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Zyb Backs Up Your Contacts Online

What’s more painful and time consuming than entering in 300 of your contacts into a new cellphone? Entering 400 contacts into a new cellphone. Screw that. With the Zyb online service, you can back up your contacts ala the T-Mobile Sidekick, so you’ll never have to do that again. The Zyb service supports 200 types…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

Buslink MC512 MP3 Player – Dock Included

An company bundling a speaker dock with its MP3 player is the equivalent of throwing away free money. But then again, Buslink’s MC512 flash-based player won’t separate itself from the pack with its features—FM radio and MP3/WMA playback—so why not throw in an extra dock? The MC512 also has a voice recorder and 512MB of…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

Microsoft Zune vs. Heightened Airport Security

A reader sent in this tip about the clash between a friend and airport security, with a little bit of Microsoft Zune thrown in. Apparently, this Microsoft-insider friend was flying somewhere today, and when he got to the security check, officials made him check his laptop and cellphone. All fairly normal considering today’s events. The…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router: Built-In 160GB Drive, iTunes, and Bittorrent

When it comes to routers, well, Giz rarely falls in love for that sort of netpipe-laying gadgetry. But this Asus WiFi router looks like something we could really get used to living with. It has a built in network iTunes client, so it’ll show up as an iTunes client to your PCs. And it has…

Tech News Brian Lam Aug 10 '06

Hertz to try RFID Rather Than Keys for Rentals

A Hertz at the Nice Cote d’Azur Airport in France will begin using RFID to start up and check out cars, rather than keys. A group of 60 frequent Hertz customers will be guinae pigs in this test to see if using RFID-enabled cards for vehicles will speed the rental process. There are 10 Renault…

Tech News Travis Hudson Aug 10 '06

Thanko BINOCA01 Recording Binoculars

These Thanko binoculars zooms up to 7×48, captures video at15FPS VGA resolution, and still pictures at 2 megapixels with up to 2048×1536 resolution. Perfect for capturing owls, owls nests, owl mating, owl babies, and other owl-related scenes. The binocu-cams are powered by two AAA batteries and have only 32MB of built in flash memory. And…

Gadgets Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

Fred-o-Vision Retro TV Alarm Clock

This alarm clock will be either cool as hell, or annoying—I haven’t decided yet. It is housed in a retro-style television and will play back old game show themes and sounds to awake you in the mornings. It displays color changing text patterns that would easily get annoying while trying to sleep. Luckily it includes…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Aug 10 '06

DIY $10 Panoramic Tripod Head

Our sexy sister, Lifehacker, is highlighting a little tutorial how to build a panoramic tripod head of your own. This head can attach on to your existing tripod for quick, painless and accurate panorama shots. All the project takes is a little woodwork and you will be able to take amazing shots like this with…

Tech News Travis Hudson Aug 10 '06

Lubix Pendant-Style Bluetooth Headset

The UBHS-NC1 by Lubix can be worn around the neck as a pendant or inserted into the ears as a standard headset. It’s got 6 hours of talk time, 5 hours of music and 80 hours of standby. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like it “works” in pendant mode, meaning, you can’t use it as a…

Gadgets Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

Show Us Your ‘Pod Giveaway: Final Day

This is just a quick reminder than you have less than 24 hours to submit entries for our Show Us Your ‘Pod Giveaway. There is a nice iPod accessory package courtesy of Belkin up for grabs. Follow the linkage here for the full scoop on what you need to do to win. Contest ends tomorrow…

Tech News Travis Hudson Aug 10 '06

Nokia N73 3.2-Megapixel Cameraphone Reviewed (Verdict: Great Camera)

Nokia’s N73’s main feature is of course, the 3.2-megapixel camera. The camera has a Carl Zeiss auto-focus lens, which makes taking pictures a snap. The shutter works the same way as standard digital cameras, with the “auto-focus” part activating when you press the button halfway, and capturing the picture when you press it down all…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

LogiNoki, The Nokia 6610 + Logitech G5 Hybrid

This Frankenstein of a mod is the LogiNoki, a Nokia 6610 LCD stuffed inside a Logitech G5 mouse. Why anyone would want to create such a thing is beyond me, but then again, I voted Kodos. Apparently the projecte was inspired by years of trying to figure out how to put a fan inside of…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Aug 10 '06

