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NEC Blurs Line Between Real and Virtual Robots

NEC recently announced that after years of research, they have developed a technology that makes the difference between robots and their on-screen computer graphics (CG) counterparts less marked. NEC demonstrated the new technology with this friendly-looking robot named PaPeRo and its CG sidekick, PaPeRo CG. The whole purpose of this is to make interaction between…

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Airfoil for AirPort Express Now Works on Windows

One of the nicer features of Apple’s AirPort Express wireless router is that it can wirelessly stream iTunes audio from your PC or Mac to a real life sound system, so that you don’t have to listen to your undoubtedly cool tunes on your small computer speakers. But what if you want to stream audio…

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Skype for Mac Now a Universal Binary

You Mac users are a demanding bunch, so it’s nice to see companies support the new Intel-based Macs, even if it took them several months to get with the program. Skype is showing new Intel Mac users some love today with the release of version 1.4.0.49 (at least it’s an easy to remember numbering convention)…

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NAVIsis Turns Regular Monitors Into Touch Screen Monitors

The Korean company NAVIsis has developed a technology that can transform any old regular monitor into a touch screen monitor of sorts. Their EZ-Canvas is a pair of sensors that you attach to the upper corners of your monitor, and when combined with a special stylus and their own proprietary software, you can treat your…

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See the World Through the Eyes of a Baby

A group of visual researchers have come up with a method that alters pictures so that they look like what babies see. (Just ignore that terrible phrasing and take a look at the picture to understand better.) Dubbed TinyEyes, it shows the clear progression of vision’s improvement through the first few weeks of life. By…

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AOL to Launch VOIP Service

There’s not a lot of detail on this, but AOL will be launching some sort of VOIP service linked with AIM. The service will offer a unique, free phone number where your friends and relations can leave messages. We doubt very much that this is a unique phone number and that instead they’ve created a…

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Skypecast: Talk with 100 of Your Closest Friends for Free

Skype released a beta today of Skypecast, VoIP software that lets you conduct a live moderated conversation with up to 100 of your closest friends. It’s a free preview, where you, as god of the Skypecast, get to control when people talk, and you can even eject obnoxious participants if you wish. Skypecasts can be…

Tech News Charlie White

Rumor: OS X Leopard To Have BitTorrent Client for iTunes Store

Mac OS Rumors says an Apple insider and long-time regular tipster of theirs has told them the next version of the Mac OS X, 10.5, will have a BitTorrent client built-in: “Leopard” will include a system-level “BitTorrent” filesharing client that can be user-customized to ‘donate’ upstream Internet bandwidth for things like pushing Software Update packages…

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Napster Sort Of Kind Of But Not Really Free Again

Napster announced yet another iteration today, allowing users to stream over two million tracks on their ad-supported website and to share links to artists, albums and even specific songs through email or on other websites. Sounds good, but in practice it’s not so wonderful. Catch #1: you can only play each track a maximum of…

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Xbox Live Update Tuesday?

It’s a week and change before E3 and rumors are already flying. The scheduled outage of Xbox Live on Tuesday is leading some people to guess that Microsoft is finally releasing the update that allows people to download marketplace content in the background. This makes sense, seeing as MS providing loads of E3-related content on…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Fingerprint Reader Firefox Extension

Microsoft Fingerprint Reader may look cool and be very useful in storing your passwords, but it’s lousy when it comes to working with Firefox. We found this out the hard way last year when we purchased a reader and it didn’t work a lick with Firefox. Now there’s a Firefox extension that allows a workaround…

Tech News Jason Chen

Dr Sbaitso Will Listen To You

Those of you born in the 80s—or the 90s! You zygotes!—should probably feel free to just skip this post, but everyone else, if you had a Creative Labs Soundblaster card in the early 90s you probably spent more than a few hours in conversation with Dr Sbaitso, a program meant to show off the sound…

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58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel

Some of you who visit Gizmodo at work do so to escape the drudgery of Excel, and we expect those of you reading this for that reason will especially appreciate artist Danielle Aubert’s book 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel, which surprisingly contains exactly what it says it does. Aubert creates her…

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Nokia Podcasting Application Doesn’t Actually Podcast

We got all verklempt when we read the headline “Nokia Podcasting Application for S60 3rd Edition” a few minutes ago, only to be disappointed when we realized the application was just for downloading and listening/watching to podcasts, instead of editing and uploading them. Don’t get us wrong, downloading your podcast subscriptions on the fly over…

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MotionGames.net: Web-based Webcam Games

“Flight Over Sahara” is MotioGames first web-based webcam game that allows you to fly around the desert by moving around in a little window and making shooting noises with your mouth… or other orifice. Cool little bit of programming. Since our iSight is out of the country right now, we couldn’t play this game and…

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Locura Personal Media Server for the PSP

Users of Sony’s PSP take note, for VillainoisMind has something that just might interest you. Their Locura Personal Media Server is a server that you install on your PC and serves all sorts of multimedia goodness to your PSP. This stand-alone Web server, which interacts with the PSP’s Web browser, gives you access to movies,…

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Apple Kills iPod Garage

Not horribly techie, but it kind of pisses us off. Apple has siccing lawyers on all sorts of sites with iPod in the name and iPod Garage is the latest to go. While the site, now called iProng. Why iProng? The iPod will still represent one prong in our coverage, iTunes will represent another prong,…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Yahoo! Go for TV — Free PC DVR Software

When Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center edition outsells their standard edition, people start to notice a trend in do-it-yourself video recording. Yahoo sure did, and is releasing their Go for TV software in order to act as an all in one video, photo, and TV player — just like Media Center. You’ll have to have…

Television Jason Chen

Ads on iTunes

It seems almost too good to be true, but iTunes will soon feature ads and other delightful material for our iPod-enabled perusal. While no specifics are mention, Ad Age is reporting that the iTunes interface will soon feature billboard ads as well as an increased number of ads embedded in podcasts and other media. Right…

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Skype Music Store, Coming Soon?

Skype’s had a deal to sell ringtones from Warner Music Group artists like Madonna and Green Day for a few months now, although we’ve yet to see them pop up on the Skype Store, and so the news that they’ve also signed a deal with EMI Music Publishing didn’t raise our eyebrows any—or at least…

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NEC Blurs Line Between Real and Virtual Robots

Airfoil for AirPort Express Now Works on Windows

Skype for Mac Now a Universal Binary

NAVIsis Turns Regular Monitors Into Touch Screen Monitors

See the World Through the Eyes of a Baby

AOL to Launch VOIP Service

Skypecast: Talk with 100 of Your Closest Friends for Free

Rumor: OS X Leopard To Have BitTorrent Client for iTunes Store

Napster Sort Of Kind Of But Not Really Free Again

Xbox Live Update Tuesday?

Microsoft Fingerprint Reader Firefox Extension

Dr Sbaitso Will Listen To You

58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel

Nokia Podcasting Application Doesn’t Actually Podcast

MotionGames.net: Web-based Webcam Games

Locura Personal Media Server for the PSP

Apple Kills iPod Garage

Yahoo! Go for TV — Free PC DVR Software

Ads on iTunes

Skype Music Store, Coming Soon?

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