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Sonaplayer Blackberry Video Player in the Wild

Business dorks rejoice! Owners of the 8700 and 7130 can now download Sonaplayer, a video player for RIM’s ubiquitous devices. Thrill as you install beta software! Rejoice as you download video! Wonder at the majesty of it all as you reboot your Blackberry! Cry as you realize you can’t rip your own video yet! So … Continued

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Swiss Planning Unmanned Marketing Drones

In the hard-edged world of international marketing, you do not want to put your boys at risk when trying to beam your message to millions via Bluetooth. Swisscom, a Swiss telecomm (hence the name), is working on remote controlled planes that will fly over concerts, malls, and battlefields, beaming down advertising messages to the surging … Continued

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Take an HIV Test, Get Games

Just to confirm, I have nothing against HIV testing. It’s important. But Werd Interactive is trying to drum up publicity for HIV testing by… wait for it… giving away two mobile games. Yeah. Why not take all the money—$50 by our count, considering that it probably cost them a bit to get the press release … Continued

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Wii Dropping October 30 (??)

A drunken Nintendo exec apparently told a french website, Impact Virtuel, that the Wii would “officially announce” the Wii on October 30 with subsequent launches in Japan at the end of November and US and Europe launches a few days later. Unfortunately, this smacks of someone making merde up, but we’ll give them the benefit … Continued

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Availbot

Not unlike ourselves, the Availbot falls down when your friends leave. However, instead of falling down in a bar near the river, the Availbot connects to your PC or Mac and can tell when your buddies enter and leave your IM session, giving you a leg up over other’s who are unable to tell a … Continued

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Celltick: Push for Phones

Celltick is launching LiveScreen, a screen-saver for cellies that pushes news, weather, and other updates via your phone’s idle screen. That it also displays ads and other dosh is purely incidental and should stop you from downloading it. Looks like they’re focusing on Symbian phones right now, but look for this company to tank in … Continued

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eBay Deal of the Day: Kraftwerk’s Vocoder

While Cher, Britney, and Kid Rock have twiddled the Vocoder in their day, Kraftwerk was probably the first band to really remind us of the techno-hell we’re descending into by opened Autobahn with the magic of a voice distorted with custom electronics. It’s stuck at $3,800 right now, so head on over and bid. eBay … Continued

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Pacific Rim Magnesium Nano Case Giveaway

Happy Pre-Fourth of July Weekend! In honor potentially blowing a limb off, we’re offering something that will protect your iPod nano from a direct blast of an M80. The Pacific Rim Magnesium Nano Case will keep your Nano crack and stratch-free for years to come. How can you win one, you ask? Well, we’ll be … Continued

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22Moo iPod Video Glasses

Many, you can put iPod in any old press release and it instantly becomes fanboy gold. This set of “VR” glasses creates a screen 6 feet in front of you and potentially makes you sick as a dog. The VG-SD+USB will connect to the UHMP-001 USB host adapter which turns and iPod, not just the … Continued

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A Little Dom Perignon, Some Diamonds, and a Sidekick 3

Well, it had to happen. The eBay run-up on the Sidekick 3 is now reaching ridonkulous proportions, with some folks paying $4,050 for a hunk of electronics. Heck, I’ll bet Sharp, the SK3’s manufacturer, paid that much for their R&D—”What should we do?” “Well, let’s stick a trackball on there! And make it smaller!” “Score!” … Continued

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Bluetrek Serenity

Ever lose a favorite gadget or something that you can’t live without? Try the Bluetrek Serenity. This gadget is a tracking device that can fit into your wallet, purse or even on/in your kid. The base unit is about the size of a PDA and will help to locate your lost object by emitting a … Continued

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Pathformer: Nail Trephination Thing

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PS3: You’re Buying the Future

PS3: You’re Buying the Future So Sir Howard Stringer, Esq. PPQ, CEO of Sony, says: The Price of the PS3 is high, but you’re paying for potential. Obviously, it’s a higher-risk strategy—as all new inventions are—but if the PS3 lives up to its total potential, then I don’t think anyone will be worried about Nintendo … Continued

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Linde Werdelin Watch Hands-On

Got a chance to fondle the Linde Werdelin Biformeter and I have a much better idea of what’s up now. Essentially, this is a really fancy watch with a strange attachment that covers the mechanical part and adds a number of digital functions. The wristwatch itself costs about $4,000 for a steel model and the … Continued

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Cellphones Excite Brain

This is really weird. When 15 male volunteers used a GSM cellphone for 45 minutes, “the cells in the motor cortex adjacent to the cell phone showed excitability during phone use but returned to normal within an hour.” What does this mean to you and me? Who knows! Even the fancy scientists in Fatebenefratelli hospital … Continued

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Pattern Clock

Hating life? Want to hate it more? Pick up the Pattern Clock, an alarm clock that won’t turn off unless you repeat a Simon-like pattern of lights by pressing a series of buttons. The goal is to create an alarm that will definitely wake you up out of your torpid slumber and/or drive you crazy … Continued

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Kestrel 4000 Weather Meter

Some folks turn on the Weather Channel to find out what’s up and others need the Kestrel 4000 Pocket Weather Station made by Nielsen-Kellerman. This handy device will measure every possible environmental condition from the palm of your hand. The Kestrel 4000 measures wind speeds, temperature for air/water/snow, wind chill, dew point, and Barometric pressure—among … Continued

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Netgear HDX101: 200Mbps Powerline Networking

Poweline networking has long been the laughing-stock of networking devices. While Wi-Fi and other wireless junk has taken off, everyone is always harshing on poor powerline networking for no good reason. Until now. Enter 200Mbps powerline rockage with the HDX101. 200Mbps is considerably more than the trickle we once saw with this selfsame technology and … Continued

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C-Ice: Dude

>C-Ice is some kind of Swiss ice tea drink that has like hemp in it. There’s no THC in there, but there are so many hemp-induced vitamins that you might just get high on health and not need the sweet, sweet mouthfeel of Sister Mary Jane. This is actually from a longer Financial Times piece … Continued

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DIY Home Projectors

Not unlike homebrew beer kits, DIY projector kits are an easy to make projectors in the comfort of your own home. Unlike homebrew beer kits, however, a bottle skunky self-made beer won’t burn your house down if you make it wrong. The folks at LumenLab are here to help. They have a full DIY kit, … Continued