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Exclusive Video: Psystar in the Wild [Exclusive]
2008-04-28 06:30:00
newVideo Player("psystarPC_gawker.flv", 463, 387,""); It's alive. Reader Patrick (Whiskeyfrown) is lucky enough to be using one of the few Psystar Open Computing machines that have made it into the wild, and he was generous enough to make a video showing the machine (including the connections in the back to the monitor to show that it's legit). The thing boots up and runs pretty damn fast, says Patrick, but Software Update won't recognize it so you won't be able to patch. System Profiler thinks that it's a Mac Pro. More images coming soon. [Thanks Patrick!]
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Lenovo?s IdeaPad U110 showcased on video, available in US on April 29
2008-04-28 06:29:00
Filed under: Laptops We already knew Lenovo 's 11-inch darling was shipping to eager US-based consumers "soon," but now we've got a definitive date for you to circle on that jam-packed calendar: April 29th. The IdeaPad U110 will indeed be available for order on Tuesday, and it'll be starting a full Benjamin less than we previously heard (down to $1,899, to be exact) directly from Lenovo. We're still waiting on the full list of specifications as well as the slate of retailers that will likely be selling it, but if you're anxious for more right this very moment, you can check out a promotional video of the unit in black and red right after the break.Continue reading Lenovo's IdeaPad U110 showcased on video, available in US on April 29Read | Permalink &# 124; Email this | Comments
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Steve Ballmer?s Presentation Laptop, (We Hope This Pic is Fake) [Picture]
2008-04-28 06:10:00
"You do it to yourself, you do And that's what really hurts." — Radiohead. [Flickr]
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Creative Zen Getting Bubblegum Pink Makeover [Update]
2008-04-28 05:30:00
Looks like the Zune isn't the only PMP to be getting a color makeover, Creative 's Zen is in on it too. The new model was spotted at Wal Mart, where it is retailing at $69.99 for a 2GB unit, with no other capacities listed. As far as we can tell, the pink Zen is ready for immediate shipping, despite the fact it is not available at Creative's own online store. The new addition has me thinking it is time for a pink gadget in my arsenal; admit it, you want one as well. [Wal Mart via Geek&Hype; Thanks, pickupjojo!]
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Piezing Dress Concept Generates Electricity as She Walks [Piezing]
2008-04-28 04:30:00
Oasis were right, she is electric, or at least she would be with the Piezing dress concept, designed by Amanda Parkes. The concept was shown off at the 2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing event in San Francisco, and it uses piezoelectric material around the joints to generate electricity when motion is detected. Unfortunately, the current isn't used instantaneously as some sort of nipple stimulator, instead it is stored in a small, removable battery, which can then be discharged when required. Clothing concepts that double up with unusual functions have been around for a while, but this one seems to be one of the more useful and practical solutions, even if it isn't the epitome of fashion. (Disclaimer: I am not a fashion pundit.) [textually]
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Rumors swirl of Sanyo selloff to Matsushita / Panasonic
2008-04-28 04:20:00
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Details are fuzzy right now -- and what details there are have been officially denied -- but the Japanese press is having a bit of a field day over the possibility of a Sanyo selloff to Matsushita / Panasonic . Apparently Goldman Sachs, Sumitomo, and Daiwa own some 67% of Sanyo's equity, and as Japanese paper Yomiuri reports, are looking at the possibility of transferring said equity to or otherwise forming a partnership with Matsushita. Again, both Matsu and Sanyo are denying the report as of now, so it's all still up in the air as the salarymen figure out whether to combine both companies to make a corporate entity larger than even Hitachi (which currently sits at the top of Japan's heap).[Via Engadget Japanese, thanks Theirry]Read | Permalink&# 160;| Email this | Comments
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Sirius Starmate 5 stops by FCC, XM gets a mention
2008-04-27 06:01:00
Filed under: Portable Audio We'll cut straight to the chase: on the surface, there's nothing all that enthralling about the Sirius Starmate 5. In most every respect, it looks, smells and likely acts much like its predecessor. Granted, the color schemes have been updated a bit and you'll still find that delicious Sirius Replay support included, but the humdrum 5-line display, obligatory FM transmitter and bundled remote don't do much to get our saliva glands workin' overtime. As Orbitcast points out, however, there is one thing about the FCC filing that piques our interest more than anything else, and it's a simple phrase from a posted correspondence letter: "We used the satellite radio signal coming from either XM or Sirius." Whether or not this actually means anything is yet to be seen, but it makes for some decent fodder at the very least, yeah?[Via Orbitcast]Read | Permalink  | Email this | Comments
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Apple i Keynote Parody is Spot On [Humor]
2008-04-27 05:45:00
College Humor is running a parody of Steve in Keynote mode, we know it isn't the first or won't be the last, but it has some of the Steve's actions, crowd reactions and the overall atmosphere pretty much down to perfection. On top of all that, it does a good job at making us laugh—just look at the damn product description! The sketch even includes a commercial demonstration, and the whole clip is quality through and through. Hit the link for the video and then let us know if you'd be first in line to purchase the i. We definitely would—hey, it's chromy, glassy and shiny. [College Humor]
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RevResponse Pays You On Free Magazine Subscriptions
2008-04-27 05:25:00
RevResponse offers payment for free subscription offers delivered by widget, allowing website owners to custom selected free content that is relevant to their readers. RevResponse pitches itself as being an alternative or addition to CPM and CPC advertising that the user maintains control of. Affiliates get to pick from 900 offers including business and trade magazines, ...
