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  • Compact Flash to SD Adapters Provide Unneeded Solution

    Compact Flash to SD Adapters Provide Unneeded Solution

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments
    These CF/SD card adapters are either brilliant or bafflingly bad. The trouble is, we’re not sure which. The widgets let you take SD cards and use them in cameras which usually only accept the larger Compact Flash cards. This could be useful, we guess, if you happen to have a lot of SD cards lying around. [...]

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  • Terrifying Three-Headed Gadget Tree is a Mobile Medusa

    Terrifying Three-Headed Gadget Tree is a Mobile Medusa

    Posted on June 19, 2009 | No Comments
    If you chop one of the heads off the Super Universal Car Mount, two will grow in its place. The suction-cup mounted gizmo holder brings a touch of gorgon-glamour to your dowdy car interior, and while it will not actually spawn new gooseneck brackets, if you’re still worried, you can use the rear-view mirror to glance [...]

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  • Play Lebowski@Home With Wii Bowling Ball

    Play Lebowski@Home With Wii Bowling Ball

    Posted on June 18, 2009 | No Comments
    This is the Wii accessory Homer would buy Marge for her birthday. The “Bowling Ball for Wii” is supposedly an “ultra-realistic” ball for the many bowling games for the console. Three holes in back provide a place to grip, just like a real ball, and there are buttons on the other side to take care [...]

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  • Screw cooking with gas, I wanna cook with lasers

    Screw cooking with gas, I wanna cook with lasers

    Posted on June 9, 2009 | No Comments
    When appliance heavyweight Electrolux has a design contest, you know there's going to be some crazy stuff coming out it. This year is no exception, as designer Ludovic Peperstraete has come up with his "Cooking in the Futur" design, which suggests that 90 years from now we'll be using laser beams to cook food instead of gas or convection ovens. Do you hear me? Lasers, people!

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  • NVIDIA GPU resurrected after 10 minutes at 425°F

    NVIDIA GPU resurrected after 10 minutes at 425°F

    Posted on May 30, 2009 | No Comments

    We've seen some pretty weird stuff in our years on this planet -- heck, we've revived our own drenched Sony DAP by burying it in rice for 48 hours -- but this is easily one of the most bizarre gizmo resurrections we've ever come across. As the tale goes, one valiant NVIDIA GPU owner apparently bit on a myth which suggested that a pinch of time in the oven (quite literally, might we add) would repair faulty GPUs that were throwing up oodles of vertical lines. After purchasing another GPU to replace his ailing 8800GTX, he figured he had zilch to lose and gave it a shot; lo and behold, the temporary warmth seemingly melted the solder points and healed micro-fractures that were causing the unwanted lines. We've yet to hear how his attempt at returning the new GPU went, but hey, there's always eBay. Give the read link a look if you're still in disbelief.

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    NVIDIA GPU resurrected after 10 minutes at 425°F originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 May 2009 21:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Travel Honey GPS functions as a homing device, photo tagger, party favor

    Travel Honey GPS functions as a homing device, photo tagger, party favor

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments

    The last time we saw a simplified GPS homing device about, we weren't too terribly impressed. Sure, the premise was solid: press one button to lock in the position of your car (or the gold of Dresden), and it will return you to its location after your day at the mall (or after you've successfully evaded capture). But who wants to spend $80 on a glorified key fob? Not us, that's for sure. For a less pricey alternative, you might want to check out a little something called the Travel Honey. Distributed by Chinavasion, this bad boy not only functions as a stand alone unit, lighting up as you zero in on your target, but it can also connect to your PC via USB for use as a full-blown GPS unit (software not included). And if all that weren't enough, it will also log your various locations in a text file (perfect for keeping track of mileage and geotagging photos). Available now for $53.87.

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    Travel Honey GPS functions as a homing device, photo tagger, party favor originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 May 2009 22:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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