Why is this PSP2 concept actually double the size of Sony’s original PSP? Well, it supposedly plays “your PS One and PS2 discs on a flawless OLED screen and export hi def video out (along with Dolby).” Click here for one more picture.

How about we just take the old body, 32GB SSD and OLED screen and call it a day? Oh, and to any other PSP2 designers, this model is still my reigning champion

[via Kotaku]

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It doesn’t take humongous speakers to get the ultimate in sound. These creative speaker designs combine both style and (hopefully) function. Click here for first picture in gallery.

I never thought that speakers could give me the same feeling that I get when I see a beautifully designed vehicle, but some of the entries in C4DCafe’s speaker rendering challenge have done just that

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This upgraded USB Wireless Rocket Launcher from ThinkGeek features “a transmitter and receiver that lets your launcher sit an extra 15 feet away from the base station.” Video after the break. Click here for one more picture.

Let’s not mix words, here. Office Warfare is serious business. There are enemies all around, eyeing your stapler… coveting your stash of dry-erase markers in rainbow colors… maybe, even, having designs on your last piece of birthday cake

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If you’ve always wondered how nuts and bolts were manufactured, then check out this interesting “How it’s Made” segment. Video after the break.

Screws and bolts are made in a wide range of materials, with steel being perhaps the most common, in many varieties. Where great resistance to weather or corrosion is required, stainless steel, titanium, brass or bronze might be used, or a coating such as brass, zinc or chromium applied

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If your tired of the same old sink, check out the “Water Ball Ripple”. You adjust the temperature by moving a metal ball atop an electromagnetic surface that glows red/blue accordingly. Click here for first picture in gallery.

. The two separate channels combine the hot and cold water to get the perfect mix. Don’t worry about scalding yourself tho. The water in the hot water channel isn’t actually hot until it’s ready to be mixed via flash heating

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We have seen the future of home technology, and it’s Readybot. According to its creator, the Readybot “can currently do a little less than half of your common kitchen chores.” Video after the break.

The creators, part of a homebrew group called the Readybot Robot Challenge, are dedicated to finding a breakthrough application for consumer robotics, and team leader Tom Benson says the answer is simple: “We think people want a robot that can clean the kitchen.”

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So at Sony’s Open House we were having lunch with Mike Abary, Sony’s US SVP of Information Technology Products Division, who oversees Vaio computers (among numerous other things). Of course, the inevitable question came up about the Eee PC’s success thus far, and what that means to computer companies on the higher end of the spectrum, like Sony. Mike’s response was a little surprising, but certainly sensible enough: if consumer expectations begins to weigh too heavily toward the $300 end of PCs, he believes that kind of consumer adoption would have a profoundly negative impact on the industry, referring to its effect as “a race to the bottom.”

We know there are a lot of Eee fans in the house, but the man makes sense. Sony isn’t trashing ultra-cheap machines so much as recognizing that it’s hard to push things forward when your primary objective becomes making the very cheapest possible machine you can (and not very best). Innovation is hard enough to subsidize, but when your already thin margins flatten even further in trying to sell ultra-cheap machines, it’s easy to see the economics working against tech companies. (Asus has less to worry about here because its primary business is making PCs for other companies.) Of course, the reality is that ultra-cheap machines probably won’t soon envelop the lion’s share of computer sales and threaten what most think of as “real” PCs, so we probably don’t have to worry about the industry bottoming out because of the Eee. False advertising and abusive trialware, however, are different stories entirely.

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While its claim of being the “first” to offer an OS specifically designed for the latest crop of low-cost laptops and UMPCs may be a little dubious, the unfortunately-named Linpus is at least pretty quick to jump on the bandwagon. To that end, the company’s just let loose its Linpus Linux Lite OS, which it says will run just fine on laptops like the Eee PC and Cloudbook, or any other system with as little as a 500MHz CPU, 128MB of RAM and 512MB of storage. Just as importantly, the OS is also apparently designed with low-res 7-inch screens in mind, although as CLUMPC points out, it doesn’t go so far as to include support for little things like built-in WiFi out of the box. Still, if you want to give it a shot, you can grab it now in the form of a Live CD direct from Linpus.

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It looks like that little lawsuit over “Vista Capable” stickers on PCs could now be about to get quite a bit bigger, as a federal judge has now bestowed class-action status on the suit, which accuses Microsoft of misleading marketing. More specifically, as the AP reports, the suit alleges that the “Vista Capable” stickers slapped on PCs during the 2006 holiday season created an “artificial demand” for the computers, and “inflated prices for computers that couldn’t be upgraded to the full-featured version of Vista.” As we’ve seen, those stickers even took in at least one higher-up at Microsoft itself, who has made his thoughts on the program quite well known. While things are still obviously in the early stages, the law firm that filed the suit is now looking for others that feel they’ve been burned by the stickers, and ComputerWorld has the details on you can get involved at the link below.

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It looks like MSI has some big plans for CeBIT, if the company’s latest news is any indication. The computer-maker is gearing up for two innovative new laptops, both of which are part of its ECOlution “green” line of systems. The first model will bizarrely feature a high concentration of anions — negatively charged ions which the company believes will “enhance the body’s condition, promote nervous stability and recovery from fatigue, and encourage circulation of halted blood.” The second, less magical entry from MSI comes in the form of the GX600-08 laptop, which utilizes a new battery design intended to extend life up to 20% by engaging a “Turbo Battery Mode” which automatically adjusts the system’s workload to conserve power. We’ll undoubtedly be hearing more about these from CeBIT, so keep your eyes peeled.

[Via Fareastgizmos]

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