JVC's got not one but two new shelf systems out, and each features not one but two iPod docks. That's one to play The Wizard of Oz, and one to play The Dark Side of the Moon.

The JVC NX-D2 is a 230-watt system that has a three-way speaker design and the ability to charge and play your two iPods simultaneously. It's also got a USB Host, AM/FM tuner, and CD player, the last of which seems particularly redundant. Its wimpier 60-watt cousin, the UX-F3, has a pair of two-way speakers and is other wise similar to the NX-D2. The former will be available this month for about $400, while the latter hits stores in May for about $200. That is, unless you find a double coupon. [Far East Gizmos via Uber Gizmo]

Stop motion? Slow motion? I would call this morph motion. Or weird motion. Whatever it is, the results are strangely beautiful and eerie. [Likecool]

Most thermostats let you make your house warmer or cooler. The fancier ones let you program it for various times during the day. But the Silverpac takes things to a whole new level.

The touchscreen thermostat not only lets you program a 7-day cycle of temperatures, but it also manages all of the electricity use in your home. If a certain appliance is being an energy hog, it'll tell you. It also does fancy stuff like show you the weather, but the real goodies are the energy conservation tools. [SilverPac via DesignBoom]

Reverend Canon David Parrott, of the St Lawrence Jewry Church in London, blesses his parishioners' gadgets for Plough Monday, an English holiday celebrating the new agricultural year. Smartphones are the new mules. Think about it. [via Metafilter—Thanks, Arianna!]

What she did is wrong, but I have to admit—I like (and am a little turned on by) Carolyn Paulsen-Riat's style. When her husband decided to leave her, she got creative with her plot for revenge.

What she did was reverse the wires on his 220-volt table saw—delivering a shock that knocked him to the ground. He didn't suffer any lasting effects from the shock, but Carolyn was booked for investigation of third-degree assault, domestic violence, and second-degree malicious mischief. She was later released by judge let her go on her own recognizance. [Olympian via Access Atlanta via Fark]

Last week you were crying out for more ideas from Haier's wall o' ideas, so I swung by there on the last day of the show to see if there were any more hare-brained suggestions. I was in luck!

Of course, I'm willing to bet some of these ideas are taking the piss, but if at least one of them is actually serious, humanity is even more doomed than I once thought. Check out the first batch of ideas over here, if you missed them.

Is this guy for realzies?

Until Star Wars comes out on Blu-ray, I really don't see the point.

The answer is: don't buy a 3DTV.

Designers can have senses of humor, too.

I'd say judging by the smell of some CES-goers, they didn't even bother with a catheter.

Spamming goes back to the pen and paper days.

Did anyone see a Dolby marketing guy lurking around Haier's stand last week?

While phones don't often fold, I'm pretty sure you can watch TV on them and they fit in pockets.

Dear god, please—no more!

It's such a simple idea, why didn't Apple think of it before?

Australians say the darndest things.

Has this guy never seen an iPod Touch, Zune or Creative Zen in his life?

I'll leave you with the CES equivalent of your mother's calendar. Enjoy.

Google has announced a rather bold move today: It will no longer censor search results on Google.cn, the Chinese version of the search engine. Apparently they will maintain this stance, even if it ends in shutting down Google.cn.

According to a post on the Official Google Blog:

We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

Google explains that part of the motivation behind this action are the recent cyber attacks on Google as well as "at least twenty other large companies" over the course of the last month:

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered—combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web—have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China

While it remains to be seen how the Chinese government reacts to this move, I couldn't be prouder of Google for making it. I hope that other major Internet properties follow suit and that perhaps we'll see an end of national filters and censorship one of these days. [Google Blog via Guardian]

This is what $170 will get you: One small black box that clones 2.5 and 3.5-inch SATA I and II drives at 72MB/sec, inner peace, and multiple digital lives. Thanks, you Aleratec HDD Copy Cruiser Mini you. [Aleratec via Slashgear]

In a brief post this morning reminding readers that cellular carriers do not necessarily get sneak peeks of Apple's top-secret products, Daring Fireball's John Gruber said that his (often reliable) sources suggest that Apple's tablet will not have any camera.

