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This amazing spinning Christmas star was completed just in time to awe any passing drivers in Münich, Germany.

9,000 LEDs were superglued to a wind turbine in just under two weeks. Thanks to smart energy systems like smart grids and power highways, it only consumes as much energy as a hair dryer! The 9,000 LEDs put out as much light as 20,000 Christmas candles.

The Siemens SuperStar was created by multimedia artist Michael Pendry for the company and will be on display until January 6th in Münich. It was created to showcase and promote sustainable energy and green innovation. I think that passing motorists might find it a wee bit distracting.

Although it looks amazing in these long exposure photography shots, it’s actually disappointing to see it in the video below. The turbine doesn’t spin very fast, so the lights don’t blend together. You clearly see the blades slowly rotating. The photos of it look amazing though.

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[via Gizmodo]

Ok, so this week you will have probably been a little busy with shopping and Christmas to catch up on the latest gadget news. Well, the Gaj-it team have put together a weekly roundup of the web’s best tech news and reviews from some of our favourite sites. From cool car gadget accessories to useless iPhone apps, this weeks round is full of the best so without further ado, let’s check it out!

iPod Touch 3rd Generation Review

Find out what Zath thought to the latest version of the iPhone without the phone parts! Is the iPod Touch now the best iPod you can get? Since you can install apps and games onto it, does this make it great for children to experience the iPhone-like experience without having to pay out for monthly contracts or large upfront costs?

Read up more at Zath

The 20 Most Outrageous/Useless iPhone Apps

Although we would like to think that ever app on the iPhone is great and extremely, there are a few however that seem to fall into the useless and undeniably outrageous category. My favourite has got to be the iFart. A completely useless app but at the same time extremely funny if you want to play a practical joke.

Read up more at Becoming a Computer Technician

Intelligent Wine Cooler/Warmer

Have you ever drunk your wine at the wrong temperature? Does it annoy you? Well if so you can now get the Intelligent Wine Cooler / Warmer which gets your wine to exactly the right temperature and you will be able to enjoy your wine at its best every time. As gadgets go, this is great if you tend to drink wine on a night whilst watching your favourite TV programme relaxing after a hard day at work, make the most of your wine!

Read up more at Tech Styling.

Top 3 Cool Gadgets for Your Car

With the holiday season upon us and the January sales coming up in a couple of weeks maybe now is the right time to think about a new cool gadget for your car. It doesn’t matter if you drive an F1 road car or a Fiat Punto, check out our list of 3 cool accessories for your car.

Read up more at Reviews4Cars

Netbooks are “necessary evil” for Microsoft and Intel

It doesn’t matter where you go it seems that Netbooks are still very much on the top of the agenda for discussion by those involved in or interested in the computer industry and are still on the top of shopping lists for buyers.

Consumers just love them but the sellers can’t stand them, and funnily enough for pretty much the same reason and that is that netbooks are cheap.

Read up more at Geekwithlaptop.com

Walkie Talkie Watches

Not only is 2010 nearly here (which we all know is officially ‘The Future’), but now you can also talk to your friends in a futuristic manner using older based technology – none of your expensive mobile phone watches here, oh no these walkie talkies have a range of up to 5km. These would be great for outdoor trips such as hiking or perhaps using them for multi-car road trips across the country.

Read up more at Gadgets for Men

Jewelled Bee USB: Functional Fashion

It’s always exciting when something pretty is useful as well. The Bee USB Flash Drive is a USB flash drive with 4GB memory. Not only that, but it ticks all my style boxes too: it makes a statement while still looking elegant, it’s blingy, and trust me, you’ll be seeing bee-related accessories everywhere over the next year! The 4GB of memory for me is really just an amazingly useful cherry on top. I can’t imagine losing important files or forgetting my flash drive at home (like I usually do…) because it will always be around my neck! Genius

Read up more at Style Clone

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Bruce Schneier wrote a great piece on the unencrypted Predator drone video feeds, noting that the drones were built for a post-Soviet, pre-insurgent era and that encryption, in the case of a live feed, is more of a problem than a threat.

