Archive for November, 2007
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Your snoring problem could be a thing of the past, and you never again will have restless nights because of your snoring, get up tired in the morning, worry about your partner leaving the bedroom, or worry about snoring surgery or dental implants. You won’t have to undergo expensive snore surgery to solve the problem. And there’s no need to take pills. This revolutionary product will solve your snoring blues and save your marriage. Just strap it to your wrist and, thanks to its sensitive micro-sound detector, it will detect your snoring and send a mild harmless electric signal without waking you or disturbing your sleep. Eventually, your body will learn to avoid the electrical signals by not snoring during sleep. Try it today. At a paltry $59.95, you can’t afford not to. Your family will be deeply grateful.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Sure, your average helicopter can land in a whole mess of places, but what if you really need to squeeze that sucker onto a steep incline? Normally, you’d be out of luck if the slant were anything more than a measly 20-degrees, but some Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have managed something a bit more extreme. Eric Feron, an aerospace engineer, and colleague Selcuk Bayraktar have created a new breed of robot helicopter which can land, or “perch,” at inclines up to 60-degrees. On a similar tip, MIT researcher Jonathan How has fashioned another unique unmanned aircraft which can take off and land from a “prop hang” position, wherein the plane stands on it’s tail in midair. The hope is that these new technologies will help get aircraft into — and back out of — complicated spots with a new level of maneuverability. Also, the engineers probably just love blowing people’s minds. Check the videos after the break to experience the gravity-defying moves yourself.Continue reading Researchers create “perching” robotic aircraft
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Filed under: Peripherals, Wireless
Ok everybody, here goes round eleven. This time we’ve got a Bluetooth-enabled Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000. Ready? Here’s the deal.
Some big ticket gadgets we’ll leave open through the weekend, but the rest you can only enter until the next gadget lands (usually within a couple of hours). If you miss your shot, sorry, we’re moving on to the next gadget. Good luck!
Oh, and don’t forget the rules. (Yeah, there are always rules.)
- Leave a comment below. That’s it! Who loves you, baby.
- You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) You can enter different giveaways in today’s Black Friday giveaways, but you can only enter this one once.
- If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
- Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers or US contest laws if you have to be mad.
- Winners will be chosen randomly.
- Entries can be submitted until the next contest goes up. After that we’re all done. Good luck!
- Full rules can be found here.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Sick to the back teeth of TV screens everywhere you look? Football on in every pub when you left home to escape it? The latest reality TV show irritatingly on everywhere you look? Continue reading »
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Extra care was taken on this next-gen console to cover as much as possible, minimize gaps between panels, and give fellow Wii owners a skin kit that does the box justice. Continue reading »
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
This hand saw has a built-in laser, so you can see precisely where you’re cutting without additional measuring. Continue reading »
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The ASUS Ecobook aims to be as environmentally friendly as possible, with ASUS aiming for a 50% recyclable rate where the sum of the Ecobook’s parts are concerned. In order to achieve this goal, the Ecobook features smooth strips of bamboo all over, but additional details are still scarce. Currently, the laptop’s chassis is still not finalized as with its processor. Hopefully these bamboo strips have been treated lest termites eat up your ‘homework’.
[Via ubergizmo]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Everex’s TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores.
“It’s $200, with no gimmicks or subsidies,” Everex spokesman David Liu said.
The gPC aims to joins a popular gang of low-end economy computers leading into the holiday season, such as Asus’ $300 EeePC Laptop and VIA’s $600 Nanobook. Unlike these machines, however, Everex’s latest model is a full-size desktop, and $100 cheaper than even the slightest models from Dell or HP.
Touted as a “green” machine, it has a 1.5 Ghz VIA C7 CPU embedded in a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive. Normally, this would simply mark it as unacceptably low-end for use with modern software. By using the fast Enlightenment desktop manager (instead of heavier-duty alternatives like Gnome or KDE), the makers say it’s more responsive than Vista is, even on more powerful computers.
“It’s almost like a Google PC,” Liu says, pointing to the desktop’s rack of pre-configured links to all of Google’s online applications. It is, he says, the mass-market Linux PC we’ve all been waiting for. “That’s our dream. … we go the final step to make it work out the box, to go the whole nine yards.”
The gPC also has a DVD burner and, for those not drinking the web-app cool-aid, OpenOffice and lots more local software. There’s free phone support and a regularly updated app called “Faqly” that contains the latest tech support info for folks stuck offline.
[Via Wired]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
There are products out there in the world that you think “we’ve done all we could to make the ultimate product”. For me, umbrellas are one of those things. Starting out as a large, unwieldy thing that could double as a walking stick, umbrellas throughout the years have developed and upgraded to higher tech fabrics, stronger and lighter construction, and more compact to carry along with you.But the folks over at Think Geek have found a way to upgrade the seemingly un-upgradeable umbrella. The Ambient Forecasting Umbrella has been pumped up with tons of technology in its handle.
A built-in wireless receiver gets a daily weather forecast from Accuweather.com, and blue LEDs will flash to let you know if the forecast is rain or snow. The LEDs located at the bottom of the handle will flash in proportion to the chance of precipitation for your area; if there is a 100% chance, it will flash quickly, and if a 10% chance, it will flash slowly.
Not only that, but when opened, the umbrella’s dual-canopy is a generous 58″ across and features a “gust buster” design that will keep you dry and also from having an umbrella pointing up the wrong way after a good burst of wind destroyed your portable shelter. If you’ve ever had that happen to you, you’ll pay extra for that feature too.
This marvel of modern technology uses one “C” sized battery (not included) and measures 41.5″ x 58″ when opened. Buy it at Think Geek for $99.99.
You’ll never have to hold your hand out to see if it’s raining again!
[Via Coolest gadgets]
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