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Topographic Fruit Bowls

Published on March 22, 2006 by in Gadgets, general

Yes, that’s right….If you would like a lovely geography-inspired way to display your apples, oranges and other tasty fruits, then check out these custom-milled wooden fruit bowls in the shape of 3D topography. They’re not cheap at 149 euros, but really, how can you resist the opportunity to have a mini 3D landscape on your

 
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More monitors…MORE

Published on March 13, 2006 by in Gadgets

As previously posted by Frank…Most at WVU would consider me mentioning something from Virginia Tech blasphemy at best, but here goes. VT has put together a 24 monitor set up that is just, well, a lot of monitors even in my mind. BUT, they have 12 linux boxes driving the monitors that can run Quake

 
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Pharos iGPS-500 – Engadget

Published on March 9, 2006 by in Gadgets

Along with the ultra portable announcements coming out of CeBit, Pharos has announced a new GPS receiverg  The iGPS 500 will be available in different varieties that include SD, CF and Bluetooth. Pharos iGPS-500 – Engadget

 
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The Proper Way To Play Video Games… and View Data, I guess…

Published on March 9, 2006 by in Gadgets, General, Hardware

Here’s a cool toy: a twenty four (that’s right.. I said 24) screen display of people playing Quake 3 on 12 Linux machines running (I just have to say it again) 24 screens! Perhaps even more interesting is the 9 screen display playing Warcraft II at 3840×2160 pixels. Notice there’s no bezels on the 9

 
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GPS Visualizer

Here’s a pretty cool free application for anyone heavily into using your GPS unit. You can upload your GPS data to via typing in coordinates, street addresses, or uploading a file, and this tool will output a map showing your route. The really cool thing is that you can output to a pretty decent set

 
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GPS Media Center

Published on March 7, 2006 by in Gadgets

Microsoft and VW are showing off an interesting prototype at CeBit.  It is car-based Media Center that includes GPS and will be a full computer including internet capability.  This dash and seatback mounted display looks pretty swank, but it is still just a prototype. Engadget

 
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Well it isn’t in the shape of a whooping crane!

Published on March 7, 2006 by in Gadgets, Hardware

Apparently Microsoft has released the semi-final/latest word on their super-secret Origami project. It’s pretty much what all the rumors had said previously – it’s a “ultra portable” computer. The device is suppose to have around a 7″ touch screen and run full versions of Windows XP, abet optimized for Origami. Later versions are suppose to

 
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New Matrox external triplehead video adapter

Published on March 2, 2006 by in Gadgets

Matrox put out a press release today on their new external triple head video adapter.  As I may have mentioned before, I am a fan of ‘the more monitors the better’ scenario.  I am very curious to see how well this supports 3D graphics since their current Parhelia series just can’t keep up with nVidia

 
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Woman versus machine

Published on February 24, 2006 by in Gadgets

On Episode 2 of InDigital, an IPTV show/video podcast, in a review of the Magellan Roadmate 800, they pitted a host with the Roadmate against a host with her own knowledge of Los Angeles in a 2 stop race to see who could get to the stops and back to the starting point first.  The

 
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MultiTouch demo video is breathtaking

Published on February 14, 2006 by in Gadgets

OK, so our listener Matt pointed out a link to a blog post that includes a video demo of the multitouch technology that has been mentioned in a few places related to Apple’s patent filing. After watching the video I hearby declare myself a fanboy (thus making gushing OK)! The interaction in the video is

 
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