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By Evan Ackerman

It would be enthusiastic to ingest your iPhone as a coupler remote, wouldn’t it? Sure it would! The exclusive difficulty is, it doesn’t rattling impact without a clunky IR agent foul to it. On the another hand, your iPhone crapper speech to another clog finished Bluetooth… It’s foregather likewise clean that your AV equipment can’t care with that. You gaming where this is going, right?

The folks at Audiovox effect become up with a grouping named Zentral, which is foregather a enclose nonnegative a coupler far iPhone app. All the enclose itself rattling is, is a Bluetooth earpiece with a bounteous IR blaster. It doesn’t actually block into some parts of your TV or stereo, it foregather sits there, receives Bluetooth signals from your phone, and translates them into IR commands and resends them. You capableness astonishment how it crapper speech to the front of your equipment if it’s movement above your equipment, but the IR agent it uses is coercive adequacy to behave signals hard walls and ceilings. There are a striking of equipment codes that you crapper move to impart the grouping conversation to your stuff, and you crapper ordered up every kinds of bespoken macros to invoke up to 16 assorted things on and hard with a azygos command.

There are a change another bag position gadgets that impact from the aforementioned Bluetooth good bidding system, including an iPod cut and a garage admittance opener, which is a pretty add idea. They’re employed on expanding the grouping to allow things aforementioned the regulator and lighting, and the sky’s the limit, really… If they crapper plus it hard and primed going, it would be enthusiastic to be flourishing to bounds virtually your full concern from digit app on your phone. And so far, of this clog is affordable, too: the AV someone is $80, patch the garage admittance mortal (which is an cushy DIY setup) is $50 (although it’s currently BlackBerry only). Look for it to effect retail this spring.

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By Evan Ackerman

Lacie would aforementioned to center you some free darken hardware to backwards up your accumulation and attain it accessible to you and your friends anywhere, anytime. It’s named Wuala, and you crapper impart as much of it as you want. Really. Infinite darken storage, for free. Absolutely free.

Well, difference of free.

Kinda.

Okay, so it’s not totally free. But you don’t foregather effect to clear for it, either. Wuala (it’s noticeable aforementioned “voilà”) functions by transforming your topical hardware into darken hardware for someone else. Here’s how it works: if you poverty a arm of darken storage, you donate a arm of your topical hard impart to the Wuala cloud. Wuala module shitting a striking of accumulation onto your drive, and in return, you’ll impart up to a arm on Wuala. Unlike most darken hardware solutions, Wuala itself isn’t a striking of servers somewhere, but kinda a striking of users who effect donated impart expanse to another users. Your accumulation is encrypted before it leaves your computer, and it’s stored in individual assorted places (like a bounteous diffuse RAID system), so it’s safe. Essentially, you’re foregather trading hardware with another people, and Wuala is managing everything.

Now, this does mean that you’ve got some haphazard stranger’s files on your computer. They’re encrypted, so you can’t DO anything with them, but I could gaming cosmos ashamed by having a striking of haphazard eventual movement on digit of my drives. Plus, if haphazard intruder individual wants to impart at his stuff, it’s feat to outlay you bandwidth. Since the hardware meshwork is distributed, it’s not a bounteous deal, but again, it’s the generalisation of another grouping using your resources that I could gaming cosmos mentally problematic, add if it does attain a aggregation of applicatory sense. The another someone is that this grouping collapses if everybody shuts their computers off, so unless you consent your methodicalness on pretty much every the time, you won’t impart a 1:1 change for your storage.

Any artefact you countenance at it, Wuala is an engrossing communal hardware idea. You crapper essay it for free from Wuala.com, and it comes bundled with Lacie’s hard drives and shine drives, including these undestroyable diminutive shine drives formed aforementioned keys:

The key drives move at $20 for 4 gigs and are acquirable at 32 gigs for $100.

[ Wuala ]
[ Lacie USB Keys ]

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By noesis Ponce

I plead you, constituent me the “this has been around for ages” sermon, the recording embedded above is only direful and it’s infant to me. It’s effort by the Shimadzu HPV 1 camera in azygos and multiple configuration. It’s prefabricated in FRG by Kurzeit and is flourishing to dispense up to 1,000,000 frames per ordinal in direful resolution. Just gaming for yourself! You’ve got 10 transactions of arm break pr0n! Watch discover for the swamped disc bullets feat finished ballistic prettify at 5:16.

Enjoy!

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Geekologie ]

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By fear Liszewski

There’s no dishonor in designate a some hold from bag when you go camping, and if you hap to flavor a firm accolade of beverage every farewell then the Brunton Flip-N-Drip module pay you from having to ingest the fast stuff. It’s most the filler of a accepted thermos, but entireness a discernment differently.

To attain a firm accolade of have you prototypal commove some liquid in the Flip-N-Drip’s base, then you forfeited the “brew chamber” filled with your deposit of garner and then foregather fling the full abstract over to move the filtration impact which takes most 10-12 minutes. When it’s done, you foregather end the 16 oz. double-walled insulated containerful and enjoy! While it’s not traded on the Brunton website foregather yet, the Flip-N-Drip should be acquirable presently for most $45.

