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Dyson’s Response To The Air Multiplier Fan Clones

Matt Burns — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:41:47 +0000

It’s probably a good time to be a patent lawyer over at Dyson. After all since the company produces bonifide innovative products every other week, clones no don’t pop up everywhere. It’s job security. That’s all. Just last week a seemingly perfect clone of the fanless Air Multiplier hit the interwebs and Dyson just issued a statement to do us concerning the knock-offs.

The Dyson Air Multiplier™ fans were launched in 2009 after four years of research and development. A team of specialist Dyson engineers have refined and patented the technology: illegal copies are of significantly inferior quality. Dyson rigorously defends its intellectual property and treats any infringement very seriously. Dyson is taking legal action against anyone who copies its technology.

In other words, the hounds are released and dem be hungry.

WITN?: Can India Succeed in Exporting Mobile Services Like It Did with Bollywood? (TCTV)

Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:10:34 +0000

We’re not going to lie to you—this video may feature the world’s worst Skype connection. And that was after 45 minutes of trouble-shooting. While we have no problems connecting to entrepreneurs in Russia or Kenya, apparently London is the land that Skype forgot, which is pretty ironic given it was funded there. But such old-world telecom connections are the new reality for Monty Munford who moved from uber-telecom connected India back to the UK last month. Munford has worked in two if the industries where India has outdone many other countries: Mobile and Bollywood. (See him above getting pampered.) As we discussed a few weeks ago with mobile in Kenya - and as Munford wrote in his guest post on Somaliland yesterday - India is one of many countries trying to export what it has done well to Africa. Is Bollywood the model?

Lumix DMC-LX5 review roundup: great hardware for a not-so-great price

Ross Miller — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:01:00 +0000

Reviews are starting to trickle out for Pansonic's LX3 successor, the DMC-LX5, and so far they all seem to echo similar sentiment. The form factor hearkens back to its Micro Four Thirds darling GF1, at least from the top, with "dinky buttons" (in CNET UK's words) on the back reminding you of its point-and-shoot bloodline. The pictures are solid if not characteristically warm -- and the ability to simultaneously produce RAW and JPEG files is a nice touch -- as is the choice of either Motion JPEG or AVCHD Lite video. The universal issue with this camera is the price; that £449.99 tag (the equivalent of $691 in US currency) doesn't quite seem to match the offerings, especially when it's about on par with entry-level DSLRs with interchangeable lenses (albeit without the slim look). As PhotographyBLOG puts it, Panny's gotta hard case to make for a camera "that looks, at first glance to be very similar to a £299 model." Hey, a hardware switch for changing the aspect ratio (just above lens barrel; 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, or 1:1) doesn't come cheap. Much more detail can be found in the reviews below.

Read - PhotographyBLOG
Read - CNET UK
Read - Pocket-lint

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Form 3 Sex Toy Resembles a Computer Mouse [Nsfw]

Kat Hannaford — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 +0000

When JimmyJane showed off their Form 2 sextoy, Jesus Diaz said it looked like a Millennium Falcon. The new Form 3, on the other hand, resembles a soft-touch computer mouse—but don't go using a Microsoft Arc "down there." More »

MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer… of sorts

Darren Murph — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:10:00 +0000

Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone," but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning. A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close to solving complex computational problems in just a fraction of the time that it'd take a bona fide supercomputer. The goal here is to let researchers and scientists convert to Google's mobile OS, but if you aren't falling for that one, it's also designed to "let engineers perform complicated calculations in the field, and to better control systems for vehicles or robotic systems." Of course, the models that are hosted on the phone do require a supercomputer to create, but once certain formulas are embedded, the app can then compute approximations in mere seconds rather than hours. Best of all, rbAPPmit is available for download as well speak in the source link below, but we'd probably wait for the (presumably thick) user guide to surface before diving in headfirst.

[Thanks, Alasdair]

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Researchers Announce First Implantable Artificial Kidney Prototype [Medicine]

Rebecca Boyle - PopSci — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000

An artificial kidney powered by the circulatory system could be the first implantable device to replace kidney donation and dialysis, scientists say. More »

Merger Mania: Corp Dev Execs Talk For An Hour About Who They’d Buy And Why

Michael Arrington — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:53:41 +0000

We'd heard this was a great discussion but haven't been able to get our hands on the footage until now. On July 29th senior corporate development executives from Cisco (Derek Idemoto), Facebook (Michael Brown), Google (Amin Zoufonoun), Microsoft (Fritz Lanman), Twitter (Jessica Verilli) and Yahoo (Taylor Barada) convened at Startup2Startup to talk about what kinds of companies they want to buy, and why. The panel was moderated by CODE Advisors founder Michael Marquez, who was also a former corp dev executive at both Yahoo and CBS. He put together a panel of buyers that will represent most or all of the M&A activity in the online space over the next year or so, with the possible exception of AOL. My favorite part is at 27:30 where each panelist says the top acquisitions that the person to their right should make. Watch everyone's body language - lots of nervousness up there on stage. But the entire hour is worth watching if you're even thinking about selling your company right now.

My Review of Windows Phone 7 Is In, And… [Image Cache]

Kat Hannaford — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:20:17 +0000

...It feels slightly more modern than WinMo 5, but only just! In all seriousness, this was taken at the Secret Cinema London showing of Lawrence of Arabia (hence my somewhat-Bedouin-wear), which Windows has plastered its sponsorship over. More »

Alleged Samsung NX100 pics and specs surface

Ross Miller — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:09:00 +0000

We're not quite sure what to make of this, as our first reaction is to label it a fan made render and move on. But it's a very detailed render, so let's hear this one out in between bites of freshly grilled burger (or whatever you do to celebrate Labor Day; we think more working is an appropriate course of action, but to each his or her own). So what you see surfaced on the Digital Photography Review forums is an apparent render of the Samsung NX100 and a diagram pictured after the break -- labeled by number but missing the complementary key. We still don't know much about the forum poster nor the images' origins, but later on he or she did provide supposed dimensions and some display specifications: 4.74 x 2.8 x 1.36 inches, 9.95 ounces, an external GPS receptor, an external EVF with 201K resolution, and a (non-articulating) display that's 921K AMOLED. We're intrigued to say the least, but nothing tangible at the moment.

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Pillow and iPad Covers That Make the Nerd in Me Absolutely Giddy [Nerdalicious]

Christina Bonnington — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Just look at them! They're cute and colorful, with blown up illustrations of your favorite electronic components, crazy nerdtastic prints, or quirky fun images. I think I'll get two pillow covers to make up for my iPadless-ness. More »