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Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone
Why confine your nerdy sloth to your living room, where large robots mime fake guitar and serve you sloppy mixed drinks? Take that zest for the sedentary life with you on the road by having one of your robot ninjas steal this iPhone Rock Band robot from its ingenious creator, Joe Bowers. The Arduino-based device [...]
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iPhone and Windows 7 don’t play nice, Intel P55 chipset to blame
The iPhone is one of the most wildly popular phones the world has ever seen, while Windows 7 is well on its way to becoming the globe’s most ubiquitous OS. So compatibility between the two would be kinda sorta important, right? Tell that to Intel’s quality control team who seem to have somehow missed an [...]
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World’s Largest Cruise Ship Sets Sail, Remains Insane While Doing So [Boats]
Royal Caribbean’s record-setting $1.5 billion, 1200-foot-long, 16-deck-high, 220,000-ton, Tower-of-Babel-on-sea luxury cruiser has finally set sail from Finland to Miami. I hate to be the one to ask but, um, there aren’t any icebergs on the way, right guys?
Royal Caribbean named this affront to god the “Oasis of the Seas,” which, yeah, is a super cheesy [...]
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The iPhone Now Officially Runs Doom [App Store]
id’s classic shooter has finally been (officially) ported to the iPhone. And thanks to oversight from John Carmack himself, there are a number of improvements that make it worth a purchase even for Jailbreakers.
In a blog post from May, Carmack says he loves that players port Doom to every device imaginable, but he’s disappointed that [...]
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Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which?
Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn’t — but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the new [...]
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Leaked docs show HTC’s DROID Eris launching on November 6th for $99, running Android 1.5
Like it or not, we’ve got it on pretty reasonable authority that HTC’s first “DROID” phone is nothing more than a rebadged, shape-shifted Hero (something we’ve been hearing for a while now), and that it’ll be launching on Verizon on November 6th, the same day as Motorola’s DROID. That means Android 1.5 “Cupcake,” Sense UI, [...]
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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Put Drunk Ewoks On Live TV [Star Wars]
In honor of Halloween, the Today Show had a Star Wars themed episode. The only trouble is that no one considered that sticking a bunch of drunk midgets into Ewok costume might end with dry humping, fighting, and moon-walking.
According to the Warming Glow, there’s confirmation that the people inside Ewok costumes were [...]
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Leaked Docs Confirm Droid Eris Details: November 6 for $99 [Rumor]
New leaked documents suggest all the Droid Eris grumblings we’ve heard were true: it should launch November 6, and will supposedly run $99 after rebate. That’s pretty cheap considering it matches the specs of the $180 Hero.
What we’ve heard about the Eris being a slightly reshaped Hero is pretty much right. The spec sheet claims [...]
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Ideum’s 100-inch MT-50 multitouch table supports 50 simultaneous touch points (video)
Surface? What Surface? Ideum, which popped out a rather gigantic MT2 multitouch table earlier this year, is now introducing another model that makes that fellow look like child’s play. The 100-inch MT-50 is an outright beast, boasting 86 viewable inches, a 16 x 5 aspect ratio and a stunning 2,304 x 800 resolution. It was [...]
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iLuv ships weather-watching iMM183 dual dock iPod / iPhone alarm clock
It belts out severe weather alerts as storms are barreling towards your domicile. It acts as a decent bedroom stereo. And it wakes you and the SO up to your own favorite jams — all while charging your iPod or iPhone throughout the night. If those amenities sound like must-haves in your own life, you [...]
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You’ve Reached a River In Your “Opera” Luxury Trailer [Design]
River Depth: 1.36 meters. Water Temperature: Warm. 1) Attempt to ford the river. 2) Call your private helicopter to airlift wagon. 3) Caulk wagon and float it across. What is your choice?
Considering this thing will contain “every conceivable luxury,” fording the river seems a little dangerous. I wouldn’t want to ruin those gorgeous hardwood floors, [...]
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Asus Continues USB 3.0 Onslaught With a Cheap PCI-E Card [USB]
Man, Asus is really going nuts with USB 3.0 gear this week. First a 3.0 compatible motherboard, now this SuperSpeed ready PCI-E card that won’t even break the bank at $30.
Unfortunately, the guys at Maximum PC didn’t have any USB 3.0 devices to run the card through it’s paces. All we know is that Windows [...]
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Tesla Roadster keeps on rollin’, goes 313 miles on single charge
What could be a better feeling than beating a world record? Beating your own world record. The Tesla Roadster has put an extra exclamation mark on its world-conquering single-charge antics by raising the bar from 241 miles back in April to an even more impressive 313 this week. As you can see in that homemade [...]
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USB 3.0 and SATA 6G put to good use: benchmarks
The fine folks at both HotHardware and PC Perspective have run the new ASUS P7P55D-E Premium motherboard through its paces, which has the particular distinction of handling both USB 3.0 and the up-and-coming SATA 6G through controllers by NEC and Marvell, respectively. Lucky for us, both sites’ tests came to similar conclusions. The Seagate Barracuda [...]
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Next Year, I’m Time Travel Trick or Treating [Image Cache]
Actually, why wait until next year? I think I’m just gonna trick out a DeLorean and spend a couple of weeks trick or treating my way through the last few decades. I just need a costume first. [xkcd]
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Scientifically Haunted Room Shows That Ghosts Are Only In Your Head [Halloween]
Researchers wanted to prove that those who believe in paranormal experience are completely nuts, so they scientifically haunted a room using ultrasound waves and stuck people in there. Results? A lot of dizzy, tingly, aroused, and gullible individuals.
To conduct the experiment, ultrasound and electromagnetic wave producing speakers were hidden inside the “haunted” room, to simulate [...]
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How would you change Sony’s PlayStation 3 Slim?
For the most part, we’d say that Sony addressed the concerns of many when it introduced the PlayStation 3 Slim. The console was smaller, cheaper and easier on the eyes, and of course the 120GB hard drive didn’t hurt matters either. That said, we know that the redesign didn’t please everyone, and we’ve heard more [...]
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Aptera 2e three-wheeler deemed a car by the DoE, eligible for funding
For a time, it looked Aptera might be missing out on the US Department of Energy’s funding bonanza for energy-efficient vehicles due to its car’s three-wheeled nature, but it looks like President Obama has now had the final say on the matter, and signed legislation that makes both two-wheeled and three-wheeled vehicles eligible for the [...]
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Sharkskin Inspired Material Repels Bacteria [Sharks]
Sharks are scary. So scary that the texture of their skin alone prevents parasitic bacteria from sticking. Good, because by modeling a plastic sheet-like surface after that scary skin, we can actually prevent drug-resistant superbacteria like MRSA from building up.
A Florida-based company by the name of Sharklet (yes, I laughed at the name, too) came [...]
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More on the DROID: thoughts from the rest of Engadget
Somewhat unusually, Verizon and Motorola actually gave us four DROID review units to play with — and while Paul, Nilay, and Chris all contributed to Josh’s official Engadget review, there were definitely some different perspectives (and dissenting opinions) amongst the team. Rather than try to squeeze everything together into one jumbled whole, we thought we’d [...]
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