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Mini ColecoVision hits eBay, finds a special place in our hearts

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
Call us biased, but we still prefer Ben Heckendorn’s portable ColecoVision over this one, but that’s not to say we don’t deeply respect the immense amount of work that went into the mini ColecoVision. The seller of the unit stripped a ColecoVision PCB from an original c…

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3 launches Skypephone S2

Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Hutchison 3
Hold up just a second, this is more than your average WiFi-powered Skype handset for yakking it up while you’re wandering around the abode in your skivvies. In fact, it’s none other than the follow-on to 3’s Skypephone of last year -…

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Video: HTC’s Touch Diamond / Pro are multi-touch gods, just not how you’d think

Filed under: Cellphones
While multi-touch input might be all the rage in handhelds and laptop trackpads at the moment, alas, it’s not on the feature list for HTC’s latest Touch Diamond and Touch Pro. However, the capability is indeed present and exploited on video by HTC’s own debug application. Eve…

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First Microsoft Surface shipped international, brute-force unboxed

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Most unboxings don’t require a forklift and crowbar. Then again, most of us aren’t unboxing Microsoft’s 125-kg (275-pound) Surface computer — so big that one recipient quipped, “That’s a big-ass box.” How apropos. The recipient is Australian marketing agency Amnesia, maki…

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Pandora project demoed on video, shows off hardware, Linux, and Quake 2

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds
It looks like the Pandora project is really coming together nicely. EvilDragon has just posted this video on the GP32x boards of a development model up and running. It’s pretty exciting stuff if you’re a homebrew fan (and we know you are), featuring demos of the device…

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Video: Samsung’s extraordinary i900 Omnia unboxing — go ahead, press the red button

Filed under: Cellphones
Yeah, we know that the video posted after the break is a corporate promotion loosed onto the Internets in hopes of going viral. But damn if this Samsung Omnia (i900) unboxing doesn’t match our vision of how these oft tiresome rituals should be. What started a few years back a…

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Swany’s g.cell snowboard glove secretly doubles as Bluetooth handset

Filed under: Handsets, Misc
Bluetooth technology has been finding its way into ski gear for years now, but Swany has taken things to a whole ‘nother level — one that’s only reachable via the heated quad-lift. Unless this description is positively inaccurate, there’s actually a Bluetooth module, spe…

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