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By Andrew Liszewski As powerful as today’s laptop computers are they still tend to lag behind desktop systems. One area in particular is with graphics cards. Since they’re limited in size they just can’t compete with some of the huge desktop models from ATI or Nvidia. A company called Magma though ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/magma-expressbox-external-pci-e-system-for-laptops/ By Andrew Liszewski I’ve seen plenty of sport watches capable of tracking and displaying your heart rate but this is the first time I’ve seen the technology shrunken down to the size of a ring. (Albeit a fairly large one.) The Heart Monitor Ring pretty much does the same thing as ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/heart-monitor-ring/ By Andrew Liszewski Cellphones have become so feature-packed that they make even the most advanced home phones look like they belong in a caveman painting. In an attempt to bridge the gap this device allows you to use any MP3 as your home phone’s ringer. The relatively small Magic Ringtone MP3 Ringer ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/annoying-ringtones-for-your-home-phone/ By Evan Ackerman Despite years of trying, I’ve never been able to successfully replicate a balloon dog, and now I know why: these bouncy little critters are complicated. Turns out that my particular problem was that I had the cervical vertebrae misaligned, which I realized thanks to Jason Freeny’s comprehensive and ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/pneumatic-anatomica/ By Evan Ackerman Rice is a staple food for most of the world, with over 200 million metric tons being harvested annually. That works out to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,257,477,920,000 grains of rice, in case you were wondering. And in order to cook all of that rice, you’d ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/self-heating-rice/ By Andrew Liszewski We first became aware of how crappy our run of the mill vacuums were thanks to James Dyson. But now it seems even his cyclone technology isn’t enough to make our homes truly clean. Halo Technologies believes you have to kill every single organism and pathogen hiding in ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/halo-vacuum-cleans-kills-with-ultraviolet-light/ By Andrew Liszewski There seems to be a classic gaming revival going on and I’m pretty sure part of it’s due to the XBox Live Arcade and the Wii’s Virtual Console making many of these titles available again. (For those unfamiliar with MAME that is.) To cash in on the fad ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/pro-keds-arcade-series-shoes/ By Andrew Liszewski While the toothbrush section at your local pharmacy has become pretty high-tech in recent years there’s probably nothing that can compare to the new Ultreo. It’s the first consumer grade ultrasonic toothbrush and it was developed by researchers at the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Lab. In other ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/ultreo-the-ultrasound-toothbrush/ By David Ponce HDTVs are really starting to kick into the mainstream, and people are paying attention. One of the most important specs to look at when shopping for a new HDTV is the contrast ratio: the deeper the blacks, the clearer and sharper all the other colors will look. ... http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/pioneer-to-offer-hd-licious-200001-flat-screen-tv-line/ Originally from Strange New Products on May 9, 2007, 5:02am http://www.neobloo.com/2007/05/09/Training Soap for Little Squids/