Hockney iPhone art
June 30th 2009
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Tags: Hockney, Iphone
June 30th 2009
Mnemosyne’s $10,000, 16GB USB drive is housed inside a puzzle that must be solved to physically get to the memory within. Apparently simple encryption is just too middle-class for anybody rich enough…
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Tags: Memory, Middle Class, Puzzle, Simple Encryption, Usb Drive
June 30th 2009
If the desire to spend ten grand on an aluminum soma cube thumbdrive ever takes you, this one, by Toshi Satoji Design of Milan, comes highly recommended. [Mnemosyne via Akihabara News]
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Tags: Aluminum, Desire, Milan, Mnemosyne, Soma, Soma Cube, Thumbdrive
June 30th 2009
From the vaults of Brando comes this retro glowing vacuum tube that’s actually a little USB sound card.
It’s got both audio in and out, and could actually be kind of useful in certain situations. I…
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Tags: Brando, Retro, Usb Card, Usb Sound Card, Vacuum Tube, Vacuum Tubes, Vaults
June 30th 2009
…Michael Bay’s Transformers 2 Sneak Peek…Kindle DX Pisses Off Blind Students…Sony Can Give All PS3s PS2 Emulation—But Probably Won’t…Band Uses iPhone Gimmick to Get Attention (and…
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Tags: Blind Students, Iphone, Mdash, Michael Bay, Pisses Off, Sneak Peek, Sony, Transformers
June 30th 2009
Jailbreaking emulation legend ZodTTD has started the ball rolling on Pre gaming by installing his PlayStation emulator, psx4all, on the smartphone—and while there are kinks to be worked out, he…
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Tags: Iphone, Mdash, Palm, Playstation, Playstation Emulation, Playstation Emulator
June 30th 2009
This respirator mask design by Elijah Stillson is meant to have comfort AND function, ensuring that when a biological attack does hit, you won’t even notice that you’re wearing a mask. You will…
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Tags: Biological Attack, Elijah, Mask Design, Respirator Mask, Stillson
June 30th 2009
We’re big Guitar Hero/Rock Band fans, but buying a controller so that it can play the songs perfectly so that you don’t have to do anything? That’s taking it a bit too far.
If pretending to rock is…
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Tags: Band Fans, Buy Guitar, Guitar Hero, Guitars, Rock Band
June 30th 2009
The two Jabra Go 6400 and Pro 9400 Bluetooth headsets are kinda neat, combining a charging dock for convenience with a touchcreen for showmanship.
The 6400 has a standard Bluetooth range and looks…
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Tags: Bluetooth Headphones, Bluetooth Headsets, Convenience, Jabra, Showmanship
June 30th 2009
The micro-four-thirds standard created by Panasonic, Olympus and Leica has intrigued us but its mightiest product to date, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1, leaves us scratching our heads.
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Tags: Leaves, Leica, Olympus, Panasonic, Panasonic Lumix Dmc
June 30th 2009
I like this NYTimes blog about happiness. Our relationship with our personal tech is complicated, but overall, do you think we’re better or worse off for being so addicted to our gadgetry?
Does your…
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Tags: Blog, Gadgetry, Gadgets, Happiness, Happy Day, Personal Tech, Question Of The Day, Relationship
June 30th 2009
I am a big fan of e-books and a long-time customer of eReader, a Fictionwise company. One area of eReader’s business model that I’ve been less than happy with, however, is the pricing of newly released books. Its pricing has always been competitive with paper book releases, but not with Amazon’s new release pricing for [...]
June 30th 2009
Like solar-powered air conditioners, this solar hand fan makes a lot of sense. Well, save for the part where you have to fan yourself.
But it is a night light, which goes great with your ensemble if…
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Tags: Hand Fan, Image Cache, Lot, Solar Powered Air Conditioners
June 30th 2009
Batman normally likes to stretch his legs and have trunkspace for a few accidental dead bodies. But he might pilot an ATV powered by a jet engine on a weekend at the links.
John Carnett modded brand…
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Tags: Atv, Batman, Dead Bodies, Golf Cart, Jet Engine, John Carnett, Legs, Modded, Pilot
June 30th 2009
The Skype people are busy, as they have released version 1.1 for the iPhone in addition to the WinMo version we covered earlier. This new version adds the ability to check Skype voice mail and to send SMS messages, but it lacks a highly desirable feature: push notification.
Push notification is the feature enabled in 3.0 [...]
June 30th 2009
The Library of Congress just made a bunch of historical videos available on iTunes U. Now you can watch the original Edison films or Book Festival videos in a “University” setting without the need…
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Tags: Book Festival, Congress Library, Edison, Films, Itunes, Library Congress, Library Of Congress, Library Videos
June 30th 2009
BoingBoing Gadgets found this photo of the original original Ethernet cable at Xerox PARC, devised by Bob Metcalfe so he could rig up a local system for sharing things digitally.
The diagram below…
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Tags: Cable Diagrams, Ethernet Cable, Gadgets, Local System, Photo, Xerox, Xerox Parc
June 30th 2009
id Software founder John Carmack is known best for his graphical work on high-end PCs, but as a programmer he has just as much admiration for small platforms, like mobile devices. It’s little surprise, then, that he’s confirmed that house that Wolfenstein and Doom built will put its biggest hits, the Quake series, on the [...]
June 30th 2009
The 3.1 version of the iPhone SDK is available now, bringing a couple new fixes like having the OS simulator “more closely matching the device.” There are also new Interface Builder, XCode and…
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Tags: Interface Builder, Iphone, Xcode