The problem is, the world has changed. Today’s insurgent adversaries don’t have KGB-level intelligence gathering or cryptanalytic capabilities. At the same time, computer and network data gathering has become much cheaper and easier, so they have technical capabilities the Soviets could only dream of. Defending against these sorts of adversaries doesn’t require military-grade encryption only where it counts; it requires commercial-grade encryption everywhere possible.

While I agree with him whole-heartedly – Bruce knows his stuff – this is a huge PR mess for drone warfare. Luckily, these are drones and drones don’t have feelings and I suspect that once insurgents notice that they’re on a drone’s live feed, it’s probably too late.

Nice scoop by MacRumors, which reportedly retrieved historical evidence that Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back in 2007. Apparently, the Cupertino company registered the domain through brand protection firm Mark Monitor to conceal the fact that the domain name is theirs, as usual, but was briefly listed as the owner at some point in the past nonetheless.

If correct, that means we can add a rumor to a rumor: that the unconfirmed, unannounced but most definitely coming (maybe) Apple tablet device will be named iSlate. That would be in line with earlier connections of the ’slate’ term to the illusive tablet computer, based on New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller calling it something to that effect in a speech.

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There are several different types of speakers that will work for your bathroom.  No matter what your tastes or preferences, it won’t be hard for you to find that perfect fit for you.  These cute speakers will keep your iPod safe, all the while giving a cute and quirky shape to your music.  The water droplets will make sure your music can go with you even into the most damp conditions.

I wouldn’t exactly dunk these under the water in your bathtub.  However, they are water resistant, so you could hang one in your shower.  Just put your iPod within the water drop and it’ll allow for your music to play while it’s out of harm’s way.  It stays powered by using a set of batteries.  It’s compatible with the iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle and various other MP3 players.  It also has an earphone jack.  You can purchase the speaker for $58 in pink, blue or white.

Heated USB No Finger Santa Gloves

Sure these USB Santa heated no finger gloves kind of look like something a (very nerdy) stripper would wear but if you want to know what Santa’s helpers at the North Pole wear to stay warm at their cubicles, this is it. I visited last year, and yes they’ve upgraded from pen and paper to computers to keep track of all the outgoing gifts as well as the naughty and nice lists. Word on the street is that presents were delivered this year, so it looks like the computers held up, no unfortunately timed blue screen of death. Maybe Santa’s on a Mac.

The Star Trek Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney with Care

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nerdolous soon would be there. It’s a very nerdy Christmas with these homemade Star Trek uniform stockings which boldly go where no stockings have gone before.

Pop-Up Christmas Photo Album

Merry Christmas, Craziest Gadgets readers. Be sure to take lots of pictures today and then you can display them later in a Pop-Up Christmas Photo Album. This album can hold 38 4×6 photos in a unique holiday themed album. Each photo you see displayed above actually lifts up to reveal another photo right underneath it. Comes in an attractive snowflake themed protective case too.

A member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Modlab spent the summer at Willow Garage, makers of the door-opening, self-plugging PR2 robot. Either the Modlab guy was really good friends or secretly annoyed with one of the researchers there, because he decided to install a robot that lobbed ping pong balls at the researchers’ cubicle as a parting gift.

For me the funniest thing about the whole prank is the sheer number of balls fired by the robot. But who knows, maybe this will make your day so here’s the video:

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If I had the nerdery necessary to build a ping pong-firing robot, I’d hide it in the men’s bathroom and make it fire at anyone who pees. Or I’d aim at anyone who dares fall asleep in the office. Or I’d make it so anyone who says a certain word or phrase gets ping ponged. What I wouldn’t do is simply aim it at someone’s office and have it fire away relentlessly but at low velocities, which quickly devolves the prank to an annoying and awkward event. Unfortunately I’m not a nerd. At the moment I don’t even have an office to go to.

