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Hands On With Creative’s Aurvana Noise-Canceling Bose-Killer Headphones

These days, everybody wants a piece of Bose’s noise-canceling headphone business—and Creative’s new iPhone-friendly Aurvana X-Fi cans are a very worthy contender. Unlike other Bose competitors such as Sony, Panasonic and JVC, who have gone with discounted pricing, Creative decided to attack Bose at the QuietComfort 2 pricepoint of $299. It’s apt, since they are…

It’s a Woot Off! As of this writing, there’s a Zune up there for $150. Who knows what other deals will appear throughout the day? I quiver with anticipation. [Woot]

Lucky and Flo Bring their Pirate-Huntin, Crime-Bustin’ Noses to NYC

Remember Lucky and Flo, the two chemical-sniffing Labradors awarded medals by the Malaysian authorities for helping in the fight against DVD piracy? Well, they’re now back in the US doing the same to US pirates. Find out whose round objects they’ve been sniffing now. https://gizmodo.com/malaysian-authorities-award-medals-to-pirate-dvd-sniffe-291167 The dogs’ first unlucky victims were busted at three joints…

CopterBox, Cardboard Helicopter

The CopterBox is a disposable air-drop box, designed to safely drop cargo from a plane. Using parachutes is more expensive, and requires that you go back at some point to pick them up. With this system you can just throw a package out and forget about it. Unless it’s raining. Check out a video after…

New Honeywell HDMI Cable Heals Self, But At What Cost?

Honeywell, maker of all kinds of scary top-secret stuff, has just unveiled its design for a “self-diagnostic and self-healing” HDMI cable. No, this isn’t like the self-healing armor that for all we know Honeywell also helped design; these new cables use a chip to correct signal as it passes through, and LEDs to tell the…

TomTom Introduces GO 920 and GO 920T with Voice Controls

TomTom will ship a new high-end navigator in the US, the Go 920 series, including the $599 Go 920 and the Go 920 T (for “traffic”), which will sell at a premium likely to be $100 more. The key to the new flagship is voice control: you can use TomTom’s Voice Address Input to name…

Joel King Breaks World Speed Record on Jet-Powered Luge

Click to viewJoel King just broke the world speed record on a jet-powered street luge, racing at 112mph (180km/h) —lying horizontally just a couple of inches above the asphalt of an old US air base at Ipswich. He strapped a small 90,000-rpm jet engine to the two-meter board, which gave him up to 80lbs of…

Sanyo’s Xacti DMX-HD1000 is Full HD Video Cam, Silver and Gorgeous

Sanyo has done wonders with its new Xacti HD camcorder. As well as being silver, sleek and rather beautiful, the DMX-HD1000 will give you almost an hour and a half of HD-quality footage with an 8GB SDHC card. Full specs and a gallery after the jump. Full HD (1920 x 1080) 4-megapixel sensor Supports SD…

Lightning Bolt Hitting Plane Taking Off in Osaka

This shot shows a lightning bolt striking an airplane taking off at Osaka’s airport, then hitting the ground. Lightning is not dangerous for airliners, as the electricity flows around their aluminum skin, but looking at the stunning video loop after the jump and knowing that tomorrow we have to fly to Berlin for IFA, they…

Nikon Debuts Hardcore CoolPix 8MP P50 and 12MP P5100

Nikon’s newest CoolPix P series cams are the stick-shifts of the point-and-shoot world, with optical viewfinders, full manual controls and lots of hands-on features. The 12-megapixel CoolPix P5100 (right) has 3.5x optical zoom coupled with an Optical Vibration Reduction system. You can crop and edit shots on its 2.5″ LCD, and it runs on a…

Nikon Rolls Out Low-Priced CoolPix L14 and L15

Nikon is aiming for the low-end of the shopper spectrum with its aptly named “L” series CoolPix L14 and L15. The 7-megapixel 3X optical zoom L14 will go for $150, and feature a 2.4″ LCD. The 8-megapixel L15 will sell for $180, and have a 2.8″ LCD. Both cameras will run on AA batteries, and…

Samsung’s Printers will Make you Want to Have Hot Desk Sex with Them

Samsung has made its new printers look like works of art. Both models are a deliciously glossy piano black and, while the 11-cm thick ML1630 (above) is a monochrome laser printer, the SCX-4500 is multifunctional. Both of them rock blue LED displays and buttonless sensors, and the custom-designed semi-auto docking slide-out cassette means that paper…

Samsung’s SP-A800B 1080p DLP Projector Perfect for Death Star’s Theater Room

We bet Stormtroopers wouldn’t mind crowding around Samsung’s latest 1080p projector, the SP-A800B. It makes use of TI’s newest DLP chip, delivering a 24fps film mode and a 10,000:1 contrast ratio. No price or street date, but since it’s an “ultra high-end model targeted to the content creation industry and home theater,” we’re guessing the…

LG Bumping All LCD Monitors Fabbed After Sept. 1 to 5000:1 Contrast Ratio

LG’s contrasting up all of its LCD monitors produced after Sept. 1, pushing them all to a contrast ratio of 5000:1. They’re all sporting some proprietary tech dubbed “Digital Fine Contrast” that supposedly “dynamically controls controls brightness.” Flagshipping the 5000:1 contrast goodness are two new monitors: the L227WT (pictured because it’s the sexier of the…

Pac Man Rug Would Suit Wealthy, Old-Skool Gamer

This Pac Man rug is on sale via a kids’ website, but with a very adult price tag of $2,186. Made in Portugal and 100 per cent wool, there are only two of these 6’9″ x 10′ rugs in existence. So, rich kidults with a games room that needs carpeting, apply here. [Children’s Gorilla via…

New LG Design Art Series Flat TVs Are All About Design

Today we got our first look on the new LG Design Art series, the LF75 and LB75 LCD TVs. Supported by a balancing ring, they have the looks and also the guts: the 37, 42, 47 and 52-inch LF75s come at 1080p Full HD with your insanely usual 10,000:1 contrast ratio. The 8,000:1-contrast ratio LB75…

Palm-Sized Projector from LG Goes with Anything, Rocks the Color

LG used IFA to announce the arrival of their first palm-sized projector, the HS101 – which, judging by their comments, they’re pretty pleased with. “Industry experts told us it would be impossible to make such a small projector with a 2,000:1 contrast ratio and 100 ANSI lumen output,” said LG’s head of LCD TV Division.…

Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs

It was announced in passing during today’s press event, but now it’s official in their site, FAQ included: the Sony Music Store will be dead dead dead after March 2008. The eBook service won’t be affected, but the music is going the way of the Dodo as they embrace the openness. Read on for Sony’s…

Bossy Toothbrush Tells You How to Clean

If an electric toothbrush isn’t high-tech enough for you, then you could kick it up a notch with the Triumph with SmartGuide. The brush monitors how you are cleaning your teeth – time, area and pressure, and sends that information back to a base station. This base station, which can be stuck on a bathroom…

Nikon Launches S700 and S510 Style Series Metal-Bodied Compact Cameras

Nikon has launched two cameras in its Style series, the 12-megapixel S700 and 8-megapixel S510 with solid metal bodies and Optical Vibration Reduction image stabilization system. The cameras feature a 3X optical zoom, and aren’t very bulky. The metal body makes them very resilient and the cameras have a very quick 0.9 second power-up, so…