Star Trek Wetsuits: ‘Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor Not a Surfer’

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These Star Trek wetsuits might – at best – produce some kind of infinite loop that could power the world with perpetual energy. At worst, they may be as dangerous as keeping the pasta next to the antipasta at the salad bar.

Consider this: Bronzed, tousle-haired and muscled surfers are hot. They might be dumb, but hunky eye-candy wins out and the ladies love a surf-dude. On the other hand, “Star Trek” is almost shorthand for “adult virginity”, and the skinny nerd inside is more likely to resembled the whining Sheldon from Big Bang Theory than the lithe Jan-Michael Vincent in Big Wednesday. Combine these opposites by putting a surfer in a Star Trek wetsuit and you have a whirling impossibility, a paradox that could power the universe.

The suits are made to be used in the water, not just as novelty costumes and come in “Command Yellow”, “Science Blue”, and “Engineering Red”. We would advise you to avoid the red uniform for obvious safety reasons. The price for this wonderful wetsuit? An illogical $470.

RDT Star Trek: The Original Series Wetsuit [Roddenberry via Oh Gizmo!]


Sprachts Bluetooth Headset Will Help Your Hearing Loss

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Eh? Can’t hear me? Maybe Spracht’s new Aura EQ Bluetooth headset will help. The Aura EQ is designed to be kind to your hearing, with a customizable 8-band equalizer that lets you change the tone of voices to make them more audible. Spracht hacked the popular CSR Bluecore5 chipset to deliver 25% more volume, according to the company.
When you’re not on a call, the Aura EQ becomes a sort of stealth hearing aid, using its external microphone to amplify voices around you, letting you hear faraway things clearly and sort out voices from noisy environments. 
The EQ doesn’t look dorky, either; as you can see in the picture at left, it has a sort of fighter-plane look to it, including a “capacitive volume strip” that you gently stroke to increase or reduce the volume. The headset will have eight hours of battery life, and will go on sale in March for $99.

Leica S2-P unboxed on video, produces sample shots

Ladies and gentlemen, please disengage your budget conscience for this post, as hearing things like “the Leica S2 seems to be quite the happy medium” when discussing a camera that costs north of $31,000 (body only!) will never make much sense otherwise. Matthew Harrison, aka The Leica Guy, has gotten his hands on what he calls the first commercially available S2-P and performed a loving unboxing and preview of the luxurious shooter. With a 56 percent larger sensor than the stellar Canon 5D Mark II (stretching all the way to 37 megapixels), fully weather-sealed casing, sapphire glass monitor screen, and Platinum Service for the discerning photographer, the S2 certainly has a spec sheet to match its price. Matthew’s impressions only confirm the supremacy of this beast, and you can hit up his site below for sample pictures. Don’t forget the video unboxing after the break, which includes (at 3:53) something that might cause real distress to bona fide DSLR junkies — you’ve been warned.

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iTunes Movie Rentals on the Way?

This article was written on September 10, 2007 by CyberNet.

It appears as though movie rentals from iTunes are on the way! This is one of those things that just makes sense for Apple to do. They already sell movies on iTunes, and they sell Apple TV which they promote as "iTunes to Apple TV, wire free," so why not rent movies to make Apple TV and their iPods capable of playing movies that much more appealing?

The image below is what you’ll see if you were to use iTunes problem reporting system, and this is where Apple slipped-up to reveal movie rentals. All you have to do is view your account purchase history, click to report a problem, and then click on a purchase that you made and you’ll notice all of the problems you could report for renting a movie like "did not receive," "accidental purchase," "duplicate purchase," "wrong version," and "Bad Metadata."

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I’d also assume that Apple would rent movies that are formatted appropriately for iPods, especially with their new line-up of iPods capable of watching movies. This would definitely be a good move for Apple because many people, including myself, prefer to rent movies instead of buy them. And if Apple could offer some type of subscription service like what Netflix or Blockbuster are able to offer, well then it’s just icing on the cake!

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ATOM-7xp humanoid robot is indeed Atom-powered, Windows-based

Our enthusiasm for this particular walking robot is unfortunately a bit dampened by a lack of video, or any evidence of actual walking, but both of those are promised to be forthcoming, and the bot still has enough going for it to distinguish itself in the meantime. Proudly made in the USA by Futurebots, this so-called ATOM-7x robot is actually powered by not one but two Atom processors (a dual-core Atom 330 and an Atom 230), which themselves power two separate systems running Windows XP and Windows 7. Those, paired with slew of sensors, gyros and accelerometers, promises to give the bot a whole range of humanoid capabilities, including an advanced stereo vision system that its creators say will let it “take on real world problems.” Complete details are otherwise still a bit light, but the bot can apparently operate autonomously in addition to being used as a telepresence robot, and it unsurprisingly wasn’t cheap or easy to build (“2 mortgages and lots of sweat”). We’ll be sure to keep an eye out for any sightings of this one in action.

