sort of place where robots can go to chat, find love, and make plans to destroy Humanity. Luckily, South Korea is well-aware of their plight and has announced plans to build “Robot Land” — a city entirely created for the robotics industry. The city will…

Samsung has officially acknowledged the Bluetooth-enabled YP-T10 and the YP-P2, though no pricing was discussed. Even more mysteriously, Samsung didn’t announce the equally rumored YP-S5 at the same time. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-yp-s5-and-yp-t10-work-double-as-cellphone-bluet-290413

The owner of phone reseller CertiCell has apparently traded iPhone unlocker George Hotz three locked 8GB iPhones and one Nissan 350Z to get Hotz’s unlocked iPhone unit. This trade teaches us the virtue of patience and how hacking an iPhone can get you ridiculous amounts of stuff. [Jtag]

New Specs and Pictures out for the BlackBerry Pearl 2

PinStack.com has posted new pictures of the upcoming BlackBerry Pearl 2, as well as some new spec information that will make your eyes bleed in profound joy. According to Pinstack, the new Pearl 2 will have a slew of improvements — from a better email layout and display to improved voice control software. It’ll also…

Pano Device Virtualizes Windows With Sexy, Tiny Box Shape

In CEO-orgasming news, Pano Logic announced their network-based Pano Device, which, using a main host, virtualizes a copy of Windows XP and Vista without the need for an actual PC. Coming equipped with an Ethernet jack for the network connection, along with three USB ports, a VGA port for the display and audio I/O jacks…

Fun With the iPhone’s Accelerometer

A guy claims that he’s figured out how to use the iPhone’s accelerometers to do wacky stuff and games such as the ones shown in the video. Real? Or fancy video editing? We’ll find out soon, since he promised to post the source in his blog. [Medallia]

AT&T Stops Claiming Fewest Dropped Calls

According to an internal employee email, the year-and-a-half old ad campaign from AT&T that claims they’re the network with the fewest dropped calls is reportedly over. This decision comes from JD Power giving T-Mobile the fewest dropped calls award in most markets, as well as Consumer Reports rating AT&T at the bottom of their lists…

Fuller’s Traveling Cartridge (circa 1960s)

This concept drawing by Buckminster Fuller looks to have a lot in common with the airport of the future article we looked at last week. The illustration was found in the excellent 1968 book Transportation in the World of the Future. See also: Airport of the Future (1967) Disney’s Magic Highway, U.S.A. (1958) The Most…

Telespy Motion Detecting Phone Lets You Listen in on Robbers, Your Girlfriend

This might look like a normal, albeit outdated, landline phone, but it hides a whole lot more than that behind its unassuming exterior. It actually contains a motion detector that’ll give you a call and allow you to listen in on whatever’s happening in the room. It’s perfect for listening in on, uh, robbers. Yes,…

Beginner’s Guide to Soldering or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Skin Burns

A lot of the DIY projects we feature require soldering, which unlike soldiering, doesn’t usually involve loss of life, but is still painful as crap. Instructables has a guide on soldering for beginners, which is totally useful if you didn’t spend a semester soldering your fingers together because your female lab partner didn’t know what…

MacBook Pro Cooler Design Has USB Ports, Apple Fan

Although laptop coolers are all pretty mediocre when it comes down to cooling, this cooler design from Bostjan Majcen actually looks quite nice. The fan in the middle is hidden behind an Apple logo—which pleases the Apple fans—and the body itself has four USB ports and a tilted, lifted stand so you can see your…

Nokia Shoots Out Bluetooth Headsets, Bluetooth GPS Modules, Bluetooth Speakers

Nokia’s really into this new fangled Bluetooth techno-mology, shooting out Bluetooth addons like they shoot out phones—scattershot, hoping they hit something good with at least one. They’ve got the LD-4W GPS module, BH-903 Stereo Bluetooth Headset with A2DP, BH-0-2 (non-Stereo) Bluetooth headset, MD-7W Bluetooth speakers, and the DC-1 Power Pack. These are all made for…

Lead Scanner to Give You Peace of Mind When Buying Chinese Products

There’s been a lot in the news lately about China’s penchant for putting cancer-causing lead paint on children’s toys that they then ship to the States. If you’re worried that the pacifier you’re about to stick into Nerd Jr’s mouth is hazardous, just grab one of these intimidating-looking X-MET3000TXR+ (now that’s a gadget name) from…

Tiny Bluetooth Adapter is Mostly USB, Smallest Ever?

This Princeton Bluetooth adapter is probably the smallest USB adapter we’ve seen yet, being made of mostly a USB tip and a tiny little body. The USB adapter works on both PCs and Macs, has Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, and sticks out only a tiny bit so you don’t accidentally snap it off. If our…

Epoq Classes Up MP4 Watches With Stainless Steel

Most MP4 watches look fantastic if you’re 12 years old and really love plastic and rubber watches, but Epoq’s latest MP4 watch brings a slight bit of class to the video watch business. Made of stainless steel, this watch has a 1.5-inch LCD screen, 2GB memory, MP4 video and MP3/WMA/WAV audio. $199 isn’t cheap, but…

Video of Me Playing Xbox 360 Games on a 103-inch Plasma HDTV

You saw the photos of me nerding out with Panny’s 103-inch TV and an Xbox 360, now see the video of it in action. Yeah, I’m standing way, way too close, and I did get pretty motion sick playing for more than five minutes, but it was totally worth it. The video, shot by enterprising…

Sprint Raises SMS Rates Again, Claims You Can’t Use This to Get Out Of Contracts

It was around this time last year that Sprint raised their SMS rates to $0.15, allowing you to get out of your contract for free, since it constituted a material change. They’ve gone and raised SMS rates again, from $0.15 to $0.20, but this time they say that it DOESN’T constitute a material change. What…

How to Comment: Tell Us Who to Ban

We’ve gotten a bunch of new commenters lately, thanks to both our growth and the fact that more people know how to comment by reading these commenting posts. Although most of them are good, a few of them are dicks. It’s a full-time job spotting the dicks, so we want you, the commenters, to tell…

Mathemeticians Figure Out What Makes Women Beautiful

After studying the movements of women for years, finally we get scientific confirmation of what we’re seeing: Researchers at Cambridge University in the U.K. have figured out exactly what makes a perfect swivel-hipped walk with “a more angular swaying and bounce to the hips.” The mathematicians got out their slide rules, calculators, blow-up dolls and…

Heineken Beer Robot Oozes Sexuality, Beer

Beer companies have been using regular women to sell their product for a while, but when they get into robotic women, that’s when we start to pay attention. Thanks Ray!