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That lovable vacant-eyed monkey, Julius, is back, and he wants to hold your iPod. Paul Frank and SpeakerCraft have just announced the Julius Dance Machine, an iPod docking station that promises high audio quality combined with creative packaging. It’s built so that Julius holds your iPod in his lap. It offers a rechargeable NiMH battery and is compatible with all iPod models. You’ll get up to six hours of playing time between chargings. It looks like the little guy’s ears are volume buttons.

If you want to snap up this dock–and you might just want to, if you can’t find a good Hello Kitty model at an affordable price–check for it at Paul Frank retail shops or at PaulFrank.com. It lists for $99.95.

The Sunswift IV (aka IVy) might look like a mobile dinner table, but it’s actually the world’s fastest solar-powered vehicle. The table-top on wheels got the official nod from the Guinness Book of World Records last week, for hitting a top speed of 88km/h (about 55 mph) — nearly 10 km/h faster than the previous record-holder, the GM Sunraycer, which bears a striking resemblance to a disembodied Android monster. IVy, designed by Sunswift, a student-run non-profit at the University of New South Wales, reached its top speed using 1050 watts, about 400 watts less than the Sunraycer, and performed its record-smashing run without the 25kg battery it’s usually packing. Faster runs have been clocked, including by IVy, but Guinness has not been on hand for confirmation.

Sunswift IV, world’s fastest solar-powered racer, leaves GM Sunraycer in its dust originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on July 24, 2008 by CyberNet.

Flock has always been focused on the social side of the web, and there’s no browser that integrates better with all of the popular social networks. They have decided to take it one step further by offering a special edition of their browser that is targeted towards fashion and entertainment enthusiasts that adore the color pink.

When you first fire up the Flock Gloss Edition browser you’ll probably be taken back by it’s vast use of pink. But don’t be deceived because the skin isn’t the only thing that has changed. When you go digging into the RSS feeds and bookmarks you’ll see that they’ve already taken the liberty of populating them with the most popular fashion, celebrity news, lifestyle, shopping, and magazine websites from around the web.

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The Flock Gloss Edition is supposed to be more fun for those interested in this type of thing, and the Flock team describes it best when they say “Your friends are always there – just like celebrities in rehab.” You can download the Flock Gloss Edition here if it sounds like something you or your better half would enjoy.

Note: This is still the version of Flock that is based on Firefox 2, not Firefox 3.

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We’re big proponents of the idea that everything is better with lasers, and a team of researchers at UC Berkeley has created a new type of semiconductor plasmon nanolaser, or spaser, that could eventually find a home in many of your favorite devices. The big breakthrough is that Berkeley’s spaser operates at room temperature — previous spasers could only sustain lasing at temperatures below -250° C — enabling its use in commercial products. Plasmon lasers work by amplifying surface plasmons, which can be confined to a much smaller area than the light particles amplified by conventional lasers. This allows for extreme miniaturization of optical devices for ultra-high-resolution imaging, high sensitivity biological sensors, and optical circuits 100 times faster than the electronic variety. There’s no word on how soon the technology will be commercially available, so you’ll have to wait a bit longer for your first laser computer.

World’s first room-temperature semiconductor plasmon nanolaser created by Berkeley scientists originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

Wouldn’t it be nice to get some free music downloads with no strings attached? That’s something many of us long for, and it’s the same thing that the RIAA despises. One of the places where I can legally download free music is a site that one of my friends told me about, and it’s called PureVolume. There they have a wide variety of artists (both signed and unsigned) that have songs available for download. They may not be people you’ve heard about, but I’ve found a lot of really good music on there from many different genres.

If you can’t find anything there that you like, Mahalo has put together a lengthy guide on downloading free music. They discuss using services like The Hype Machine, SeeqPod, Elbo.ws, Del.icio.us, Google, and even the BitTorrent network as sources of getting some tunes at no cost.

I had known about the Google trick before, but the Del.icio.us trick was what really caught my attention. By adding some parameters onto the URL you are able to filter bookmarks based upon the file extension they point to. Here’s how it works:

1. Create a custom search by typing http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3 into the URL box. This will bring up a list of all of the MP3s on del.icio.us.
2. In order to search for music from a specific artist, add "+ArtistName" to the end of the URL. (i.e. http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3+Radiohead).
3. Right-click on the link and choose "Save Link As" in order to download the file.

Now how cool is that? I tried doing searches for a lot of different artists, but didn’t come up with many results. So don’t expect this to be a gold mine, but it is still pretty cool.

The Google trick is similar in how it works:

1. Typing: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" mp3 "White Stripes" into the Google search box will bring up directories that contain songs by The White Stripes. You can replace "White Stripes" with the name of the artist you’re looking for.

This used to be a pretty effective method for finding music back when it was first discovered. You would browse through sites in an FTP-like manner and download the songs straight from their servers. However, there are a lot of spammers out there now that have created similar sites that are only made to redirect you to somewhere else that is infested with "click the monkey and win" ads.

If you’re looking for more ways to download some free music, head on over to Mahalo where you’ll find a great guide awaiting you. If you’ve got a great place you get free music from let us know in the comments (yes, we already know about BitTorrent ).

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