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Azoo Eco-Desk Puts a Self-Cleaning Aquarium in Your Desk [Design]
2008-04-27 04:30:00
I'm pretty sure Missy Elliot had something similar to Azoo's Eco-Desk , which has a self-cleaning tropical fish aquarium contained within a glass and aluminum body. Alas, hers was made by Lamborghini, so this is the poor man's / international female hip-hop star's iteration, but it's still a bit of cool for your apartment. The glass top rests on a hinged support, which can be pulled open to allow Nemo to escape back home, or better yet, add some company to the captives inside. The aquarium contains Azoo's solution for biological, water and temperature control, meaning you don't have to worry about anything other than why your Coi Carp look so damn uncomfortable. If you have to ask about pricing, well, you know the deal. We'll pass on this one, we just don't think it is very secure—those two mermaids escaped without even smashing the glass. Ridiculous. Hit the link for some more fishy-fun images. [BornRich]
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Europe Kicks Off Saturday Night With A Rocket Launch [Rockets]
2008-04-27 03:30:00
Europeans sure know how to celebrate a Saturday night! While I spent the good part of Happy Hour knocking back shots, our cousins from across the ocean shot a satellite up into space. The Giove-B satellite, a demonstrator that will test key technologies needed in satellite navigation systems, ascended to the heavens at 22:16 GMT. The Giove-B is a half-ton, 2.4x1x1 meter box which contains a passive hydrogen maser clock, the most stable clock ever to be shot into permanent orbit. The clock is designed to keep time with an accuracy of better than one nanosecond in 24 hours. If everything goes well and the clock stays ticking, the Giove-B's launch will be a template for about 30 operational platforms necessary to build Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - one of the continent's key high-tech ventures. Galileo, meant to be complimentary to GPS, will improve the availability and accuracy of timing signals delivered from space. Users will be able to pinpoint positions with...
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Falcon Northwest?s portable FragBox 8500 gaming rig gets reviewed
2008-04-27 03:14:00
Filed under: Desktops Oh yeah, you've options oozing everywhere for a bona fide gaming desktop that takes up some serious square footage in your domicile, but what about those looking for a potent portable? And we're not talking laptops, either. Falcon Northwest 's FragBox 8500 -- which sports a chassis that hasn't changed much in years -- was recently reviewed by the folks over at PC Magazine, and put simply, it was deemed a "game system without apologies." Checking in at $1,895, critics found the internals to be "neatly put together," the unit as a whole satisfactorily mobile and yes, they confirmed that "you will definitely be able to play the DX10-heavy versions of Crysis and World in Conflict at very decent frame rates." Did you hear that? They said Crysis. Head on down to the read link for the full review of the Editors' Choice-awarded machine.Read | Permalink&# 160;| Email this | Comments
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Joystiq?s official Mario Kart Wii friend codes über-list
2008-04-27 02:01:00
Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Driving Are you feeling lost, lonely, scared of racing with computers or unknown online drivers? Fear not, Joystiq reader, you have a whole community of gamers who will scare you for entirely different reasons. Please consider this the official post for the Joystiq community to drop their Mario Kart Wii digits. A couple quick ground rules: All that's required is the Kart code and not your Wii digits. Please don't post your Wii code. This post is only for Kart codes. This post is only for Kart codes, seriously! --Love, Joystiq Need a Kart fix? Check out all our coverage of Mario Kart Wii!Read | Permalink  | Email this | Comments
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Bioplastics: Environmentally Unfriendly, Contributing To The Food Crisis [B
2008-04-27 02:00:00
About those bioplastic bags - you know, the ones you've been using to assuage your eco-conscious guilt - turns out not only are they not as green as you think, they could also be partially responsible for the global food crisis. A worldwide effort by bag-heavy industries to replace petroleum-based plastics with plant-based plastics could actually lead to more environmental problems, according to a study by the Guardian UK. The bags, made from sugarcane, corn or wheat, can increase greenhouse gas emissions because they require higher temperatures to decompose. Even the biodegradable versions don't disintegrate as planned when thrown into the anaerobic environment of a landfill. The lack of oxygen causes the bags to release methane, which is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. They also tend to screw up recycling operations by contaminating the waste stream and making regular recycled plastics unsaleable. Recycling companies would need to invest in extremely expensive equipm...
