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Need remote access to your computer once in a while, but don’t want to leave it on and wasting power the rest of the time? Then you might want to check out this Remote PC Startup System by MAKE subscriber Blake Foster. He used an Arduino, Ethernet shield, and homebrew relay board to add a internet-enabled switch to be able to turn his computer on from anywhere he has Internet connection. He estimates that the savings on his power bill will pay for the hardware cost in about 3 months.

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Remote control for a personal computer

The graphics card that doesn’t require a fridge-sized cooler is turning into something of a rarity nowadays, but we doubt the market for quiet, efficient, and halfway-decent GPUs is ever going to disappear completely. NVIDIA is fleshing out its Fermi family today with a creature that aspires to such epithets, the 96 CUDA core-equipped GT 430

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NVIDIA launches sub-$80 GeForce GT 430 for single-slot cooler enthusiasts

It looks like some crusty old rock, but this is actually an exquisite 17th century pocketwatch. And now, state of the art x-rays have revealed that its 300-year-old mechanisms are still perfectly intact inside its rusting shell. (more…)

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X-Rays Reveal Perfectly Preserved 300-Year-Old Pocket Watch

Uh, well not really. But if you want a hard drive that LOOKS like a Nintendo Wii, have I got something for you. The guys over at schlock-shop DealExtreme have gotten their hands on these hard drive enclosures that look like a miniature black Wii. It’s actually called W!! (which looks a whole lot like Wii with the ‘i’s upsidedown.) It’ll house any 2.5″ SATA hard drive, and provides a USB 2.0 interface for connecting your drive to your PC, Mac or Linux machine.

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Amazon is selling the Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5TB SATA Hard Drive for only $79.99 shipped, originally priced at $199.99.

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Deal of the Day: $199.99 Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5TB SATA Hard Drive for $79.99 Shipped

Introducing the HTC HD7, a svelte Windows Phone 7 handset with a “4.3-inch WVGA (800 x 480) TFT screen, 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8250 system-on-chip, 576MB of RAM, and 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash.” Video after the break. Click here for more pictures. Beyond those enhancements, American buyers will be greeted with preinstalled Netflix, Slacker, and T-Mobile TV entertainment apps, along with 16GB of built-in storage. [via Engadget 1 - 2 ]

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HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 Handset Officially Unveiled

The newest version of the Yahoo! Messenger app now features free 3G voice and video calling to your Yahoo! Messenger friends. The free app, now available in the App Store , runs on any iOS 4.1 iPhone. It will let you call anywhere with a Yahoo! Messenger account, including PCs, or make international calls for an additional fee. [ TUAW ]

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Yahoo! Messenger iPhone App Updates With Free Video/Voice Calls

Though Medal of Honor hits stores today, some gamers have gotten their hands on the beta and provide us with a review of what you should expect. For those who don’t already know, the game’s “multiplayer component is being built by DICE, the studio behind the Battlefield franchise.” Video after the break. Click here for more screenshots.

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Medal of Honor Review Surfaces

What sets Google apart from Yahoo and Bing is that the company has designers specifically to draw up doodles for special occasions, like the playable Pac-Man logo above, which is still live here . Click here to see twelve memorable Google logos and doodles. [via Oddee ]

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12 Memorable Google Logos, Doodles

Students at Columbus College of Art & Design wanted to create something that showed their love of Super Mario Bros., so they painted an interactive mural. This “interactive mural is 16 feet tall, 38 feet wide and took 12 students 8 days to create.” Click here for more pictures. [via Mymodernmet - NBC ]

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Geeky College Students Create Interactive Super Mario Bros. Mural

Microsoft has finally launched its all-in bid to revive its flagging mobile business. We’ve gotten our hands on the HD7 Pro , the Dell Venue (known previously as the Lightning ), and the rest of the US launch lineup . It’s arguable that they’ve spread their brand too thinly with such a long list of offerings, but it may also be a sign of health for the platform that so many manufacturers have gotten behind it. Sure, we’ve been covering handsets, apps, and other aspects of Windows Phone 7 for half a year now, but the official launch warrants further collective judgment. Here are our thoughts, in convenient capsule form.

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The Windows Phone 7 Launch: Our Take

Keeping your eyes on the road gets ever more difficult with ever-bigger, ever-brighter GPS navigation units hitting retail. This product of University of Utah research could obsolete them entirely by tickling your fingers. It’s called “shear feedback,” effectively stretching the skin on your fingertip to tell you which way to go, achieved via a pair of old Thinkpad trackpoints, which were always too coarse a grit for our delicate tastes. The nub moves left or right to tell you where to go, and in a test distracted drivers were 24 percent more likely to follow directions through their digits than when told by cold, uncaring GPS lady

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Shear feedback GPS navigation tells your fingers where to go, you just have to follow (video)

asd The game SimCity came out in 1989, but its presence is still felt in every corner of the gaming industry. From new incarnations on consoles and PDAs and phones to new versions for PC and other platforms to influenced games for a variety of platforms, it is clear that Will Wright had SOMETHING right! The iPhone and iPad have been home to a number of games in this style, and I have just found my new favorite – Virtual City from G5 Entertainment! The Hype: Build a city of your dream – a residential paradise or an industrial center. Build dwelling houses and industrial buildings. Produce goods and deliver them to the shopping malls. Setup mass-transit system to take your citizens to places like parks, cinemas and stadiums.

