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If this found image is to be believed, Google is in the midst of testing a Skype-out-like service with their own Google Talk. If you’re not familiar, Google Talk is their IM and PC to PC calling app that’s tied into other Google apps like GMail.
Why’s this interesting? Well, seeing as Google is Google, they’d no doubt integrate calling into some of their other popular products as well. How about (since they’re #1 business is still advertising) making you listen to an ad before you make a free call? Or, if you have to pay, making you pay through Google Checkout in order to get a lower fee? Both interesting, and both possible if Google really is going forward with PC to phone calling. – Jason Chen
Google Talk Dialpad PC to Phone VOIP to Challenge SkypeOut? [Search Engine Journal]
Here’s a most awesome collection of SF Papercraft models, complete with PDFs so you can take them home and make them yourself. Some great obscurities, like Duey from Silent Running, and the Maser Cannon from Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla. The DeLorean’s here too. But the winners are the Star Wars ships and walkers. Build a few hundred, hang them from the ceiling, add glow stars, and it’s Star Wars night, every night. -Seamus Byrne
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The last time I went hands-on with a grooming device I was trying to grow hair. As life would have it, this time I’m trying to shave it with Braun’s new Pulsonic razor. The $239 machine claims it gives the closest shave you can get from an electric razor. How’d it do? Coming from a guy who’s been wet shaving all his life, not bad.
More on that awesome vinegar company robot automaton. How many robotic overlords must we welcome in coming years?
Nokia concept device has dual screens, removable keyboard. Gotta love those rabid patent watchers for insights like this.
HD DVD and Blu-ray copying could go legit. Putting the M back into DRM.
Intel unveils world’s thinnest laptop. Yes, but how efficiently does it burn your crotch?
Sony shows off flexible OLED video screen. The demos are nice, but when will a flexible screen go commercial!
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How would you like to have a watch that’s shaped like a tooth? No? Us neither. But Seiko’s just created a “Cavity” watch that’s both shaped like a tooth and has a gigantic hole in the middle to display the time.
The watch comes in either silver or gold, but costs only $140 (16,800 yen). The point? To remind you every day that it’s time to go to the dentist. Or eat more candy. – Jason Chen
Seiko Cavity Tooth Watch [Plastic Bamboo]
This is another one of the great gadgets offered by the folks at Skymall. This is a device that dispenses a perfected portioned bowl of cereal every time. No longer will you have to deal with that box of cereal and keeping the bag sealed with clips and whatnot. Just load up the Breakfix with your cereal of choice and it can dispense a bowl’s worth with a simple push of a button. It operates off of batteries, which baffles me because aren’t devices like this supposed to be all mechanical? Oh well, no more Lucky Charms overdoses for me! Video demonstration after the jump. $80.
If you’re still secretly thinking about getting a Segway but ashamed of having people know you paid that much for a scooter, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has something for you. The KAIST has just invented a Segway-like scooter that does pretty much the same thing as Dean Kamen’s baby.
Called the Hubo-Way, the scooter balances when stopped, turns when leaning, and comes with a free copy of Starcraft 2. Well, not really, but 75% of South Korea just got erections. Yes, including the women. – Jason Chen
KAIST to introduce a modified version of Segway ‘Hubo-Way’ in Korea [AVING via Uber Gizmo]
Just when people were getting used to the HTC Wing, Boy Genius goes and unboxes the HTC Kaiser. The Wing’s younger, more powerful, and better looking brother has Windows Mobile 6, quad-band GSM/EDGE, tri-band UMTS/HSDPA, 3-megapixel camera with auto focus, GPS, WI-Fi, Bluetooth, and that standard HTC sliding QWERTY that everyone loves.
What’s interesting about this line of phones (by this line we mean the Kaiser and its siblings that will make it to CDMA carriers) is the tilting screen and the 128MB of RAM (75MB of which is user-accessible). Otherwise, the inclusion of a real GPS (!) on a standard HTC-styled slider makes it super winner fun time deluxe to us. – Jason Chen
HTC Kaiser Unboxing [Boy Genius]
Microsoft’s newest patent (newest interesting one, that is) shows off a car stereo system that takes has a dock for a portable audio device. What does this mean? Well, if we’re right in deciphering the purposefully cryptic patent, this means either a Windows Mobile-type or a Zune-type device can be easily docked into the the car so they can share music.
If you’re still interested, this product is part of the Ford and Microsoft effort to put this type of entertainment system into cars, and Fords announced that it will offer the gadget in 12 of their 2008 model cars.
The cars are “the Focus, Fusion, Five Hundred, Edge, Freestyle, Explorer and Sport Trac; Mercury Milan, Montego and Mountaineer; and Lincoln MKX and MKZ.” – Jason Chen
Patent Monkey [via Crunchgear]