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GTA IV achievements revealed ? can you kill a Rockstar dev?
2008-04-27 01:15:00
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure The folks at Xbox 360 Achievements (warning: minor spoilers in link) have posted the official achievement list for Grand Theft Auto IV. There are 50 gamerscore-increasing tasks you must accomplish for a total of 1000 points. The list is what you'd expect: complete all missions, do well on the minigames, and various other tasks that to reach 100% game progress (which itself is an achievement). There are about ten achievements related to multiplayer, with one particularly interesting task to "Kill a Rockstar developer in a ranked multiplayer match" worth 10 points. Achievement completionists, you may need to boost your stalker skills for this one.Read | Permalink  | Email this | Comments

Border Patrol?s virtual fence canceled for not being as good as a fence
2008-04-24 07:58:00
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsThe last we heard of DHS's "Project 28" plan to build a 28-mile stretch of virtual fencing along the US / Mexico border in Arizona, it had been postponed until at least 2011 because the towers didn't quite work. Well, it appears that on further review, the system is even more of a total failure, and it's being scrapped entirely: according to Kelly Good , deputy director of the administration's Secure Border Initiative program, Project 28 "hasn't come close" to meeting Border Patrol 's goals. Tests of the virtual fence didn't lead to nearly as many arrests as designers had hoped, and the lag from sensor detection to transmission of an image to border agents was apparently a big part of the problem. Boeing, which won the $860M contract to build the system, is now being told to replace it all with upgraded towers, but there's no word on when that's happening or what it'll cost taxpayers on top of the $20M already paid out. We're expecting trillion-dol...
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FCC Chairman: Comcast Blocked Traffic At All Times
2008-04-24 06:39:00
Says Comcast 's equipment didn't distinguish between a network that needed management and one that didn't
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MSI Wind gets Turkish video hands-on
2008-04-24 06:22:00
Filed under: Laptops Curious enough about the MSI Wind to sit through a video of a couple of nerds talking about it endlessly in Turkish ? Check it out after the break -- and we don't want to hear a word about how you want those three and a half minutes of your life back.[Via Mike Cane 2008]Continue reading MSI Wind gets Turkish video hands-onRead | Permalink&# 160;| Email this | Comments
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SlideShare Slammed with DDOS Attacks from China
2008-04-24 05:52:00
SlideShare, a Mountain View-based startup that lets you upload and embed PowerPoint presentations on the web, appears to have stirred the red dragon last week. About ten days ago the company began receiving anonymous requests to delete slideshows that were deemed “illegal” by the requesters. The SlideShare staff checked out these slideshows and discovered them to ...
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Google Says ?No Photos? Of Web 2.0 Booth. Photos Are Taken Anyway.
2008-04-24 05:50:00
Look closely at the photo of Google ’s booth at the Web 2.0 conference, because there is apparently something there that Google didn’t want photographed. Do you see it? Yeah, me either. Looks like a normal, non-confidential type booth to me. Apparently they were demoing Adwords. But both Scott Beale and Jeremy Johnstone were told that photos ...
