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  • Good job, government: TSA manual leaked online, de-redacted very easily

    Good job, government: TSA manual leaked online, de-redacted very easily

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Your friendly neighborhood CrunchGear writers have spent the past several minutes rifling through a de-redacted (un-redacted?) TSA handbook; Matt is going to print our hard copies and hand them out at his local farmer's market. It was leaked somehow, and can be found all over the place. (I first found it on Cryptome, which is the go-to place for anything security-related.) Naturally, the authorities are freaking out, so get it while you can.

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  • Luxury wine vending machine

    Luxury wine vending machine

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
    It's not really a secret: Japan loves vending machines. So it's not really surprising this newest (and quite unique) model is made in Nippon, too: A vending machine that lets you buy luxury wines through a pre-paid card. The machine is supposed to soften the negative effects the current recession has for wine lovers.

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  • Cyberbike may be the largest Wii accessory to date

    Cyberbike may be the largest Wii accessory to date

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    If you’re a Wii owner and you've been thinking to yourself, “Boy, there aren't nearly enough available accessories for my console,” then maybe you'd enjoy blowing off some steam on a full-size Wii-compatible exercise bike. Yes, a bike.

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  • Dev finds Windows Marketplace DRM severely lacking, easily circumventable

    Dev finds Windows Marketplace DRM severely lacking, easily circumventable

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments

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    Microsoft's Windows Phones just left the chute a few days ago, and already it seems that ye old DRM is getting talked about -- and not in a good way. According to one Chainfire over at XDA-Developers, the so-called "copy protection" involved in keeping applications in place rather than strewn across a neighborhood of handsets is a pitiful joke, requiring just five minutes of tinkering to save the CAB files that the Marketplace app downloads to a separate folder. In other words, that relocated CAB file could be distributed to all of your friends, turning a single purchase into freeware for as many people as you know (or don't know, even). So, Marketplace devs -- does that make you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside, or what?

    [Thanks, GreeKNastY]

    Dev finds Windows Marketplace DRM severely lacking, easily circumventable originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Video: Panasonic commercial shows new “Avatar” footage (kind of)

    Video: Panasonic commercial shows new “Avatar” footage (kind of)

    Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
    The official trailer for Avatar, James Cameron's new (and supposedly groundbreaking) Sci-Fi movie, came out just last month, and now Panasonic is showing a TV spot promoting their Viera TVs and the movie on Japanese television. The commercial, which is currently in heavy rotation on TV over here, shows some very brief new scenes from Avatar (which is due out in both the US and Japan on December 18).

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  • Lok8u: GPS wristwatch keeps tabs on kids

    Lok8u: GPS wristwatch keeps tabs on kids

    Posted on September 18, 2009 | No Comments
    UK-based Lok8u (Get it? Locate you?) is a GPS-enabled wristwatch meant to be worn by children. The watch also features a built-in cell signal, too, which enables location information to be relayed rapidly to parents while waiting for the GPS chip to get its bearings or when there’s no line-of-sight to GPS satellites.

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  • Video: Arduino-powered life size electronic snowball fight game (I can’t explain it)

    Video: Arduino-powered life size electronic snowball fight game (I can’t explain it)

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Okay, just humor me and watch the video, please. It’s not like I get paid to describe things with… those… um, you know, the things that make stuff readable. With individual letters, etc. And periods, commas — the things in between those. This here’s an interactive, outdoor electronic snowball fight comprised of two life size [...]

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  • Palm Pre at Best Buy for $99 – Update

    Palm Pre at Best Buy for $99 – Update

    Posted on July 26, 2009 | No Comments
    The internet is all aflutter with stories rolling in concerning the Palm Pre being sold for $99 with a two-year contract at neighborhood Best Buy locations. Although the Pre is nowhere to be found on Best Buy’s website, here’s an in-store photo from PreCentral.net for your enjoyment. Not a bad deal at all, considering the $99 [...]

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  • PRTMobile.com: The Mobile Web comes to the folks next door

    PRTMobile.com: The Mobile Web comes to the folks next door

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    PRT MobileI was out for my evening constitutional last night, enjoying the sight of "For Sale" signs on homes throughout my neighborhood, when I spied with my little eye something new and novel. I've seen URLs on For Sale signs a couple of times, and always thought that that was a fine way to attract eyeballs to your property. Let's face it: trawling though MLS listings sucks, so going directly to a property's URL is a time saver! What I saw last night, though, was even better: a URL specifically geared for mobile phones. "Mobile users, go to prtmobile.com/1908".

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  • You too can buy 1,000 zombie PCs for pennies on the dollar!

    You too can buy 1,000 zombie PCs for pennies on the dollar!

    Posted on June 18, 2009 | No Comments
    You know those “have-a-penny/need-a-penny” jars you find at 7-Eleven and whatnot? Here's a cool way to kill a few hours: go around your town collecting pennies. Then, with said pennies, buy a whole bunch of zombie PCs, then start your own botnet. You'll be the coolest kid in the neighborhood.

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  • Outlet Wall: More Powerful Than You Could Possibly Imagine

    Outlet Wall: More Powerful Than You Could Possibly Imagine

    Posted on June 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Imagine not only being able to plug in your hardware exactly where you like, never having to search for a power socket again. Imagine, further, that it looks like this resplendent Outlet Wall, and that the cables, normally  mere clutter that needs to be hidden, instead become elements of this decorative piece of art. Now, imagine [...]

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  • First Look: Lonely Planet iPhone Guide NYC

    First Look: Lonely Planet iPhone Guide NYC

    Posted on June 5, 2009 | No Comments
    The Lonely Planet guide is an iPhone travel guide done right. It takes everything from the original dead-tree guide and squeezes it into an iPhone (or iPod Touch) sized package. Better still, it does adds some things that are impossible to do in an old-fashioned paper edition. Lonely Planet guides are, like any other travel guide, [...]

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  • Japanese toilet paper “Drop” is the scariest toilet paper you’ve ever seen

    Japanese toilet paper “Drop” is the scariest toilet paper you’ve ever seen

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments
    In case you have seen the Japanese horror movie "The Ring" or its acceptable American remake, you already have a taste of what kind of person Koji Suzuki is. The guy didn't have to do anything with the movies but authored the book of the same name. Now, Suzuki is about to release a new horror story. The name: Drop. Nature of binding: None. It's released as a toilet paper roll. Aptly named, I would say. The thing is seriously being marketed as "Japan's creepiest toilet paper" and will be released over here on June 6.

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