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If you've ever wanted to look really, really close at your gums on television, then you might have a bit too much time on your hands. Fortunately, you can satisfy your strange videoral desires with the Miharu Intraoral Camera. The funky, toothbrush-shaped Japanese camera plugs into your television to pipe live footage of your teeth, gums, tongue, or any other body part you'd like to see close-up. For your reading pleasure, we've left out the sample pictures shown on the camera's site.

This isn't the first time we've looked at a gadget that gets … Read more

Have you ever produced a video without adding captions simply because you didn't want to bother using your video editor's clunky, built-in captioning tools? Better yet, want to add captions to someone else's video? Check out Overstream, a service that lets you add text captions to videos from a handful of hosting sites including the big two: YouTube and Google Video.

Diving right in to captioning a video is simple. Once you've given Overstream the URL, it sends you to the Flash-based editor, which at first glance may look complicated, but is about as simple as … Read more

Move over Rudolph. Santa will likely get more help guiding his sleigh tonight from Mars than from your red nose.

The red planet will be about as close and as bright to Earth as it ever gets, which means it will be brighter than the brightest star in the sky.

Read the full story at ABC News. "Red planet outshines red nose"

Forget Black Friday. For the best deals on gadgets and PCs this holiday season, look no further than your neighborhood CompUSA.

The embattled electronics retail chain was dealt its final blow Friday when it was sold to Specialty Equity, an affiliate of private equity firm Gordon Brothers Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the immediate result is that Specialty Equity will close all 103 CompUSA stores in the United States, according to a press release issued late Friday.

Gordon Brothers will "initiate an orderly wind-down" of each of the stores, the company says. That's … Read more

Just like in the movies, they attack when you least expect it. It had been months since we'd encountered any spherical alien vehicles, but they're back--disguised a harmless air filter.

The "Antibac2K" claims to be a lightweight air-cleaning device that eliminates 99.99 percent of bacteria and other contaminants. That's a whole 0.02 percentage points more than other air filters, and we germaphobes all know how important that difference is.

But benefits aside, this circular menace is betrayed by its LEDs, which we all know the classic alien calling cards. We hope only that … Read more

Admit it: At one time or another, you've tested your breath to see if it's lethal (and if you haven't, maybe you should). But the traditional unassisted olfactory methods--hand cupped over mouth and nose, etc.--are questionable at best.

"Breath Alert" to the rescue. When you're all out of gum or Binaca, this erstwhile gag gift could suddenly become as serious as a meatball sandwich with extra onions.

The device, which Coolest-Gadgets says "measures the volatile sulfide compounds and hydrocarbon gas that are present when breath is bad," assesses the grade of … Read more

While so many other computer companies are trying to hide their CPUs, a handful of brave mavericks are actually trying to draw more attention to them. But that doesn't mean they're building the standard and deadly boring old gray boxes.

Directron, for example, is selling one that looks more like a rubber ball than a PC--hence its name, the "Ball PC System." Not much is offered in the way of specs, pricing or availability, but SCI FI Tech says the shiny sphere splits open, spaceship-style, to reveal a 40GB hard drive between its hemispheres.

That means … Read more