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Aigo A215 MP3 player
The Aigo A215 MP3 player offers 2GB’s of storage capacity and an amazing 50 hour battery life. It does look like your standard stick memory stick style MP3 player.
It supports WMA9 and WMA10 for your DRM loaded music files.
It doesn’t appear to have a North American release date, but the UK can find them [...]
No Steve Jobs for Apple Expo in Paris
It appears that the Apple Expo in Paris will not be including a keynote from Steve Jobs.
It’s unclear if Apple’s executives aren’t giving a keynote because of France’s recent legislation designed to open competing digital rights management technologies so that all music download services are compatible with any MP3 player, or if the company simply [...]
Amazon Video Store Images?
It looks like Amazon.com has accidentally leaked their new video site onto the public internet by using an obscure URL that was found by Google.
I wonder if the Amazon video store will be able to compete with anything that Apple can offer over the iTunes video store.
There will be some heated competition in the legal [...]
Dell chooses AMD for desktop line
According to MarketWatch Dell Inc. has announced that it will offer AMD’s Athlon chip in its Dimension computer line starting next month. This ends a long, and exclusive partnership with Intel.
This is an impressive move from Dell. It means that it is less reliant on Intel, and may include some cost savings for [...]
Palm readying to unveil new Treo
Palm has announced that on September 12th they will be unveiling ther latest version of their popular Treo line of smart phones.
It looks like it will still be using Windows Mobile. The software has been known to be quite troublesome in the smart phones, but has gotten better over the years.
The 700p is their [...]
Apple Firmware Update Gives Fans Constant Run
The firmware update that has been introduced causes the fan to run constantly so that it prevents some of the overheating issues that have been causing trouble.
The fan speed is quite slow, so the noise doesn’t seem to be a concern.
“Now we have an update that appears to fix both issues, yet folks are now [...]
Terahertz Processors on their way?
I would love to get my hand on one of these, although it’s probably not going to be for quite a long time.
It appears that scientists at the University of Rochester have come up with the design. They have it estimated to operate at 3,000 gigaherts (3 terahertz for those that were wondering). [...]
A very smart egg
Boiling an egg can be kind of tricky. I don’t think it will be soon though. There is now an egg that lets you know by using print on the shell when it is done boiling.
Such a great idea!
Their solution? A self-timing egg imbued with the powers of heat-sensitive invisible ink that turns [...]
Rubber Band Gatling Gun!
This image should speak for itself:
This thing is amazing. It is actually for sale, and can be bought at a hefty price of $395.00.
These are the features:
This beauty is a fully funcitonal machine gun with TWELVE rotating barrels and a live action trigger. Loads 12 bands per barrel for a whopping 144 rubber bands [...]
Subwoofer without a cone
This is a revolutionary new woofer design. It is the first home audio woofer that delivers true response to DC. It goes as low as 1Hz.
There is some good stuff in this article:
Most subwoofers have a difficult time producing acoustic output below 20Hz at audible levels. They generally require large amounts of equalization, [...]


