By Luke Anderson

I’m sure that everyone has used their hand or fingers to try and make a rough measurement of something. If you do it enough, you might actually get pretty good at it, but I’ve found that I’m usually way off. Well if you’re trying to measure something in the cold, these Measurement Work Gloves are the perfect tool.

The pair of gloves is covered with all sorts of measurements for those times when you just don’t feel like getting out the tape measure. Heck, they even threw in a protractor. Granted, everyone’s hand is different, so I wouldn’t rely on these figures to be exact. These handy (get it? handy!) gloves can be yours for right around $20 a pair. (Unfortunately they’re out of stock at the time of writing)

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By Evan Ackerman

This conceptual alarm clock from designer Matthias Lange is, unlike most other alarm clocks, designed to accept your ritualistic unbridled rage at its existence. To shut the alarm off, you smash the clock as hard as you can with your fist. Sounds rather satisfying, doesn’t it? After all, you know what they say… There’s nothing that wakes you up in the morning like a fresh cup of hot steaming violence against inanimate objects. That and the smell of napalm, of course.

Mmm, napalm.

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Still waiting for Verizon’s FiOS to come and light up your neighborhood with blistering download speeds? Now you’ve something even faster to wait for, with Charter Communications announcing it is launching a 60Mbps broadband service, utilizing DOCSIS 3.0 to fit more bits in the same pipes — not quite the 160Mbps Comcast predicted, but we’ll take it. What the company isn’t announcing is when people will be able to tap into this or how much they’ll pay for the privilege, but hopefully it’ll be a tiny less than the $140 Verizon is charging.

Update: We found word of prices and, go figure, the service costs exactly the same as FiOS: $140 per month. But, you can save $10 if you bundle it with Television or phone service.

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Charter launching 60Mbps broadband, asks “FiOS what?” originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Make no mistake, we have all ideas that Julius Genachowski is very much concerned with cable pricing, but according to analysts, putting pressure on operators isn’t prone to be his focus. Jules, as he’s known around the Engadget offices, is expected to be named the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. His primary concern? Network neutrality. As with most things in politics, the appointment is prone to be a double-edged sword for consumers; on one hand, we’ll greatly benefit from a higher-up pushing open internet development and increased deployment, but on the other, we have the ability to pretty much kiss any faint hopes of

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Sling Media announced today that they’ve lost their top executives, including co-founders (and brothers) Blake and Jason Krikorian, CEO and SVP of business development respectively. Also on the way out is Jason Hirschhorn and Ben White, President and Chief Creative Officer of Sling Media Entertainment Group, and Greg Wilkes the VP of sales. paidContent spoke with the effervescent Blake Krikorian, who said, “I’m out of there now. I want to just cut it … it’s best just to get it done because it’s not easy.” So much for being stoked about that EchoStar acquisition, huh?

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Sling Media loses most of its top brass originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Multi-touch is where it’s at, but what if you already have one of those lame, obsolete, big-screen, flat-panel displays that accept only smudges from your fingers? What you need is a Multi-Touch G2 from PQLabs, an overlay that attaches to your existing 32-inch (or larger) set with double-sided tape, adding the multi-touch sensitivity that your fingertips have been yearning for. The company has also announced its upcoming iTable, effectively a multi-touch panel with a built-in personal, having something in common with Microsoft’s Surface, but nothing with Apple’s iPhone (from which it dishearteningly takes a naming cue). We spent a few minutes with our fingers stroking both the iTable and the Multi-Touch G2 and were impressed by both; they initially seemed a bit unresponsive but, within a few seconds, we were browsing media, building grunts, and decimating forests in no time. Playing an RTS like Warcraft 3 with gestures is a fantastic experience no strategy gamer should miss, but, at $2,399, is one that only the richest of tacticians can put in their purchase queue. No pricing for the iTable just yet, but expect it to be more.

Continue reading Video: PQLabs iTable digits-on lets us touch orcs, movies, me-too branding

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Video: PQLabs iTable digits-on lets us touch orcs, movies, me-too branding originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember Xbox 360 IPTV rollout? Though the wonderful fantasy of replacing our stodgy cable DVRs with an all-in-one Left 4 Dead playing / channel surfing beast has dried up like a raisin in the sun, Dave Zatz confirmed with Microsoft booth reps that BT is (still) planning on deploying the service, and despite the NXE the UI will retain the look of the current Motorola boxes pictured above. Now that U-Verse has delivered Total Home DVR and upgraded beyond 1 HD stream at a time, maybe they have the ability to get to work on this deployment next?

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Xbox 360 IPTV dream not dead yet originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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By Evan Ackerman

We started off this week on BotJunkie with a cheap tiny Wall-E-esque bugbot that you can build yourself, got some details on the SmartMow robotic lawn mower and the Husqvarna Automower that we saw this year at CES, met a little robot called Forknife that’s controlled with a cellphone running Android, found out that Boeing now has a mobile system that can shoot down UAVs with lasers, were slight grossed out by a robot that sweats, tried to guess whether an opponent was a bot or not in an Unreal Tournament artificial intelligence competition, watched a multifunctional robot called STAIR fetch a stapler on command, admired some colorful and totally weird bio-inspired robot sculptures, found out that UC Berkeley now has fully armed and operational radio controlled Rhinoceros beetles, were slightly worried after a toy robot injured 14 children in Japan, were even more worried by a new toy robot gorilla that can outrun your children, met a guy in Vermont who has decided to build his own giant robot hexapod, and finished out the week with a video of (another) gorilla robot chasing a Puegot.

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By Andrew Liszewski

Dropping half a grand on a replica lightsaber from a company like Master Replicas isn’t for everyone, but if you’ve got a Star Wars itch to scratch this cheap lightsaber flashlight could do the trick. It’s a full size replica of Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber, but instead of a blade, it’s got four blue LEDs on the end allowing it to be used as a flashlight. (Or however you see fit to use it.) It also plays authentic lightsaber sound effects when turned on and off, but you’re welcome to ad-lib your own, and instead of ‘focusing crystals’ it’s powered by 3 AAA batteries. So just skip all that Jedi training crap and head over to Play.com where you can pick one up for about $14.

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There’s not exactly a lack of world wide web measurement tools out there, but there’s none quite as ambitious as the new Measurement Lab (or M-Lab) just launched by Google, along with a little help from the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium. While it’s apparently just now getting up to speed, the tool will eventually let individuals and researchers of all sorts poke and prod the internet to their heart’s content, measuring performance, and exposing attempts by telecoms to meddle with network traffic and clamp down on things like BitTorrent or Skype. Those efforts will be facilitated by 36 servers in 12 locations across the U.S. and Europe that Google will be opening up early this year, and all data collected using M-Lab will be made publicly available for other researchers to expand upon. Complete details are available at the link below, even though Google seems to be having some bandwidth troubles of its own with the M-Lab site at the moment.

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Google launches Measurement Lab to monitor the tubes, expose meddling originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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