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SageTV Won

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Sad to say, it beat me, broke me, turned me into a quivering gelatonous mass when all was said and done. What can I say? I was spoiled by Windows MCE. (!!!) SageTV is less intuitive, requires more work, and, in the final count for me, refused to switch tuners when recording back to back [...]

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Making Your Laptop More Secure

Saturday, March 31, 2007

There’s a trend to bake more security into laptops, whether it’s new features for Windows Vista or Seagate’s new encrypted hard drives. That’s why Yoggie Security Systems’ approach is unusual. It’s trying to take the security out–onto a USB token, to be specific. More

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Amazon Free to Amazon

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Brazil’s government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world’s biggest rain forest. The environment and communications ministers signed an agreement Thursday with the Forest People’s Network to provide an Internet signal by satellite to 150 communities, including many reachable only [...]

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Don’t Blow Your Nose

Saturday, March 31, 2007

As it increases its use of robots in war zones, the military will begin using an explosive-sniffing version that will allow soldiers to better detect roadside bombs, which account for more than 70 percent of U.S. casualties in Iraq.Fido is the first robot with an integrated explosives sensor. Burlington, Massachusetts-based iRobot Corp. is filling the [...]

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Are You Following Me?

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Cisco dicussed their plans to design a set of small smart bots during the Military Technology Conference in Boston this week. The bots can act as wireless communication relays that can sense when a user’s service drops. The robots are said to be able to follow the user around vitually anywhere. More

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What Rhymes with Bribery?

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Johannes Feldmayer, a top-ranking official at Siemens, was arrested in Germany due to an investigation into suspected bribery. The police detained him stemming from an investigation into payments Siemens made to the head of the AUB labor organization, authorities said. Siemens said the arrest of the head of its IT services business will not affect [...]

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Insignia MP3 Player & Image Viewer

Saturday, March 31, 2007

The good: The Insignia 4GB Video MP3 Player is one of the first MP3 players to offer built-in Bluetooth. It’s also a good value and offers several desirable features such as an FM radio, video playback capability, subscription music support, and a removable, rechargeable battery. Plus, it’s easy to use and includes a MicroSD card [...]

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SharpVision XV-Z20000

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Editors’ rating: 8.8 The good: Solid color decoding, excellent black level performance; good shadow detail and accurate gamma, comprehensive feature package with numerous picture adjustments; great connectivity with two HDMI and one DVI input. The bad: Primary and secondary colors are off; all lens adjustments are physical rather than electronic. The bottom line: Sharp’s XV-Z20000 [...]

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All Together Now…Lift!

Saturday, March 31, 2007

A human-sized android was paraded in a public demonstration in the middle of last week in Tokyo, and it was proudly showing off its weightlifting skills to everybody by picking up a 30kg package from a desk as well as lifting a 66kg humanoid doll out of bed… Professor Yasuo Kuniyoshi from the University of [...]

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Geek Car Alert

Saturday, March 31, 2007

This gadget is easy to install and provides a set of digital gauges, a comprehensive trip computer, and an engine trouble code scan tool. The digital gauges mode displays four different properties on the screen (for example, fuel economy, battery voltage, coolant temperature, and engine speed). The trip computer tracks your vehicle’s maximum speed, average [...]

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Toyota’s In-Car Operating System

Saturday, March 31, 2007

‘iCOS….? More

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Grado GS1000 Headphones. Only $500 per ear.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

The first thing you need to know about the Grado GS1000 is that it’s a $1,000 investment. Sure, that’s pretty steep, but these headphones are perhaps the best ever made. A single driver per ear covers a frequency range of 8 Hz to 35 kHz and operates in what almost seems like its own room. [...]

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Listen Up iPod Users…

Saturday, March 31, 2007

…that’s the Dragon I, a new sound system with an integrated iPod dock and a design that’s clever and original. Each of the “tentacles” is actually an independent speaker with 5 watts in a total power of 20 watts. The speakers can be bent as you wish, making it bizarre and great looking at the [...]

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Apple TV’s Real Name?

Saturday, March 31, 2007

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81mph on a Bicycle

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Long winters make cyclists do crazy things. It’s aimed at the flying 200-meter world record, which is currently held by Canadian rider Sam Whittingham with a speed of 81 mph flat. That’s right, 81 mph on a bike, on flat ground. More

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