Filed under: Digital Cameras

What’s a Thursday in June without nine new boringcams from HP to be totally underwhelmed by? We can’t think of a better way to spend our morning than to sort through all these mundane Photosmart models, and if you have the patience feel free to join in on the fun. The cameras range from the $80 E337, which features a 5 megapixel sensor and a 1.5-inch LCD, all the way up to the R937 (pictured), sporting a 3.6-inch touchscreen and an 8 megapixel resolution, which goes for $300. In between is a vast wasteland of minor feature bumps and teensy aesthetic tweaks, but we’ve gotta hand it to HP for packing good amount of features into some fairly well priced cameras. Keep reading and all will be revealed.

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Robert Sollis wrote Google over and over again, attempting to have an address changed for a major event. When nothing happened, he took the matter into his own hands.

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

As we’ve reported before, tasers might not be as safe as their makers like to claim. Juan Flores Lopez, a Texas man who had doused himself in gasoline, became the latest unfortunate taser-related casuality when police used the stun device (which sometimes emit sparks) during his arrest. “We don’t know what ignited the fire,” perplexed officers admitted. The case is currently being investigated by the Texas Rangers.

[Via Digg]

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After the robotic giraffe, a Mac running XP and this guy’s second Zune tattoo, you probably thought there was nothing left to see, but then along comes a giant Tesla coil that creates a “resonant frequency” and plays the SMB music to a crowd of onlookers. No word on if it knows “Signs” or not. Check the video after the break.

[Via Make]

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Filed under: Robots

Apparently adrenalized by Bill Gates’s rousing Scientific American manifesto A Robot in Every Home, Congressmen Mike Doyle and Zach Wamp have called for the first robot caucus to convene in Washington. Spurred into action by the idea that “the robotics industry is developing in much the same way as the computer business did 30 years ago”, Doyle hopes to promote robot awareness, work on robot policy, and educate Congress on issues in robotics to ensure “that our nation remains globally competitive”. Wamp added that he looks forward to the caucus’s first order of business: identifying which congresspeople are, in fact, robots themselves.

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