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Electric Rolls Royce Phantom Coming in 2010, Priced Just Around Half A Million Dollars [Automotive] While we don’t have the official price, we’re reading that the electric Rolls Royce Phantom will run just a bit higher than the current $380,000 gas-powered model. Let’s round that to about half a mil and daydream together.

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Electric Rolls Royce Phantom Coming in 2010, Priced Just Around Half A Million Dollars [Automotive]

Motion-Sensing Transtube 360 Shower Puts You On Display [Showers] The Transtube 360 isn’t as packed with features as the Aquapeutics shower, but it does have one thing that’s impressive: a motion-sensing door. The whole shower is like a glass go-go cage designed to make you feel like you’re washing yourself for other peoples’ enjoyment, but in a classy, design-centric sort of way.

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Motion-Sensing Transtube 360 Shower Puts You On Display [Showers]

The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building [Architecture] The new terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport is the world’s largest earthquake-safe building. You’re looking at the over two million square feet of scaffolding that support it, all resting on top of giant geological roller skates. Instead of being built on top of the soil, the whole structure rests on over 300 isolators

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The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building [Architecture]

Cop Tasers and Arrests a 10-Year Old Girl For Throwing a Fit [Crime] Are idiot cops with tasers in some sort of competition with one another? I think the new record for stupidity belongs to Dustin Bradshaw, the Arkansas police officer who zapped and arrested a 10-year old girl for throwing a fit. Get this: the mother called police because her child was throwing a fit about showering before going to bed.

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Cop Tasers and Arrests a 10-Year Old Girl For Throwing a Fit [Crime]

Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo [Weapons] The Milipol exhibition in Paris is where all the pros play with the military-industrial complex’s hottest toys. I used special commando skills (and a press badge) to infiltrate the premises and show you the world’s freshest, most mind-blowing security tech

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Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo [Weapons]

Zepto Computers files for bankruptcy Zepto Computers may not have exactly made a huge name for itself during its relatively short existence, but it did stand out from the pack somewhat with some high-end , unusually understated gaming laptops (amongst other things ). That apparently wasn’t enough to keep the Danish company afloat in the tumultuous computer business, however, as it has now announced that it’s filed for bankruptcy after not being able to secure some much needed financing

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Army, Lockheed Martin team up for DisOPS ‘battlefield PDAs’ Remember the Land Warrior program, which only took 15 years and half a billion dollars outfit our troops with high-tech battlefield uniforms? With DisOPS (”distributed operations”) Lockheed Martin is taking a different tack. Deployed to Special Forces in Afghanistan, the system is comprised of the Connect software which runs on ruggedized laptop computers, allowing squad leaders to plan missions on a map, and View PDAs that receive info over tactical radio, cellphone, or even WiFi networks.

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Army, Lockheed Martin team up for DisOPS ‘battlefield PDAs’

A Guide To Choosing The HDTV That’s Right For You [HDTV] If your holiday plans involve buying a new HDTV, HD Guru has put together a quick and dirty guide to help you avoid some of the pitfalls many consumers fall into. You will learn important lessons like: sizing your TV to optimize resolution , whether to choose LCD vs plasma vs LED and why you don’t need to spend money on a 240 Hz TV . So, make sure to check out the following link before you shop.

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A Guide To Choosing The HDTV That’s Right For You [HDTV]

This Acer Extensa EX5230E-2913 Notebook PC – Intel Celeron 900 2.2GHz, 3GB DDR2, 250GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.4″ WXGA, Windows Vista Home Premium retails at $499.99, but is just $429.99 at TigerDirect.com. This 6.34-pound portable powerhouse comes complete with the Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, an Intel Celeron 900 2.2GHz processor, 3GB of DDR2 667 memory (upgradeable to 4GB), a 250GB 5400RPM hard drive, integrated DVD-SuperMulti Double Layer drive, and a brilliant 15.4-inch Widescreen High-Brightness LCD Display.

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Fedora 12 ‘Constantine’ launches with enhanced video codec and power management Continuing in the time-honored tradition set by the likes of Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 , Fedora 12 (codenamed “Constantine”). With this release comes improvements in the realms of webcam support, video codec, audio, security and power management, as well as “bluetooth on demand” and some virtualization enhancements

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Fedora 12 ‘Constantine’ launches with enhanced video codec and power management

The MIT Technology Review has unearthed a new laser-based 3D mapping robot that can produce results similar to those obtained from $100,000 systems at about a fifth of the cost. Funded by the US Army, researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology have now demonstrated the Remotely Operated and Autonomous Mapping System (ROAMS, for short), which employs a mirror-based LIDAR system that bounces a laser off a rapidly rotating mirror and gleans environmental information from how long it takes for each pulse to bounce back

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3D mapping drone fires lasers from a mile away (video)

