Fits.me shape-shifter models the huge pectoral muscles men want, smaller ones they have (video)

While online shopping has taken over most facets of modern retail, buying clothes via the interwebs is something more of a hard sell. The Fits.me shape-shifting mannequin is here to make that a little easier — for men, anyway. Earlier this year the company created a robotic torso comprised of flexible panels that can shift between thousands of different shapes and sizes from small to extra large

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T-Mobile to Launch HSPA+ Handset Later this Summer

T-Mobile recently said that it plans to introduce its first HSPA+ capable handset at some point this summer. T-Mobile said the device in question will be a smartphone, and that more details will become available in the coming weeks.

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Cineworld makes a film listing iPhone app: is it better than Google Mobile?

Wondering if you can catch a late-night showing of Inception? Cineworld have become the first British cinema chain to release an iPhone app that lists times of showings and lets you buy tickets. It’s a free app, on sale…

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DROID X screen issues acknowledged by Motorola, Verizon Wireless

Verizon and Motorola have come out with an official statement to address screen issues early adopters of the Motorola DROID X are experience; specifically, banding or flickering. The statement is short and sweet, and goes something like this… Verizon Wireless and Motorola are aware of a very small number of DROID X units that have experienced a flickering or banding display

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AC Adapter Rangers

By Andrew Liszewski To some people, a tangled cord or a desk full of messy cables can be an emergency worthy of calling in the fire brigade. But you can save yourself the hefty fines from calling 911 for your so-called ‘emergency’ and get a set of these AC Adapter Rangers instead. They’ll work diligently to ensure the charging cable for your phone is always in reach, and once they’re set to the task you can rest assured knowing your cords will remain tangle free. A set of two AC Adapter Rangers are available from iida for about $22 (1,880 YEN) and it looks like they even come with a colorful children’s book highlighting their past heroics

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Baidu working on own mobile OS with help from ex-Googlers?

Reports in the Chinese media indicate that Baidu, the dominant search engine in China, may consider developing its own mobile operating system. The development would be led by former Google China employees, who have defected to Baidu amid the censorship controversy between the Chinese government and Google. There are very few details known at this point, but early reports seem to indicate that the OS will be open source. If so, this is clearly aimed to be a competitor to Google’s Android, which has been making significant progress in the Chinese market, even helped by the biggest Chinese mobile carriers . As more and more Android handsets are due to be released in China, Baidu saw the need for a mobile OS that would assure its growth in mobile search.

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Cap & Thor images straight from Comic-Con

Marvel has released some new imagery from the Thor and Captain America movies in honor of Comic-Con 2010 , which is just about to get underway in San Diego. Check out these awesome pieces of concept art, along with a jaw-dropping new still image of Chris Hemsworth as Thor from USA Today (you won’t believe the size of Hemsworth’s arms!). Oh how I hope that the movies can live up to these images…

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Video: Blind Type allows you to type without looking at your screen

There are a few competing keyboards on Android and the iPhone at the moment: Swype , Shapewriter , Swiftwkey — and that’s just the ones beginning with S. But here’s one that’s tackling a problem I never thought software could tackle: Blind Type makes it possible to type on your touch screen phone without looking at the screen. You can do this because the Blind Type keyboard is no longer tethered to the bottom of your screen. In fact, you just type away anywhere on the screen — just like there was a keyboard underneath — and the app figures out what you meant. Luckily for you, these guys have a video demonstration, coz I’m having a Dickens of a time trying to explain it to you

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Dell ships Precision M6500 laptop with 32GB of RAM: drill, baby, drill

Nah, that’s not us yelling to dig deeper into oceanic unknowns — it’s a megaphone originating from Dell’s campus in Round Rock. As the story goes, Dell’s “oil and gas” consumers have been clamoring for more system memory on their mobile workstations, with the revamped Precision M6500 — which allows them to “review larger slices of the earth to find oil, enabling faster and more accurate drilling to find oil and gas reserves.” We say all that to mention the 32GB of system RAM that’s now shipping on fully loaded M6500s, but with four RAM slots, that’s not as difficult to accomplish as you might expect. Still, having 32GB in a single laptop is a rare sight these days, and if you aren’t into coughing up a fistful of Benjamins for that, Dell’s Precision M4500 is now available with 16GB of memory.

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NES, SNES & GBA Cart Hard Drives & Flash Drives

By Andrew Liszewski If you’re a fan of classic gaming, particularly from Nintendo, you’re either going to love or cringe at the site of these cartridges that have been converted into hard drives and USB flash drives. They were created by Etsy seller 8-Bit Memory , and the prices seem to range from about $39.99 for a GBA cart 4GB flash drive, to upwards of $179.99 for a 1TB NES cart external drive. Custom orders are also welcome, if your cart of choice hasn’t already been converted. [ Etsy - 8-Bit Memory - NES, SNES & GBA Cart Hard Drives & Flash Drives ] VIA [ Newlaunches ]

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Entourage Systems partners with Cengage Learning, bringing lots more digital books to the Edge

Surely you remember the Entourage Edge , the dual-screened, Android-powered tablet/netbook that we concluded just wasn’t worth your time — nor your $500, at least. That said, you may not have heard of Cengage Learning, but they’re a massive publishing conglomeration that prints everything from Chilton auto manuals to those giant hair style books found at salons and full of Zoolander rejects doing their best Magnum impression. Between those literary extremes falls a whole raft of textbooks, content that these two companies will start sharing in time for the fall semester, helping to boost the Edge’s street cred as a legitimate satchel replacement for scholarly types. Now all Entourage needs to do is boost the battery life, up the responsiveness, and knock a couple-hundred bucks off the price.

