Archive for August, 2010 - Page 27
ioSafe's SoloPRO Hard Drives Get New Connections, Same Old Toughness
Sometimes you need a hard drive that can take just about anything. And considering the last time we saw ioSafe was handing out free hard drives to disaster victims, it’s pretty safe to say their stuff knows how to take a punch. And the ioSafe SoloPRO looks like it’s ready [...]
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Magic Trackpad Becomes USB Device With Simple Hack
Sure, the wireless Magic Trackpad is awesome…but buying batteries for it is a pain of an epic scale. For Mark Bog, though, it was such a pain that he decided he wasn’t having it any more and thus hacked his Trackpad to get it to run on USB power.
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Willow Garage Sponsors PR2 Video Contest
It’s hard not to love the Willow Garage PR2. This crazy robot has shot pool and fetched beer while we all watched, laughed, and longed wistfully for the days when we could tell a robot to fetch beer and shoot pool. But before the commercial availability of these guys, Willow [...]
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Cleveland Set To Shell Out $2.5 Million on RFID-Equipped Trash Cans
We’ve heard people telling government to get out of their bodies, their bedrooms, their houses and everything in between, but the city of Cleveland looks to take a bold step by being the first government everyone there wants out of their garbage.
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Scammers Use PayPal to Cost Customers Thousands of Dollars
Hackers or scammers, whatever you may want to call them, have exploited a loophole using actual iTune accounts. The problem has cost subscribers thousands of dollars in receipts using PayPal and their bank accounts.
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Kodak Outs the Kodak EasyShare M590 Camera and Kodak PULSE WiFi Digital Frame
Kodak seems to have a lot of products set for release as of late, two more in the form of what is perhaps the thinnest digital camera in the world and a WiFi enabled digital picture frame which should make photo sharing a whole lot easier.
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Samsung's BD-PX600 Gets Firmware Upgrade, Stops Playing Warner Brothers Movies
Blu-ray player firmware upgrades can be a pain, no mistake, but it’s bad enough to have to deal with constant updates. It’s worse–much worse–when they suddenly reduce the functionality of your hardware. And that’s what happened to Samsung users who discovered they couldn’t play Warner Brothers or Universal movies after [...]
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Archos Set To Unveil Five New Android Devices During IFA 2010
Like a little kid waiting to see what will be under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. That is how I can described myself after reading just a few of the items that are expected to be unveiled during the IFA 2010 tradeshow that is going to kick off shortly [...]
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Nokia N9 Specs & Features Leaked?
Remember that Nokia N8 that was supposed to be already available in various markets, but isn’t, and instead is available for pre-order only in some of them? Well, forget all about that Symbian^3 smartphone as a better choice might be just around the corner, the recently leaked N9.
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Kodak Releases New EasyShare D1026 Digital Photo Frame
Kodak has released a new digital picture frame in the market with the Kodak EasyShare D1026 digital photo frame. This new addition to their family of digital picture frame should make it easier for users to add and share images of their priceless photos.
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