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A Dusseldorf, Germany regional court has partly lifted a preliminary injunction issued last week banning Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe, the day after Webwereld noticed inconsistencies in Apple’s injunction filing. Now Europeans (save those living in Germany) won’t need to trek to the Netherlands to get their Tab fix — at least until a verdict is issued after Samsung’s August 25th appeal hearing. Sales of the device were originally banned following an Apple lawsuit alleging patent infringement, but were permitted to resume after a realization that a German court may not have the authority to halt sales of a South Korean company’s device outside of Germany. Since the judgement didn’t affect devices that had already been distributed to retailers, it’s unknown whether or not the week-long ban has had any effect on sales.

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German court lifts ban on some European Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Eraser Pencil does away with wood

Why buy a pencil and an eraser, or even a pencil with an eraser, when you could have the Eraser Pencil? The design, from Deuk Young Lee of Korea, ditches the wood entirely and replaces it with a long length of stiff rubber. Thus, as long as the pencil is long enough to write with, it still has an eraser.

Why Lee made it a cross shape is a little less obvious. It certainly limits the amount of available eraser, and also looks rather uncomfortable to hold, despite Lee’s assertion that it is in fact more comfortable. And what happens when the rubbery exterior bends? Will the lead inside shatter and snap into several shards? Almost certainly.

Deuk Young Lee: Eraser Pencil [Design Boom]

See Also:

• Video: Inside a Pencil-Making Factory
• Drill-Mounted Pencil Sharpener: What Could Possibly Go Wrong …
• Sharpie Reinvents Pen with Liquid Pencil
• Neither Pen Nor Pencil: Write Endlessly In Metal
• Continuous Pencil Means No More Stubs

Business and pleasure: The Duet vibrator comes with 8GB or 16GB storage

The Duet is a tiny, thumb-sized vibrator. That alone probably wouldn’t be worth writing about, but this vibrator is also USB-powered, and can be bought with up to 16GB storage.

The toy plugs into any free USB port to charge, and when full can give a terrifying four hours of pleasure. It has four different patterns of vibration, five power levels, and runs almost silently. This discretion extends to the design, which doesn’t really look like a sex toy at all.

In fact, the feature list is pretty good even before we get to the vibrating part. The silicone and metal body is completely waterproof. You can drop it into water up to three meters (10 feet) deep, and of course you can use the thing in the bath.

But the oddest part is the flash memory option. I can see the sense of putting a few gigs of storage into something that will be plugged into a USB port anyway, but what on earth would you keep on there? Porn is the obvious answer, but what’s the point if you can’t look at it and use the vibrator at the same time?

The Duet is currently seeking funding in CKIE, a Kickstarter-like site. You’ll need to pitch $75 to get the base model (it’ll be $140 when it goes on sale), $125 for the 8GB stick ($190 retail) and $250 ($350 retail) for the 16GB “Luxe” model which comes with a shiny gold-plated coat.

Duet product page [CKIE via Yanko]

See Also:

• NSFW: Make My Vibrator Vintage
• New iPod Touch Has a Vibrator
• Wind-Up Vibrator is Powered by Your Wrist
• Vibration-Powered Batteries Charge Themselves

Apple has been accused by a Dutch publication of misrepresenting the size and dimensions of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab in a court document to make it more closely resemble the iPad.

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It’s been something of a long time coming, this emboldened Bold. We got our first glimpse of the thing in February, spent some quality time with it back in June, and since then have sat around eagerly awaiting its release. Now, here it is. From a distance, or at a quick glance, it looks little changed from 2008’s Bold 9000. But get closer, pick it up, and the difference is astonishing.

RIM has gone to great pains to talk up this device’s high-end design, its luxurious stylings, its sophisticated aesthetic. We’re far from Vertu territory here, but the first time this phone hits your palm you know a lot of people spent a lot of time making it feel just right — even if it still looks just the same. Of course, it’s what’s inside that counts, so join us as we find out whether the soft and hard bits beneath the surface can do the business too.

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BlackBerry Bold 9930 review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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