MicroPilot UAV Autopilot
MicroPilot is a Canadian company that specializes in miniature autopilots for RC planes and UAV (Unmanned Aerial/Autonomous Vehicles). Their newest product, the MP2028g is the smallest autopilot in the world, which means this 28 gram device can guide your RC plane or mobile attack drone to over 1,000 programmable waypoints while increasing total flight time.…
New Nokia CeBIT Accessories
The 7610 isn’t the only new thing that Nokia will be showing at CeBIT. They’ve also unveiled today some new accessories that can be used across their entire product line. The Nokia Image Album PD-1 is a 20GB image station that allows you to transfer images from your phone or camera for display on your…
Voodoo M:855 Gaming Laptop Review
TrustedReviews steps up with a review of the Voodoo Envy M:855 gaming laptop, which among other high-performance options, is the first laptop in recent memory that has a $200 acrylic ‘tattoo’ sticker as an option. Questions of style aside (as PC gamers are second only to import car tuners when it comes to true class),…
Nokia 7610
Nokia’s new “TV Star” phone, the 7610, is the company’s first to feature a one-megapixel camera. If using the 4x digital zoom and 1152 x 864 resolution camera to become the first mobile LaChapelle isn’t your cup, the 7610 will also take video clips up to ten minutes long (as storage allows, of course). The…
Epson Printer For Women
This lunchbox-shaped Epson E-100 printer was designed by an ‘All Women, For Women’ program in an effort to make a printer that was “easy for women to use.” Its more notable features include the ability to print images directly from mobile phones, as well as SD cards and other types of flash memory. Of course,…
iOPS-F300 1 GB Flash Music Player
Dottocomu posts word of new series of V@MP iOPS-F300 solid-state players from NH Japan, with various versions maxing out in a 1GB titanium model. While I love solid-state players, I can’t help but wondering why companies are still producing anything less than a gigabyte at all? I suppose for some fashionistas, even an iPod mini…
Icepick House
Part ‘Big Brother’ exhibitionism, part extreme Home Automation hack, the Icepick is a heavily-scripted house that has monitored the actions of its inhabitants via sensors, barcode scanners, and webcams since 1997. This may not make it the newest item on the superweb infocyber, but the continual tabulations of everyday events make it fascinating to statistics…
Mercury On-The-Go Oxford911 Review (with Special Guest ‘Firewire Vs. USB 2.0’)
Tiny and fast, the newest 2.5 inch Travelstar hard drives from Hitachi may be the product that puts them back on the road to respectability after the ‘Deathstar’ fiasco caused quite a few to swear never to purchase an IBM/Hitachi drive again. Their small size makes them perfect for external, portable hard drives, and Ars…
Next Base Walking Cinema Review
The Next Base Walking Cinema takes a few good swings at the portable DVD market but ends up bunting, with a few too many extra pounds and not enough control to really make a connection. TrustedReviews thinks it has heart, but has to send it down to the minors in this review. Read
Another PDA Watch
If it’s always been your darkest desire to read email on a tiny, monochrome display, Zyonshop is carrying the $70 ZPW10 PDA Watch, which might address your disturbing needs. The ZPW10 can sync with Outlook via USB to load all your standard contacts and appointments for viewing on its inexplicably sideways-oriented screen. As much as…
Lexar JumpDrive Elite Review
EverythingUSB takes the world of USB Keychain Memory drives and makes it, well, not exciting, but definitely tolerable with their review of the 256 Meg Lexar JumpDrive Elite. They even go to the effort to benchmark the damn thing and they weren’t even that impressed with it in the first place. It’s as if these…
Future Sonic In-Ear Headphones Review
Speaking of fawning reviews of things I don’t own (but would like to), PowerbookCentral.com has the audacity to not only review the $150 Future Sonic In-Ear Headphones, but actually like them (a sort of editorial dutch rub). When not defending Phil Collins and bitching about the subway system, Noah Kravitz gives a positive review of…
Brighthand Tapwave Zodiac Review
Tapwave’s Zodiac Palm OS handheld gaming system isn’t new, but if you’ve overlooked it you could do worse than read this in-depth (and somewhat fawning) review. While I don’t expect the Zodiac to be a competitor to Nintendo or Sony in its current incarnation, for those Palm OS users that also consider themselves gamers —…
The Toys of Ryota Kuwakubo
From the compelling fusion of industrial design and low-res graphics comes the work of Ryota Kuwakubo, an award winning Japanese ‘toy maker’ whose products and projects are intended to challenge the user to ‘have fun.’ “I want to toss stones into the cultural pool, and make ripples that will last a long time after I…
New Double-Layer DVD+R From Philips
Philips has introduced the first PC DVD+R drive that can burn to a double-layer, single-sided disc. The burner, dubbed the DVDRW885K, will record the new 8.5GB discs at a 8x speed. The upshot of all this is that until now consumer DVD burners have been single-layer, with half the storage capability of a ‘regular DVD,’…
Navigate The Streets
‘Navigate The Streets’ is an experiment in modern city exploration, in which teams of two compete using wireless gadgets and public transportation to race through nine different Canadian cities, solving riddles to discover their next checkpoint. While use of technology isn’t required, various WiFi hotspot vendors will be sponsoring the race, providing free access to…