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Sony’s New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

Does this make up for the “no PS3 Blu-ray to PSP” transfer story? Kind of. Sony’s new BDZ-A70 Blu-ray recorder system won’t do that either, but will record your TV shows, and can transfer that video content to your PSP or Sony Walkman. That’s kind of a consolation, and there’s even a “one touch” button…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

El Luminoso Rug Uses Wool and LEDs to Bring the Galaxy to Your Floor

Designed by Esti Barnes, El Luminoso is a made-to-measure carpet that mixes LEDs into the pile. Given that the last rugs I writhed upon with gay abandon wrote about were the Wurst rugs, a selection of sausage-inspired floor coverings that looked like a pool of puke, Esti’s design is bleedin’ gawjus. No idea of the…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Biggest iPod Dock in the Known Universe Can Be Camping Home, Zeppelin

The iBig Box is… THE BIGGEST IPOD DOCK IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN UNIVERSE! It’s red, it’s gigantastic, it goes to eleven, it makes soccermoms laugh and kids dance like the Bangles, and because its inflatable, it can be filled with hydrogen and take you floating around the world or burn down like the Hindenburg. Either…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Nokia to Apple: Blah Blah iPhone Killer Blah Blah You Suck

Nokia said they didn’t care about the iPhone back when it was introduced, not even commented on it beyond a brief “smeh.” Then, they presented their iPhone killer concept, a demo that looked and acted exactly like Apple’s handset, even while it was “no competition for Nokia.” Now they have announced they are “readying” the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Local River Aquaponics System—But You Can Call It “Refrigerator-Aquarium”

The Local River is an aquarium-vegetarium (hang on a minute) by Mathieu Lehanneur, the same guy who thought up last year’s Bel Air plant filtration system. Using the same curved white design that tickled our fancy with the Bel Air last year, the Local River is a home storage system for fish and greens that…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Super Talent 8GB Flash Drive is World’s Smallest

The chaps at Super Talent are not only incredibly modest, talented and super, but they must also be fantastically tiny to have put together the world’s smallest 8GB flash drive. (Flawless logic, I’m sure you’ll agree.) Retailing at $35, the price is pretty reasonable, at least until you drop it into your chest hair and…

Tech News Haroon Malik

Samsung D780 Dual-Standby Cell for People Important Enough to Have Two Numbers

Samsung’s follow-up to its D880, the D780, launched today. Available in Russia from next month, followed by SE Asia, Europe and the Middle East, the candy-bar cell has Dual Standby, meaning you can receive calls to your second number even while taking a call on your first. Full specs and a pic of its two-in-a-bed…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Universal ECG is World’s Smallest, Sedates Your Curiosity Anywhere

DRE, the Louisville medical tech company, has just unleashed the world’s smallest ECG system. The compact device consists of the obligatory 12 leads and a small attachment that carries the necessary software for ECG interpretation. The Universal ECG hooks directly up to desktop PCs, laptops or Pocket PCs running Windows XP or 2000. Unlike old…

Health Haroon Malik

Panasonic SDR-S7 Lightweight Camcorder Is 5 Oz, Japan-Only

Those of you into teeny-tiny gadgets might like Panasonic’s latest SD camcorder aimed at the Japanese market. The SDR-S7 weighs in at just 160 grams—that’s 5.6 ounces—and shoots MPEG-2 format in 640 x 480 resolution, storing on either SD or SDHC cards. More specs below. There’s a 10x zoom, a battery life of 70 minutes,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Japanese-Style Keyboards Look Almost Too Good for Typing

These traditional Japanese-style keyboards are a class apart from the grey or white boringness of the average keyboard. As well as looking different, and neat these devices are even handmade for that extra “creative” touch. The gold one’s damn attractive and would look cool on many a desk: but not the green “kara kusa” one……

Gadgets Kit Eaton

HP 2133 Mini-Note UMPC Reviewed (Verdict: Rich Man’s Eee PC)

Reviews are pouring in of the HP 2133 sub-notebook (now dubbed the Mini-Note) which is now up on Amazon. It costs more than the Eee PC or Cloudbook, but you can actually configure all the specs yourself, and the aluminum chassis tells people you spent more on your ultraportable. It’s a bit bulkier and heavier,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Pogue Reviews Casio’s 1,200FPS EXIFILM Pro EX-F1 (Verdict: Built for Pure Speed)

We pretty much flipped over the Casio EXIFILM PRO EX-F1‘s insane rapid fire mode when we get our hands on it: 60fps still shooting, and up to a retardiculous 1200fps video for super slo-mo. David Pogue gives the full review, and spends a page lauding how freakin’ fast this camera is. Besides loving the sheer…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Little Work, Big Pay Forecast Year 2000 (1969)

