Steampunk Mouse, Furnace Included
Steampunk: Brass and wood machines modeled on an imaginary Victorian aesthetic. But for Steampunk to be real steampunk, you need some heat. That’s just what hacker Unklian has done with his Steampunk Furnace Mouse. This two-button controller with scroll wheel incorporates a fake coal fired furnace, although in reality it still runs on USB power.
Crystal Icing Covers MacBook Air in Baubles
Tasteless tech customization house Crystal Icing decided to turn its hand to crudding up the MacBook Air. A quote from the company’s blog will acquaint you with the reasons why this is so wrong:
ASUS hub offers HDTV-in for computer displays
SageTV HD STXHD100 Media Extender Plays Matchmaker Between Your HDTV and PC
Our sultriest gadget fantasy? Wirelessly combining a PC chocked full of HD content with a HDTV…and then adding a deadly laser network to deter anyone brazen enough to muck with the carefully calibrated settings. It may be a dream deferred (for now), but in the meantime we’ve been watching pr0n tinkering with the next closest thing — SageTV’s STX-HD100 media extender.
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Samsung FP-T5084 Plasma HDTV review
The 50in, plasma Samsung FP-T5084 scores with a combination of good performance, reasonable price and competitive features.
The Samsung FP-T5084 offers pleasing colours and sharp picture detail in a sleekly designed cabinet. Moreover, this 50in plasma HDTV has an affordable price.
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7 Jobs That Nokia’s Phone of the Future Will Be Good For
Nokia’s Morph concept phone offers an image of the future. It is a future where, despite nanotechnology being so advanced we can fabricate integrated circuits, displays and physical interfaces that are able reconfigure themselves in a dynamic freeform substrate, we are still making phone calls. Here are 7 alternative uses for a form so advanced it makes its own function seem comically obsolete.
Breaking into your own house
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$400 Cloudbook Takes Aim On The Eee PC
Everex’s Cloudbook is a scrappy fella that could pose a challenge to its only serious rival if more time is spent perfecting the rough cut of Linux that hobbles it.
GPU Programming Comes to the Mac
With the iPhone SDK looking like it will be delayed for another week or two, Mac developers have the chance to fool around with another new toolkit and SDK thanks to graphics card maker Nvidia. After introducing its CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) technology in early 2007, Nvidia has finally released a Mac OS X specific version as well.
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Sony M1-series Bravia HDTV LCDs in various colors
Welcome to the world of colorful Sony M1-series Bravia HDTV LCDs, these M1-series Bravia comes in an array of colours, sizes and of course prices. First of all the 20 inch version comes in at ¥110,000 ( $1,020) then comes the 16 inch for ¥90,000 ($835).
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ASUS aims to make your monitor a full high-quality HDTV media center
While there’s no really replacing a good HDTV, your flat panel monitor can totally display HD content, though on a smaller scale. More importantly, it can disply HDTV, and ASUS has put together a neat little combo box for just that.
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