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Here’s something fun to start your weekend with.

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PlayStation 3 slim listing pops up on Amazon Germany

Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a new, more precise way of placing microelectrodes on the surface of the brain to enable patients to turn thoughts into action. Led by Bradley Greger, a professor of bioengineering, the “Brain Carpet” as it’s called, represents a “modest advance” in techniques already in use. The Brain Carpet makes use of smaller microelectrodes, and also employs many more than are usually used.

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Brain Carpet microelectrodes could help translate thoughts into actions more effectively

Yeah, we’re pretty much all peeved by Apple suddenly ejecting all traces of Google Voice from the app store , but now it looks to have drawn the ire of the Federal Communications Commission, as well. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal , the agency has sent out three letters, one each to Apple, AT&T, and Google.

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FCC now inquiring about AT&T’s involvement in Google Voice’s iPhone rejection

We’ll be straight with you: it was pretty much love at first sight for us and dinosaur bones, and while we’ve always harbored a secret desire to someday acquire a real T-Rex fossil for our private collection, the LEDSAUR is probably our best shot at anything even close to that. Besides taking on that famous shape we love, this carnivorous piece of lighting is pretty stylish, with each of its vertebrae represented with an LED. The lamp is made of stainless steel, it’s bendable, and it comes with a remote control.

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LEDSAUR Tyrannosaurus Rex desk lamp makes chewing through paperwork less monotonous

We understand that Sony has a long way to go in making up the losses it’s incurred by selling the PS3 at a loss — even if it was commanding the highest price in the industry the whole while — but if this latest word on manufacturing costs is correct, we’d say Sony has some room to get the console under that dastardly $400 mark.

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PS3 manufacturing costs down 70 percent? Strange, it doesn’t feel that way

Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday , where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema. On our last episode of Movie Gadget Friday, we rode around the robotics-dependent world of Runaway

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Movie Gadget Friday: Strange Days

Our Kindle contest that we’re running in cooperation with our good friends at Adafruit Industries and Amazon has drawn to an epic conclusion, and there’s simply no other way to put it — we’re blown away.

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Reminder: vote for your favorite Kindle design by Monday!

Micosoft’s announced some Windows 7 pricing today, starting with a “family pack” option, which will allow users to upgrade three PCs to the Home Premium edition of the operating system for $149. The upgrade from XP or Vista to Home Premium for individual users, as previously announced, is $119 . The company’s also announced the Microsoft Anytime Upgrade option, which will allow users to move from one version of Windows 7 to another for a discounted price.

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Microsoft announces pricing for Windows 7 family pack, upgrading

Over the years we’ve found that usually, when a company takes a model number and slaps an extra letter on the end of it, there’s some sort of feature or update they’re highlighting. iPhone 3GS

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Nokia 5800i XpressMusic hits the FCC: it’s like the 5800, only less so

John gushes over the Leman Russ Demolisher, Punisher and Executioner tank kit from Games Workshop

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Unboxing the Leman Russ Demolisher