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James Dyson seems to have made the manipulation of air his life’s mission, and his most recent product, the “bladeless” desktop fan, has apparently enjoyed enough success to merit an expanded range. You’ll soon be able to splash a cool $450 on either of the elongated Tower (above left) or Pedestal Air Multipliers. They function [...]

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This is news to us, but apparently there have been “few noteworthy advancements” in smartphone hardware since the iPhone and BlackBerry came out. Out to fix this stale, plateaued industry is Innpu, with its revolutionarily new “wired phone” (it’s bad news when even the manufacturer puts the product name in quotation marks, right?). Setting the [...]

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The crew at iFixit were jonesing for something to disassemble recently, and Sony Ericsson’s X10 Mini seems to have been the nearest thing they could lay hand and screwdriver upon. We’ll admit HTC has us kind of spoiled with the colorful interiors of its phones, so we were a little underwhelmed by the demureness of [...]

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Check out that sweet, sweet box. Yes folks, we seem to have received our very first in-the-cardboard picture of the retail iPhone 4 out in the wild. We don’t work at Walmart, so we can’t verify this one for ourselves, but our tipster says Apple’s latest phone has just landed in the big box retailer’s [...]

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Microsoft still hasn’t gotten any more specific than “holiday 2010″ for a Windows Phone 7 launch date, but it looks like we may now have a bit more specificity courtesy of Australian carrier Telstra. According to a leaked snippet from a purportedly authentic Telstra roadmap, the hereto unheard of Windows Phone 7-based HTC Mozart will [...]

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Yes, it’s just a hard drive that plays 1080p content, but this one can connect to your PS3; according to some machine translated Japanese, Marshal’s new “Media Joker” can also act as an external hard drive for your Sony game console or a Toshiba REGZA TV. While you won’t be able to install games on [...]

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Violight has been in the business of UV-based germicide since way back in 2004, but now it’s bringing its wares closer to our geeky hearts. Its new Cell Phone Sanitizer will nuke 99 percent of all germs and bacteria slithering around your phone or MP3 player, and it’ll do it in under 5 minutes too. [...]

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Whether they’re slated to power terahertz chips or transparent electrodes, graphene sheets have garnered tremendous excitement, but the scientific community has had great trouble making the single-atom-thick pencil lead lattices large enough for industrial use. Thankfully, the same South Korean scientists who brought us 10 centimeter film never abandoned their post, and now Sungkyunkwan University [...]

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Well, here’s an interesting turn of events. Apple has apparently sent out emails notifying at least some of those who ordered iPhone 4 that it’ll be arriving June 23rd. (Well over three dozen people have tipped us to this in the last 30 minutes — thanks, by the way.) Hard to say [...]

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Even if you’re the Federal Communications Commission, freeing up half a gigahertz of wireless spectrum isn’t an easy task, but things become easier when you have top men on the job. The FCC’s freshly deputized Spectrum Task Force may have just proven its worth, by shifting up to 90MHz from mobile satellite services to [...]

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