CrunchGear Week In Review: Indoor Games Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: Strange Video: Happinet Lets You Play Table Tennis Against Invisible Opponents Sweet DIY Book Light The Infinite Loop Tablet Holder: Actually A Cool Idea Day 1: My Week In The Nissan Leaf Weekend Giveaway: A Kobo eReader Touch (And Some Gift Cards)

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Ridiculously Expensive Table Tennis Is Probably Not Worth the Sum of Its Parts [Desired]

When artist Tom Burr set his sights on turning a ping pong table into a contemporary work of art, he didn't rely on the finest black marble, the rarest of dark woods, or even an exotic black metal alloy. More »

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Doxie Go Scans Direct to iPhone, iPad

The new Doxie Go is about as far from old, creaking desktop scanners as a modern digicam is from a Box Brownie. The self-contained scanner has its own memory and rechargeable battery, performs OCR on your documents and stores them ready to be synced later to a computer, the Internet (Evernote) or even your iPad [...]

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Watch Day Three Of The 2011 Web 2.0 Summit

We're at the Palace Hotel for day three of 2011 Web 2.0 Summit where we've spent three days exploring the weird wonderful world of the dataframe. In case you didn't get to be a part of the in-person action, you folks at home can follow along from the Livestream above, starting at 2pm PST. Today's speaker highlights include Google's Vic Gundotra, Facebook's Bret Taylor, August Capital's David Hornik, Quora's Charlie Cheever & Adam D'Angelo, Milk's Kevin Rose.

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Holy Mother of God the Canon 1D X Is Fast [Video]

We already know the Canon 1D X is going to be the most epic DSLR ever—and fast as hell. But reading that is nothing compared to seeing the machine gun continuous shooting mode in action. Pew. More »

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Windows 8 Explorer to feature Ribbon UI, SkyDrive and Mesh integration?

Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott have posted a second look at some of the early changes which have surface in Windows 8 milestone 3. First there was the restyled Welcome Screen, and now it appears that Microsoft is toying with bringing the Ribbon UI to Explorer.

The Ribbon, like in Microsoft Word and Excel, is context-aware, adding tabs for specific tasks which apply to the folder you're viewing -- such as library or picture management. You can also make out two new buttons in the status bar, which allow you to change the current folder's view style.

It's clear from all the placeholder images and repeated elements that this is very much a work in progress, but featuring the Ribbon more prominently in Windows 8 would certainly be a logical progression for Microsoft. It's slowly become more ubiquitous, moving beyond Office and into Wordpad, Paint, and several of the Windows Live Essentials applications.

There's more to the screenshots than the Ribbon UI, however. Our friend Long Zheng has noted two interesting elements in the images: Web sharing and sync (image after the break). That would likely mean users will be able to quickly upload files to SkyDrive and synchronize using Live Mesh right from Explorer in Windows 8. That's not a total surprise considering many of the earliest leaked images of Windows 8 showed Windows Live integration on the desktop.

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5 Essential Tablet PC Accessories

So now you’ve got your shiny new tablet PC, and it’s time to get it looking exactly how you want it! Download the apps you want to use, move all your music and movies onto it, and now take a look at some of the finest tablet PC Accessories on the market. Not sure where to begin? Here’s a rundown of what you might need. 1) Case Absolutely top of the purchase list comes the case, for the very good [...]

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