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Terminal Tip: ASCII-ify your Videos

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I’m kind of on an ASCII kick this weekend. Having already brought you ASCII banners, I thought I’d follow that up with ASCII video playback. Apple’s ASCII Movie Player, which you can download [...]

Geni: Earning That $100 million Valuation

Amazon.com Widgets When genealogy site Geni announced that it had raised a venture round from Charles River Ventures valuing the two month old startup at $100 million, more than a few eyebrows were raised. For the last couple of months, people have referred to “Pulling a Geni” when they try to raise money [...]

Frugal modder crafts speaker stands for $13 apiece

Filed under: DIY, Other hardware, Speakers

If there’s two things we can certainly appreciate, it’s projects done right and projects done cheaply (okay, so 103-inch plasmas make three). Thanks to a frugal and crafty individual in need of need speaker stands, he was able to conjure up perfectly functional stands that some may even deem halfway [...]

Ferret posts this week

Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy.
NowThen - phonecam your life, live… - NowThen. Think Twitter combined…
m:ssage - the massaging phone - The m:ssage is a mobile phone with…
Wii Combat Pack - ahar there, [...]

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Mac ASCII Invaders

Filed under: Gaming, Software

If you’re in the mood to shoot down some aliens, Mac ASCII Invaders plays exactly the way you expect it to: left and right arrows to move your weapon, the space bar to fire. This is Chuck Houpt’s Macintosh port of Thomas Munro’s ASCII version of Space Invaders.

It’s a [...]

Interactive LED coffee tables

Last year at Maker Faire, we showed off our interactive LED dining table. There, we met the fine folks at Because We Can, who make amazing mostly wooden things with a little help from their robot. We eventually all decided on collaborating to design and build a new series of interactive coffee tables. [...]

Yahoo’s Rumored $1 billion Talks With Bebo

Update: Recent Comscore traffic data for Bebo, MySpace and Facebook is here.
Rumors about social networking site Bebo being for sale come up every few months. First it was British Telecom for $550 million in July 2006 (we started that one), then the Financial Times reported they were in talks with Viacom a month later.
Now, [...]

Nokia 8600: Another Sexy Luxury Phone From Nokia

Check out this sleek successor of the Nokia 8800! Nokia has yet to announce this phone, but this official-looking picture here, and various in-the-wild shots are already circulating the internet like wildfire.
The phone will have Series 40, a 2-megapixel camera, quad-band GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth, and a QVGA display.
Also, the phone’s already been approved by the FCC. [...]

Disney’s CEO reaffirms commitment to Blu-ray

Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray
While it’s not like we really needed another highfalutin executive to takes sides, Disney’s CEO is making sure you aren’t holding out hope for a Cinderella remake on HD DVD. During a recent analyst call, Robert Iger reportedly responded to an inquiry about his take on HD DVD by stating that Disney [...]

Clocky Robotic Alarm

So my business partner, Chief Gadgeteer, has what most people would call a problem. You see, once CG goes to bed he has issues waking up in the morning. He has tried several techniques including multiple alarm clocks and placing alarm clocks across the room. Here comes Clocky the wheeled alarm clock [...]