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Go Back To School With Wired This Labor Day Weekend

Wired: Gadget Lab -- While youre kicking back this weekend, sipping some cold suds and soaking up the last rays of summer, remember that school is starting up again soon. It doesnt matter if youve been out of academia for decades are about to start college or have a wee one about to commence second grade, we here at Wired have got all your gear needs covered. First off we take four different (legal) study aids to task...     09-05
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How Wired.com Built Beer Robot, Our DIY Kegerator

Wired: Gadget Lab -- This is the story of Beer Robot, an ugly old fridge that grew into a super geeky kegerator. It started out innocently enough. After work one day at the local brewpub, three Wired.com staffers had a revelation: What our office really needs is a kegerator!KEGERATORAMA: More From Wired.comReady-Made Kegerators Cure Whats Ale-ing You Extreme, Custom and Pimped-Out Kegerators How to Make a Kegerator We...     09-05
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Extreme, Custom and Pimped-Out Kegerators

Wired: Gadget Lab -- << previous image | next image >>Theres something about a giant gadget that dispenses cold beer that inspires people to extremes. Here at Wired.com we have been busy pimping out our own fridge-turned-kegerator, Beer Robot, and we wanted to pay tribute to the most extreme, tricked-out and awesome kegerators weve come across. Here are some of our favorites. The Octane 120 Who knew mixing...     09-05
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AT&T Addresses Network Challenges, iPhone’s MMS Delay in Video

Wired: Gadget Lab -- As a follow-up to Thursdays announcement that multimedia messaging is finally arriving for iPhones on Sept. 25, AT&T has posted a video outlining the growth of smartphone traffic to explain why its taken this long to deliver MMS. The video stars Seth Bloom, AT&Ts spokesman, who explains some of the technical intricacies involved in expanding the network to support services, including MMS, ...     09-05
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San Francisco Shops Offer Free Tattoos to Sellouts

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Attention all Apple, Microsoft and whatever-brands-people-worship-these-days fanboys and fangirls: Your weekend has come. On Sept. 6 and Sept. 7, San Francisco tattoo studios are offering to tattoo your favorite brands for free. You can reserve any piece of flesh as permanent advertising space for whatever company you wish: A Swatch cross stamped on your wrist, orange Cheetos to replace your eyebr...     09-05
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Britain’s Oldest Working Computer Roars to Life

Wired: Gadget Lab -- The oldest original working computer in the U.K., which has been in storage for nearly 30 years, is getting restored to its former glory. The Harwell computer, also known as WITCH, is getting a second lease on life at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The machine is the oldest surviving computer whose programs, as well as data, are stored electronically, according to the museum. ...     09-05
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Toshiba Swaps Teams, Announces First Blu-ray Player

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Poor Toshiba, once proud member of the HD-DVD team, now relegated to sitting on the Blu-ray bench, waiting for an opportunity to play. And at last, it got that chance, with the announcement of a new, Toshiba-branded Blu-ray player, the BDX2000. The $250 player is as ordinary as could be: BD-Live, 1080p (at 24fps if you like), an SD card slot and AVCHD playback. Its almost as if someone told Toshib...     09-04
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Weather Pro: Full-On Meteorology App for iPhone

Wired: Gadget Lab -- The English are famous for talking about the weather, and Im no different. Were also inveterate whiners and gloaters. Combine these and youll see why Weather Pro is important: I get to chuckle when I see how cold and wet it is in my parents Devonshire village, and at the same time complain about the humidity here in Barcelona. Weather Pro beats out the weather app that ships with the iPhone in so ...     09-04
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Magnetic Bike Pedals Stick to Your Feet

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Mavic, maker of bike parts and accessories, has gone all Sony on us. The EZ-Ride Evolve pedals dont look too different from a normal platform pedal, but that little circle in the center is a magnet. When combined with the matching shoes (and heres the proprietary Sony-style part) which are only supplied by Mavic, your feet will snap into position as the powers of attraction take hold. Or will they...     09-04
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Dahon FreeCharge Turns Pedal Power into USB Power

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Dahon, maker of folding bikes, has shown off a rather ingenious and incredibly useful little gizmo at the Eurobike show. The BioLogic FreeCharge is a little silicone-encased box which hooks up to your bikes generator hub and siphons off power for charging your gadgets. The unit comprises a battery and circuitry to both store electricity and to smooth the inevitable bumps and spikes in the generato...     09-04
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Autograph: Sign Documents with Finger and Trackpad

