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  • The parade of StarCraft II accessories begins with customized SteelSeries Zboard keyboard

    The parade of StarCraft II accessories begins with customized SteelSeries Zboard keyboard

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    T-minus one month and counting till the release of StarCraft II, and we're starting to see officially branded peripherals hit the store shelves. Here's one such peripheral: the SteelSeries StarCraft II Limited Edition Zboard. As the name suggests, it's based on the company's Z Board, except, you know, StarCraft-ified.

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  • Chinese Internet addicts escape, then are returned to, treatment center

    Chinese Internet addicts escape, then are returned to, treatment center

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    A daring escape plan ended with parental scolding. Three patients (or "inmates," if you prefer) at a Chinese Internet addiction center staged a coup of sorts, overpowering guards and fleeing the area. All went according to plan until they hopped in a taxi and were unable to pay. The driver became annoyed, called the authorities, drawing the adventure to a close.

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  • Sony Reader spreads its wings, will be available internationally later this year

    Sony Reader spreads its wings, will be available internationally later this year

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    The Sony Reader, going international. The electronic book reader, which is only available here and there, will spread to Japan, China, Australia, Italy, and Spain before the end of the year. Shocked.

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  • Why haven’t our clichés been updated to better reflect today’s technology?

    Why haven’t our clichés been updated to better reflect today’s technology?

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Our clichés need updating. "Axe to grind"? How many people still regularly use axes, axes that need grinding? Why not something like "hard drive to defrag"? "Best thing since sliced bread"? Why not "best thing since the iPad"? We are surrounded by technology, but our language still reflects life on the farm. Let's do this!

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  • Lens pr0n: The Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 fisheye monster

    Lens pr0n: The Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 fisheye monster

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    You really don't need to know anything about the lens to appreciate it. It's eff'n gorgeous. Mir.com has you covered just case you want the technical details and whatnot about the lens.

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  • Review: VC Audio Pro recording / audio editing app

    Review: VC Audio Pro recording / audio editing app

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Most recording apps are fairly limited in what you can do with your recording once you’ve made it. VC Audio Pro from VeriCorder is the first multitrack audio editor for the iPlatform and is primarily aimed at journalists making field interviews and whatnot. While the editing and sharing capabilities are pretty powerful, VC Audio Pro [...]

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  • South Korea imposes midnight gaming ban to prevent addiction

    South Korea imposes midnight gaming ban to prevent addiction

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism doesn't want the country's youth becoming addicted to video games, particularly MMOs, so it's imposing a ban of sorts. Starting in the second half of this year, underage gamers will find their Internet connections disabled for six hours every night, either from midnight to 6am, 1am to 7am, or 2am to 8am. The idea is to ween kids off these games, by hook or by crook, before they become addicted. Gotta start somewhere, I suppose.

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  • RadioShack looking for a buyer, possibly Best Buy

    RadioShack looking for a buyer, possibly Best Buy

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    We could be looking at the end of RadioShack, boys and girls. The company is said to be exploring a strategic partnership, or outright sale, possibly to Best Buy. I don't see why Best Buy would be interested: what does RadioShack sell that's either A) not already available or B) entirely too niche for its Wal-Mart approach to selling consumer electronics?

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  • The F-35 Lightning II could land in your front yard

    The F-35 Lightning II could land in your front yard

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    The video above shows off the fancy-pants landing system in the new F-35 Lightning II. Notice the massive hatch just behind the cockpit that helps slow the aircraft down for shorter runways. Of course if that doesn’t work, there’s always the vertical-landing mode on some models where it really could land in your front yard [...]

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  • Review: Jabra GO 6430 Bluetooth headset

    Review: Jabra GO 6430 Bluetooth headset

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    The Jabra GO 6430 headset has the best audio clarity I’ve ever heard from a Bluetooth headset. It’s unmatched. It’s too bad that my ear and the headset don’t get along. Features Bluetooth connectivity Works comes with quick-connect PC dongle Works with Skype and Office Communicator 6 hours of talk time Charging dock MSRP of $190 Pros Amazing clarity Charges via microUSB Simple sync to a [...]

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  • Walking and jumping and generating energy, oh my

    Walking and jumping and generating energy, oh my

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Sometimes I'm assigned stories and I'm like, "Really? If you insist, boss." This is one of those stories. It's a collection of sidewalks, or derivatives, that "work while you wait." Yup.

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  • What’s up with Australia’s planned Internet filter?

    What’s up with Australia’s planned Internet filter?

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Man, what's up with Australia? I think we've touched on the country's plan to block all sorts of unwanted content from reaching the country's computers, but now Google and Yahoo have officially come out against it. Surely Google knows a thing or two about battling state-sponsored Internet censorship.

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  • Flattr your idols with many monies

    Flattr your idols with many monies

    Posted on February 12, 2010 | No Comments
    You help found The Pirate Bay, then take off. What to do with your time? Maybe, say, found another site, this time with a Web 2.0-friendly name, complete with missing vowel for no apparent reason? Sounds like a plan. Let's call it Flattr, and let's look to launch it next month.

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  • Terrible grammar? Blame Twitter.

    Terrible grammar? Blame Twitter.

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Who didn't see this coming? Waterloo University, a fine institution of higher learning, in Canada, has found that 30 percent of incoming freshman cannot pass a "simple" English test. New communication methods, primarily Twitter, texting, and social networking sites like Facebook, are to blame. To quote a classic line from The Simpsons, "Me fail English? That's unpossible."

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  • Conan O’Brien, do you want to be a CrunchGear intern for a little while?

    Conan O’Brien, do you want to be a CrunchGear intern for a little while?

    Posted on January 16, 2010 | No Comments
    All of us here at CrunchGear are fairly angry at the way NBC has treated you, Conan. So here's our offer: if you and the peacock decide to part company (and you really ought to, provided the network takes care of your staff and everyone else who moved from New York to Los Angeles, and provided you walk away with some fat cash), we'd like to offer you an internship. That's right: Conan O'Brien, CrunchGear intern. That has a nice ring to it, no?

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