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HexBug Newtons – Collectable Robot Insects are Freaky

by Jay Garrett on February 18, 2010

If ant-farms are a bit old hat, and you’re the type of person that enjoys freaking out their younger sister then here’s some gadgety creepy-crawlies that should fit the bill.

HexBug’s range has featured robotic ants and cyber crabs but now here’s their latest future-insect.

The HexBug Nano Newtons are small enough for you to see in the corner of your eye and have you reaching for a rolled-up newspaper.

They sprint around on rubber feet and go careering around the place like amphetamine crazed cockroach.

Their realistic movements go as far as being able to flip themselves back over if they end up on their backs.

~shudder~

The Newtons come in collectible test tube packages with various different genetic “mutations” (or colours to you and I).

Go to HexBug’s website and dish out $9.99

Check out the vid below and see one of the freaky habitats and the mentalist mini menaces!

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Dell Inspiron Zino HD on Sale – Windows Mac Mini Desktop Media Centre Computer

by Jay Garrett on November 11, 2009

inspiron-zino-hdLooking for a Windows-based Mac Mini alike?

Do you need to be able to choose from a multitude of colours and designs to suit your hip pad?

Say “welllllllll heeeeeeelloooooo!” to the new Dell Inspiron Zino HD.

The mini desk-top puter measures a mere 7.8 x 7.8 x 3.4 inches.

As I mentioned just seconds ago: It’s personalisable.

There’s 10 optional interchangeable colours and designs as well as the range of AMD Athlon processors, ATI Mobility Radeon graphics, up to 1TB hard disk and up to 8GB RAM.

You get four USB ports, a headphone connector, a four-in-one-memory card reader, Wi-Fi, VGA, eSATA and HDMI connectors – the latter of which in conjunction with the optional Blu-ray drive will turn the little cutey into a wee HD home cinema pc.

More choice comes with the OS: Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Ubuntu Linux 9.04.

Price-wise you’re looking at £299 for the base model, get the puter and chuck in a monitor for £531 and for the top-of-the-ranger you’ll be paying £744.

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Double Your iPod Classic Storage – Tiny Toshiba HDD

November 5, 2009 Click to read more →
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Fancy cramming in 320GB into a tiny place – perhaps a DIY iPod upgrade?
Well, from next month (December) Toshiba will be releasing their new 1.8 inch 5400RPM line of SATA drives in which they have managed to up the space to that magic number.
The first is the MKxx33GSG series of 5400 RPM 320 GB, 250 [...]

Nuclear Batteries Soon to Power Tiny Tech

October 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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Tech keeps advancing and as it does so gadgets get thinner and smaller – almost to the point where the portable power sources, batteries to you and I, are getting too chunky for the tech they need to juice up.
Well – what we could do with is some nuclear batteries like the vision of the [...]

The Tiniest Miniature Power Drill Ever – Tools For Mice

June 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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Take a look at this drill.
It was posted by Flickr user s8 and, from what I can tell, probably can’t help with the general DIY tasks that drills are used for.
But from another standpoint – it’s a very small, cleverly made, drill!!!
I’m just disappointed that S8 didn’t make a tiny holster for it and wear it [...]

BenQ GP1 Mini LED Projector = Pocket Guerilla Cinema A-Go-Go

May 20, 2009 Click to read more →
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BenQ has just dropped details of their brand new hand sized GP1 mini LED projector – this promises to light up the faces of those fans of PowerPoint and guerilla cinema
It comes with a USB port so you can plug in and play without the needing to hook-up a computer or DVD [...]

Small Wearable Waterproof Video Camera For Aquatic Candid Shots

May 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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Despite the, quite frankly, unimpressive 25fps QVGA resolution – this is going to be a must have for anyone that hangs around swimming pools and fancies taking ad lib shots underwater.
As AkihabaraNews put’s it: The Thanko waterproof camera “will surely be a must this summer in public and private pools”.
Moving swiftly on; It only weighs [...]

MiNew A10 ‘Under Tele’ Nettop

May 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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Akihabara News has just flashed up this little nettop from the Korea-based Moneual.
Measuring at just 22 x 6.7 x 22cm the MiNew A10 was announced just a few days ago.
It’s sporting the Intel Atom 230/330 processor and packs 1GB of RAM, 160GB of HDD (7200rpm), and X3100 Intel Graphic card.
It is said that the A10 [...]

Retro-Styled LCD TV – Brings Back CRT Boob Tube Memories [plusminuszero]

May 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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Retro styling is, and will pretty much always, have a place in fashion.
If these futuristic, thin, large and flat televisions are just jarring against your 80’s styled appartment then perhaps have a look at Plus Minus Zero.
The Plus Minus Zero features a compact 8-inch LCD screen tucked inside that retro CRT boobtube body.
Shove this funky [...]

Eagletec’s Tiny 8GB USB Stick

April 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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D’ya think that your USB memory stick is a bit large?  Does it stand proud of your sexy laptop ruining the lines of your lovely machine?
Well, The EagleTec USB Nano Flash Drive measures a tiny 19mm x 15mm x 6mm and only weighs 3g!
Somehow it manages to have a capacity for your stuff – you can opt [...]

Battery Snap Torch Great for Kids, Camping and Festivals

April 20, 2009 Click to read more →
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I love my Maglite but sometimes I’d rather take something lighter and something I’d care less about if I lost it or it got stolen.
GearDiary has just posted up these Battery Snaps which cost $5 and will light your path.
All you have to do is press the Snap onto the top of a regular 9v battery, and you’ve got a [...]

Shuttle XPC H7 4500H – Small DVB-S Packing Computer

March 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you’re ever looking for a little, dare I say mini, PC then Shuttle is a name that will generally surface at some point or other.
They offer a load of tiny barebones puters that require the buyer to add additional hardware to complete the machine to their budget and/or spec.
But today they have announced a [...]

E-Blue Troza Wireless Mini Mouse

February 18, 2009 Click to read more →

More tiny tech!
This is the quite stylish and undeniably travel-friendly E-blue Troza.
This little shiny black 2.4GHz optical laser mouse weighs a mere 32 grams and works wirelessly from distances of up to 10 meters.
Handy if, unlike me, you have a light laptop or netbook
Not sure how long you’d be able to use such a mini mouse [...]

TI’s 2nd Gen Pico Projector 20% Smaller

February 18, 2009 Click to read more →

Projectors are getting smaller and smaller.  Let’s face it – you can get them in mobile phones now!
Have a look at the picture – yup, there’s an even smaller one!
It is the second generation Texas Instruments DLP Pico projector and it gets even better.
The petite Pico is 20% smaller than the first one as well as being 20% thinner as well.
The [...]

Dell Releases Wasabi Pocket Printers at Pocket Friendly Intro Price

February 10, 2009 Click to read more →

Is it spicy?
Is it a Japanese plant?
Nope – it’s the new line of Dell printers.
The Wasabi PZ310 Bluetooth pocket printer is now available at a special intro price of $99 (will normally be $149).
The Wasabi pumps out 2×3 sticky-back colour images in less than a minute and works with most Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones.
It uses ZINK [...]

X-Mini II – Revenge of The Sphere Speakers. They Will Surround You!

January 22, 2009 Click to read more →

Remember back in early Spring last year I brought word of a cute little portable speaker called the X-Mini?
It only gets better!!
The X-Mini II speaker spheres are here and at $29 have a little trick up their…..balls?
They can be daisy chained together for an infinitely expandable grouping of rock action (see below)……… this is surround [...]

Stealth LPC 650 Micro PC

January 19, 2009 Click to read more →

Stealth have been quite quiet since the release of their tiny LPC-350PCI PC over a year ago.
But now they return with the even tinier LPC-650.
It’s 6.54 x 6.18 x 1.89 inch alluminium body holds a Core 2 Duo inside.
Its packing a gigabit Ethernet, a slot-loading optical drive, optional SSD, WiFi, 1GB of DDR2 RAM and, [...]

Giinii Movit Mini = Android iPod Touch?

January 8, 2009 Click to read more →

Fancy an Android powered iPod Touch?
You know; something thin, with over four inches of touchscreen in a mini tablet form?
Well, here you are!
This is the Giinii Movit Mini.
It could actually almost be an iPhone challenger but it’s lacking the actual mobile phone bit, but it is Android so there’s VoIP to take care of that [...]

Cutest SE Walkman Phone. The Japanese Xmini

December 8, 2008 Click to read more →

Instead of getting a mobile blower that will play your fave choonz how about when Walkman goes flip-reverse?
Most people would see the little player and think to themselves that it’s pretty cool.
But slide it open and you get a keypad and a working phone!
This is a Walkman phone. The Sony Ericsson Xmini has been added [...]

MacBook Nano – Mini Mac

November 11, 2008 Click to read more →

Sorry – this MacBook Nano has probably never seen an Apple let alone Cupertino!
Whether this is a little custom hack or there’s someone is making a living churning these funked MSI U100 types out from a lock-up “sarf of the river” I have no idea.
But these shiny-but-fake Mini Mac’s do come complete with Mac OS [...]

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