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HTC Wildfire coming to Canada via Bell?

The HTC Wildfire has appeared in what seems to be a Bell promotional ad, so it looks like the carrier will launch the smartphone in Canada sometime soon. Apparently, the Wildfire should have been part of a Bell promotion between July 15 and July 18, though this has not happened – since the handset can’t be found anywhere at Bell. The Wildfire has some really nice features (including 3G, WiFi, GPS and 5MP autofocus camera), too bad its display is only a QVGA one at 3.2 inches. Anyway, there’s no word on when exactly Bell will introduce the handset, but if it does is soon enough it could become the first North American carrier to offer it. Bell has already released the HTC Legend , another Android 2.1 smartphone that’s not as expensive as the HTC Desire – which, by the way, has been announced by Telus recently.

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10 Kindle Cases You Can Make Yourself

Here’s something for all our crafty DIY readers out there that also happen to own a Kindle eBook reader. It’s an article with 10 Kindle cases that you can build for free . The article includes links and instructions to various cases, like the one shown here using an old pair of jeans to make a case. These ideas aren’t restricted to just the Kindle

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What Do You Think of Olivia Munn?

This “geek goddess” (that’s what Guyism calls her) has been making a lot of noise lately. For sure, you’ve heard about Olivia Munn’s exploits, which have placed her in the limelight more than usual. She rose to fame courtesy of G4’s Attack of the Show but has since then moved on to more lucrative gigs. From being dubbed as Jon Stewart’s “senior Asian correspondent” to roaming Comic Con grounds dressed as Princess Leia to writing and promoting her own personal essays – it looks like Olivia Munn has gained a wide following

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Sony: One Million PSP Mini Downloads! Apple: 5 Million Doodle Jump SALES In Same Time!

Sony recently announced that they have now passed the 1 million downloaded PSP Minis mark worldwide, with this occurring just over 9 months since the service launched. The store now boasts more than 85 Minis titles, with most playable on both the PSP and PS3. The post notes the top 10 ‘most popular titles’: 1. Age of Zombies 2. Monopoly 3

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Bosch Rotak Li Electric Lawn Mowers

Those of you with serious swaths of property may laugh at electric push mowers, but for home owners with small plots to tend, they can be great. The Bosch Rotak Li Series ($300-$540) makes them even better — for a price — by eliminating the pesky cord in exchange for a lithium-ion battery that’s good for cutting 3,300 square feet of grass per charge and can fully juice in an hour (or hit 80% in 30 minutes). Besides eliminating the safety hazard of running over the chord, the battery gives users the freedom to mow anywhere, and its electric motor also produces 10x less CO2 than comparable gas-powered models

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Joking Computer wants you to rate its puns

If you think the world is full of enough people making bad jokes, then you may not be delighted to hear that Scottish scientists have just invented a computer (and website) that makes bad jokes too. The Joking Computer software…

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Verizon Wireless Pushing Software Update to LG Ally

Verizon Wireless has indicated via its support pages that a software update is being distributed to the LG Ally Android phone. Firmware version VS740ZV8 helps improve the QWERTY keyboard’s performance; improves alerts; speeds the camera and message apps; adds …

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Save Justin Bieber Wednesdays: Advice From The Backstreet Boys …

[obembed=biebs_backstreet]Justin Bieber has a voice like an angel, a swoon-inducing side-swoop of hair, a major record label and some of the most dedicated fans in the world — not to mention Bieb.

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Plextor ships PX-B120U USB-powered Blu-ray drive for $100

We aren’t saying your nifty new netbook can actually handle the stresses of playing back a Blu-ray Disc, but if your USB-equipped laptop has the oomph, Plextor has a new device to bring the spoils of BD to your previously lackluster machine.

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Samsung Intensity II coming to Verizon Wireless soon

One of our friends over at Best Buy was kind enough to send us in a few shots of the new Samsung Intensity II, due out on Verizon Wireless… um, soon we would presume? The phone pictured is a display unit, but from what we’re told the full-QWERTY slider-phone will have a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a $1.00 price tag from Best Buy on a 2-year contract. Of course, if you don’t want to be married to this phone for two years — and if you’re reading this there is a high likelihood mathematical certainty that you don’t — you can pick one up for $249.99 full retail. Not a bad looking little phone… for your younger siblings of course.

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