GORDON Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: “Happy Christmas – war is over.â€The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end “within two weeksâ€.
Filed under: Robots
You heard that right, folks. Supposedly, AIBO is back… with a vengence. According to rumors, the fiesty-but-killed robo-dog from Sony is making a comeback with a new paintjob and whole slew of fresh features. First and foremost, the re-upped model will be tailored to interface wirelessly with your PSP and PS3, will have a built in headcam which utilizes a motion sensor and facial recognition, and can stream its POV video over WiFi to your system. In addition, you’ll apparently get to remotely trigger the bot with your handheld and control its movements, plus you can set it to “guard” your house (though we’re pretty sure most enterprising burglars will just turn the little dude on its side if provoked). Of course, right now this is speculation — Stuff Magazine’s piece on the subject (above) gives the rumored bot a 53-percent chance of becoming a reality — but there certainly seems to be some meat behind these murmurs. C’mon Sony — the pup deserves a second chance.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Filed under: GPS
We’ll start by recommending a little dose of salt before taking this one in, but nevertheless, an interesting photo coupled with a “prototype hands-on report” has got us wondering if Garmin doesn’t have a new GPS unit somewhere close to release. Apparently, the device you see above (labeled Colorado 300) relies primarily on the circular scroll wheel for navigating menus, and if we had to guess, it’ll likely be marketed towards marine / outdoors customers. Aside from that, all we’re told is that it should land sometime this Spring for around $500, but we’re not holding our collective breath just yet.
[Via GPS Tracklog, thanks Rich]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a Linux-operated one could slash computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%. Microsoft not available for comment, too busy killing baby seals. You like baby seals don’t you?
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Finding yourself unhealthily frustrated by that annoying “three-play rule” still included in the latest firmware update for the Zune? Fret not, as a solution easier than easy has been discovered. Apparently, users can simply accept a shared track, go into Windows and switch the genre to “Podcast,” and play the tune over as many times as they’d like. Granted, any files which this trick is used for will show up in the Podcast section, but hey, you can’t get everything, right?
[Thanks, Michael, image courtesy of Zune]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
