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A few months ago, my house was broken into, and one of the items stolen was an Xbox 360. This morning, I got an interesting email in my inbox:
“Purchase confirmation for Xbox Live 3 mo. Gold Membership”
Obviously, since I no longer own an Xbox, this struck me as unusual. I called Microsoft right […]

The fine folks at RoboSavvy have created an example of exactly how amazing the Nokia 770’s potential is by creating a series of robots using a 770 as the brain and to display facial expressions. This is all made possible because of the open source nature of the platform, combined in a lightweight enclosure […]

Amy Youngs media art delights and disgusts with a composting “digestive” indoor table. This is actually a really great idea for city dwellers without the proper outdoor space for a compost heap. It’s basically a table with a big ol’ udder on the bottom full of worms. You drop the food scraps […]

Engadget seems to have gotten its grubby little mitts on a few more spy shots of Nokia’s 870 Internet Tablet, this time with some actual content.
As far as I can tell, the current benefits over the Nokia 770 are limited to: slightly increased RAM, a camera, an integrated stand, and an additional SD slot. […]

I’ve been looking for something like the JimXfor a while now, ever since the last time I was mugged. After the hassle of canceling my credit cards and replacing my driver’s license, I stopped carrying a wallet. I keep my money loose in my front pocket, and my ID and credit cards in […]

I ordered an external hardrive and enclosure, and a cheap USB keydrive yesterday, at around noon. Shipping was $4.99 with UPS 3rd day. Here’s the current tracking status:

10/17/2006 05:41:00 OUT FOR DELIVERY[I] SPARKS, MD, US
10/17/2006 05:40:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] SPARKS, MD, US
10/17/2006 03:16:00 DEPARTURE SCAN[I] LAWNSIDE, NJ, US
10/17/2006 01:15:00 LOCATION SCAN[I] LAWNSIDE, […]

Apple’s iPod Shuffle is a ridiculously cool little device. I bought one because I wanted a USB thumb drive, and for just marginally more than a standard one, I figured I may as well get one that can play mp3s. I picked up a 1GB drive back in February, when they dropped the […]

Hitachi Maxell has a new optical storage technology: a sort of floppy disc. The idea is basically that it’s a super thin high capacity CD. This allows them to put a bunch of the the little guys in a cartridge for massively large storage in a small space.
My idea is that you put […]

I think I’ve finally found a way to add gunfighting to PLUNDERDOME: The pink teddy bear gun (thanks Engadget). I would have to imagine these could be easily modified to fire other types of plush doom, as well.
I wonder how reusable they are? For that matter, it can’t be terribly difficult to build […]

DCRP has reviewed my ideal camera, the Canon PowerShot S3 IS. This thing meets every single one of my big features:

It takes AA Batteries, no $75 battery packs you have to buy for the privelege of not being able to find batteries when it dies and there’s no camera shop around.
It’s Canon, I’m […]