http://www.kloppy.com This site is in the process of being built so stuff will change all the time. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:35:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 2007-2008 NFL season will conclude this Sunday with Super Bowl XLII between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. To commemorate the event in style COED Presents: The Cheerleaders of the 2008 NFL Playoffs....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/cheerleaders-of-the-2008-nfl-playoffs/ This year's show will feature Tom Petty, Paula Abdul and hopefully a few other things that were cool in the early '90s and now make us sad. But if you think this is the strangest lineup, you obviously don't remember ......View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/the-10-all-time-worst-choices-for-super-bowl-half-time/ A German study documents a spike in heart attacks when that nation's soccer team plays. Super Bowl viewers should take heed, some doctors say....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/attn-super-bowlers-cardiologists-may-have-a-super-sunday-too/ A look back at Super Bowl Logos ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/past-super-bowl-logos/ The NFL will announce Friday that the Buffalo Bills will play one regular season game in Toronto each of the next years. League owners provided unanimous support for the scheduling plan, which the Bills proposed last year as a way to expand their regional reach in one of the NFL's ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/8-buffalo-bills-games-set-to-be-played-in-toronto/ They progressed from Texas cheerleaders to Rolling Stones extravaganzas. Here's a look back at some of the most memorable Super Bowl halftime entertainment shows through the years....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/18-most-unforgettable-super-bowl-half-time-shows/ It seems that every top 10 super bowl commercial list has the same 10 commercials in basically the same order. Not this one. This one shows the commercial and a little commentary as to why it made this list. At least half of these are not on ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/top-10-super-bowl-commercials-of-all-time-w-video-evidence/ The basic idea of counterprogramming is simple. Come up with a program that can swipe away 5% of Superbowl viewers, and you?ve pilfered yourself a huge audience. With that in mind, we give you some of the brightest, most bizarre moments in Super Bowl counterprogramming history....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/counterprogramming-the-super-bowl/ Former star Rod Woodson believes the New York Giants will pull off "one of the biggest upsets in NFL history" and beat New England in Super Bowl XLII....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/nfl-great-picks-giants-for-upset/ Companies are paying $90,000 per second tonight to get their products before our recession-fearing eyes, and they plan to get their money's worth. Tonight's advertisers will use an array of tactics designed with one purpose: motivating us to buy their products....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/recession-how-about-2-7-million-for-a-30-second-ad/ The New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots to win Super Bowl XLII. Story has a nice summary of the game. ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/super-bowl-xlii-champions-new-york-giants/ The iconic images of pro football are low-tech, but technology dominates the sport and its broadcast. Here's a reprint of a classic article looking at the tech behind the most-watched television broadcast in the US....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/first-and-10-the-technology-behind-the-super-bowl-broadcas/ With 59 seconds to go, Manning somehow breaks out of a sack to make an incredible throw to Tyree that was miraculously caught. I put Must See in the title for non-football fans. Yes, I'm well aware most of America already saw this. It's worth a second viewing anyways....View Full ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/the-most-incredible-play-from-super-bowl-xlii-must-see/ With the 1972 Miami Dolphins' legacy safe for at least another season, Don Shula took a moment Sunday night to congratulate the New England Patriots on a "great season." But not the greatest season. That distinction still belongs to Shula's 17-0 Dolphins....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/giants-victory-starts-champagne-party-for-72-dolphins/ Here is a list of ESPN's 10 Greatest Sports Upsets prior to the 2007 Super Bowl where the NY Giants upset the undefeated Patriots....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/espn-s-10-greatest-sports-upsets-prior-to-2007-superbowl/ The Washington Redskins hired Jim Zorn as their coach Saturday night, a surprise ending to a month long search for a replacement for Joe Gibbs....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/jim-zorn-is-the-new-redskins-coach/ You thought the video of Chris Berman flipping out on the teleprompter a few weeks ago was hilarious? Wait until you see the most recent crop of Berman breakdowns to hit the net....