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Posts on ‘January 20th, 2007’

Airport shoe scanners holding up the show

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Although it shouldn’t take you by surprise to get held up a bit while going through airport security these days, a good few travelers are a bit perturbed by the Clear’s problems with [...]

Researchers condense entire image into single photon

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A team of researchers has managed to find a way to store a large amount of data in a single photon of light. Although the first stored item — an image of the characters “UR” — implies that the inventor was a 13 year old girl dealing with an [...]

Ferret posts this week

Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy.
i-Cushion - the groove-tastic cushion - The i-Cushion. Time was when a…
Qstik EVOQ - noise cancelling Bluetooth headset - The Qstik EVOQ DSP Bluetooth…
High Capacity Coin Sorter - aka the [...]

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The iVDR Consortium: A removable hard drive for everything?

Jeff over at Techlore writes about the emerging efforts of a new consortium of (mostly) Japanese and (some) American companies, looking to make universal their design (currently being built by Maxell) for a 3.2" by 0.5" by 4.3" shock resistant, hard plastic removable hard drive. The group pushing this idea is called iVDR.
The goal [...]

Dazzle Video Creator Platinum

If you’ve got home movies that you shot back in the day on VHS or some other video format, Pinnacle Systems offers the Dazzle Video Creator Platinum, which is a USB 1.1/2.0 device (the doohickey in the image) that takes video from a camcorder, VHS or other analog video source, and converts it using hardware [...]

Biometric ATMs coming to rural India

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Considering all the ATM hacking that’s been going on of late, it’s not all that surprising to see those “uber-secure” fingerprint readers hitting mini-banks in Japan and Columbia, and now a pilot program is getting set to install 15 biometric ATMs at “village kiosks in five districts across southern India.” The fingerprint-reading [...]

CES Video - Automatic Toilet Seat

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Well, this one I’ve actually used one myself when I was living over in Asia couple years ago, but it seems it take years for the great toilet seat technology to come to America, just like cellphones…

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Keepin’ it real fake, part XLI: Samsung MP4 digital media player

Filed under: Portable Audio

We’ve seen our fair share of iPod copies and Apple rips, but it’s always good fun when a company which itself admits to the fine art of knocking others off finds its logo unwittingly affixed to some cheap Chinese piece of CE. Just for the record, this Samsung “digital media player” has [...]

Copper Treo 680, we hardly — no, we never knew ye

Filed under: Cellphones

We hope all you orangey-coppery Treo fans got your phones, because it’s come to our attention that the 680 in Copper (i.e. the creamy-pukey-orange Treo) is “no longer available” according to Palm’s site. Bummer dude. Maybe the Moto tactic of releasing your phones in as many colors as possible just isn’t working [...]

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Limited Numbered Signature Edition (seriously)

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

You have to be seriously freaking into Vista if you’re even thinking about the Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Limited Numbered Signature Edition (seriously, we didn’t even think Microsoft was capable of a title like that), but at least the price is on target ($259) and they claim it’s signed by the man [...]