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Sony’s L-Type Vaios Bring Three Kinds of Sexiness to your Home

Sony’s latest range of Vaio PCs, the L-Type, look to be a pretty sexy proposition. Top dog is the LT, with a 22-inch screen that you can wall mount and watch digital and analog TV on. The LM is 19 inches and does digital TV, while the LJ is a 15.4-inch desktop model with a…

Sling Media to be Acquired by EchoStar for $380 Million

Sling Media, the company that brought you the Slingbox and SlingPlayer software, has been bought by EchoStar. The corporation, which owns the DISH pay-TV network, has valued Sling Media at $380 million, and the sale should take place before the end of the year. Full press release is below. EchoStar Announces Agreement to Acquire Sling…

Pop Culture and the Space Age

Today’s New York Times has a very interesting piece about the effect of the Space Age on popular culture. An effect was much more than simply a spillover from the silvery streamlining of the space program. It was an increasing preoccupation with the future and technology that helped change not only the country’s look in…

Iomega Beefs Up Its Jon Ive-y UltraMax Hard Drive Lineup

Mac users love giant local storage drives, and Iomega knows it, designing the UltraMax Mac Pro-inspired baby HDD towers to accompany the heaviest machinery out of Cupertino. The latest edition is the one on the far left, the single-drive UltraMax Desktop Hard Drive, with one eSATA, two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400 and one USB…

Mygo Cane Guides the Blind, Turns Them Into Potential Superheroes

Sebastian Ritzler, a design student in Germany, has created a feature-laden rolling white cane called the Mygo that will make the blind scoff at us eyesies. The Mygo uses a sensor-camera combo to measure the ground below it and give the user real time feedback via a wireless headset. The cane also ends in a…

Halo 3 Swag Rebagging (Plus Apology)

Click to viewThe other day, I posted a video showing some cool Halo 3 swag Microsoft sent me as part of the press kit. Despite me putting the word “Incredible” in the headline, people thought my video reflected a lack of appreciation for the gear, and I was called many names for it, and even…

Toshiba’s T400 Player Available Outside of Asia, Outside of Asia Rejoices

The Toshiba T400 Gigabeat player is nothing especially new in the Asian markets but its appearance on Sam’s Club’s website means the player is finally going to be availabe in the States. Generally, the 4 gigabyte player is underwhelming. It can play MP3s, WMAs, WAV files and has video playback for WMV videos that you…

R2-D2 Peppermill Grinds Its Way Into Your Heart

Nothing quite flavors a meal like the black, peppery-goodness of R2-D2’s droppings. The cute little peppermill comes in two colors — or droid models, I should say — the white R2-D2 and the black RD-Q5. The R2 works pretty much how you’d expect, just turn his head and the 11 cm droid will grind to…

Easy To Make IKEA Charging Station Cleans Up Cables, Lowers Blood Pressure

There’s nothing quite like a mass of cluttered cables to cause a stress-related premature death — luckily, the guys over at Instructables have a cheap and easy solution. This involves buying a plastic box and lid from IKEA (it doesn’t have to be IKEA, but it’s much hipper if it is), buying a drill with…

Star Wars Kubrick Toys Take It Back To The Origins of Star Wars

I love these Star Wars Kubricks because I have a soft spot for cult toy makers that work with big franchises. The characters for this series were taken from Episodes I-III, and feature the likes of Qui-Gon Jinn, naked C-3PO, and Anakin Skywalker before he grew a rat tail and allowed his hormonally raging manhood…

Sennheiser VMX100 Bluetooth Headset Has VoiceMax Voice Distinguishing Technology

Sennheiser’s latest Bluetooth headset, the VMX 100, has on-board technology that distinguishes the human voice from background noise in order to provide a clearer outgoing sound during conversations. We’re unsure how well the headset will distinguish background noise when the background noise is actually human conversation, but at least it’ll have five hours talk time…

Running Any Third Party iPhone Apps? Bye-Bye Warranty!

Click to viewYou heard that the new firmware bricks unlocked iphones? Get this: Apple just confirmed to me that running any third-party app at all voids the warranty, and you won’t be covered if your iPhone bricks for whatever reason. The reasoning is that Apple cannot distinguish between other third party apps and those that…

Apple Says Unlocked iPhones Will Brick After Software Update – What Does It Mean?

Not only are certain Apple stores voiding the warranty on hacked and unlocked iPhones, Apple’s just released a statement saying the unlock process coupled with a future iPhone update may make your phones a useless brick. Apple “strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs,” because the “permanent inability to use an iPhone due to…

Bicycle for Two Seats Riders Next to Each Other

Bicycles built for two seem like they’d be romantic, but how do you decide who gets to sit in front? It’s clearly the better position, as you get a view of the open road rather than of your bikemate’s sweaty back. That’s why this strange mutant two-person bike makes sense… sort of. I mean, it…

Simpsons Nudge iPhone Users Where it Hurts: the Wallet

Anyone catch last night’s season premiere of the Simpsons? Notice a little friendly nudging to Apple iPhone users? So did we. [Simpsons]

We Exchanged Our Faulty iPod touch, Got One With a Good Screen

I was one of the unlucky ones who bought an iPod early. I thought I was stuck with a wonky screen. I waited a couple of weeks to see what was up, and once Walt Mossberg said the defective screens were only an early production problem, I was off to the Apple Store to exchange…

Halo is the Future of Gaming

Click to viewThe folks over at Loading Ready Run made a fantastic video illustrating why Halo is the future of gaming. After viewing, we have to say we’re on board. Kudos. [Loading Ready Run]

Metal Gear Solid 4 Figures Make Me Solid

Are you wearing a protective exoskeletal suit that’s independently mobile or are you happy to see these Metal Gear Solid 4 1/6 size figures? Because if you ask us, there’s nothing more bad ass than going to work and finding Old Snake and/or non-pussy Raiden staring you in the face while you sip your first…

Star Wars AT-AT Made of LEGO, Motorized for Your Amusement

Here’s a motorized LEGO AT-AT (All-Terrain Armored Transport) that’s cool enough to be worth its $130 price. Notice its rotating laser canons, cockpit that actually opens and most importantly, its lumbering walking style. Hey, there’s even a little Luke Skywalker hanging onto a grappling rope underneath. [LEGO, via boingboing Gadgets]

Elgato EyeTV owners get a free update from 2.0 to 2.5, supporting Wi-Fi viewing of your EyeTV recordings on both the iPhone or iPod touch. Go upgrade now! [Elgato]