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By Ryan Block

What, listening to that those two namedropping Le Tigre and LCD Soundsystem tracks wasn’t enough of a lesson to get you started on your road to proper hipsterdom? Well, if you want to kill two birds with one stone, just hook up the Hipster iPod, a 60GB iPod that comes pre-loaded for $900 with 900 properly music-snobbish albums, including but not limited to The Shaggs, Can, T-Rex, The Modern Lovers, the No New York comp, Gang of Four, The Pop Group, Throbbing Gristle, The Homosexuals, The Fall, and many, many more. Now all you have to do live in Williamsburg and you’re totally set to kick out the mad jams. And yes, we know this is a joke. Or if not that, still highly, indubitably illegal at best.

P.S. - No comments about us living in Williamsburg, please.

[Via TUAW]

In a sudden belated rush to cash in on the Harry Potter craze, the estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming has commissioned a series of young adult novels starring a teenaged Bond during his days at the exclusive Brit private school, Eton. One novel, SilverFin, has already been released in the U.K. and was apparently well-received from a sales standpoint (if not by the Bond geeks). (A U.S. release is scheduled for May, 2005.)

[Via carbongeek]

Instead
of each device needing its own charger, it may soon be possible to
recharge phones and cameras by placing them on a plastic pad the size
of a mouse mat. A dense array of coils buried in the pad will transmit
energy to the gadget to charge its batteries. And it will be possible
to charge as many gadgets as can fit on the pad at once, the inventors
say.

[Via sensoryimpact]