E-books may be taking off for Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, but there’s one category of printed matter where digital hasn’t made a dent: Textbooks.
>> reading "Startup Gives Digital Textbooks the Ol’ College Try"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 31, 2010
Little Death Ray, from Lady Clankington's Cabinet of Carnal Curiosities
It’s hard to know exactly what devices women used to get off by themselves before the Industrial…
>> reading "NSFW: Make My Vibrator Vintage"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 31, 2010
You remember the saying about being as dark as a black cat in a coal cellar? Well, it turns out Canon has made a sensor that…
>> reading "Canon’s 88-Inch CMOS Sensor Sees in the Dark"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 31, 2010
Olympus has revealed two new lenses today, both for the Micro Four Thirds format. One is a 40-150mm 4.0-5.6 which will sell for just 330 when it is…
>> reading "Olympus 600mm Zoom-Lens is World’s Tiniest"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 31, 2010
Mojowijo is a teledildonic accessory for the Nintendo Wiimote, which is somewhat ironic given the console’s family-friendly reputation. The device, currently in private beta, is very simple:…
>> reading "Teledildonic Add-On Turns Wiimote into Remote Vibrator"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 31, 2010
If you have kids, you’re going to love the Squishy Circuits Project: it involves cooking and electronics, although not at the same time.
Squishy Circuits…
>> reading "Yummy Science: Make Squishy Circuits with Conductive Dough"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 31, 2010
Oh man, the iFixit crew just hopped up another step on the Stairway to Awesome. They have opened up and explored a Magnavox Odyssey 100, successor to…
>> reading "IFixit Tears Down 1975 Magnavox Game Console"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 31, 2010
The Swimsense from Finis is like a bike computer for swimmers, only instead of counting wheel-revolutions, it counts strokes. The new wrist-mounted computer is waterproof (of…
>> reading "Swimsense Stroke-Counter is Like a Nike+ for Swimmers"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 31, 2010
The clickety-clack of manual typewriters have long been replaced by PC keyboards and even that is now disappearing with touchscreens. But for those nostalgic about old-school…
>> reading "USB Typewriter Replaces the Keyboard in Your PC"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
Afghanistan’s vibrant cellphone ecosystem is one of the country’s economic bright spots. There are about 12.5 million cellular subscriptions in the country of 27…
>> reading "Phones, Calculator Give a Glimpse of Mobile Tech in Afghanistan"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
"Happy Christmas Everybody!" by allerleirau/flickr. Used gratefully via a Creative Commons license
New e-readers, new tablets, and new game console accessories…
>> reading "The Best Gadget Is the One That Gets To Your House"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
Samsung’s bet on Android seems to have paid off big for the company. Samsung has shipped more than one million Galaxy S phones in…
>> reading "Samsung Ships One Million Galaxy S Phones in 45 Days"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
If you want to know just how fast you can go on your vintage fixed-gear conversion, but can’t bear to put an ugly plastic computer onto your beautifully…
>> reading "Gorgeous Retro Bike-Computer Counts with Class"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
Combined with a party-keg, Griffin’s recently-outed Party Dock for the iPad should make some great, well, parties. As long as you like quiz games, that is.
>> reading "Griffin Party Dock Offers Four-Way iPad Gaming"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
If I popped open a Christmas Cracker and this tiny little camera-kit dropped out instead of the usual crappy plastic novelty, I’d be a very happy boy. As…
>> reading "World’s Smallest DSLR Measures Just One-Inch"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
This rather familiar-looking tablet is in fact one of the first Android tablets in the wild. The Identity TAB comes from South Korea’s KT and will cost…
>> reading "$250 Korean Android Tablet Looks Strangely Familiar"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
Here’s a neat twist on the glut of beautiful-but-impossible-to-read watches filling online stores these days. The Zub Zirc No. 20 from Nooka is not only…
>> reading "Stop the Press: Designer Watch Actually Easy to Read"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
Five hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all.
Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South…
>> reading "Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculators"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
ATI, the Canadian graphics-chip company born back in 1985, is dead. After being acquired by AMD in 2006, and spending the intervening four years locked in…
>> reading "ATI Brand Killed, Chips Get New Sticker Designs"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 30, 2010
Limor Fried’s MintyBoost project is a great example of DIY and commercial tech working together. Take an Altoids tin, a couple of AA batteries, and some very smart hackery, and you’ve got a lightweight USB charger that…
>> reading "DIY Friday: Charge Your iPhone With AAs or Solar Power"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 28, 2010
Electronic waste can sometimes find a surprising second lease on life, as designer Tina Sparkles has proved by making a dress using recycled wires.
“I read how…
>> reading "Designer Creates Dress With Recycled Wires"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 27, 2010
The Gadget Lab crew kicks off this week’s podcast with a look at Dylan Tweney’s ugly new kicks, a pair of surf shoes made of recycled soda bottles. They cost $70. Seriously.
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This post was written by Journalist on August 27, 2010
If you love Nokia hardware but wish for a better operating system, consider what some enthusiastic developers have done.
As part of a project called NITDroid,…
>> reading "Nokia Phones Hacked to Run Android"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 27, 2010
The kids may be ditching wristwatches for time-telling smartphones, but manufacturers and designers still have some tricks just-barely-up-their-long-sleeves. The trick seems to be making watches more like smartphones by packing in extra functions or forgoing utility altogether…
>> reading "Video/Photos: Why Wristwatches Are Still Worth Watching"
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This post was written by Journalist on August 27, 2010
