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Do you think the TSA would let you past security with this USB memory stick in the shape of an itsy-bitsy grenade ?
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"Designed exclusively for paranormal investigators, this incredible tool has everything you need to track and detect the presence of ghosts."
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Microsoft permanently banned about a million hacked Xbox 360s from its online gaming network. Amid uncertainty--you can still play offline-- the price of a used 360 collapses . Ebay's warning people not to buy them at all. But so far, some sellers are being honest: is $40 not a great deal for ...
Gaming
Xbox 360
The prize is a $700 HP MediaSmart EX495 PC, set up as a Windows home server, with 1.5TB of storage and Mac/Time Machine support. The winner shall be chosen at arbitrary whim. Runners-up get something random from the gadget dungeon.
The theme is "Found in Space." 100 words long. Go!
Storage
HP MediaSmart
Time Machine
Brian Lam showed me this amazing short video yesterday. It chronicles an encounter that National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen had with a giant leopard seal in Antarctica who, over the course of four days, fed penguins to his camera and tried to teach him how to catch prey.
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Hey, Bostonites! I'll see you tonight at the Harvard Bookstore (1256 Mass Ave) at 7PM for the US launch of my new novel, Makers ! (New Yorkers, and Philadelphians -- see you later this week!)
US/Canada tour
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Ed sez, "Here's an article from 1985 in the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal about record piracy in the 19th century. Includes illustrations of three duplicators from the 19th century."
Record Piracy: The Attempts of the Sound Recording Industry to Protect Itself against ...
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Apple's filed a patent on a design for a device that won't let its owner use it unless that person demonstrates that she has complied with an advertiser's demands by paying attention to an ad and taking some action indicating her dutiful attention.
It's amazing how many of these vendors fail ...
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Saul Hansell suggests that hated U.S. cellular carrier practices such as text message markups and fee-packed contracts ultimately give American consumers what they really want: predictable bills.
In pursuit of this we learn of the psychological "nuances" of pricing and the "supersized logic" ...
Phones
iPhone
AT&T
I owe the Hacklab.to people an apology. Last spring I ran this post about how they'd tuned the motor on their laser cutter to play the Super Mario Theme as it repositioned itself , and I mentioned that it was too perfect, and wondered "if it's not just some video of a laser cutter with ...
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Davesbit made his own globe using maps from the Generic Mapping Tools project; he used a beachball for a mold and cast the sphere with fiberglass and foam.
here is the plastic beach ball covered in paint for
the inside of the sphere-half mold...
the stand was made from scraps of red oak ...
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So this is apparently real (?!): an eyeball removal tool for "Reborn" baby-dolls. Holy creepy.
BEST REBORN EYEBALL-REMOVING TOOL I'VE FOUND!
( Thanks, Fipi Lele! )
Previously: Eyeball matrioshke - Boing Boing
Electronic eyeball - Boing Boing
Eyeball accidentally delivered ...
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I recently talked to Sony's Steve Haber, President of Digital Reading, about its flagship ebook reader. Named the "Daily Edition," it hits stores next month. Notwithstanding differences between each manufacturer's respective libraries, it offers all the best features of its main rival, the ...
Computing
Kindle
The Roomba Pac Man uses indoor location sensors and Unmanned Aerial System software to create a playable (albeit slow) PacMan built on repurposed autonomous vacuum cleaners.
Roomba Pac-Man
( via Wonderland )
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Take a look at this crazy home water purification system created by a 68-year-old retired engineer.
Above: "magnetic bottle. Plastic bottle with a magnet (I used magnets for the refrigerator). Here are removed from the water surplus of some metals."
Below: "Fig.6 Capacitance ...
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This crazy-looking dress, created by two designers in London for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, is made of silk chiffon and 24,000 full color LEDs. It's called the Galaxy Dress. It runs on tiny iPod batteries woven into the fabric so no one part becomes extra-bulky or heavy. ...
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No, this isn't about holy water as a miracle swine flu vaccine. Rather, some Catholic churches in Italy are replacing holy water basins with more sanitary electronic dispensers that spurt out a single serving of the magical fluid. From The Telegraph:
It functions like an automatic soap ...
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Photo: ndevil
I got my Dell Mini10V in the mail yesterday. It's small and red and pretty, but I had one minor issue with my order. When I was personalizing my order online, it asked me if I wanted a 24WHr 3-cell battery or a 56WhHr 6-cell battery; the 6-cell was just $35 more, but had double ...
Computing
Dell
It's gadgets like this Matrox 8-way video card -- which lets you drive eight 2560 x 1600 displays at once -- that make me think seriously about going back to a desktop machine and abandoning laptops. If only I could find 1) room for eight displays and 2) a graceful way of using the home ...
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As Alice at Wonderlandblog points out, it's rare to see official merch as good as these Bioshock 2 EVE Hypos -- you usually have to find some fetishistic fan art. But this is an actual in-store tchotchke, and it's a corker.
( via Wonderland )
