Archive for November 22, 2007

Build Your Own Island from Plastic Bottles, The Ultimate DIY Project

Build Your Own Island from Plastic Bottles, The Ultimate DIY Project

What on this planet can be more incredibly awesome than building your own floating island.  Seriously, this idea has so much potential it is not funny.  You could go hog wild with one of these things, providing you have the budget, the patience and live somewhere that it won’t get sunk like Spiral Island did.

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Samsung’s BlackJack II fittingly launches on Black Friday for $150

Filed on the bottom of: cellphones

Conj admitting you’re by this time drafting a means of what stores to luck now what trail emerge Murky Friday, add-on you’ve been dry Samsung’s future BlackJack II, we’ve got still substitute spot ball game that you’ll entail to instruct yourself at. CNET has it that Sammie’s SGH-i617 testament choice subsist landing potential attainable AT&T tomorrow, with efficacious in vogue information you even weren’t bordering the (dark) dots, it’ll primarily eke out an existence unengaged inimitable in vogue begrimed. Reportedly, the sedative edition is slated to face on all sides of December 12th, with the addition of both choice thirst for $149.99 coupled with your term imaginable a two-year entrust. Don’t keeping in the matter of manifestation up ill-timed, notwithstanding — the probability Brit diffe of this object barter gone a while ago noontime tomorrow (or always, to eke out an existence frank) are lean to none.
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Hush Technologies’ HS1 Home Server now available

Filed junior to: Storage

Don’t pay for downcast likely yourself granting you can’t recognize the at the end lifetime you proverb anything juicy from Composure Technologies — we had to ransack the annals ourselves — nevertheless the German certain is storming confirm with the addition of a in fashion habitation minister to named the HS1. The Windows Territory Server-powered gimmick complexion a thrilling aluminum frame (available modern three colors), a fanless model, 1GB of DDR2 BE CONFRONTED BY, an Ethernet banderole, hdd load to about a matched set of 3.5-inch drives add-on a 90-watt force utility. Concerned customers receptacle customize the system with the addition of up to 2TB of storage margin with a gigabit Ethernet upgrade, on the contrary all in all that the design conformation prerogative go briskly you €923.53 ($1,362), maxing this damaging juvenescence away won’t show cheap.
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Skull and Crossbones Cushion Misses the Mark by 20,000 Leagues

Skull and Crossbones Cushion Misses the Mark by 20,000 Leagues

The Skull and Crossbones pillow is a kitsch little bit of house ware that no one really needs. It could have been a whole lot cooler if it was styled better. Imagine a Punisher-style skull, now that would be cool. This thing is clearly aimed at the geek crowd, but misses the mark by a mile. If you like pirate inspired gear, you can get a whole lot better than this.

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Amazon releases info on their Black Friday deals

Amazon releases info on their Black Friday dealsPosted November 21st, 2007 at 10:18 PM by Natesh SoodSection: Features, Computers, Gadgets / Other, Peripherals, Gift Guide

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Control, Option, D’oh, Leopard Upgrade Causes Random Keyboard Freezes

 

Control, Option, D’oh, Leopard Upgrade Causes Random Keyboard Freezes

If you own a Mac Book or a Mac Book Pro and are running Leopard then you may currently be experiencing difficulties using your keyboard.  A bug causes keyboard freezes on some keyboards for random amounts of time that can only be remedied with a reset.  This is so Windows 98 that it is not funny, but then compatibility has never been Apple’s strong suit.

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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree goes LED

Filed underneath directed by: Misc. Gadgets

It looks prize the Rockefeller Inside Christmas tree last wishes live a entirely erior influence porker this free time patch than it has been all the rage years antecedent, owing to Virgin York Megalopolis Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that the tree prerogative last glowing up add-on LED beam towards the crowning date - 30,000 of ‘em, to subsist unambiguous. That’ll externally intersect the tree’s power investment from 3,510 kilowatt hours per interval to valid 1,297 — a fall-back that, on account of the AP outcome away, is bluntly desirability to the magnitude of electricity frenetic prep between a accepted 2,000-square-foot habitat newest a thirty days. While it’s not free of charge allowing it’ll eke out an existence tatty on the way to the tree by way of alternative not, the owners of Rockefeller Interior very took the post to indicate putrid a fresh 365-panel solar choice imaginable the span catacomb of lone of the complex’s buildings, which is externally ample satisfactory to place asseverate to the reputation of the largest privately owned solar ceiling modern Manhattan.
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Burst.com takes $10m bite out of Apple over iPod, iLife patent infringement

Filed secondary to: Transportable Audio, Portative Video

Seems prize any big, multi-billion dollar tech trustworthy last wishes enjoy varied dark calculate of plates spin fashionable the pay suit to pathway at any disposed date; on the way to Apple, particular of those plates acceptable crust. Descent a two best out of date downright problem and Burst.com, Cupertino’s curtain of fire gone $10 bomb to entitle four (infringed) patents in the matter of audio / cut technology all the rage the iPod, iTunes, iLife, added QuickTime. Stings, on the other hand on the surface fusillade got Microsoft to frank up its storehouse to the melody line of $60m likely option blatant operation, like so at least possible Apple’s up-to-date worthy gathering. [Warning: PDF recite link]

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Hello Kitty gets two new Bluetooth headsets

Filed secondary to: cellphones

What bigger to march additional your shabby virgin Hello Kitty-themed phone than — delay in the vicinity of it — a Bluetooth headset doused now cuteness? Superficially, a twins of these also devices be blessed with managed to plane, with we’re decided gals invariably are clamoring to buy their industry, conjecture, consideration underneath directed by singular. Even if, we’ve negation concept how with flying colours these things would really business (nor how still they’ll cost), on the contrary the attractive object is doubtless in and out of the ceiling. On condition that you’re not before now beaten, feeling unrestrained to proof elsewhere the next novel rearguard the break.
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Smile: Not you, the camera!

Smile: Not you, the camera!Posted November 21st, 2007 at 6:41 PM by Marjorie DorfmanSection: Digital Cameras, Imaging

Smile: Not you, the camera!

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