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iPhone 4G dreamed in the wild
Since the public has come down after speculating on the iPad followed by its announcement, it is time we think remember the next gen iPhone 4G and show you some of the latest mock-ups on it. Not just that they appear in an unprogressive fashion, but that this particular one found accidentally on the Web runs pretty close to what everyone is expecting. It gives suggestions on a front camera, microSD expansion slot which will never be there but no matter, bright and happy color schemes. iPhone 4G already has a rather straight forward “must have” hardware and feature list. But from the design point of view, how could it evolve? Even free-minded sketches show no paths of alternative. Whether it is good or bad for the iPhone is quite a question for the ages, so have your state on future of iPhone’s design in comments.
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Electronic Business Card
Having a memorable business card is a huge plus and we have seen some of these cards before, the Gear Business Card comes to mind. Aaron Alai has designed and created an Electronic Business Card that I guarantee no one who is lucky enough to receive will ever toss in the garbage. The only drawback […]

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Having a memorable business card is a large plus and we have seen some of these cards before, the Gear Business Card comes to mind. Aaron Alai has designed and created an Electronic Business Card that I guarantee no one who is lucky enough to receive will ever toss in the garbage. The only drawback is that each card takes Aaron 1 hour to make, hopefully he lands his dream job before making these business cards becomes a full time job!

“When I touch the business card a small and imperceivable (I can’t feel it) amount of current flows from the battery into my fingers and out to the transistor. Upon entering the transistor the small amount of current makes the transistor more conductive, allowing a greater number of electrons to flow through the transistor.  This greater number of electrons passes thought the light making it glow. “



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a piano among sex organs: piano chat improv dude on chatroulette
There are nice surprises on ChatRoulette, after all. Take ChatRoulette for a spin and you might stumble on Merton, who instead of brandishing his organ, shows off his piano instead, bursting out meta-tunes about his chat mate with all the charm of  Ed Helms, Ben Folds, and Flight of the Conchords. Merton – or someone…

There are nice surprises on ChatRoulette, after all. Take ChatRoulette for a spin and you might stumble on Merton, who instead of brandishing his organ, shows off his piano instead, bursting out meta-tunes about his chat mate with all the charm of  Ed Helms, Ben Folds, and Flight of the Conchords.

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Merton – or someone he knows – was kind enough to share some of his routines on YouTube:

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Let’s hope he posts more videos to save us from gambling on finding him on ChatRoulette.

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Beer Battery
We’ve seen some some strange batteries before, the potato battery comes to mind. When I think of beer, electrolyte isn’t the first thing I think of but the picture above is a beer battery. Watch the video below to see the battery lighting an LED. Now it just needs to be scaled up a […]

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We have seen some some strange batteries before, the potato battery comes to mind. When I think of beer, electrolyte isn’t the first thing I think of but the picture above is a beer battery. Watch the video below to see the battery lighting an LED. Now it just needs to be scaled up a bit to charge an iPod.

Via HG Forum

“The core of this device is the voltaic pile invented by alesandro volta in the year 1800, which consists of a copper and zinc electrode immersed in a liquid electrolyte. For this experiment I replaced the salt water from his original design with beer! And it works!”



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Acer Ferrari One FO200-15 netbook gets updated
Just ahead of the first Formula 1 Grand Prix season 2010 Acer has updated its Ferrari One netbook. Perfect timing, perfect badge on the hood. Updates, however, are not what you’d call Ferrariish or even Acer Aspire Oneish. Recently we covered announcement of Aspire One AO 532-h and we liked it. Obviously, because of the sponsorship particularities, Ferrari netbooks must have an AMD processor, so upgrading to Intel Atom N450 is no the case. But all the rest could and should be revamped. I’m afraid latest FO200-15 has only had its HDD replaced with an 500GB unit and that’s it. Available in a week in Japan for price equivalent to $800.
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prince of persia in glorious lego form
The guys over at LEGO-fan site Brothers Brick encountered these new LEGO sets based on this Summer’s much-anticipated Prince of Persia: Sands of Time movie. The three sets range from a modest 258 piece kit for $29.99 (USD), all the way up to an enormous 821 piece set called the “Battle of Almut,”…

The guys over at LEGO-fan site Brothers Brick came across these new LEGO sets based on this Summer’s much-anticipated Prince of Persia: Sands of Time motion picture.

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The three sets range from a modest 258 piece kit for $29.99 (USD), all the way up to an enormous 821 piece set called the “Battle of Almut,” priced at $79.99. You can get all three sets over at Toys R Us now.

