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Vices of the week: Surface, screensavers & April tomfoolery

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Get fooled this week? It was pretty hard to tell what could be real and what was probably a hoax. Lucky for us, Microsoft isn't joking about its impressive Surface touchscreen display, though we're hoping the company takes notice of this awesome Zune 360 gaming handheld concept. Meanwhile, check out Shift where S.E. Kramer checks Blu-Ray's pulse and shows why Sony wasn't laughing this week.

Don't be a fool! Read on:

Drop Clock screensaver shows you the time in super slow motion
Thought screensavers were dead? It's time to believe again.

Boeing tests first manned hydrogen-fuel flight
It's about time the friendly skies got clean, too.

Ebay much? Try an LED macro ring light
An LED-ring flash mount for the MacGyver of photography.

Gateshead Millennium Bridge: a drawbridge like you've never seen
You've seen drawbridges raise to let boats by. This one dodges them.

Grobal self-watering planters prevent crimes against plants
You'll pretty much forget you even have plants.

Samsung takes aim at the iPhone with the Instinct
It has two awesome things the iPhone doesn't.

Want more contrast? Dolby and SIM2's LED-backlit TV really pops
See why the makers call it a television with infinite contrast.

 
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ITrush:
Nice touch. It's really pretty hard to tell which of these items I'm going to pick on. :) nhick...More »


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By ITrush at 5:39 AM ON 04/05/08

Nice touch. It's really pretty hard to tell which of these items I'm going to pick on. :)

nhick


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