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Saturday, October 6th, 2007

From Teleglass comes the T4-N Limited Edition Video Glasses. The glasses create a simulated 45 inch screen (as if sitting from six feet away), with a resolution of 640 x 480. Coolness abound, you can focus and adjust each monitor to reduce eye strain. As you can see by the picture above the audio comes from frame-mounted earbuds.
Just connect any NTSC viseo player and enjoy. They look stylish, unlike the competition, and it’s hidden components reside in the frame and nose-piece. Word on the street is that they cost $1150 per pair, but you’ll have to hurry, because there’s only 500 available.
Pink Tentacle via Teleglass
And now for something completely different… Athusa and Backyard Birding
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007

The “mythical” Traveling Terabyte Gear
In reference to an entry published on Sept. 23 (“Hacker Sends War-Tough Marines a Befitting PVR�), I have received a generous update about the Traveling Terabyte Project. Go to www.travelingterabyte.org for all the official information.
This is an important project that connects us to our beloved Devil Dogs (Marines). It provides them a care-package that we can all share in to show support. Hopefully it gives the soldiers a bit of home when they’re abroad, and keeps them grounded when they’re in hell (Ooo-Rah!).
They are not yet taking donations (as this is a grassroots movement stemming from the generosity of one person, Deviant Ollam), though there should be something set up soon.
And, as a big fan of this project, I will also be posting updates and hopefully finding more supporters, at Athusa.net. Let make it work.
Very, very special thanks, and American gratitude to: AST Cell. As well as to all the people involved with this project.
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

“Deviant Ollam” is a New Jersey hacker/network engineer who saw fit to create the Traveling Terabyte Project (TTB). A program in which he sends hard drives, filled with popular movies, television shows and music, in Pelican cases, to Marines in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan.
Deviant said this about his revelation, “I’ve got this extra storage and thought ‘what could I do with it?’. It didn’t really make sense to put the disks into my already hugely ridiculous raid array.â€? So, why not send them to a few Leathernecks? Everyone needs a little inspiration (even tough-guys). But, shipping the drives to a war-torn country could’ve been an obstacle, “You can’t really put the drives in bubble wrap and throw them in the mail,â€? So he instead packed the equipment into the olive-drab cases with international power adapters and USB cables.
Once Marines receive the cases they often add their own files customizing and personalizing their gifts (becoming a snapshot of our modern heroes lives). And, like any grassroots movement, these drives have become a small overseas urban-legend. Eventually being delivered to the American embassy in Dushanbe Tajikistan, just to prove they exist.
Hopefully the Traveling Terabyte Project will get legs. I’m still searching for a donation website. If anyone knows of one, please comment. Anything we can do to remedy some of the stress of being in a war zone, is something we should do. They’re heroes.
From one American cyber-geek to another, thank you, ‘Deviant Ollam’.
More thanks to TG Daily for getting the word out on this project.
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Need an external hard drive for movie storage? Look no further, Western Digital has come to the rescue. Introducing “My Book Essential Edition 2.0″, a hard drive the size of a paperback book. Contained within it’s cover is 1 TB of disk space, and a 2.0 USB port. It’s a plug-n-store device for all your PVR needs, and it costs $349.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007

The Diamani DUO line of LCD’s from Viewsonic has been launched. It’s a unique hybrid of TV and computer monitor. There’s a 19″ version for $349 and a 22″ version $399. Both sporting slim, sexy HDMI inputs, as well as HD tuners. They’re also equipped with VGA inputs. And to address your analog desires, there’s component, RCA, and S-video inputs. It’s the “be all to end all” of TV’s… I mean monitors… I mean… where was I? Oh yeah, It’s fine time someone tried to invent something useful for the practical man.
Electronista
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007

At HGTV Marketplace, they’re offering a 4 seat spa with a motorized 61″ LCD HDTV. It’s a custom order through Catalina Spas, so there is no price listed. But, I’m sure if you have a vivid imagination you could conjure up a price close enough to what they’re asking. Who says the US economy is bad?
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Did you see
Tivo’s new Ad Campaign? And did you sign up for
Amazon’s Unbox yet?
Apparently this offer expires April 30, so get to it! Right now this Amazon/Tivo campaign will give you $15 dollars to buy whatever your heart desires in Movie and TV Show downloads, delivered straight to your Registered Tivo box.
Of course if you did sign up, tell us all about it in comments! I didn’t have a chance to try it myself, but from what I hear, it’s the best thing since sliced bread! If you have your Tivo hooked up to the Internet, I believe that this is one of the easiest ways to get mainstream media downloads straight to your TV. If not, stay tuned for our other ideas.
No Tivo? How about Vongo then?
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