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http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/770f/

while my initial reaction, too, was "sue the bastards", why not just direct our nerd dollars toward ZenMagnets?

I emailed thinkGeek through their website:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/custserv/gethelp.cgi

Here is my email to thinkGeek:

"[homer]Hello NASA, how come I can't get no tang?! Errr, I mean how come I can't get no Zen Magnets on your website? It's been 4.5 hours since the BuckyBalls / ZenMagnets DMCA takedown notice debacle hit /. -- why no Zen yet? :-)

Seriously, if you've not yet watched the video linked below, you should. The idiocy and the snot-nosed sense of entitlement demonstrated by the takedown-notice-issuing CEO of Buckyballs is as appalling as his actions. DMCA abuse has no place in the nerd community (or anywhere for that matter). Let the nerds decide who they want to support -- and what better website through which to do that than thinkGeek? Thank you for your attention to this matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Tka4NUmUo " /emailToThinkGeek

REMEMBER: the Zen guy asked that people not bombard the buckyball CEO with hate mail. Abiding by his request would allow a small company (run by a true nerd, no less) to fluorish by raking in our nerd-earned dollars, all the while doing it with class, honesty and (what appears to be) a superior product.

FWIW, I have nothing to do Zen or Buckball, nor do I own either of their products. I'm just beyond all friggin belief disgusted with the conduct of this Jake guy. And to think, buckyballs *were* on my thinkGeek wish list.

-- /.Lurker

Pretty much anything sold by Thinkgeek these days is poor quality.

Anything except BaconSalt or Baconaisse

MMmmm... bacon....

Pretty much anything sold by Thinkgeek these days is poor quality.

Anything except BaconSalt or Baconaisse

MMmmm... bacon....

First, let me say that I fully agree with you, IndustrialComplex. I have good news for you, in fact.

1. A micro projector (spreadsheets, documents, and the like require a much larger display than a cell phone)
2. A projection keyboard. (8 finger + thumb typing would be necessary to even get close to the interface speed of a home PC)
3. A projection trackpad. (Tracks your finger motions over a flat surface as if it were a standard trackpad)

Now, granted, 3 isn't a projection trackpad, but it should work just about as well, I'd think. Heck, no reason solution 2 couldn't be used for 3 as well. We're not there yet, but we're DAMN CLOSE! Just a bit more refining & miniaturization 'till it's all in the same device! Future ho!

Unicorn meat is an Excellent Source of Sparkles!

I bet you don't get that from your bacon!

I lust for the day when every piece of media I have can be played from a single device. I suspect it'll never happen.

from thinkgeek:

But what makes the Ultio so special you say? Simply put, it's got everything you want in a digital media player.

so which one is a lie, LIAR?

slashdot = stagnated.

by .Bruce Perens

Someone didn't pay much attention to Ender's Game. Period belongs at the end of the name. Of course, and underscore might have been better here.

2. Bathe periodically.

I bathe all the time.

5. Parents will eventually charge rent.

So do landlords, incidentally.

7. CTL-C, CTL-V. Took me 15 years until someone showed me that shortcut.

This ought to blow your mind then: CTL-X

8. The sun, it burns.

Funny, I figured that out long before I owned a computer.

9. As far as your family is concerned, "network admin," "programming," "database management," ... to them, it's all "computers."

It's good practice for talking to Management later.

for the non-*crowd, set-top ready.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/home-entertainment/d3fe/

  Native 1080p video output at up to 1920x1080 resolution (check)
- Analog recording of your favourite TV shows from Cable or Satelite (check)
- Time-shift and scheduled recording (check)
- Incredible variety of video and audio codec support including MKV (check)
- Built in BitTorrent client for sharing and downloading video files (check)
- HDMI, composite or component video output (check)
- Optical SPDIF 5.1 Channel Dolby Digital audio output (check)
- Takes up to 2.0 Terabyte SATA hard drive (check)
- Built in samba server with UPnP implementation (check)
- Oh and a completely sweet price! ($169, plus $35 for 1 to 3 week coming wireless N USB adapter4, plus you supply the SATA drive up to 2TB, and an external DVD burner if desired).

I run PS3MediaServer on my fileserver. Streams (and trancodes when necessary) over the network to my PS3. Works well.

I would frequently get stuttering with this setup, even just doing flac audio files.

I'm thinking of one of these:

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/home-entertainment/d3fe/

Any experiences here? It looks great from the description.

I think you'd probably want something like Rovio.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/c7b4/

or better yet, build yourself a texai robot:

http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/robots/texai/overview

I think you'd probably want something like Rovio.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/c7b4/

In particular, without knowing how many applications were rejected, we don't know whether the USPTO is approving a higher percentage of applications, or whether they have just increased up their processing rates.

It would also help to know how applicants have been behaving over the last year. Have they been abandoning patent applications with claims that are too difficult to get through? If so, that would have meant that patent examiners have had stronger applications on their desks, and it would make sense that more patents applications would be allowed. 2009 saw an increase in application abandonments (perhaps budgets for intellectual property protection underwent greater scrutiny because of the economic downturn). Were weaker applications abandoned more often than stronger applications? Maybe.

