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iPod Boombox Released
Apple unveiled the new iPod Boombox today!
"Fill your home with sound, not stereo components. Keep your music collection at your fingertips, not in countless CD cases. Change the way you experience digital music. For $349, iPod Hi-Fi delivers crystal-clear, audiophile-quality sound in a clean, compact design. Hear, hear" (Apple)
Where did the stereo go?
Just slide your iPod(1) into the built-in Universal Dock to turn on and tune in to digital music as you’ve never heard it before. From pumpi…
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Earthrace is a new concept boat that is aiming to break the circumnavigation world record. The plan is to quickly circle the globe using a powerboat that uses only renewable fuels!
"The program includes the 24,000 nautical-mile race, which the team plans to accomplish in 65 days (the current recor…
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Earthrace - Environmental Powerboat Aims for Circumnavigation Record
Today Apple released its much anticipated Mac Mini. "Live the digital life in stylish simplicity — up to four times faster. Just 6.5 inches square and 2 inches small, Mac mini lets you have more fun with your music, photos and movies, more quickly and more easily. Enjoy them up close or far away …
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Apple Unveils Intel-based Mac Mini
A full 2' long, this unique robotic shark has a full-range of motion to replicate the smooth, sleek swimming of one of nature's most efficient predators. It is able to gracefully maneuver up, down, left, right, and even backwards through water, in depths up to 9'. The shark can swim up to 40' from i…
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Remote Controlled Robotic Shark
Repliee Q1 (at left in both pictures) appeared on June 9 at the 2005 World Expo in Japan, where she gestured, blinked, spoke, and even appeared to breathe. Shown with co-creator Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University, the android is partially covered in skinlike silicone. Q1 is powered by a nearby air…
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Repliee Q1 World's Most Realistic Robot (VIDEO)
Seiko has introduced the first watch using E-ink. The Seiko Spectrum was recently launched in Japan (only 500 units available) at a cost of US$2200. At 34mm thick and 134g it may be start of a new wave wrist watch technology.
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E-Ink Watch
Yes, that's billion -- with a 'b'.
A teenager in the US recently purchased the one billionth song from Apple's digital music service iTunes.
Apples's Chief Executive said the milestone represented "a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the i…
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iTunes Reaches One Billionth Download
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater.
The Cormorant, a stealthy, jet-powered, autonomous a…
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The Navy's Swimming Spy Plane
"Mssachusetts based Moobella have devised a vending machine a bit larger than regular Pepsi and Coke vending machines which uses dry ingredents to aerate, flavor, mix and flash freeze a cup of caramel icecream with walnuts or vanilla with cookies and so on. "Dry" refers to ingredients that can be tr…
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Moobella Robotic Ice Cream Vending Machine
US television network NBC is launching its new show, Conviction, which is a youthful spin-off of the popular Law & Order franchise. But you'll find it on iTunes 10 days before you'll find it on TV.
"We believe we have a youthful and energetic cast that should appeal to a new audience increasingly c…
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Downloadable Premiere of New Show
Made with metal, wood, textile, rubber, plastic and stone, the new Rubik's cube is made for the blind. A great gift if you know someone who is blind, or just to see if you still have what it takes with only your tactile senses.
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Rubik's Cube for the Blind
In a world increasingly dependent on electronically stored information, both consumers and businesses are seeking greater data security. The answer could lie in biometric identification, in which the unique characteristics of part of a person's body - their hands, for example, or the pattern of thei…
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Place your hand on the scanner!
This sure beats economy class on a 747.
A privately-funded California firm is developing a new vehicle for air travel called the Aeroscraft. An airship the length of two football fields elevated by 14 million cubic feet of helium, the Aeroscraft has the potential to revolutionize air travel and add…
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The Cruise Ship of the Skies
Walking through Tokyo's Ginza district one Friday evening last month I saw an extraordinary sight that will soon become an ordinary one: A businessman was talking into his keitai (the Japanese word for cell phone), holding it out in front of him rather than to his ear. Suddenly, smiling, he raised t…
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Cellphone Kissing Trend in Japan
Ever find yourself thirsty and craving the taste of salad? If so, Water Salad is for you! Available in Japan...
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