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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time After playing a little too much Viva Piñata, somebody at Sony decided to start mashing together random, seemingly incompatible product lines. The resulting mutation was the Hana, a standing lamp that also includes an MP3 player and full-length speakers. I guess they’re targeting the “music lover who hates to listen in the dark and is too lazy to use more than one device at a time” market? No word on pricing, availability or Sony’s plans to conquer the lucrative lamp market yet. [Sony Hana Lamp via plasticbamboo]
newVideoPlayer("tivounbox3_gawker.flv", 475, 376); TiVo’s $300 HD player was fully revealed on Tuesday, so it’s a good time to explore TiVo’s pumped up Unbox functionality that this and the Series 3/2 all have. TiVo has been working as a set top box for Amazon’s Unbox movie rental and purchase service for a while, but only in the last few weeks has it been possible to buy movies on a TiVo without any intervention from a PC. Having used it for a week, I have to say it’s imperfect, but nice.
If you’re a die-hard Apple buff and want the world to know it, place your bid for this massive original Apple Computer sign. This sign comes from the era of the manly rainbow-colored logo and has been hanging on an authorized Apple dealer’s store wall for years. The dealer is relocating and you can be the beneficiary if enormous Apple Computer memorabilia is your thing. You have five days to come up with the money; the current bid sits at $4,450 plus crating and shipping costs. Happy bidding! [Giant Apple Computer Sign via Gearfuse]
Welcome to Wednesday folks. Mid-way through the work week, woo-hoo!
Control a Dead Frog Via the Web Too gross not to link to it.
Greg Packer Seen in the Wild, Still First in Line I’m glad this guy has found his niche in life.
Qantas Revives In-Flight Internet with Wi-Fi and Ethernet Access Never mind that it’s never made money for any other company, but A for effort for our Qantas.
Make Your Own Office Chair Bike A fun project for the weekend, but don’t ride it in public unless you want to get nerd-bashed.
Crashed iPhone in Single-User Mode I can’t help but link to all the anti-iPhone posts to make myself feel better about not having one.
Video of a WWII-era Airplane Landing on a Busy Highway Three words for you: Fully Hectic Bro.
You know how you get the Han Solo shivers after you shove your arm into a cooler to find the last beer in a sea of Diet Pepsis? What you need is the cooler scoop, a scoop that proxys for your arm in order to dig out a drink without freezing to death. The only problems we could potentially have with this are the relatively short handle and the fact that the scoop only holds one, which means multiple trips are necessary—unlike the fishing net strategy we were picturing. [TaylorGifts via Cooking Gadgets]
XM CEO Hugh Panero was expected to step down after the Sirius merger, since Mel Karmazin was slated to be CEO of the new two headed monster. Now it’s official. Here’s hoping the soulless bot-DJs go next. [PR Newswire]
Is this green flying saucer plane the eco-friendly plane of the future? It’s a design from the CleanEra project, aimed at making air travel more economical (in the environmental sense) by using lighter materials and weird ass shapes. Their goal is to get the carbon usage down to less than 50% of current planes. Whether this is light on the Earth is yet to be seen, it looks like something the Green Lantern would fly in. [LiveScience]
We present Gaywheels.com’s survey of which cars are gayest (not that there’s anything wrong with that). They base their research on their server logs, quantifying which cars get the most research from their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual readership. (I feel like the list is more gay than lesbo, however.)
Reader Jeremy’s mother knows about his obsession with gadgets, which is why she sent him a gift basket full of gadget cookies for his birthday. The only thing she could have done better would be to include some modern gadgets like the iPhone or a TiVo, but her heart’s in the right place.
The $69 iPhone Apple Care we told you about is now live on Apple’s site. You can order online (free shipping) in order to extend your one year of complimentary iPhone repair service to two years. Telephone support, on the other hand, is still free for two years even without AppleCare. AppleCare is not available for residents of Alabama, Connecticut, Nevada, or Wyoming, so don’t bother ordering it if you live there. [Apple]