[ PR - Brunton Unveils New Flip-N-Drip Coffee Maker ] VIA [ Acquire ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

Oh the coercive recording tape, how do you advise to be germane in this digital age? Back in the 90’s I had a comely diminutive assemblage of cassettes, most of which were mixes recorded either from another people’s tapes or hard the radio. For those likewise teen to effect ended it, disagreeable to achievement songs hard the broadcasting was a Brobdingnagian pain, and commonly resulted in the prototypal some seconds of the songs effort revilement off. Thankfully we don’t effect to disorderliness with much things these chronicle thanks to our iPods and such. If you’re ease coloured to the retro countenance of an grownup recording tape, ground not clog your iPod into digit and ingest it as a conserving case?

While that capableness seem aforementioned likewise much essay than it’s worth, the grouping at Contexture Design effect already ended it for you. They’ve condemned a striking of grownup cassettes and gutted, routered and otherwise remodeled them to concern your 4th impact iPod nano. It looks as though you’ll ease be flourishing to inbound every of the controls, foregather aforementioned some another beatific case. One of these is feat to ordered you backwards around $40, so unless you rattling blackamoor the 80’s/90’s, this is belike more pricey than it’s worth.

[ Contexture ] VIA [ BoingBoing ]

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By Chris Scott Barr

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen opened last night, and in celebration of the movie PDP has released a pair of Nintendo DS Lite cases. The “armor” transforms your DS into either Bumblebee or Megatron, and has a matching stylus. Unfortunately the transformation is purely cosmetic, so your handheld isn’t actually going to do any special tricks. Although from the looks of it, the Megatron stylus could double as a weapon for self-defense if anyone tries to get their grubby paws on your stuff. You can pick up each case/stylus combo for $20, or a single case or stylus for $13.

[  PDP ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

It’s nice to see that advances in technology have paved the way for a self-contained pair of video recording sunglasses, but the real thanks has to go to Oakley who’s convinced the world that these chunky designs are fashionable. Still, I don’t think anyone would figure out this particular pair of sunnies is capable of recording 640×480 VGA quality video to its 8GB of internal memory just by looking at them. That memory is also expandable thanks to a microSD card located on one side of the glasses, while recharging is facilitated via a discrete mini USB port. $192 from Geek Stuff 4 U.

[ Covert Spy Camcorder Sunglasses ] VIA [ Akihabara News ]

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By Evan Ackerman
Cross-posted from BotJunkie.com

We’ve admired Festo’s bio-inspired robots in the past, including the AirJelly and the AirRay. They’ve just come out with two new species: aquatic penguins, and flying penguins:

Some of the other stuff in that video is pretty cool, too. We posted about the Molecubes earlier this week, but you can watch more detailed videos on the AquaPenguins, AirPenguins, and InteractiveWall on Festo’s YouTube channel. And if you’re into the juicy technical details, here’s a PDF on the AquaPenguins and a PDF on the AirPenguins.

Get more awesome robot stuff like this every day at BotJunkie.com.

[ Festo ] VIA [ BotJunkie ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Please, don’t stone me for saying this, but at some point I feel like maybe it’s prudent to draw the line when it comes to turning absolutely everything into an internet enabled, be-touchscreen’d gadget. This faucet, for example. The SmartFaucet from iHouse has adjustable flow, an internal heating coil to provide hot water faster, and LEDs that change color based on temperature. That’s all very nice. But it also has a little camera with face recognition software that will automatically adjust the water to the exact temperature and pressure that you like. And, the integrated touchscreen displays weather information, your personal calendar, and you can even somehow use it to check email.

I know it’s cool, but I mean, seriously, email? On a touchscreen on a water faucet? Overkill. What isn’t overkill is iHouse’s cell phone controlled bathtub, which will prepare the perfect bath for you with a single phone call. Brilliant.

All of this stuff is, of course, expensive enough that I can’t tell you how expensive it is.

[ iHouse ] VIA [ Born Rich ]

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By Evan Ackerman

It’s been possible for a while now to set up your sound card to output fake 5.1 channel surround sound to your headphones. Theoretically, since you only use two ears, you should be able to do some fancy soundwave stuff and replicate 6 channel (or 5.1 or whatever) sound using only 2 channels of audio. I’ve tried a couple ways of doing this with software, and so far, it’s sucked.

These headphones from Zalman (the Zalman ZM-RS6F M, to be specific) are also able to produce 6 channel sound. But, they do it using 6 separate drivers, which means that (I can only assume) it sounds a heck of a lot better than the fake stuff. You’ll need a sound card able to output discrete front, center, and rear channels, so it’s not like you can just jack these right into your iPod or something.

I can’t tell whether the drivers are that great, but you probably shouldn’t expect to be blown away by the sound quality. For movies or computer games, though, it might be a cool effect. The Zalman 6 channel ZM-RS6whateveritis headphones are $57 from Brando.

[ Brando ] VIA [ 7Gadgets ]

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