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What You Missed Last Weekend

We had a super-duper weekend. If you missed it, stop crying like a sissy and check the roundup below: Apple set a two iPhone limit and stopped accepting iPhone cash purchases. The Palm Z Silverlit Mini RC flew into our lives. Leopards were seen marking their territory on PCs throughout the land. The iPumpkin was…

Motorboard 2000XR Electric Mini Scooter Will Let You Scoot Your Heart Out

The Motorboard 2000XR is to scooters what sex is to reproduction: the awesome bit that will make you accidentally do something you secretly do not want to, in this case, that would be commuting. The machine packs in twin motors with a two-hour charge time, tops out at 15 mph and weighs a portable 16.5…

Outdoor Monophonic Speaker System Goes Wire Free Wild

The summer may be dwindling, but are you going to let the elements dictate when you can take your tunes outdoors? No, you are not. Sharper Image’s Wireless Outdoor Monophonic One-Speaker System—besides having a ridiculously long name—is here to help. The stylish speaker will allow you to pump your beats, via the included 2.4GHz transmitter,…

Hitachi Mocks Your Manhood, Makes World’s Smallest RFID Chip

Hitachi has just rolled out a worryingly small RFID chip, measuring an impressively tiny 0.15 mm x 0.15 mm x 0.0075 mm. The chip packs in a 128-bit ROM, which is able to store a 38-digit number. Hitachi previously held the title for world’s smallest RFID, but the now second place tag was comparatively large…

Researchers Develop Technology to Make Terabyte Thumb Drives Possible

Boffins at Arizona University have developed a new process that will allow the production of low cost, energy efficient, high capacity memory. High capacity refers to the ability to construct an economically viable terabyte thumb drive. The new technique relies upon making changes to copper particles at the molecular level. The end result is a…

NEC’s SX-9 is the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

NEC has thrown down the world’s most powerful supercomputer, called the SX-9, which is intended for pioneering scientific research. The beast of a machine can pull out an astonishing 839 trillion floating point operations / second (839 teraflops). The computing giant will go on display in Reno, Nevada, later this month. Why Nevada? So it…

Toshiba’s sub-$200 HD DVD player, which we told you about earlier, is coming to Wal-Mart stores and other retailers soon. Indeed, some guys over at eProductWars forum claim the player has already been made available. [Ars Technica] https://gizmodo.com/rumor-198-toshiba-hd-dvd-player-coming-to-wal-mart-312462

Electric Paper Plane Launcher; Stocking Filler For the One You Love

Let us assume you have a girlfriend; what would you get her for Christmas? Imaginary problem solved; enter the Electric Paper Plane Launcher Educational Aid. The kit contains all the materials to construct a launch pad for paper planes, which will allow them to travel at speeds of 50km/h. Fifty freaking km/h! If that statistic…

Marantz CR201 CD Player is Better Than Your Offspring

The Marantz CR201 may not scream sexy by name, but by damn, it screams sexy by form factor. The standalone CD player may not tick the right boxes when it comes to functionality, but neither do your kids. The mirrored finish, blue LED-lit CD bay and USB connection for direct digital tune playing will allow…

If you fancy winning a Neuros OSD settop box plus NAS or a Nokia N95 smartphone, head over to Boing Boing and enter your ass in the Neuros/Nokia competition. [Boing Boing]

$3.4 Million In-house Cinema Wins HE’s Installation of the Year Award

A house in Austin, Texas has just been awarded with Home Entertainment’s “Installation of the Year” accolade, and we have no reason to disagree with the judgment. Check out the tantalizing gallery below: The flamboyant in-house cinema room boasts 24-karat gold gilding details, hand embroidered fabric seats and genuine antique candle holders throughout. That’s nothing…

Sprint Sprints to be the First to Agree to Phone Unlocking

Sprint has become the first American CDMA wireless company to begin unlocking their hardware once contracts have been honored. The move will allow other unlocked handsets to function on Sprint’s network, but whether the reverse will occur with the other carriers is yet to be seen. For ex-Sprint customers who are happy with their phones…

How Do Unboxing Posts Make You Feel?

We want to know if you guys really want to see us unbox the newest gadgets, or whether you would prefer it if we skipped to the chase and just gave you a review outright. Talk to us, let us know what you are thinking. Help us help you. For the sake of humanity/Jason’s pantsing…

T-Mobile Shadow Official Shots Show Two Suave Color Schemes

If you desperately wanted official shots of the T-Mobile Shadow, well, here they are. We have already given you the rundown on what the Windows Mobile smartphone will be toting, but to recap, the main goodies will be the two-letters-per-key SureType keyboard, 128MB on-board RAM and Wi-Fi connectivity. The pictures show two color schemes (jump…

Limited Edition White PlayStation 2 Bundle Dated for Nov. 4th

A limited edition SingStar PlayStation 2 bundle, which we told you about before, is set to hit the mainstream by November 4th. The pack will contain an exclusive ceramic white PlayStation 2 (previously a Japan exclusive model), the complete SingStar Pop game and two microphones. The package will retail at $149.99 and if you don’t…

AppleStore Erroneously Mentions 80GB, 160GB iPod Touch (The Teases)

First, calm yourselves. Second, if you follow the link you will notice an advertisement for an iPod touch sleeve. So, what’s interesting about that? Well, the features list includes this little nugget; “Custom fit for 80GB and 160GB iPod touch models.” It certainly seems feasible somewhere down the road, but we wouldn’t recommend getting too…

Sony Refreshes Cyber-shot T-series with 8MP DSC-T2

Sony’s Cyber-shot T-series has just seen a refresh in the form of the new DSC-T2. The 8MP eccentric colored dresser will have a 4GB internal storage capacity, Memory Stick Duo / PRO Duo card slot for memory expansion, 3 x optical zoom, Carl Zeiss lens, tasty 2.7″ 230k pixel LCD touchscreen and Sony’s Super Steady…

Samsung’s Unleashes World’s Densest Flash Memory

Samsung has just rolled out a 30nm 64Gb NAND flash memory chip, which happens to be the world’s densest. By packing together the maximum of 16 of the multi level cells, a memory card containing 128GB of storage space can conceivably be created. Samsung has managed this feat by developing a new process they are…

Hitachi’s Wooo UT Series are World’s Thinnest Production LCDs

Standing at 35mm thick, Hitachi’s Wooo UT series of LCDs earns them the accolade of world’s thinnest production LCD television manufacturer. Three sizes will be made available, either 42″ (¥430 000, $3,760) or 37″ (¥330 000, $2886) at 1080p and a smaller 32″ (¥230 000, $2011) model with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The Woo part…

What You Missed Last Weekend

If you missed the weekend blogging spectacular, here’s your chance to catch up: •Verizon dropped their UM150 USB modem. •Wisin & Yandel inspired Zune got us all hot and bothered. •Optimus Prime visited us from eBay. •Japanese designer, Aya Tsukioka showed off safety concept clothing. We laughed. •I got it wrong about the Zune 2,…