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A duck. A cat. A rooster. Your mom.

Quick, remember those four items and hold that thought. You’re going to need a sharp memory for building and playing this sweet memory game that you can build yourself, sans Arduino. It uses a Picaxe microcontroller, ensuring a headache of assembly-based program for all involved. The outcome does sound pretty rewarding though:

MemSounds is a sound based memory game played in rounds. In the first round it plays one of 4 different sounds at random. Each sound represents a different switch in the device. After the sound is played you get a turn to copy the original sound by pressing a switch. If you get the sound right, MemSounds will play two sounds in the next round and so on. The limit is about 100 rounds.

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I knew this day would come. The day I attempt to go on a beautiful vacation to Mars, only to realize that I’m really a secret agent fighting against an evil and corrupt Mars administrator. Yes, Total Recall.

Dr. Joe Z. Tsien, a brain scientist and co-director of the Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia School, and his team were successful in removing new and old memories in mice by over-expressing a protein critical to brain cell communication just as the memory was recalled. What does this mean for humans? We’re all going to get mind-wiped and turned into a zombie army. That, or the Total Recall thing.

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Computing isn’t always about raw power and trying to build the best gaming rig out there. Sometimes the simple bare necessities will suffice.  Lenovo’s first netbook, the IdeaPad S10-42312CU, comes with all the bare necessities you’ll ever need to surf the web.

Featuring a 10.2-inch 1024×600 widescreen display, an Intel Atom N270 single core processor running at 1.6GHz, GMA 950 integrated graphics and Windows XP Home, this netbook packs quite the punch considering it only weighs 2.65 pounds. This specific model comes with 512MB of DDR2 memory and an 80GB hard drive, but other models will be available later with more RAM, hard drive space and a variety of colors. Unfortunately, it only comes with a 3-cell battery, but on the bright side the keyboard is 85-percent of the size of a full-sized laptop keyboard, meaning this thing is pretty damn small. Hopefully it doesn’t use up too much juice. It’s available now for an eye-popping $439 dollar price tag. Don’t forget to slap a warranty on that.

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This computer sure is tiny. Fit-PC Slim is the ultimate mini-rig for anyone who isn’t satisfied with USB drives as a means of transporting data. It’s dimensions are 110 x 100 x 30mm and it packs a mean 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 processor, Ethernet jack, VGA output, WiFi, and a 2.5-inch hard drive option for taking data on the go.

Two sizes of memory are available: 256MB or 512MB. Obviously, depending on how much memory and/or hard drive space you want to put into this thing, the price could range from $220 to $335 and you’ll also need some tiny speakers to match. Be careful not to leave it around the house, though. I’d hate to hear that you crushed your three hundred dollar computer just because you weren’t watching where you step.

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What happens when you put Windows Vista on a Playstation 3? Just an assload of down time, that’s what. This video shows some schmuck successfully running the OS under emulation and requiring nearly 25 minutes to fully boot up.  It even takes twelve minutes to load up Notepad, which is an amazing feat considering how demanding the application is. This would be the equivalent of watching paint dry in Sony Playstation’s Home community.  It’s even worse than Linux for the PS3. Yuck!

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As many ways as technology has provided us to remember our anniversary, and as much as our lady friends might drop hints, we men always have a way to let the date slip our minds. Another stylish method could never hurt, especially one that goes to extreme measures such as the Hot Spot “Remember” Ring.

Described as “being hot enough to discomfort, but not enough to burn”, the Hot Spot ring uses a micro themopile to heat up to 120 degrees for exactly 10 seconds, 24 hours before your big day, literally searing the date into your memory. Let’s just hope you don’t forget to wear the ring as well. Available in sizes 10-13 for $760 (!) — Andrew Dobrow

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We’re not too sure that Lego Gandhi would approve of the use of Lego’s as a case mod for a PC, but what does he know? The guy is made of friggen Lego pieces. Whatever he might think, we certainly think the Lego PC case mod is one for the Gearfuse book of sick mods.

The Lego enclosure holds in a VIA Epia PD Mobo 1Ghz, Nvidia 6200 PCI Graphics, Laptop 80 Gig 7200Rpm Hdd, Laptop DVD, 1 GB Geil DDR memory, 200 watt PS, so it packs in some decent hardware. Hopefully the pieces don’t crumble like every Lego masterpiece I ever built. (more…)

Earlier today, Apple’s online store went up and down faster than Jenna Jameson, but even in that brief down time, rumors of updated MacBooks began to pour onto the internet. And here we are, announcing new specs. Goes to show that not every rumor is wrong or fake.

The standard new and improved MacBook now comes packed with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1 GB of memory, with larger hard disk space for all. The new MacBook is only an inch thick and features a much faster 802.11n wireless networking capability. — Andrew Dobrow

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With people these days worrying about how many calories they eat and how many they burn off, many of them need a way to count burned calories. That’s where the Accelerometer comes in. this is a gadget that will track the number of calories you burn after you simply punch in some numbers, namely your weight. It’s supposed to measure all of your movements, including their frequency, duration, and intensity, so it can figure out how many calories you burn in a day. It also can store up to 9 days of information, so you can check and see how you’ve improved. Now here’s where the rub comes in: this has a clip attached to it so you can hook it to your belt. What’s the problem with that, you might ask. Well, my arms and legs do a lot more moving during the day than my waist, so calculating the number of burned calories looks a little flawed. The other problem is that the LCD that displays your burned calories faces outward on your belt, and if you’re self-conscious, that might be a problem for you. For only $50, if you have that same New Year’s Resolution as the rest of the world (you know what it is) then maybe this wouldn’t be such a bad investment after all. — Nick Rice

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