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autocamcorder

Roadscan Drive Recorder: Like a Black Box For Your Car

There are few things in this world that are more infuriating than getting into a car accident—but one of those things would definitely be getting into an accident where the blame is being disputed. For the innocent party, a Roadscan Drive Recorder could be indispensable. The device mounts easily on your windshield or rearview mirror, and will continuously record graphical 3D-G accelerations data. If you happen to get into an accident, it will save the digital video starting 14 seconds before the incident and 6 seconds after—so you would be armed with all of the data you need to dispute a ticket. Or totally incriminate yourself.

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4:00 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,961 views, 21 comments

Latest by takeshi: Umm, great. So this device is only useful for capturing when you have rear ended someone else?? How about collisions from other angles where someone else would be at fault? more »

mods

Black Box Case Mod Scoffs at Server Crashes

While most of us wonder why planes aren't built of the crash-proof "black box" flight recorder material, one modder has requisitioned a black box of his own to use as a PC case. While the package itself is quite large (and disappointingly red), the interior is so cramped that only a Mini-ITX motherboard could fit inside, running Slackware Linux on a 800MHz Via C3. But have you ever seen the inside of a black box before? More »

9:45 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Mark Wilson
8,053 views, 24 comments

Latest by Toshie: @DisposableInterloper: I really wasn't trying to be sarcastic, just funny. Obviously that worked out really great. (see, that last bit was sarcasm) more »

security

Personal Pocket Safe USB Drive So Secure It Has Its Own PIN Pad

There are plenty of secure USB drives, but the Personal Pocket Safe has to be the paranoid PC users' best friend. Its inventor CHDT Corp. calls it the first "encrypted, epoxy coated, pin-protected smart drive." It comes with the expected security features, such as military-grade encryption, safekeeping of passwords and other sensitive info and a track-covering feature that makes sure no one can trace its presence once it's removed from a system. To top it all off, though, the drive has its own rubber-key PIN-pad, so that you can key in your own 4-to-10 passcode. No passcode, and the thing goes into full lock down. More »

2:43 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Wilson Rothman
6,753 views, 27 comments

Latest by n/a: @all those who won't see the point of a keypad vs. typing your password via the computer's keyboard: ever heard of a keylogger? There's a whole site dedicated to rating key logging software: www.keylogger.org @a make a password-protected ZIP of the more »

life support

Telepresence Frame: A Black Box for Life Support Patients

Someone finally found a good use for a digital picture frame. The Telepresence Frame by Revital Cohen displays a live-feed of a patient's vital stats for his or her entire family to see. Cohen, an artist studying the increasing relationship between humans and machines, shows through the frame that a patient on life support is made up of more than flesh and bones, and has become one with the gadgets surrounding them. That's nice and all, but what happens when the life support ends is downright freaky.
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9:55 AM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Benny Goldman
2,066 views, 7 comments

Latest by Pender: Retarded and creepy. Like all similarly dumb ideas, this will be labeled Art and summarily ignored. more »

gadgets

Drive Recorder Is Honda's Car Black Box

Honda's Drive Recorder will detect impacts and save information for the 12 seconds before and 8 seconds afterwards, aircraft black-box-style: forward-view imagery, along with sound and data on speed and deceleration rates all get stored on an SD card in its main unit, ready to be uploaded to a PC. More »

6:30 AM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,920 views, 6 comments

could be a jinx

Clarion DriveEye Records Your Next Car Accident

The cops won't be the only ones with those wild car wreck videos any more, because now you can clamp this Clarion DriveEye recorder onto your car's windshield and record some really rad video as soon as you get into your next accident. But wait, who would buy this? Someone who's planning to have an accident later today? More »

9:33 AM on Wed Jul 25 2007
By Charlie White
4,130 views, 15 comments

gadgets

KangaRoom Power Strip Organizer Hides Your Shame

The area under our desk is a prime fire zone seeing since the wires and power strips are all tied in the biggest knot this side of Gordium. That's fine hidden under a desk, but awful in the living room or somewhere that actual people can see. Voila, the Black Box Cord organizer from KangaRooM. It's a plastic heat resistant acrylic box with sliding doors and five ventilation strips that goes over your power strip, both neatly arranging your plugs and suspending stuff like AC bricks and small routers so they don't get tangled up. More »

3:00 PM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Jason Chen
7,228 views, 8 comments

Latest by Gina Trapani: I think Lifehacker's got a new tagline!! more »

cellphones

BenQ-Siemens Black Box Concept Phone

Unlike previously mentioned, BenQ is still making phones in Asia, just no longer in the German market. This is one of the concept phones being worked on—the Black Box. No keypads, no buttons, just a big ass touchscreen. From the initial pictures it looks like the interface changes on the fly. I'm digging the black minimalist design overall. It will probably never see the light of day as an actual product, but it is still cool to look at, nonetheless. – Travis Hudson More »

3:07 PM on Fri Sep 29 2006
By Travis Hudson
9,812 views, 23 comments

Latest by rimplestultskin: one year later: iPhone (and iPod touch, not iWide or iPod AV, as some of us thought it would be) looks a lot like this. but i heard somewhere that BenQ lost the iPhone contract, so someone else (apple's more »