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iPhone Game Review: Virtual City

Building the Plastruder isn’t too difficult, but it does take about two hours. I’m highlighting the general build process. You are going to want to follow the official directions carefully, double-checking everything. It’s not hard to build, but having a short, or other problem, can lead to disastrous results

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CupCake CNC build, part 11: Building the Plastruder & finishing up

Unless we’ve miscounted somewhere along the way (a distinct possibility), this week marks the 100th episode of our little outpost on the information superhighway. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Digital City show if everything ran smoothly, so you shouldn’t be surprised to find that Scott has been called away on urgent business and is here only in spirit (plus, he sent a note). Standing in is CNET News reporter Greg Sandoval , who joins the discussion on Windows 7 phones and Google’s top-secret music cloud project — but is stunned into silence by our extreme nerd-out over the past weekend’s New York Comic Con . The rest of us, however, happily narrate our photo galleries from the show, showcasing the usual collections of costumed character and overpriced collectibles

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Digital City 100: Comic Con costumes and the ultimate video game t-shirt collection

The Microsoft Kinect system hasn’t even launched yet , and it’s already getting a number of impressive games and accessories. One worth mentioning is this Game Boat peripheral – just hook up the Game Boat while playing Kinect Adventures and you’ll get fully immersed in the action. Fun idea, but is it real or fake? Take the quiz

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Is This Gadget Real or Fake?

We know you’ve been waiting for our Apple TV review , and we’ve been playing with Apple’s second try at a home theater set top box for about ten days now, and figured it was time to report back with our thoughts. The thing is, it really is a lot of the same in terms of usability and interface. There aren’t many changes (yet!) to that side of things, despite things being very different under the hood. The new Apple TV is a lot smaller, and runs iOS 4 , and is priced at just $99. It’s centered around a focus on renting movies and TV shows rather than purchasing them.

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Apple TV review (2010): 5 Things We Like

We just got a quick look at a previously Korea-bound Samsung X430 laptop that Microsoft has tapped as a “Microsoft Store Exclusive.” It’s pretty good hardware, both inside and outside, for the price. Also, due to its Store-exclusive nature, Microsoft also put the promised “Microsoft Signature Image” on here, which means a copy of Windows 7 completely free of crapware and trialware, though Microsoft has put a good quantity of first party software that you’ll probably want like Windows Live, Bing Maps 3D, and Microsoft Security Essentials

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Samsung X430 headed for Microsoft Stores with a crapware-free copy of Windows

Inflatable tanks were used in both world wars so this isn’t exactly new news but I’m posting it anyway with the hopes Russia sends me some free vodka for the good publicity. So, yeah — Russia has ordered a boatload of blow-up army vehicles at a cost of almost $3,200 per piece. Tell me — how much are you currently spending on assault rifles? Because I have a truckful of slingshots AND THEY ARE PRICED TO SELL, RUSKIES! The purchase has drawn sharp criticism from military analysts, who say the Kremlin should be spending its oil wealth on buying real military hardware rather than rubber copies. “Inflatable military hardware is most effective in conflict situations when there is a need to confuse the enemy,” the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper argued on Tuesday.

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Fighting With Hot Air: In Soviet Russia Army Tanks Blow Up You You Blow Up Tanks

So, you can go and nab Zune 4.7 right this minute. Also, Microsoft is showing off Windows Phone 7 right now behind semi-closed doors (sorry, public). Can we bring these two beautiful stories together? Turns out we can, and we did. Now, if you’ve ever used a Zune before, this isn’t going to be that revelatory of an experience, but there are enough minor tweaks and one major one (the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace) that we thought were worth a quick video walkthrough

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Zune 4.7 in cahoots with Windows Phone 7, caught on camera

Wir haben ein paar neue Informationen von der Amerikanischen FCC vorliegen, nach denen es ein neues Palm Pre 2 Smartphone in kürze geben könnte. Bei der FCC ist nämlich die Plakette zum Palm P102UEU Modell aufgetaucht, welches als EU-Modell gelten könnte. Laut einigen Usern aus dem PreCentral Forum könnte das neue Palm Pre mit einem UMTS/3G Modul erscheinen. Dazu würde ein 1150mAh Akku folgen, ein TI OMAP 3600 Prozessor mit 1GHz Taktfrequenz und wahrscheinlich auch die Kombination aus Touchscreen-Display und QWERTZ-Tastatur. Sobald wir eine Offizielle Information zum Palm Pre 2 vorliegen haben, melden wir uns natürlich wieder

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Palm P102UEU: Mögliches Palm Pre 2 Smartphone im Netz aufgetaucht