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Bubble Helmet Makes You Look Like Bigger Dork Than You Really Are

We’re all for enhancing our TV-viewing experience, but this 6-pound helmet looks more like a prop from SpaceBalls than something we’d wanna wear. Still, Toshiba claims the helmet will give its wearer a 360-degree panorama when watching TV or playing games. Personally, we’d rather use it to scare small children. The Raw Feed via Daily…

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TokyoFlash LED Watch Sheds Weight, Still Impossible to Read

If you’ve always wanted an LED watch, but were never quite into the whole cyborg look, TokyoFlash’s new Retsu model can satisfy your craving without swallowing your entire wrist. The new Retsu watch is just 8mm thin (or 0.31 inches) and weighs 40 grams (just over an ounce). It’s still impossible for mere mortals to…

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Russia Plans Floating Nuke Plant, Thousands of Fish Protest

It won’t be ready till 2010, but Russian nuclear energy company Rosenergoatom is planning to build a $200-million mobile plant to bring electricity to the hard-to-reach territories near the White Sea. The football field-size barge will have two reactors and be launched/floated toward a port near the mainland where it’d be connected to power lines…

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Sapphire Toxic Card Brings its Own Juice to the Party

The folks at Sapphire are claiming their new Toxic X1950 XTX is the fastest card on the planet. So fast that it comes with its own built-in liquid-cooling (which as you can tell will take up an extra slot in addition to the PCI-Express slot occupied by the card). Both the single-card version and the…

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Antec Adapter Shows Love for (Almost) All Laptops

It wasn’t the sexiest thing we saw at Digital Life, but for practical purposes, Antec’s NP-100 gets kudos. It’s a universal power adapter complete with interchangeable connectors that hooks up with the Dell, HP, and Sony laptops of the world (sorry, no MacBoook love here). Leave one in the office or at home and suddenly…

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Inchworm Shoes For Cheap Parents and Kids with Big Feet

We feel sorry for the kid that gets these shoes on their next birthday. Not only do they prove your folks are too cheap to buy you new shoes, but there’s also a pretty good chance you’re gonna get beat up at school when you’re seen wearing them (we should know cause we sure did).…

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USB Cannon Uses Babes For Ammo

We already know whose got the most real nukes, but if you’re looking to start a war on a much lower scale (i.e. in your office), check out Firebox’s USB Cannon. It’s the first we’ve seen that shoots foam babes as missiles and it even lets you add your own sound effects with every shot…

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Bluetooth Goes 3D, Pushes Content to Your Cell

The folks at the Bluetooth SIG are giving us another reason to go Bluetooth. Their latest creation, TransSend, lets you beam important stuff on a web site (like a bar’s street address or phone number) from your browser straight to your Bluetooth cell phone/handheld. You can beam stuff from any web site and the app…

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Bluetooth on the Cheap, Altec Lansing inMotion im702

In case you missed them the first time around, Altec Lansing will be rebranding the Platronics 590 as the inMotion im702 starting next month. These $149 cans pair up with your Bluetooth music-playing cell phone letting you listen to tunes and switch over to calls when your girlfriend starts naggin’ that you never pick up…

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First Grope: Dell’s Overclockable XPS M1710

We’ve covered the XPS plenty of times before, but at this week’s Digital Life show in New York, Dell was showing off their newly upgraded XPS M1710. The laptop is the first Core 2 Duo-based laptop that can be overclocked from 2.33GHz to 3.16GHz. It’s also got ambient lighting on the sides (the lights glow…

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Weed-Killing Robot More Sophisticated Than Our Laptop

Robots are gonna rule the world one day. If they’re not cooking for us, then they’re out chopping weeds in a field somewhere. A group of engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently developed a solar-powered, weed-chopping robot. The high-tech killer, which uses GPS for navigation, stands a little over 2-feet tall and…

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First Feel: Logitech Harmony 1000

We’ve given you the full details on Logitech’s Harmony 1000 Universal Remote before, but it wasn’t till Wednesday night that we got some one-on-one action with a working unit. Though we didn’t get to fully test it out, we were mighty impressed with the remote’s design and interface. $500 bucks is still a high price…

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Solar-Powered Radio Disses Your MP3s

Tree-hugging geeks who like spending time in the great outdoors might wanna check out the new Addex Design AD80 Solar Radio. Like it’s name suggests, the radio sports a solar panel letting you listen to AM/FM radio by the power of the sun. (Non environmentalists can also pop in some AAA batteries for juice). Great…

