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OS X Leopard Shows Networked PCs With BSOD Icons

It’s still funny. Funny in that I want to cry kind of way. [Gadgetlab]

Samsung Applies for Patent for Clever Two-Piece Wrist Cellphone

Samsung dreamed up this idea, placing a removable cellphone on a wristband, so you can wear it like a watch and also hold it up to your ear like any other cellphone. The company applied for a patent for this device that sacrifices little while adding lots of convenience. Not all the electronics are contained…

Tower by mStation Is One Tall Drink of iPod

The three-and-a-half-foot tall $299 mStation Tower is 2.1 channels of elegant design that sits in the corner—or perhaps in the center of an otherwise bare loft space—and pumps out music to the tune of 100 total watts. Inside that barrel chest is a 5.25″ dedicated subwoofer, and there are four 2″ midrange drivers and two…

Man Buried With Cellphone, But Now They’re Digging Him Up

Old man Banjeglav was so god-awful addicted to his cellphone and text messaging that he told his son to bury him with the thing. So when he died recently, that’s just what his son did. Only problem was, Banjeglav’s 10-year-old grandson snatched the cellphone out of the dead man’s rigor mortis-frozen clutches between funeral and…

Military VR Simulator Is Closest Thing Ever to Real-Life Halo 3

Click to viewThis is the ultra-high resolution multi-projector VR system that will be used for training at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Built by Lockheed Martin, it uses Mersive Sol Server technology to automatically and seamlessly combine multiple projectors in one gigantabolous immersive display, thanks to camera-based fully-automatic calibration, edge blending and color…

Bang & Olufsen Beosound 6 player is now shipping; blow $600 on a purdy 4GB DAP if you want, just leave us out of it. [InfoSync]

Guitar Captured with Enough Coke Stashed Aboard to Take Us All to Electric Ladyland

What on earth would make this Stratocaster clone worth well over a million dollars? As you can see in the pic above, the electric guitar was stuffed with lots of cocaine, that’s what. We former musicians are well aware that the gigsters always have the best blow, but this guitar player went overboard when he…

Robotic Snap-o-Lantern, the DIY Gape-jawed Snapping Turtle Pumpkin

Make yourself a robotic mini-pumpkin just in time for Halloween by following the instructions from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. The little gourd acts like an electrified snapping turtle, with his beady little LED eyes lighting up the spooky night. Only problem is, you have to have a hobby servo motor lying around and a couple…

Radius Design Home Flame Keeps the Domestic Fires Burning the Easy Way

As the weather gets cooler, we’re starting to eagerly anticipate the romance of a fireplace, and we haven’t seen any easier to deal with than this Radius Design Home Flame. Just about the only installation you need to worry about is to hang it on the wall like a picture frame, and there’s no chimney,…

Toshiba’s Sexy SD-P120DT Portable DVD Player Makes Us Forget There’s a Format War On

Congrats to Toshiba for building a cooler standard-def DVD player than any HD DVD player it could ever dream up. The sweet black Speak-N-Spell-looking 12″ 800×480 SD-P120DT has HDMI out with up-conversion up to 1080i, is compatible with DivX, MP3 and WMA files, and even takes SD, xD and Memory Stick flash cards. Too bad…

Brando Adapts eSATA Drives to USB with a Simple Adapter

We’ve already seen a clever way to conveniently adapt eSATA hard drives to USB, and now here’s an even easier and cheaper way to do that from Brando. It’s a $15 adapter, and sure, you’ll have to add $10 to that ticket to get a power supply to fire up that drive, but the money…

No Price Cut For Wii

Reporters learned a valuable lesson in economics when they asked Nintendo president Satoru Iwata if there would soon be a price cut for the $250 Wii, to match recent cuts for the competing PS3 and Xbox 360. The answer? Hells no! “We’re still focusing on how to meet booming demand,” Iwata said Friday. “We’re absolutely…

Space Age LCD Dashboard Converts Your Car into a Batmobile

Click to viewThe Nippon Seiki Co.’s Wide Vision is a GT-Rish LCD car dashboard kit that not only shows and logs the usual information on speed, rpm and mechanical conditions, but combines it with a nightvision view of the road, rear view camera and some wicked animations to make you feel you are actually flying…

Mobius MKII Speakers Have 360-Degree Sound, Look Designed to Play Ziggy Stardust

The Mobius MKII reference loudspeakers can either give you 360-degree sound or shoot down alien spaceships. At least, that’s what it feels like when you look at these 38-inch-tall units, with two 1-inch silk dome tweeters inside those black orbs and their conical subwoofers. But even while the Mobius MKII won’t fry an X-Wing, they…

Video of Toyota i-Real Vehicle Shows Future of Lazy Geek Transportation

Here’s the Toyota i-Real concept chair/personal vehicle/fantabolous thang, straight out of Akira. Quite spiffy, although we would like to see it getting up to top speed. Check the amazing animations on the back of the chair, supposedly to convey information about your driving or give the LED finger to fellow drivers. [Jalopnik] https://gizmodo.com/toyota-i-real-concept-car-309614

Pear Cable Chickens Out of $1,000,000 Challenge, We Search For Answers

Click to viewWhen we first criticized the $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables, little did we know it would stir up such a hornet’s nest of controversy. James Randi, former magician and professional debunker, responded to our post by offering $1 million from his James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to anyone who could scientifically prove in…

Ron Moore Gets His Auteur On

Ronald Moore will go the Joss Whedon route, directing an episode of Battlestar Galactica which he wrote. But the bad news? Galactica season four is now officially airing in April.

New TV Series: “I Have No Mouth And I Must Climb”

A group of humans are trapped in a skyscraper at the mercy of a psychotic artificial intelligence, in 99 Stories, a new series that will appear on AMC next year. There’s no way out of the 99-storey building except to keep climbing, and each floor presents a different challenge, as the building’s computer torments its…

Takumi Calculator Features Computer Style Keypad and USB Connectivity

When it comes to pressing buttons, nothing beats the sweet tactile feedback a computer keyboard can provide. Now you can experience the same joy whist crunching numbers on the go. As you can see, the Takumi calculator features a computer style keypad, but it is also interesting to note that it can connect to your…

T-N-T Multi-Tool Helps Firefighters Kick Ass and Break Stuff

The fires currently raging in Southern California got us thinking about tools that can help firefighters do their jobs more effectively, and few devices can do more than the T-N-T or “Denver” Multi-tool. It is an axe, a pry bar, a ram, and a D-handled pull hook all-in-one—so it can smash or rip through just…