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Gadgets

Touchscreen Virtual Poker Table Is A Tech Royal Flush

9:30AM Nick Broughall
Remember that DIY RFID Poker table that Aussie geek Andrew Milner created last year? Well, turns out it wasn’t quite good enough. So he’s gone back to basics and created the Hold ‘Em-1000 Virtual Poker Table, a touchscreen enabled custom poker table that not only does away with the need for a dealer, cards and chips, but is also actually available to buy as well. More »
Software

Windows 7’s Virtual Wi-Fi Turns One Wireless Adaptor Into Many for Easy Sharing, Hotspot Double-Tapping

10:40PM Matt Buchanan | Windows 7’s native Virtual Wi-Fi sounds complicated—it virtualises your wireless adapter into as many wireless adapters as you want—but making your machine think it has more than one wireless adapter is pretty useful: More »
Music

More Amazing Songs Recorded Through the World (Will Make You Smile Too)

10:20PM Jesus Diaz | Many of you asked if you could buy the goosebumping version of Stand By Me that we featured yesterday. Good news: It’s out this month in CD and DVD, along with other amazing songs. More »
Design

Mutsugoto Lets Lovers Touch Each Other With Light

8:40AM Sean Fallon | They say long distance relationships don’t work, and a lack of physical intimacy is usually to blame. It’s kind of abstract, but the Mutsugoto allows lovers to draw light on each other’s bodies or beds. More »
Software

Virtual Keyboard Confounds Key-logging Bosses, Criminals, and Spouses

7:20AM Mark Wilson | If you’re browsing the web at work or just somewhere insecure, the prospect of key-logging may keep you from typing passwords and/or expletives. This Greasemonkey-compatible script brings up a virtual keyboard for mouseclick typing. More »
Gadgets

Hands-In the Virtual Hole: Sex Gets Even More Awkward (NSFW)

12:00PM Mark Wilson | In the rapidly developing area of teledildonics, a variety of Japanese electronics companies are stepping forward to make sure your sex life remains a source of shame and humiliation. More »
Software

The Military Wants Virtual Parents For Children of Deployed Soldiers

8:40AM Sean Fallon | You would think that a webcam would be sufficient, but basic teleconferencing solutions to the problem of deployed mums and dads is not enough for the military. They want to go virtual. More »
Online

City of Decatur, Georgia Mulling Virtual World Interface

6:00AM Jack Loftus | Not one to be outdone by the likes of PlayStation Home, World of Warcraft, or even that cesspool of flying dildos Second Life, the city of Decatur, Georgia might be going virtual. More »
Peripherals

Virtual Webcam Girlfriend Is Entrancing, If a Little Perverted

7:30AM Mark Wilson | From a technical standpoint, the Dennou AR Figures virtual 3D girlfriends, first announced a few months back, aren’t much more impressive than PlayStation 3’s Eye of Judgment. You install webcam software to that when your camera detects the special bundled cube onscreen, it fills a 3D companion into your environment. But when that 3D companion is a girl who can be dressed, tickled or, errr, spanked, the concept is born anew. Since the demo clip is ever so slightly NSFW, we’ve tucked it after the jump. More »
Gadgets

Things Virtual Reality China Will Not Prep You For (And What You Can Do Instead)

1:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | The U.S. is injecting a good $US1.25 million into a new “virtual training ground” for American diplomats who plan on working in China called “The Second China Project.” It’s a pretend city in Linden Lab’s Second Life that purportedly will help almost-expatriots get used to the environment in the world’s most populous nation. While some of the training activities sound useful (for instance, what to give as a gift, how to seat guests), as someone who’s lived in this country for years, I can tell you there are things that diplomats should get ready for that the virtual world doesn’t even seem to touch on.