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Portable Dry Ice Maker

Just in time for that Halloween fog machine, this strange looking contraption will let you make as much dry ice as you want. Just add a canister of compressed liquid CO2, and it’ll do the rest.

The Portable Dry Ice Maker can crank out a one-pound block of dry ice in less than a minute.…

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September 17th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets strange + wonderful

when asimo freezes, does he see the blue screen of death?

A while back, we showed you a funny clip of Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot falling on his ASS-IMO trying to climb some stairs. Well the good news is now the little guy seems to be doing fine climbing stairs. The bad news is that he seems to have forgotten what to do after that…

There’s…

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January 10th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun robots

ps3 copies xbox 360 and overheats too?

While it’s way too soon to know what kind of post-launch issues Playstation 3 users will encounter, a video has surfaced of a new PS3 console which has died a tragic death.

Apparently these guys were playing Tony Hawk’s Project 8 for about 3 hours when the console died. The console now will only display…

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November 19th, 2006 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games

next gen games increase xbox 360 failure rates

A couple of months back, I posted about my concerns that my Xbox 360 had overheated and died as a result of the next-gen game Prey. Now Kotaku is reporting about an Xbox 360 developer who reported an esimated 30-50% failure rate on Xbox 360s used in the testing games, with even higher failure rates…

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August 29th, 2006 comments (9) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games

will prey kill your xbox 360?

Red Ring of Doom

Since buying my Xbox 360 console back on launch day in November 2005, I’ve been one of the fortunate 360 owners to never have a problem with overheating, disc scratches or freezes. My console is in a wide-open, well-ventilated area and had always behaved well. I’ve played just about every game, demo and Live Arcade…

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July 19th, 2006 comments (72) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games