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You know, it appears that you really can buy just about anything on ebay. Check out the auction in German, or, if you can’t quite make that out, see the auction in English. And for the half of my readership that don’t know what an Enigma machine is, read all about it on Wikipedia.
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LaCie has announced a new 30 Gig USB hard drive. That wouldn’t normally be amazing, but this one is pretty stinking small. Called the Skwarim, this drive is handy for it’s portability and storage space, not it’s speed. In fact, speed test performed by The Register were rather disappointing:
The disk itself is a 4,200rpm job with 2MB of cache. I hooked up the Skwarim to Reg Hardware’s test PC, an Athlon FX-60 machine with a 250GB Serial ATA II HDD and formatted the pink ‘un as an NTFS volume. Copying across a 4.01GB test file took, on average, 213.84s – a thoughput of 19.22MBps. Duplicating the same file on the Skwarim itself took a whopping 16m 16.62s. That amounts to a mere 4.21MBps – rather less than the 12.16MBps I got using LaCie’s Rugged drive. The HD Tach benchmark suite measured a burst transfer rate of 35MBps and an average read speed of 19.5MBps.
Before showing the picture, you should know the drive will also be available in blue as well. It is also available in a 60 Gig model.
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I’ve been watching the show “The IT Crowd” lately. In the fourth episode, Roy is wearing a shirt with the final, split-screen level from Pac-Man on it. I’ve been trying to track down one by searching around on the Internet, but I can’t find one. Can anyone help me track down this shirt? I don’t even have a photo of the shirt, but anyone familiar with Pac-Man should know what the shirt is like.
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I know this isn’t the kind of thing I typically post here, but this USB key is quiet a deal, and I know the company is reliable, as I’ve ordered from them a few times.
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I have another cool post to make soon about lasers (high powered burn-your-doll’s eyes out lasers), but I wanted to point these out while I have them open in my browser. If you’ve ever wanted a laser that’s just a little bit different than what everyone else has, check out Wicked Lasers.
Pretty much everyone owns red laser pointers. You’ve tried every method imaginable to see that red laser beam. But, you’ve never had the actual power until now. Wicked Lasers grants you the ability to shoot a red laser beam, green laser beam, or even blue laser beam from your laser pointer.
There’s even a link to a low-res (4 meg) or hi-res (18 meg) video from FOX TV. The down side is the price – $99 to $999. But if you have $999 to spend, you can get a blue laser pointer. That’s what I want. Because I’m a big geeky boy who is impressed by shiney things.
Technorati Tags: Lasers, laser pointers, geek tech
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I just had my birthday. When my wife asked what I wanted for my birthday, I didn’t know. If I had known about this, I would have asked for one. It is t3h secksay to me.
Similar in size to Apple’s iPod, the M-Brid Pocket Movie Player features a 2.2-inch LCD display, 4GB hard drive, and support for a variety of video/audio formats. An integrated d-pad makes navigating the interface a breeze. Pricing and availablity have not yet been announced.
Well, there is that pricing and availability have not yet been announced issue, too. But it sure is pretty.
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ClubNAMCO is now open. Head over to pick up your cool swag: shirts, plushies, and mini-beanbags.
 
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I’ve seen this monitor before, but when I saw this on TechEBlog, I figured I’d post about it for those who haven’t seen this before. As the headline says, looking at Sharp’s new LCD from different angles can give you different views. Look at the image below – the view on the left is the same LCD viewed in a mirror. Notice the different image for the different angles. I have no idea how good the view differentiation is, but this is something that would just be cool to have. And being a geek, sometimes really cool is the only reason I need to want something.
With a parallax barrier superimposed on a normal TFT-LCD, these Sharp displays can show different information simultaneously depending on the viewing angle.
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For only $155, you to can have a set of blocks with tracks through them. Useful for building your very own marble castle. I want some. I want to get some for my kids. Pricey? Sure. But way cooler than most toys you can get these days.
Technorati Tags: Marble, maze, castle, cool tools
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This is really something that needs to be seen to understand. But as soon as you see it, you’ll say “Oh, I get it.” Or something like that. Site turnyourhead will take profile and spin a dowel based on it.
Like this:
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At Turn Your Head, we fill the space between two opposing profiles of your face. By spinning that space into a three dimensional “visage†that follows the outlined silhouettes of your two profiles, we create the “Pirolette”.
Place the “Pirolette†to your face and it will match your profile. Locate it near a wall and the shadow of the “Pirolette†will be your silhouette.
Your profile captured forever in an object of art. An optical illusion of shadow and light, each one unique because it’s you!
The “Pirolette†is hand crafted from American Black Walnut, Cherry or Maple and is hand polished to a natural luster.
I may have to do this for my kids. That’s pretty cool.
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I need to be filthy, stinking rich. Just so I can get one of these (video).
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Finally, a game we can get in to where we get to be the zombie. And it’s an MMO!
Exanimus is an online massively multiplayer game created in a world where the dead live and roam the earth eating the flesh of the living. While most of the world is dead, there are small pockets of survivors that exist in barricaded cities across the globe. Players of Exanimus will have the option of playing as a living survivor or as one of the dead roaming the earth. Exanimus will allow players to experience a MMO based in a horror genre by creating a dark and visually “intense” environment.
Exanimus is expected to be rated “Mature” and not intended for anyone under the age of 18.
Technorati Tags: MMO, MMORPG, Zombies