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  • Nintendo controller car mod goes too far

    Nintendo controller car mod goes too far

    Posted on April 3, 2010 | No Comments
    I'm all for letting your geek flag fly, but this is a bit much. Perhaps he wanted to be able to control the car from the front? At least it's something that you can hide under you hood. I dunno. Props for knowing your roots and such.

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  • Official iPad “HD” apps leaked

    Official iPad “HD” apps leaked

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    A list of “HD” or “XL” apps is appearing on the iTunes web interface including a number of person favorites like Flight Control and Plants vs. Zombies. The new apps will look better on the iPad’s larger screen. You can see some of the apps here but here’s a very short list [...]

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  • TSA to track your cellphone signal to improve airport security waiting time

    TSA to track your cellphone signal to improve airport security waiting time

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    The Transportation Security Administration, ominously known as the TSA, wants to be able to track your cellphone while you go through airport security. It wants to do so in order to better understand how airport security lines work in order to streamline the process. That's the official reason. We could always jump to conclusions and assume the TSA just wants to know where you are so the government can control your every move. Not even I am that conspiratorial.

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  • Robot + iPod touch = robovie mR2 (video)

    Robot + iPod touch = robovie mR2 (video)

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) has unveiled robovie mR2 [JP], a cute desk robot that stands just 30cm tall and weighs 2kg. The cool thing is that users can place an iPod touch in his chest to control the robot (wirelessly via Wifi or by touching the screen).

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  • The HD JVC Everio GZ-HM550 lets smartphones control functions via Bluetooth

    The HD JVC Everio GZ-HM550 lets smartphones control functions via Bluetooth

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    The JVC GZ-HM550 brings a new set of standards to the table. It isn't the 1920 x 1080 recording or 9 MP stills. Nor is it the 32GB internal flash memory with an SD/SDHC card slot playing backup or even the Konica Minolta HD lens. Nope, it's the novel Bluetooth function that might make a full size camcorder relevant again in a smartphone world.

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  • .canon: Canon wants to establish its own top-level domain

    .canon: Canon wants to establish its own top-level domain

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Megalomania or genius marketing move? Canon seriously takes aim at becoming the world's first company with its own generic top-level domain (gTLD), namely ".canon". The new domain would join the likes of .com, .edu, .gov, .org, etc. (Wikipedia has the full list). The Japanese electronics giant announced [press release in English] its plan to acquire the rights for the domain from ICANN today.

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  • Control your Canon DSLR with a Nintendo DS

    Control your Canon DSLR with a Nintendo DS

    Posted on March 14, 2010 | No Comments
    After trying to find a way to remotely control their DSLRs, the clever hackers at HDRLabs couldn't really find anything that would do what they wanted. So what did they do? Built a control of their own, using a Nintendo DS. HDRLabs went on to make the device available, for free. All you have to do is build one yourself.

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  • DIY: Control your Hexapod robot with your iPhone

    DIY: Control your Hexapod robot with your iPhone

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Check out this custom made iPhone app that robotics student Robert Stephenson created. Robert wrote this app to control his Hexapod robot using the the user inputs on the iPhone. Roberst control method includes the touchscreen and accelerometers to manipulate the forward and reverse controls. Robert has done several videos about his project, it’s definitely [...]

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  • Finally! A color changing LED shower head that includes a remote control

    Finally! A color changing LED shower head that includes a remote control

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    The long wait is finally over, friends. While color-changing LED showerheads are nothing new, there’s finally one with a remote control included.

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  • Woot! Two pack of ESPN universal remotes for $8

    Woot! Two pack of ESPN universal remotes for $8

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    These aren’t the fancy-pants ESPN remotes that we’ve written about here on CrunchGear in the past. But they are universal remotes with dedicated ESPN buttons for those of you who watch a lot of sports and want a quick way to flip to between billiards on ESPN and bowling on ESPN2 at 3AM on a Tuesday.

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  • The Olympus E-P2 vs the E-PL1

    The Olympus E-P2 vs the E-PL1

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Olympus just took the wraps off its new $600 E-PL1 micro four thirds camera the other day and your main question is still probably what's the difference between the new model and the previously-announced E-P2. At least that was our primary question. There is a $500 price difference after all. So here you go, the main differences.

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  • President Obama’s policies have pushed the Doomsday Clock back by one minute

    President Obama’s policies have pushed the Doomsday Clock back by one minute

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Way to go, President Obama! Thanks to your bold and forward-thinking policies, the Doomsday Clock has been moved back by one minute! That means Planet Earth is “one minute” further away from utter destruction! Well, destruction brought about by man himself; an asteroid can still smash into the planet and we'd all be doomed. Or, as we've seen in Haiti this week, some other cataclysm can strike and we'd have zero control over it.

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  • Niveus Media has a Sirius plugin for Windows Media Center. Maybe it’s good?

    Niveus Media has a Sirius plugin for Windows Media Center. Maybe it’s good?

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    So I was all prepared to give Niveus Media's new Sirius XM Windows Media Center plugin a try. (As I found out during a meeting with Microsoft while at CES, Windows 7 comes with Windows Media Center built in. I 100 percent didn't know that till the Microsoft guys told me. Amazing. What else does Windows 7 do that I didn't know?) Right, so I was all prepared, installed it, then tried to run the configuration. Oh, sorry! It's Sirius-only! I'm an XM man, grandfathered into this whole Sirius XM debacle, so I can't use the plugin. Great.

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  • Handheld PS3 device for fanbois to cuddle at night

    Handheld PS3 device for fanbois to cuddle at night

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    So here's a somewhat interesting gadget. Instead of converting a PS3 into a hand-held device, a crafty modder named techknott built a custom transmitter. The transmitter allows a player to not only control their PS3 remotely, but also to view the output on a small video screen.

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  • Boxee will have an iPhone App

    Boxee will have an iPhone App

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like Boxee will release an iPhone App to control its upcoming set-top box, developed jointly with D-Link. The App will be on display at CES next week. Oh, God, CES is next week. With any luck Las Vegas will mysteriously disappear à la "Lost" before the show starts. That would truly be ideal.

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