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/coed-presents-chris-berman-breakdowns/ In an effort to broaden the NFL brand and expand its fanbase, there's talk of a five-year plan that will have the Buffalo Bills playing three pre-season and five regular season games in Toronto, Canada....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/the-toronto-initiative-the-nfl-in-toronto/ On Sept. 9, Everett laid at the 20-yard line at Rich Stadium in Buffalo wondering why he couldn't move, not knowing if he would ever move again. Five months later Everett is walking around telling his story. Every time he moves, it is moving. Now he hopes his story can ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/injured-nfl-player-everett-happy-to-tell-his-moving-story/ I think his name is kenny george...currently plays for the University of North Carolina, those guys around him look hilarious....View Full StoryPreview » http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/b-ball-player-bigger-than-shaq-and-can-dunk-without-jumping/ He's 22 years old, but Kenny George doesn't own a driver's license ? and it's not because he can't merge onto a freeway or parallel park. At 7-foot-7 and 360 pounds, George is too big to fit behind the wheel of a car.......View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/7-foot-7-kenny-george-of-unc-asheville-has-some-huge-issues/ Brown accused the Knicks of having "spies throughout the arena" during his one season with the team in a story in the February issue of 'Philadelphia' magazine. "Imagine when you get to work, they don't talk to you," he said. "They had security people standing close to me in press ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/larry-brown-while-coach-knicks-had-spies-in-arena/ Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James led all players in voting and Houston Rockets center Yao Ming led the Western Conference, as the starters for the 2008 NBA All-Star Game were announced on Thursday....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/garnett-kobe-iverson-headline-all-star-starters-roster/ #2 - Ben Wallace (Chicago Bulls) - When Wallace signed a four-year, $60 million deal in 2006, he was supposed to tamp down any offensive uprisings, not start them. Yet, in not even two seasons, he has done little more than set small fires in the team's locker room.......View Full ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/13-nba-players-in-need-of-a-new-team/ Lakers trade Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, and 2 first round draft picks for Pau Gasol!...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/lakers-get-pau-gasol-in-a-steal/ Texas Tech men?s basketball coach Bob Knight stepped down Monday as head the Red Raiders head coach, school officials confirmed. Last year, Knight became the all-time winningest Division I coach when he hit 880 victories. ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/bob-knight-resigns-as-coach-at-texas-tech/ Sources told ESPN.com on Tuesday night that the Miami Heat have already agreed to send O'Neal to the Suns in exchange for All-Star forward Shawn Marion and out-of-favor guard Marcus Banks. Miami is simply waiting for Phoenix management to complete a medical examination of O'Neal and formally accept the deal....View ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/nba-sources-say-shaq-to-be-traded-to-suns-for-marion/ San Diego's finest anchorman sits down with Michigan State's finest basketball coach....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/ron-burgundy-interviews-michigan-state-b-ball-coach-tom-izzo/ Tonight is All-Star Saturday Weekend, quite possibly the best day for NBA fans in the entire year. Here is live coverage of the All-Star Skills Challenge, Shooting Stars Competition, 3 Point Shout-Out, and Slam Dunk competition ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/nba-all-star-weekend-wrap-up-slam-dunk-3-point-etc/ Roger Clemens recently added Washington, D.C., heavy hitter Lanny Breuer to the legal team, who also represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearings. At this rate, Roger Clemens will end up with more all-star lawyers on his payroll than Cy Young Awards on his mantel....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/is-roger-clemens-becoming-baseball-s-pariah/ If you?re a sports fan, nothing beats the thrill of going to a game. If you?re not a sports fan, nothing is quite as interminable as being dragged to a game. Simply eating a $12 plastic container of bland nachos isn?t going to kill three hours, so you?ll have to ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/8-things-to-do-at-the-ballpark-besides-watch-the-game/ Umpires are livid that Major League Baseball has sent investigators to their hometowns, asking neighbors a series of questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/hey-blue-are-you-in-the-kkk/ The seven-time Cy Young Award winner is scheduled to give a deposition to lawyers from a congressional committee behind closed doors. According to one of Clemens' lawyers Rusty Hardin said, "Roger is not going to take the Fifth Amendment."...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/roger-clemens-will-not-plead-the-5th-in-front-of-congress/ Brian McNamee has turned over physical evidence that Roger Clemens' former trainer believes will show the seven-time Cy Young Award winner used performance-enhancing drugs, McNamee's attorneys told The New York Daily News....