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Tech NewsPolice Radio Keeps Disrupting Sprinklers, Local Residents Get FCC Involved
The police around Cedar Hill, DeSoto and Duncanville Texas have a fancy new communications system that broadcasts their 10-4s and 187s up to 30 miles, which coincidentally enough is screwing up a fancy radio-controlled networked sprinkler system in that general area. Turning off the sprinklers may not sound like it does anything except for making … Continued
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iPhone 2.0.2 Kills 3G Calling For Some Users
We’re not having any problems, but Ars has found many people complaining about the iPhone 2.0.2 update killing their ability to actually make calls over 3G. Among the people who suffer from no-calling-itis is one guy who took his phone to AT&T and had them swap out the SIM, which somehow fixed the problem. If … Continued
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Jay-Z’s Motorola Bluetooth Headphones Start East Coast/West Coast Rapper Headphone War
Jay-Z’s upcoming Bluetooth headphones don’t look nearly as good as Dr. Dre’s noise canceling version, but their mere existence sparks a new East Coast/West Coast gadget war. We can’t tell which we would prefer without looking at them, but Jay’s model has the benefit of being smaller and wireless Bluetooth enabled, which is totally different … Continued
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USB Shawl Takes the USB Craze One Step Too Far
We were fine with USB warming slippers, USB warming kneepads, USB warming mice and USB warming gloves, but this USB heated shawl? You go too far, sir. Do you expect a Facebooking grandma to be hip to this thing? Do you think she’ll spend $28 to get a USB version of something she probably got … Continued
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World’s First Digital Camera Swim Mask Saves Underwater Pool Memories For Later
Hammacher Schlemmer’s Digital Camera Swim Mask integrates an underwater digital camera into a swim mask-two things that have belonged together ever since Man decided that Woman should wear little to no clothing when they’re in the water. The on-board 5-megapixel camera goes down to 15 feet and can take up to 30 pictures in its … Continued
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Yamaha Branded Deus Ex Machina Motorcycle Exoskeleton On Video, Looks Tron-esque
Click to viewWe’ve seen this crazy motorcycle exoskeleton before, but its inventor Jake Loniak has just mocked up a video showing what it would be like in motion. Yeah, we’re pretty damn impressed, but the guy gets cocky: I believe a working prototype could be made, but it would take a great deal of time … Continued
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DSTwitter Proves DS Users Need To Share Intimate Details Too
DSTwitter brings Twitter Shitters the ability to broadcast their current activity to the world via their DS. Is this something you couldn’t do before with your cellphones? Of course not. But if you can read Spanish and can run homebrew apps on your DS, grab DSTwitter and start broadcasting the consistency of your turds to … Continued
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Tech NewsTreo Pro Gets a Video, Still Runs Windows Mobile
Slashgear’s just found a video of the upcoming Treo Pro, a device that physically looks like the Centro, but runs the touchscreen version of Windows Mobile. The video shows you pretty much what you need to know about how big the phone is in your hand (not too big) but if you want to see … Continued
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Apple Gives MobileMe Customers 60 More Free Days
Apple’s tacking on an addition 60 days to the 30 days it already doled out to MobileMe subscribers, which means you’ve got an entire three months extra to wait out the issues you’ve been having. Apple sent out these emails today to MobileMe subscribers, but if you’re one of the ones with MobileMe mail snags, … Continued
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Apple’s SoHo Store Attracts “Worst Neighbor Ever” Complaints From Residents
Curbed’s got a complaint report from the residents and visitors near the SoHo Apple store in NY, all of whom are really angry at what the store’s been doing lately in terms of bugging its neighbors. The latest offense-the anvil thrown off a ten story office building onto an already arthritic camel-was the Jonas Brothers … Continued
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Digg Badge Test
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NBC’s Gemini Divison Debuts Windows Mobile 100
I think NBC’s web-only Sci Fi series The Gemini Division is about an alien, or a robot, or an alien robot that somehow got Rosario Dawson to be its girlfriend. I like that. I also like the Rosario somehow got her deliciously moisturized hands on what looks like a “Windows Mobile” phone, which Screen Junkies … Continued
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iPhone 2.0.2 Update Is Here, Fixes Bugs In iPhone 3G
Click to viewThe iPhone 2.0.2 update is here and is supposed to fix a bunch of bugs that users have been seeing since iPhone 2.0 hit. Like Boy Genius said before, it’s going to be targeting iPhone 3G users, but the changelog of “bug fixes” is vague enough to imply that everyone will see some … Continued
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AT&T’s Tilt Finally Gets Windows Mobile 6.1 Update
AT&T and HTC have finally pushed out the Windows Mobile 6.1 update, which according to Softpedia, brings threaded SMS, video share calling, MS Voice Command, Remote Desktop Monitor and managed programs. Everyone with a Tilt should download this ASAP and get the benefit that fewer bugs provides. Our tipster also tells us that WM6.1 will … Continued
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This Is How People Break Their Cameras
An insurance group in the UK just released statistics data on how their customers break their cameras, almost all of which are hilarious scenarios if you try and picture it happening. • 1/6 blame children or dogs • 3/100 run over their camera with a car • 3/4 drop their cameras onto a “hard surface”, … Continued
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Kensington’s Wireless USB Docking Station Is the World’s First, Supports Five Devices and DVI Monitor
Kensington’s just released the world’s first Wireless USB universal docking station, conveniently named the Wireless USB Docking Station. The thing suppports five USB devices as well as a DVI monitor, which can then be “attached” wirelessly to your notebook whenever it comes into range. Speaker ports round out the solution, and the whole thing is … Continued
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Wii Sqweeze Gives You the Upper Body Strength Of An Olympic Cyclist
This Wii Sqweeze demo by InterAction Labs supposedly does for your upper body what Wii Fit does for the lower body of the 10 people who actually managed to find one. The thing is essentially two squeezable grips (exactly like the kind you can get at sports stores now) that correspond to claws and bows … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger
This week at TreeHugger: Is there any technology more overdue than solar-powered air-conditioning? The internal combustion engine will someday be replaced by electric motors, but in the meantime, here are 5 technologies that are making it better. Day4 Energy announced a breakthrough with a solar panel that is 25% cheaper. And finally, there are an … Continued
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Zapp Brannigan Ray Gun For Sale (Only Shot Once At Disgruntled Underling)
If you suffer from that sexiest of learning disabilities (ugh, sexlexia), you too might enjoy shooting off your Zapp Brannigan Atomic Ray Gun at unsuspecting bystanders. The gun itself is based off of Japanese Ray Guns of the 1950s—as is a bunch of the retro stylings of the Futurama set—but updated to include your favorite … Continued
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Order Your Wife Around as Captain Kirk For $1000ish
Captain Kirk’s original chair cost $304,750 when it was auctioned off back in 2002, but now you can own your own replica chair for only a bit over $1000. You won’t get Shatner’s actual butt imprint in your chair (nor his fart remnants and other juices), but you will save quite a bit of money … Continued
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