As a result of Sharper Image’s bankruptcy filing earlier this week, the company’s decided to stop accepting gift cards until they can get their finances in order. That really sucks for you if you just received a Sharper Image gift card for Christmas ‘07, but it really sucks for people who returned merchandise and could only get store credit in the form of a card. What’s even more unfortunate is the banner at the top of Sharper Image’s press release site. Ouch. [Sharper Image via Consumerist]

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Congratulations on a good idea, Vuzix. The new iWear AV920-C video glasses support up to four players and will show each player his or her respective corner of the multi-player screen. Great for games like…um…Doom, as seen in the Vuzix promotional photo on the left. The glasses can connect to any NTSC or PAL video […]

Congratulations on a good idea, Vuzix. The new iWear AV920-C video glasses support up to four players and will show each player his or her respective corner of the multi-player screen. Great for games like…um…Doom, as seen in the Vuzix promotional pic on the left.

The glasses can connect to any NTSC or PAL video input and up to four sets can be daisy-chained together for a multi-player brouhaha, with each player selecting his or her own quadrant.

The internal lithium ion battery is good for six hours of play and the view from under the hood is equal to a 62-inch screen viewed from nine feet away, according to Vuzix. Each eyepiece does 640×480 resolution. The iWear AV920-C will be available in April 2008.

Price hasn’t been set but I’d expect it to be at least $350 given that the AV920 currently sells for that price.

Vuzix iWear AV920-C - High Resolution Massive Screen Display [Vuzix.com]

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This Antique D2 project is a homemade, unique R2-D2, if R2 was made in an era when barrels were used as bodies for helper robots. Which is to say in an era that never existed, but I suppose that’s what makes it fun, right?

The detail on the model is really what makes this project stand out. It clearly had loads of work put into it, with the tiny valves on the front, pneumatic legs and grating on the top of the dome.

The creator doesn’t quite know what he’s going to do with it, as he doesn’t just want to shill it on eBay. He’s considering a raffle of some kind with proceeds going to charity, so if this is the kind of thing you’d like to decorate your apartment with, be sure to check on the deviantART thread to see if you’ve got a shot. [Deviant Art]

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Much like the DLP dual-view monitors we checked out at CES, Hyundai has found a way to make an LCD monitor that displays different information depending on the angle, meaning that the driver and passenger can both look at it and each see entirely different screens. Ideally, this is so the driver can view GPS information […]

Much like the DLP dual-view monitors we checked out at CES, Hyundai has found a way to make an LCD monitor that displays different information depending on the angle, meaning that the driver and passenger can both look at it and each see entirely different screens.

Ideally, this is so the driver can view GPS information while the passenger watches porn, but we know this is going to end up modded with some Xbox trickery into showing dual Halo 3 screens. Don’t deny it.

Hyundai Motor applies in-car dual display monitor to Grandeur [Aving]

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It’s a day some of us never thought would come. Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard is finally shipping to everyone who pre-ordered it. Icing on the OLED cake, the Configuator software is available now, too. If you bought one w/ passive keys, you’ve still got another month though. [Optimus Project]

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USB Missiles are fun (I shot Dvorak in the chest with one once, it didn’t induce a heart attack as I had hoped), but actual cannons are even more fun. This 25-inch field cannon is the closest you’ll get to having a Civil War cannon in your office—unless you’re the undersecretary of Civil War reenactments for the State of Virginia.

It’s powered by gasoline and flint, which means you can actually fire “real” ammunition from its turret. $149 gets you the gun, and you’ll have to buy separate flints and ammo for about $10 each. The thing also weighs 7 pounds, which means that in the worst case scenario when you run out of ammo you can just throw it at someone’s face. [LighterSide via Nerd Approved]

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The Aurora Multimedia site states that their 6 or 12 button Waci-Pad is “ideal for wall or podium mounting,” we know exactly where we’re putting this—next to the our front door so we have the ability to switch on all our electronics when we enter the home (or off when we leave, but that never happens).

The Waci-Pad is essentially a IR/RF/Ethernet front-end to control your DVD/TV/CD/Blu-ray player and your lights, which means it’s perfect for flipping on all your junk at once. It’s home automation on the level of home-builders or home-modification, which is a step above just getting a universal remote, which might be a safer bet for most readers out there. But if you want to get fancy and outfit your entertainment room like an auditorium, there you go. [Aurora Multimedia - Thanks Jason!]

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Does Flash Video need DRM? Adobe thinks so, and is making a push for just such technology for the Flash Player 9 and Server 3 software suites. Using encryption and a licensing system, licensed viewers would be able to watch content in their subscriptions, but nobody else. This type of DRM isn’t for YouTube, at least […]

Does Flash Video need DRM? Adobe thinks so, and is making a push for just such technology for the Flash Player 9 and Server 3 software suites. Using encryption and a licensing system, licensed viewers would be able to watch content in their subscriptions, but nobody else.

This type of DRM isn’t for YouTube, at least not yet. It will likely first show up in corporate communications to rival Windows Media Server’s DRM and Real’s Helix DRM, but later “premium” subscribers to sites like YouTube could get DRMed streaming content at a small price, or something like that. We’ll see what happens.

Adobe Pushes DRM for FlashA [EFF]

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