Monthly Archives: February 2008

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Ring-ring-ring Batphone!

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So this new AbleComm spinoff RedHotPhones is selling tons and tons of phones — all red — including replicas “inspired by Batman”. Definitely not the amazing new Christopher Nolan retelling, we’re talking original campy-ass 60s Batman. We’re not sure what kind of person would spend $112 on a novelty landline-phone with no way to dial out (probably the same people that bought the $300 Shakespeare bust back in the day), but buy it fast, we heard the mayor of Quahog, Rhode Island is filing suit.

 

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Evergreen’s Genius Navigator 365 mouse, for idiots

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Evergreen’s testing the limits of convergence this morning with their new ¥3,499 ($33) Genius Navigator 365 mouse. It’s a 1600/800dpi laser mouse and you guessed it, a gamepad all wrapped up in a single package. Neither of which we suspect works as well as a pair of dedicated devices. Look, we may not approve of your choice for this mouse, but we’ll fight to the death for your right to choose it. Ok, maybe not this time.

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Self-propelled glider uses ocean’s heat to power itself

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We’ve seen autonomous ocean gliders before, but the team at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has just completed the first successful run of a glider that doesn’t require its own power — instead, it uses the heat difference between the warm upper layers of the ocean and the colder depths to propel itself. Not needing an internal power source let the glider traverse the Virgin Islands Basin between St. Thomas and St. Croix at depths of 13,000 feet over 20 times when it was launched in December, and the team estimates that it could run for another six months if necessary. The ocean’s heat differential is a “virtually unlimited energy source,” according to one Woods Hole researcher — hmm, beach-charger, anyone?

[Thanks, Charlie]

 

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