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In all honesty, USBfever as good as nailed right now one. The $22.99 in-car charger plugs better to your cigarette socket and whores motorists this cigarette outlet going back along in 4 charging USB ports. The one (admittedly massive) adjust we would like it would’ve made? Replace the present cig adapter amid a traditional AC outlet. Yeah, yeah — who could obtain the overall happening a lot bigger, but you can not deny who it ought to be way a greater number of useful. Version 2, anyone?

Alright, Microsoft: we take it all back. It was wrong, only incorrect of us to impugn your promotional filmmaking skills. That Bruce Springsteen parody? Spot on. Awkward Vegas flirtations? True pathos. And now, to promote the launch of your newly written version of the Surface table for Sheraton Hotels, you have crafted the touching story of a unusual kid, a smug photo-twirler, her tardy date and a loving asian family. We do not wish to spoil anything, but complications ensue, folks, and the present is one nail-biter quality of a sequel. Do properties all end up being offered to dinner together? Or are properties destined to troll Craigslist too evening, searching for such a missed connection…

You: Cute family.
Me: Sultry Surface spokeswoman.
My date was a disaster, and now I’m all only for the weekend, let me teach you how to pair your phones providing the table within the duration of Bluetooth, and subsequently we can all go get ice cream together!

As the military industrial complex surges forward, so do develops in technology for the public sector. At lowest that is how the cold-war wisdom goes. Case in point: QinetiQ is developing a lens-less, mirror-less, battlefield imaging approach amongst chosen boon out of your DARPA’s deep pockets. The LACOSTE expect (Large Area Coverage Optical Search additonally Track and Engage) aims to set aloft high-altitude (about 20km) drones and air-ships fitted amongst a special, thousand-strong microscopic sensor array (a “first of such a kind,” according to QinetiQ), a “mask,” and image processor to decode the scene and extract an image of the speedily turning circumstances on the battlefield or, you foreseen it, city streets. The resulting lightweight and highly-durable process can feature a “super resolution” mode providing the ability to “detect and simultaneously track substantial ranges of moving vehicles in dense urban regions amid a exorbitant degree of accuracy, 24-hours a day.” And right here you notion CCTV was intrusive.

Remember SunTable? After There are those postpone and well-placed design touch-ups, the table created from what i read in teak, stainless steel and you estimated it, solar cells is now shipping. Better yet, it is no longer priced at $3,600 either. For $2,200, UPS can ship the 45-pound weatherproof, 120 volt table through sufficient battery storage for up 4-hours of laptop / TV use or 6-hours of night era lighting of a 25 watt bulb — subsequent to a 4-hour direct sunbeams credit mind you. As steep as it is, we are feeling strangely compelled by our fear of the omniscient baby-Gore to place an shape for the Engadget victory garden.

Been experiencing a hardy tad figuring out clearly how CERN’s Large Hadron Collider does? Worried such a it is planning to initiate a Möbius strip (a rip in the fabric of space at which opportunity gets a loop)? Just sttink to jam? Watch that CERN-sponsored rap once the break, and own your sector fully destroyed. Er, but not for real.

Remember people battery-operated vibrating ladybugs such a buyers exhausted to pass available (multiple times) as office gifts? Yeah, so critter ain’t got not anything on now steady of patently awful gizmos. We’ve witnessed a remarkable total number of garbage pass beneath our noses in the previous few weeks, and we have rounded up the worst of the worst for your consideration. So, is a USB shell speaker so much a greater number of embarrassing as opposed to a V-Sports console for families tired of search for a Wii? Is the i-Knock customized IM notifier more and more unnecessary as opposed to the Encore Rockin’ Music Lamp? Or performs the OMG-inducing Limbo String walk away amid the gold here? We know, every and most any item is a festering crap in one way or another, but that of the sites underneath just now exemplify the word “crap?” Choose carefully.

Microsoft’s no stranger to appealing antitrust decisions before the European Commission’s Court of the First Instance, and it looks like it’s saddling up for another go ’round: the software giant has decided to appeal that $1.3B antitrust fine handed down in February. Saying that it was only filing as part of a “constructive effort to seek clarity from the court,” Microsoft has asked that the decision be annulled. Yeah, that seems pretty clear. As always, our suggestions that this be resolved with a GTA IV / CoD4 round-robin deathmatch on Live have gone unheeded in favor of tedious paperwork and months of delay, but we’re still holding out hope.

[Thanks, Hosain]

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Not to be confused with the absolutely worthless (sorry, the truth hurts) Big Red Button of Doom, the Emergency Party Button has a very specific purpose. Designed to take a vanilla home from mundane to spectacular in just seconds, this connected trigger basically flips a boring crib into a bumpin’ club whenever you see fit. Just to give you an idea of what goes down when you mash the button, you’ll see hallway lights turn off, blinds close, a fog machine come alive, speakers crank up and loads of laser lights turn active. All told, the project cost the builder just north of $600, which seems like a real bargain given what you get. Jump on past the break to have a look on video.
[Via Hack N Mod]

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As we’ve seen, it doesn’t exactly take all that much to whip up a homemade multitouch system, but that doesn’t make Bridger Maxwell’s science fair project here any less impressive, which wraps everything into a fairly tidy, OS X-based package. Like other similar systems, this one relies on a slew of LEDs (28 of ‘em in this case), along with a webcam modded with an IR filter, and piece of acrylic and a spare LCD screen for the surface itself. To show it off to its fullest potential, Bridger whipped up an app of his own for OS X that lets users flip through XKCD comics with suitably fancy graphics thanks to OS X’s Core Animation. There doesn’t seem to be any video of the rig in action, unfortunately, but you can find plenty of pics of the entire build process at the link below.

[Via TG Daily]
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Okay, so we’re not exactly doctors, but we couldn’t help but be intrigued by PEAK Surgical’s announcement today that its PlasmaBlade electrosurgery scalpel had completed preclinical testing with positive results. Unlike traditional electrosurgery tools like the bovie cutter, the PlasmaBlade operates at low temperatures, using pulsed plasma energy to cut tissue and control bleeding. Then, stupidly, we watched the video. Let’s just say now that it no longer matters to us that surgeons using the PEAK PlasmaBlade produce “minimal collateral damage” to tissue and that bleeding was reduced. Sure, it’s great for the surgeons, but our eyes? Not going to be the same.
[Via MedGadget]

Read - PEAK PlasmaBlade press release
Watch - PEAK PlasmaBlade demo video (WARNING: not for the squeamish, we mean it!)