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Okay Gadget-heads, still waiting for the exact right time to purchase your flat panel 1080i TV with built-in HD tuner?
It's a toughie, that's for sure. However, you may find this new offer from Sony to your liking. The good people at Sony Australia are now offering a free PS3 with every Full HD Bravia TV - including the updated W and V series.
If you haven't seen this lot yet, they're pretty cool, and CNET gives the Sony XBR's their top score out of LCDs. And, if you get a flat panel TV under 50 inches, the general consensus is that LCD is the way to go.
As we have known for some time now (yet, oddly, forgot to mention) former Soviet-bloc stalwart Hungary is a futuristic hub of free thinking and groovy technology. And it looks like they'll be dragging the rest of the planet both screaming and kicking (literally) into an oil-free 22nd century.
The Antro Solo solar/electric/petroleum hybrid is the car for the space-age - and the stone age! Not only does it reach around 129 kph (80 mph) whilst getting 63 kilometres per litre (150 mpg) using a combination of solar cells and electric motors as well as a back up reservoir of petrol, but it is also, wait for it, pedal powered.
If the answer to that is very geeky, thank you for asking, then you may wish to head on down to the Grand Opening of Australia's first ever Apple Store, at 5pm tonight.
Opening up on 367 George St (opposite Darrell Lea) the new Apple store will come in three floors, providing the entire range of Macgasms for any bold enough to walk through the door. Tonight, the first 2500 people who do show up will receive a commemorative T-shirt (quite possibly with an Apple logo on it!)
Obviously Australians have been purchasing their Macs from resellers for the past thirty odd years, but it's only now that the Apple corporation has deigned fit to sell direct to the locals. Apparently, Mac resellers aren't that thrilled, having built up a brand name and a business for decades, only to see the Jobzers come in and say 'thanks, we'll take it from here'.
Here's a nifty little website for all those people who have ever wondered how long they'd survive in the harsh vacuum of space without a space suit, or of course, a space ship. We've all seen Sci Fi moments where characters manage to survive with the occasional frostbite, burst blood vessels and occasional icky eyeballs.
But when it comes to yourself, sometimes a Sci Fi scriptwriter just isn't good enough - we need the cold harsh reality that only a website can provide! The good people at oneforyou now offer this sterling service. Not that you may need it straight away, but it's good to know, just in case...
Okay okay - we've all seen or heard stuff about this excellent little gadget, but seeing the full-on sales video is something else.
Nikko home electronics, at www.nikkor2d2.com, have got this baby on sale all over the world. Their big specialty is radio controlled vehicles and toys, so it's not surprising that the R2 D2 DVD Projector is fully RC - with it's own Millenium Falcon controller!
It's not just a funky toy - it actually works, with 20 W inbuilt speakers, a USB slot, CD player, and it's compatible with Mp3 and Mp4 and Jpeg. It also has a WiFi transmitter for hooking up to other gadgets. Perhaps the coolest thing - you can now watch movies on the ceiling.
Once, in a lifetime, do geekiness and fashion blend together in the perfect marriage of comfort and dorkiness. Finally, that moment has arrived.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you 'Beauty and the Geek', designer Erik De Nijs' marriage of fashion and technology. More specifically, the sewing of a soft keyboard into some baggy pants.
However, it comes with all the mod cons, and does, in fact, actually work. They come complete with a joystick 'just behind the zipper' and a mouse. They also have speakers in the knees (of course).
Nanotechnology Means A Nokia Flexible Phone - Real Life Sci Fi At Your Fingertips!
GADGETS
Tuesday, April 8
by Captain
Never mind about the hover car, check this out! Nokia has just released concept video on their new flexible phone.
And by flexible, we mean flexible. The phones of the future will be something that you can use as a keyboard, a wristwatch and er, a phone. The Nokia Research Centre and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre have joined forces to create a phone that will be charged merely by solar absorption. Check out the concept video after the click that showcases the upcoming 'Morph' phone.
One of the cooler sites on the web, io9.com, has always delighted us with an interesting slant on all things gadgety.
A recent page has them showing the original inspiration for some of the cooler creations in the Sci Fi universe. The idea that something as terrifying as Robert Patrick's T1000 in Terminator 2 could be born in a hot fudge sundae seems to be so perfectly perverse that we can only think that it must be true. For more of Sci Fi's legendary creations, click on the link below.
Sending Episodes Of Stargate:sg1 To Scientists Could Save The World
GADGETS
Saturday, March 15
by Captain
In a disturbing trend, European robotocists have not only begun work on but now are further developing not normal, bring me a drink Martini-making robots, but self-replicating, swarm mentality robots.
We'll give you a moment for the eerie icy chill to run up and down your spine.
Yep.
"The REPLICATOR project focuses on the development of an advanced robotic system, consisting of a super-large-scale swarm of small autonomous mobile micro-robots that are capable of self-assembling into large artificial organisms."
We may not live in a perfect world, far from it, to be honest, but there are people out there doing their level best to bring reality up to the high standard set by Science Fiction.
Awesome. That's the word we're looking for.
The good people at Tom Spina Designs, a company that supplies custom-made sculpture, furniture and movie props in the US, has come up with the ultimate desk for fans of Carbonite.
They made it as a special one-off for Mark Hall, musician with Casting Crowns, a Christian rock group. What the connection is between belief in God and desire to go over paper work over Han Solo's cryogenically frozen body, is and will probably remain, a mystery.
Awesome. That's the word we're looking for.
The good people at Tom Spina Designs, a company that supplies custom-made sculpture, furniture and movie props in the US, has come up with the ultimate desk for fans of Carbonite.
They made it as a special one-off for Mark Hall, musician with Casting Crowns, a Christian rock group. What the connection is between belief in God and desire to go over paper work over Han Solo's cryogenically frozen body, is and will probably remain, a mystery.
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