Nothing quite lights up a room like the Discovery's Rainbow In My Room — it's also one of the best leprechaun-catching tools available on the market. Using LED lights, the gadget creates a prismatic rainbow arc on your wall or on your ceiling. It uses a motion sensor that turns the rainbow on and off when you're near, and an automatic shut-off assures that you won't over-rainbow your room. Cheap as chips and available early October, it's the cheapest way to achieve faux happiness without moisture and white light. -Yuri Baranovsky
[Discovery via SciFi]
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Furniture designer Timothy Ben's Arrow bookshelf modules are made from MDF and come in 20 different colors, with either a lacquered or laminated finish. Although they're probably meant to be stacked in that delightful chevron effect, I'm sure you can play a basic form of Tetris with them if you're really bored. -Addy Dugdale
[Timothy Ben Furniture via MoCo Loco]
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When researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia needed a lab scanner, but didn't have the cash to pay for it, they didn't panic. Instead, Angel Maqueira and his colleagues bought a bog-standard CD player — and hacked it, saving themselves a potential $70,000 in the process.
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Halo 3 might be all the rage right now but thanks to missing the deadline for the 2007 British Academy Video Games Awards by a few weeks, it will not be up for a gong this time around.
Wii Sports is leading this year’s charge, nominated in seven categories for all that sporty, TV-smashing fun. In the Best Game category though it will face stiff competition from shooters Gears of War and Bioshock and the ever-popular Axe-God For Idiots game, the great Guitar Hero II. This is the second year of the awards - you can see who the 2006 winners and losers were here.
The winners will be announced at a booze-soaked industry event in Battersea Evolution, London, on October 23.
Jump now to see all of the nominations and make some predictions of your own.-Martin Lynch
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Now that many of us have skinny HDTVs, it would be nice to have more content to watch on them. BBC watchdog, the BBC Trust, has approved the Beeb's plans for a dedicated high definition channel and has opened the floor to us consumers, for the next four weeks, about what form it should take.
The two proposals for the “mixed-genre” HD channel, which will be launched on digital satellite, digital cable and digital terrestrial television (DTT or Freeview) are as follows:
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There’ s nothing like a Top 10, 50 or 100 of anything to clear the early morning cobwebs and get the whole office swapping productivity for heated debate and throwing stuff at each other.
Arcing flows of steaming hot Java, Sellotape holders, pen, pencils and even the odd USB peripheral takes to the air when someone dares suggest that the iPod is more important than the Walkman, or that the omission of the Sinclair Spectrum 48K is 'justified'. As if. Here are the 10 most important gadgets, according to PC World.
1. Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (1979)
2. Apple iPod (2001)
3. (Tie) ReplayTV RTV2001 and TiVo HDR110 (1999)
4. PalmPilot 1000 (1996)
5. Sony CDP-101 (1982)
6. Motorola StarTAC (1996)
7. Atari Video Computer System (1977)
8. Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera (1972)
9. M-Systems DiskOnKey (2000)
10. Regency TR-1 (1954)
No doubt you will find your own reasons to fight with colleagues and friends over this list. Check out the full Top 50 list after the jump.-Martin Lynch
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The latest warning from the Fruity One is that those who commit the heinous sin of unlocking their costly iPhone will run the risk of it not working with future updates.
Anyone who’s already bought an iPhone over this side of the Atlantic to use on a non-AT&T network – of course - probably already accepts the risk that a hack can do but Apple is just making sure that you know it.
Although the company says the hacked iPhone can be damaged by these unlocks and they might not work with future updates, it’s really warning you that it’s forthcoming software update has been designed NOT to work with an unlocked iPhone.
Jump now for the full, and dire, warning.-Martin Lynch
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