Delivery for Mr. Assange

Art is rather like beauty – in that it’s always in the eye of the beholder. One of the strangest art projects I’ve heard of in a while has turned up in the form of a cardboard box packed with a hidden camera. The box was mailed to Julian Assange using the Royal Mail.

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Inside the box is a camera set up to take an image of what it sees outside every 10 seconds and posts the image to the web. At first, there was nothing compelling about the images – often nothing but black. The image above is a nice, boring shot of a wall. However, it looks like the package has actually reached its destination as of tonight, as you can see from the images below:

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Yep, that’s Julian Assange in the flesh. If you’re curious to see what the package (and Julian) are up to, you can follow it live over on Twitter.

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Assange, as you might know, is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange can’t leave the embassy out of fear that UK authorities will arrest him for his work with his Wikileaks website. Assange was given political asylum by Ecuador in August 2012 and has lived in the embassy since June of 2012.

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Tech Deals of the Day: 1/17/2013

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InTouch’s Tablet Robot Gains Final FDA Approval

inTouch Robot with Tablet The RP-VITA gained its final approval for remote guidance, making it a valuable tool for facilities with virtual physicians on the go.

Samsung Galaxy Grand Dual SIM Smartphone Should Hit Europe Soon

Changing SIM cards can be quite an annoyance, especially if you travel to the same places often, and don’t want to deal with international roaming fees. That’s one of the reasons why dual SIM smartphones are pretty useful. The Samsung Galaxy Grand (model i9082) is one of the latest phones to offer dual SIM slots.

samsung galaxy grand europe

Even though the phone has a 5-inch screen, it lacks Full HD resolution and comes with a paltry WVGA (800×480) TFT LCD display. It’s powered by a dual core 1.2 GHz processor, with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. It has 1GB of RAM, 8GB of built-in storage, and a microSD card slot. The battery is 2,100 mAh. The main camera is 8MP, with a front-faced 2 MP.

samsung galaxy grand europe side

The unlocked Galaxy Grand will cost about €409 (~$547), making it more expensive than previously thought. Samsung has been somewhat quiet about when this dual SIM phone would be released, but Samsung Ukraine issued a press release at the end of December, indicating that the Galaxy Grand would be released quite soon, and the current prediction is that it will arrive in Europe this February.

You can certainly get more powerful phones for the price, but if you want a Samsung and need dual SIM slots, you might want to check it out.

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Sony NWZ-W273 Waterproof Walkman Lets You Swim with Your Tunes

If I didn’t have my music when I was running, I probably would have trouble with boredom and motivation, especially because I usually run by myself. So I can imagine the same holds true for any sort of distance swimming. Swimmers rejoice and check out Sony’s new sports MP3 player, that’s completely waterproof.

sony waterproof nwz z27 music player

The Sony NWZ-W273 Walkman is an integrated headphone/MP3 player with 4GB of internal memory. Even if you swim more than a few laps, that should be plenty to load up your favorite tunes for a lengthy workout. Its IPX8 rating means it’s waterproof to up to 2-meters (~6.56 feet) in depth. The device delivers up to 8 hours of music playback, and has a quick-charge option which will juice it up in 3 minutes for an extra hour of playback.

sony waterproof nwz z27 music player device

I can already see hardcore triathletes using this in the water, because they will be easily able to use this on their bikes, and then in the water directly. Assuming, that is, that their particular triathlon allows the use of music players.

sony waterproof nwz z27 music player chilling

The NWZ-W273 Walkman is available in black, white, pink or blue. It’s coming soon to the Sony Store, and sells for $99.99(USD).

Mouseless Mouse Shown Off at CES

mouseless mouseA look at a mouseless mouse that lets your fingers do the browsing.

The 2014 Corvette Stingray Balances Classic Style With Improved Performance

2014 Corvette StingrayChevrolet has now unveiled its seventh generation of Corvettes. The 2014 Corvette Stingray was revealed this week at the Detroit Auto Show. While retaining iconic Corvette spirit and style, the 2014 Corvette Stingray also incorporates advanced technological features in a complete redesign, the seventh such change in the brand’s 60 year history. Read on to learn what’s new.

Google’s AR Glasses Almost Out… for Some of Us

google glassesGoogle’s augmented reality glasses may just be coming true soon.  The project that is making those glasses possible, uncreatively named
Project Glass, has been the temptation of the gadget fiends in the
recent past.

Tech Deals of the Day: 1/16/2013

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US Army Developing Voice Command Robot

Robot CowboyNew voice command AI for military drones under development.