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No More No Less Faucet by Jasper Hou. Image via Yanko Design.

This high-tech faucet solves two problems, both for you and for the environment. First, no more wasting water down the drain because you forgot to shut off the tap. Second, no more time wasted fishing around your cabinets for a measuring cup.

The designer, Japser Hou, built the faucet with a simple controller that shuts itself down after a certain amount of water passes through it. Technically, it doesn’t measure volume but time = you enter the desired amount of water, and the tap will shut itself down after the number of seconds it takes the tap at full blast to pump that much water. Finally, there’s a built-in auto-shutoff, to turn the tap off after 30 seconds. Could be inconvenient if you’re trying to fill the entire sink to soak dishes, but if you’re anything like me, compared to leaving the tap on and walking away, that’s a relatively rare scenario.

It’s also quite elegant. You control how much water you want by twisting a simple knob. An LCD screen displays your setting, along with water temperature and total water outflow (kind of like a built-in odometer). This last part blows my mind: there’s no electricity or batteries. The LCD screen is powered by the water flowing through the tap. Like your very own river mill or hydroelectric dam, right in your kitchen!

A Quantitative Tap [Yanko Design] (Sadly no pricing or purchasing info available)

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The company that invented in-wall speakers wants to make sure your sound system in your backyard looks and sounds as good as the one in your house. The BoomTomb subwoofer with integrated 250 watt amp gets buried in the ground with only the port exposed — and hopefully somewhere it isn’t likely to be tripped over — where it can accompany your Ruckus speakers that look like rocks. It’ll start shipping in the fourth quarter for a yet unannounced price, which means you might have to wait until the spring for the ground to thaw for those in the colder parts of the northern hemisphere.

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If you are tired off the shaky video from you camcorder, take a look at Joby Gorillapod Video. The Gorillapod does for the camcorder what Joby did for still cameras, providing a portable tripod that is both stylish and versatile.

The Gorillapod Video is made of anodized aluminum and has magnetic feet on its signature segmented legs. The legs can cling on any surface or wrap around someplace, say a pole, to shoot video from a distance.

The swiveling ball head goes around a full 360 degrees and tilts 135 degrees.

The Gorillapod Video is designed for mini and pocket camcorders, such as the FlipVideo and Kodak Zi8, and point-and-shoot cameras with video capabilities.

Priced at $30, the camera is available online.

Dell announces two new desktops for the holiday season.

Tucked away at the bottom of a news story about who’ll be carrying the 7-inch Galaxy Tab in Ireland this year is the promise of a 10-inch Tab (presumably for the whole world) next year. This comes straight from local General Manager Gary Twohig, who seems to have casually disclosed his company’s plans for a 10-inch Android slate in the first half of 2011. Beyond that, all we know is that it’ll include the V8 JavaScript Engine that first showed up as a touted feature in Froyo, though if we had to bet our Led Zep record collection, we’d probably say this 10-incher will be holding out for Android 3.x — either Gingerbread or Honeycomb — for an experience better optimized to run on larger screens. In fact, that may be the likeliest reason why this new tablet didn’t debut with its 7-inch sibling: waiting on a better OS.

[Thanks, Iain]

Update: The original story has undergone a bit of massaging since we first reported on it and the connection between Gary Twohig and the 10-inch Tab has now been removed. We’re still inclined to believe the content, however, as Samsung itself has not been shy about its plans to bring multiple Galaxy Tab sizes to the world.

10-inch Galaxy Tab promised for 2011 by Samsung Ireland General Manager (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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