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The big TV networks announced their upcoming shows this week and, well, Syfy is now dead to me and no amount of Stargate can restore my faith in the station. Let me introduce to you Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen , which will be just one of the new shows shown on the upcoming Thursday reality block. Zap2IT Zap2It , The docu-series by executive producers Kevin Dill and Mechelle Collins will center on Vigneron’s new catering and event company that will combine imagination and culinary arts to create avant-garde delights for picky clients

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Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen puts the final nail in Syfy’s coffin

Here’s a fun diversion for your Thursday: the “Ben” 本 NanoNote laptop palmtop miniature computer netbook smartbook thingie! Described as a “full copyleft hardware” device, this thing isn’t going to win any performance competitions — it runs OpenWRT, which you normally find on hacked Linksys routers — but it does represent an interesting option in the realm of traditionally expensive small computing devices. There’s tons of info on the Qi Hardware wiki . The CPU is an Ingenic Jz4740 Multimedia Application Processor running at a whopping 336 MHz

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The NanoNote $99 open hardware computer thingie

When you’ve been making iPod and iPhone docks since the beginning, what is there to do but tweak the design every once in a while? That’s JBL’s situation, and these “new” docks are pretty much what you had before, but no one would choose the old ones over the new ones

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JBL makes slight changes to iPod dock lineup

It has been a long time coming, but the notorious JBL MS-8 is almost here.

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The JBL MS-8 in-car DSP finally gets an official release date and price

It might be months after Kindle for Windows launched but the OS X app is finally ready for Mac users.

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Kindle for Mac now live and free

Japanese video gaming powerhouse Square Enix has released a handful of hit titles for the iPhone already (including Final Fantasy I and II ), but the next one, an RPG named Chaos Rings, is poised to blow them all out of the water. Officially announced [JP] today, the game’s trailer shows absolutely amazing graphics

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Chaos Rings: Square Enix releases fantastic trailer for iPhone-exclusive RPG

Even discounting the fact that this is a watch, this is just an amazing little piece of machinery.

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The first perpetual mechanical timepiece: Cabestan Sol Invictus

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You wish you had this dude’s MS Paint skills

Bet you weren’t expecting that headline tonight, were you? Well, it’s about as literal as I could get. Some enterprising boffins at the University of Rochester used a high-powered laser to etch microscopic patterns in silicon such that water overcomes its own hydrophilia and goes in whatever direction they please

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Water runs uphill in mysterious silicon etching

Doesn’t this look like something you’d see in an alien’s house? It is in fact real, and is a lamp design by Patrick Jouin for MGX , a group that does lighting via 3D printing techniques. We’ve posted a few times about Shapeways , which does fabrication of submitted 3D models, but these are designer

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“Bloom” light shows what’s possible with 3D-printed decor