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QNAP gets serious with Turbo NAS line, packing Pineview, iSCSI, and VMWare certification

QNAP gets serious with Turbo NAS line, packing Pineview, iSCSI, and VMWare certification
QNAP is generally known around these parts for its ever shrinking line of NAS devices that pack plenty of goods in a small space. The company’s latest series sets a new bar for functionality, but does so in a device you probably won’t be wedging in on a bookshelf between your well-worn (but never finished) copy of Ulysses and your leaning tower of software boxes. The latest Turbo NAS series is intended for small businesses, available in sizes ranging from one to the eight bay monster you see above, each packing an Intel D510 processor with enough oomph to fuel virtualized environments, so VMware vSphere4 certification and Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V are on-tap. iSCSI is also supported, as is IPv6 and, in one small nod toward consumers, Apple Time Machine backups have been enabled. We’re expecting to see the full suite of devices at CES just a few days hence, while they’re all slated for retail release in the coming weeks at prices ranging from $599 for the two-bay TS-259 Pro all the way up to $1,499 for that eight-bay TS-859 Pro flavor. You didn’t think all this professionalism would come cheap, did you?

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webOS paid apps coming to Europe in March 2010

Okay, so this is quite the lag from October’s North American availability, but at least when the paid portion of Palm’s App Catalog rolls out across Europe it shouldn’t experience the stuttering start it suffered back in the US of A. Palm has excitedly blurted out the news on its developer network blog, but not without the requisite garnishings of buzzwords like “leverage,” “freedom,” “choice,” “control,” and “speed,” as well as something about “faster cycle times” — all of it designed to get more developers onboard. Kinda ironic the company is boasting about fast cycle times when it can’t transition its paid Catalog to Europe in less than six months, but hey — the Pre already has that one killer app, and it’s free, so what do you care?

[Thanks, Ben]

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HSTi Wireless Media Stick nixes the need for dedicated storage drives

The banners aren’t even officially up in Vegas yet, and already we’re catching a drift of what all will be unveiled in the days to come. Take this Wireless Media Stick for example, which is HSTi’s way of telling you that a dedicated storage drive beside your Blu-ray player or media player is completely unnecessary. Put simply, this device (and the accompanying software, we presume) plugs directly into any USB-enabled disc player or media streamer that’s connected to your television; from there, you can easily stream media that’s already shacked up within your main PC to your TV-connected device(s), which cures the problem of having your media fragmented between varying drives. We’re still waiting to hear exactly what kind of technology this thing relies on (we’re guessing 2.4GHz), but hopefully we’ll find out more (along with a price and ship date) real soon.

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Pocket Wizard Fixes Reliability Issues With Tin-Foil Hats

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Pocket Wizard makes radio-frequency remote controls for camera flashes. These off-camera strobe triggers are the choice of professionals as they have a reputation of being bulletproof, firing the speedlight every single time, over and over and over.

That is, until PW got fancy and started adding support for more advanced auto-flash modes, those that let the camera and flashgun talk back and forth to create perfect exposures from afar. The Canon-compatible FlexTT5 units were suffering from radio interference when used with certain Canon speedlights, limiting the range and reliability of the system. Now, Pocket Wizard has come up with a fix.

Has the company issued a recall, or promised to send out re-engineered units that are less sensitive to interference? Nope. Instead, it will send owners of the FlexTT5 a tin-foil hat for every unit they mistakenly bought.

The hats are gussied-up somewhat with a fancy name: AC5 Soft Shields. As there is a lack of pictures accompanying the press release, we are left to guess that these free “fixes” are little more than the DIY version pictured above, a quick wrap of aluminum/copper sheeting whipped up by Flickr user Daniel Aqua.

Better news for those who paid around $420 per receiver/transmitter pair, Pocket Wizard will, in “mid to late November” (yes, in ten months) take another $30 of your cash for the plastic, umbrella-mountable AC7 RF Shield. And remember, you’ll need one for every flash you buy. Way to go, PW.

AC5 Soft Shield Available to U.S. FlexTT5 Owners at No Cost [Pocket Wizard via DIY Photography]

DIY RF shield for flash (Photo): Daniel Aqua/Flickr


Magnetic Cup-Holder Turns The Street Into a Diner

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Alexandra Pulver has a mission: to turn the streets into a dining room, an impromptu spot for a quick lunch which has many of the conveniences of a real eating place. Exhibit-A, the magnetic cup holder.

Alexandra’s blog, Pop Up Lunch, features bento-boxes that fold out into lap-trays and gadgets to transform fire-hydrants into tables. But it’s the magnetic coffee holder that we like the most, comprising a simple felt sleeve loaded with strong, rare-earth magnets. The sleeve can thus clamp to any nearby ferrous surface and the cup can be kept safe while you munch on your bagel.

Leaving aside the problems with a society that treats eating an inconvenient fuel stop, something to be done on the run instead of having fast, no-nonsense service in cheap an ubiquitous bars, this is a rather neat hack, wonderfully simple and yet arguably more spill proof than a diner table.

It’s also practically free, and easy to make yourself. Although if you have the time and energy to remember to carry one of these with you, that time might be better spent sipping a small, flavorful espresso in a cafe rather than mindlessly slurping down a quart of tasteless brown water.

Coffee Cup Holder [Pop Up Lunch via Lifehacker]