Verizon’s EV-DO Card Does Work In MacBook Pros

Gearlog’s confirmed that the Novatel Verizon EV-DO card does in fact work in Apple’s MacBook Pro. All they had to do was pop in the CD, install the drivers, and they were online—surfing at Starbucks without having to pay for Starbucks WiFi. That’s great news for MBP owners. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-wireless-announces-novatel-expresscard-for-ev-d-191919 And why they didn’t just take…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We threaten to book a weekend class at the BMW Performance Driving School in South Carolina. The 2007 Corvette Z06 gains $5K and a killer orange paint job. We say hello to the new Scarface Platinum Edition DVD and check out the new Tom Petty album and Crystal Method’s Nike+ Original…

Tech News Travis Hudson Aug 10 '06

Timbuk2 Blogger Bag: Hands All Over The Perfect Sack for Bloggers

This laptop bag is the perfect sack for fast paced field blogging. It holds my laptop vertically, so it doesn’t bend against the curve of my hip, and it doesn’t bump into pedestrians when I hustle through crowded sidewalks. The corduroy lined laptop sleeve is built-in, has a velcro fastening strap, and its bottom is…

Tech News Brian Lam Aug 10 '06

Heightened Security In the UK Means No Laptops, Cellphones and iPods On Board

The Guardian reports that thanks to today’s unraveling of the “mass murder terror plot”, officials are banning gadgets from being taken onboard as a carry-on item for the time being. In the UK, laptops, cellphones, iPods, and other small electronic devices need to be checked-in thanks to the terrorist’s plan to use these gadgets to…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

Travis on Maxim: Making the Best Home Sex Tape

Every Thursday you can hear me on the Covino & Rich Show on SIRIUS 108, Maxim Radio at 1:30pm. The show runs from 10am to 2pm with replays at 10pm, all eastern. Today I covered the best way to make a home sex tape, hit the continued link below to get the full scoop on…

Tech News Travis Hudson Aug 10 '06

BenQ LinkPro: Wirelessly Transmit Presentations to Projectors

The BenQ LinkPro is compatible with BenQ’s MP620, MP770 and MP720p projectors and wireless transmits what’s on a PC’s display to any of the aforementioned projectors. Obviously, the main benefit is that you’re no longer tethered to a cable in order to get that wildly entertaining, if not immensely informative, PowerPoint presentation onto the wall.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Aug 10 '06

CinePlayer PDP100 Skinny Wall-Mounted DVD Player

NuTech of Taiwan makes this skinny, wall-mountable DVD player to accentuate the metrosexual home theatre system you spent $15,000 to set up. The player is 1.8 centimeters thick (0.7 inches), weighs 430 grams (0.94 pounds) and even plays MPEG-4 and DivX files. The PDP100 most likely doesn’t do fancy things like upconverting your DVDs, but…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 10 '06

Sony S2 Sports Walkman Player: Changes Songs to Match Your Running Tempo

Recall that Sony S2 Sports Walkman we wrote about 3 weeks ago, you know, the shiny one that’s good for running? Well it turns out the S2 will use an internal “G-Sensor” to automatically switch to songs that match your running tempo and acceleration. They call it, “Music Pace.” And, the player can be shaken,…

Tech News Brian Lam Aug 10 '06

Zyb Backs Up Your Contacts Online

Buslink MC512 MP3 Player – Dock Included

Microsoft Zune vs. Heightened Airport Security

Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router: Built-In 160GB Drive, iTunes, and Bittorrent

Hertz to try RFID Rather Than Keys for Rentals

Thanko BINOCA01 Recording Binoculars

Fred-o-Vision Retro TV Alarm Clock

DIY $10 Panoramic Tripod Head

Lubix Pendant-Style Bluetooth Headset

Show Us Your ‘Pod Giveaway: Final Day

Nokia N73 3.2-Megapixel Cameraphone Reviewed (Verdict: Great Camera)

LogiNoki, The Nokia 6610 + Logitech G5 Hybrid

Verizon’s EV-DO Card Does Work In MacBook Pros

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Timbuk2 Blogger Bag: Hands All Over The Perfect Sack for Bloggers

Heightened Security In the UK Means No Laptops, Cellphones and iPods On Board

Travis on Maxim: Making the Best Home Sex Tape

BenQ LinkPro: Wirelessly Transmit Presentations to Projectors

CinePlayer PDP100 Skinny Wall-Mounted DVD Player

Sony S2 Sports Walkman Player: Changes Songs to Match Your Running Tempo

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