Wired: Gadget Lab -- The Pogo Stylus is an iPhone accessory that we have mocked mercilessly since its beginnings, in the same way a jock will ceaselessly bully a bespectacled geek until one day, he gets his sweet, sweet (and doubtlessly technical) revenge. Well, Ten One, the nerds behind the stick, just got that revenge. The Pogo comes in various guises but in all of them comprises a small tubular stick with a wad of ...     09-04
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Walkman Outsells iPod in Japan

Wired: Gadget Lab -- You read right. Sonys Walkmen are selling more units than Apples all-powerful, all conquering iPod. In the week ending August 31st, Sonys share of portable music player sales hit 43%. The iPod struggled at a terrible 42.1%. Is Sonys W-series Walkman bringing back Sonys glory days of the 1980s? The answer is, predictably, no. It also shows that the financial sectors obsession with market share is f...     09-04
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AT&T Breaks Promise to Deliver iPhone MMS by ‘Late Summer’

Wired: Gadget Lab -- AT&T has announced an official date for the arrival of multimedia messaging on the iPhone: Sept. 25, a few days past the official end of summer. Thus, the company is breaking its promise to deliver MMS by late summer by a few days. AT&T confirmed the date in an e-mail provided to Wired.com, in which it explained that the delay was due to enabling equipment in data centers across the countr...     09-04
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Apple’s Snow Leopard Ships With Older, Vulnerable Version of Flash

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Apples new Snow Leopard operating system includes a few security enhancements protecting users from malware, but the OS shipped with a downgraded version of Adobe Flash with known vulnerabilities. Anti-virus software company Sonos discovered the security issue and documented it in the video below accompanied with an explanatory blog post.Mac users are not informed that Snow Leopard has downgraded ...     09-04
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Sprint to Sell the HTC Hero Android Phone

Wired: Gadget Lab -- HTCs recently announced third Android phone, the HTC Hero, has found a telecom carrier in Sprint. The device will sell for $180 after a $100 mail-in rebate, and with a two-year contract, in Sprint stores starting Oct. 11. It will be the first Android phone on the Sprint network. So far, only T-Mobile in the U.S. offered phones running the Google-designed Android mobile operating system. HTC had in...     09-04
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Garmin’s New Tiny In-Bike GPS

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Garmin probably realizes that as more and more cellphones pack GPS, less and less people will be buying units for their cars. Luckily, the company has a big hand in the outdoor market, where people want something more rugged and, more importantly, something that doesnt rely on a monthly contract or weigh a ton. The Edge 500 is an in-bike GPS, and while it wont give you turn by turn directions to t...     09-04
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YikeBike: Cute Electric Penny-Farthing

Wired: Gadget Lab -- The YikeBike could more appropriately be called the YikesBike. The small front wheel, upright position and hands-behind stance all say one thing: pothole-faceplant. The little electric penny-farthing (or P-Far, as the Bike Snob would call it) is on display at the Eurobike show right now, and looks like a lot of fun. It has a 1kW motor driving a 20-inch front wheel, and the carbon-fiber body means ...     09-03
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Tenderizer Ring and Other Weaponized Jewelry

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Ken Goldman makes jewelry. Weird, dangerous jewelry that is functional, but if you used it you would probably cause yourself some irreparable damage. Above right you see his Tenderizer Ring which, if used to hammer a sheet of meat into succulent submission would likely do the same for the knuckle within. It is actually built from a spare tenderizing hammer he had at home. Thankfully he has never m...     09-03
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Bookmark 2.0: Page-Marker Updated

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Bookmark II is and elegant upgrade for the old-fashioned slip of card or paper of old, or the awful page-corner folding practiced by neanderthals like me. Actually, Bookmark II is the sequel to a tacky, novelty placeholder which incorporated a cute rubber hand waving from the top of the book. We shall ignore it. The bookmark is a rubber band that wraps around the wad of read or unread pages to kee...     09-03
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Boring Keyboard with Interesting In-Built Trackpad

Wired: Gadget Lab -- This keyboard is hideous, a piece of design so startlingly humdrum that, like the perfect spy, it could slip into your office and remain unnoticed for weeks or months. But Adesso’s AKB-440 has one extremely useful feature, especially in an age where almost everyone uses a laptop. It has an integrated touchpad, along with a pair of mouse buttons, situated below the useless section which contains th...     09-03
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