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Viral Video: Google Maps' Street View Finds its Way Home
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Jose Fermoso on January 29, 2008
If you were already concerned that the Google Maps Street View service might infringe on your privacy, the following comedy video (which is, at this point, somewhat inaccurate) won’t make you feel any better. It’s the story of two young men who decide to check out their apartment location on Google Maps, finding its digital photo version on Street View, and following along to the inevitable...
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Chocolate Keyboard is a Tasty Concept
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel on January 31, 2008
Forget the Optimus Maximus, or even that pretender, the LG Chocolate. The Chocolate Keyboard is the mother of desktop peripherals. It's also just a concept, by Michael Sholk at the Labatorium. Don't fight over the spacebar.Product page [Sholk via Gizmodo]
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Kodak Reinvents the Pixel
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel on February 05, 2008
Kodak has announced a new five megapixel CMOS chip for mobile phones. The chip uses tiny 1.4 micron pixels but manages, according to Kodak, to produce sharper and clearer images than the 1.75 microns standard, especially in low light.The Kodak KAC-05020 Image Sensor comes at the problem from two angles. First, it uses Kodak's High Sensitivity pixel pattern, which add panchromatic pixels to...
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Danish Cops Flummoxed by Internet, Wifi and iMacs
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel on February 07, 2008
We have a sneaking feeling that law enforcement officers might not have the same understanding of technology as you, Gadget Lab reader. This hilarious case from blogger Rottin' in Denmark tells a story of the astounding ineptitude of Danish police when confronted by 1. The internet, 2. An iMac and 3. WiFi. This wouldn't be so bad, but the cops had come a-knockin' to investigate...
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Why You Should Give Your Kids Cellphones: Baltimore Cop Filmed Attacking Teenager
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Rob Beschizza on February 13, 2008
If any parent still thinks it inappropriate to allow their children cellphones, here's an illustration of three good reasons why you should: safety, evidence and entertainent. Baltimore cop Salvatore Rivieri is filmed screaming at and physically assaulting a kid caught skateboarding on the sidewalk — he even starts threatening the phone's owner, right at the end: "You got that camera...
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Scan-It: Aiport X-Ray Playset For Kids
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel on February 20, 2008
Could this be the most inappropriate kids' toy in history? I immediatley called it as a spoof, until I saw that it's listed on Amazon. Let me describe it to you. The Scan-It Operation Checkpoint Toy X-Ray is a miniature airport baggage scanner, complete with conveyor belt and protective plastic curtains. Thankfully for little Johnny, it eschews real X-rays in favor of a metal detector (so...
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CCTV Busting Infra-Red Headset Makes You Invisible
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel on February 21, 2008
A German art project could help the British avoid the oppressive proliferation of surveillance cameras in their country. The I-R.A.S.C is simple, consisting of a circle of infra-red LEDs mounted on a headband. The infra red is invisible to The Man, but will cause CCTV cameras to flare out over the face of the wearer, obscuring his identity and making this the digital equivalent of a hooded...
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The MacBook. All USB Ports Are Not Equal
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Charlie Sorrel on May 09, 2008
This gadget tip comes to you by way of the resplendent Andy Ihnatko, tech hack for the Chicago Sun Times and lover of Internet Pants. It turns out that some MacBook USB ports are more equal than others. Only one of them offers a full powered, full speed bus.Many times I have hooked up a USB hub to my MacBook, only to plug in an iPod and have it rest in the a phantom world, neither charging nor...
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Nokia to Tackle Google, First in Mapping, Then Everywhere
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Dylan Tweney on May 13, 2008
Nokia doesn't want you to think of its forthcoming mapping software for PCs as a Google Maps competitor. But press them, and Nokia executives will admit Google is the enemy. And with that particular enemy, there can be no compromise.At the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, Calif. today, Nokia showed an early, alpha version of Maps on Ovi. Ovi is Nokia's still-wet-around-the-ears social...
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OQOs Used By Professional Photographers
via Wired: Gadget Lab by Rob Beschizza on January 23, 2008
OQO model 02s are becoming the de rigeur portable computer for professional photographers, according to Ultramobile Life's Bjorn Stromberg. Stromberg has video up of a short interview with a snapper, who touts the tiny UMPC as a platform able to act as storage, as an editing platform, and as a WWAN-accessible repository into which editors can pull down worked shots.Pretty much any similar...
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