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While you can’t see rippling muscles on Jake Gyllenhal’s little minifig body, he definitely has the facial stubble and mop-top befitting a little action hero. I mean what’s the last time you saw a LEGO set that includes a giant spinning saw blade and a guy coming at you with a pair of snakes? Get your credit cards out now.


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brainport grants the blind to see with their tongues
It looks like the BrainPort vision technology has now been tested on humans. It will now grant the visually-impaired to “see” things using their tongues! The human test subject was a soldier, who was blinded in Iraq. The system consists of a small video camera attached to a pair of sunglasses. This is then connected…

It looks like the BrainPort vision technology has now been tested on humans. It will now grant the visually-impaired to “see” things using their tongues!

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The human test subject was a soldier, who was blinded in Iraq. The system consists of a small video camera attached to a pair of sunglasses. This is then connected to a device which is placed on the user’s tongue.

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BrainPort converts visual signals into electrical impulses which are sent to the tongue. The intensity of the signal grants the user to figure out how close obstacles are in his or her path. I was actually trying to envision how a tongue could “see”. It turns out that there’s a lot more to this technology than just sending jolts to your tongue…

“With the current system (arrays containing 100 to 600+ electrodes), study participants have been able to recognize high-contrast objects, their location, movement, and some aspects of perspective and depth. Trained blind participants use information from the tongue display to augment understanding of the environment. Our ongoing research with the BrainPort vision device demonstrates the great potential of tactile vision augmentation and we believe that these findings warrant further exploration. As a result, we are currently working on improvements to the tongue display hardware, software, and usability,  and on overall device miniaturization.”

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Should gadgets and fashion come together?
Tech industry has forever been questioned if progress is actually leading us somewhere and if it isn’t superior to just slack off, probably even get back to easy country life. That’s an ethical issue that we often choose to not address to. Instead we take our sweet time following latest technology news and events. For now though let us switch the emphasis on what floats our boat, on us, or better yet, on the part of humanity that makes the ideal use of health and beauty products – women.

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INC - noise reduction solutions and applications
Business advice is a trend that we would like to pick up where we left it. Industrial Nose Control - noise control solution provider, distributor of noise control tools and material, technical adviser and, as the result of all-round customer satisfaction - Lockheed-Martin Corporation Small Business of The Year Award holder. Pretty impressive. So, if you are building or restoring a factory of any sort, office building, etc. you should look at what INC has to offer. And that is a lot: ready-made noise canceling solutions and applications, custom engineered solutions or acoustic panels sold in separate.
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x-top xbox 360 laptop hits ebay
Ever dreamed of having a your very own Xbox 360 laptop? Well if you’ve got some money to spare, you can bid on this portable Xbox 360 over on eBay. Modder TheTwoJ and his friend spent over $2000 and 650 man-hours to build this bad boy, so it really deserves a loving home. At the…

Ever dreamed of having a your very own Xbox 360 laptop? Well if you’ve got some money to spare, you can bid on this portable Xbox 360 over on eBay.

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Modder TheTwoJ and his friend spent over $2000 and 650 man-hours to build this bad boy, so it really deserves a loving home.

At the heart of the Xbox 360 portable luggable is a brand-new Elite Jasper, hooked up to a widescreen 17″ Gateway LCD monitor. The case was completely hand-built and has a full QWERTY keyboard, and a built-in Xbox Live Camera in the lid. The laptop also has an integrated wireless adapter and a 120GB hard drive under the hood. And if for any reason you want to play games on a more massive monitor, there’s a switch to send your display output to an external VGA port.

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The system still requires the gigantic-ass Xbox 360 power brick to run, but at least TheTwoJ was kind enough to mod it to provide power to all components with a single cord. Unfortunately, there’s no way to run it on batteries, but it’s highly doubtful you could operate this power-hungry thing for long without a automobile battery or two anyhow.

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In order to keep the 360 cool inside this case, he loaded up the X-Top with lots of fans. I’m hoping that it’s not actually as loud as it sounds in the video clip below, and that’s just the microphone that’s really extra sensitive to noise. Check it out for proof that the X-Top really works:

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And if you’re concerned about the whole thing overheating TheTwoJ states not to worry. He’s been putting the X-Top through its paces for about three months now without a hitch. You can check out the full build log over here, and if you’re ready to throw your hat into the ring to own this, head on over to eBay now.

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