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Tired of your old pizza boxes?  This is the new green pizza box!

Thanks to a slip of the fingers on Posterous (and Robert Scoble’s serious Twitter addiction), new images of Michael Arrington’s pet Internet-tablet project — the CrunchPad — have shown up looking very, very close to a finished product. As you can see in the gallery below, the (supposedly) $200, WiFi enabled pad has gotten dressed up in multiple colors and been shoved into some fairly handsome looking packaging. There’s no telling if this means the device is any closer to a buy-able reality, but one thing is for sure: a microblog is no place for secrets.

[Via Scoble's Twitterfeed, Arab Crunch]

Filed under: Handhelds

Leaked pics of the CrunchPad make it look dangerously close to availability originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What goes well with a communication-enabled water dish? Why, a Twitter / RFID-enabled kitty door, of course! The so-called Tweeting Cat Door is undoubtedly the most hilarious, insightful and useful DIY contraption we’ve ever seen to wed RFID, social networking and computer programming. Essentially, this homegrown cat door was crafted to only open when Gus or Penny walks up with their super special RFID tags; once they approach, a mounted camera snaps a picture and uploads it (along with a quip) to Twitter. Don’t deny it — your feline is steaming with envy from the corner of your desk right now.

[Via Switched]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household

Intelligent cat door utilizes Twitter, RFID masterfully originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not that we needed much more evidence that 2009 would be the year ‘o PSP rumors, but Pocket Gamer is now reporting that it has heard from an “insider source” who says that the PSP2 will indeed be released before Christmas of this year. That source, who’s supposedly a “developer working on the new hardware,” also backs up some of the earlier rumors about the design of the device itself, saying that it will be more like the iPhone than the current PSP, and that it will boast a sliding touchscreen that conceals the buttons and dual analog controls when it’s closed. Not much more than that, unfortunately, but who know’s what next week’s rumor will bring? We’re personally hoping for a surprise Atari Lynx rebirth to really shake things up.

Filed under: Gaming

Latest PSP2 rumor covers familar ground, adds pre-Xmas release date originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ever wondered what WWII would look like in color?  It’s hard to imagine that photo journalism existed back then but these are some great color photos of WWII from the Eastern Front.

WW2 pictures in color