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Craftsman Snowblower: Tank Edition

While New York’s blizzard wasn’t as bad as we expected, it still gave us plenty of excuses to hole up in our den, watching imported episodes of The League of Gentlemen on our region-free DVD player. Sure, we could have been outside cleaning off the sidewalk, but the thought of chewing through snow with a…

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North American PSP: Region Coded (But For What?)

CQ-EFnet was looking through the same PSP documents we were looking at earlier in the day (but obviously weren’t quite as hammered) and discovered something potentially very disappointing, but inevitable—it appears that the Playstation Portable will be region coded. Now here’s the thing: we knew that. Japanese PSPs have had a “Region 2” label on…

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MIDI Bagpipe Roundup

Is there a clearer indication of Scottish technological superiority than, “No finger moisting [sic] needed to activate sensors?” Nevertheless, that?s the promise of the Master Gaita: a PVC MIDI bagpipe set. Music Thing has a piece comparing several different models of these wired wonders, and samples of their hallowed refrain. From $800-$5,000, underwear not included.…

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PalmOne CEO Vamooses

PalmOne’s CEO Todd Bradley is leaving. Now nobody say sinking ship, okay? I think it’s premature to even mention a disinterested customer base and a product line that’s two years behind everyone else. And don’t even say that the writing graffiti is on the wall—that’s just cruel. Really, though, the company sales were supposedly pretty…

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Sony PSP FCC Internal Documents

Who wants to read all about the American version of the Sony PSP? The FCC site has all the good info, including pictures of the internals (without smashing one with a baseball bat), as well as the complete drafts of the user manuals. Nothing incredibly shocking so far, but it’s fun to thumb through the…

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Afternoon Bits

Product Highlights • You Can’t Be Too Thin [Slate] Boutin on aacPlus codec. • Sony Ericsson T290 Gallery [IdnesCZ] • Nintendo’s Revolution Secrets [Kotaku] I don’t believe a word of it. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/gossip/nintendos-revolutionary-secrets-030942.php Reviews • TechnOTunes MP3 Watch [LiveDigitally] • 3Com Travel Router: create your own wireless network [BIOS] Looks like it was ordered out of…

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NTT DoCoMo Premini-II

There’s a new Premini phone on Japan’s NTT DoCoMo iMode service, and as typical with the snack-sized phones, it’s really small and really nice looking. The new model, called the Premini-II, has a 1.3-megapixel camera and uses Sony MemoryStick Duo for storage (it’s built by Sony). The Premini series are some of my very favorite…

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HomeFill II Oxygen Compressor

Canadian company Invacare is marketing the new HomeFill II Oxygen Compressor, a $3,000 device that acts as an oxygen concentrator, allowing otherwise home-bound oxygen patients to fill up their own smaller, portable tanks as they need to. The new system is expensive, but allows for small O2 delivery companies to achieve a higher overall efficiency,…

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Bloggies Site Lives

We’ve been nominated in the ‘best computers or technology weblog’ category for the 2005 Bloggies, the annual community choice awards for our internet’s weblogs. The voting site was down for most of the morning, so we’ll pretend we aren’t out here begging for more votes, but instead doing you a valuable public service by telling…

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Aprilia Magnet Trike Concept

It’s just a concept for now, but this Aprilia Magnet looks like to be one of the most appealing phallic symbols ever ridden by man. Using a 550cc motorcycle engine, the low-slung trike has electromagnetic motors in its front two hubless wheels, meaning it maintains an extremely low center of gravity (low enough to make…

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iPod shuffle Versus Sandisk 1GB Player

It’s the question of our age: does the iPod shuffle suck ass? While there’s nothing more I would enjoy than sitting around a toasty firewall and discussing the wisdom of releasing a screenless, feature-skimpy flash player in an age when almost every other comparable player has a screen and tons of features (but isn’t white…

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Logitech’s 100 Remotes a Day Giveaway

Logitech has a new remote in its Harmony line, the 676, and is giving away 700 of them—100 remotes a day for the next seven days. It’s the standard ‘give us your survey and personal information’ gimmick, but you can’t beat free—and you’ve got a decent chance of winning as long as this doesn’t get…

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Neuros PocketPlayer Details

DAPreview has information about the latest player from open-source darling Neuros. Called the PocketPlayer, the 5GB video-capable machine will feature Neuros’s typical hack-friendly open firmware, as well as the hardware power to play back MPEG4 video (although only at 10 frames per second). In addition, it’ll play just about any music that you can throw…

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Bikes Against Bush Kinberg Case Dismissed

Joshua Kinberg, of the Bikes Against Bush project, was arrested the day before the New York RNC protest march. He writes to let us know that the case has been effectively dropped. https://gizmodo.com/joshua-kinberg-and-bikes-against-bush-9427 After 5 months, my case was finally dismissed on January 20, 2005 — the same day George W. Bush was inaugurated for…

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BEX-1 Earthquake Shelter Bed

I’ve been accused of making the earth move in the bedroom a few times, and someday I’ll have someone in there with me to witness it. Never have I caused the ceiling to fall, though, so I probably won’t have need of the BEX-1 Earthquake Shelter Bed, which can flip up its headboard to protect…

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Linksys WCF54G Wireless-G CompactFlash Card

Although the market for Wi-Fi add-in cards for PocketPCs is decreasing as more and more vendors add Wi-Fi from the factory, seeing a 802.11g part from Linksys is still very welcome. PocketNow reviews the CompactFlash connectivity card and it’s as fast as you would expect it to be compared to 802.11b, although it had some…

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UK Silver Playstation 2

There’s a new, all-silver version of the slim-line Playstation 2 according to a catalog from UK retailer Argos. Will it see the light of the Holy American Sun? In America, I mean? I’d say the outlook is likely, but there’s no official word from Sony as of yet, since the catalog leak was likely a…

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JXK-A Chopstick Antisepsis Machine

After reading the product introduction of this desk-top chopstick sterilizer, I don’t think I’ll ever eat anything with wooden utensils again. I don’t know what “hair stoma” is, but I don’t think I want it all over my sashimi. In fact, after reading all of the ways bamboo can kill me, I think I’ll be…

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Women in Spacesuits

Some might call a man who catalogs images and appearances of women in spacesuits—along with personal critiques of the quality and believability of the costumes—some sort of nerdy pervert. And since he’s also got a separate page with pictures of women in scuba gear, I would tend to agree. Nevertheless, his fetishes intersect cleanly with…

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Gibson MaGIC Les Paul with Ethernet

Gibson first mentioned their intentions to build a digital guitar with a built-in Ethernet port two years ago, but it looks like it’s finally about to become available. The new Les Paul will have a traditional 1/4-inch plug, but also be able to transmit sound via Gibson’s new MaGIC “digital transport technology,” which should work…

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Craftsman Snowblower: Tank Edition

North American PSP: Region Coded (But For What?)

MIDI Bagpipe Roundup

PalmOne CEO Vamooses

Sony PSP FCC Internal Documents

Afternoon Bits

NTT DoCoMo Premini-II

HomeFill II Oxygen Compressor

Bloggies Site Lives

Aprilia Magnet Trike Concept

iPod shuffle Versus Sandisk 1GB Player

Logitech’s 100 Remotes a Day Giveaway

Neuros PocketPlayer Details

Bikes Against Bush Kinberg Case Dismissed

BEX-1 Earthquake Shelter Bed

Linksys WCF54G Wireless-G CompactFlash Card

UK Silver Playstation 2

JXK-A Chopstick Antisepsis Machine

Women in Spacesuits

Gibson MaGIC Les Paul with Ethernet

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