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Burglar Blaster: Motion-triggered pepper spray, for when sirens aren’t enough [Video]

, Mar 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

Generally, we advise against filling your home or office with pepper spray, but if you're particularly paranoid about burglars breaking in and vigorously ransacking your belongings then perhaps this is the gadget for you. The Burglar Blaster is a movement-triggered automatic pepper spray, which - if you don't shut it off within 40 seconds - will fill a 2,000 square feet space with eye and throat mauling gas. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Nintendo 3DS suspicious of beards and glasses

, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

Nintendo's 3DS isn't just a 3D portable games console, it's also apparently a style judge. According to the handheld's user guide, players with beards, bangs or even glasses could end up confusing the 3DS' facial recognition system. Read The Full Story

Samsung Turbo View robo-vacuum packs live video streaming

, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Samsung has bred a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner with a WowWee Rovio and come up with the Tango View VC-FL87W, an autonomous cleaner which can beam live video back from its onboard webcam. If you're the paranoid type and you're not going to give up your mistrust of the home help even if you've replaced them with robots, then you can log in remotely via your smartphone or tablet and see what the Samsung Tango View is up to. Read The Full Story

Microsoft demands Apple “App Store” trademark brief rejection over tiny text

, Mar 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

The ongoing App Store trademark saga took a bizarre turn this week, with Microsoft demanding Apple's recent motion to dismiss the case be rejected because the company's lawyers used a tiny font. "Apple's response brief is 31 pages, including the table of contents and table of authorities, and on information and belief, is printed in less than 11 point font" the complaint suggests. Read The Full Story

EX Trike hits 30km/h with super screwdriver power

, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

If you ever wondered whether screwdrivers could be legitimately scary, try hunching over Nils Ferber's EX Trike and doing 30km/h just inches from the road. A DIY three-wheeler powered by a couple of 18V Bosch electric screwdrivers, the eye-catching trike is designed to look like an exposed skeleton. Read The Full Story

Necono cat camera shoots “whimsical” time-lapse [Video]

, Mar 7th 2011 Discuss [1]

The world needs more gadgets shaped like cats. Not since the ill-fated CueCat has the interest of the internet been so feline-forged as today, with the Necono digital camera. A 3-megapixel camera dressed up as a stripy cat, the odd Japanese toy has magnetic paws to grip on in unusual places. Read The Full Story

Panasonic LUMIX FX77 packs touchscreen makeup studio [Video]

, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

It's tough being a point and shoot digital camera these days; cellphones are eating into your segment, and it takes more than just megapixels to stand out from the crowded shelves. Panasonic has gone a little odd with the new LUMIX FX77, however, turning the touchscreen 12.1-megapixel camera into a portable virtual makeup studio. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Silk-based flexible ereaders and displays promised

, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [1]

Taiwanese researchers have figured out a way to use silk as a component in bendable electronics, potentially finding a role in future ereaders, LED displays and RFD tags. Hwang Jenn-Chang of National Tsing Hua University, along with two post-grads, are already in talks with manufacturers about commercialising the system, which turns liquid silk into membranes that function as insulators for flexible thin-film transistors. Read The Full Story

Elfoid P1 humanoid cellphone is bizarre telepresence attempt

, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [2]

Back when we were initially befreaked by the Telenoid R1 robot midway through 2010, the last thing we wanted was a pocket-sized version of the creepy, fleshy telepresence 'bot that could lurk in our pocket. Unfortunately that's just what Osaka University researchers - along with NTT DoCoMo and Qualcomm - have done, designing the 8-inch long Elfoid P1 cellphone. Read The Full Story

Opera Mac App Store 17+ rating too low jibes browser VP

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

Opera has become the first non-native web browser to arrive in the Mac App Store, and as per Apple's normal policies has been slapped with a 17+ age rating. That's not upsetting VP of desktop products Jan Standal, however, who sees the classification - deemed necessary by Apple since all the filthy internet is viewable through a browser - as the perfect opportunity for a joke. "I'm very concerned," Standal says, "seventeen is very young, and I am not sure if, at that age, people are ready to use such an application." Read The Full Story

iPad 2 Smart Covers: Incase Magazine Jacket inspired, or Japanese tub?

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [9]

Apple's Smart Covers may or may not be the best way to protect your iPad 2 - after all, they leave the whole back panel unguarded, and three of the four edges too - but we're too busy wondering where Apple got its inspiration from to care. Technologer flagged up the striking similarities between the Smart Covers and Incase's iPad Convertible Magazine Jacket, but it's the resemblance between Apple's design and Japanese bath tub lids that has us really suspicious. Read The Full Story

Windows video timeline: 1.0 to Windows 7 in 10 easy minutes

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [5]

The Windows install and upgrade process isn't normally something users get nostalgic over - in fact, more often it's an anxiety-provoking experience that most would rather avoid - but for one man it's an opportunity to track Microsoft's OS progress over the past 25 years. Andrew Tait started out with a copy of MS-DOS 5.0, installed Windows 1.0, and thus began a 10 minute video showing (almost) every upgrade to the platform up to Windows 7. Read The Full Story
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