[via BotJunkie]

2009 has definitely been a bad year for the… uh, head pirates. Pirates-in-chief? Anyway, Judge Stephen Wilson of the US District Court, Central District of California has ruled in favor of Columbia Pictures’ “motion for summary judgment on liability as to inducing infringement” against Gary Fung, owner of several torrent sites, including the infamous IsoHunt. A summary judgment is basically a ruling that says that the decision is so obvious that there’s no sense in holding a full-blown trial for a case. I think I know now what the hands below IsoHunt’s logo represent: lawyers.

According to Ars Technica’s John Timmer,  Fung was lawyered fairly easily because he made several incriminating statements on his blog, such as questioning whether copyright infringement should be considered theft, and giving instructions on how to download movies and then burn them to DVDs.

The old “Google should be sued too because you can use their search engine to find torrents” argument wasn’t worth squat in Fung’s case, because one of his sites had specifically incriminating links, like links to torrents of “Top 20 movies” as well as TV shows and “High Quality DVD Rips”. There’s no word yet on Fung’s punishment, or if IsoHunt will be taken down, but I guess with a lopsided case like this it looks like the website’s days are numbered. Or Fung could host his torrent sites somewhere else, ala Demonoid.

You got to admit, no matter what you think of Star Wars, this Millennium Falcon bed just looks awesome! It makes me want to get my own!

After Kayla Kromer’s hamburger bed, she decided to make something more vintage and retro, like a Star Wars themed-bed.

This bed has a bunch of nifty features, like LEDs that light-up like a Christmas tree and a hideaway sleeve for your keyboard. For many Star Wars geeks like me, the Millennium Falcon is one of the most important ships in the whole Star Wars universe, since the main characters spent so much time aboard it.

The only thing that I wonder about is what would a Star Destroyer bed look like? Which one would you prefer? Personally, I think that the most important ship in Star Wars was Boba Fett’s Slave 1.

You can find out more about the Millennium Falcon bed over at Kayla Kromer’s Facebook page.

[via Unplggd]

With changing times, dress codes are going through great changes to accommodate new designs and one such design which has released in the market is Pac Girl dress code. Thus, if you are a girl and have played Pacman and wish to lay your hands upon look-alike dress, then nothing could better suit Pac Girl dress code from Shaire Productions. This sparkly Pac girl dress features the key elements from popular arcade video game that includes the ghosts and Pac girl itself. Any girl wearing this Pacman dress, can look the part just amazing.

Now betting your money on this girl dress will not prove to be a bad affair, for the Pac Girl dress code provides eccentricity to one’s wardrobe. This yellow colored dress offers a cool outfit to any girl. A lot goes in designing the dress, so one must thank the creator of this outfit for bringing out such beautiful attire for girls.

For other Geeky clothes, check out the cool Super Mario Bros. Hoodie or the Pacman Belts.

This is a post from Walyou, who bring you the best New Gadgets gadgets, Cool Gadgets and Hi Tech News.

Pac Girl Dress is Geeky Yet Cute

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There is exciting news for all the geeks who have filled their pen drives with all the information’s they could but still he yet to store more and even the populace who don’t have much space but a lot to store like music and movies etc. This new External USB SATA Drive Dock which comes in an awesome white shade and with a single or dual drive dock with each drive of 80 GB. So if you have an 80 GB SATA drive, but want a 160 GB one then instead of selling the 80 one and buying a new 160 GB, all you have to do is buy another 80 GB and get them plugged up together with the existing one. If you have a huge SATA drives collection then you can swap between them with the help of hot swap button.

This amazing device with its simple plug and play system works compatible with Windows, Mac OS or even Linux with a killer transfer speed of 480 Mbps when connected via USB 2.0. Its transfer rate shoots up to 3 Gb’s when its connected through eSATA. One of the best qualities about this device is that you don’t have to worry about the SATA Hard drives as it accepts both 2.5″ of Laptop and 3.5″ of Desktop. If this awesome geek device has already captured your mind, then its price ranges from $39.99- $77.99 based on the single dock or dual dock system you choose.

You can see more such cool new geek gadgets like iPhone Dock Mod or you may like The Gamedock to keep your gadgets safe.

