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Less spine-tinglingly freaky than the eerie-eyeballed Opto-Isolator animated sculpture, the upcoming Waterdrop sculpture by Héctor Serrano Studio for Roca may have a different side-effect: seasickness. It’s made of hundreds of moving vertical bars, each with a glowing tip, driven by motors to mimic in large scale the surface of a puddle after a water drop…
If you’re looking for a sign that we live in a digital world that cares not for the physical manifestations of our analog past, you need only look at Paul Mawhinney’s record collection. At over 3 million records, it’s the largest in the world. He’s trying to sell it due to his advancing age and…
A major cause of frustration in the Nvidia notebook GPU fiasco-where “significant quantities” of notebook graphics cards are packaged with “weak” materials leading them to overheat and fail at a “higher-than-normal rate”-is that Nvidia is declining to identify exactly which chips are bad, as the WSJ notes today. So you’ve gotta find out from your…
Sometimes one damning statistic can put it all into perspective. Through a survey of 3,000 computers, it was found that 35% of those systems built to run Vista had been downgraded (by computer vendors or users) to run XP. Keep in mind, this metric wouldn’t include systems like mini-laptops that are able to load XP…
While the original ColecoVision console would be a fine addition to any gaming enthusiast’s home theater setup, this custom Mini ColecoVision has eschewed nostalgia for modern technology, shrinking the console by 50 square inches in its new case all while making some really great hardware upgrades, too.Aside from a completely refurbished chipset, this Mini ColecoVision…
We all know about Pandora’s troubles paying their ever-increasing rent to the RIAA Copyright Royalty Board, but now another one of our favorite internet music spots could be succumbing to corporate pressure as well. Muxtape, the site that allowed users to make 12-song playlists of their music and share them online has been (temporarily?) shut…
Over at BoyGeniusReport there’s a bunch of images that seem to be leaked shots of an upcoming Nokia N-series cellphone, the N79. It’s faintly similar to the N82, and supposedly has a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, and a 5-megapixel camera beneath with flash. BGR suggests we may learn more on Monday, from Nokia itself. There’s…
Ricoh’s previous-gen R8 digital cam only hit the streets back in February, and it’s now being replaced by the new R10. The R10 has a larger 3-inch screen, 7.1x optical zoom, and a 10-megapixel CCD sensor that can shoot at ISO80 to ISO1600. There’s also four-person face recognition, CCD-shift anti-shake compensation, a 1-cm macro mode…
This new photo-printer from Casio is one mixed-up gizmo: As well as standard photo-printing functions, it’s got a 7-inch touchscreen and a full keyboard. So is it a mini computer with printer aspirations, or a printer with computing aspirations? Hard to say, but it’s supposedly able to edit the photos you pop in from a…
I had the perfect backdrop to review this Pentax W60 waterproof camera while vacationing in Hawaii last week. It’s 10mp, has a 5x zoom, and does HD level video, but the only reason to buy such a point and shoot is that it’s rated to 13 feet of underwater depth for two hours, and is…
Brando has a new universal battery charger available, working on the same jaw-grip/adjustable electric contacts principle as Thanko’s version before. This time though, the gizmo is designed to be portable and draw its power from a USB source and it’s got “high capability switch power supply with efficient transforming.” It’s even keyring mountable. So if…
Nokia’s just come up with a new entry in its Arte series of “jazzed up” cellphones with the 8800 Carbon Arte. The old slider phone now has panels of carbon fiber in its front and rear faces, along with titanium and stainless steel. Internally it looks like the phone is pretty much unchanged, though now…
Logitech is updating one of its most popular mouse and keyboard sets, the Wave Cordless Desktop with a slightly touched up Wave wireless keyboard-new paint and a longer, ridiculous three-year battery life-and a whole new mouse, the MX1100, which is a mutant hybrid of the oooold MX1000 and the more recent Revolution mice. It lets…
Apple’s been slowly dropping the price of refurb 8GB iPod touches on its website, and now it’s cheaper than ever at $199. That’s $100 off the regular price of $299, not to mention it’s a 33% discount. If you’ve been wanting one of the awesome media players and internet tablets, this is about as good…
Hey, I was away on a little vacation before our September busy season starts. I was in Hawaii and it was terrific. I swam with a whale shark, took my first surf lessons, hung out with Lisa’s family and ate a lot of great food. I did work a few days at the start, and…
The Lilliputian IdeaPads from Lenovo are coming, as we know, and now they’re a little closer, having passed through the FCC’s certification process. This is the final regulatory hurdle the IdeaPad S9 and S10 faced before going on sale in the US and comes just in time, as the duo of subnotebooks are expected to…
Apple’s tacking on an addition 60 days to the 30 days it already doled out to MobileMe subscribers, which means you’ve got an entire three months extra to wait out the issues you’ve been having. Apple sent out these emails today to MobileMe subscribers, but if you’re one of the ones with MobileMe mail snags,…
Curbed’s got a complaint report from the residents and visitors near the SoHo Apple store in NY, all of whom are really angry at what the store’s been doing lately in terms of bugging its neighbors. The latest offense-the anvil thrown off a ten story office building onto an already arthritic camel-was the Jonas Brothers…
Some medical students have come up with a handy replacement for the EpiPen called the EpiCard. It’s roughly the size of a credit card and has built-in audio instructions on its use to help the patient self-administer the treatment if needed. Those of us with hardcore life threatening allergies have to keep a treatment like…
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