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The Endo of Sendo

Sendo’s major R&D assets have been purchased by Motorola, effectively singaling the end for the tiny GSM cell phone company. Sendo’s first GSM had been highly looked forward to, but with a serious delay to market, it seems that even sales of 5 million or so handsets wasn’t enough to keep the company out of…

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Solar Powered Flying Drones

DefenseTech talks about the development—somewhat inevitably, I would think—of solar-powered flying drones, able to stay in the sky and monitor enemy troop movements indefinitely. A test model from AC Propulsion [pictured] has gone up for 48 hours straight and was only landed because the human operators got tuckered out. Military uses aren’t the only thing…

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Motorola iTunes Phone First Look Again Perhaps (Maybe)

From purportedly leaked internal documents, here’s a first look at the Motorola iTunes phone. The most striking feature is clearly the scroll wheel, which could come into play for even non-music things like moving through stored phone numbers. There also appear to be dedicated buttons on the side—that’s not quite as ‘iPoddy’ as one would…

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Remix CD Sleeve with Conductive Ink

This concept CD sleeve connects to your PC via USB, then lets you use conductive ink to remix tracks that came on the CD in the first place. A very cool idea, albeit one that seems impossible to implement in simple fashion (perhaps when they can embedded some disposable remixing chips in the cardboard sleeve…

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Cowon iAudio X5 Reviewed (Verdict: “A Class Act”)

iAudio doesn’t get much respect, despite making products that have a serious surplus of useful features (even if they are sometimes a bit obtuse to actually use). The X5 is their latest player and like any non-iPod, it’s taking a little while to get up to speed in the reviews world, but it’s scoring pretty…

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Elecom Horizontal Scroll Mouse

Elecom is showing off this new 800dpi mouse that has a side-mounted scroll wheel for horizontal movement. Microsoft and Logitech already have mice with the leaning wheels for sideways scooting, but I think a separate wheel might be an even better solution (not that I need to scroll horizontally all that much, but still). Elecom…

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SanDisk FlashCP: Textbooks on Flash Drives

SanDisk has finally taken their BookLocker product to market, under the name ‘FlashCP.’ The system allows students to receive copies of their textbooks on USB flash drives, in the hopes that kids will be able to haul around a laptop and a FlashCP instead of a bag full of books. It’s an admirable goal, but…

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Optoma DV10 Home Theatre

The Optoma DV10 is an all-in-one home theatre solution with stereo speakers, a DVD player, and 1,000 lumens projector. You just set it up on a table, pop in a desk, and you’re ready for some full screen projector action. It includes composite in, stereo audio in/our as well as Optical audio out. Generally, it’s…

Tech News Johnb

Walking Fuel-Cell Powered Robot

To all those who AIMed me last night during my travails, especially Chet, I love you all. I really do . I wish I could buy you all this Walking Fuel-Cell Powered Robot that drinks 1 liter of hydrogen every two minutes. Priced at $24,000, this scary looking beast weights about 8 pounds and is…

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DIY Nazi Enigma Machine

Hundreds of British, American, and even Polish spies died to get the Enigma Machine. Now it can be yours with this handy DIY home Enigma kit. Yes, kids, you can be Alan Turing for a day and break obsolete German codes coming from the fillings in your head. Batteries not included. Paper Enigma Machine [MCKoss…

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Lineriders – Mini Cars that Ride on Lines

Cute little cars? Check. Pencils? Check. Now you’re ready for the Basement 500. Lineriders follow dark lines you’ve drawn on any flat surface and you can even race them against each other. No special surface is needed and they’ll follow annotations to speed up and slow down. Do they exist? Probably not, but the concept…

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Pantech PG-6100

This MP3 playing, 2-megapixeling phone features a 1.9 inch screen, Bluetooth, photo caller ID, and will never be available to you. Pantech is a Pacific Rim joint with lots of hot phones that are forever out of our grasp. Sorry. Thanks to all those who are AIMing me, especially Tim. I need to head down…

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Pakistan is Down. Everybody Log Out.

I’m getting a kernel panic from my box right now, no booting, but Pakistan has bigger problems. Their entire infrastructure is down due to a massive failure in the undersea cable connecting Pakistan with the rest of the world. Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time they’ve had country-wide failures. This one, however, is much…

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Pet Ringtones

I’m on the line with my personal web box host and getting all wigged out because my filesystems they are DAID. Therefore, here is an easy one for us all to enjoy: Purina pet ringtones and wallpaper for your cell. If you visit the site, you’ll hear the mournful squeals of a cat and the…

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Neverlate 7-Day Alarm Clock

Here’s a simple idea that’s super-useful: the Neverlate 7-day Alarm Clock lets you set a different time for each day of the week. Although marketed to college kids, for only $35, it might be worth it for nine-to-fivers just to be able to automatically set less punitive weekend wake-ups. Product Page [AmericanInnovative via RedFerret]

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Green Batteries – They Sell Batteries

Much of the gear we cover uses batteries. From the Fleshlight to the Fleshlight, batteries are absolutely imperative to the proper functioning and enjoyment of our electronic friends. Therefore, why just get the $1 4-pack of counterfeit Duracells from the lady on the train when you can get a good set of rechargeable cells that…

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Inview Swim Goggles

A third-year industrial design student has developed these ‘Inview’ swimmers’ goggles, featuring an integrated lap counter to help keep track of, you know, laps. A built-in compass detects when the swimmers turn around, but there’s a slight problem with the current prototype: The prototype electronics package housing compass and lap counter are the size of…

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Can Nokia Right Itself?

Laptop Magazine, the #2 selling English-language tech magazine in the Helsinki airport, wrote a bit on the future of Nokia. While Nokia is selling well all over the world, their track record of years of extensive innovation coupled with one or two fantastic failures makes us cellphone geeks worry. We like Finland, we really do,…

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Apple iTunes 4.9 with Podcasting, New 20GB iPod Released

Today is make it or break it day for Podcasting, as Apple adds official support in iTunes 4.9. If this doesn’t cement podcasting’s place in the radio spectrum, I don’t know what will. Also, Apple added a new ‘color 20GB iPod,’ indicating that the ‘iPod photo’ branding will be ditched from here on out. Expect…

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Philips Aurelle LED Candles

My mom got me a set of Candela fake candles for Xmas last year, and while I like the concept a lot (rechargeable LED candles, in essence), they have been of marginal use—they’re just not bright enough. Philips is launching a new line of LED candles called the ‘Aurelle,’ and while they are certainly attractive…

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The Endo of Sendo

Solar Powered Flying Drones

Motorola iTunes Phone First Look Again Perhaps (Maybe)

Remix CD Sleeve with Conductive Ink

Cowon iAudio X5 Reviewed (Verdict: “A Class Act”)

Elecom Horizontal Scroll Mouse

SanDisk FlashCP: Textbooks on Flash Drives

Optoma DV10 Home Theatre

Walking Fuel-Cell Powered Robot

DIY Nazi Enigma Machine

Lineriders – Mini Cars that Ride on Lines

Pantech PG-6100

Pakistan is Down. Everybody Log Out.

Pet Ringtones

Neverlate 7-Day Alarm Clock

Green Batteries – They Sell Batteries

Inview Swim Goggles

Can Nokia Right Itself?

Apple iTunes 4.9 with Podcasting, New 20GB iPod Released

Philips Aurelle LED Candles

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