Archive for November 8th, 2007

Garanti Bank issues PayPass-enabled wristwatch in Turkey

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Apparently, even swipeless credit cards are too much of an inconvenience to carry around in Turkey, or else Garanti Bank and MasterCard are just doing a fine job of whispering PayPass into those ears that are now tuned in. Gimmick or not, the two firms have partnered up to dole out a few limited edition timepieces that not only sport embedded PayPa

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Lay 15 miles of networking cable with rockets!

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

SIGNAL Corps linemen are adding rockets to their tool kits. The fiery missiles pull telephone wire from a new type of dispenser across streams, ravines, and other obstacles. One man, equipped with the dispenser, a few rockets, and a field telephone, can now set up communications in rough terrain faster than a large crew using conventional methods.

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Sony Ericsson K850 Mobile

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The Sony Ericsson K850 Cyber-shot is the next generation of powerful cameraphones by Sony Ericsson which have long kept the first place when it comes to camera-in-phone performance. Today they are making the next step and move on to using a 5 megapixel camera.Sony Ericsson K850 comes with a number of updates over previously released handsets:

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The Human Piano: Not Entirely a Piano, But Played Through a Human Mixer

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

“The idea is that sound through wire is low level electricity. That electricity can easily pass through human bodies. It works by taking a sounce [in this case several iPods] and having the outputs go into a large copper pipe. Whatever sound is being played out of the ipod is now in the pipes. “

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Samsung SGH-T429 (T-Mobile)

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

T-Mobile launches new Samsung mobile phone called Samsung SGH T429. It is a GSM slide phone comes with Bluetooth and T-Mobile’s address book backup features. It also comes with a VGA camera and speakerphone.

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Some Useful Shortcuts for Your Nokia N73

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

A very comprehensive list of shortcuts for Nokia N series phone.

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Super Simple Homemade Radio

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Take some wire, a razor, a safety pin and an ear piece; stir in some MacGyver and you’ve got yourself an AM crystal radio - only without the crystal! The razor and safety pin act as a diode. It really doesn’t take too long once you get the hang of it. Designed by soldiers in WWII, the “Foxhole Radio” is a great weekend or rainy day projec

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Cellphone symphony: MixGet

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

This was the most entertaining idea at DemoFall so far, and probably the most ridiculous: MixGet (site not live yet). It’s technology that turns individual cellphones into synchronized music players. So if you have a crowd of people together, one person’s phone might play a guitar track, another vocals, another drums.

The presenter tried to j

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bone saw

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

ooo.this takes garrote wire to a whole new level…and I bet you can buy it at walmart!

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Hi res images of the suspicious LED devices found in Boston

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Two images from the AP wire of the Aqua Team Hunger Force LED signs. Here is link to second image… http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/74453/Suspicious-Devices2-jpg.html

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Announcement of Samsung SGH-i550 smartphone with GPS

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

According to AllAboutSymbian, mobile phone Samsung SGH-i550 was officially announced by South Korean company Samsung. First time it was demonstrated at the IFA 2007…

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tinywords: haiku daily

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

One brief poem in your email inbox or on your SMS messaging phone everyday. What could be more wonderful than that?

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Free Wire Twisting Jig

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

A jig for twisting wires tightly and neatly made from a paperclip and a coffee stirrer.

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Sanyo Katana II: Not Quite Cutting-Edge

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The Katana II- Sanyo’s minor upgrade to the Katana model that it released last year-doesn’t offer much to get terribly excited about. Even so, this slim and trim phone will enjoy strong appeal among voice-centric Sprint customers.

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It’s like a Roomba for your lawn

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

It works similarly to the Roomba robot vacuum in that it self-charges at a docking station, navigates on its own and can be set to run on schedule. You shallowly bury a boundary wire around the general perimeter of your lawn and any gardens to let the machine know its limits. It can handle inclines, rain and obstacles.

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SnūzNLūz: Wake up! Else your bank accounts will be emptied by charities

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Well, this is definitely the most effective alarm clock that I’ve ever seen. I don’t think anyone can still hold their heads high and sleep well, when it starts making noise to wake you up. It’s an auto-donation alarm clock, if you’re simply too lazy to get out of bed to stop it. All the money in your bank accounts will go bit by bit as donations..

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PST How to

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

I ve had lots of problems with trying to get my phone connected to my computer for Flashing purposes

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Bomb Piggy Bank explodes you don’t feed it!

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Nothing much that I wanna say about this piggy bank, as what the title says. So, my advice is, don’t simply leave it behind all your big stacks of books for collecting dust.

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The World’s First HDTV Refrigerator

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The side by side model refrigerator features a 15” HD LCD television using LG’s fifth generation ATSC-QAM-NTSC digital television tuner, and features a Weather & Info Center for weather forecasts, uploadable photo album and recipe bank. $4000.00

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Piggy Bank from Japan Explodes if you don’t up money it regularly

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Is your piggy bank collecting dust behind your comic book collection? That will no longer be a problem for you with this bad boy–it explodes if you don’t put money in it regularly.

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How do I listen to my iPod through my car stereo?

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Have an iPod and want to listen to it in your car? Here are a couple ways to hook up your iPod to your car stereo - without breaking the bank!

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Cameraphones used to mark marks

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Crooks used to use chalk to mark the clothing of a person who would make a good target for robbery. Hence the term “mark” to refer to the person a gang might be preparing to rob. This article at the South African Herald describes how a new breed of crooks are using cameraphones to send photos of bank customers to their cronies.

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