Gruber, who has an imperfect but pretty solid track record on these matters, suggests that the Apple's tablet will not be any sort of videophone game changer, as has been widely speculated. In fact, he hears it won't have a camera at all:

And, for what it's worth, I'm hearing there is no camera, webcam or otherwise, on The Tablet.

So if you were looking forward to revolutionizing the way you interacted with your friends and family across the globe by holding this thing in front of your face all summer long, you might be disappointed. [Daring Fireball]

Way to go, semiconductor suppliers. Thanks to you, we're all going to be paying more for our PCs going forward. Possibly a lot more.

The main culprits are D-Ram memory chips, which have seen a 23% price increase this year and make up 10% of a computer's cost. The move from DDR2 to DDR3 is primarily what's wreaking havoc. Memory's not alone, though: while the overall cost of semiconductor components has declined by an average of 7.8% per year since 2000, the Financial Times reports that this year Gartner analysts expect them to go up 2.3%. LCD panels are also tapped for a 20% cost increase.

It remains to be seen how much of the cost is going to be passed along to consumers, but there's no way that the component prices can increase this much and the end product can keep getting cheaper. It was a good ride while it lasted, but it's almost time to pay the PC piper. [FT via Ars Technica]

Yes indeed, you can play Starcraft (Stratagus) on the Nokia N900. And it looks a little easier to handle than Duke Nukem 3D.

This seems pretty out-there, but an Android Guys tipster reports that Sprint and Walmart are working together to build Sprint's WiMax network. Sprint's been rolling out 4G slowly but surely, but this partnership would mean especially thorough coverage. [Android Guys]

If you were ever curious to know how fast our lives are becoming saturated with digital technology, get a load of this graph. In 2004 we were in the kiddie pool and by 2007 we were drowning.

Citing the Census Bureau's recent Statistical Abstract of the United States, Fast Company notes that an estimated 110 billion text messages were sent on cellphones in December 2008—more than double the previous year. Retail sales also soared from $24 billion when the decade began to $128 billion in 2007.

So where are we now? It's probably safe to assume that the Cracken has dragged our lifeless corpse to Davy Jones' locker. [Fast Company]

This motorized marble maze game replaces the usual steel ball with an M&M. It's joystick controlled, and it reminds me of rats in mazes looking for cheese. But in reverse. [Project240 via Make]

Well, technically the G4s were already dead, but Justin Adler certainly did not let them go to waste. Using guts from the old computers along with an ATI graphics card, he managed to create a very nerd-friendly piece of furniture.

[Justin Adler]

What the hell happened here? Needless to say, it took a pretty violent incident to do this kind of damage.

Speaking about his friend's PS3, our tipster writes:

He had his PS3 plugged into an electrical source although it wasn't running any games at the time of this. He plugged in his Psyclone HDMI cable from his Samsung 32-inch flatpanel tv to the PS3 when the sparks started flying. A flame actually shot up out of the PS3, and sparks were firing out of both ends where the HDMI cable met with the ports. The mess ended in 10 seconds when the cord melted off. Pictures included. We cannot figure out why/how this occurred. No breakers were tripped, no damage or discoloration to any wall outlets or other power sources. Only the HDMI ports.

We've seen our fair share of flaming laptops, cellphones and iPods—but this is the first time I have come across an HDMI fire. Unless there were fireworks strapped to the cable, this one is a mystery. [Thanks Chris!]

There was a time when a Nokia phone was all I wanted. Those days are gone. This haunting piano composition, based on their hallmark ringtone, written by classicalist Marc-André Hamelin, reminds me of times when Nokia was state-of-the-art.

Marc will be speaking at The EG, which I'm super excited to go to. [Youtube via The-EG]

Bing, Microsoft's dedicated web searcher, must be deleted from the iTunes App Store at once. Why? Its image browsing mode can be set to watch hardcore porn. If Apple wants to follow their own absurd rules, Bing must be obliterated.

Seriously, why is Bing still in the Apple store? Its image search engine is perfect to browse porn. Just go into preferences, turn off the adult content filter—one click—and boom, instant hardcore porn browser. And a very sleek one at that, too.

Would Apple delete Bing, which does what ForChan does but much easier and with much more explicit and unlimited results? My guess is that they won't, because Microsoft is Microsoft, not a no-name app developer.