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/report-mcnamee-turns-over-physical-evidence-on-clemens/ The chairman for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said in a letter Sunday to Rusty Hardin, one of the attorneys for Roger Clemens, that comments Hardin made to the New York Times could be interpreted as trying to intimidate a federal law enforcement official....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/is-clemens-attorney-trying-to-intimidate-law-enforcement/ Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch and steroids informant Kirk Radomski will not testify at a House hearing on the Mitchell Report, leaving Roger Clemens and his accuser, Brian McNamee, going head-to-head as the main witnesses in in front of congress....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/andy-pettitte-dropped-from-witness-list-for-congress/ "I dominated that era and I did it clean," he said. "I can stand by my numbers and I can be proud of them."...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/pedro-martinez-proud-of-dominating-baseball-in-steroid-era/ The most reliable storage on the net been down for over 30 minutes and counting. This might not seem much, but think how many sites now rely 100% on Amazon S3 to keep their sites running - such as SmugMug and PageFlakes. These sites are losing revenue right now......View Full ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/amazon-s3-world-s-most-reliable-web-service-is-down/ CrackBerry addicts, are you ready to take your BlackBerry to the next level? In this list, you'll find some of the most awesome tips, hacks, how-tos and guides for the BlackBerry, making it easy for just about anyone to become a power user....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/power-guide-121-crackberry-tips-hacks-and-resources/ Nvidia completed its acquisition of Ageia yesterday, and it has revealed that it will soon introduce PhysX physics processing support into all of its GeForce 8-series graphics cards through a simple software download. PhysX support will allow the cards to accelerate physics effects in games....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/geforce-8-cards-to-gain-physx-support-via-software-dowload/ Well... are they?...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/shift-are-solid-state-drives-really-better-than-hard-disks/ ..."it's unfortunate to see Netflix make the decision to only stock Blu-ray titles going forward. While the Best Buy announcement says they will recommend Blu-ray, at least they will continue to carry HD DVD and offer consumers a choice at retail."...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/hd-dvd-sad-little-response-to-netflix-best-buy-snubs/ One of the hottest overlooked features of the VAIO TZ is the SSD + HDD configuration, which allows you to speed up booting and other system tasks that rely on quick random reads by running Windows off the SSD while still being able to lug all your data around on ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/vaio-tz-gets-a-64gb-sdd-250gb-hdd-configuration/ Amazon is flogging HDMI super high-resolution cable from DVI Gear for a measly $2. Yep, you heard. Two. Bucks. Our tipster Jon put it thus: "Holy Crap 2 dollar 6 foot HDMI cables," adding that the cheapest he'd ever seen was around seven times that amount....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/cheapest-hdmi-cable-we-ve-seen-is-2/ It is time to put your money where your mouth is, or maybe where your keyboard is. HardOCP sets out to prove that real world video card testing is where it?s at. Beware, we may make you feel dirty every time your run a benchmark from here out!...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/benchmarking-the-benchmarks/ Nobody really knows how the future of human interfaces and gaming will look like, but Andrew Fentem-who went from working on secret missile systems to developing multi-touch human interfaces, kinetic surfaces and motion technologies before almost anyone else on Earth-gave us a fascinating vision on where we are headed in ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/magic-cube-heralds-the-future-of-gaming-and-human-interfaces/ The sun just refuses to shine on AMD -- according to several Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers, AMD is saying that the quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 are going to be delayed yet again, this time to the end of Q3. Apparently there's a buffer-related glitch in the original design, so AMD ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/amd-delaying-quad-core-phenom-9700-and-9900-once-again/ Ever wonder why gadget store employees push Monster cables like they're crack? Bitchin' markups, just like you suspected all along. That's what we found when a Radio Shack employee sent us his store's entire inventory list, which included the wholesale and retail price of every item in stock...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/monster-cables-monster-ripoff-80-markups/ GEM neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) burning peacefully on the UC Riverside campus, January 15th, 2008...