Sharp’s 108” LCD TV on sale for $185,000

Sharp recently announced that it will begin selling its 108” LCD TV in the U.S. in September and if you are planning on buying Sharp’s 108” TV you may want to hold off on that next Ferrari...

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Nokia buys Symbian!

Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million.

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65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion Pieces a Year

Exclusive video of the Lego Cathedrals, eight massive Lego storage buildings with 65.6-foot high ceilings, a 65.6-square-mile shelf space, and dozens of giant robots going up and down retrieving boxes full of bricks. "I felt like I entered the Matrix. Below the thunderous noise of the flying machines, I heard myself shouting: 'It's a cathedral'".

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Meet the Man Who Could Destroy Photogragraphy

Julius von Bismarck's 'Image Fulgurator' projects stealth images into the photographs of strangers, while keeping those images invisible to human eyes. Depending on whom you ask, it's either a clever hack or an obnoxious intrusion. Naturally, we had to find out more.

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Sweet 1:5 scale A-10 Warthog remote control model

Here's the 1:5 scale A-10 Warthog remote control model in some video action at Top Gun 2008, in Lakeland, FL.—the biggest remote controlled airplane competition in the world. And to match it, a real A-10 appeared in the scene, taking off from a parallel runway. We interviewed Mike Selby, one of the model creators, and got all the technical details

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Biggest RC Airplane Competition in the World (VIDEO+PICS)

Top Gun 2008, the 20th anniversary edition of the biggest RC model competition in the world, starts tomorrow. Five days of pure nerdgasm watching the most stunning, biggest and best remote control aircraft in the planet. The ultimate toys this side of a real fighter jet.

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World’s First Energy Efficient OLED Lamp

"It’s an exciting time for OLED technology as it finally begins to integrate into the home and designers start to realize its potential for efficient and inexpensive lighting solutions in a variety of stunning new applications. Resembling a tiny tree blossoming with lucent leaves, Ingo Maurer’s Early Future lamp is the world’s first OLED lamp."

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HOWTO: Build A Spy GPS Tracking System

"The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. The Tracker responds to text message commands, detects motion, and sends you its exact position, ready for Google Maps or your mapping software."

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Greener Gadgets Design Competition winners

In case you don't know, the Greener Gadgets Conference is a gathering in New York focused on cleaner, renewable, recyclable, or generally forward-thinking technology and design. They awarded first place to a DIY project which allows you to easily view how much energy an appliance is using.

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Nokia turns people into traffic sensors

100 UC Berkeley students took place in a test of a new technology that, among other things, will enable phones to "proactively say, I see you have a meeting that's coming up in an hour, the route you usually take is congested. You probably need to leave 15 minutes early." [Video Included]

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