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Western Digital My Passport Essential Colors – now in more colors than black

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Apr 9th 2008 No Comments

In fact, you get 10 colors to choose from. They are the same USB bus powered pocket sized external hard drives you’ve become accustomed to, the only difference is that now you can get them in a color to match you.

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Robotic Arm – remote control your way to robot overlords

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Apr 8th 2008 3 Comments

This little robotic arm comes as a kit that requires some assembly, but once its done you get this badass robotic arm. It can pick up a maximum of 100 grams, it grasp items up to 1.7-inches in diameter, and even has an LED light for night time use.

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Lady Attaché flash drive from PNY – even Paris would say “That’s Hot!”

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Apr 7th 2008 No Comments

This new flash drive from PNY doesn’t have any special technical features, it packs in your choice of two or four gigabytes of storage and is built in such a way that when closed the USB port is protected. What it does have is a bit of fashionable appeal attached to it due to its design, shape, and color allowing it to be an attractive storage option to all the ladies out there who prefer attractive gadgets.

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Griffin ClearBoost iPhone Case – iPhoneBuzz putting it through its paces

By James Allan Brady on Saturday, Apr 5th 2008 No Comments

Sure we aren’t the first to get one of these things, but we are going to take our time, at least the whole weekend in fact, to get familiarized. We’ll put this supposed signal boosting iPhone case through its paces and see what comes out the other end.

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Collusion ban ends – now we find out what’s going to happen with that 700MHz spectrum

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Apr 4th 2008 No Comments

700 spectrum logos Verizon got most of C-Block and have admitted they intent to use it for their 4th generation LTE network, which will replace their 3G EV-DO Rev. A network. ATT has said that it will also be using most of the spectrum it acquired for an LTE network, but whereas Verizon is touting a full launch date of 2010, ATT is calling out 2012, however ATT also intends on upgrading their HSDPA network to 7.2Mbps to hold their customers over.

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Daisy Art Sculpture – hint: its not a flower

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 3rd 2008 No Comments

No, instead it’s a giant manufacturing grade one-armed robot with a plastic version of a Titanic-sized propeller on the front of it that spins like a fan. As if that wasn’t creepy enough, it moves, and using the cameras on its base it can follow you round, like as if its aiming at you.

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Olive Media OPUS No4 Home Music Server – an interior decorator’s dream

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 3rd 2008 No Comments

I can only imagine how many times someone has been designing the interior of a high end house, ran across the list of requirements, saw music server, and immediately started thinking of ways/places to hide it away in. Well, with this unit you won’t have to or want to hide it away as it’s actually quite attractive and is more functional when out in the open where you can use the touchscreen which appears to feature some sort of CoverFlow-like browsing system.

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PWNAGE released by iPhone Dev Team – Hajime!

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 3rd 2008 3 Comments

In case you’ve forgotten, you can use this tool to unlock, activate, jailbreak, and BootNeuter your iPhone using firmware versions 1.1.4 or 2.0(1.2). It is also supposed to make porting other operating systems to the iPhone a breeze along with running unsigned code a lot easier. I have no idea what cartoon Steve is saying, but I am pretty sure its Russian, and even more sure it says PWNED!

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SlashDeal: 8GB 3rd Gen iPod Nano $140 shipped

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 3rd 2008 No Comments

Woot has a deal going on where you get your choice of the light blue or black 3rd Gen, which is the latest generation, iPod Nano for $134.99 and shipping from Woot is always $5. Sure they are refurbished, but they come with a 60 day warranty.

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Mitsubishi WL6700U HD Projector – so bright it could throw a picture up on the sun

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Apr 2nd 2008 No Comments

So it may not quite be that bright, but this WXGA resolution projector is putting out 5000 lumens, which means you won’t have to dim any lights or close any curtains in order to use it and see clearly. It has 1000:1 contrast ratio and uses 3 1.2-inch LCD panels inside.

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