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Welcome to the first Signal Theorist Mixtape! Every once in a while I’ll compile a ‘mixtape’ of 10 MP3′s I find for free around the web. The aim is for all of the music to be legally downloadable. All of the MP3′s today are courtesy of XLR8R.com,  a great site to discover new music! You can listen to all 10 tracks here, download them individually, or download them all together as the first ST Mixtape at the bottom!

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Hi Reddit! – DigitalOSH

Earlier this weekend I picked up a Roomba, as my old vacuum cleaner bit the dust(ha!) after an altercation with a shoelace. Like any good geek, I immediately went online to see what kind of modifications I could make to this little beast. What I ended up finding out was that iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba, actually promotes and encourages hacking the devices, even offering the tools to do so. This made me wonder about the business sense behind it, and, in my eyes, it’s quite good. This is all I’ve been able to think of so far, please add if you think of anything else.

Pros:

• -Consumers end up designing functional modifications, which can be used in later versions of the device
• -Hacking voids your warranty, thereby reducing warranty claims
• -Revenue from sales of hacking tools/interfaces
• -Active community promotes the product

Cons:

• -Brand diluted by other items under Roomba name
• -Brand may get an image of being complicated

I’m sure I’m missing some obvious ones here, please comment. Now here’s something interesting:

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Last week I picked up the Casio EX-F1, a prosumer digital camera that also happens to shoot video at a max of 1200FPS. This is a first for easily-available cameras (I picked mine up at London Drugs), and definitely a first for it’s pricerange (it’ll set you back $999.90). I returned the camera, but before I did I shot a LOT of good video. You’ll be seeing more over the next few weeks. First video after the jump.

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