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Oregon Pedometer with Alarm

The girls over at Shiny Shiny point out this great new gizmo from Oregon, a pedometer with a built-in panic alarm. If next you’re out jogging and can’t outpace that Olympic-sprinter-cum-hobo-mugger, a push of the panic button will cause an ear-piercing 120dB alarm to blare forth, hopefully scaring the attacker away before you do permanent…

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Burton Headphone Beanie

Snowboard giant Burton’s Fall collection includes this $40 “Headphone Beanie,” available in three earth tone colors. I’m presuming it includes the headphones themselves, and are not just woven with places for any old headphones to be run. Then again, I’d prefer they didn’t have the headphones inside, so you could choose your favorites. But then…

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iWill ZMAXdp Dual-Opteron SFF PC Previewed

So I just spent entirely too much time reading about the new iWill ZMAXdp, a small form factor PC that has not one, but two AMD Opteron 64-bit processors inside of it. It’s not on sale yet, but Hexus was able to score a pre-release unit for review, and it’s absolutely one of the sexiest…

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IBM ThinkPad R51 Reviewed

BIOS reviews the IBM ThinkPad R51 and finds it to be an excellent value for a solid laptop, as long as you stay away from adding lots of the overpriced options from IBM’s catalog (generally good advice when buying any laptop, really). For less that thousand dollars you can bring home a ThinkPad of your…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Canon SELPHY compact photo printers [BIOS] • Gamers Get a Look at PlayStation Portable [PCWorld] Business • Iomega slashes workforce by 25% [Macminute] • Dolby Digital Plus and MLP Lossless mandatory for HD DVD, while Dolby Digital will be mandatory for Blu-ray Disc. [DesignTechnica] • Nokia Phone Adds Virus Protection [PCWorld] Reviews…

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Tracking Employees, Shocking Them

CNet has a story up about the growing trend within corporations to use GPS-enabled phones to monitor and track employee whereabouts which features this lovely quote from Sanjay Shirole, CEO of one of the firms that makes the tracking software: “There’s no electro shock—yet,” Xora CEO Sanjay Shirole said. Ha ha, nice one, Sanjay! The…

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Glanz 3-in-1 X-Board

The Glanz X-Board is a combination body board, surf board, and snow board, for those times when you’ve need to assault a snowy island fortress by sea. There appears to be some sort of necessary conversion to switch ‘modes,’ but I’m unsure exactly how that works (besides working in an X-TREM manner). My Glanz were…

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TGS: More Sony PSP

There’s a boatload more images from the Tokyo Game Show coming through (more than just that remote, I’m saying), although they’re mostly just shots of the PSP. I thought this one was precious, though. No word if Sony plans to sell all PSPs with an attached girl on a chain. Allegedly there are 44 PSPs…

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TGS: Sony PSP Remote

Want to know what the Sony PSP in-line remote will look like? It will look like this. A Big JPG [ImpressWatch] Related PSP Archives [Gizmodo]

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CSI: Photography

Reader John R. Bennett of Savannah writes: You may find this unbelievably uninteresting and more suitable for a dusty corner of digital photography blog, but I’m curious about it: This week I watched both “CSI:NY” and “CSI Classic” (Or whatever they call the Las Vegas jurisdiction). I noticed the New York crime scenesters appeared to…

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Retro Audio: EMS Synthi A and AKS

In 1971 EMS (Electronic Music Studios) released two versions of this portable three-oscillator synthesizer, the Synthi A and the AKS (pictured). Both were miniaturized repackagings of EMS’s earlier VCS3 unit, but the AKS took things a step further with its included monophonic digital sequencer and 30-note touch pad keyboard. The bit that looks like a…

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Green Day CD-Rs

Strange but punk. Green Day and iTunes Music Store are releasing a special set of CD-Rs pre-imprinted with the logos from the original CDs, so that you can download their music from iTMS and burn it onto a proper disc – sound quality aside, no one would be the wiser. Wouldn’t it be nice if…

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Pacific Rim Cases Giveaway

So it’s Friday. We’d all rather be doing something else but we’ve got, like, eight more hours to go. So how about a contest? Pacific Rim Technologies has ponied up 20 prize codes redeemable for one of their gadget cases and we’re going to give them away throughout the day. (If you remember the DiscHub…

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All-Terrain AM/FM Radio

Remember that Roberts “Poolside” radio I was talking about earlier this week? Well, reader Carson Friday was in a Brookstone and found this “All-Terrain AM/FM Radio” version, obviously tuned for an American audience. I have to say, though, I don’t find it nearly as appealing in the DeWalty yellow and black (which is odd, because…

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Crystal Mini

Yet another company threatens the world’s short supply of man-made Swarovski crystals by hot gluing them to a bit of consumer electronics. Crystal Mini claims “One crystal per song,” as their slogan, which isn’t bad as these things go, I guess. It’s certainly better than “Chafe Differently,” or “Ice Ice iPod.” (Thanks, Franki!) Product Page…

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LCDs + Guns = Broken LCD

I’m sure when most of you buy a monitor you’re thinking, “Sure, it looks great, but can it withstand being pelted with tiny metal plastic balls shot from a gun?” I usually just check the “Gunfire Resistance” rating on the little placard they keep on the shelf, but some people feel like they need to…

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XBox 2 Peripherals To Work on PCs

Gamespot has a pretty informative interview with one of Microsoft’s XNA strategists (Dean Lester, the Windows Gaming general manager, in fact), and while there’s lots of goobledegook about giving “Level” ratings to PCs to determine what sort of games they are capable of playing (“I had a Level 5 machine, but the new video card…

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Fujifilm Finepix F810 Zoom

Fujifilm has announced the F810, a 6-megapixel specialty camera that shoot both regular (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) formats, using Fuji’s Super CCD HR sensor. In addition it has a 4x optical zoom and a 2.1-inch rear LCD screen. Because the dual-purpose lens makes it a bit of an oddball, Fujifilm says to expect the $600…

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CircuitsWatchWatch

Dear Dan Ackerman, While any attempt to tear down the wooden block walls of the fortress playhouse that the Times’ Circuits section editors slopped together using their own globbing drool for mortar is A-okay with me, perhaps it would be best if you were not to – on the same front page that holds a…

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Star Wars Bonus DVD Overwrites Xbox Dashboard

Apparently the new Star Wars Trilogy DVDs have an ‘Extra Special Features Disc’ that, if played on an Xbox, will modify the dashboard software of the console without requesting the users’ permission. Although this shouldn’t affect most unmodded Xboxs, it does seem weird that a video disc – even one with a game demo on…

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Oregon Pedometer with Alarm

Burton Headphone Beanie

iWill ZMAXdp Dual-Opteron SFF PC Previewed

IBM ThinkPad R51 Reviewed

Morning Bits

Tracking Employees, Shocking Them

Glanz 3-in-1 X-Board

TGS: More Sony PSP

TGS: Sony PSP Remote

CSI: Photography

Retro Audio: EMS Synthi A and AKS

Green Day CD-Rs

Pacific Rim Cases Giveaway

All-Terrain AM/FM Radio

Crystal Mini

LCDs + Guns = Broken LCD

XBox 2 Peripherals To Work on PCs

Fujifilm Finepix F810 Zoom

CircuitsWatchWatch

Star Wars Bonus DVD Overwrites Xbox Dashboard

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

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The Best Gadgets of March 2026

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

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Source Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Leaks at the Exact Wrong Time

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset