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“When the final case design of the Playstation 3 was released, it was widely critsised as looking exactly like a George Foreman Grill … we decided this would be a great project and challenge to actually build the Real PS3 Grill.”

I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in knowing that somehow, somewhere, some dude is cooking up little steaks and sausages on a $600 toy. They’re still working on the full tutorial and a video, but photos and disassembly instructions are available. [via] - Link & disassembly photos.

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“Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the world’s leading retailer, today announced an ambitious campaign to sell 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) at its Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club locations by the end of 2007. If achieved, this goal has the potential to save customers as much as $3 billion in electrical costs over the life of the CFLs.” Lets see… about 400 days until end of 2007… that’s 250,000 CFLS bulbs A DAY!!! That sounds like a lot to me. Then again we are talking about Walmart. That’s probably one per store or something Picture.  » original news

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This 4 legged scooter is one of the strangest transportation devices I’ve ever seen. I wish I knew what this is about exactly-it looks like maybe a Japanese funny videos or candid camera show.

If you look closely, it appears that each leg is guided by two wheels. I’m guessing the front wheel controls the leg’s up/down motion, and the rear wheel controls the angle. If they are slightly out of phase, it should make the relatively smooth stride that you see. I don’t know for sure if that’s how it works, but it’s my best guess from a quick napkin sketch (and it seems like I’ve seen something similar before in a lego robot).

Anyone have a better idea of how this thing works or a link to a robot that walks in this manner? [via] - Link.

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MAKE is a sponsor of the Blip Festival 2006 NYC NOV 30 - DEC 3! So, stop by Thurs (tonight) through Sunday. If you want to buy MAKE stuff super-cheap I have a table here, so here’s your chance. I’m also willing to trade some stuff and/or haggle - really, do your worst.

Tonight: Visuals: Dan Winckler, C-TRL Labs, The C-Men. Music: Virt, Receptors, Glomag, Startpause, x|km Goto80,Tugboat, Chibi-Tech.

“THE TANK and 8BITPEOPLES are pleased to present the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit videogame consoles and home computers used as creative tools. Familiar devices are pushed in new directions with startling results — Nintendo Entertainment Systems and Game Boys roaring with futuristic floor-stomping rhythms and fist-waving melody, art-damaged Sega hardware generating fluctuating and abstracted video patterns — and that’s only the beginning. An exploration of the chiptune idiom and its close relatives, the Blip Festival is the biggest and most comprehensive event in the history of the form, and will include daily workshops, art installations, and nightly music performances boasting an international roster larger and more far-reaching than any previous event of its kind. Small sounds at large scales pushed to the limit at high volumes — the Blip Festival is an unprecedented event that is not to be missed.” - Link.

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• Mario Speedwagon - Link.

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You can BE ON OPRAH! Oprah is planning a global warming show, and she’s looking for guests. Check out which one fits you the most, and let Oprah know why you are worried and what you are doing for global warming. And, if Ecorazzi.com has helped lead you on your journey down that green path, we hope you’ll mention us as well! Don’t forget who loves ya!

Hit ‘Razzi for more information and get yourself to Chicago!  » original news

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The Toyota Camry has been the top-selling vehicle in America for eight of the last nine years. This year, the 2007 version was unveiled with a hybrid option. The hybrid system bumps mileage from 24/34 mpg to 40/38 mpg but the price stays reasonable at base price of $26,000.

While Honda’s newest hybrid model, the Accord hybrid, uses it’s hybrid drive train more to boost performance, Toyota is betting that Camry consumers will be more interested in efficiency. Hopefully, they’re right. This 60% increase in city driving efficiency today brought Toyota one of the highest honors of environmental automobiles, Green Car Journal’s Green Car of the Year award.

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Check this out and then go check out the voice controlled christmas lights they made up! Well I’ve seen many “static” Christmas lights that always stay on. Today, I will show you how you can customize your Christmas lights by using a PLC, a Programmable Logic Controller. - Link

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This is one of those ideas that make me bonk my head and go, “Why didn’t I think of that!” It reminds me of a solar hot-dog cooker. Aluminum foil might also work just fine for this application although it would clearly not be as durable as this product. [via] - Link

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The underwater forests of the world are waiting to be harvested. When massive hydroelectric dams are created, huge areas of forest are often flooded, submerging habitats and displacing whatever human communities happened to call that place home. But the forests that become part of the underwater landscape can be well preserved for decades, and are still viable stocks of timber. Harvesting underwater lumber from rivers and man-made lakes is not a brand new idea, but Triton Logging Co., the “underwater harvesting specialist”, has a bit of an edge. The Sawfish is a 7,000 lb, unmanned logging submarine that is remotely controlled from the surface. The robotic lumberjack latches onto the trunk of a submerged tree, attaches inflatable airbags to the trunk, deploys its chainsaw, and then releases the tree to float up to the surface.

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Filed under: Hardware, Troubleshooting, Apple

Well this doesn’t sound like any fun: enough Intel Macs running 10.4.8 must be having a problem connecting wirelessly to some 3rd party routers that Apple had to publish a support doc on the topic. As icing on the cake, Apple’s solution isn’t a pretty one either. If your Intel Mac is having this problem, here’s Apple’s solution: restart the router. If that doesn’t fix the problem, Apple then recommends calling the router’s manufacturer to spend 45 minutes on hold, getting tossed around between operators who probably dish out the same troubleshooting technique, just like the books taught ‘em.

Not exactly the most effective solution I’ve ever heard to a problem like this, but I guess one must take what one can get - at least until one can download Mac OS X 10.4.9.

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