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  • Forget hearing aids. We’re talking about brain aids, people

    Forget hearing aids. We’re talking about brain aids, people

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Needing assistance with your most basic of senses is never something anyone wants to advertise. Thus we’ve come up with handy ways of making them socially acceptable. Enough nerdy kids like myself needed glasses that they’ve become fashion accessories in and of themselves. And modern hearing aids usually focus on being tiny and out of [...]

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  • Ballmer hints that new Xbox styles may be coming

    Ballmer hints that new Xbox styles may be coming

    Posted on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
    And lo, from the Ballmer came the words, and the words were about the Xbox, and they did ponder the words as to what they meant. And then the idle speculation started, and people started posting stuff on the internet, and it just got silly. But judging from (and speculating from) some comments that Ballmer said at a recent UW speech, there's a pretty good chance that there may be some new kinds of Xboxen coming to your television.

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  • Curse Raises $6 Million As It Looks To Become The Ultimate Gaming Resource

    Curse Raises $6 Million As It Looks To Become The Ultimate Gaming Resource

    Posted on December 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Most people would probably view a hardcore, 16 hour-a-day addiction to World of Warcraft as a bad thing. That was certainly the case for Hubert Thieblot a few years ago, when he dropped out of school and his parents decided to kick him out of the house because he was playing so much. Flash forward five years. Thieblot has managed to turn his addiction into a thriving company called Curse that generated over $3 million in revenue this year. Today, the company is disclosing a $6 million Series B round it closed in early 2009 with participation from Ventech Capital, AGF Private Equity, and SoftTech VC (Jeff Clavier). The round brings Curse's total funding to $11 million, after a $5 million Series A round in 2007 led by AGF Private Equity. In some senses, Curse is akin to a SourceForge for computer games, in that it offers a directory of plugins that players can use to customize and enhance their PC games. Many of the site's users are World of Warcraft fans, who have made Curse.com the definitive site for WoW add-ons. Alongside its directory, Curse also makes a native client players can use to manage their plugins.

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  • Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Edition is expensive, gold plated

    Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Edition is expensive, gold plated

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    If we know you (and we think we do), your idea of class isn't a modest candybar dipped in gold -- no, it's a modest candybar made from hand-cut and polished solid gold. But just in case you feel like slummin' it, the Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Edition is, as the name suggests, a 6700 Classic handset with a limited edition 18-carat finish, some special wallpaper (to compliment the phone's Fort Knox-esque new look), and a €370 (roughly $550) price tag. Tempted? You have until Q1 2010 to come to your senses.

    Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Edition is expensive, gold plated originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Samsung Instinct HD coming to Sprint September 27

    Samsung Instinct HD coming to Sprint September 27

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Sprint may not be the number one mobile carrier, but it sure does seem to be picking up the slack in the handset department recently. The Now Network is expected to get yet another new mobile in the form of the Samsung Instinct HD. Looks like the rumor we noted back in August about a September [...]

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  • Review: TrickleStar TV/PC

    Review: TrickleStar TV/PC

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    While it is well known that I once did a burlesque show under the name TrickleStar in Weimar Germany, many of you don't know that TrickleStar is also a system for shutting down idling hardware next to your TV or PC. I'm here to tell you, my kleine Kuchen, that it's really great. Think about your own sad situation: you have a computer or TV that you turn off. The constellation of devices that orbit these central devices remain on or in a standby state. The TrickleStars solve that problem by turning everything off when the main items are off.

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