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Soda-Club Home Soda Maker

If you were worried that you weren’t ever going to be able to turn every glass of water you drink into a sticky, syrupy soda pop with the press of a single button, worry no more. The Soda-Club Home Soda Maker lets you make seltzers, colas, sugar-free root beers, Rotting Corpse™ sulphur fizzes and more…

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Thin Cut Porcelain Lamp

Inspired by index cards, the “Thin Cut” lamp by Cordula Kafka is a set of ceiling-suspended porcelain sheets that have cut outs on the inside for four bulbs. Light shines through the panels with various amounts though the panels, which move in the wind (or whatever sort of draft you get inside). Read – Thin…

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PodSleevz, Mini FlipStand, and iThong

We now bring you your at-least-once-weekly inadvertent iPod Case moment, this time with two corporate-fashioned versions and a homebrew option. From RadTech comes the fabric-based PodSleevz, cloth sacks that hold tight to the iPod or iPod mini (4G versions next month) but have thinner fabric over the controls, allowing you to still fiddle the click…

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Selling Flash Players as Lavalieres

iRiver is pushing it’s new N10 flash memory player as jewelry, and while it’s not the first company to market a wearable MP3 player, they might be the first to do it with any measure of success (an attractive ad campaign goes a long way). That said, they’re far from being the only ones to…

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Packard Bell Pocket M@stro

PC vendor Packard Bell is releasing a 5GB hard disk-based player called the Pocket M@estro (get it? The @ means it has something to do with the internet or maybe computers). The player will support MP3 and WMA, transfer via USB 2.0, and has an OLED screen (I would expect a two-color version, though, not…

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Wood Block Clock

Despite what you might think, this clock is a solid piece of wood with a faux cord running out of the back, designed to purposely confound you into ignoring the fact that the only method in which a block of wood could display the time is if it were impelled by dark, heathen sorcery. If…

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Sombrero-Wearing Webcam

God, I really hope this is a trend. Not the part where O’Rite Technologies’ Webcam 352 looks like Kenny from South Park – I couldn’t care less about that – but the fact that the defining feature of the webcam is that it comes with little outfits to dress it up. Specifically, as reviewed by…

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Bluetooth Umbrella Networks

A team called “Umbrella.net” (no relation to Umbrella Corp, we hope) has developed a prototype system of Bluetooth umbrellas that facilitate “sudden, striking, and unexpected connections between people in public and urban space” by forming ad-hoc mesh networks when unfurled. As each umbrella is opened and added to the network, it lights as it comes…

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Morning Bits

• Toys “R” Us May Leave the Toy Business [AP] Big box store getting killed by Wal-Mart. • FCC certifies Freescale ultrawideband technology [CNet] Possible Bluetooth replacement. • Digital Cameras Change More Than the Way We Take Pictures [ABCNews] • Blu-ray Disc spec approved by Blu-Ray Group [CNet] On a related note, I declare myself…

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eBay: Tube Sock iPod Case

Is this the most foul iPod case ever conceived? Why yes, yes it is. It’s normal for boys to drop white loads in their socks, but they shouldn’t be spinning their thumbs around on it. (Thanks, Nathan!) Read – Apple iPod 4G superCase Protect Screen Case Cover WHITE [eBay]

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3R Solutions Mouse with Wind-Up Cable

This new optical mouse from 3R (not 3M) Solutions has a wind-up cable and USB connector. With a design obviously inspired by Microsoft products, it weighs about 75g (every product released from Microsoft in the last 15 years, including their entire WebTV line, has weighed just 75g). Not much else to say, but I’d likely…

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Ego Systems Quata Fire 610

Ego Systems’ new “Quata Fire 610” Firewire audio interface should provide plenty of ways for you to mash away on your keyboard and end up with a MIDI file. Since it also operates off of bus power, laptop users can compose their Final Fantasy/Ethyl Merman tribute music in the yard. But it will set you…

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Sony’s DRC-MFv2 Upscales Regular TV to HD

Today brings another interesting announcement from Sony, in the form of new video processing technology called “DRC-MFv2” (Digital Reality Creation: Multi- Function V2). It can scale up conventional TV signals to full High-Definition – 1920 x 1080 pixels (you might know it as 1080i). Explaining just how the technology works would be difficult, because basically…

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SGH-D410/SGH-D415: Samsung and T-Mobile Slider Phone Review

I’ll be honest with you, first impressions may be all you get of this Samsung SGH-D410, the first US slider phone from Samsung – currently available from T-Mobile. It’s not that it isn’t cool, it’s just that first impressions may be all you really need with this one, because all-in-all it’s not that deep. The…

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PalmOne Axes Palm.Net Wireless Service

In sort of an end to an era, PalmOne will be shutting down its Palm.Net internet service, subscriptions to which have fallen to just around 42,000 users over the last coupel of years as wireless data services from mobile carriers have eclipsed the five year-old service in both speed and coverage area. The Palm.Net email…

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Magellan eXplorist 100

Thales Navigation has a new GPS unit called the ‘Magellan eXplorist 100,’ which is far from feature-rich, but manages to get plenty of functionality packed into a unit that retails for just $99.99. That makes the eXplorist 100 the first GPS handheld with sub-three meter accuracy for under $100. Not bad. It also tastes like…

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TIME Reviews Dell Bluetooth GPS Navigation

TIME Magazine reviews Dell’s GPS Navigation System for Pocket PC (Dell or otherwise) and comes away pretty happy, finding it “exceptionally good at certain things,” like rerouting directions when you miss a turn (an exceptionally handy feature for absent minded drivers such as myself). One downside is the all-or-nothing setup of the map data, though.…

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Altec Lansing AHS602 Gaming Headphones

Altec Lansing has a new set of gaming headphones, the AHS602s, with now-ubiquitous boom mike and “SRS 3-D Audio,” which is not to be mistaken with actual surround sound but instead more than likely is yet another slightly-out-of-phase stereo technology (which works well enough, but I’m just saying). For a hundred bills the 40mm neodymium…

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Tamagotchi Connection Hits US

They won’t hit the rest of the US stores until this Sunday, but the new Tamagotchi Connection virtual pets were released ahead of schedule yesterday in New York and Los Angeles. The main difference between the new and old Tamagotchi is the inclusion of wireless links that will allow different Tamagotchi pets to marry and…

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Alaskan Man Found Not Guilty in DVD Murder Trial

The Alaskan man who was accused of causing a fatal crash due to watching a DVD while driving has been acquitted of all charges, including two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of manslaughter. Although Erwin Petterson Jr. maintains he was reaching for a soda when he vehicle swerved into another lane, no specific…

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Soda-Club Home Soda Maker

Thin Cut Porcelain Lamp

PodSleevz, Mini FlipStand, and iThong

Selling Flash Players as Lavalieres

Packard Bell Pocket M@stro

Wood Block Clock

Sombrero-Wearing Webcam

Bluetooth Umbrella Networks

Morning Bits

eBay: Tube Sock iPod Case

3R Solutions Mouse with Wind-Up Cable

Ego Systems Quata Fire 610

Sony’s DRC-MFv2 Upscales Regular TV to HD

SGH-D410/SGH-D415: Samsung and T-Mobile Slider Phone Review

PalmOne Axes Palm.Net Wireless Service

Magellan eXplorist 100

TIME Reviews Dell Bluetooth GPS Navigation

Altec Lansing AHS602 Gaming Headphones

Tamagotchi Connection Hits US

Alaskan Man Found Not Guilty in DVD Murder Trial

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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

Report: FDA Set to Unban RFK Jr.’s Favorite Peptides

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