Archive for October 31st, 2007

Keep spam off your cell phone

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

If you’ve ever tried to retrieve personal e-mail using your phone, you know how excruciating it can be. Cell phones and smartphones alike lack spam filters, so it’s not uncommon to end up with 50 pieces of junk for every legitimate message. Fortunately, solutions exist.

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Building The BRAT - entry level bipedal robot

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

ROBOT magazine have a -great- review and photos of this new/low-cost bi-ped robot, the BRAT - “This pictorial shows the assembly of Lynxmotion’s, www.lynxmotion.com, new BRAT, an entry level bipedal robot that is a milestone robot. With a starting price of less than $300, BRAT offers an affordable yet sophisticated entry into the humanoid robotics

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Gallery: NAB07 Hands-On: Red One 4K Digital Cinema Camera

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Here it is, the Red One 4K camcorder, tucked away in its crimson booth at NAB. In addition to showing the camcorder, the company also announced a smaller camcorder it will call “Mini Red” shipping at an unspecified date, a line of 4K projectors, and a not-quite-complete digital cinema camera that’s still in Beta, yet “nearly ready.”

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Verizon to get Palm Treo 700wx

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Sprint scored a rare rib on CDMA rival Verizon when it went straight past the Verizon-exclusive Treo 700w to launch the 700wx, but as the old saying goes, all good exclusivity agreements come to an end.

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Helio’s Pantech PN-810 QWERTY device pops up in FCC

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

And here it is, Helio’s coup de grâce. The QWERTY handset we’d heard Helio was cookin’ up with Korea’s Pantech actually hit the FCC some time ago, but the shots we were able to glean from the test apparatus documentation were teasers at best

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Open source software radio - Flex-Radio SDR-1000

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

“This is an amateur HF 100 watt transceiver that is completely software driven. The software and updates are all free. There are NO controls on the box itself except a power switch. Users are encouraged to write their own software to control the radio as it is open source and in fact many do.”

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Elgato Turbo.264 Graphics Accelerator: First Look

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a first look review of Elgato’s external h.264 encoder, the Turbo.264. You’ll find out things like, “The accelerator only speeds up exports from QuickTime compatible applications.” Read on for more.

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Build a bluetooth controlled Holloween Hovercraft party light

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

DIY hovercraft and made it a Halloween version, the one is controlled via Bluetooth! The video is fun.

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5 er 7 Disturbing Dog Technologies

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

From the dog-powered scooter, to the Doggy Bag pet handbag, dogs are getting a pretty raw deal when it comes to technology and gadgets. Here’s a round-up of 5 we found to be especially disturbing.

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Awesome NEC ‘tag’ concept phone: the future is bendy

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Made of rubbery “shape-memorizing” material, the tag will bend and twist at your command. Forget extra armbands — the thing is an armband.

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Helios’ Heat Hands on with Pictures

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

This is by far our favorite Helio phone to date. Enjoy the eye candy in our hands-on gallery.

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Verizon XV6800 in the flesh

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Hold on, Apache owners, your knight in shining armor is just around the corner! At least we think it is, now that we’ve seen some shots of a Verizon-branded XV6800 doing its thing in the wild. It may not look much different than the XV6700 it replaces.

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Wii-like Motion Sensitive TV Remote Controller

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Innovative device to control your TV, just like the Wii.

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Mouse Design Borrows From Firearms

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

At first glance, this looks like a cross between a hearing aid and a Derringer pistol, but it’s actually something that belongs on the desktop. The Sigma SGM2 mouse owes its funky design to the intended use as a presentation device, to control the computer screen pistol-style with thumb and trigger finger.

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Solar-Powered Robot Used For Snow-Surfing!

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Researchers at Dartmouth use a solar-powered robot to go snow surfing.

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Ontario to give disabled, letter carriers, police Segways

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

People with disabilities, letter carriers and police services will be supplied with Segways under a provincial government test project.

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Exclusive: Frost White Helio Drift Cellphone Stalks Friends with GPS

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

There are only 10 Frost White Helio Drift in existence, and Gizmodo got 3 of the GPS-enabled sliders straight from the factory today. As it turns out, the frost version of this tricked-out phone is only going to be produced in small numbers—only about 3 percent of all Drifts will be made in this lustrous shade. Here’s a gallery.

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Digital Sun

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Olle Essvik’s Sunclock is a lamp that tracks the sun’s movement in the sky and follows it. When the sun rises in the morning the light bulb starts to omit light, intensifying every second, shining brightest in middle of the day.

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A Guide for Gadget Designers: How to Please the Internet

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

A guide to making gadgets that’ll sweep the gadget blogs like wildfire.

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Grocery Powered Vehicles: hovercraft

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Grocery Powered Vehicles are contraptions that you can make with materials that you can find at your local grocery store. In this podcast, I teach you how to make a simple hovercraft, bearingless motor, and dirigible.

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Motorized Rollerblades

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Sweet looking Rollerblade setup with 1.5 Horse Power.

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Solar-powered Backpack Charges Your Gadgets on the Go

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Tumi’s solar-powered backpack has a built in solar panel that lets you recharge your gadgets when your far away from an electrical outlet. The price is a little steep, but the full proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.

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Radiator waterwear

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Radiator launched the new hydro-thermal water wear products using this 4 ad prints for the campaign.

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Roomba leads the way for household robots

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Rosie the Robot, the friendly house-cleaning bot in the Jetsons TV cartoon, is still a wistful dream for those who hate housecleaning. But American consumers may be getting their first glimpse of what a here-and-now household robot can do when they see the Roomba robot vacuum on sale in many stores.

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Blackberry 8800 Specs

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Ultra slim form factor with full keypad and large 320 x 240 screen. 1.3 megapixel camera with 5x zoom. 64MB of memory, EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi.

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