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Hurricane Relief Benefit Auction
Bidding on the Gizmodo items in the Hurricane Relief Auction is now closed. But there are plenty of other great things on the block—including an i-mate JAM and a rare white Samsung P207 that you cannot buy in stores. We’ve raised over $4k for the Red Cross so far! Head over to Phonescoop for all … Continued
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Treo 650 Calls a Code Blue with ActiveECG
Worried about going into cardiac arrest while using your cell phone? Yeah, me too. Luckily, Active Corporation has introduced a new product bundle for your Treo 650 called ActiveECG, which turns your pda into a “diagnostic quality, portable cardiac monitor.” The next time I run a marathon or eat a really big steak, I’m sure … Continued
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Take Your Haptic Actuators Off Of Me, You Damned Dirty Touchscreen!
Touchscreens just got a boost with Immersion’s latest “Tactile Touchscreen” technology, the TouchSense. Now, instead of merely using the touch screen as a keyboard and mouse replacement, you can literally “feel” the interface as you interact. With embedded haptic actuators into the screen, buttons, scroll bars, and other interface regulars can be “felt” as they … Continued
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EBay Buys Skype, Leaves Positive Feedback, Gets Blue Star
After some speculation, it seems eBay is going to pick up Skype for a few billion. Why, you ask? So millions of weird ashtray collectors can call each other immediately when they see a rare, near mint snoopy acrylic for sale in Illinois. It will also allow these selfsame weird ashtray collectors to stalk each … Continued
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Google OS (??)
Not sure what you all are up to this fine afternoon, but I’m peeing my pants. GoogleOS? True? False? Wha? Why didn’t I see this in July? I mean this is probably just a KDE-based Linux hack/proof-of-concept thing, but it is quite hawt. [Thanks, Daniel] Primi screenshot per GoogleOS [Grooan] UPDATE – Simone offers a … Continued
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Feed a Lawyer, Support the RIAA
RIAALawsuits.us, a collection of fun RIAA trial transcripts showing what happens when music companies stop being nice and start being dicks, is featuring an incredible exchange between an RIAA lawyer-bot who wants to settle out of court and the defendant and the judge who, in no uncertain terms, tell him to go sit and spin. … Continued
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High-Tech Laundromats
Universities in Kentucky are giving students more options when it comes to doing laundry. For example the laundry rooms in the dorms at the University of Louisville are offer students the option to connect to a website online to check the status of their wash or dry. The system can also send an email or … Continued
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Google Talk – Wait, What? Who Now?
Sorry. Just woke up. Google has what now? A Jabber server? Yep, that’s right. Someone deep with in Google Headquarters high on Mount Kilimanjaro is planning world domination by cornering the IM and VoIP market, stealing that potentially lucrative corner of the Internet away from, oh, I don’t know… Skype? Microsoft? So let’s see here: … Continued
By Johnb