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Swigz Dual-Chamber Sports Bottle Keeps Gin, Tonic Separate

If your exercise regime has you drinking a combination of liquids like Gatorade and water, Powerade and Red Bull, or the old G&T, the Swigz Dual-Chamber sports bottle can keep both liquids separate. The two chambers are intertwined so keep the “bottleish” feel intact, and has two heads up top so you can drink without…

Arriva iPod Shuffle Headphones Make us Laugh, Cry a Little

Could these possibly be the worst headphones ever made for the iPod shuffle? Yes, yes they could. Instead of making them something a normal person would wear, Arriva’s gone and made them “wireless,” in the sense that they have a built-in iPod shuffle dock and hangs the player off the back of your head. Sure,…

Really like reddit.com? Buy the two Apple G4 PowerBooks that helped code it so you can lick the keyboard and hope some of their juice rubs off onto your own project. [eBay]

Sharp Aquos R Series Gets THX Video Certification

Remember when we told you about the first THX-certified flat panel, a $20,000 Vidikron plasma? Well, it’s about to get company, from the likes of Sharp, no less. According to Electronista, Sharp has unveiled the Aquos R series, the first LCD certified by THX for theater-grade image quality, with a THX Movie Mode to make…

Logitech G9 Gaming Mouse Leaked?

Some Chinese site seems to have some leaked photos of Logitech’s upcoming G9 gaming mouse. If this is real, the upgrade to the G5 gaming mouse has interchangeable face plates, LEDs for resolution display and some modularization changes all over the place. Ugly photos aside, this one looks fairly convincing. [Everything USB]

The 85W MacBook Pro charger gets an update that shrinks its gigantic size, but still manages to deliver 85 watts where it needs to go. [Apple]

Bone Wrist Support: A Haiku

It’s not a dog toy, My wrist rests on it, it’s cute! I am so lonely. [Product Page via Slashgear]

International Press Junkets Shouldn’t Be Free, Just Open

As you know, many electronics companies offer all-expenses-paid trips to journalists to go to Europe and Asia, touring factories and R&D facilities, meeting with executives and eating like kings. The trouble is, the trips are off-limits to the majority of tech reporters, for breach of obvious ethics guidelines. I know all about the junkets because…

Tiger Paw Screen Cleaner Cellphone Strap

Rather than have a cellphone strap that looks cute and does nothing, this Tiger Paw cellphone strap actually lets you clean your screen—albeit a small cellphone screen. Just put the tiger (or sheep) paw on your finger and start wiping away. The strap clings conveniently to your phone, and also comes with a tail for…

Sprint to 200 Iraq War Veterans: Go to Hell

After dumping “needy customers” because they take too many support resources, Sprint is also dumping 200 US soldiers after returning from a Tour of Duty in Iraq. The reason according to the veteran who denounced the situation: “excessive roaming.” And not even Iraq-related. The story is so absurd that it’s hard to believe. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-dumps-needy-customers-275374 After…

The University of Kansas switches to a one-strike policy for internet piracy, resulting in banishment from the residence hall internet network if caught. [Ars Technica]

50-foot Marshamallow Blaster

We knew you could build your own marshmallow blaster gun out of a used Pringles can, tape and a two by four, but what about those of us who are too lazy to build stuff? Well, now you can buy your own pre-made pump action marshmallow gun that shoots those soft confectionaries up to 50…

Thursday’s Best Stories

We had an interesting mix of Apple rumors, laboratory innovations and thrill-seeking inventors make news yesterday. Here’s what you may have missed… •The father of the camera phone is sailing across the pacific, but he took the time to answer a few questions. •Sprint and Clearwire join forces, hope to deliver WiMax to 100 million…

Super Mario Bros. Subwoofer: OK, I Get It, You Like Video Games

This Super Mario Bros. subwoofer combines two good things to make an even better thing. If it was for sale and I didn’t care about my apartment looking like a virgintorium, I’d buy one. Unfortunately, it’s a homemade project and I’m not living above my parent’s garage. But if I was! What adventures I would…

Kanguru’s Eco Drive is the World’s Most Energy Efficient External Hard Drive

Kanguru claims that by reducing power consumption by up to 75%, it can both extend the life of your hard drive and be eco-conscious at the same time. The Eco Drive works by going into an idle mode after three seconds of inactivity, which has 80% of normal power consumption, and standby mode after three…

Microsoft Sells a Million Zunes!

Woooo! Woooooooooooooooooooooooo! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! FAAAAAART!! [Zune Insider]

New Crimson/Black DS Lite to be Bundled With Brain Age 2 in Canada

Canadian online retailer Future Shop has started pre-orders for a Nintendo DS bundle which includes Brain Age 2 and a new crimson and black colored DS Lite. Since the only place this has popped up is Future Shop, we’re not really sure if this is only for sale as a bundle or Canada-exclusive. The bundle,…

SanDisk Cruzer Contour Looks Monolithically Sexy

If you’re in the market for a cool-looking flash drive and the SanDisk Ducati looks a little bit too much mid-life crisis to you, might we suggest their Cruzer Contour (which we saw back at CES). It’s a glossy black drive with an extendable/retractable USB connector. Yeah, that means you won’t have to keep track…

NEC’s New Face-Detecting Cameras: Is Big Brother Finally Coming?

If you thought cameras that could read your license plate were an invasion of privacy, you’re not going to like NEC’s new camera system that they unveiled yesterday. It’s a face-recognition system that’s designed to ID people while they’re in their cars. It’ll initially be used at the Hong Kong border, where people with national…

Ask.com Brings Anonymous Searching With AskEraser

Ask.com isn’t quite getting the traction it needs to overpower Google in the search arena with the weird algorithm ads, so it’s besting Google in another arena: privacy. By providing a tool called AskEraser, Ask will allow users to perform internet searches—googling, if you will—without storing any of the search information server side. This is…