It’s designed to look like a Buddha, and is even tinted with 23-karat gold, and is going to cost $13,250 (or $43,000 if you want it for a pair). Looks extremely like an antique treasure right? But no, this Buddha statue will gladly play “Boom Boom Pow” when you held a crash party in your house, because it’s a speaker. But don’t expect sound quality like Bang & Olufsen though, despite the price tag.

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Here’s a rare example of “Boy who cries wolf”, but in a much bigger scale, and much more modernized. What is supposed to be a very ‘top secret’ number, only contactable from three specific phones, was messed up by a simple “software glitch” at AT&T, that caused little Hutchinson of Kansas to go berserk. Due to the “glitch”, a random number accidentally called the wrong number caused by misdialled from a local, which triggered the emergency line to activate a citywide tornado alarm. Well, all hell goes loss. Thankfully, nobody’s injured, and the system’s being restored. But nobody knows who the boy is.

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Talk about freedom of speech. The Saudi Arabians should be sulking by now. Blogging has been bombarded since few years ago, and now every Tom, Dick, Jane, Lee, Park, and Minami blogs about every ant they see and every bun that they ate. But things aren’t going to be great anymore for citizens of Saudi Arabia. Blogging is going to be like running a business, because you’ll need a license to blog. Ha! The announcement was made by Abdul Rahman Al-Hazaa on behalf of the Saudi Information and Culture Ministry. Read more…

The magnificent dragon is commonly used to give a sense of badass-ness, particularly in designs. Macho-ness and brute force. Think Yakuza. Those who like tattoos on their backs have a higher chance of dragons than any other designs, unless u digs Pikachu. No, Pikachu’s cool. But for those who don’t want to get inked, now there’s a case designed by AMD and iBuypower that feature a dragon. No the case does not spit fires. Read more…

The United Nations has appointed a Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth’s ‘spokesperson’ if we were to have our first contact for any aliens that may come for party.

Mazlan Othman is the head of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa). Perhaps she’s been playing Starcraft 2 too much that she speaks the language of Zeratul. She will be announcing her ‘doubtful’ role at next week’s scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire. Read more…

I’m not sure if wood is a great material to be used to make basin or bathtub. Using wood for something that’s exposed to water all the time doesn’t seemed very wise to me. But that doesn’t stop Ammonitum from making this stunning basin. Read more…

The iPhone 4 was launched during the weekend in Qatar and United Arab Emirates, but was surprisingly missing FaceTime. Phones sold at UAE carriers Etisalat and du, as well as Vodafone Qatar is missing the video calling feature. It was reportedly advertised on Middle Eastern versions of Apple’s iPhone website until around September 20th, when all references to FaceTime were removed. TUAW reports that some UAE denizens have actually tested FaceTime on phones bought abroad and found it working just fine, but that the functionality disappears after installing the local version of the iOS 4.1 update.

One important thing to note here is that UAE and Egypt have banned certain VoIP services in the past. So perhaps that could somehow explain why Apple pulled FaceTime out.

SOURCE via TUAW

Here’s Uchiha Sasuke. He’s got sharingan eyes actually, but well the quality of this figure is very obvious. Well what can you expect from something coming out of McDonald’s Happy Meal box?

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Dell’s Looking Glass Android tablet might not have much public view thanks to Michael Dell, but the good folks at Oracle managed to tape the short demo, even with a close-up shot. Thanks to them, we can now watch the giant glass thing in action, in a video. Read more…

Well this is not a shocker. The MacBook Air has been around for some time, and it’s about time the Air gets some shower. But shrinking it? Apple Insider cited a source in Taiwan that an 11.6-inch LED-backlit display will be heading into the long overdue update for the MacBook Air. The reason behind this move is that the shrinking plan comes in order to “better differentiate it from the MacBook Pro line which carries quite a huge similarity”. What’s more, DigiTimes also stated that Quanta have an order to build up to half a million 11.6-inch “MacBooks” for Apple in 2010. Well Apple, how about another update on this upcoming holiday eh?

SOURCE via gigaom