I don’t know if anyone is lamenting the iPad’s lack of a physical keyboard (and they probably wouldn’t say anything if they were) but Brando can help if you are. This Slim Bluetooth Keyboard is about the size of 106 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
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Slim Bluetooth Keyboard – The most comfortable way to fit 52 keys in your pocket
At the Beijing Auto Show, China automaker Brilliance Auto introduced its BEV A0 concept car for the low carbon era. The BEV A0 is totally electric and produces zero emissions. It also uses as many recyclable materials as possible in 168 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
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Brilliance BEV A0 electric concept car – When you’re done driving, turn it into a nice soup?
Tripod-maker Induro has tried to combine the quick-adjusting ball-head and the slow-but-accurate pan-tilt head into the new PHQ-series of tripod heads. While these two new heads don’t quite manage this feat, they pack in enough smart gimmicks and features to make your old head look positively primitive
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Quintaxial Tripod Heads Twist Five Ways
Until now, outdoor LCD displays go black at 75°C which is warm enough to be sure, but Korea’s LG has gone one twenty five better. Their new 55″ inch outdoor LCD display can withstand temperatures up 111 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
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LG outdoor LCD display withstands 100 degrees Celsius
I’ve drilled a lot of holes in concrete and brick, and it’s a pretty darn messy business, especially inside. In fact I’ve even killed a Dyson vacuum cleaner by feeding it one too many powdered bricks (no loss of 201 words | permalink | 2 comments | digg this
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Bosch 11221DVS Rotary Hammer – Cough free drilling
I like this Thanko Notebook Tripod Stand, it gets your stupid leg-burning laptop off your lap and onto an ergonomic and adjustable surface. Sure it’s just an aluminium plate with a 1/4″ tripod thread and air vents, but it’s 161 words | permalink | 4 comments | digg this
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Thanko Notebook Tripod Stand – Turns a camera tripod into a desk
This Motz Tiny Wooden Speaker is delightfully cute, contains a full auto-scan FM radio and rechargeable Lithium Ion battery and is incredibly cute. Did we mention that already? It’s hand made out of dried apricots, has a USB connector and 79 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
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Motz Tiny Wooden Speaker – super cute tiny speaker for the miniaturist in all of us
The AirVita Neo15 is a washable air cleaner and night light which features ‘plasma potential difference electric discharge’, which is good to know. Whether a product named after a character in a movie can ever clean the air as well 139 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
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AirVita Neo15 Air Cleaner – the washable air scrubber and night light
A Japanese company called Eamex claims it has found a way [JP] to increase the life of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries (that can be used in electric vehicles). Eamex says the new batteries can be charged and discharged over 10,000 times
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New technology extends lithium-ion battery life
Gun comb: because you just don’t get arrested enough already A true AFOL would carry one of these LEGO wallets Proximity sensing shirts light up within ten feet of each other THQ CEO says Sony’s motion controller is actually named Arc, not Gem What are you playing?
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Daily Crunch: Stop or My Comb Will Shoot Edition
Areogel , the 90% air material previously used in such space platforms as the Mars Pathfinder Rover, is actually dropping in price. So much so that’s actually being used as insulation in some commercial applications.
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Your next home might be insulated with aerogel, really
When it was announced that this administration was redefining space-related goals (and, many seemed not to notice, increasing NASA funding by $6bn) there were mixed reactions. We’d already spent a bundle on moon mission stuff, but it was over budget and behind schedule.
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Buzz Aldrin: this “new direction” for space programs sounds great
Intel’s Core i5 and i3 CPUs have found a new home in MSi’s latest notebook offerings. The CX520 and CR20 Classic Series combine otherwise standard specs and a 15.6-inch 16:9 screen with the powerful cores. Both seem like solid rigs although you’ll likely pass over them in favor of something a bit more flashy.
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The new MSi Classic Series CX520 and CR620 notebooks rock Core i5 or i3 CPUs
Just because something is cool doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Transparent displays, for instance: we’ve all seen them in movies. Of course, the reason they’re transparent in movies is because A : it looks cool and B : it lets the camera see the operator’s face
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Samsung may actually make some of them transparent laptops
Last time we heard , Sony’s motion controller was named Gem. That was according to EA’s CEO, John Riccitiello, back in early December. But THQ’s head man said today in an investor call that it’s named Arc.
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THQ CEO says Sony’s motion controller is actually named Arc, not Gem
There is a virtual cornucopia, so to speak, of games out there right now, readers. From Mass Effect 2 and Borderlands to Bayonetta and Dark Void , to the constant stream of demos, freeware, and indie games — it’s a good time to be a gamer. We chat about games throughout the day, but we’d like to hear from you guys
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What are you playing?
Beginners Guide to Five Fingers – The good lads over at BirthdayShoes.com put together an interesting presentation on VFFs and barefoot running. It’s fairly concise and nicely designed so I’ll excuse the fact that “free ebooks” are pretty dumb generally.
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Beginner’s guide to barefoot running
The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation.
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Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free
If you’ve grown bored of using any number of your human senses to tell when someone’s within ten feet of you, then it’s probably time to start trying to convince everyone around you to buy one of these $20 proximity sensing shirts. Powered by three AAA batteries stuffed into a hidden pocket inside the shirt, the large decal will emit radar-like waves when nobody’s nearby and then lock on and start flashing when someone else wearing the same shirt gets to within about ten feet. You may ask yourself why someone would buy something like this
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Proximity sensing shirts light up within ten feet of each other
One of the major points the iPad, nook, and other e-book readers have on the Kindle is their touchability. Sure, you don’t need it to read books, but it’s nice if you like interacting with things
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Amazon snaps up touchscreen company – Kindle Touch coming soon?
Along with the figure skating, ice hockey and snowboarding, another event will compete for attention at the Winter Olympics in Canada this month. A Canadian company has created what it calls the “largest thought-controlled computing installation.” It’s an experiment that lets visitors to the Olympics use their brainwaves to control the lights at three major landmarks in Canada, including Niagara Falls.
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Winter Olympics to Demo Thought-Controlled Lighting
Last month, we took a first look at Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds (M4/3) GF1, a small camera with interchangeable lenses and a big sensor. That post, detailing the performance and features , got a lot of comments, so I thought it might be a good idea to relay my thoughts after using the camera rather a lot over the last few weeks
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A Month With the Lumix GF1, And Why I No Longer Use The Nikon D700