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Samsung 55″ 1080p LED LCD HDTV for $1600 shipped

Administration — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:06:14 +0000

Amazon.com offers the Samsung LUXIA 55″ 120Hz 1080p Widescreen LED-Backlit LCD HD Television, model no. UN55B6000, for $1,599.99. (Add it to your cart to see this price.) With free shipping, that’s the lowest total price we could find by $190. This LED-backlit HDTV measures 1.2″ deep and claims to use 40% less power than conventional LCDs. [...]

RSA encryption has not been broken

Administration — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:33:32 +0000

An Engadget article recently got hundreds of upvotes on social sites by claiming that RSA has been broken. Engadget may be great for showing you pictures of electronics, but it is far from a scientific publication. To break an encryption algorithm, you must find a feasible way to produce plaintext given only ciphertext–with NO access to [...]

Newegg terminates supplier relationship over counterfeit Core i7 CPUs

Administration — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:32:27 +0000

This weekend, up to 300 Newegg customers who pulled the trigger on a new Intel Core i7-920 processor found themselves puzzling over a clever fake instead. Who’s to blame? It’s not exactly clear — Newegg initially said that the processors were “demo units,” but has now posted a statement to Facebook saying that supplier IPEX [...]

Mario and Luigi appear in Manchester

Administration — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:55:52 +0000

After they saved the princess, Mario and Luigi moved to Manchester, UK and went into the restaurant business. I knew these guys would eventually open a restaurant, but I always imagined it would be a joint venture, not next-door competing eateries. Found at Google Street View, ever the source for coincidence, not irony. This is [...]

“The Butt Station” Desk Accessory Holder

Administration — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:05:18 +0000

Is desk clutter a pain in the ass? With the The Butt Station Desk Accessory Holder not only will the fun colors perk up your desk, butt this is one functional derrière. The Butt Station is a tape dispenser with cutter, pen and memo/card holder, and the magnetic rump holds paper clips! It’s bold enough [...]

Tron Legacy

Administration — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:53:30 +0000

It’s coming… IMAX 3D – December 2010. Trailer after the jump… Trailer Official Site

Ubisoft’s DRM authentication servers go down… punishing customers but not pirates

Administration — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:16:19 +0000

You remember Ubisoft’s announcement that they were crippling their new games with a DRM system that would kick players out of their games if they couldn’t connect continuously to Ubisoft’s DRM servers? Now Ubisoft’s servers have started to go down. Of course, pirates who break Ubisoft’s DRM can still play. Way to correctly align the incentives, [...]

HOWTO: Beat the London cops on a “terrorism” stop

Administration — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:03:41 +0000

The Love Police do an amazing job demonstrating how to get out of being searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act. Stopped by police outside the Tower of London, they avoid being searched, having to give their personal details and having their camera film looked at simply by stating the law, remaining calm and [...]

Fred Toothpick Holder, Ouch!

Administration — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:38:01 +0000

Make your next party painfully amusing by inviting Fred Toothpick Holder, Ouch!, the voodoo-it-yourself toothpick holder. Perfect for finger food, emergency hexes, and jump-starting the good times. With Ouch, olives will never be boring again!

Rolltop concept

Administration — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:14:19 +0000

The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional bookformed laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer. By virtue of the OLED-Display technology and a multi touch screen the utility of a laptop computer with its weight of a mini-notebook and screen size of 13 inch easily [...]