Jason Chen

How to Turn Your Body Into A Hairless Wonderland With Gadgets

I am a surprisingly hairy man. All that hair needs the right tools to tame, trim and shave. The three devices up to the task? The Mangroomer, the Philips Bodygroom, and the Flowbee have been around for a while and are great separately, but this is the first time that we’ve seen their full power…

FlickIM: Another AIM Client For the iPhone

Everyone and their three-legged dog is coming up with an IM client for the iPhone, but this latest one from FlickIM isn’t quite good enough to dethrone our current champ, JiveTalk. FlickIM may have a fancy messaging interface and a cool contact selection dropdown (the default Safari selector), but it doesn’t have any options, it…

iPhone Browser Dialing Poses Security and Wallet Breach

The ease of use iPhone integration that allows you to dial numbers, look up addresses and send emails directly from links in Safari may actually be the iPhone’s downfall. By formatting a “dial” link incorrectly so that the webpage shows one number, but the actual number being dialed is something else, exploiters can make you…

CinemaNow Extends Video Download Service to Xbox 360s

Unsatisfied with the selection on Xbox 360’s Marketplace for movies? CinemaNow, the PC movie download and rental store, has updated their Media Manager software to allow rented or purchased movies to be viewed on the Xbox 360. Over 7,000 of them. Now when you buy or rent one a flick, your Vista or XP machine…

Made in Eureka Contest Results: iPhone Edition

Apparently you all really want an iPhone. Who knew? Thanks for all the hundreds and hundreds of entries that you sent in and we had to sort through. Really. Thanks for that. Now, onto the winner. Congratulations to Jordan Brough, winner of a brand new iPhone. His invention was the Tongue Jacket that lets anything…

Wi-Fi Capable BlackBerry 8820 Becomes Official

We saw this Wi-Fi equipped BlackBerry make its way through the labyrinthine corridors of the FCC a few weeks ago, but now RIM’s making it official. The BlackBerry 8820 is coming, and it’s going to have GPS, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, microSD/microSDHC, and quad-band GSM. Wi-Fi fans, this is your BlackBerry. And if T-Mobile is looking for…

Saitek’s Cyborg PC Controller Has Precision Snipe Mode

Although not officially announced at E3, Saitek’s latest Cyborg Rumble gamepad for the PC takes the best of the Xbox 360 controller and enhances it with some FPS-friendly features. First off, there’s a precision control toggle, which when activated, turns down the sensitivity on the sticks so you can go in for a headshot easier.…

Sony’s European President Says 60GB to 80GB Upgrade ‘Not Worth It’

You know that feeling of “that’s it?” you had when you heard about Sony upgrading the PS3 from 60GB to 80GB and charging $599 for it? Sony’s David Reeves had the exact same feeling. And he had the jalapeños to say it out loud. On the record. That’s some spicy jalapeños. Reeves says: You know,…

HTC Kaiser Coming in August as the AT&T 8925?

The HTC Kaiser, unboxed here, is supposedly heading to AT&T soon under the 8925 model. This 8925 will replace the current 8525, which has been the go-to Windows Mobile phone since it was released last year. So what’s new? Lots of stuff, including a 3-megapixel camera, 128MB RAM, a fold-up design, a GPS (?), a…

Thanko’s Wiimote Storage Charges, Stores, Holds

One-upping just about everyone else in the Wiimote storage game, Thanko’s unit charges and holds two Wiimotes simultaneously. Not only that, there’s nunchuck storage in the back, and Wii game disc storage in the middle (six discs only). It also wouldn’t be a Thanko product if it didn’t draw power from USB, and luckily this…

UVEX Univision Snowboard Goggles Do Something

We don’t snowboard all that often (since that would require leaving the house), but these UVEX super goggles seem to be the kind of thing we’d use on our trips down the slopes. The UVEX Univision has an AAA battery inside to allow the glass to shift from the light lens in low light situations…

Fun Fact Time: iCal’s Birthday is Today

You know how your iCal icon in the dock always shows July 17 until you actually start up the app? Did you know why? It’s because July 17 is the date that iCal premiered at MacWorld 2002, which technically makes today its “birthday.” (Development time would then be its gestation period.) Here’s another interesting fact.…

DIY Drinking Straws Make Sucking Fun

Wacky straws are fun, but super wacky straws like these DIY Drinking Strawz make boozing even more entertaining. The set ($12.99) comes with 20 connectors and 16 straw pieces, which means you can make contraptions above to suck liquid out of multiple cups at once. Or, just go retro and make one giant chain of…

Sprint Adds Social GPS Functionality to 25 Phones

If you liked the social GPS features that Helio offers on both its Drift and Ocean phones—you know, the one that gives you a list of where all your friends are—Sprint’s partnering up with loopt to give you something similar. For an extra $2.99, you’ll get to add GPS-based social mapping to “more than” 25…

Wii Internet Channel Exploit Found, Homebrew to Come?

We don’t have a lot of details, but some “hackers” have found an exploit in the Wii Internet Channel’s Flash player implementation. What does this mean to you? Well, if they take this exploit all the way to the end, it means you can possibly run unsigned, home-brew code on the Wii. Whether this means…

Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway riders can now get Wi-Fi access for 20HKD ($2.55) at all stations and trains. We’re not sure whether the train to 2046 will cost more, less, or just make you yearn for the In the Mood for Love. [Butterboom via Akihabara News]

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: It was a pretty interesting week, between snow in Buenos Aires and Jay Leno’s Tesla test-drive, but we still found the time for some quality eco-gadgetry. Some lucky geeks at MIT are converting a Porsche 914 from gas power to electric, to “demonstrate the viability of advanced electric vehicle technology and…

Made in Eureka Contest Results: TiVo Edition

Thanks to everyone who entered our contest, but thanks especially to Jorge Barrios, who gets to take home a TiVo Series 3. There were only 10 entries that got all the answers correct, and Jorge was the one who got lucky and was chosen at random (out of the 10). Congrats again! If you want…

Real Transformers Exist! And Yes, It’s From Japan

Remember that moment in the Transformers movie when the kid says that super advanced robots (the Transformers) must be from Japan? He was right. This robot, from what seems to be a Japanese robot competition/show earlier this year, actually transforms from car mode into robot mode. It’s tiny, but there’s nothing—except possibly funding and the…

Official AT&T 8525 Windows Mobile 6 ROM Leaked

Just like the T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade was leaked about a week before the real release, AT&T’s 8525 update has just been dumped onto the internet as well. What does this mean to you? Two things. https://gizmodo.com/official-final-t-mobile-dash-wm6-upgrade-leaked-256220 One, the official official (meaning residing on AT&T’s servers) will be upon us soon. Two, you’re…