WANT: This Twinkling Stars Skirt is GORGEOUS!

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Thinkgeek has just released this GORGEOUS twinkling stars skirt, and while I wouldn’t wear one myself, it would be a perfect gift for my girlfriend!

We guarantee this skirt will put a twinkle in your step. Equipped with over 250 tiny LEDs, this midi-length skirt flatters many body types. You can set the lights to off (or wear it without the battery pack), and you’ll have a stellar ombre skirt featuring an actual star chart sure to spark conversation. But the real magic happens when you set the lights to On or Twinkle. Over 45 feet of LED wire lights sparkle inside the layers, looking like little fairy lights shining through the fabric.

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[Twinkling Stars Skirt]


Climball is a Game of Augmented Pinball Mixed with Wall Climbing [Video]

Augmented Climbing is a Finland-based company that mixes the sport of climbing with projected graphics and proprietary body tracking to create interactive games and training applications. In the video above, you can see two people playing a game of Climball, an augmented version of pinball that you have to play on a climbing wall!

[Augmented Climbing | Via Technabob]

Opera Gets Built-In VPN

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The latest public edition of Opera includes a free one-click VPN. It offers both privacy and an attempt to get around region-blocking websites.

The VPN has previously been trialed in developer editions of Opera but is now available to all users. It needs to initially be enabled from the settings menu (under privacy and security) but can then be switched on and off with a button in the address bar. By my testing at least, using the VPN doesn’t appear to slow down your connection, though some reports say page load time increases.

By default the VPN switches to the fastest available server but there’s also an option to select from five countries (Canada, Germany, Netherland, Singapore and US.) It certainly appears to be working in terms of showing the desired location and allows playback on many normally blocked sites. However, it isn’t enough to overcome Netflix’s detection of proxy servers.

Although Opera is ultimately owned by a Chinese company, it insists the VPN is truly private. It says the browser itself remains under Norway’s privacy law while the VPN is operated by a company called SurfEasy under Canadian laws. It insists it does not log any of the activity under the VPN and thus has no data to collect or to hand over to officials.

The updated browser also includes support for Chromecast, a battery saving mode that triggers automatically when a laptop is unplugged, and support for RSS in a newsreader feature.

NOW AVAILABLE: Nintendo Pokémon GO Plus Accessory

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A lot of you guys were waiting for the little gadget to come out, and starting yesterday, the device is now available for purchase online! The gadget has many cool features, including many that it was not even supposed to have: Distance tracking for eggs and buddy Pokémon, even when you are not looking at your phone, and a one-click capture button on the device.

[Nintendo Pokémon GO Plus Accessory]

eBay: The Unofficial Home of The Evil Genius

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I am gonna be honest. I don’t even feel bad for this person. Quite the other extreme, actually. I think if you are desperate enough to conform with new tech the minute it comes out, yet want to skimp or get a deal, you deserve crap like this for trying to cut corners. It is eBay after all. You know the risks, yet choose to play anyway. This is what you get.

Honestly, whoever pulled this off is an evil genius and we should probably bow down before him or her now so they go easy on us when they inevitably take over the world.

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SanDisk Unveils GIGANTIC 1 Terabyte SDXC Memory Card

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The folks at Sandisk have just unveiled a new 1 terabyte SDXC Memory Card SDXC at the Photokina 2016 photography show earlier today in Cologne, Germany. With that kind of card, you should never run out of space anymore for your photos or videos, or at least, not for a long time.

As far as the cost goes, the price has not been revealed, but considering that the company’s 512GB SDXC currently goes for around $350 on Amazon, we can expect the 1TB version to be priced at least twice as much when it comes out. It’s only a prototype for now after all, so don’t expect to get one under the Christmas tree this year.

[Via Gizmodo]