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  • EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic

    EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic

    What's it going to take to dethrone World of Warcraft? One of two things, I'd say: one, an asteroid smashing directly into the planet, with Blizzard at the exact location of impact, or two, Blizzard releasing World of Warcraft 2. The asteroid is more likely at this point. So you can imagine the time and money EA is putting into The Old Republic, the only MMO with a chance in hell of taking away even a fraction of WoW's subscribers.

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  • Modern Warfare 2 DLC map pack coming to PC March 30, Xbox and PS3 shortly after

    Modern Warfare 2 DLC map pack coming to PC March 30, Xbox and PS3 shortly after

    We featured a so-called leaked video showing MW2's upcoming map pack last week but had no idea when players will get access to the new maps. Activision finally came clean, though, and announced that the DLC will hit PCs first on March 30, with consoles getting it sometime afterwards. Oh, and yeah, it will be named Stimulus Package just like the rumor stated, which is a kind of appropriate name, actually.

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  • Haircut Umbrella: Embarrass your kids without making a mess

    Haircut Umbrella: Embarrass your kids without making a mess

    This kid looks miserable and he’s getting paid to be in this product shot. Imagine how your own kid will look when you strap this dog cone from hell around his neck and fire up the clippers.

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  • The world is all a buzz over Google’s new social networking service

    The world is all a buzz over Google’s new social networking service

    Over-sharing the minutiae of your life is already difficult, so why complicate things with Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare when you only need one service to rule them all? That’s where Google Buzz comes in and makes annoying your friends with news about your snacking habits that much easier. Google Buzz is rolling out today, and over [...]

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  • HTC patent shows a new, spring-loaded clamshell design

    HTC patent shows a new, spring-loaded clamshell design

    HTC’s no stranger to stuffing ridiculous mechanisms into smartphones. I mean, have you seen the HTC Tilt — or better yet, the HTC Universal? Looks like they’re at it again, if this just unearthed patent is any indication. The graphic above may be a bit confusing, so here’s how it works: Imagine a clamshell phone, like the [...]

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  • Here’s Earth, but with Saturn-like rings

    Here’s Earth, but with Saturn-like rings

    Oh man. Imagine if the Earth had rings like Saturn. It’d be so cool! Instead of fighting traffic on your way to work every morning, you’d fight traffic on your way to work every morning while looking at the rings out your window! Instead of living in a basement apartment, you’d live in a basement [...]

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  • Video: HP has itself a Wall of Touch

    Video: HP has itself a Wall of Touch

    What to make of HP's "Wall of Touch"? The Wall Street Journal has a nifty little write-up of the technology, and comes away like it just shook hands with Brock Lesnar's doctors. "Thank you so much, doctor!" The fact is, despite the fact that you don't actually touch the Wall of Touch, the idea of touchscreen interfaces is no longer foreign and exotic. We're several years after Jeff Han's big demonstration, plus there was that iPhone thing.

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  • Is this the next Jawbone headset?

    Is this the next Jawbone headset?

    If you’ll pardon my terrible photoshopping skills for a second (Hey! I was using a trackpad! Also, my hands were tied behind my back, my eyes were closed, and, uh, my house was on fire), you might be looking at a fairly close representation of Aliph’s next Jawbone headset. You see, the gents over at HTCPedia [...]

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  • Samsung i899 does EV-DO, AMOLED, Android for China

    Samsung i899 does EV-DO, AMOLED, Android for China

    Imagine, if you will, a slightly revised Galaxy for CDMA with EV-DO Rev. A. What have you got brewing in your head right now? Odds are it looks a little something like this, Samsung's freshly-announced i899 for China. Since China Telecom is the patron saint of EV-DO over there, you can probably gather where this sucker will be going -- and it'll come in swinging big with WiFi, a 3.2-inch HVGA AMOLED display, 3.2 megapixel cam with flash, and an 800MHz core (probably the same one used in the Moment, if we had to guess). It'll be launching shortly -- but unless you happen to be in the area, this is probably going to be a tricky one to get.

    Samsung i899 does EV-DO, AMOLED, Android for China originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Woot! Gyration Air Mouse for $30 ($20 mail-in rebate available, too)

    Woot! Gyration Air Mouse for $30 ($20 mail-in rebate available, too)

    If you’re diligent about mail-in rebates, you can get this Gyration Air Mouse for $10. For the rest of us, it’s $30 through Woot.com today only.

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  • Avatar has hit telesync, but by all reports you should just pay your money

    Avatar has hit telesync, but by all reports you should just pay your money

    Imagine this in 3D. With like aliens popping out onto your lap. This telesync won’t be like that. Avatar is now a telesync, in English, but it seems the aliens in the copy are gray and everyone – I mean everyone – says to go see it in the theaters. If you can’t wait and/or you [...]

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  • Australian firm developing Doom-like 3D surveillance system

    Australian firm developing Doom-like 3D surveillance system

    Pretty fascinating story coming out of Australia this fine day. (Well yesterday. Or time zones. I don't know.) A research outfit there has won a AUS$1.01 million grant from the government to develop a 3D surveillance system that has been described as “Doom-like.” Someone call Anthony Cumia, he could use something like that.

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  • JVC has two more sound bars from you to pick from: TH-BA3 and TH-BS7

    JVC has two more sound bars from you to pick from: TH-BA3 and TH-BS7

    Didn't Nickelodeon used to give away JVC boomboxes and whatnot on its game shows back in the day? (I'm primarily talking to twenty-somethings here, yes.) Imagine you were a contestant on Double Dare, and you manage to find the flag inside the big nose filled with goo, and you win this, the TH-BA3. It's a sound bar, which are a heck of a lot easier to incorporate into a small space than a complete surround sound system.

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  • Imagine there is inter-species robot love

    Imagine there is inter-species robot love

    It's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only a Chinese Thomas the Tank Engine knock-off. Imagine no possessions except for Optimus Prime. And then mate the two robots to get baby Thomas. Yeah. WTF.

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  • Sony will film the 2010 FIFA World Cup in 3D

    Sony will film the 2010 FIFA World Cup in 3D

    Tomorrow is the big day, fellow football fans. That's when FIFA announces the full brackets for next year's World Cup, to be held in South Africa. Yes, there's a tech angle here. Sony has said that it will film the entire tournament, from the very first kick-off until the final whistle of the final game in Johannesburg, with 3D cameras.

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