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Nokia and Motorola are only two of the companies which have been rumored to be buying out Palm later this week for up to a cool $2 Billion. The acquisition of Palm would not only put the company purchaser ahead in the game with smartphone production, but would also wipe out a signifigant competitor, while gaining rights in using the ...

Grand Theft Auto advertising has begun, and Rockstar sure isn’t kidding about this release. Plastered all over New York City, seemingly overnight, are these GTA IV teaser posters. Odds are that people didn’t even know what they were for and passed them off thinking it was some new trendy Broadway show. Or maybe a new medical sitcom titled, I.V.? Well ...

Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) from PIPS Technology is preparing for wide scale use among law enforcement agencies through the nation. ALPR is expected to raise the efficiency of cops many times over. The ALPR mounted camera can recognize up to 3000 license plates an hour. Until now, only a task Arnold Schwarzenegger could accomplish. As police patrol their district, ...

When we hear that alarm clock beeping in our ears in the morning, we either ignore it, or wish we had a gun to blow the damn thing to pieces. With this gun operated alarm clock you can have all of the fun of the second option, while wiping out the need of the first. Designed by Roger Ibars, this ...

Picture this. You come down with a horrible case of some horrible diarrhea inducing disease. Now imagine being able to take a pill that literally detects the illness, builds a custom remedy, and then delivers the drug to the necessary areas in need of healing. The University Of Maryland is working on a similar method in which magnetic nanofactories would ...

Looking for a cool way to control your music devices? Check out this instrumented glove project. At a low cost, the designer of this project created a cool looking glove that has an interface capable of controlling music devices, but we’re sure could be modded into almost anything you wanted. To create this finished product, you’ll need to dissect and ...

Weather along the eastern coast of the U.S. has been insane. Rain one minute, sunshine spring weather the next minute, snow a minute later. It’s always good to be equipped with a good umbrella. If it looks cool, it doesn’t hurt. The Phasing LED Umbrella has glowing LED bulbs which illuminate the umbrella to create the illusion of a star ...

Sources are saying that at next month’s upcoming NAB event, a mere 25 days away, Apple will launch its release of the Mac Leopard operating system, along with eight-core Mac Pros. Leopard has been rumored as having a release in late-March to mid-April, and sources say that its release at NAB is all but officially confirmed. The timing of a ...

The BlueDot Divita DVD/CD storage tower is a sort of high-end cataloging system for those who want to keep their collection organized systematically. The unit stores up to 100 CDs or DVD’s and features a 1.8″ color TFT panel with a number pad. This allows the user to add the name for each item in their collection they wish to ...

Remote controls are usually a dime a dozen. A flat piece of plastic with assorted buttons strewn on one side is a nice generic description of most remote controls. The Light Saber Remote Control adds some flavor to the same old, same old. Design company Taito, designed the Light Saber Remote out of sheer spite for the conforming designs of ...