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/and-you-thought-that-laptop-fire-sucked/ Check out the latest innovations presented at the annual CES 2008, like this Optimus Maximus keyboard!...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/get-to-know-the-optimus-maximus-keyboard/ With the sudden and unexpected announcement from Warner that the studio would be abandoning HD DVD titles in favor of Blu-ray, it seemed to many observers that the high-def format war was all over, bar the shouting....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/new-blu-ray-2-0-spec-makes-ps3-the-most-future-proof-player/ I can't wait 10 years for for someone to do this with MacBook Airs....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/hard-drive-domino-rally/ "Israeli military leaders have begun early planning for a new, robotic defense system, armed with enough artificial intelligence that it "could take over completely" from flesh-and-blood operators. "It will be designed for... autonomous operations..."...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/israel-eyes-thinking-machines-to-fight-doomsday-missiles/ If you would have told me last year that I would be able to sit down and play Crysis on a VIA low-power Ultra Mobile PC CPU, well, I think I would have to had called BS on that, but I did just that yesterday. That get your attention?...View Full ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/via-s-new-umpc-cpu-capable-of-running-crysis-64-bit-linux/ Before VIA showed off their latest processor architecture this week, they gave us the "grand tour" of the Centaur offices in Texas. There is a lot more to this place than a bunch of engineers sitting around playing with their slide rules....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/via-s-centaur-builds-a-cpu-before-lunchtime/ The history of computing spans thousands of years - from the primitive notched bones found in Africa, to the invention of abacus in 2400 BC, to Charles Babbage?s Difference Engine in 1883, to the rise of the popularity of Personal Computers (PCs) in the 1970s....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing/ Gartner, the fat lady of research firms, is singing HD DVD's swan song this morning. Hiroyuki Shimizu, Principal Research Analyst in Japan, says in Gartner's Semiconductor DQ Monday Report that, "Gartner believes that Toshiba's price-cutting may prolong HD DVD's life a little, but the limited line-up of film titles will ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-resistance-useless/ One of the more anticipated video cards of this year is finally here, AMD is launching the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2. What will two 3870 GPUs on one board do for you in gaming? We are going to find out exactly that in Crysis, UT3, COD 4 and HL2....View ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/ati-radeon-hd-3870-x2-amd-s-new-dual-gpu-gaming-card/ Combined with virtualization, the company's new mega-bandwidth equipment promises to supercharge data centers....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/cisco-s-big-switch/ At the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City, former One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) CTO Mary Lou Jepsen explained that the discount laptops have met with a number of roadbumps in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. Part of the problem has been wavering support from lawmakers there and negative ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/nigerian-5-year-olds-repair-olpcs-in-hospital/ How do 200MBps reads and 100MBps writes in a storage device sound to you? Pretty sweet if you ask us....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/world-s-fastest-nand-developed-by-intel-and-micron/ Congress created the TV Converter Box Coupon Program for households wishing to keep using their analog TV sets after February 17, 2009. The Program allows U.S. households to obtain up to two coupons, each worth $40, that can be applied toward the cost of eligible converter boxes. Apply in 2 ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/uncle-sam-wants-to-buy-you-a-dtv-converter-box/ Over the weekend, I checked out three versions of the Transformers movie: standard-def and high-def instantaneous downloads to the Vudu box with 4-Mbps net connection, as well as the HD DVD of the movie, playing through the Xbox 360....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/vudu-test-confirms-hd-download-worries/ A research paper shows that IBM is working on a computing system capable "of hosting the entire internet as an application." This mega system relies on a re-tooled version of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers to create a theoretical mega-system of 67.1m cores, 32PB of memory, and an IO output ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/ibm-explores-67-1m-core-computer-for-running-entire-internet/ New Iron Man stills show that Tony Stark uses Dell servers. Does it matter? No. But if the X-Men punks have cool supercomputers in their basement, the greatest hardware tinkerer in the world should have better, bigger, badass machines, not commodity server hardware. I mean, come on, throw us a ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/iron-man-uses-dell-servers-drinks-too-much-pics/ Intel is taking on the embedded space with a brand new microarchitecture: Silverthorne. The chipmaker disclosed new details of the tiny, low-power x86 chip that will be its weapon in the coming battle for your pocket....