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USB Humping Dogs Get Upgraded, Now They Enjoy the Sex
The USB Humping Dogs we all know and love have gotten a much needed upgrade. If you recall, previous versions looked as though they were indifferent towards all of the humping. I don’t know about you, but if that was my sole purpose in life, I would be pretty happy about it. Apparently the manufacturers … Continued
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USB Hub Has Individual On/Off Switches
USB Hubs come in all shapes and sizes (including fruit cake), but this is the first time we’ve seen a USB hub with individual on/off switches. This isn’t only useful for switching off stuff without unplugging it and making a mess, it also helps save power when you’re on laptop battery mode. It’s a non-powered … Continued
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Palm “Mystery Product” Screws Up Financial Results
Today Palm issued a statement warning that revenue for the 2nd fiscal quarter would take a $30 million hit due to a product that “the company had previously expected to have certified within the quarter.” What this mystery product is exactly is not known, and so far Palm isn’t talking (no doubt cowering in shame). … Continued
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GE’s Cell Fusion Series Pairs Your Home Phone to Your Cellphone
GE’s upcoming Cell Fusion series of phones uses Bluetooth technology to pair your cellphone to your home phone so that you don’t spend minutes looking for you tiny clamshell or slider while its ringing. GE has dubbed the first phone in the Cell Fusion series, the “No Jack” phone, and is geared toward “cord cutters,” … Continued
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Videos of Cars Converted Into Aquariums
Have an old beater car sitting in the driveway that doesn’t run and smells like ass? Grab a blowtorch, a hose and head to your nearest pet store. Apparently cars can make for some sweet looking aquariums —as you can see from the video of the car above which is currently on display in the … Continued
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ASUS Upgrades EN8800GT Cards With 1GB of Memory
Today Asus rolled out the world’s first EN8800GT graphics card with 1GB of Qimonda memory. The card is designed to provide optimum DirectX 10 gaming and multimedia playback performance even at the highest resolutions and quality settings. The unit also utilizes an integrated SmartDoctor feature, allowing users to overclock the Shader Clock for performance gains … Continued
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EchoStar Splits, Sling Media Could Reap the Benefits
According to a recent SEC filing, Sling Media’s parent company, EchoStar, has formally changed its name to the DISH Network —a move that better aligns the company with its core satellite TV service. A spin-off company called EchoStar Holdings was also formed and, as part of the move, it will be taking over the Sling … Continued
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Wrecked Sci-Fi Models Are Even Cooler Than Brand New Ones [UPDATED]
Click to viewWe love perfectly shiny stunning aircraft models, but these wrecked sci-fi models attract us even more. It may be the fascination with their decadence or that they remind us of ourselves after a Friday night out, who knows, but there’s something irresistible about seeing a huge gallery of AT-ATs frozen in time, destroyed … Continued
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All Giz Wants: An All-In-One Set Top Box
If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll remember All Giz Wants—our series of fanciful and unlikely wishlist items that would totally make this the Best Holidays Ever if we got them. Here’s one I’ve been wishing for for the better part of a decade: an all-in-one set top box that does everything. Here’s what we … Continued
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GE Premiere DECT 6.0 Phone With Home Intercom For Chatty Cathys
Speakerphones are usually seen in board rooms, but GE’s Premiere DECT 6.0 Phone with Home Intercom brings it to your kitchen. While speakerphones aren’t new to home phones, they aren’t usually that effective and often produce distant-sounding calls that are filled with echoes. According to GE, the larger acoustic chamber found on its Home Intercom … Continued
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Connect360 Mac Streaming Coming for PS3
According to the developers at NullRiver, they’ll be porting their Connect360 software to the PS3, allowing you to stream music and video directly from your Mac to your Sony console. The recent update to the 360 version allowed streaming of DivX and XviD, something that The PlayStation 3 will be getting soon as well. After … Continued
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LG Tabletop HD Radio/iPod/CD System Is a Flash Gordon Space Football
During the LG CES sneak peek, we saw the PC12 Table Top Audio System, a sleek, extra shiny system with a lot packed inside its compact body. There’s a “vacuum-loading” CD player, a hidden 30-pin iPod connector on top, and an HD Radio receiver buried within. A USB connection in the back lets you hook … Continued
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Swarovski-Encrusted Wii Actually Doesn’t Look Like Crystalized Poop
We normally avoid posting things coated in Swarovski crystals like Asians avoid SARS, but this particular crystalized Wii looks spectacular. The console has the Twilight Princess Link/Wolf engraved on one side, the TriForce logo engraved on the other and the actual TriForce (with Kanji labels) on the front. We’re not sure how much it costs, … Continued
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Tin Man is Most-Watched SciFi Show Ever
Bringing in 6.3 million viewers its first night (Sunday), 4.4 the next, and 5.3 on the last, the cheesy Wizard of Oz remake Tin Man is officially the most popular thing SciFi Channel has ever aired. Other top shows on the channel have been a Dune miniseries, and Taken, a Steven Spielberg-produced soap about alien … Continued
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iPhone Dev Team Releases Open Source Unlock Software
As we told you last Wednesday, the iPhone Dev Team have opened up the source to AnySIM, the free SIM unlock software for the iPhone that lets you use your phone on pretty much any GSM network in the world. The source being open, on the other hand, makes it a lot easier for Apple … Continued
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LG Sneak Peeks Spring 2008 LCD and Plasma Line with 120Hz, Wi-Fi and New Looks
On a snowy day in North Jersey, LG decided the time was right to introduce most of the LCD and plasma TVs it would be showcasing at CES. The hotshot model was the LG70 LCD featuring a 20,000:1 contrast ratio, four HDMI 1.3 jacks, USB 2.0 for pictures and MP3s, and Wi-Fi (in its LG71 … Continued
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Flybar Does its Part to Support the Darwin Effect
As if a pogo stick wasn’t already an accident waiting to happen, now here comes the Flybar, catapulting you four feet (and maybe even six if you push it) off the ground with its heavy-duty rubber bands. To give you an idea of how dangerous this is, notice all of the users are wearing helmets. … Continued
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It’s a Bloody Spaceboat Christmas With Firefly Swag
What better way to say “Happy Holidays” than a spaceship coated with gore and corpses? This X-mas tree ornament of the spaceship Serenity “in disguise” as a gore-tastic Reaver ship is probably the worst of the weird pieces of swag you can buy this season in honor of Joss Whedon’s space western Firefly. If you’ve … Continued
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