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That’s right, HP spent $1.2 billion on Palm so they wouldn’t have to write software to run their printers. Joking aside, today during HP’s Q2 earnings call, the HP-Palm deal was a hot topic as you can imagine, and HP CEO Mark Hurd expanded on what HP’s plans are for webOS, and it includes printers. (…) Read the rest of webOS Coming To Printers [HP CEO Promises webOS Coming To Multiple Devices, Including Web-Connected Printers] (255 words) Post by Chris Smith | © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010.

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webOS Coming To Printers [HP CEO Promises webOS Coming To Multiple Devices, Including Web-Connected Printers]

Hack Factory Cabaret is a new monthly community event in the style of the Chaos Computer Club’s Lightning Talks and Noisebridge’s 5 Minutes Of Fame . Our first event will be this Thursday (May 20) from 7-9pm and will be FREE to all and FUN so bring your friends.

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Speed talks at the Hack Factory in Minneapolis

For the fifth year in the Bay Area, Maker Faire welcomes thousands of makers of all ages who show us the amazing things they create. Here’s a preview of some of what you can expect to see and do at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010, May 22 and 23 at the San Mateo Expo Center. Spacebridge Panel Discussion Expo Hall ” Noisebridge , the San Francisco hackerspace, has a space program now,” wrote Ed Hunsinger on Laughing Squid .

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From hackerspace to outer space: A Maker Faire preview

Sad day for those interested in the graphics card industry has a huge manufacturer has decided to cease producing graphics cards in favor of other computer components. BFG Technologies, the NVIDIA graphics card manufacturer, had been founded to produce graphics cards back in 2002

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BFG Tech Ends Graphics Card Business [Sad Day For Graphics Industry As BFG Ends GPU Cards To Focus On PSU, Computers]

I showed the enclosure for the primary Arduino in the previous post in my Arduino Nerf sentry gun build series. This is the enclosure for the secondary Arduino — the one that drives the MotorShield to sweep the Nerf gun back and forth. It’s a Chameleon Enclosure that I slightly modified with a nibbler so I could drop the board low enough to fit the Arduino , MotorShield , and ScrewShield .

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Arduino Nerf sentry gun build: Secondary Arduino enclosure

It seems like it was just yesterday that the very first Kindle eBook reader from Amazon.com was released to market. However, what seems like yesterday was actually almost 3 years ago when Amazon released the eReader, effectively introducing the mass market to eBook readers. Sure, there had been many, many e-Ink touting eBook readers on the market before the Kindle but none that really made a splash like it did.

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Amazon’s Kindle Finally Hits Android [After Already Having Been released for the iPhone and BlackBerrys, Kindle Finally Makes its Way to Android]

When the Palm Pre was first announced way back when there was a pretty good amount of hype surrounding it; many thought it would be Palm’s killer come back device thus securing their foothold in the mobile phone marketplace. Well, after experiencing some turbulence on its way to market mixed with some poor support for it’s App Store competitor, the Palm Pre, much to Palm and Sprint’s dismay, never really got the spotlight it deserved. (…) Read the rest of Sprint’s CFO Comments on the Palm Pre, Carrier’s Future [Sprint's CFO says That While the Palm Pre Didn't Take Off, Other Tactics Will Help the Carrier] (255 words) Post by TFTS | © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010

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Sprint’s CFO Comments on the Palm Pre, Carrier’s Future [Sprint’s CFO says That While the Palm Pre Didn’t Take Off, Other Tactics Will Help the…

Google’s Gmail application is my favorite Google product after Google Search (we can’t really browse the Internet without that Search engine) and I’ll be the first to recommend Google Mail to you both as a personal and as a professional email client. In fact Google is so good at getting new features out that with Gmail in place you’ll probably not require another email client again.

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New Windows Live Hotmail Is Official & Really Hot [Microsoft Challenges Google & Apple with Hot New Hotmail Client]

I first blogged the aluminum dead drop spike from Brian Dereu’s Hollow Spy Coins back in March. For those who aren’t up on their tradecraft, a “dead drop” is a place where spies or other clandestine-y folks drop off items for later retrieval by other agents.

