Techspedia™

I’ve blogged before about the lovely steampunk jewelry on offer from Etsy seller FringeLore, but over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has spotted this wonderful new range of items made with vintage typewriter keys. The soul recoils and throws up a bit as it thinks of some beautiful typewriter’s tattooed ivory [...]

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The Cupertino rumor mill is a buzz again. Like a voice crying in the wilderness, and fresh off the heals of a Steve Jobs promise that more interesting products are coming in the fall, The Giz is reporting a rumor that the long speculated MacBook Tablet will be shipping this October. The rumor [...]

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Magazine cover boy: Robert Rodriguez By Chris Garcia | Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 11:50 AM You might have heard of this Robert Rodriguez guy. He makes motion pictures, big ones, that feature either lots of a) little children, bright colors and goofy gadgets, or b) blood, guts, writhing female dancers, guns, bad [...]

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I coined the word “techno-dependent” to describe people who are so attached to their gadgets that they become helpless w/o them. For example, I once heard a story about a woman who panicked when her car’s automatic door lock broke. She had a key on the ring, but it never occurred to her to use [...]

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Here’s a cool iPod to LP DOCK which allows you to convert your LP Discs on-the-fly to your favorite iPod. - Ion Audio USB turntablewith universal dock for iPod - Revolutionary new USB turntable that transfers vinyl to iPod - You can also use the included recording software toarchive your records [...]

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Make Your Celebration Perfect A Jasmine costume at SHOP. I like to copy the Bollywood Hotel cozumel, Queen Harish says with a chuckle. But not the new kinds with the very short, short clothes. She prefers the colorful, traditional full skirts of her native Rajasthan. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, [...]

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Filed under: Culture, Interviews, New titles, The Agency, Consoles, Spy, MMOFPS Espionage. Spies. High-tech weaponry. All of it sounds great to us, but what’s the deal with the two factions in the upcoming Sony Online Entertainment title The Agency? We got a chance to talk to Matt Wilson at E3, who gave us [...]

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The Retail Email Blog monitors the email marketing campaigns of more than 100 top online retailers. Here are highlights from my inbox this morning: Urban Outfitters, 7/21 — Who/What/Wear In this email Urban Outfitters announces a new denim shop with 360-degree video views. This is similar to the video catalog announcement made by Saks [...]

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Long-time readers of this blog may have come to feel a bubbly camaraderie with my obsession over SideShow. Or they may simply have thrown their hands up in despair, bored with the delayed-into-irrelevance technology. Released two years ago, nothing’s really been released to date at all, save the Philips remote I reviewed two months ago. [...]

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The entire editorial team at Cars! Cars! Cars! wants their new rides to have push button start. Gawd, that’s awesome. Yeah, it’s another gadgety kinda thing, but it’s cool (it’s even available in the Versa fer cryin’ out loud!) Which makes us think of more gadgets and more gadgets and more gadgets. At some [...]

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