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June 2009
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Got one of those Texas Instruments graphing calculators? This nifty little program for TI-83+SE, TI-84+, and TI-84+SE calculators lets you play Nintendo Game Boy games instead of doing your math problems.
Written by Brendan Fletcher (aka “calc84maniac”), TI-Boy SE is a Game Boy emulator that runs on TI’s Z-80 based…
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June 30th, 2009 by: Technabob
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The Gundam statue isn’t even formally exhibited yet and we already have news on another 1:1 scale giant robot statue that will be built in Japan! Widely acknowledged as the first giant robot ever to be featured in manga, Tetsujin 28-go (“Iron Man 28″) is finally going to live up…
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June 30th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias
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I don’t know about you but this is new to me: apparently the English and the Australians are bitter cricket rivals, so much so that they have a tournament, popularly known as The Ashes series, which only features the two teams. Imagine how ridiculous it would be if the EPL…
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June 30th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias
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If you were just dying to drop another big pile of money on your Rock Band… hobby, you’re in luck: check out this sweet ottoman designed to hold your gear! No more drum kit shoved into the corner of the living room. Now, instead, you can shove a pricey ottoman
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June 30th, 2009 by: Alisha K.
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If you use Twitter, odds are you occasionally inform your poor followers of some business that just really… doesn’t matter. (How’s your sandwich, by the way?) Why not keep them updated on something that might actually matter, like your heart rate?
Thanks to a bunch of Japanese Twitter-lovers, anyone willing
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June 30th, 2009 by: Alisha K.
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What would you say if I told you that your next car could run on air instead of gasoline, and that it would produce zero pollution? The MDI AIRpod might just bring that promise to reality when it hits the streets later this year.
The subcompact AIRpod runs on compressed…
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June 30th, 2009 by: Technabob
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Want to do something creative with color-changing LEDs? This new programmable LED module might be just what the doctor ordered.
The BlinkM from ThingM (I just love saying that) is a compact module that contains an ultra-bright RGB LED and a microcontroller that you can program from your computer.
You’ll…
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June 30th, 2009 by: Technabob
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The quest to keep people indoors and separated from each other continues with the mydeskfriend robot toy penguin. The web-connected mydeskfriend will be able to connect to your Facebook account and read your messages and your feeds, in a robotic voice I assume. Your friends will also be able to…
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June 29th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias
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Zombie Desert has everything you (and by you, I mean I…) want in a game: zombies, violence, deserts, and the 1950s. Oh, wait, is that a tiny shotgun? I’ve died and gone to homebrew heaven.
The design is simple, dark, pixelated, maybe even perfect for a run-and-gun zombie
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June 29th, 2009 by: Alisha K.
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No one likes the ugly sight of a condensation ring on the coffee table. This is a problem. Thankfully, there’s a solution, and it’s full of math.
These coasters will match perfectly with your number lamp and your equation bookshelf, so long as all you care about is, uh, math…
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June 29th, 2009 by: Alisha K.