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Posts on ‘July 24th, 2007’

Lightning Strike: Second Brazilian Gamer in a Week Gets it in the Nuts

If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Following last week’s RPG kidnapping, the gaming community in Brazil has suffered another shock. An 18-year-old has been hospitalized after being struck by lightning while he was gaming. Aguinaldo César Alves, from Jardim Campos Elíseos, 60 [...]

AppleCare for iPhone now available

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We’re aware that not everybody feels the need to jump on the AppleCare bandwagon, but if you worry that the one year warranty isn’t going to cut it for you, for $69 bucks, you can have two — unless you live in [...]

iPhone hacked for untethered EDGE data on laptop

Filed under: Cellphones
While this would be all the more sweet on a 3G iPhone, a new series of hacks will now give you untethered EDGE networking from your laptop. Starting with jailbreak as any proper iPhone hack must, the latest hack installs a new SOCKS server on your iPhone. Join your iPhone and laptop to [...]

Concept: Cellphone for the Blind Has Angled Keys, No Screen

This cellphone concept design by Peter Lau allows blind users to easily dial numbers and make calls. It doesn’t rely on Braille, but instead has differently angled keys that users can learn to recognize. So how do you send and receive an SMS then?
There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible [...]

Dragontech’s ioBox-1000, your own private network

Filed under: Networking

Have you ever dreamt of having your own, self-contained network in your house or office? Have you ever wanted to take full control of every aspect of a network — banning, blocking, adding, limiting and deleting whomever you choose? Well listen pal, your egomaniacal dreams are about to come true, thanks to the [...]

The Ball Lamp Pendant

Filed under: Decor
Who knew that a big bunch of white plastic balls could come together and make such a beautiful lighting fixture? It seems all the best creations are surprisingly simple, though, so this should be no exception. Designed back in 1969 by Verner Panton the Ball Lamp Pendant it’s also known as the Wonder [...]

Denon’s first Blu-ray player stuns with features and $2k pricetag

Filed under: Blu-ray, Players, Others
Denon has announced its first real Blu-ray player, with an appropriate assortment of never-before-seen features and price tag to match. The DVD-3800BCI will launch this fall as the first high definition player to include Silicon Optix’s 10-bit Realta HQV video processor, recently seen in Syntax-Brillian’s $10k LCD and the big brother [...]

Polycom’s HDX 4000 HD video conferencing system

Filed under: Desktops
We weren’t exactly enthralled with Polycom’s other all-in-one video conferencing machine, but a lot can change in three years. The newly revamped iteration, dubbed the HDX 4000, claims to be the “first executive desktop video system with HD voice, video, and content sharing.” Designed to play nice with most standards-based, IP video conferencing [...]

Boehm Bucking Bronco

Filed under: Decor, Art
Art is all about evoking emotions and feelings, and in some cases capturing a moment or an action that means something to somebody. And if this piece, the Boehm Bucking Bronco, doesn’t capture action and emotion then I don’t know what does. Of course it depicts very specific subject matter that may [...]

When laptops attack, Nokia style

Filed under: Culture, Handsets

Nokia has kicked off a clever new ad campaign for its N95 over at jealouscomputers.com. It features videos, “victim reports” and the like from ordinary unsuspecting citizens attacked by their once-faithful-but-now-green-with-envy laptops. The site is definitely worth a good once-over as some of the content — we really thought the beach scene [...]