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Sound-Dampening Cardboard Wall Sculpture

MoCo Loco shows us the Wall Wave—a modular wall sculpture by Tung Chiang with sound-dampening qualities. You can flip the pieces vertically or horizontally to create new sculptures, but no matter the configuration, they’re going to look like Shredded Wheat. If nothing else, they give you a great opportunity to use the word “anechoic” when…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 26

T-Mobile Personal Coverage Check

For several years, my neighborhood was in the middle of a cellular black hole. In fact, up until a few short months ago, most cell services failed to get a reliable signal in our basic vicinity. This infuriated me, as I stared nonplussed at the pink cloud that blanketed my part of Arizona on T-Mobile’s…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 26

RadTech BT510 Bluetooth Mouse

Some people don’t like flare on their desktop. “Why,” they ask, “should my mouse upstage my buzzing personality and God-given charisma?” Well, RadTech’s plain white or plain black BT510 Bluetooth Mouse may be the answer for them. Actually, what the BT510 lacks in style, it makes up for as a travel mouse with some of…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 26

Griffin Ships AirClickUSB Remote

Griffin has begun shipping their AirClickUSB remote control. Plug it into your PC or Mac, and for $40, you can control iTunes, WMP, PowerPoint, Quicktime and (eventually) more. Obviously made to fit in with the rest of your Apple-white components, the AirClick provides a convenient little RF-based basic wireless controller. Griffin sells the AirClick in…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 26

Anemone Feisty Alarm Clock

Aaron Tang delivers quite the feisty alarm clock with his Anemone Clock. The Anemone awakens a person using a combination of movement, sound, light and interaction. Somewhat similar to the Clocky rolling alarm clock we covered last month, the Anemone takes things a step further, requiring you to physically wrestle it to the ground and…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 25

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Tech News Cardinal Apr 22

Inhaled Insulin Within A Year

Perhaps clashing with our apparently unabashed anti-LIFE sentiment, we present to you word of an inhaled form of insulin, due out within a year. The device would work by using dry powder insulin from a blister pack, released using an inhaler. The inhaled form offers a short-acting insulin boost but could easily reduce the number…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 22

Flickr Speak And Say

While in Taiwan earlier this month, my father tried in vain to explain in pantomime that he wanted whatever available tea might help with his kidney stones. I pulled up AltaVista’s Babelfish on my cell phone and had it translate “kidney” into Chinese characters. The young Taiwanese teen sold us what appeared to be a…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 22

Suspended Animation Induced in Mice

Scientists in Seattle have used oxygen deprivation to induce hibernation (read: suspended animation) in mice. Marking the first time hibernation has been induced in a mammal, the process transformed the mouse from a warm-blooded creature to a cold-blooded one, lacking respiration and a heartbeat entirely. The hibernation is brought on by low dosages of hydrogen…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 22

Simplified Internet Appliances

Giovanni Cannata’s Light Appliances concept is an unique attempt to bring internet services to those who lack a computer and the desire to own one. The system is built on a series of information appliances, each dedicated to a particular function. (Email, phone calls, radio, etc.) Using a one-button remote control called the “dropper”, you…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 22

Google Maps On TiVo

Arthur A. van Hoff (of Strangeberry fame) has gone and released an HME program that allows you to access Google Maps on your TiVo. Almost as exciting as Google Local on your cell phone, it includes the ability to drag and zoom, and displays both the normal map and satellite views. The Home Media Engine…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 22

UPC Bullet Tagging?

Bob Schreib Jr. makes an interesting case for the inclusion of UPC codes on individual bullets at Nanodot. Let’s use Nanotechnology techniques from the microchip industry to etch microscopic UPCs onto tiny sections or micro-rods of ceramic or stainless steel, and install them inside of ALL newly-manufactured bullets. Bob’s idea (Bob is director of product…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 22

Bose Makes QuietComfort2 For Cell Phones

Bose has modified their QuietComfort 2 headphones (whose review we mentioned here) to support select Motorola cell phones. Phones supported in the package include the MPx220, the E1000 and others. A key feature in the new QuietComfort2 headphones is the inclusion of a built-in microphone and answer/end buttons set in the cable, allowing you to…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 22

Pizza Cutters as Art

I absolutely love Frankie Flood’s pizza cutters. There’s something special about a common household tool that’s been over-designed and over-engineered, yet maintains ease-of-use in its singular purpose. (Can you tell I was an art major for a semester?) His designs range from the Leatherman-like Easy Rider (2001) to the colloquial Phatboy (2003) and tend to…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 21

A/C Powered By Car Exhaust?

Luke Zoontjens from the University of Adelaide in Australia has announced his intent to transform car exhaust into a viable air conditioning system. Capturing the heat from the mufflers will allow him to create high-amplitude sound waves, The waves resonate inside sealed metal tubes to form cold spots. Blow air over the spots and embrace…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 21

Shower Podcasts

MAKE points us to a nice little step-by-step piece on creating your own Podcast Shower Radio, so to speak. It’s really just as simple as using an existing shower radio in conjunction with an FM transmitter hooked into your music player, but some people can’t figure this sort of thing out on their own. Its…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 21

IBM ThinkPad T43 Reviewed (Verdict: Solid)

PC Magazine reviews the IBM ThinkPad T43 and is overall quite pleased, offering it the coveted “4.5 dots” rating. Based on a 1.86 GHz Pentium M and sporting a 60GB hard drive (contrary to PC Magazine’s spec sheet), the T43 also includes an integrated fingerprint reader. The reader is tied into a chip on the…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 21

Star Wars-branded Alienware PCs

Alienware has created a Star Wars-branded desktop system. The special Aurora models are available in complimentary Dark Side and Rebel Alliance flavors, though I think it would be cool if they combined both onto one system, each side struggling for control over your impressionable, Jediesque computer. The systems come equipped with the AMD Athlon 64…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 21

Sunbeam 20-in-1 Front Panel Reviewed (Verdict: Excellent)

With absolutely no need for a fan controller, memory card readers, SATA ports or at least 6 of its other features, I’m still tempted to pick up a Sunbeam Superior Panel. This 20-in-1 front panel for your PC or Mac includes readers for nearly every type of memory card, (including active transfer from card to…

Tech News Cardinal Apr 21

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