Talk about an old school convergence device - fishing is a suitable sport for the old as there isn’t much movement involved, and the fact that some older folk need to get around with the help of a cane makes the Fishing Pole Cane all the more attractive. Retailing for $39.95, this makes the perfect gift for grandpa as he starts telling you stories about “the one that got away” - surely this Fishing Pole Cane is more than able to nab dinner by the creek!

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It’s no surprise that more displays is always better, but when it comes to mimicking the act of reading a book, dual displays is a clear step forward. Researchers at Maryland and Berkeley Universities developed a prototype dual-face, modular e-book reader that allows readers to fan pages to advance in a book or via trackball.

If you’re doing some serious research, the displays separate from one another, allowing one to display in landscape mode while the other runs in portrait. To complete the book meme, the device can be folded over to run in a more compact manner, and a simple flip changes the page. Possibilities for future e-book readers are endless here, so we applaud Maryland and Berkeley for using those research dollars. [Source: New Scientist]

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Mouse Computer has just rolled out the LuvBook U100 in Japan, bringing Intel’s Atom processor to the mainstream from next month onwards. Features and specifications include :-

• Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor
• Windows XP OS
• 1GB RAM
• 80GB hard drive
• 10.2″ WSVGA (1,024 x 600 resolution) display


• 1.3 megpaixel camera

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It’s time to take a long, hard look at where we’re headed as a society. No, really — we’ve got office chairs coming to kill comradeship, specially designed lapboards made to keep you sedentary for as long as humanly possible, and now we’re looking at the perfect device for keeping Earthlings in bed for days on end.

The EasyChair WorkStation line of products essentially puts your laptop on wheels, and the adjustable boom arm ensures that you can reach the keys / trackpad regardless of which side you wake up on. We’re hearing a bedpan attachment is in the works as well, but we’re feeling entirely too lazy to actually check.

[EasyChair WorkStation Via TechDigest]

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Man, guess the MSI Wind is experiencing some hard times coming to the US as word has it the notebook will be delayed for a second time despite being approved by the FCC already. It will apparently make an appearance on July 7th, so you can’t boast about this notebook during your Independence Day weekend. What’s causing the delay, you ask? It seems that MSI is throwing in a 3-cell battery instead of a 6-cell battery, lowering the final price by a paltry $20. Ah well, hope that third time’s the charm.

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Remember when eBay was all about getting tickets to sold-out Radiohead concerts and Superbowls and stuff? Now you can get lots of gross and unnecessary things on there, like this Kate Moss hair extension, which the supermodel “shed” in Germany while fleeing the paparazzi. The victorious hair-finder, (fashion equivalent of the guy who catches a fly ball in his beer at a Yankees game) is auctioning off the lock for an anti-drug charity, ironically.

The organization is called Keine Macht den Drogen (No Power to Drugs) and sounds like the Weimar equivalent of D.A.R.E. We hope the hair money goes toward the purchase of thousands of KMDD t-shirts and will keep the German youth from one day losing their own hair and teeth.

“I hope Kate doesn’t mind. I did not have time to ask her…” says hair-auctioneer John Farr. Of course she won’t, John. It’s for the kids. [Source: The Local]

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Gélule, or capsule in French, is what you call this pill-shapred radio clock concept. Designed by Pascal Barde from Sequoia Studio, you get one poppin’ timepiece which has a backlit LCD display, an omni-directional speaker and a huge volume knob - half the clock’s size, in fact. I wonder who is the target market for this concept alarm clock.

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Leave it to space nerds with money to come up with the world’s highest resolution visualization system. NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames has created the 128-screen hyperwall-2, a mega display capable of rendering one quarter billion pixels.

Hyperwall-2 measures 23- x 10-feet of LCD goodness, and is powered by 128 GPUs and 1,024 processor cores with 74 teraflops of peak processing power. To top things off, 475 terabytes of storage keep the system rolling. All in all, hyperwall-2 has more than 100 times the processing power of its poor predecessor, hyperwall, from 2002. The elder hyperwall was unavailable for comment and is most likely on an alcoholic bender somewhere, complaining about “kids these days.” [Source: NASA]

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ZAP didn’t have much more than some shiny renders to show for itself when it snapped up the hundred-year-old Detroit Electric brand earlier this year, but it looks like the company has now finally turned out an equally shiny prototype, which recently made its debut on the local news in Ohio.

Unfortunately, the car apparently isn’t capable of moving off the parking lot on its own just yet, with it reportedly now on its way to California where it’ll get outfitted with a motor. While the current pace of things may seem a bit slow, the company is apparently still promising to have its first cars on the road as early as next year, when the Alias here is expected to sell for about $33,000. Click here for the video. [Source: NBC24 via AutoblogGreen]

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Linksys has made available its Linksys EasyLink Advisor (LELA) Setup Wizard as a native Mac application, helping users manage a fair amount of the more recent router models. It is similar in nature to the Airport Setup Utility, where users are now able to setup and manage their Linksys router-based networks without the hassle of experiencing the web page-based setup which current Mac users have to endure. Compatible Linksys routers with the LELA Mac Wizard include the WRT54G2, WRT111, WRT160N, and WRT310N.

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