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Daily Tech Hotlinks for 11-June-2007: BlackBerry Curve, iPhone, TorrentSpy, Sony, Vista, Flickr, Charlie Brooker, Facebook
-ZDNet catches RIM out by Googling ‘iPhone’, and discovering one of the sponsored links is for the BlackBerry Curve, tsk tsk.
– The end is nigh, as one of the largest BitTorrent sites, TorrentSpy, has been ordered to monitor its users’ online activities, to then be handed over to the MPAA. Goodbye, oh fair Lost downloads…
– Sony has a bee in its bonnet…
Shiny Video Review: Toshiba Portege G500 Smartphone
We’ve been cranking out the smartphone reviews of late, because really, what is a mobile phone these days without office features and push-email? Alex has taken a few minutes to run through a video demonstration of the Toshiba G500, a 3G, HSDPA, feature-packing smartphone (in a relatively compact case).
Toshiba Portege G500…
Play The Prison Life: Paris Hilton's prison game
Paris Hilton – is she in, is she out, are her attempts contrition ‘a cynical ploy’ as Forbes claims? Who cares really, when we’ve got the online flash game I told you about last week just after the jump. Click on the link below to take advantage of your employer’s lax internet usage policies…
Tetrius Magnet Set
You can't, even now, be at the computer 24 hours a day, but if you apply the Tetrius Magnet Set (yes, TetRIUS, legal, no infringey!) to your fridge you can fiddle aimlessly with it while you get lectured for…
Wii Crystal Chameleon case mod
Already willing to risk your Wii’s life and safety in pursuit of blingification? Try the Wii Crystal Chameleon case mod, which makes your Wii a jellyfish-like box glowing red, blue, cyan, gray, orange, green or purple, as your whim dictates. Disassembly video and installation video thoughtfully provided. There’s also the small matter of the bill, which is $55, but since you bought a Wii instead of an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3, you should have plenty of extra folding money lying around. [GT]
Wii case Crystal Chameleon [via Gizmodo]
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CueSight Laser-Sighted Pool Cues
While the laser-sighted pool cue may look cool to geeks, taking this into any purist pool hall is a great way to get stomped. The cue has a small crosshairs projector in its tip, which places a big red X on the white cueball. The better your aim, the bigger the X. The creators, CueSight, have thoughtfully provided video of the laser-sighted pool cue in action so you can see exactly how it makes robots of us all. $150. [GT]
CueSight laser-sighted pool cue (via Coolest Gadgets)
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QiGO Internet Content Keys unlock extra internet
QiGo Internet Content Keys are USB dongles which provide access to premium Internet content. Expect the modern equivalent to booth babes to be passing these things out at all the more stylish trade shows in future, as well as for them to appear in magazines (unless they’re not actually up to the job of making the internet cooler — because, trust me, the internet is already pretty damned cool). Actually they’d be good for distributed client presentations and super-secret world domination subsites. [GT]
Qigo (via Engadget)
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Ashera: $22,000 cat from Lifestyle Pets
This may look like a regular 4 stone cat on a leash but it’s actually the Cat Of Tomorrow! The Ashera is a blend of the Asian Leopard cat, African Serval and an unnamed domestic breed (probably “alley”). It will grow to be 13-15 kilos. Lifestyle Pets also claims to be developing a tiny dog which I guess can be fed to the cat. My cat Lacerda weighs over 10 kilos, and what did he cost? Nothing, he just showed up in the kitchen one day. Feel free to drop by any I’ll see if I can turn up any of his brothers. But if you want your cat high tech, it’ll be $22,000 – or $28,000 if you want to raise it from a kitten. Plus $1500 shipping. [GT]
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A survey of strange inventions
TechEBlog has been flipping through back issues of Popular Mechanics and has come up with a list ofstrange inventions. I especially like the wristwatch radio, though it makes me wonder how long it’ll be before TokyoFlash produces one that is gorgeous looking but produces incomprehensible sounds. [GT]
Strange Inventions You Never Knew About
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Regal Guest Response System: Tattle-tale device for movie goers
The Regal chain of cinemas has placed the Regal
Guest Response System in 114 of its theaters across the United States. It’s a paging device, given to a random member of the Regal Crown Club loyalty program, as they enter the theater (one device per showing). The device has four buttons: “Picture”, “Sound”, “Piracy”, and “Other Disturbance” which can be pressed so that a manager can be alerted in the event of an emergency. “Other Disturbance” is somewhat vague, though. I want a button to press that says “Movie sucks, I want my eight quid back”. [GT]
Regal Guest Response System (via SciFi Tech)
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