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TimeCap USB Drive is a Digital Urn

Instead of keeping Aunt Edna’s ashes on the mantelpiece, why not just put her digital essence into a TimeCap Digital Urn, a small USB drive designed to last a lifetime. At first we thought this was a hollowed-out container to carry someone’s ashes around your neck, but perhaps that would be too morbid. So what…

Laptop Magazine’s Best and Worst Laptop Designs Ever

Think about laptop designs you’ve seen over the past decade or so. Which one do you think had the best design, and which was the absolute worst? Laptop magazine went through them all, coming up with the best and worst of the modern era. Worst 1. We heartily agree with Laptop’s assessment of the absolute…

18-yo Struck by Lightning Playing Mortal Kombat, Raiden Not Involved

Click to viewYesterday we learned that a 18-yo had to be rushed to hospital after being struck by lightning while holding a gamepad in his mouth and another one in his hands. Weird? Well, it gets weirder: He was playing Mortal Kombat for SNES with his cousin. How and why the heck do you play…

Fans of Yahoo and Windows Mobile can have both now that Yahoo! Go 2.0 has been released. Phones like the Sprint Mogul and AT&T 8525 can get in the action. [Yahoo Go]

Wednesday’s Best Stories

If you missed out on some of yesterday’s news, Wednesday brought us more Apple news, new Samsung gear, electric cars, and foreign gamers who got a bit too intimate with their gear. All that and more in the Wednesday round-up… • Samsung announced their new Blu-ray/HD DVD hybrid player and we got a hands on.…

Remember that limited edition Simpsons Xbox 360 Microsoft was giving out as prizes? You can buy them on eBay. Current price: $2550. [eBay via TVSquad] https://gizmodo.com/limited-edition-colorware-xbox-360-commissioned-for-sim-259405

Dvorak Uses Mac, Likes it, Recommends it to Friends

John C. Dvorak, the man Mac users love to hate, has used a Mac. His verdict? He actually likes it quite a bit. After using the iMac for a project for some unnamed company, he found that they’re very quiet, “slicker” than PCs, and has a feeling of being faster and more solid than Windows.…

Saitek Shows Awesome LCD Displays for Realistic Flight Sim Instrumentation

Thinking of putting together a realistic F/A-18 Hornet or Boeing 747 cockpit for your flight simulation rig? Wait, you might want to check out Saitek’s latest dedicated flight simulation peripheral that’s looking like the next best thing. The company gave a sneak preview of this trio of convincing-looking screens at E3 this month, and says…

Halo 3 Toy Weapons Have Realistic Light, Sound, Recoil, and Vents When Overheated

Playing make-believe Halo 3 with your friends in the backyard is fun enough with cardboard boxes for helmets and aluminum foil for guns, but what if you had a real replica plasma rifle? Jasman Toys is bringing its line of Halo 3 Covenant (bad guys) weapons with Laser Pursuit technology to Comic-Con this week. Each…

Apple Plans Product Transitions Before September

Owen of Valleywag noticed this yesterday in the Apple’s earnings call: CFO Peter Oppenheimer threw out an interesting tidbit as sort of an aside about some product transitions before September. Curious indeed. What could these be? He didn’t elaborate further, but what could constitute a product transition? Those new iMacs we’ve seen rumors about for…

Vonage Visual Voice Mail Hands On (Verdict: Mixed Success)

VoIP telephone service provider Vonage just began offering Visual Voice Mail, a text transcription service that turns all of your voicemail messages into text that’s immediately emailed to you. Using a combination of speech-to-text software and human transcribers, Vonage is charging 25 cents per transcription, which could end up getting expensive if you have a…

Furminator First Person Pinball is Exciting, Potentially Blinding

I’ve never found pinball to be all that exciting, but I’d probably think differently if the balls were flying right at my face and my head shook at every paddle hit. The Furminator makes pinball just such a first-person, immersive experience. By sticking a force-feedback helmet on your head and putting the paddles right in…

Hype Sheet: Michel Gondry and HP’s Rebranding Project

The Pitch Yet another entrant in HP’s "The Computer is Personal Again" campaign, this time featuring French art-school deity Michel Gondry (though the spot’s actually directed by his brother, Olivier, who also did HP’s great Vera Wang ad). If you saw The Science of Sleep, you know what’s coming: lots of stop motion and lysergic…

Breezy Singers Robot Birds, Annoying But Controllable

Prepare for the upcoming apocalypse when all birds are extinct with these Breezy Singers Robot Birds. They have moving tails and heads, and react to motion and changes in light with their recorded songs that are straight from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They sit still enough so that they are easily picked off with…

Nujiang Kids Have World’s Most Badass, Dangerous School Commute

Remember when your dad used to tell you that he had to walk 10 miles to school, uphill, in a blizzard? Well, your dad’s got nothing on the kids of China’s Nujiang Great Canyon. With no money to build a bridge spanning the river that separates their homes from their school, kids as young as…

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We go jogging Gump-style with the Nike Vintage Running Collection, hit the beach in some Vilebrequin Okoa Maui Boardshorts, and learn that public parks aren’t just for homeless people while we fly the Prism Quantum Kite. We also cart around the nephew in the BOB Sport Utility Stroller, become super-popular with…

Alesis iMultiMix 9R Professional Mixer with iPod Dock

The iMultiMix 9R from Alesis has been designed with studios and live venues—and even churches—in mind. As well as an iPod dock, what else does the rack-mountable 9R rock? 5 high-gain mic preamps 2 stereo line inputs 48V phantom power Auxiliary sends and returns 3-band per channel EQ with high/low shelving and band pass/reject Composite…

Daily Dubious iPod Rumor: 6G Launching Next Month, Won’t Have Touchscreen or OS X

Sources—the best kind, unnamed ones—are telling Think Secret that the next version of the video iPod could hit as early as next month, but won’t sport rampantly presumed features like a 16:9 touchscreen or OS X. Rather, it’ll keep the same resolution screen (320×240) and run the updated OS we pegged as a pre-iPhone prototype.…

Inflatable Bar, an Ice Cold Beer Barge

Even if you don’t have a pool, just the notion of this inflatable beverage cooling bar floating toward you across the cool blue water might be enough to make this summer’s high temperature and humidity seem a bit less oppressive. This baby holds just about enough beers to keep Mark, Chen and me busy for…

Shoe Pure 100, Glowy Smell Protection

Sweaty feet + shoes = smelly. The Shoe Pure 100 hopes to…balance that equation…by drying out your shoes to prevent bacterial/fungal growth. Shaped like an egg, the Shoe Pure unfolds to reveal two drying hooks. Place your sweaty shoes on, and warm ozone will dry them in about 30 minutes. But what about that light—is…