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Oh Rolly… we know you’re an overpriced, 2GB dancing robot with convoluted controls and questionable sound quality. But dammit, your impractical, big-corporate ways have gnawed a soft-spot deep into the noxious cesspool we call a heart. Now this: Rolly model SEP-50BT with Bluetooth control from your cellphone or laptop. Shipping in Japan on November 21st for an expected ¥40,000 or about $427. Sold. Watch it all unfold in the video after the break.

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Sony’s Rolly learns the Bluetooth trick originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Robots

Oh Rolly… we know you’re an overpriced, 2GB dancing robot with convoluted controls and questionable sound quality. But dammit, your impractical, big-corporate ways have gnawed a soft-spot deep into the noxious cesspool we call a heart. Now this: Rolly model SEP-50BT with Bluetooth control from your cellphone or laptop. Shipping in Japan on November 21st for an expected ¥40,000 or about $427. Sold. Watch it all unfold in the video after the break.

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Continue reading Sony’s Rolly learns the Bluetooth trick

Sony’s Rolly learns the Bluetooth trick originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ericsson and Intel developing remote kill switch with GPS locator for stolen laptops

While a power-on password and encrypted drive in your laptop could protect your data in the event of theft, it doesn’t come close to the satisfaction you’d feel at being able to locate and prosecute the bastage who stole it. While Lenovo has its Lockdown PC Now feature that allows you to remotely disable your lost or stolen laptop via SMS, it lacks GPS to pinpoint your gear’s location. Enter Ericsson, who just announced its intent to make its HSPA-capable Mobile Broadband Modules compatible with Intel’s Anti-Theft Technology. Ericsson’s modules will support remote-SMS disable like Lenovo’s slabs but adds GPS to transmit the laptop’s location. At least they will once commercial products begin to ship sometime in the second half of 2009.

P.S. To all thieves and malcontents: just because we gave you a picture of the module above doesn’t mean you’re allowed to remove it and disable the service. Not cool.

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Ericsson and Intel developing remote kill switch with GPS locator for stolen laptops originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefox’s Spellchecker Has Four Words for “Gizmodo” [Funny Because It’s True]

Last night I noticed Firefox didn’t yet have “Gizmodo” in its dictionary. Curiosity led me to right-click over the red line to see what words it suggested I use instead. All four were awesome:

Yes, Firefox thinks that, instead of typing the name of our beloved publication, I should instead choose from Gizzard, Quasimodo, Commodore and Sodomize. While they’re not necessarily the four words I would immediately choose to sum up the wild, at times off-color yet always authoritative spirit that exudes from these pages, I couldn’t help but be impressed at what may have been the Firefox dictionary AI’s first successful attempt at humor. Gizmodo: Is it a chicken part, a tragic hunchback, a top-ranking naval officer or a sex act named after a damned Biblical town? Can’t it be all of these things, Firefox?

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“Magic” Site Shows Kids Santa Is Really a Just Bad Photoshop Job [Caption Contest]

Believe it or not, there’s a site dedicated to deceive kids into thinking that Santa Claus exists: Send photo, pay $10 and they insert Santa. Can you guess what Santa is doing here?

1. Where the fuck did they put that whisky bottle for “daddy”?
2. Rudolph, treat me with love.
3. First your wife, now your car.
4. Man, that Mrs. Claus was such a fat bitch.
5. This number five tastes delicious.
6. My head is bigger than your stool!

Now, you try in the comments.

I know. This is wrong. The web site, I mean. Why pay someone $9.99 to do a bad Photoshop when you can do that for free? [Capture the Magic— Thanks Brice, who candidly promoted this site to me over AIM saying: “the internet age, keeping the magic alive! How cool is that!?” So true, dear Brice, so true]

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