Hottest Weekly News, Brightest Gadget Views - May 23

Here is the list of this week’s hot news. All the news are sorted out to provide you with the latest reviews on striking up-to-date hot issues of gadget world from world’s famous sites. Keep yourself informed and enjoy these speedlinks:

One crazy laptop, now available on eBay

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a Xentex dual 13.3-inch screen laptop. Yes, dual screens. They’re side by side and can be rotated or folded down independently for some crazy reason. And now it can be yours on eBay!

Digifire, clean-burning fireplaces for the 22nd century

Okay, fellow firebugs, here’s the epitome of fireplace tech. Digifire uses continuously-fed ethanol for a clean-burning fireplace, and these babies are so steeped in forward design, they could be right at home on the set of a science fiction movie.

Sarotech’s Wizplatz W-31 looks like a book, isn’t it?

If you felt like your Western Digital My Book hard drive went too far — or didn’t go too far enough — in looking like an actual tome, Sarotech is here to turn it up a notch.

OLPC XO officially gets Windows XP, children of the world to be assimilated

It’s been a controversial decision, but it looks like the OLPC XO has completed its transition from revolutionary education project to just another tiny Windows laptop with a useless keyboard — albeit one with a pleasantly whimsical design.

Samsung’s 82-inch QuadHD LCD: Now with 120Hz

Samsung’s stream of 82-inch monsters packing the company’s latest technology continues unabated, this time a minor update to the QuadHD behemoth we saw at CES brings so-outdated 120Hz motion processing and LED backlighting to keep blur and judder far, far away.

Giant wooden sphere speakers are surreal, vaguely naughty

After a hard day causing problems with his Myst books, Atrus likes to relax with Sound e-Motion’s M100-20 BF, a set of giant wooden balls with speakers in them. The curious design is claimed to “minimize baffle distortions” and offer uniform “polar sound distribution,” but it’s the looks that people will love.

GRADED: The Worst ‘10 Worst Consoles’ List of All Time

We wish we could have left it well enough alone. Certainly, in the Journalistic Special Olympics of blogging, criticizing another web writer’s wordsmithing is a slippery slope ending in a pit full of our own weasel words, forced metaphors, slapdash punctuation and dangling participles.

5 Gadgets That Will Make You a Super Hero

You, too, can be a Lycra-clad superhero — all you need is a grappling hook, a jetpack and three other real-world gadgets you can buy today. Your shopping list starts right here, in Gadget Lab.

Sex Drive: Social Media Eat Porn’s Lunch (Again)

Newsweek sparked a conflagration among conservative Christians last week by pointing out that Christian dating site BigChurch.com is owned by Penthouse Media Group.

101 fantastic freebies

Whether you’re partial to online services or to downloadable software, we have the Web’s best free stuff and it’ll keep you productive, secure and entertained.

Introducing Flame, world’s most advanced walking robot

“Flame” from Dutch PhD student Daan Hobbelen might just look like A.N. Other humanoid, but it’s so not.

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