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McDonald’s and Akoo Team Up to Bring You Beyonce Burger

In an effort to make your cheeseburger-eating experience more pleasurable, McDonald’s has teamed up with Akoo to launch the m-Venue, a platform that lets you browse and buy music/videos through your mobile handset all while chowing down on your ketchup-drenched burger (content providers include Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Sony Pictures). For now, the…

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Ideazon to Logitech/Razer: Bring it On

The makers of the Zboard (that folding keyboard with the custom layouts) are branching out further into the gaming world with their first gaming mouse dubbed the Reaper. The mouse will have a 1600 dpi sensor, 6 programmable buttons (plus one dedicated button for DPI switching), and in true gangsta style, gold-plated USB connectors. It’ll…

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Sony Ericsson Gives Birth to Adriana

Fresh outta the womb, Adriana is Sony Ericsson’s first digital video broadcast handheld. The 10GB player can wirelessly stream digital TV and also play video from its 10GB of internal memory. It has a 3.5-inch, 800×600 display and an iPod-esque click wheel for scrolling through videos. Storage capacity can be expanded via a Memory Stick…

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SuperBus Answers to Your Texts

Sure, it looks like some sort of stretch SUV limo, but the SuperBus is actually a Dutch invention. Researchers at Delft University Technology in the Netherlands have created this aerodynamic bus that can go as fast as 155 mph while running on electricity. The SuperBus will have roughly 30 seats with individual entrance/exit doors (no…

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First Grope: Bose Companion 5

5.1 sound from a 2.1 package? We’ve heard that one before. But this time its Bose whose making the surround sound promise and they’re delivering it to your computer rather than your home theater. So what do we think about the Companion 5s after spending a week with them? Jump for some hands-on pics and…

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Overclocked Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Dusts Core 2 Extreme X6800

While they didn’t quite fry an egg over their CPU, the brainy folks over at Toms Hardware did manage to overclock a lowly Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 up to 3.1GHz (from its base 2.13GHz) using only the stock cooler provided by Intel. Further tweaking got the E6400 up as high as 3.3GHz (with the…

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Gaming Desk For the Socially Challenged

We’ve seen our fair share of gaming chairs before, but when our console-loving brothers over at Kotaku pointed this one out to us, we weren’t sure whether to be floored or scared. Built like a tank, the ROCCAFORTE is a gaming desk that lets you stack up your LCDs, controllers, speakers, and anything else you…

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Bubble Helmet Makes You Look Like Bigger Dork Than You Really Are

TokyoFlash LED Watch Sheds Weight, Still Impossible to Read

Russia Plans Floating Nuke Plant, Thousands of Fish Protest

Sapphire Toxic Card Brings its Own Juice to the Party

Antec Adapter Shows Love for (Almost) All Laptops

Inchworm Shoes For Cheap Parents and Kids with Big Feet

USB Cannon Uses Babes For Ammo

Bluetooth Goes 3D, Pushes Content to Your Cell

Bluetooth on the Cheap, Altec Lansing inMotion im702

First Grope: Dell’s Overclockable XPS M1710

Weed-Killing Robot More Sophisticated Than Our Laptop

First Feel: Logitech Harmony 1000

Solar-Powered Radio Disses Your MP3s

McDonald’s and Akoo Team Up to Bring You Beyonce Burger

Ideazon to Logitech/Razer: Bring it On

Sony Ericsson Gives Birth to Adriana

SuperBus Answers to Your Texts

First Grope: Bose Companion 5

Overclocked Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Dusts Core 2 Extreme X6800

Gaming Desk For the Socially Challenged

Sam Witwer Is Ready for Maul’s Moment

Watch and Follow Live as NASA Launches Its First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years 🔴

Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough

Zach Cregger Recruits Second Zach for His Aunt Gladys Spinoff

Can You Run a Computer Without RAM? Surprisingly, Yes—But You’ll Be Miserable

How Adult Swim Skipped the April Fools’ Nonsense and Dropped a ‘Smiling Friends’ Claymation Horror Short Instead

Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in April 2026

Chinese Startup Debuts Super-Bendy Robotic Arm for Orbital Repairs

Your Devices Are Targets. Bitdefender Shields Them All — For Less Than You Think

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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?