Finally, a Twitter App for Mac OS Classic [Image Cache] The fact that Grackle68k exists is wonderful for two reasons: First, and most obvious, is because it makes for a bizarre juxtaposition between the ancient OS 9 (or OS 8, or Systems 6 and 7) and Twitter, and self-consciously modern online service that would’ve seemed ridiculous in the age of the Bondi Blue iMac. And second, because the tiny slice of the population who still earnestly uses OS 9 is either clinically paranoid, hasn’t read a software review since the year 2000, or is stuck with a 10-year-old desktop by some truly bizarre or unfortunate circumstance, all of which would make for some top-rate tweeting

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Finally, a Twitter App for Mac OS Classic [Image Cache]

Sony’s Crazy Interactive TV Patent Lets You Throw Tomatoes at Actors [Sony] Somehow we missed Sony Computer Entertainment America’s fourth wall -breaking patent application earlier this month, but here’s how the concept would work: Using a PS3, you’d control an on-screen avatar to throw tomatoes at actors, and even kick their ass…literally. “Avatars displayed to a user, in response to user gestures in the real world, e.g.

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Sony’s Crazy Interactive TV Patent Lets You Throw Tomatoes at Actors [Sony]

Hey there sailor, we imagine you’ve been doing your fair share of button mashing what with a certain new bit of software out and about, but how would you like a whole new control paradigm? Taking up Steve Jobs’ war on buttons, a group of grad students at Japan’s Keio University have put together a comprehensive robot control interface that relies solely on finger swipes, taps, and presses. By employing the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer and multitouch screen, the robot can replicate a humanistic walking motion, perform sidesteps and, when called upon, kick a football with gusto and presumed passion.

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Walky robot understands iPhone gestures, football fanaticism (video)

Why would you want to build a 100-strong swarm of mini robots? Well, aside from having them as your minions, you might be able to learn about “artificial self-organization,” and “control in large robotic groups,” which should come in useful during the inevitable robot insurrection . The swarm robot project, undertaken by the Universities of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe in Germany, aims to produce mini drones that can communicate with one another to avoid collisions, while keeping to a volume of less than three centimeters cubed

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Swarm robot project sounds ominous, uses open source

A Cylon Mated with KITT, and Out Popped This MK 2 Circuit Watch [Watches] Worthy of a sultry Number Six, but priced at a more commonfolk level, the MK 2 Circuit watch from Storm of London is one of those rare gadgety watches that actually displays the time in a meaningful manner. There’s no chronograph, or really anything else other than time and date, but it’s got a slick look that can no doubt be read in the dark, in a black Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am, or in the blackness of deep space amongst the gods. A somewhat hefty $200 and this new release is yours.

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A Cylon Mated with KITT, and Out Popped This MK 2 Circuit Watch [Watches]

Meet the British Man with the “Bionic Bottom” [Cyborgs] What better way to, um, end the This Cyborg Life theme week than a post about a British guy with a bionic ass? Meet Ged Galvin, a 55-year-old chap from Barnsley, south Yorkshire, who is currently in possession of a very special remote control. A remote control that, when engaged, controls Galvin’s bowels and allows him to go to the bathroom with dignity

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Meet the British Man with the “Bionic Bottom” [Cyborgs]

Super Expensive, Incredibly Limited Edition Leica M7 Hermes Could See Monday Release [Cameras] If the rumors swirling this weekend are to be believed, the Leica M7 Hermes —a limited edition film camera with a run of only 100 units —will arrive on Monday for a lofty $14,000. Rumors surrounding the launch of this expensive little retro looker have been with us since about November 10, when the expertly named Leica Rumors site broke word that the company sharing their namesake was all but prepared to reveal a limited edition film camera. Two weeks before that, the M7 Hermes camera was showcased in Tokyo, looking gorgeous.

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Super Expensive, Incredibly Limited Edition Leica M7 Hermes Could See Monday Release [Cameras]

Sometimes when we see the seemingly slow advance of Honda’s ASIMO , the inherent limitations of WowWee toys , or the purposefully limited one-off research projects of universities, we start to give up hope of being super best pals with a humanoid robot this century; hope of partaking in whimsical 80s movie hijinks, hand-in-metal-hand. This little video of the Korean Institute of Advanced Science and Technology’s recent advances on its HUBO project therefore serves as a bit of a “hope refresher,” allowing us to once again re-imagine those aforementioned scenes of whimsy with a metallic bot that can handle a sword and walk at an almost-useful pace, while inexplicably wearing a smallish, visored helmet. Sure, there’s a long way to go, but we’d just like to say that when the robot apocalypse doesn’t happen and we realize how much we really have in common with these machines we’ve built to look like us, that somewhere in late 2009 this video helped us keep on believing

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KAIST’s HUBO shows off some newfound dexterity, hides emotions behind ill-fitting motorcycle helmet

Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins] Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. For nearly the first year of her life, her parents and doctors were unaware of the NF, and the brittleness had contributed to multiple bone fractures of the lower leg, unbeknownst to anyone. These early bone breaks resulted in her left leg being seven centimeters shorter than the other, and as a bright, precocious and athletic child, she adapted to her leg imbalance incredibly well.

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Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins]