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Palm App catalog hits 1,000 apps… okay, 946
Hey, good news everybody! The Palm App Catalog, which has lagged far behind its peers, has reached the 1,000 app milestone as of this morning. Well, to be precise, it’s hit 946, as pointed out by Electronista, but still, it’s a nice little sign of growth for the webOS apps, whose development was hampered by [...]
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Invetech 3D bio-printer is ready for production, promises ’tissue on demand’
Say hello to “the world’s first production model 3D bio-printer.” What you’re looking at is a machine capable of arranging human cells and artificial scaffolds into complex three-dimensional structures, which result in such wonderful things as replacement liver and kidney tissue, or such simple niceties as artificially grown teeth. All we’re told of the internal [...]
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LED Shower Bathes You In Cascading Light (and Lots of Water) [Home]
Visentin’s LED shower heads are pretty stunning, that is, until you realize that, not only are you completely naked in front of your guests, but you’re also splashing water all over the living room. [Visentin via Trendir]
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Apple Refuses To Send Stolen iPhone Back To Rightful Owner After Repair [Crime]
When your stuff gets stolen, FILL OUT A POLICE REPORT. Consumerist reader Alisa is figuring this out the hard way after Apple received her stolen phone for repair. Even though it’s clearly hers, they refuse to return it.
I got robbed on the subway in Brooklyn about 2 weeks ago, my iPhone (and some other crap)was [...]
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Dell netbook modded into a rather large handset (video)
Eager to get a hold on your very own Dell-branded Android smartphone? This guy here took matters into his own hands with nothing more than his modding skill, his imagination, and a Dell Inspiron Mini. Of course, this thing won’t exactly fit in most pockets, but as a curiosity (and a conversation starter) it performs [...]
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Acer Aspire One AO532h joins the Pine Trail party with a $299 pricetag
It’s about time that the number one netbook manufacturer officially release details on its Pine Trail packing netbooks. The 10-inch Acer Aspire One A0535h seems to look slightly different than its predecessors, but its brand new Intel Atom N450 CPU, GMA 1350 graphics and promised 10-hours of battery life should give it bragging rights [...]
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The Year In Image Cache: 50 Shots That Wowed Us In 2009 [Imagecache]
The Internet offers an endless stream of cool pictures, but here’s a look at the best we’ve come across this year. Inside you’ll find images that both amaze and amuse.
Though #imagecache has only been around since March, we’ve collected some incredible images in these last nine months. Click through to the original post for hi-resolution [...]
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Invetech Delivers World’s First Production Human Tissue Printer [Medicine]
Or, as they call it, a “3D bio-printer.” Essentially, it allows scientists to build tissue cell by cell. It’s that cool sci-fi medical stuff we all dream about.
“Scientists and engineers can use the 3D bio printers to enable placing cells of almost any type into a desired pattern in 3D,” Murphy said. “Researchers can place [...]
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Stanley Torch Watch lights your path, highlights your odd aesthetic sensibilities
It takes a rather unique — or hilarious! — flashlight to make the pages of this august publication. We’ve seen torches that record video and torches that induce nausea, but never before have we seen a flashlight that’s been haphazardly shoved into a digital clock and called a “watch.” The Stanley LED Torch Watch features [...]
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Mophie iPhone credit card reader coming to a CES near you
iPhone accessory maker and recession antidote regular Mophie is about to make the most buzzworthy move of its short history by offering a credit card reader and accompanying transaction app for the Apple handset. Positioned as a direct competitor to Jack Dorsey’s Square iPhone Payment System, Mophie’s solution looks to be integrated into an iPhone [...]
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Apple Still Thinking About Wiimote-Like Magic Wand Controller [Apple]
Seems like Apple is not giving up on alternative control methods: They have just updated their March Wiimote-like controller patent, so that means they may still working on it. Or maybe not.
A remote wand for controlling the operations of a media system is provided. The wand may be operative to control the movement of a [...]
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Palm webOS Nearing 1,000 Apps [Palm]
In mid-December during an investor conference call, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein confirmed there were 800 apps available on the Pre and Pixi. Now, they’re just a few shy of 1,000 with 946 available for download. [MyPre]
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Paradigm Shift intros 5- and 7-inch readers with color (LCD) displays
It looks as if we’re still waiting patiently for color e-ink to become a reality (at least in a mass produced shipping product), but if you’re kosher with low-energy consumption LCDs, Paradigm Shift has the ticket. Similar to Sungale’s Cyberus ID700WTA, the outfit’s 5-inch EER-051 and 7-inch EER-071WF are both e-readers with color, but neither [...]
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A-DATA’s USB 3.0 / SATA II flash drive announced for January
We’re a few precious breaths from 2010, and if there’s anything we’re looking forward to, it’s some wicked fast USB 3.0 storage — Intel be damned. Set to hit shelves sometime in January, A-DATA’s N002 Combo Flash Drive sports both SATA II and a USB 3.0 connection. Using the latter, the drive boasts up to [...]
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Waterford Clink-Clink App is a Must for New Years Eve [IPhone Apps]
Convoluted? Yes. Naff? Probably. Cute? Absolutely. Flirting tool? I’m afraid so. Waterford Clink-Clink—a virtual toast application for iPhone that exchanges contact information—is one of those applications that you don’t really need, but that you know you absolutely want.
It’s quite clever. The app responds to motion, clinking when you do the toast, with [...]
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Microsoft and Kia formalize partnership, Uvo is born
It’s been known for some time that Microsoft’s automotive passions couldn’t be sated exclusively by Ford, at least not for long. Sync has been giving the blue oval some serious tech cred for years now, and while we’re still eagerly awaiting the SHO to get its own app store, we’ve also been wondering what [...]
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Motorola buys Super Bowl ad spot
Looks like Motorola’s fully back in the game: not only does it have the hottest Android device you can (currently) buy in the Droid, word today is that the company’s dished out somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million for at least one Super Bowl commercial. It’s been a while since Motorola last spent so lavishly [...]
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Cybiko: "Make for Happy Best Time!!!!" [Y2k10]
Oh oh Cybiko! Presumably born of an illicit union between a walkie-talkie and a Palm Pilot, this 2000-era gadget was for kids who wanted to send messages to nearby friends. But could it also make men erect and cows flatulent?
The Cybiko, which was introduced in 2000, was an antenna’d handheld gadget could send messages [...]
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Nerds Win: Nexus One Rooted Before It’s Even Officially Unveiled [Nexus One]
Even more impressive than the Droid’s quick rooting, the Nexus One has been conquered from the inside before Google has even officially announced it.
The guy behind the rooting, a Modaco forum-goer named Paul, successfully rooted the coveted Nexus One and made a custom ROM called Superboot to ease the method for everyone else—not that all [...]
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Ten gadgets that defined the decade
As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there’s really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts. It’s arguable that if this wasn’t the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade [...]
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