It is worth nothing that the article contained a bit of misinformation in saying that "Because patent examiners were judged on how efficient they were -- meaning how many patents they were able to complete their analysis of in the short amount of time they had. So here's the problem: if you approve a patent, you're done. If you reject a patent, the inventor (well, the lawyers) get an unlimited number of times to change the examiners mind, resubmitting modified applications." This information isn't complete. An examiner receive credit when a patent application is allowed and when a patent application is abandoned. This includes when a patent applicant files a Request for Continued Examination (RCE). The amount of credit an examiner receives for multiple RCEs has diminished, but an applicant who continues to make weak arguments could see an application rejected over-and-over again without ever receiving a patent.

Get all those facts, number of examiners, number of applications rejected, etc., and then you might be able to draw some conclusions.

Why base conclusions on facts when it so much more fun to jump to them instead?

RFID really is something that needs to have an eye kept on, but sensationalist headlines make it seem worse than it is.

Of course, if you're really worried about it, there are options depending on what you need to protect.

RFID really is something that needs to have an eye kept on, but sensationalist headlines make it seem worse than it is.

Of course, if you're really worried about it, there are options depending on what you need to protect.

I'm still waiting for ThinkGeek (or a similar outfit) to start selling an electric pencil sharpener that fits in a standard drive slot of my PC and is powered from the PSU of the PC. Keeping the wood and graphite particles away from the innards of the computer may pose a problem.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/a31f/

an iPhone compatible stylus

EZ Bake oven is the ultimate in easy quick snack goodness!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml

My first thought was an Easy Bake oven

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml

Sorry, only got a partial here.

Am I the only one who read the title and started wondering how the magnetic "BuckyBalls" toy ended up in outer space?

Day 31 - Well, I quietly snuck out the air conditioning vents on the roof late last night. Before I left I set up a few Annoy-A-Trons, Eviltrons, and TV Poltergeists here and there in the facility to convince them I or my ghostly spirit might still be around. Hopefully it will be a while before they find the fully-functional nuclear reactor I built in the basement, or the wireless camera feeds I installed in the washrooms. A great learning experience overall. Will recommend!

Day 31 - Well, I quietly snuck out the air conditioning vents on the roof late last night. Before I left I set up a few Annoy-A-Trons, Eviltrons, and TV Poltergeists here and there in the facility to convince them I or my ghostly spirit might still be around. Hopefully it will be a while before they find the fully-functional nuclear reactor I built in the basement, or the wireless camera feeds I installed in the washrooms. A great learning experience overall. Will recommend!

Day 31 - Well, I quietly snuck out the air conditioning vents on the roof late last night. Before I left I set up a few Annoy-A-Trons, Eviltrons, and TV Poltergeists here and there in the facility to convince them I or my ghostly spirit might still be around. Hopefully it will be a while before they find the fully-functional nuclear reactor I built in the basement, or the wireless camera feeds I installed in the washrooms. A great learning experience overall. Will recommend!

Done before, better:
http://www.wantowle.com/

Available at thinkgeek:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/portable-audio-video/cd04/

and a review:
http://gizmodo.com/5309119/owle-iphone-3gs-video-mount-is-about-as-practical-as-an-iphone-3gs-video-mount-can-be

IT only needs the hardware to be ubiquitous for plans to change.

Case in point: Without USB being on every modern PC several years, stores would not sell you USB webcameras, USB dolls, USB lights and USB beer coolers. For kicks, nobody would have dared market a serial-port version of this

Few of those applications of the hardware were planned at the 1996 release of the USB standard.

Please explain how you will be typing on an invisible keyboard?! Virtual Laser Keyboard is as good as it gets.

They already exist, no need to develop one to cheat with. Any moron could use one.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/techies/c521/

If this doesn't work for you then I recommend that you hunt down a USB version of any Thrustmaster controller, such as the Thrustmaster Firestorm.

YOU didn't read hard enough - that was already suggested, and responded to.

If this doesn't work for you then I recommend that you hunt down a USB version of any Thrustmaster controller, such as the Thrustmaster Firestorm.

might as well complete the slashvertisement... i play all my retro game backups on the dingoo. best $99.99 i've ever spent on gaming.

Is this what you're looking for?

Wear this and you will be fine:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=I+will+not+fix+your+computer&x=0&y=0

I never got the nerve to do it myself, so tell me how it goes.

You could try to find it with something like this.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/89d1/

I thought we were rabid pwnie enthusiasts too:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/womens/a078/

Good heavens, no.

Yeah. When I saw the National Pork Board was involved, I was instantly afraid that ThinkGeek would be pulling quite possibly their best product ever.

The first page is posted here http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2010/06/officially-our-bestever-cease.html

Already done.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/car/d138/

reminds me of these novelty maps:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/994a/

I beg to differ...

Choose your weapons!

Thinkgeek has them: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/c609/

You're not allowed to install any device that interferes with the deployment of the air bag.

So that's what happened to all those infomercials for The Club!

you'll have t prove you're more intelligent than a pet rock to buy one

Well, there is now a USB Pet Rock, so that threshold is still very low.

For OBDII http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/car/aa31/ has reader, that comes with it's own software for just $99.

C'mon ThinkGeek give us a special sale on lasers to celebrate this historic event!

nope, just make the accelerometer send out mouse signals, or an app to translate the data that way, why would games need to be modified for touch? an FPS tilting the tablet would send WASD key presses.

But the game you linked did nothing with the accelerometer. What would be cool is http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/77ba/ but as a multitouch surface with on screen buttons, and palm rejection. I wonder how hard it would be to set up one of those displaylink monitors to do that.

But they help make such great mini MAME cabinets! And they are useful as head racquets.

$4.99/2 quite the bargain

java patch:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/caffederm.shtml