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Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth.
It’s not another futuristic product of George Lucas’ imagination—it’s the exciting work of USC School of Dentistry and USC Viterbi [...]

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is endorsing a very inexpensive cellphone called “El Vergatorio,” which is also Venezuelan slang for “penis.” And in a fit of rapture, he said, “”This telephone will be the biggest seller not only in Venezuela but the world. Whoever doesn’t have a Vergatario is nothing.”
Big penis lurve right there.

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It took Jaquet Droz about a decade and more than 1,200 components to create his “La Machine à Ecrire le Temps” (The Machine that Writes the Time). And it’s also totally affordable at 400,000 Swiss francs ((US $342,275) apiece.

In the video below, see how “accurate” Droz’s “time writing machine” is — by the time it’s [...]

Marvel at the Petaminx — a dodecahedral puzzle designed to make you eat your shoe in frustration.

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Somebody visited a Nikon booth in japan, and what does he see? A Nikon D3 camera cleanly cut in half. Camera porn!

After three decades of steady if unspectacular service, the spinning wheels of the home-entertainment stalwart are slowing to a halt at retail outlets. On a crisp Friday morning in October, the final truckload of VHS tapes rolled out of a Palm Harbor, Fla., warehouse run by Ryan J. Kugler, the last major supplier of the [...]

A tiny microscope that employs the same kind of chip used in digital cameras can produce high-resolution images of cells without the expensive, space-hogging lenses that have been part of microscope design for centuries. Researchers at Caltech, who developed the revolutionary imaging system, say that the devices could be mass-produced at a cost of $10 [...]

CNET editor Dong Ngo was in Vietnam and what more fruitful way to spend the time than hitting cell phone shops and asking folks how they do the whole unlocking the iPhone magick.
Hanoi shops are well-known for successfully unlocking iPhones and iPhone 3G — even the “impossible to lock” 2.2 software update for the iPhone [...]

This is a cellphone gun seized somewhere in Italy. It has four bullets and powerful enough to kill, but if you’re thinking about, say, whacking this guy, forget it.
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What seems to be known as “Treadmobil,” this is a treadmill on wheels. Well, you can always just run, you know, but that’s soooo normal.

This is the Sony Bravia ZX1, the world’s first organic LED TV, 40 inches of real estate, only 9.9 mm thick, and consumes less power than a light bulb. It’s so awesome it can replace your girlfriend.

This is the sketch of Kane Kramer’s IXI prototype that he invented in 1979 — a credit card-sized music player that could have played a “whopping” 3.5 minutes of music. Apple, in its efforts to defend itself from the lawsuit filed by Burst.com, has admitted that it has in fact copied its iPod technology directly [...]

This is the Red One, a revolutionary digital motion picture camera that matches the resolution of analog film. It has been developed by Red Digital Cinema, a company owned by Jim Jannard — the same guy who built the multi-billion sunglasses-and-other-sleek-shit manufacturer Oakley from scratch.

[Jannard's] team of engineers and scientists have created the first digital [...]

Some guy in the UK had bought a brand new iPhone, only to discover that it comes “preloaded” with pictures of the young Asian factory worker who put it together.

Well, it could have been worse.
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This is the DX1 System, a keyboard whose individual keys are completely place-anywhere customizable. You can even take a dump and put two keys as the eyes of your very own mound of crap, and it will work!

Just one of the 14 weirdest keyboards your money can buy.

The “Slightest Touch,” priced at $139.95, stimulates the nerves sending gentle pulses up the woman’s leg for between 10 and 30 minutes leaving women on the verge of climax.

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{Intriguing: Sarah Carmen, the 200-orgasm-a-day girl}

The 2-gig USB flash drive that looks so fucked up people would think you’re a loser — hence, serving its purpose. Clever “camouflage” technique.
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{Mad: The Emergency Party Button}