Polaroid's involvement with Lady Gaga still seems a little offbeat, but the unusually-costumed "Creative Director" has just unveiled a range of instant photography devices at CES 2011. Polaroid Grey Label consists of two sensible products - the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer and the GL30 Instant Digital Camera - and then a crazy one, the Lady Gaga GL20 Camera Glasses.
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Withings seems obsessed with shaming us into sharing our weight with whoever might be interested; their WiFi scales tweeted out our chubby readings last year, and now you can bypass the latest sports game and put your weight on the big screen instead. If you've a Panasonic VIERA Connect HDTV, you can now access the Withings health dashboard as a widget.
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Speakal BTS8 puts Windows 7 in a desk phone
We can't say we've ever looked at our desk phone and thought "this would be so much better with Windows 7 installed" but perhaps that's why we hardly use a landline any more. Speakal reckon there's still life in the desk phone yet, and its BTS8 "phone/personal computer hybrid" packs a 5-inch LCD display, Windows 7, a Skype-capable webcam and more.
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Sanyo GOPAN rice-bread machine is crazy sales success in Japan [Video]
We generally associate Sanyo with HD camcorders, but Japan is actually going wild for the company's kitchen appliances instead. The Sanyo GOPAN looks like a regular bread maker, but it actually bakes rice bread from grains of rice rather than pre-milled rice flour. That might not sound like much, but it's enough to make the $612 GOPAN a massive best-seller in Japan and force the company to freeze sales until April so that production can catch up with demand.
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Amazon patents auto gift exchanges for online shopping
Amazon has patented a system for automatically converting gifts prior to them being delivered, bypassing the hassle of a returns process but still allowing giftors to believe the original item has been received. The patent, "System and method for converting gifts", was filed back in 2006 and partially credited to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos; it describes a system where pre-defined rules - such as "no wool" or all items from a certain individual - are used to filter through presents bought for an individual, alerting them via email and then allowing them to replace it with an alternative of their choice.
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Jelloware edible cups go from concept to Kickstarter
Back in July we wrote about design firm The Way We See The World's Jell-O cups, which could not only hold drinks but be eaten afterwards or dropped onto the grass whereupon they'd degrade into nutrient-rich mush. After plentiful public demand, the concept has spawned Jelloware, a Kickstarter project to bring the biodegradable, edible beakers to market.
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BAE borrow Batman Tumbler style for concept battle bots
BAE Systems has admitted to have borrowing stylistic cues from the Tumbler Batmobile used in the rebooted Batman franchise for some of their latest ground warfare concepts. The team responsible for the Future Protected Vehicles project told The Engineer that one particular unmanned assault vehicle, Raider, was inspired by the Tumbler's motorbike-style turning system and wheel configuration.
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DIY Doctor Who nesting dolls set perhaps best Christmas gift so far
DIY holiday gifts generally have more thought behind them than store-bought, and we're particularly loving Molly Lewis' homemade present from this festive season. She made a frankly awesome set of Doctor Who nesting dolls, taking in eleven generations of Doctor and a TARDIS to accommodate them.
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Strand Design 166 superyacht has sportscar garage, optional bullet-proof Samurai leather
You might remember Gray Design's Strand Craft 122, a sleek, curvaceous yacht which integrated a garage for a sports car to take you from the marina to your choice of restaurant. For some, though, a mere 122 feet is far too unimpressive; what they'll be wanting is the Strand Craft 166, a new superyacht that has the same handy garage but a whole lot more space on-board.
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Nokia N8 vibe motor shows its strength in bizarre refrigerator stunt [Video]
It's not entirely clear why you'd want to prove that the Nokia N8's vibration motor is capable - with some suitable gearing - of lifting a 60kg+ refrigerator, but that's just what some Chinese engineers have decided to prove. As you can see in the video after the cut, having dismantled the Symbian smartphone (something we already know is pretty straightforward) they then turned to the awesome power of whiteboard calculations to get the fridge off the ground.
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DIY Exploding High-Five Glove makes hand-slapping geeky [Video]
As we all know, high-fiving went out of fashion because it wasn't loud enough; kids experimented with gunpowder and methane gas, but it all proved far too unstable. Happily Eli Skipp has stepped in with her DIY "exploding high-five glove": it doesn't actually explode, just use an Arduino, a force-sensor and a loudspeaker to make explosion noises whenever you high-five someone.
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Microsoft firm on Kinect sex game ban
Microsoft has put the dampeners on the possibility of Kinect sex games, insisting that "adults only" titles that used the motion-tracking peripheral for erotic purposes would neither be certified nor condoned on the Xbox 360 platform. The somewhat puritanical stance follows Austrian developer ThriXXX's demonstration of a 3D adult game making use of the Kinect, which allowed a gamer's hand to be tracked and mapped onto the body of a scantily-clad on-screen avatar.
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