This is a post from Walyou, who bring you the best New Gadgets gadgets, Cool Gadgets and Hi Tech News.

External USB SATA Drive Dock for all the Geeks to Keep Data in Vault

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If you have been bored of racing adventures, then why not try a new racing game? What about new Donkey Kong and Watch Handheld Game? It will probably lift you off from monotonous racing adventures. One of the most popular characters of Nintendo, Donkey Kong is back with a bang in the outlets. Not only Donkey Kong but all its friends have also made a comeback. This time Donkey Kong Game has come out in the market with Watch hand held game.

The game looks quite impressive and intriguing too. The game is an early example of platform genre which focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging obstacles. Being a famous game, it is available at all leading stores in your town. If you wish to receive it through post, then postal charges will be extra. Having your own game will add value to your personality.

Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong, King K Cool and all other characters have made an appearance as playable characters in this fast paced racing adventure. You don’t need to put on your thinking caps to buy one. Just grab it before anyone else places his hands on the game. The game can be played and enjoyed not only by kids but also by adults. The game costs 93.51 dollars which means that you still save a lot of money if you had bet your money on other racing games. The game is worth much than its price tag.

Of course, there is a cool Transformers Jenga Game , or cool Donkey Kong Wall Graphics available for the original game fans.

Via:amazon

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Nintendo Donkey Kong Game and Watch Handheld Game

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Christmas has finally arrived and right along with it, this cool Random Roundup that includes a crochet Piranha Plant, cool PS3 Ads, a tasty Ghostbusters cake and more cool stuff.

Check out the Random posts we gathered for this roundup and keep sending us more ideas and tips to contact@walyou.com.

Merry Christmas Everyone and a Happy New Year!

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5. Death Star Blue Prints Revealed

6. Asus Robotic Vacuum Cleaner

7. Pacman Tie Will Prove Your Gaming Allegiance!

8. Art Lebedev Teases “Fleximus” Flexible Tube Camera

9. Black and Decker Lids Off Jar Opener

10. It’s About Time!: A Cell Phone/Razor Combo

11. ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Tea Party Billboard Warrants a No RSVP

12. Portable handheld scanner

13. Inner Monologue of a Competitive Christmas Decorator

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MSI Korea release a new high-end gaming laptop called MSI GT640 powered by Intel Core i7 720QM processor and operating system Windows 7.

The MSI GT640 powerful laptop adopting a 15.4-inch widescreen with resolution 1680×1050 pixel, also equipped with 4 GB of RAM and 500GB of hard drive. It also supports NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M graphics and Direct3D 10.1.

Another features of GT640 laptop like a full-size keyboard with number pad, HDMI / E-SATA ports, a webcam 2M pixel and a microphone. Suggested price is around $1700.

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MSI GT640 High-End Gaming Laptop

Just a quick reminder to all our readers, there are just a few days left to enter our Geeky Gadgets Christmas Giveaway, where we are giving away this cool 3M MPro 120 Pocket Video Projector.

The contest is free to enter and open to readers worldwide, just following the instructions over at the contest entry page (link below) for a chance to win the 3M MPro 120 Pocket Projector.

Win A 3M MPro 120 Pocket Projector In Our 2nd Christmas Giveaway

The contest is open until Sunday the 27th of December, just follow the link above to enter, Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Reminder – Win A 3M MPro 120 Pocket Video Projector

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When you think of a robotic vacuum cleaner, there’s a good chance that the Roomba comes to mind. That, or Rosie from the Jetsons. Well turn off those old cartoons because Asus (specifically their subsidiary AGAiT) is throwing their hat into the vacuum cleaning ring with the ECleaner.

The ECleaner looks very similar to the Roomba, but has a few tricks up its sleeve that the competition doesn’t. In addition to its vacuuming duties, it also has a 6000-hour UV light to disinfect the area that it is sweeping. If your room could use a little freshening up, it can also spread a fragrance of your choice wherever it goes. There still aren’t a lot of details currently, but we do know that they are shooting for a $150 price when the device makes its debut.

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