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Motion-capture is popping up everywhere. The Wii brought it home with its WiiMote and the iPod found a way to integrate motion-sensing into a portable communications device. The main problem with most of these motion-capture gizmos is that they aren’t very refined. By this I mean they are good at …

We all remember the Rubik’s Cube. Six sides of multi-colored mayhem that drove many a would-be puzzle solver to the brink of insanity. How could something so simple turn out to be so mentally taxing? As a child of the 80s I can still remember the craze as it hit …

We’ve all seen the little gadgets that you can carry around that let you know when you’re near a Wi-Fi signal. They normally take the form of a small handheld device that you can fit in your pocket or put on your keychain. Not a bad idea, really. So why …

Solar power has remained a bit of an oddity when it comes to its acceptance as a wide-spread alternative power source. It probably has something to do with the cost of making the photovoltaic cells or the fact that no matter what device is created with solar power in mind …

If you are having trouble with excess popularity, good looks, and general coolness, and the pocket protector isn’t doing it for you, I think I have just the thing. I believe I may have stumbled upon the quintessential geek garment. This thing enables you to accomplish two things. You can …

Just in time for the September release of the Clone Wars: Republic Heroes game for Wii, BDA Consumer Products, Chinese Champions of Controller Creation, has created a set of officially-licensed Nintendo Wii controllers designed to resemble lightsabers and a clone trooper blaster. This is truly the stuff of dweeb dreams.

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Whilst we try to keep cross posting between TFTS and EP at an absolute minimum there are, on a few occasions, items that strike us as being so very cool that they undoubtedly merit all the exposure we can give them – and this is most certainly the case with …

Motorola’s new AURA luxury cell phone which, according to Motorola, boasts ‘the world’s first 16 million color, circular display’ comprising of a scratch-resistant, 62-carat, Grade 1 sapphire crystal lens, has now begun shipping though, as you’d expect, the Motorola AURA’s price tag is not for the faint hearted.

Trossen Robotic’s MechRC Humanoid Robot, which comes pre-assembled – or what Trossen Robotic’s bill as being as being ‘ready-to-walk’ – and which boasts 17 separate servos resulting in the MechRC being capable of enacting over one hundred pre-loaded actions out of the box, has just become available in the US.

Aimed specifically at geeks who yearn for a digital LED alarm clock capable of displaying the time in a range of particularly nerdy formats – from standard display to hexadecimal, binary to octal – this ThinkGeek Epoch LED Clock comes complete with standard AC power adapter as well as an …

Just for a change, let’s cut straight to the chase here – we love Big Time Digital Wall Clock. In fact we love this beast of a digital clock – which measures in at a far from understated 100 x 50cm – so much that the moment I’ve finished writing …