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Friday, May 06, 2005

Worst USB Peripheral Yet: Decapitated Barbie

This is just sick. Some guy modified a Barbie doll so that when you remove her head, a USB plug is exposed. Just stick her neck into a USB port, and you get an extra memory drive.

Link to this item. 2:32 PM

Laser Beams 'Taste' Fruit Without Touching

Michigan State University aggie propellerheads are working on a laser-based system that can "taste" fruit -- judge its sweetness, firmness and overall quality -- quickly and without touching the fruit.

Link to this item. 7:56 AM

Bank Robber Caught By GPS

A teller in Cincinnati, Ohio, dropped a GPS gadget into a bag of money demanded by a bank robber. He was tracked and caught in 42 minutes.

Link to this item. 7:14 AM

Hooray! Google Launches Web Accelerator! (Now Here's How to Block It)

Google's new Web accelerator serves up pages faster. It also can serve up the wrong pages faster. (One user reported being logged onto a forum under someone else's username, for example.) Here's how to block it.

Link to this item. 6:47 AM

Networked Emoticons For Meatspace

E-mail and IM emoticons -- smiley, frownie, winkie faces, etc. -- have busted out of the electronic world and entered the real world. Mauricio Melo invented a device that you plug into a PC or cell phone anywhere you want your mood expressed. Click on any of the four buttons in software, and the face of your choosing lights up. The faces can be in your office or on the other side of the world. It's just an idea, not a product. (props to we make money not art)

Link to this item. 6:38 AM

Thursday, May 05, 2005

How Secure Are Passwords? 66% Surveyed Would Reveal Theirs For a Cup of Coffee

A VeriSign man-on-the-street survey found that 66 percent of San Franciscans would give their passwords for a cup of Starbucks coffee. (I'll bet 80 percent would give it up for a cup of Peet's....).

Link to this item. 8:05 PM

Found Photo: Liquid-Cooled Mac G3?

The Mac people are showing off again! (props to tigersprout)

Link to this item. 8:00 PM

Found Photos: PSP Video Billboard Going Up In SoHo

A massive Sony PSP billboard is being built in New York's SoHo. It's gonna be pretty darned cool.

Link to this item. 2:14 PM

HP Vice President Launches 'PodCast' Blog

Interex is reporting that HP senior vice president and general manager of the Adaptive Enterprise and Software Global Business Unit (you know someone works for HP when her title contains 16 words), Nora Denzel, has launched an MP3-based audio blog she calls "Agility Radio."

Link to this item. 12:53 PM

RIM Passes PalmOne? Not True.

Everyone is reporting that RIM has overtaken PalmOne as the number-one PDA vendor. Don't believe it. Here's why the Gartner report is misleading.

Link to this item. 8:59 AM

Monday, May 02, 2005

Technology We Didn't See Coming: The Inflatable Home Entertainment System

If you've got $10k and a good set of lungs, you can enjoy the SuperScreen Outdoor Theater System, a giant, inflatable, rugged home entertainment system for watching movies and TV ourside. (props to Engadget)

Link to this item. 8:13 PM

Washing Machine Fingerprint ID Forces Husbands to Do Laundry

Desperate housewives: A new washing machine called "Your Turn" forces your husband to help with the laundry so you don't have to. A Spanish designer built fingerprint ID into the device and won't let the same person do laundry twice in a row.

Link to this item. 8:02 PM

MIT to Host Time Travelers' Convention -- Attendees From All Eras Invited

An MIT student is holding a time-travelers' convention May 7 and has invited attendees from all eras. The Web-based invitation even includes longitude and latitude coordinates that people can use to punch into their time machines. He's asked that lots and lots of people publish information about the convention online, so the information will persist for years into the future.

Link to this item. 7:51 PM

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