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No more approximations, not even if you’re blind. A reassuring sound of “Tikk, tikk… tekk”, two fingers and some Braille embossed cylinders, mix them up and you got yourself the Tikk-Tekk Rainbow! It’s a low-cost universal measuring tool that uses a string (ranging from 1cm to 100 cm) wrapped within the casing, and is extended between the finger tips. Kinda like how you use your hands to gesture an estimated distance; only Tikk-Tekk gives you the exact numbers.

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“Tikk, tikk… tekk!” The Special Sound Of Measure

In the market for a high-speed camera that’s compact but definitely won’t be mistaken for a regular point-and-shoot ? Then you may want to look no farther than one of Vision Research’s new Phantom Miro eX-series cameras, which boast a “DSLR-like” design and a spec list intended for high-speed video and not much else. That includes your choice of 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 resolution cams, video frame rates from 500 fps to “over” 100,000 fps (at a reduced resolution), ISO settings up to ISO 1200 for color or ISO 4800 for monochrome, a 3.5-inch touchscreen, and 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of internal memory, plus a CompactFlash card slot for expansion.

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Vision Research rolls out high-speed Phantom Miro eX-series cameras

So concerned with the quality of the liquor you binge-drink that you think a testing device that looks just like a pregnancy test is in order? Sweet — Rotgutonix has got you covered! Just uncap the tip, dip it in your drink for a few seconds — and you’ll have an answer in under a minute — and while the device is only capable of recognizing five liquors at this point, the company hopes future iterations will include up to twenty. Sure, it’s a novelty item, and likely won’t actually be able to tell you if that Johnnie Walker you’re swilling is “rotgut,” i.e., poison, but it’s fun, right?

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Rotgutonix — the slightly paranoid, somewhat discerning drunk’s best friend

Earlier this morning Google Books announced a program where rights owners would be given the option to modify their copyright licenses and specify them as Creative Commons (CC) works. The initiative allows writers, artists and publishers to mark their books with one of 6 CC version 3 licenses , a public domain license or the CC “no rights reserved” license . Sponsor In the last few months Creative Commons has celebrated some benchmark programs with large-scale publishers including perhaps the most notable event, Wikipedia’s community-wide adoption of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license

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Google Books Offers Creative Commons Licensing

When it rains it pours — right on the heels of the punishing blow dealt to RealDVD, the money-laden Kaleidescape crowd suffered its own setback at the hands of the law. You just know that the DVD CCA (Copy Control Association) appealed the 2007 ruling that allowed Kaleidescape owners to rip DVDs to their media servers, and yesterday a California Appeals Court overturned that ruling. Next stop — the Santa Clara Superior Court, which could place an injunction on Kaleidescape if the appeal is upheld.

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Kaleidescape gets in line behind RealDVD for rough treatment

Named after Lamborghini test driver Valentino Balboni, this special edition model, limited to just 250-units, is “the only current Lamborghini that delivers its power to the road via its rear wheels alone.” Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery. At a dry weight of only 1,380 kilograms, this guarantees outstanding performance: the LP 550-2 is catapulted from 0 to 100 km/h (0-62mph) in a breathtaking 3.9 seconds

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Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni

Timing is everything. That’s a saying that enterprise software giant Oracle has apparently not taken to heart, because today, in the middle of hysteria by both sides of the reform debate, the company has unveiled Oracle Revenue Management and Billing for Health Insurance. A B2B vendor might not care to tiptoe around health IT issues, since they don’t really depend on consumer opinion to gain customers.

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While Health Reform Debate Rages, Oracle Caters to Insurance Companies

We have no idea who would choose an iPhone app over a real, honest-to-goodness textbook, but if you really want to spend marathon cram sessions hunched over a 3.5-inch display, a company called CourseSmart has just made its entire catalog available for viewing with its eTextbooks app. Certainly, it seems that the company’s selection is nothing to sneeze at — electronic access to over 7,000 titles from 12 publishers — so if you’re already using the service, additional on-the-go access to the books (as well as the handy search, notes, and bookmarks) might prove quite worthwhile.

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CourseSmart releases eTextbook reader for iPhone

We’re not sure why we didn’t hear more about this way back at RIM’s WES conference way back in May, but it was apparently mentioned by VP Antoine Boucher at the time that they’re working on a Bluetooth-enabled watch. Furthermore, it’s said to be more advanced than the models Sony Ericsson has put forth so far, featuring streaming audio (3.5mm jack on the watch, perhaps?) and Twitter / Facebook updates in addition to the usual things like caller ID and text messages. Note that the image floating around today of this thing isn’t real — it’s just a Sony Ericsson MBW-100 with a swapped logo — so it remains to be seen what this magical wrist accessory will look like, assuming it’s real and coming to retail.

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RIM working on Bluetooth watch, other spellbinding accessories?

