Have you ever yearned for more immediate control over your surroundings?

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CRISTAL combines ‘The Sims’ and Surface for full room control

Starline — a Hong Kong -based PC manufacturer — has unleashed the netbook you see above, the NB1000. This 10-incher’s got all the standard, yawn-inducing specs — an Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, three USB ports, plus ethernet and VGA ports. The thing that makes this little guy stand out

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Starline NB1000 netbook’s giant, invisible touchpad is the only thing it’s got going for it

With the launch of the Zune HD and the CEDIA show just around the corner, we’ve been hoping this could mean an all new integrated future for Windows Media Center and other Microsoft platforms — until now. As a few commenters pointed out yesterday , the corrected spec sheet received from Microsoft indicated HDTV and protected Windows Media Center DVR-MS (the files used by Vista Media center) recordings were not supported

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Zune 4.0 software won’t play nice with HDTV Media Center recordings

Paul Teutul Sr. may not be the most eloquent of men, but he’s good at what he does and has developed quite a following both on and off the reality TV circuit. Apparently none of those followers work at Fox News, as he got something of an odd reception when going on air there to show off Orange County Choppers’ latest creation: the Siemens Smart Chopper

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Paul Sr. demonstrates OCC’s electric chopper, Fox News seems mystified

We first saw the crazy BrainPort in 2006, but the intervening time hasn’t been wasted by its developers, who’ve brought the quirky visual aid to the cusp of commercial viability. If you’ll recall, the device translates signals from a head-mounted camera to electrical pulses that lightly zap your tongue in response to visual stimuli — early results have shown people can regain a good bit of their spatial awareness and even read large writing.

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BrainPort lets you see with your tongue, might actually make it to market

Well well, it looks like the mythical Sony Ericsson Satio is soon to go from beautiful fever-dream to actual reality — it’s popped into the FCC database with test results on GSM 850 and 1900, otherwise known as EDGE.

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Sony Ericsson Satio arrives at the FCC

As fans of Real Genius , we’re as intrigued as you are by the concept of a flying laser the size (and shape) of a Boeing 747-400F, and have been tracking Boeing’s test-flights of its Airborne Laser platform quite closely.

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Boeing’s Airborne Laser shines a light on a missile mid-flight, says ‘Hey, there!’

Lenovo’s issued a recall for the batteries on six of its ThinkPad models. The batteries are apparently causing a range of problems, including bringing up the error messages “irreparable damage” and “battery cannot be charged,” and causing overall short capacity batteries, or those than cannot be charged or experience massive drops on the fuel gauge quickly.

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Lenovo issues battery recall for six ThinkPad models

How do you cook up the perfect KIRF product? Well, you take a well-loved device, say the Nokia N810 , and start chopping off the things that made it a winner, like that oh-so-bulky QWERTY keyboard, until you get a device cheap enough to be sold as “the world’s first MID under $300.” The painfully unoriginal Inkia 500 — which isn’t even the first to rip off Nokia’s internet tablet — isn’t entirely without merit, as it comes with a 5-inch touchscreen plus a ULV Atom processor, and once you pony up for 3G and GPS options it might even be useful.

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXX: Inkia 500 is a mutated, hamstrung N810

Joey Roth blew our collective minds way back in 2007 with his conceptual Felt Mouse , but now the designer is taking his creations to the next level by actually shipping a few. The simply named Ceramic Speakers boast only 10 watts of output per channel, though each 4-inch full-range driver is housed in an acoustically dead porcelain and cork chamber that should do quite a lot with quite a little. We can’t say we’re totally fond of the expected $400 to $500 price tag when these go on sale in October, but toss in a similarly designed subwoofer and we just might bite

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Handcrafted Ceramic Speakers are almost too pretty to blast