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FireWheel Rubber Band Gun

It’s a shame I hadn’t seen this Firewheel rubber band gun before now—entirely my fault, too, since apparently DansData reviewed it almost a week ago, yet I totally missed it. It’s simple, cheap, and awesome, which is right up my alley. It’s just a click-wheel rubber band gun, but the nautilus shell design allows you…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • style master css podGuide [WestCiv] CSS manual for iPod. CSS4Lyfe, ya’ll. • Vintage Synth Trivia Cards [GMediaMusic] • Tiny Greenhouse Kana-SD MP3 Player with built-in USB Plug [I4U] • Nokia’s model numbers explained [PaulBoutin] Business • DoCoMo’s i-mode to be offered in Russia [JapanToday] Culture • How-To: Boot Windows XP Off a…

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Solar Powered Wallpaper

Treehugger points out an innovative student project from NYU that adds electroluminescent materials to wallpaper, hiding in the background as traditional design elements when there is ample ambient light, then releasing stored sunlight through glowing elements as the lights dim. A prototype will be shown at the Winter Show at the Tisch School of the…

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Playboy iBod

Playboy has released a little one-off collection of pictures designed for viewing on the iPod Photo called the ‘iBod.’ It’s essentially a ZIP archive with 25 low-resolution pictures—something you could do with your own porn collection in an instant—but it’s got the iPod and this fancy graphic here, so it’s easy to trick gullible gadget…

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AllOfMP3 Doubles Rates

AllOfMP3, why hast thou forsaken me? These are the plaintive words of a cheapskate who has just learned that his favorite Russian music download service is about to double its rate for music downloads from $0.01 to $0.02 a MB. It’s still a fantastic deal—knowing that I’m forcing the starving children of musicians to eat…

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Sanswire Stratellite

An Atlanta spin-off from GlobeTel called Sanswire Networks will be launching a giant, solar-powered airship next month that will be able to provide wireless data and voice access to areas of earth as large as Texas. While access to the ‘stratellite’ (for ‘airship satellite’) will necessitate a special antenna to transmit to the ship 13…

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Yamaha Hybrid Pedal Taxi

Next year’s World Expo in Tokyo Aichi Prefecture won’t allow participants to use regular taxis on the grounds, so Yahama has designed this pedal-powered hackney with an electric motor-assist. And if I’m not mistaken, those look like solar panels on the top—that would be eco-licious. Story (Japanese) [NikkeiJP via SorobanGeeks]

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Varioptic Liquid Lens

Here’s a picture of the actual liquid lens technology that French start-up Varioptic has sold to Samsung. These little discs will add a 3x optical zoom and true autofocus abilities to cameraphones while remaining suitably rugged for use in a knockabout phone. Phones using the technology aren’t expected to hit the market until 2006 at…

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More Copy Restricted CDs from Sony and BMG

CNet is reporting that Sony and BMG are set to unleash a new format of copy-restricted CDs some time next year, one designed to both work in the majority of CD players yet remain invulnerable to the crafty wiles of the pirate’s shift key. There’s nothing else to say, really. If you buy them, you…

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Special ULTRAMAN Edition Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z55

Bandai and Casio have teamed up to release a version of the 5-megapixel Exilim Zoom EX-Z55 branded with the logo of the seminal Japanese superhero ULTRAMAN. Although externally the changes aren’t much more than an aluminum logo plate and a special wallet, the start up graphics will now display a couple of seconds of footage…

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Fujitsu Ups HandyDrives

Fujitsu has upgraded its bus-powered HandyDrive portable hard drives to include storage options as capacious as 100GB. The largest version comes in at about $200, which isn’t an awful price for something so potentially convenient. The FAT32-formatted drives will work with pretty much any modern operating system, although the bus-powered nature suggests you will want…

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Sony PSP Hardware Problems

Some early adopters of Sony’s PSP are claiming serious build-quality issues with the portable game player, including buttons that can’t be fully depressed due to their position over the LCD screen, and discs that will eject themselves when the player itself is twisted. NFG Games has a surprisingly enjoyable write-up about some of the problems…

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Belkin TuneStage

What if you put a snake in a bong? You would get so high. You might even think that designing a Bluetooth audio bridge for the iPod, like the upcoming (and mysteriously not-pictured) Belkin TuneStage, is a good idea. And maybe you’d be right—it’d be like an AirPort Express with iTunes, except all your songs…

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T-Mobile Sharp TM200

T-Mobile Deutschland has announced the Sharp TM200, billed as Europe’s first 2-megapixel cameraphone. The tri-band GSM clam shell also has an LED flash and a built-in, SD-reading MP3 player, as well as a good-sized 262k color screen. And it has autofocus—I still can’t get my head around how that works with no moving parts. It’s…

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Apple and Motorola On Track for iTunes Phone

This article in Forbes about the work between Apple and Motorola to produce what has (inevitably) become referred to as an ‘iPhone’ has re-ignited speculation about the degree to which the team-up will be just a simple outlet for iTunes music or a full-fledged move by Apple into the mobile phone market. Nothing in the…

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LG-VX8100 w/ Bluetooth on Verizon

Documents filed with the FCC on Tuesday reveal a new LG Bluetooth clamshell-style camera phone coming to Verizon’s network. Feature details on the VX-8100 are somewhat scarce, but it’s definitely tri-mode, dual-band CDMA and presumably the successor to LG’s (still not out) VX-8000. It’s probably safe to assume a greater-than-1-megapixel camera given the 8000’s 1-megapixeler…

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Wireless Heart Monitor

University of Ulster researchers have developed a wireless cardiac monitoring device that allows patients at high risk of cardiac arrest—those who traditionally would be monitored by in-hospital instruments—to wirelessly monitor their hearts with a tiny electrocardiogram. It doesn’t say exactly what technology they’re using to communicate with the hospitals (hopefully something with a good range…

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Panasonic Fashion Phone: X500

The X500, Panasonic’s newest fashion phone, is a diminutive little slider available in your choice of silver, red, or white. Nothing impressive feature-wise, (a little VGA camera with LED “photo light” pretty much sums it up), but we’re talking about fashion here, so form over function (over a bed of midget-plucked truffles drizzled with a…

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Verizon (Finally) Offers XV6600 Smartphone

Verizon is playing catch up with today’s announcement that they’ll be picking up the XV6600, their rebrand of the HTC smartphone, MDA III, PPC6601, et al. It’ll retail at $550 and that’s with a two year agreement, so while it’s expensive it isn’t quite as steep as Sprint’s PPC6601 at $630. It’s the same hardware,…

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Sponsor Attack!

FireWheel Rubber Band Gun

Morning Bits

Solar Powered Wallpaper

Playboy iBod

AllOfMP3 Doubles Rates

Sanswire Stratellite

Yamaha Hybrid Pedal Taxi

Varioptic Liquid Lens

More Copy Restricted CDs from Sony and BMG

Special ULTRAMAN Edition Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z55

Fujitsu Ups HandyDrives

Sony PSP Hardware Problems

Belkin TuneStage

T-Mobile Sharp TM200

Apple and Motorola On Track for iTunes Phone

LG-VX8100 w/ Bluetooth on Verizon

Wireless Heart Monitor

Panasonic Fashion Phone: X500

Verizon (Finally) Offers XV6600 Smartphone

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