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iPhone SDK Beta 4 Now Available, Comes with OpenGL ES 3D Graphics Support [
2008-04-24 05:37:00
The latest iPhone SDK is now available, and unlike last time, it actually comes with an awesome new feature: OpenGL ES support! Now the iPhone simulator can render OpenGL ES that "mirror behavior on the iPhone and iPod Touch." The ES in OpenGL ES stands for embedded systems, and is the official graphics API in both Symbian and Android as well. As a side note, Open GL ES 2.0 is also supported by the PS3 as "an official graphics API" according to Wikipedia, in case you're playing the world's nerdiest game of Trivial Pursuit. [iPhone]
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Datamancer?s Steampunk LCD Monitor is Another Stunner [Beauty]
2008-04-24 05:32:00
Our friend Datamancer, steampunk modder extraordinaire, is at it again. His newest creation is this Steampunk LCD monitor, and it's a doozy. galleryPost('steampunkmonitor', 6, 'Steampunk LCD Monitor '); This is a 22" widescreen LCD that I built to compliment my brass keyboards. The frame is solid 1/4-inch brass that has been sanded and polished to a high shine. The base features a mixture of brass and black marble with a small brass "cord catch" to keep the power and data cords tidy. The monitor was made for an upcoming movie, and after filming is complete he's gonna toss it up on eBay. Even better? He plans to design and create a mouse to complete the set. I can see people lining up to get a matching monitor/keyboard/mouse combo of this quality. We'll, of course, keep you updated. [Datamancer]
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Toshiba dreams of 512GB SSDs, invites you to join in
2008-04-24 04:42:00
Filed under: StorageMove over Samsung -- that 256GB SSD you've been touting is now half as cool as it used to be. According to reports stemming from a Japanese seminar which saw Toshiba 's Shozo Saito take the stage, the firm is hoping to flesh out its line of solid state discs within the next few years. More specifically, it's looking to offer drives with as much as 512GB of room, and Mr. Saito himself expects a full quarter of laptops sold in 2011 to come equipped with an SSD. Figure out a way to get those stratospheric prices down, and we doubt it'll take that long.[Via CNET]Read | Permalink  ;| Email this | Comments
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Salesforce Stock Price Up 10% To All Time High: Google Acquisition Rumors P
2008-04-24 04:16:00
Salesforce’s stock price jumped over 10% today to an all time high (the Nasdaq rose a little over 1%). The company’s market cap rose $743 million, to $8.06 billion. Why the big jump? There is no public information or news emerging to support the increase. Our sources in private equity say it was fueled by ...
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Philips Says No to TV?s in America
2008-04-15 18:50:00
The highly competitive flat-panel television market has another casualty. Philips Electronics, the Dutch consumer electronics giant, will no longer sell televisions in the United States or Canada. The Philips television brand will still be sold, but only under license by Funai Electric for at least five years. Philips will continue to design, manufacture ...
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15 Free Photo Prints - Today Only!
2008-04-15 17:58:00
Walgreens online photo is offering 15 FREE 4×6 prints on Tuesday, April 15th to help you smile on tax deadline day. Now that the taxes are done, there?s No excuse not to get those pictures on your camera printed out. To take advantage of this deal click here and don?t forget to enter the code ...
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Download YouTube Video Files
2008-04-14 17:42:00
YouTube has started offering videos in higher-resolution and better sounding MP4 formats, and that bump in quality can now be downloaded. The Google Operating System points out 2 easy methods for grabbing files: A bookmarklet that adds a “Download as MP4″ link to video pages when you click it, and a Greasemonkey script that automatically ...
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Confessions of a Flickr Snoopr (Admit It, You?re One Too) [Flickr]
2008-04-13 17:00:00
My name is Addy and I'm a Flickr holic. I'm a window-licking voyeuse who's been pressing her nose up against the cold glass of the lives of utter strangers, snooping through their photostreams. And if you think I'm weird, take a peep through their curtains. Marvel at Polymorfo Perverso's rather delicious fetish portraits (one caption reads "your neck is so much fun") or Gizmodo's favorite tough man as meat-market mascot. If you're a Flickr snoopr like me, you know the giddy, naughty pleasure of it all. If you're not one, well, here's how to become one in a hurry. The beauty of Flickr is it's serendipity. I found Mr Perverso's oh-so-perverse materials by innocently typing "I love Jesus" into the search box. Usually I'm on the hunt for stuff at work such as "Treo unboxing," "broken iPhone" or "computer dungeon," which gets you some guy's basement server farm, screenshots of PC-based RPGs, and, for some reason, a shot of a dude's first computer, an Atari 800. But "dungeo...
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Blockbuster Gets With the Program, Rolls Out Blu-Ray Nationwide [BluRay]
2008-04-13 16:15:00
So, here's the thing. In February, HD-DVD breathed its last. In March, Netflix announced that it was quadrupling its Blu-ray selection. And now! Mid April! Blockbuster announces it is rolling out Blu-ray throughout its 4,000 stores in the US, as well as over the border in Canada, after a successful trial run in 1,700 of its outlets. *clapclapclapclapclap* [Blockbuster via Home Theater]
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DIY Project: Motorbike to Electric Motorbike [Mods]
2008-04-13 16:00:00
There's a new Instructables page up that shows you how to mod your regular motorbike into an eco-warrior electric cycle. You'll be able to hit a top speed of 70mph after shelling out $3000 to complete the project. Thankfully, you'll probably make the money back in saved fuel in approximately a days use. The machine pictured above is a mid-mod bike. Sure, the 72v motor is held in place by rope, but it isn't properly finished yet, so give the modder a break. If you have the time, spare cash, a bike that's looking at you with contempt and the technical know how, give it a shot and then send us a video of the finished article. Hit the link if you're tough enough. [Instructables via Hack n Mod]
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