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Dodge EV seen in the flesh at LA Auto Show

from engadget - 32 minutes ago

Could you tell a few auto shows were going on in California? In case you've somehow overlooked it, a number of automakers are showing off some swank new in-car connectivity options, and Dodge is striving to elicit even more fluids from your saliva glands by showing off the Dodge EV. We initially heard about this mythical automobile Read more ...

Fiio's E5 Headphone Amp Steals iPod Shuffle Form Factor [Audio Amp]

from gizmodo - 34 minutes ago

This little headphone amplifier unit from Fiio is a pretty much exactly the same shape as an iPod shuffle, presumably so you can clip it to a lapel or bag strap for convenience while it's in use. It'll push out 150mW of audio power into 16-ohm headphones, with a USB-rechargable lithium battery that's good for about 20 hours, and it weighs a mere 26g. There's no release date info yet, though ...

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Winsome Leaf Keychain Speakers are Almost Certainly Irritating in Real Life [Speakers]

from gizmodo - 34 minutes ago

At first glance, this leaf from Bird Electron doesn't seem like such a bad idea: Provide people with a small, unamplified, discreet speaker that can hook up to pretty much any MP3 player, wrap it in a cute little leafy shell and clip it to a keychain. But then, please, consider the uses. When can't you just give you friends an earbud to share a song? When you're 13, on a bus with five ...

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Hacks Allowing Disabled Gamers To Play Guitar Hero

from slashdot - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

Here are two interesting new approaches where researchers modified the popular Guitar Hero game so it can be played by gamers with disabilities. Air Guitar Hero modifies the Guitar Hero controller so someone without limbs can play it by using electrodes attached to the user's residual arm. Blind Hero is a mod for Frets on Fire that uses a haptic glove that can turn visual feedback into haptic feedback, allowing blind gamers to play Guitar Hero songs." There have been a variety of Guitar Hero hacks in the past, including a custom drum pad for playing the guitar part, using the plastic guitar as a real instrument, and rocking out with your bike, but it's nice to see some more serious modifications showing up.

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Creative gives up, introduces the Zen Moo

from engadget - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago

We're seen plenty of cheap plastic MP3 land-fillers in our day. But those usually originate from deep-down in the fetid bowels of some no-name manufacturing house in southeast Asia, not the once illustrious Creative. The Zen Moo (yes, Moo) appears to be be a Zen Stone with extra bits of plastic and paint added to achieve Cow. Like the Stone, you get a small OLED, 2GB of memory, 20 hours of playback, and FM tuner to the delight of kids across China (wh ...

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BlackBerry Storm now available on Verizon

from engadget - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago

You've read the review, now Verizon's BlackBerry Storm is available for purchase for $200 on two-year contract. Really, what's left to say -- you're either ready to pull the trigger or not.

[Thanks, JR]

BlackBerry Storm now available on Verizon originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:11:00 EST. ...

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ASUS Eee Top climbing to 20- and 22-inches by June

from engadget - 2 hours, 32 minutes ago

Like the Eee Top but 15.6-inches is just too wee for your taste? Fine, you'll have the chance to grapple with 20- and 22-inchers, according to ASUS CEO Jerry Shen, sometime in the first half of 2009. Drop Windows 7 into these touchscreen monuments to mediocrity and we're in.

ASUS Eee Top climbing to 20- and 22-inches by June originally appeared on ...

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Asus All-In-One Eee Top Touches Down In Taiwan [EEE Top]

from gizmodo - 3 hours, 34 minutes ago

Asus' long awaited all-in-one touchscreen PC, the Eee Top, is now out in the wild... at least in Taiwan. The 15.6-inch display nettop runs Windows XP and holds an Intel Atom N270 processor with 1GB of memory and a 160GB hard disk drive within its chassis. It also comes with a 1.3MP webcam, two integrated 4W speakers and a nifty little dimmable LED keyboard light.

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RIM Already Says BlackBerry Storm Bug Fixes Are Coming Soon [Blackberry Storm]

from gizmodo - 4 hours, 15 minutes ago

Why do companies ship products they know are mad buggy? Apple did it with the iPhone, RIM did it with the BlackBerry Storm, which locked up and crashed on me plenty during the review period, even after it was delayed precisely to make it less buggy. RIM, however, ...

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I Bet You've Never Seen Water Bounce Before [Science]

from gizmodo - 4 hours, 21 minutes ago

Here's something you don't see every day: water bouncing. GE has developed some pretty incredible superhydrophobic surfaces in it's Global Research Nanotechnology lab, and they've captured the results with super-high speed cameras.

Hello everyone, I have some exciting videos that I want to share with you! Using a high-speed camera setup in the lab, we can finally capture the details of the water dancing on these amazing superhydrophobic surfaces. We discovered that even whe ...

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