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/small-wonder-inside-intel-s-silverthorne-ultramobile-cpu/ XDV-G200 Bravia - 3in display with high resolution...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/sony-s-tinyest-tv-ever/ I love the idea of Guitar Rising, which can use any real electric guitar, from a Fender Telecaster to a Gibson Les Paul. The software teaches you how to play actual songs, tracking your accuracy much like Guitar Hero would do, as their demo video shows....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/guitar-rising-for-real-guitar-heroes/ The Hammacher Schlemmer 90 Second Dual Pizza Oven can cook two 12" pizzas in 90 seconds. You read that right, 90 seconds as in 1 1/2 minutes. The real question is how long does it take for frozen pizzas?...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/dorm-necessity-cook-two-12-inch-pizzas-in-90-seconds/ A page in an issue of Sony Magazine (an office favorite over here) makes passing mention of a "PSP-Style phone" which is supposedly in development, then casually suggests the device could be "in shops as early as February."...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/psp-phone-reference-spotted-in-sony-magazine/ The problem with "personal massagers" is that they aren't something discerning girls want to be seen with. DVICE managed to find 20 discrete models that you can have lying around the house and, if they're uncovered, no one will be the wiser to your AAA activities....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/20-toys-for-girls-that-don-t-look-like-er-toys-for-girls/ This simple DIY project will show you how to make an "ambient air fridge," which will keep your beer cold while using only a tiny amount of energy....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/tired-of-paying-to-cool-your-food-when-it-s-cold-outside/ One thing I learned pretty early in life is that speakers are not meant to be wired together in a haphazard manner. In fact, whenever you plan to connect more than two speakers to a two-channel amplifier ? or more than four speakers to a four-channel amp ? there are ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/how-to-wire-speakers-in-parallel-and-series-and-determine-the-ohm-s/ How do you define perfection?...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/macbook-air-vs-lenovo-x300-fight/ Lego Machine Gun shoots a dozen 10 mm steel balls in less than 2 seconds. Watch it shoot at and knock down targets. ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/machine-gun-made-from-lego/ We've got Mattel's entire line of Batman and Speed Racer cars for 2008, and we hope the movies are as geekgasmic as the toys. The Batman lineup punches all of my little fanboy buttons, Speed Racer's got the Mach 5, its sleeker, zippier successor the Mach 6, plus a battle ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/speed-racer-vs-batmobile-zoomdown-entire-2008-toy-lineup/ Valentine's Day is rabidly rapidly approaching, and most people are looking for one of two things: a present for a loved one, or a way to "love yourself". Don't look for these to safisfy either need. These products look sexual, but are made for other means... honestly!...View Full ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/7-products-that-look-like-sex-toys-but-aren-t-officially/ True mobile TV. Connected cars. Personal robots. The coolest new gadgets and services are still found in the Land of the Rising Sun.Read More...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/the-best-technologies-you-can-t-buy/ A new generation of tiny projectors will let us walk into a meeting and give a PowerPoint presentation using nothing but the gadgets in our pockets. Gone at last will be the need for a giant laptop and a heavy, hat box-sized projector....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/here-come-the-teeny-tiny-mini-projectors/ Google's evolved the Android UI and it looks a lot better than it did before, with animations and an overall look and feel that seems more iPhone/HipTop than Windows mobile. They keep improving like this, Android could really be great....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/first-screens-of-google-android-s-new-user-interface/ Inferno is a "sonic barrier," a long metallic speakerbar that generates a sound made of four frequencies between 2 and 5 kilohertzs. It will stop anyone, making them vomit and feel incredibly ill just using sound. It can be installed in houses, shops and even vans and cars. It is ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/inferno-speaker-stops-thieves-terrorists-makes-them-vomit/ ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/kaleidoscope/ Here's Elmo Live performing his newest rap hit, "Elmo's Gotta Get On Up". His moves are smooth and funky, his style reminds us of hip-hop's old school pioneers, and his biggest fan is a mad scientist. How could it get any better? ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/first-video-of-elmo-live-singing-and-dancing/ Future Shop is a Canadian consumer electronics retail chain. Charlie used to work there, and has now passed along the 7 most common lies he heard salesmen use on unsuspecting customers. Whether you have a Future Shop in your area or not, you'll find these lies familiar. (We ran into ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/7-lies-you-ll-hear-from-salesmen-at-electronics-stores/ While battlefield robots are certainly plenty capable with their current control systems, the folks at Chatten Associates seem to think they can do things one better, and they're now touting their so-called HARV (Head-Aimed Remote Viewer) system as a potential alternative....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/harv-gives-soldiers-a-robot-s-eye-view/ This machine, developed by chemical engineers, can taste the quality in your cup of espresso, and can identify coffee types nearly as accurately as a panel of trained human espresso tasters....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/a-machine-that-can-identify-bad-coffee-by-smelling-it/ Modu is a very small cellphone that carries your personal data everywhere and you can plug into "jackets", which are specialized hardware modules that transform it into all kinds of things, like multimedia players, a full-fledge PDA with full QWERTY keyboard, gaming handhelds, GPS and whatever you want. Seeing ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/modu-lego-like-cellphone-system-video-hands-on/ Myth: Women hate gadget gifts. Truth: That isn't true. But where to start? That's where we come in. Guys, we've got 10 Valentine's Gifts for your sweetheart ? from tech fashion to MP3 players made for romance ? to help you navigate your way through this delicate obstacle course. Yes, ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/top-10-valentine-s-day-gadget-gifts-for-gals/ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/735459/matchstick_cube/...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/matchstick-cube/ When we first saw the Nokia Symbian Touch UI over the familiar S60/Symbian OS, we were stoked. Then we found out it was not a working proto but a rendering, we wondered how far along they really were in their touchscreen UI. Turns out, not as far as we would ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/nokia-s-touch-ui-hands-on-officially-way-behind-apple/ ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/0-airbrush/ Wondering what the XPERIA X1's magical mystery "panel interface" is? Good, us too. Now we've got a preview courtesy of Sony Ericsson. If it functions this quick in hand as it does in the promotional video then Sony Ericsson might just be on to something here....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/video-sony-ericsson-s-xperia-x1-panel-interface/ The coming flexible-screen industry is all fun and games until someone actually builds something like this (don't worry: It's still a concept only). The Yuno PC mug is a PC BUILT INTO A COFFEE CUP. It lets you get weather, time, traffic reports and stocks on a touch-screen display, right ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/the-coffee-cup-pc-concept-hot/ Playing with Xperia, Sony's Windows Mobile phone with a hiptop QWERTY, revealed a few interesting things......View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/first-hands-on-sony-ericsson-s-xperia-x1/ We have been playing with the Android prototypes scattered through the Mobile World Congress. ARM had theirs running on a humble ARM9 processor in a plain white prototype "to demonstrate the scalability of Android." It works, it's fast. But it's not there yet and the Qualcomm prototype demonstrates how far ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/android-hands-on-video-it-s-fast-it-s-still-not-there/ It's here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. SE's new XPERIA brand will focus on multimedia and mobile web communication. The X1 then, brings a 3-inch wide VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera (with photo light), A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, and quad-band GSM/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUPA......View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/sony-ericsson-s-xperia-x1-iphone-killing-qwerty/ A very small & portable radar device that uses an ir sensor & a pic microcontroller. This diy guide shows you how to build your own for less than $30....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/short-range-personal-radar-device/ 100 UC Berkeley students took place in a test of a new technology that, among other things, will enable phones to "proactively say, I see you have a meeting that's coming up in an hour, the route you usually take is congested. You probably need to leave 15 minutes ... http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/nokia-turns-people-into-traffic-sensors/ In case you don't know, the Greener Gadgets Conference is a gathering in New York focused on cleaner, renewable, recyclable, or generally forward-thinking technology and design. They awarded first place to a DIY project which allows you to easily view how much energy an appliance is using....View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/greener-gadgets-design-competition-winners/ ...View Full Story http://www.kloppy.com/index.php/2008/02/18/dangerous-blow-pipe/