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I liked the iPhone application that allowed you to get Suicide Girls naked at the flick of a wrist. But I like this one even more, because it actually works like the old stripper pens. And even while I want more girls, it has something for everyone. [iTunes App Store]
It’s a plane! It’s a boat! No, it’s a car! Wait… a dog? A desktop plane? A windmill? Actually, it’s a solar powered toy that doesn’t need any screws or tools to transform.
First quarter results are in for TiVo, and they’re not great: revenue is down 9% from the same quarter last year, forcing the company to report a hefty loss just a few months after recording their first year of profitability, ever.
Remember when ridiculously massive, fully loaded “desktop replacement” laptops from Alienware and the like were all the rage? Well, they never really went away; in fact, they’re reaching new heights of, eh, that thing that they strive for, whatever it is.
Because unless you can do that, the Solidalliance Ninja 2G Shuriken flash drive is just a tacky, difficult to carry, 2GB poking hazard. It’s available now for just over $US100, plus shipping from Japan. [Akihabara]
That camera looks a little precarious, and I’m not sure how much I want to depend on my pants to hold something up, but I can see how a DSLR belt holster might be useful.
Steve Chamberlin’s “Big Mess of Wires” processor took “18 months, about $US1,000 and 1,253 pieces of wire” to build, measures roughly one square foot and, amazingly, computes at about the level of a Commodore 64. [Gadget Lab]
