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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/8/2008

Spy calculator is watching you account - Boing Boing Gadgets

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spycalc.jpg Seen on an average, everyday desk, Chinavision's calculator would be a discreet example of technological banality, its design exactly as functional now as when the molds that made it were forged in 1983. But this isn't just a calculator: it is a spy calculator. The camera is tiny and ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/15/2008

Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7! (j/k) - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — Microsoft7.jpg Earlier today, Microsoft confirmed that its next operating system, codenamed Windows 7, would in fact be... called just that when it hits shelves at some point in the next few years. Good on 'em, I say: a simple, no-nonsense name suggests ... (more) Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7! (j/k) - ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/13/2008

Boing Boing Gadgets explains: "Just How The Hell Did I End Up In Infomercia?" - Boing Boing ...

— gadgets.boingboing.net — infomercia_badge.gif The Setting Welcome to Infomercia, a massive super-conglomerate turned government on an alternate Earth in which... indiscriminate technological consumerism and promiscuous corporate partnerships have become the backbone of an ... (more) Boing Boing Gadgets explains: "Just How The Hell Did I ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/15/2008

Boing Boing Gadgets: Infomercia Archives

— gadgets.boingboing.net — infomercend.jpg You know, even with flux capacitors slapped all over my dermis like the nicotine patches of... your cigarette junkies, ripping yourself free of the timestream isn't exactly a frickin' lark. How can I explain time travel so you PR Tapeworm ... (more) Boing Boing Gadgets: Infomercia Archives

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Chinavision Calculator is spy camera; now I’ve seen everything
SlashGear — ... a standard calculator but it also has a small camera mounted on the side that spies on whatever is going on to the side of you. This camera no doubt records in bad quality video, but that’s okay. This is just meant to be a little spy gadget anyway. We don’t know the specs for this one, but it could be a decent way to make sure no one is stealing your pens or office paper. Even so, the cool factor is knocked down several pegs due to the $193 price tag. [via Boing Boing Gadgets] ...

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Boing Boing — Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, there was a Spy Calculator; a wooden safe like something from Myst; a giant ball made of vinyl records; a rugged handheld computer from Motorola; and a bizarre marble-spitting automaton. John saw a toilet in the shape of a pipe; an ingenious Russian iPhone scam; and what can only be described as a Tamagotchi with a glory hole. He has a tank with a gothic church on top of it. Poor-quality photos revealed what might well be the new MacBrick ...