Monday, August 13, 2007
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Samsung’s Latest DMFT Fuel Cell for Laptops Given an Airing
11:20PM Seamus Byrne | We first heard about this back in December, when it was just a mere glint in Samsung’s eye. And here it is in its latest incarnation—looking a lot less clunky than it did eight months ago. More »
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Real Live Pictures of US Nokia N95
10:35PM Seamus Byrne | Symbian-Guru’s all over the US N95 launch, this time bringing us a handful of up close snaps, confirming the body changes picked up from the flyer. The shutter slider has indeed been jettisoned, but now the camera is receded into the the back of the phone. They’ve also apparently raised the media keys and made a handful of changes to the battery compartment to accommodate the beefier bulge—meaning it probably won’t fit into the Euro models. Subsequent peepage after the jump. More »
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62-Year-Old Man Attempts Hara-Kiri by Jumping from 25 Miles Up
10:12PM Seamus Byrne | A 62-year-old Frenchman is giving his attempt on the world free-fall record one last try in the skies above Saskatchewan. Michel Fournier has spent $13.25 million trying to jump from 25 miles above the earth’s surface and break the world free-fall record set by USAF test pilot Joe Kittinger in 1960. But first he has to get up there. More »
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Wii Almost Catching Up on Xbox 360 Total Sales
10:00PM Seamus Byrne | Apparently the Wii is closing in on Xbox 360’s total sales, all despite the sales slowdown in Japan. 10.32 million for the 360 vs 10.1 million for the Wii, which launched a whole year later. Meanwhile, the PS3 it’s still at 4.11M while the DS crushes everything else at 46.83M. [The Register] More »
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Medieval Pinball Machine Made out of Lego
9:28PM Seamus Byrne | And fie, a-surffing on ye internette, a pinneballe machyne of Leggoe did I espye. Set yorre eyyes pon yonder gallerye. Morre picture lykkeness will ye finde on TechEBlog. [TechEBlog] galleryPost('legopinball', 4, 'lego pinball'); More »
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Giant Universal Remote, for the Sausage-Fingered
9:10PM Seamus Byrne | If, like me, you have the condition known as sausage finger, then you’ll know the pain of punching more than one button at a time on a remote. At 5.5×8.5×2.25 inches, and with buttons 3/4 inch square, this giant universal remote should solve that problem. It uses 4 AA batteries, and costs $39.98. [Things You Never Knew] More »
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Remote Controlled Tarantula
8:13PM Seamus Byrne | This isn’t just any tarantula, it’s a remote-controlled Mexican redknee tarantula. It’s life-sized and realistic in every way, apart from the fact that it has hidden wheels, LEDs for eyes and finds it difficult to stray from hard, smooth surfaces. Check out the spider in action after the jump. More »
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Exciting NASA Air Competition Full of Dull Planes
7:45PM Seamus Byrne | NASA handed out $250,000 in prize money this weekend to aircraft designers who competed in a competition to create personal air-vehicles. But don’t be fooled by the picture and think that the event was full of flying cars, experimental planes and UFO-shaped discs—all the entrants were standard-looking planes, as you will see in the videos after the jump. More »
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Polk Audio SurroundBar50 Gives you Surround Sound in One Very Long Speaker
6:42PM Seamus Byrne | Polk Audio’s latest HE audio system, the SurroundBar50, is 51 inches of speaker that gives you surround sound from just one speaker. The aluminum-covered unit contains nine mid/bass drivers with Neodymium magnets, three dome tweeters and a four-PC board crossover, and Polk’s Stereo Dimensional Array (SDA) technology on the left and right front channels. Measuring 51 x 4.5 x 5.1 inches, the SurroundBar50 comes with a bracket that you hang either above or below your TV, and will cost $1099.95 when it is released in October. [OhGizmo!] More »
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