Gadget Access

by Darren Murph, posted Jul 19th 2008 at 2:47PM
Fair warning: this here post is nerdier than usual, and those who begin to feel nauseous at the mere mention of data-bending may want to refrain from continuing on. For you brave, hardened souls that are following through, feast your eyes on the “first piece of software ever sold by Apple.” The Apple I BASIC cassette wasn’t even included with all of the 200 Apple Is produced eons ago, but a few engineering souls have managed to extract the data and create an MP3 of the wave structure. Not surprisingly, the tone resembles that of a 1200 Baud connection, and if we should say so ourselves, would make for a wicked ringtone. Believe us, it gets even weirder in the read link, but you’ll have to determine whether venturing down is something your brain can handle.

[Via BoingBoing]

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The Stuck Up magnets are chewed gum replicas which you don’t have to worry about fingering by accident. If your hand brushes up against one of these ABC (already been chewed) wads of gum, there’s no need to compulsively wash your hands (as long as you don’t have some OCD disorder).

Chewed gum is the foundation of every public school. Look under any desk in a public area and you’re sure to see an assortment of flavors and brands plastered onto each surface. It’s really gross when you realize you’ve accidentally rubbed up against some stranger’s deposited chewing gum. But the sticking powers of dry gum are incredible. In fact, I sometimes wondered whether schools rely on this incredible adhesive to remain standing for so long.

The Stuck Gum is almost indistinguishable from those gatherings of gum we’ve come so accustomed too from are years of public education. Designed by Winnif Pang, each pack of Stuck Up magnets comes with 4 different flavors, including bubble gum, spearmint, peppermint, and tutti-frutti.

Each Stuck Up gum wad has a high powered magnet encased inside of its design. So try as you might, it’ll be pretty rough distinguishing your magnets from real pieces of ABC gum. For even more realism, add a little spit for some extra sheen.

Design Page via Gear Diary

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Pioneer has come up with a 16-layer Blu-ray disc that can hold 400GB of data. Apparently, it’s still compatible with current Blu-ray specs, so your current BR player will supposedly be able to read one of these discs.

So who’s taking bets on when the 1.2TB version comes out?

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 19th 2008 at 10:45AM
Sure, these in-car crash loggers are a dime a dozen these days, but Brickhouse Security is pushing its Car Camera Voyager Pro as better than those ho hum alternatives thanks to the inclusion of GPS. As with most of its highly functional rivals, this one also packs a G-sensor that detects when a vehicle has been slammed into, bumped or otherwise rocked in an unorthodox manner; after that, it captures the 10 seconds immediately prior to and the 30 seconds immediately following the incident. Of course, you’ll also be able to pinpoint your exact location thanks to the corresponding GPS information, which could certainly help you out when hunting down CCTV footage of the nut-job who rammed your whip and wheeled off to Wendy’s as if nothing happened. Hand over $449.95 now and expect it to arrive later next week.

[Thanks, Frank]

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 19th 2008 at 12:21PM
If you thought Velocity Mobile just rolled over and died after showing off a few handsets at CTIA earlier this year, you’d be exactly wrong. The outfit’s Windows Mobile-powered 103 has just surfaced in the FCC’s lair, giving us a smidgen of hope that a US release is but moments / weeks / months away. Unfortunately, this filing doesn’t spill the beans on any other specifications, but the 67 page User Manual does dive into great detail on changing the battery, inserting microSD cards and navigating around within the operating system. C’mon Inventec, give us the good stuff.

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FROM GAMERTELL - The Spore game is sprouting legs and wiggling its way onto cell phones thanks to a deal between AT&T and EA. As an added bonus, AT&T’s high-speed customers also get a free download of the full PC/Mac game…
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In a quest to make its online application Google Docs more and more like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice, Google has added a Templates gallery to its Google Docs site. This new addition enables the user to simply edit a graphically formatted document with the content of their own choosing.

Users can now simply create their own flashy resumes, cover letters, financial data entry spreadsheets, and spiffy slide presentations, all without annoying commentary! (We’re looking at you, Clippy).

Although some designs are, well, considerably lacking in some areas, there are a plenty of templates to choose from. Although still not fully equipped, Google Docs is on its way to becoming an incredible alternative to document, spreadsheet, and presentation editing on any desktop platform.

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FROM GAMERTELL - The Spore game is sprouting legs and wiggling its way onto cell phones thanks to a deal between AT&T and EA. As an added bonus, AT&T’s high-speed customers also get a free download of the full PC/Mac game…
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In a quest to make its online application Google Docs more and more like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice, Google has added a Templates gallery to its Google Docs site. This new addition enables the user to simply edit a graphically formatted document with the content of their own choosing.

Users can now simply create their own flashy resumes, cover letters, financial data entry spreadsheets, and spiffy slide presentations, all without annoying commentary! (We’re looking at you, Clippy).

Although some designs are, well, considerably lacking in some areas, there are a plenty of templates to choose from. Although still not fully equipped, Google Docs is on its way to becoming an incredible alternative to document, spreadsheet, and presentation editing on any desktop platform.

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by Ryan Block, posted Jul 19th 2008 at 6:02AM
Microsoft’s been touting its “fastest annual revenue growth since 1999,” which resulted in a princely $60.42 billion dollars in its last fiscal year, but the number that has us rapt? Vista licenses sold since launch about 18 months ago: 180m. Damn, not too shabby a clip — especially considering that they moved 20m licenses moved in month one, 40m licenses moved after the first 100 days, and 140m licenses by last April. But at roughly 10m licenses per month, that means Vista’s still a couple years out before it surpasses XP, and with a bit of luck, by then we’ll have already moved on to Windows 7.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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