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Readius, Featuring World’s First Rollable Screen

3. August 2008

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Readius, Featuring World’s First Rollable Screen

Readius, the upcoming pocket eBook reader, features the world's first roll-up screen. It also boasts a 3g wireless connection and native PDF support, squarely whooping Amazon's Kindle reader.

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Inkseine: Note taking++

29. July 2008

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Inkseine: Note taking++

If you own a Tablet or UMPC and you're like me, you're constantly looking for new apps that take full advantage of its unique interface and capabilities. Last weekend I came across a killer app in development by the guys over at Microsoft Research.

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Archos 605 Wifi 160GB cheaper than normal at Amazon

28. July 2008

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Archos 605 Wifi 160GB cheaper than normal at Amazon

Amazon.com has the beautiful and much loved Archos 605 WiFi for about $70 off retail - that's $329.99.  We reviewed the 605 WiFi (30GB model) a while back and personally, I still love this PMP.

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Top 10 reasons to hate the iPhone 3g

11. July 2008

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Top 10 reasons to hate the iPhone 3g

APC has a great article up on the top 10 reasons to hate the new iPhone 3g.  As much as I kind of want to, I really don’t hate the new iPhone.  In fact, I’d love to have one.

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Neuros hack that radiates awesome. Live chat over Live TV (or) the future of television

1. July 2008

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Crowd Narration is what it’s being called and it was shown to the Neuros folks at a BBC sponsored event.  It’s created by a guy named Matthew and you can download it to play with it directly from here (Heavy Horse). It’s a fairly simple idea which can I think have pretty far reaching effects.  [...]

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Say, have we got a dinosaur for you! The Pleo for more than $100 off regular retail price

28. June 2008

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There’s a little Jurassic Park in all of us, even though most of those dinos were not from the Jurassic era.  There’s a lot of movie science purist in me, sorry.  Still and all, we’d love to have a local installment of a dino park nearby where we can stroll amongst the giants and perhaps [...]

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Did you ask for the day off when the new iPhone comes out? You’re a jerk!

23. June 2008

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After reading the following article I had to think back to all the people who would take time off work to get latest iPhone, a particular video game or awesome thingamajigger that I could truly care less about. The article was correct sadly to say. I love my friends but arrogant truly is in their [...]

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Win a Neuros OSD from Neuros Technology and ArsGeek

16. June 2008

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We have a winner!  Congratulations Ron!  Neuros Technology will be in touch with you soon. What better way to leap back into action than to team up with the fine folks at Neuros Technology to give away their flagship product – a Neuros OSD! The OSD is (in my opinion) the single easiest way to [...]

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Remote Control Heli Envy

16. June 2008

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When I was younger, I had a few friends who had a few friends who’d muck about with flying RC vehicles.  They, and their parents in a few cases would cause these remote control flying vehicles to go from a complete stop to cruising about the field with sublime majesty.  They even made the landings [...]

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Move over potato clock… build your own Multi-Touch pad

1. June 2008

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Found on New Science and Gizmodo With gas prices now over the four dollar mark (Road Warriors still plays in my head when I think about that). Seth Sandler, you’re my new hero. With merely a cardboard box, tape, a piece of glass, paper and a webcam; he was able to create a Multi-Touch pad. [...]

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Fun, creepy way to save the ever increasingly rare “spare change”

26. May 2008

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Get your own face bank Share and Enjoy:

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Near Future Wi Fi Umbrella- Let it pour!

10. April 2008

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Oh you’ve gotta love the web grape vine. I saw this latest *gadget* on Podgadget who saw it on Shiny Shiny  who found it on Sharp Edge. Who would have thought that umbrella’s could do more than keep us dry? Imagine an umbrella that keeps you dry, takes pictures through the rain, has GPS, a [...]

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Internet pioneer using death rays, chicken to solve world hunger.

10. April 2008

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This is a special ArsGeek ‘In the Field’ report filed from Arizona. Jon Tannis is a self confirmed geek. He spent a number of decades in various high tech industries pioneering network security and taking an active role in the development of several protocols we all know and love today. He’s got a love for [...]

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My top 10: I really *do* want one of those!!!

9. April 2008

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I’ve always loved getting those little Fingerhut catalogues in the mail to flip through and think “OH COOL!” I learned my lesson of keeping my urges at bay when I purchased the Juicer- but the George Foreman Grill is pretty awesome! (I’m still livid that my ex got that in the divorce- Never use thumb [...]

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If you can read this, THEN BACK OFF!

7. April 2008

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For the past week I’ve tried to use mental telepathy on oblivious drivers because gestures and a blaring horn didn’t seem to work. You know the drivers I’m talking about, the ones do not understand personal car boundaries. You look in your rearview mirror and can actually count the blemishes on their face while they’re [...]

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