Lego CD / DVD ripper lets you drop your physical media - literally (video)

If the only thing standing between you and a full abandonment of physical media is the tedious task of ripping all of your CDs and DVDs, boy have we got the Lego-based gadget for you. Paul Rea whipped up this little beauty - it's an Arduino-powered Lego arm that swings to pick up a disc, deposit it in the drive and then drop it (perhaps a bit too literally) into a finished pile.

Engadget, Lego CD / DVD ripper lets you drop your physical media - literally (video)

Meizu phones said to be receiving Ice Cream Sandwich

Meizu phones are always touted to be carrying the latest and fastest hardware by its creator's CEO - Jack Wong. And while we have yet to see the supposedly world's first quad-core phone, the Meizu MX, Jack Wong has already mentioned that that the MX and the already available M9 will both be getting an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. But seeing how the quad-core Meizu MX isn't even available right now, it would make more sense for the phone to ship with Ice Cream Sandwich from the get go.

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Google Street View Now Covers Parks

Google is taking Street View to the next level as it has announced that Street View now covers parks as well. This has been made possible by using Street View Trike bicycles equipped with cameras. These can go inside parks to snap images that a car never could take from the street. The Google team has gone to 22 countries to take pictures of great places, but you can bet that this will go on until every park in the world is in the database.



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Motorola Atrix 2 Easily Rooted with Existing Methods

Proud to call yourself an owner of the Motorola Atrix 2 on AT&T. Though the handset was just released last week, a root method is already in place. The method deployed is based around the procedure developed for the Motorola Droid Bionic and was compiled by user Jimmy273 over at XDA. The original method is credited to p3droid.

Android Phone, Motorola Atrix 2 Easily Rooted with Existing Methods

Mujjo conductive touchscreen glove

Winter time is coming upon those of us who happen to live in the northern hemisphere, and one of the major challenges of winter would be to keep yourselves warm from the bitter cold. I know that gloves are an essential item, but with the advent of touchscreen phones and other mobile devices, using those can be quite a pain – which is why Mujjo decided to come up with their very own conductive touchscreen glove that is said to work with your touchscreen devices without requiring you to remove your Mujjo gloves in the process, how neat is that.

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Insert Coin: BoardX is an open-source, modular motherboard for prolific prototypers

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. We're more than a little enamored with Arduino and its DIY microcontroller ilk. But we'll admit, there are a few limitations that the compulsive prototyper might find bothersome.



Engadget, Insert Coin: BoardX is an open-source, modular motherboard for prolific prototypers

Superfast broadband for 60% of UK customers by 2016

Point Topic publishes optimistic forecasts for superfast broadbandLeading broadband analyst firm, Point Topic, predicts there will be over 10.5 million superfast broadband lines in Britain within the next five years. With another 4.6 million cable broadband connections this means that almost 60% of broadband customers - and more than half of all homes and businesses - will be using superfast speeds of 30 megabits or more by the end of 2016."It's still a risky and controversial forecast," says Tim Johnson, Chief Analyst at Point Topic. "It is always difficult to predict something which is expected to grow so fast.

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