Poll: Are these EVIL cameras?

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Is this camera EVIL?

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Words have always been considered powerful, mystical things–the story of the Golem is merely one example …

Wall of Sound is loud, prohibitively expensive, and somewhat defeats the purpose

You know the problem with most iPod docks? They’re too compact, too convenient. Luckily the wild men at Brothers in Drottninggatan, Stockholm, have the cure to tinny sounds that come in small packages. Hopefully a nod to the sound generated by “the bruddas” from Forest Hills, Queens (and not that of a certain homicidal record producer), the Wall of Sound is a handcrafted, 4 x 3 foot, 125 watt tube amplified behemoth. Intrigued? We bet you are. Sadly, the company has sold out of its first run, but you’ll need time to save up your lunch money for one of these anyways: the asking price is $4,495 (plus shipping). Hit that read link to get started.

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LG PS80 plasma TV series streams Netflix, Vudu, YouTube, local media, kitchen sink

The media-rich LG PS80 is also one of the most stylish plasmas we've seen this year.

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When LG announced its LG PS80 series of plasma TVs at CES 2009, the series earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV …

Lenovo’s all-in-one ThinkCentre gets official, becomes A70z

Lenovo let the word about this one out a little early, but it’s just now gotten fully official with its very first all-in-one ThinkCentre desktop, now formally known as the ThinkCentre A70z. Set to roll out by the end of November, this expectedly angular little number packs a 19-inch, 16:10 display up front, along with your choice of Celeron or Core 2 Duo processors, a max 500GB hard drive, a DVD burner, and a range of particularly business-minded features to keep things as stripped down as possible — even the built-in WiFi is optional. Head on past the break for a complete video overview courtesy of Lenovo itself, and look for this one to start at just $499 when it lands later this month.

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Atheros launches new energy-efficient WLAN chip for mobile devices

Your mobile devices’ wireless LAN is about to get significantly better.

Atheros, a mobile Wireless LAN (WLAN) chip maker, announced Monday the lauch of its newest and possibly the industry’s highest performance mobile WLAN chip, the the ROCm single-chip 11n AR6003 family.

The new AR6003 mobile WLAN chip is …

Portable Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (Release Candidate)

This article was written on July 08, 2006 by CyberNet.

Portable Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (Release Candidate)

I didn’t have any intentions of putting together a portable version of this Release Candidate build for Firefox 2 Beta 1 but there have been several people asking and emailing me about it. Just to let everyone know I am also working on an article for tomorrow that will walk you through some of the new features and how to change them around, like the Session Restore and scrolling tab bar. I guess you can consider it a guide to prepare yourself for the Official Beta 1 release. Now onto the portable version…

All you have to do is download the Portable Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (Release Candidate) file below. Then you unzip the file and browse for the file PortableFirefox.exe. Just execute that file and you will be running Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (Release Candidate)! The profile is kept with the PortableFirefox folder so you don’t have to worry about messing up your other profile and the uninstallation process is simple…just delete the folder!

Update:
A new Portable Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 2 is available.
 
I have also put together a nice guide for those people looking to tweak Firefox 2 Beta 1.

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G-Tech refreshes high-speed, high-capacity external storage lineup

G-Tech's new 2TB 7200 rpm-based external storage devices.

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It’s not hard these days to find external storage devices that offer 2TB or even 4TB of storage. However, most of them use low-power and relatively low-performance internal hard drives, such as the My Book series from …

Are DVRs actually going to save the network TV model?

Stay tuned for the network’s latest DVR strategy: acceptance. Armed with the latest Nielsen data, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are rushing to tell advertisers that even with a set-top box and its bevy of pauses, fast forwards and 30 second skips at the ready — we’re guessing this doesn’t apply to Media Center users on automated setups — most viewers simply settle in and watch the commercials anyway. The New York Times breaks down the commercial-plus-three ratings system the networks initially opposed that could end up saving shows like Heroes from cancellation — though a return to the old way of thinking might be worthwhile if it means an end to that show’s now pitiable existence.

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Tele Scouter sends translations right to your retina

If Japan-based NEC has its way, people who act as language translators could one day be replaced with head-mounted displays that project translations onto a retinal display. Come again?

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The Tele Scouter system is composed of an eyepiece with a front-mounted camera and a mic that picks up …

Sony VAIO L touchscreen humiliates presenter on live TV (video)

You know what they say in show biz: never work with children, animals, or gadgets. And if you must, make sure that you test drive your consumer electronics before going live. As you can see in the video (after the break), the kids on one overseas morning show failed to heed the last bit, to humorous results. For our part, we’re inclined to believe that the unresponsiveness of the Vaio L All-In-One touchscreen herein is pilot error of some stripe, but either way the man on screen handled it like a real pro. Besides, we’ve seen far worse bloopers on Japanese television — really, after the whole Yukio Mishima seppuku mess, it’s hard for us to take any of this stuff too seriously. Video(s) after the break.

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