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World’s thinnest speakers? Nanotechnology & carbon nanotubes
noiseaddicts.com — Nanotechnology has made a flexible, stretchable, transparent material thinner than paper that can be used as a speaker. The material can be put into clothing, wallpaper or onto windows. The material was developed by Chinese scientists and is made up of carbon nanotube films and could be used to produce the world’s thinnest speakersMore… (Gadgets)
Hi-Tech Laundry Texts When Clothes Are Ready
npr.org — At the University of Virginia, students can look online to see if washers and dryers are available. The machines can even send messages to the students' phones when the laundry is ready. The only problem ... they can't teach students how to wash their clothes.More… (Gadgets)
Escape Clock Lets You Escape Your Wake-Up Call
blog.wired.com — This is the Escape Clock, from Argentine designer Santiago Cantera. Details about this concept alarm clock are so sparse that some other writers have simply started making up features. More… (Gadgets)
TiVo Delivers Domino's...Is there anything TiVo can't do?
zatznotfunny.com — Late last night, broadband-connected TiVo Series2/3/HD owners may have stumbled upon the new Domino’s widget. While we first caught wind of this in regards to the Austrailian TiVo service, US TiVo subscribers are first to tap into Domino’s online ordering system - requesting pizza from the comfort of their couch. More… (Gadgets)
10 Gadgets That Have No Business Using a Jet Engine
gizmodo.com — A jet engine attached to anything is sure-fire entertainment—as the following ten gadgets will demonstrate.More… (Gadgets)
Lego Safe is ultra secure [w/ video]
slipperybrick.com — You might think that a Lego safe would be easy to open. Maybe just remove a few bricks and you’re in. But that’s not the case with this thing, the cutting edge of Lego safe technology. The safe weighs 14 pounds and has a motion detecting alarm so it can’t be moved without creating a huge ruckus. More… (Gadgets)
Five Gadget Which Were Killed by The Cellphone
blog.wired.com — Calling a cellphone a mere phone seems a little silly these days. The little pocket wonders now do so much they are really handheld computers. With extras. The process of mashing one or more gadgets together in the same box used to be called convergence, but that approach quietly died as the mobile phone ate up any and every rival device.More… (Gadgets)
Replica Calculator 1st Intel Microprocessor used by Mankind
gizmodo.com — Long before we dissected new Apple MacBooks or worried about whether a PC had that "Intel Inside" sticker on case, there was this ditty called the Busicom 141-PF printing calculator. The iconic piece of tech , to commemorate the event, Bill Kotaska built a working replica with vintage Intel 4004 microprocessor. More… (Gadgets)
San Francisco artist looks to replace lost eye with webcam
nydailynews.com — Vlach, who lost her eye in a 2005 car accident, wears a realistic acrylic prosthesis, but she's issued a challenge to engineers on her blog: build an "eye cam" for her prosthesis that can dilate with changes of light and allow her to blink to control its zoom, focus, and on/off switch. More… (Gadgets)
***** on Segway flees LA fires! view!
Flash Coming to WinMobile & Android Phones, not iPhones yet
mobilecrunch.com — Adobe’s Flash Player is on 98 percent of all desktop computers, but it is still struggling to make the jump to mobile phones. If you want Flash on a mobile device, right now you have to settle for a compromised version: Flash Lite. Monday Adobe will demonstrate the full Flash Player 10 running on a Windows Mobile phone, and will ship in 2009.More… (Gadgets)
Intel Core i7 CPUs reappear on NewEgg
engadget.com — Remember those Core i7 processors that showed up -- ever so briefly -- on NewEgg a few days ago, only to promptly disappear, leaving us to ponder what we'd done wrong? Well, even though they're not slated to officially hit shelves until November 17th, we've heard from a slew of vigilant tipsters (hipsters?) that they're back.More… (Gadgets)
Will Obama GIve Up His Blackberry?
nytimes.com — Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry. Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say, when he takes office in 65 daysMore… (Gadgets)
Concept: Taking Social Networking To The Next Step
industrialdesignserved.com — "You place a user on the screen to find more specific updates about that person. Data is retrieved using the emdedded RFID located in the friend pass..."More… (Gadgets)
The 'Minority Report' computers become reality!
engadget.com — If you've been waiting for that Minority Report-style interface to really come to fruition, you can finally exhale. One of the science advisors from the Steven Spielberg film -- along with a team of other zany visionaries -- has created an honest-to-goodness, real-world implementation of the computer systems seen in the movie.More… (Gadgets)