The July 30, 1969 Progress-Index (Petersburg, VA) ran a piece titled, “Little Work, Big Pay Forecast Year 2000.” Thirty hour work weeks, lawns that needn’t be mowed, and automated kitchens are just a few of the innovations mentioned by Richard Gillis Jr., in a speech given to the Petersburg Kiwanis Club in 1969. An America…

Tech News Matt Novak

Toilet Vacuum Sucks Up All the Crap on Your Desk

It’s a mini tabletop vacuum that’s shaped like a toilet. Yep, that’s pretty much it. Except! There is a large piece of shit floating in it when you lift the lid. And that’s what makes it worth posting, really. It’s $14 priceless for the next time your mom drops by your disgusting living space. [Smutty…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

iPhone and iPod Touch Actually Support 720×576 Video Resolution

Officially, the iPhone and iPod touch support 640 by 480-pixel video running at up to 30 frames per second. But Ars Technica is reporting that it’ll actually take 720×576-resy video churning at 25fps, which is the same resolution and frame rate that PAL (mostly Euro) DVDs run at. Obviously not all that useful if you’re…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Weird Combo of the Day: More Cowbell Hat With Purchase of Rock Band or Guitar Hero III

If there’s one thing Canadians know how to do, it’s party it up with either Rock Band or Guitar Hero III. Seen in this flyer by reader John, you get a free “More Cowbell” hat whenever you buy either of the two games. Walken, who made another appearance on SNL over the weekend (monologue was…

Tech News Jason Chen

$300,000 Watch Doesn’t Tell Time, But Shows if the Sun is Up

Do you know when you see something so completely retarded, you have no response other than to rub your face with your hands and mumble to yourself, “What the fuck?” That’s exactly what we did when we saw this $300,000 Day&Night watch that doesn’t tell the time, but shows you whether the sun is up…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Repo Man Delivers One of the Best Scientology Parodies Ever

Back in the 1980s, then-unknown Emilio Estevez made his debut in a raunchy, SoCal punk rock cult flick called Repo Man. Starring Harry Dean Stanton as Estevez’s coked-up mentor, the movie is about what happens when the repo dudes come across a car whose trunk is full of deadly alien loot. And the alien conspiracy…

Movies Annalee Newitz

95% of Kids Aged 18-24 Are Pirating Music

According to a University of Hertfordshire survey of 1,158 kids aged 18-24 in the UK, 95% of them have “pirated” music before. The other 5%? According or our estimates, they’re either technologically illiterate or they don’t like music. [Guardian]

Tech News Jason Chen

…And Then WHAT Happened? The Silliest Scifi Plot Twists

Science fiction thrives on suspension of disbelief. When you watch a movie or read a book about space battles and time travel, you’re actively cooperating with the story to make it hold up. But when the story takes a sudden, nonsensical swerve, your suspsension of disbelief can turn into a savage retaliation. Here’s our guide…

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Sony’s New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

El Luminoso Rug Uses Wool and LEDs to Bring the Galaxy to Your Floor

Biggest iPod Dock in the Known Universe Can Be Camping Home, Zeppelin

Nokia to Apple: Blah Blah iPhone Killer Blah Blah You Suck

Local River Aquaponics System—But You Can Call It “Refrigerator-Aquarium”

Super Talent 8GB Flash Drive is World’s Smallest

Samsung D780 Dual-Standby Cell for People Important Enough to Have Two Numbers

Universal ECG is World’s Smallest, Sedates Your Curiosity Anywhere

Panasonic SDR-S7 Lightweight Camcorder Is 5 Oz, Japan-Only

Japanese-Style Keyboards Look Almost Too Good for Typing

HP 2133 Mini-Note UMPC Reviewed (Verdict: Rich Man’s Eee PC)

Pogue Reviews Casio’s 1,200FPS EXIFILM Pro EX-F1 (Verdict: Built for Pure Speed)

Little Work, Big Pay Forecast Year 2000 (1969)

Toilet Vacuum Sucks Up All the Crap on Your Desk

iPhone and iPod Touch Actually Support 720×576 Video Resolution

Weird Combo of the Day: More Cowbell Hat With Purchase of Rock Band or Guitar Hero III

$300,000 Watch Doesn’t Tell Time, But Shows if the Sun is Up

Repo Man Delivers One of the Best Scientology Parodies Ever

95% of Kids Aged 18-24 Are Pirating Music

…And Then WHAT Happened? The Silliest Scifi Plot Twists

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