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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time This is Chinese artist Ma Jun’s telly, which I’ve been test-driving at Gizmodo Towers. There was a remote, but it got smashed after my man and I had fisticuffs about what we were going to watch last night (he wanted The Bridges of Madison County, I wanted Seed of Chucky.) and he threw a wobbly and stormed out of the house.
Luckily I’d hidden the keys to the ceramic car, otherwise I guess we’d be sweeping him off the freeway by now.
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– Ad Dugdale
Ma Jun’s ceramic TVs and Boomboxes [Neatorama]
OK people, I’m done talking about Logitech. But you have to admit, a wireless number pad—for those of us who don’t own those big honkin’ unmovable mobiles—is a pretty cool idea. I don’t have a fact sheet or anything, but I can tell you it will cost $40. Is it worth $40? You tell me. Or better yet, how do you input numbers speedily on your laptop? – Wilson Rothman
The night of Logitech laptop goodies continues, with two very different stands. One, the Alto Express, is sleek and ergonomic, and looks a little, um, analog for the $50 it’s going to cost when it ships next month. Thankfully those Swiss engineers at Logitech furnished us with a rationale for coughing up dough, in the form of a diagram:
The more robust Alto Connect, on the other hand, looks well worth its $80 price tag, as a USB hub and cord wrangler, in addition to being your spine-straightening friend. Jump for fact sheets plus a gallery of sexy shots—if you look close, you can see every orifice jack on the Connect’s two-piece body.
A blogger in the field is only as good as his (or her) backpack, so I’m keen on seeing how these freaky looking Logitech Kinetik bags turns out. I love ballistic nylon and a polyurethane “exo-shell” as much as the next geek, and the lumbar support on this baby looks nice and cushy, for those multi-meeting running-around-NYC days that I’ve been having too many of lately. Both will cost $100, shipping in September. Jump for details including, uh, “system requirements”. Or just have a look at the pretty pics below. – Wilson Rothman
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This projector is for the videophile who lives in a glass house near the equator and is to cheep to buy blackout shades.
The Sanyo PLC-XF47 (Who comes up with these names?) is boasting a ridiculously high 15,000 lumen’s. We can barley fathom how bright that must be, although what were they thinking keeping it at 1024×768? If we’re going to spend 30-grand on a projector it better at least be 1920×1080. Although they did add wireless HD streaming. Look for it in October if you’ve got 30-grand lying around, or a bunch of credit cards taunting you.– Benjamin Longo
Sanyo debuts “world’s brightest” PLC-XF47 and PLC-XP100L projectors [Engadget]
The Panasonic Pocket Power fully charges itself in four hours. But then what? Now hook it up to any of your devices that charge through USB, and share some of that good old energy lovin with them. And if that isn’t good enough for you, you can even take it’s batteries out and use them in other devices as well.
No word on price or what type of batteries are inside, but it goes on sale in Japan on July 1st.– Benjamin Longo
When you can’t do graphics real-time, do them stop-motion!
I showed this to my wife and she asked if the guy was a bit obsessed with breasts. Given the time and effort that went into this demo, and the geekery for its time, that’s gotta be an unequivocal yes. -Seamus Byrne
[via Boing Boing]
Is there anything that Google doesn’t have it’s grubby little hands on these days? Up until today we thought that cars were off of their radar, but we were wrong. Their philanthropic division, Google.org, is moving into the plug-in hybrid market. What is that you ask? Basically they are full on electric cars that you plug into an outlet, but they also have a gas tank.
Google said they are prepared to spend over $10 million dollars in grants to accelerate the plug-In hybrid adoption rate. And that the plug-in hybrid version (Is that a hybrid hybrid?) of the Toyota Prius gets 73.6 mpg, a full 32.7 mpg more.
Wow, just think how smug these plug-in hybrid owners will be, when regular hybrid owners already love the smell of their own farts. Maybe the people in this video will be a good indicator?
While we prefer keyboards like the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000, the nostalgic types who learned to type on old Commodore 64s may want to be able to use that keyboard to punch out blog posts. Now that’s possible.
