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Teddy Bear 3000 is a Cuddly Robotic Nightmare
In know this is meant to be cute, but I find it utterly terrifying. Fujitsu’s Teddy Bear 3000 is a walking, talking, cuddly robot bear that would be more at home in a horror movie than a children’s playroom. I don’t know if it is the bear or the robotic female voice-over on the advertisements…
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Printing Facebook Lets You Poster-ize Your Friends Profile Pics
I don’t really understand whether this latest idea from Benjamin Lotan is designed to make you feel popular, realize how few friends you really have, or urge you to go out and meet more people. Lotan’s site, Printing Facebook, does exactly what it claims. It lets you print out the profile pics of all your…
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Medea Vodka Bottle packs in a LED strip
I am a firm believer in: “it’s what’s inside that counts” and I shall stand by that as I tear apart this ridiculous sales gimmick by Medea vodka. Possibly unsure of the quality of the contents of their vodka bottles, Medea has decided to use a techno-trick to try and shift some by adding a…
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iPad Hands-Free Page-Turning App Could Help Readers With Physical Disabilities
We often bring you news of techno-gadgets for people with disabilities – take for instance the mobile phone for deaf people, the iSonic cane that prevents blind people from colliding with obstacles and the potential of the Wii Fit for special needs children. Now it seems that AirTurn’s Bluetooth foot-switch for the iPad is also…
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Iron Man Briefcase Will Make You the Butt of Office Jokes
If my boss were to walk into the office carrying this briefcase, I would lose every shred of respect I ever had for him. This Iron Man replica suitcase is every inch of the movie character it represents, but you could not seriously buy this, carry it and expect anyone not to think you had…
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UN to Employ Ambassador for Alien Visitors to Earth
Sometimes I really despair of the UN. As if there weren’t enough problems they aren’t dealing with well enough on Earth, they are now wasting their time and I can only imagine how much money, on the appointment of an ambassador to greet possible alien visitors to our planet. Mazlan Othman, 58, a Malaysian astrophysicist…
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Victorian Filigree iPhone Case Screams Kitsch, But Looks Lovely!
OK, I normally rip the life out of anything I perceive as slightly pretentious – just see how I shredded TON’s golden Buddha speaker yesterday. My initial reaction to a Victorian filigree swirl iPhone case was gut-wrenching. However, I must admit that I quite like this design. Designed by C Westbrook Designs in San Francisco,…
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Mark Zuckerberg to Star in His Own Comic – But is He Good or Evil?
For some reason Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can’t stay out of the press today – and to make a change, he isn’t hitting headlines because of facebook privacy debates. Earlier this morning, we brought you video footage of a tour around his house, only it isn’t his house. Now it seems he may soon be…
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Alarm Clock Will Startle You Out of Bed as It Pelts You With a Flying Ball
At newlaunches we are great fans of funky alarm clocks – whether it be the alien alarm clock, which lets you zap the nasty aliens sent to wake you up, the Darth Vadar alarm clock, that casts Darth’s shadow on the wall to scare you into jumping out of bed, or the world’s loudest alarm…
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Touch-And-Zoom Camera Flash by Apple Could Change the Focus of Your Photo
The rumor circulating in techie circles is that Apple plans to introduce new camera flash technology, similar to the touch-and-zoom feature on the iPhone. Just as the current feature allows to you to focus on different areas of a shot, the flash device would allow you to change the focus of the flash to highlight…
