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.
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Panasonic LUMIX FX77 packs touchscreen makeup studio [Video]
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
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Silk-based flexible ereaders and displays promised
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.
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Elfoid P1 humanoid cellphone is bizarre telepresence attempt
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.
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Opera Mac App Store 17+ rating too low jibes browser VP
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."
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iPad 2 Smart Covers: Incase Magazine Jacket inspired, or Japanese tub?
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.
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Windows video timeline: 1.0 to Windows 7 in 10 easy minutes
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.
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MB&F HM3 ReBel timepiece channels bikers, James Dean, the filthy rich
We're used to bizarre timepieces from MB&F, and while the company's new HM3 ReBel - R for right (hand), B for Black (case) - timepiece may not rock the fey owl look, it's still pretty darn unusual. The "rebels" in this case are those who want to wear their watch on the right wrist, rather than the left; they also have to be well-heeled, since only 18 of the HM3 ReBel pieces will be made.
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Steve Jobs knighthood blocked by ex UK Prime Minister
Steve Jobs was reportedly blocked from receiving an honorary British knighthood in 2009, after then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown was supposedly snubbed by the Apple CEO. According to an unnamed senior MP from the UK's Labour party - who left the UK Parliament at the country's last general election - Brown had invited Jobs to speak at the annual Labour party conference but been turned down. In response, Brown denied requests by the MP to honor the Apple CEO for services to technology.
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DIY Transformers 2 Megatron tank is utterly crazy
All of a sudden, Batman Tumbler replicas don't seem quite so intimidating. Chinese artist "Steel Legend" has put together an incredible, huge replica of the Megatron tank from the Transformers 2 movie, as seen on ZCool: almost five tons of hand-crafted madness.
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DIY cyborg costume gives you Borg eye [Video]
As DIY costumes go, Ryan Sturmer's cyborg masquerade mask is all kinds of awesome. Constructed from the salvaged - and still functional - parts from a digital camera, the mask uses the zoom lens as an eyepiece (complete with a Terminator-style red LED) and reacts to breathing to run through some suitably Borg-like movements.
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Embedded head camera project in trouble as artist’s body rejects implant
NYU assistant professor and would-be artist Wafaa Bilal has encountered a new problem with the embedded camera attached to the back of his head: not only are there arguments about whether it counts as art, his body is rejecting the implanted mount. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, one of the three titanium posts has had to be removed, after failing to respond to medication.
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