Now that everything Zune HD is official and available for pre-order, Microsoft has seen fit to loose official specs, putting to rest — at least until we can do a full hands on — questions about what to expect from the OLED touchscreen packing device. From dimensions (52.7 mm x 102.1 mm x 8.9 mm, 2.6 oz) to battery life (24 hours for music with wireless off, up to 4 hours of video) and charge time (3 hours, 2 hours to 90%.) While the offical site (incorrectly) currently lists max video res at barely-better-than-DVD 720 x 480, we contacted Microsoft and received the official specs on video support, and if for some reason you needed to hear it again: the Tegra chip is a beast

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Zune HD specs fill in the blanks on video format support, battery life and more

David Pogue of The New York Times whipped up a frenzy against the cellphone companies. As soon as he urged everyone to rise up against those absurd voicemail instructions used by every cellphone provider in his “Take Back the Beep” campaign , 28,032 blogs wrote about it, and thousands of e-mail messages rained down on Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint in a torrent of disdain. Now, there’s a glimmer of hope, and results could be on the way

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Cellphone providers starting to buckle under torrent of complaints

Check out this Dell Inspiron Zino HD, a tiny PC destined for your home theater. Shipping this Fall, there’s scarce information about this hotshot, but the company says there are desktop parts inside, unlike the favorably reviewed Studio Hybrid that’s so small it uses laptop parts to save space. Why is Dell talking about “desktop parts” when the Intel Atom processor and NVIDIA Ion graphics processor have proven to us to be such a highly capable duo in the home theater?

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Dell Inspiron Zino HD destined for home theaters

It’s already gone through more than its share of name changes, but it looks like Sprint’s upcoming Samsung m850 Dash , most recently known as the Instinct S50, has now apparently found one that’s stuck: the Instinct HD. No word if that means it’ll actually handle HD video in one way or another, of course, nor is there any word on anything like a price or release date — although with the FCC business out of the way, it seems like this one could be getting fully official sooner rather than later.

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Samsung Instinct S50 now reportedly the Instinct HD, ‘HD’ officially the new black

So here’s some interesting insight into the wild, rough-and-tumble world of wireless product launches: Verizon announced ZTE’s AD3700 USB modem today, a product that gained FCC approval over five months ago , which means it’s probably been getting a trial by fire on Verizon’s test labs since then. You’ve gotta figure that ZTE was working on the prototype for many months before FCC approval, so all told, this launch is probably a culmination of a solid year of work, cash, blood, sweat, and tears.

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Verizon announces AD3700 global modem from ZTE

Astronomers have discovered a planet in another solar system 1,000 light years away that orbits its star opposite from the way the star rotates, making it the only planet ever discovered to do so. The system was discovered by the UK’s Wide Area Search for Planets (WASP) project in collaboration with Geneva Observatory, according to Space.com . It’s also turning out to be quite a curiosity among the 350+ extrasolar planets known to date.

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Astronomers Discover Planet Going the Wrong Way

We just got a quick look at Samsung’s new trio, the TL220, TL225 and CL65 , and outside of some pretty impressive specs, all three cameras offer a nice bit of innovation and looks in their own special ways. The TL220 and TL225 are the most interesting, with those snazzy front-facing LCDs. Luckily, that creepy clown picture from the press shots is just for entertaining children, and it’s easy enough to switch it to a live view of our charming, MySpace-ready face

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Samsung’s new compacts in person: front LCDs, GPS and WiFi don’t go to waste

Well, it’s looking increasingly like those very first shots of a rumored Dell smartphone that cropped up way back in June were indeed the real deal, as two separate sets of purported spy pics have now turned up showing an identical-looking phone. Better still, they also show the device powered on, offering us our first look at Dell and China Mobile’s customized Android interface for the thing. The Boy Genius Report also goes one step further with a complete list of the phone’s purported specs, which includes quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity, a 3.5-inch 640 x 360 display, a 3-megapixel camera with a flash (and support for 30 fps video), Bluetooth, A-GPS, and a microSD card slot for expansion, to name a few features.

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Dell Mini 3i smartphone captured in pair of spy shots

In a move that took most industry pundits by surprise, Sony today announced that it will adopt the open ePub standard as the default format for books in its eBook store by the end of the year. EPub is an XML-based standard for publishing eBooks that has been adopted by a wide variety of hardware manufacturers, publishers, and retailers – with the notable exception of Amazon and it’s Kindle store and eBook reader

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Sony Adopts Open (But Still DRMed) Format for eBooks

Large screen nettops are somewhat of a mystery to us. Lenovo’s latest, the all-in-one IdeaCentre C300 , is certainly a looker on the outside, but the beauty of that screen real estate is hampered by a 1.6GHz Atom processor / integrated graphics unable to handle our internet streaming needs — Hulu, Pandora, and Netflix were all but a wash. Still, it’s pretty light and sturdy, and when powered on absolutely quiet and cool — we watched four hours of a DVD with a minimum of stutter and little to no heat or machine noise

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Lenovo IdeaCentre C300 unboxing and hands-on

Step aside, World’s Cheapest Laptop , Lanyu of China just undercut you — and the magical $100 barrier — with the 666 Yuan ($98) LY-EB01. This marketing marvel might have a processor slower than most netbooks’ FSB at 266MHz, and its 128MB of RAM might spontaneously combust if you even type the word Vista into it, but it is , technically, a laptop. And you can totally store, like, a few hundred Word files on the 2GB flash drive.

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Lanyu LY-EB01 is world’s cheapest laptop with built-in obsolescence