Jason Chen

Darth Vader Alarm Clock

More than a few lucky women have gotten to wake up to James Earl Jones’ smooth visage in the morning, but with this Darth Vader projection alarm clock, you can join that exclusive club without sacrificing your dignity (or your back—the man’s quite heavy). It projects the current time (not just 12:56) up onto the…

Chinese Build Piano, Violin Shaped Buildings to Stereotypical Chinese Kids’ Horror

There’s not much detail on why this Huainan building was built in the shape of a violin and a piano, but our guess is it’s to shame every little Chinese kid into taking up the two stereotypical instruments they play: the piano and the violin. Of course, their instruments aren’t made of glass and aren’t…

Hot Tub With 61-inch HDTV Built In

If we’re ever rich enough to afford this hot tub/spa with a 61-inch HDTV built in, we can officially hang up our keyboards and retire from this blogging game. This spa from Catalina Spas seats four, has an extremely obscene amount of jets, and will instantly kill you in a few years when the wiring…

WiiMote Lightsaber Game Finally Here

There’s going to be something else you’ll get besides slightly lousier graphics when you purchase Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on the Wii instead of Xbox 360 or PS3: a lightsaber mode. LucasArts developers just announced that they’re adding a Duel Mode into the game, which lets WiiMote users use their sword just as Miyamoto…

Cobra XRS R9G GPS-Enabled Radar Detector Available Now

The Cobra XRS R9G GPS Radar detector we first saw in January is available now. Why would you want a GPS-enabled radar connector? Besides beeping when you go too fast, it also has an index of police red light cameras and speed traps. [PRNewswire] https://gizmodo.com/cobra-xrs-r9g-gps-radar-detector-fights-the-man-by-dod-223452

Microsoft Blue Monster Wine Reminds Us of BSOD

Microsoft’s Blue Monster Reserve label is a wine expressly made for their employees and potential clients, allowing them to get hammered, but in a Microsoft way. We’re not sure how getting drunk off our balls promotes innovation, which is their goal, but maybe we just weren’t drunk enough. Microsoft drunk, if you will. How else…

Google adds a PowerPoint clone called Presentation to its stable of online Word and Excel clones. Whether an online-only, browser-based presentation suite will be nearly as powerful as a native application is yet to be seen, but our guess is no. [Google]

Sprint and Microsoft Debut Location-Aware Local Search

We already know how great Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Live Search was, but combining with Sprint and adding location-aware searches? That’s fantastic. The GPS location-aware that’s going to automatically figure out what city you mean when you’re searching for “Sushi Restaurants” isn’t actual GPS—it’s cellphone tower-based triangulation—but that’s more than enough to figure out what city…

Belkin TuneBase FM Finds the Best FM Frequency

Compatible with pretty much every Apple player except for the iPhone, this Belkin TuneBase FM has ClearScan technology, which searches all FM stations and finds the least-used one for you to broadcast your tunes on. It’s $89, has a docking station, and plugs neatly into your car’s cigarette adapter. Of course, even with the cleanest…

Verizon somehow conned 3 million people into buying their LG Chocolate phones. Weird. [i4u]

Dietrich of Gizmondo Ferrari Crash Fame Sentenced to 30 Days

Trevor Michael Karney, or the make-believe Dietrich of Gizmondo fame, has just been sentenced to 30 days in prison plus 3 years probation for giving false information to the popos. Bo Stefan Eriksson, the other man in the car at the time of the 162mph Ferrari Enzo crash, is still serving his 3-year prison sentence—undoubtedly…

Disappearing $100 iPhone Store Credit: The Solution

Click to viewPutting aside any complaints about whether or not Apple should have given people that $100 gift certificate, we’ve been seeing reports of people getting a message that there’s $0 balance left on their cards when they go and actually try and use the money. And by reports, we include myself, Jason Chen, because…

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: We revisit Potenco’s ingenious pull-cord generator, get some hands-on experience with it and get up close and personal with its human power generation goodness. Unipixel has developed a new design for a handheld display that it claims is 60% more efficient than conventional displays, one that would almost double the battery…

ChroMac Pimps Your iMac in Chrome or Gold

Is a standard iMac not gaudy enough for you? Do you feel the need to coat every piece of electronics in either gold or chrome? Do you enjoy paying a $400 to $500 premium for a fancy case? Then ChroMac is the solution! Your two options are either buying a pre-made iMac inside a chrome,…

Dealzmodo: 500 Free BeatBuckles on Thursday

Nerdyshirts is giving away 500 BeatBuckles on Thursday to a bunch of random customers. For those of you with too much taste to remember, the BeatBuckle is a belt that holds your iPod (previous generation) on your belt, so you can combine the theft-friendly conspicuousness of a belt clip with the “I’m an asshole” of…

Duracell’s Pre-Charged Rechargeable Batteries Hold Power For a Year

Duracell’s latest NiMH rechargeable batteries have two neat features. One, they hold power for up to 365 days without use, and two, they come pre-charged, so you won’t have to juice them up before plopping them into your camera. The first is great so your batteries are always ready for use even if you haven’t…

How to Comment: Question of the Day

We just rolled out a couple new comment features, and although they’re pretty cool, we’ve been hitting a couple bugs in stuff like logging in under Firefox (anyone else have this problem?). Please be patient, and we’ll hope to have all this junk fixed soon. On another note, here’s our Question of the Day for…

New Mediamesh and Illumesh Technologies Turn Entire Buildings Into LED Ads

AG4 and GKD Metal Fabrics, a German architecture and design company and a woven metal fabric company, respectively, have designed Mediamesh and Illumesh—an LED technology to turn regular building sides into gigantic colorful ads. These two new methods of cabling and lighting let developers place LEDs even over windows—which was verboten before—thanks to the fact…

T-Mobile’s BlackBerry Curve 8320 Gets HotSpot @ Home Compatibility

The PinStack forums got some leaked retail partner docs from T-Mobile today confirming the T-Mobile BB Curve 8320, and also showing that it has HotSpot @ Home Service. HS@H lets you use one cellphone to make calls on both the cell network and your home’s Wi-Fi, handing off “seamlessly” between the two. Adding the Curve…

Countertop Pizza Oven

If your life’s dream is to cook a pizza in something that only slightly resembles a pizza oven, this Da Gennaro is your ticket to paradise. The oven’s small enough to fit onto a counter, but big enough that it takes up a whole lot of your kitchen space. As for how well its programmable…