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Deluxe dead-drop spike in solid stainless steel

The HTC Mondrian is probably the first HTC Windows Phone 7 to start selling later this fall but it’s not the only device that will run Microsoft’s latest mobile platform and give the new iPhone a run for its money. We now have one more important WP7 handset that got leaked and this time around it’s an unnamed device coming from LG

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LG Windows Phone 7 Joins HTC Mondrian in Leak [Unlike the HTC Mondrian, the Unnamed LG WP7 Handset Comes with a QWERTY Keyboard]

Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.

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Daily Dispatch: Web users unknowingly leaving fingerprints; Amazon to release Kindle app for Android

Google made one more important purchase as the search-based giant acquired Global IP Solutions, a company that could prove to be very useful later down the road as Google will probably use it to bring its own VoIP capabilities to Android OS, including video chat functions. (…) Read the rest of Google Android VoIP Video Chat Coming Soon? [Google Purchased Global IP Solutions, Could Bring Video Chat to Android Phones Soon] (286 words) Post by MikePayne | © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010

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Google Android VoIP Video Chat Coming Soon? [Google Purchased Global IP Solutions, Could Bring Video Chat to Android Phones Soon]

Hunter Scott, a student at Georgia Tech, discovered a serial out on a Star Wars Force Trainer EEG toy, so he decided to make it into a musical instrument . When activated, the electroencephalography -driven toy plays a variety of samples depending the readings from the alpha and beta brainwaves. Mental Note is the name I gave to a project that I made for Yahoo HackU 2010.

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Mental Note: An EEG musical instrument

Seriously, Apple, how many new iPhone prototypes did you lose in the first place? Is it more than two? We’ve seen one emerge in the USA last month and one in Vietnam last weeks but it looks like there are more to go around

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New iPhone 4 / 4G / HD Lost in Vietnam Gets Captured on Video [How Many iPhone 4 Prototypes Did Apple Lose in the First Place?]

Tablets are the hot hand these days, and BT is now looking at offering a tablet to their customers that would tie into their fixed-line phone plan. This news comes by way of rumors, which are reporting that BT is looking at producing their own tablets. (…) Read the rest of British Telecom Looking At Tablets [New Rumors Saying BT To Launch Tablet Smaller Than iPad With Cloud Services] (193 words) Post by KevinSchram | © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010.

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British Telecom Looking At Tablets [New Rumors Saying BT To Launch Tablet Smaller Than iPad With Cloud Services]

We announced the winners of the MAKE/MakerBot giveaway last week, and Bre has already printed out the top two designs! Here’s the MakerBot Transformer , open and closed, followed by the stereoscopic viewer . MakerBot will also be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend

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MakerBot giveaway top designs printed

Sony’s been considering charging for PSN for a while now. Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai even confirmed this with Gamespot some time ago in an interview, saying that while all current PSN features will remain free, they’ll charge for premium features. That was last year, and now we may hear about these premium features at E3.

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Paid PSN Rumors Start Up Again [Rumors Of "Premium" PSN At E3 Upsetting PlayStation 3 Faithful]

The theme that emerged from the first session of the Press Gazette Local Heroes conference was the importance of engaging with your community as much as possible in order to be successful in the hyperlocal news arena, and the necessity to go as local as possible.

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Go very local and engage with your community, say hyperlocal entrepreneurs

Source: Panasonic.com If you've been teetering on the edge of buying a new 3D TV and have been waiting for just the right nudge, Panasonic hopes two free 3D movies may tip the balance in its favor. As part of a new promotional offer, anyone buying a Panasonic VT25-series 3D plasma TV during the next two months can get free 3D Blu-ray versions of Fox’s Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Universal’s Coraline . Full details of the promotion, which runs through July 10, 2010, are available at Panasonic's website

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Buy a Panasonic 3D plasma TV, get two free 3D Blu-ray titles

Follow the Team Bobcat Ford Fiesta caravan… Team Bobcat visits Northwestern University The members of Team Bobcat made their first stop at Northwestern University on Friday. They set up in front of the Technological Institute, giving demonstrations and showing off Caravan Track to students and interested passersby.

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American Journey 2.0: A visit to Northwestern University