Saturday, July 7, 2007
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Real Life Optimus Prime Challenges Megatron To Epic Battle
2:08PM Seamus Byrne | You may remember these two gentlemen, as we recently covered them in the run-up to the Transformers movie debut. Optimus Prime changed his name to honor his childhood hero, while Jason Burrows took the less drastic step of altering his middle name to Megatron. Now it seems that Optimus has had enough tomfoolery and wants to settle things once and for all: More »
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Nixon Lodown For the Global Surfer: 200 Beaches, Good For 15 Years
1:30PM Seamus Byrne | The Nixon Lodown has 15 years worth of preprogrammed tidal info for 200 beaches all the world over. Right at your wrist you can monitor the height of the waves, and don’t be afraid to jump right in when the surf looks good—the Lodown has a water resistance rating of 100m. The Lodown’s simple presentation of data with its gray-on-black blocks makes it look pretty stylish, but is it $90 worth of stylish? Any information that doesn’t update is susceptible to being regularly faulty, but if you visit a lot of beaches, this might be a neat watch to have. Of course, the Lodown also has the usual frills: A light for the nighttime, an alarm and timer, and the date, Also, you get some colors to choose from, either black, silver, and an off white and blue. Product page [Nixon via Technabob] More »
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Biodegradable Source Toothbrush Saves The World One Head At A Time
12:27PM Seamus Byrne | In their quest to save our dying planet, ecologically concerned people are often forced to make sacrifices. If you’re compelled to join them, you can start by getting rid of that fancy superstore toothbrush and replace it with the Source Toothbrush, an environmentally friendly hygienic tool constructed from wood fiber and a special plastic made from Nebraska corn. Its replaceable heads also feature the world’s first “radial bristling” for maximum plaque-busting power. Nobody says you have to have bad breath to be a tree hugging hippie. $7.95 [Source Toothbrush via UberReview] More »
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World of Warcraft Addict Constructs Massive 47 PC Setup
11:21AM Seamus Byrne | The problem with massive online games is that they’re full of other people. In order to bypass the need for interaction and reliance on outsiders, one gamer (and, get this, his girlfriend) decided to take on the responsibilities of an entire World of Warcraft guild himself. Gaze upon the 47 PC setup that allows two gamers to simultaneously control 23 independent accounts each. More info on the hardware after the jump. galleryPost('wowaddict', 4, 'WoW Addict'); More »
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II Gets Spotted Bigfoot Style
9:59AM Seamus Byrne | Found in the depths of some German forum, a DPreview member says these pictures are for the yet-to-be-announced Canon EOS 5D Mark II. No real details to this camera other than the fact that it’s going to replace the 5D (obviously). See the back after the jump, but don’t expect a “make me a professional photographer” button or anything. More »
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The Crash of the Flying PackBot
9:40AM Seamus Byrne | It’s Friday, so why shouldn’t you enjoy 70 seconds of flying, crashing robotic calamity? For the curious, this is what some have called a true-to-life transformer, an iRobot PackBot outfitted with a gas-powered propeller engine and a steerable parafoil. The concept, dubbed the Griffon man-portable hybrid, was conceived and built by iRobot’s Brian Yamauchi and Pavlo Rudakevych, and the video of the ill-fated test flight was shot sometime in the last three or four years. You can download a PDF of their Griffon research paper here. And yes, to that one guy who plans on explaining that these are not actually “robots” because they operate by remote control rather than their own artificial intelligence: We get it. We just love the word. Robot Robot Robot! Real-world transformers [New Scientist] More »
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Transformers Beatmix Bumblebee Remixes Your Music, Dances Too
9:20AM Seamus Byrne | Plug Beatmix Bumblebee into your MP3 player and he’ll dance to his own mix of your music library, adding beats and sound clips from the movie, for as long as his four AA batteries last. Since he plugs into portables, you’ll be able to take him everywhere. Transformers get-togethers. Work. Put an upside down hat next to him on street corners. As a Transformer, though, it looks like poor BM Bumblebee is forever locked in robot mode. Don’t blame us if he’s a terrible DJ. Or if he dances off a table. It’s your $60. But the marketing pitch is worth a chuckle: Prime always told him there’d be days like this, but thankfully, this is a fun day because Bumblebee is dancing! Beatmix Bumblebee captures the personality of this big screen hero and allows you to morph your music into more than meets the ear with a beat builder and movie sound effects. Don’t box him in—let him free and let him dance! What kind of days, Prime? “Dancing Days?” Who knew the leader of the Autobots was a Led-head. Product page [Entertainment Earth via Nerd Approved] More »
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Toshiba Portege G900 Screen Video
9:00AM Seamus Byrne | You saw the unboxing video of the Toshiba G900 yesterday, but Matt from Tracy and Matt have a video of the screen up today. It’s hard to tell from the video (screens are here), but that 800×480 is really huge. And in a device only slightly bigger than other slide-out-keyboard Windows Mobile smartphones, this seems like the Peter North of WM screens. But slightly less wet. Toshiba Portégé G900 display video [Tracy and Matt] More »
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Ghetto Blaster Bag
8:40AM Seamus Byrne | Got an anniversary coming up? Get your lady this Ghetto Blaster bag and watch as her nostrils flare, her eyes get really really big, and then beady—then duck as she makes a swing at you, and dodge as that knee comes flying up. After the festivities are over, you can explain to her that this bag isn’t actually a ghetto blaster, it’s an actual bag with a picture of a ghetto blaster on the outside. Then get ready to dodge and duck again. Product Page [Kitschulike via Nerd Approved] More »
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