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An iPad for Everyone… in Kindergarten
The educational value associated with tablets has been one of the most appealing aspects of the technology from a teacher’s perspective. Hands-on (literally) and with a simple interface that children can easily learn its use, tablets may be ideal for early classroom education.
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Rigid Jobsite Radio: The Manliest Radio Ever!
Ridgid’s Jobsite Radio, described as the first iPod-compatible boom-box designed to withstand just about anything you can throw at it. It can also be described as the manliest music box you could ever own. The device itself is encased in a ShockMount layer of bad-ass real man protective armor. Users simply flip down the lid in the front, slide their iPod in and then change tracks via on-board external controls or remote control. The unit is powered by a standard 120V or Ridgid 18V battery. It is also powered by pure testosterone*.
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Refurbished iPads For Sale!
Apple is selling refurbished iPads (Wi-Fi only) for the “special limited time price” of $429 for the 16GB, $499 for the 32GB and $599 for the 64GB. That’s up to $100 bucks off the retail price, which relatively speaking, is a fantastic deal. If you want the super fancy 3G models, well there is only a $50 discount for those. The only question we have is why did these iPads need to be refurbished so soon, are they cursed or something? Oh well, a deal’s a deal!
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Delorean External Hard Drive
For anyone born during the 80′s the greatest car in movie history has to be the Delorean. However not just the DMC-12, but the Delorean from the “Back to The Future” movies. Since an unfortunate cocaine bust caused the end of the manufacturing of these wonderful automobiles, your chances of owning one of these treasures is pretty terrible.
Fortunately your chances just improved dramatically with the release of Flash Rod’s Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive. Their version not only is a 1:18 scale replica of the time machine, but also is a working 500GB hard drive. The down fall is it isn’t USB 3.0 enabled and will never actually go 88 MPH, but it is as close as you are going to get to your dream changing your family history just to get a sweet 4X4 truck.
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Shadow Puppets From The Future
Just when you thought the Xbox 360 Kinect couldn’t get any cooler, a couple of “Kinect hackers” decided to bring shadow puppets into the 21st century. Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson, used an Xbox Kinect connected to a laptop using the libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect. Then the openFrameworks system tracked the parts of the arm to map a skeleton onto the movements of an animated bird on their wall. Check out the video evidence after the break.
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Report: Microsoft Kinect Only Costs $56 to Make
According to information gathered by Kotaku, the Microsoft Kinect which retails for $149 only costs $56 to make, and for some reason, this is shocking people.
From Kotaku:
UBM have got hold of a Kinect, torn it apart to examine each of its components then tracked how much each of them cost. What they found was that each of the cameras costs Microsoft approximately $56, of which the single biggest expenditure is Israeli company PrimeSense’s “reference system” of cameras, microphones and processor, which clocks in at $17.
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PR2 Robot Draws a Self-Portrait
Robots are great. They’re continually challenging and proving how robotics can help us move toward a smarter society. And then of course there’s the beer-fetching and game-playing robots we’ve come to love. Now, Willow Garage’s PR2 robot has been given a pen, and with it, it drew a pretty good self-portrait.
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