They should, however, just to be consistent with their stupid "no-porn" policy. And if we are at it, let's delete the Camera and Photo album app too, because I can use them to take photos of my naked fiancee. Let's delete any app that can be used to record and transmit porn images online. Let's ban the sale of iPhones and MacBooks too.

Or maybe they should do the right thing, because all of this is just stupid: Stop censoring, let people decide what to do with their gadgets and software. At least when it comes to the content that we decide to store or access through our cellphones or computers.

It's a well known fact that Safari's CSS engine runs on rainbows, unicorns, and sugar, or that Internet Explorer 7 HTML renderer uses copious amount of babies' blood. However, very few people know that Chrome runs on goats.

Exactly, 12,000 goats are teleported every second after a fresh reboot. TWELVE THOUSAND GOATS, people. That's a lot of greek yogurt. Like, at least five thousand yogurts per second. Or ten. I'm not sure. Depends on the goat being african or european. Or if they are about to be roasted. So leave those poor goats, alone, Google, they have enough problems on their own.

I once had to wait an extra four weeks for a couch. I was furious. All I can say is that I'm glad I'm not this dude on the Best Buy repair forums trying to get his TV fixed.

Just in case this post "mysteriously" disappears from the Best Buy site, here is the full story. We hope Best Buy can help get this guy taken care of:

It seems to take along time to get Best Buy to repair a tv!!!

I placed my first call back at the end of november. Complaint was green bloches and a green line in the middle of the screen. First date available is a week later. Before they get here the tv does snap crackle pop, smoke comes out the back and then no picture. Called BB and they say no problem, the tech has to see it anyway.

Tech looks at it and say he needs to order some parts. Writes down the serial number, model number and says will call after he knows parts have been delivered. One box with one part and second box will have three parts.

Week later a different tech calls to say he is coming and I tell him only one box is here. He says it shows both boxes have been delivered. Shows up and of course doesn't have needed parts. Says he will reorder. Writes down serial number and model number again. Another week later the tech arrives and opens the boxes. Wrong parts!! Writes down the serial number and model number again to reorder parts.

Another week later.....again......arrives and opens the boxes. Surprise....wrong parts.....again. Tech tries to solder part onto old board to get tv working. After about 2 hours says he can't fix the tv, will have to order parts. Writes down the serial number and model number....again. Say he will call me to confirm he ordered parts. Never received phone call.

I call the following week to check up on parts order only to find out no parts have been ordered. No reason why or when they will order parts. Geeks says they are having problem ordering parts. I ask how long they have had the problem. Two days he tells me. I tell him that parts were suppose to be ordered before then. He then tells me it has been longer than two days. I'm starting to get the feeling I'm running in circles.

Tech says he will order 6 parts and install them all in a effort to keep from coming back out again if there are still problems. They tell me they will contact and the tech and make sure someone calls me when the parts are ordered. No phone call...again.

Call back next week to find out when they are ordering parts. I was told they were ordered and delivered to my house already. Strange, I don't have any parts here. Geek says maybe the tech has them. I ask if we could actually confirm that or if he was just guessing. He says to call back tomorrow. Parts show up a couple days later.

Tech comes out to install the parts. Install two out of six parts and tells me it's fixed. Well......I can at least see the picture again. Remind tech that the original problem was never looked at because the tv blew before a tech arrived. He assures me this will fix that problem too. Told the tech it needs to run about a half hour before the green lines and blobs show up. I'm told to call back if there are any more problems.

I'm handed something like a ticket that says they have already spent over $1500.00 to try and fix this tv. It originally cost me $3000.00. What a surprise, half hour later the green blob is showing back up. I call BB and ask them to get the tech back. I am told he is now to far away. Have to schedule another day. I ask them to make sure the tech does not return the new parts he did not install. Was told they can always reorder them!!

So far it has been about six weeks of a dead tv. Then 30 mins of watching the tv to see the same problem I originally called about show up. Now I will sit home again and wait. Let them try and fix the problem. This is getting crazy!!!! How many times am I suppose to sit around and wait for people to come to try and fix this?? My time is actually worth something too. Even if no one else thinks so.

If the couch had me furious, this situation would have me on the verge of Geek Squad genocide. [Best Buy via Consumerist]