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Say what you will about what we’re reading into this device, but the Biopod automated tripod (concept) crawls around about 3 inches off of the ground and can’t stick to walls. Now unless you’re really, really into ant and shoe photography, this little guy will be used to grab shots of one thing and one…
UK train operator C2C has taken the neat step of actually enforcing its “quiet zone” train carriages with a system than blocks cellphone signals. It’s a technique borrowed from the defense industry where a transparent conductive film is placed over windows to stop electronic signals from sensitive equipment “leaking” out (it’s dubbed TEMPEST). Basically C2C…
We’ve got some pretty nice deals in today’s Dealzmodo Roundup, including a way for you to snag a $10 Best Buy gift card and 1600 MS points when you preorder Gears of War 2, a $135 iPod nano and a deal to get $100 off a Blu-ray player when you snag some movies along with…
In daylight, we’ll admit, the Roboppi looks a bit odd. But at night, this R/C helicopter appears as nothing more than a floating orb. It’s a simple design. A few LEDs sit on the blades’ turbine so that they naturally spin when the copter is in flight. Cruising for 6 minutes at a time per…
If you have been waiting patiently to try out the Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile, now is your chance. The developers have opened up the 0.8 beta to anyone with a Windows Mobile or Nokia N or E Series (3rd edition) phone in the US. Hit the following link to sign up. [Skyfire]
Bang & Olfusen, the design minds behind the Serene and Serenata (pictured), have ended their brief foray in the cellphone business. The company had teamed with Samsung to corner the huge projected market of rich people who want to pay too much for a phone that will only comfortably fit a deformed alien head, but…
Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been, what we hoped it would be. The Batman Begins to Vista’s Batman and Robin. While superficially both are kinda the same (Batman!), there’s a completely different thought process at work. Our walkthrough and videos showed you how the new user experience is something to be excited…
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the 284 passengers on board Quantas Flight 12-a Boeing 747-400 flying from Los Angeles to Sydney-couldn’t believe their eyes when they looked through their windows to see another Boeing from Air New Zealand flying just a few thousand feet from their aircraft. The explanation, as the commander announced, was…
On last night’s episode of NBC’s nerd-action show Chuck, the titular hero needed a way to transport some data. So he asked one of his questionably-attractive fellow tech geeks what he had. A Zune? Cha right! Poor Microsoft, always the butt of the jokes.
When you go to the polls next Tuesday, no matter who you vote for, you will be motivated by words, images and videos you picked up online. There are some voters who don’t use the internet to gather information about candidates, but that number is dwindling, while the number of ways candidates can reach you…
Black Friday’s going to be longer and crazier this year, thanks to The Troubles. We got the memo. But Best Buy is jumping in with both feet-with their Black Friday VIP program, they’re looking for a few good crazies to arrive in a limo sipping mimosas at 25 major metro Best Buys around the country,…
Calling Psystar’s planned Mac notebook ugly is teeeechnically speculation, but I don’t see how the Mac-cloner extraordinaire could produce a “very competitively priced” MacBook knockoff that isn’t a total brick. (Besides, have you seen their desktop?) Maybe it will shock and astound us all by being an well-designed, lustworthy piece of hardware at a cut-rate…
According to several independent tips we’ve received today, iPhone owners are slowly but surely getting notified that they can receive free Wi-Fi access at all AT&T hotspots (including Starbucks) through a text message. If you’re confused by it all, you aren’t alone. AT&T has had an on-again, off-again relationship with iPhone owners and their Wi-Fi…
The PSP does a fine job of emulating SNES titles, but the controls just aren’t the same. For the full experience, you simply need to use an SNES pad. And one modder created such a hack, installing a new socket to the back of his PSP that’s wired straight to the motherboard. And as you…
The guys over at Unlock-TMobileG1.com have become the first group to successfully unlock the G1. Awesome right? Well, it would be awesome-er if they weren’t charging $23 for the codes. However, it may be worth it for those wishing to get around T-Mobile’s 90-day unlock policy and run the phone on their own network right…
Make a wish, blow, see if the LED dandelion seeds sprouting from the circuit board on your wall stay or go. That seems to be the idea with Fragile Future 2, a cool modular lighting system by Dutch house Design Drift. Each piece is approximately 8×12 inches, and they can be combined in groups of…
According to Blackhawk, their new High Performance Fighting Uniform has been designed to make the life of SEALs and other special forces units more comfortable and better, thanks to more efficient fire-resistant fabrics and all kinds of pockets and pouches distributed all across its surface. But the best thing about the HPFU is that it…
The Hobart I-Cool seat concept has your best interests at heart. It wants you to lose weight but knows that you shouldn’t have to leave your chair to do so. Using a “proprietary” system for “temperature regulation,” users are said to shed pounds while just sitting there in a fashionable “micro environment.” But to us,…
Okay, Microsoft’s Gates+Seinfeld Power Hour spots didn’t make a whoooole lotta sense, but they were enjoyable. The next round, “I’m a PC,” was pretty good, even if it really kinda loses the war by acknowledging the damaging effects of Apple’s long-running (and in the tooth) anti-Vista campaign. But the newest ad doesn’t rely on a…
