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Nespresso Aeroccino Automatic Milk Frother

Sure, you’ve got your Single Serve coffee machines, but is your milk bland and lifeless? Not any more, with this Nespresso Automatic Milk Frother. For $79.99, this thing froths your milk in two steps. Are you ready? Step 1: Pour in the milk. Ok, now take a little breather, ’cause that was tough. Done? Good.…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 6 '06

Body Bag Bean Bags: Dead-On Chic

If you’re beyond emo all the way into Goth, these Body Bag Bean Bags will serve as a macabre decoration for your living room that will make it seem more like that dream morgue you’ve always wanted. Add to these furnishings a dripping faucet sound effect reverberating through the room, and the effect is complete.…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 6 '06

Self-Watering IV Plant Pot

Feeling guilty because you’re leaving your plants home all alone while you go out gallavanting around? Put them in intensive care with the Self-Watering IV Plant Pot ($275), a home for that special-needs plant that looks like an Apollo spacecraft with an IV drip hanging on it. This is not just any self-watering flowerpot. Besides…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 6 '06

Lightning Storms are iPod Haters, Nuff Said

Those silly storms, all they do is sit up in the sky and plot the destruction of the world. On this past Fourth of July weekend they have declared themselves anti-iPod fanboys by punishing Jason Bunch, a 17-year-old Colorado teenager, whose iPod was struck by lightning while he was mowing the lawn. The lightning traveled…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 6 '06

iLuv i7500 2.1 Channel iPod Audio System

The funny thing is, I don’t even own an iPod, yet it seems like there’s more and more accessories for the little player that could coming out every day. Right now, it’s the iLuv i7500 2.1 channel audio system. While yesterday’s iLuv i80 iPod Video Recorder was geared toward people who use the video functionality…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jul 6 '06

Low End Theory

Shoestringing It in Salvador By Brendan I. Koerner Granted, seven days is barely enough time to pick up a few shards of Portuguese slang, let alone come to sweeping conclusions about the Brazilian national character. But you don’t read this column for a dose of level-headedness, now, do you? So, your recently married narrator feels…

Tech News Brendan I. Koerner Jul 6 '06

Verizon Launches Samsung A990 Clamshell

Samsung has released the A990 clamshell phone for Verizon service in the United States. Another ho-hum phone you may be saying? Nope! This phone rocks a 3.2-megapixel camera that can provide the highest quality voyeurism a person can handle. In addition to the nice camera, this phone carries all of the other usual features: Bluetooth,…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 6 '06

Maxtor Shared Storage II: 1TB of Storage

Announced while we were all celebrating our nation’s independence, the Maxtor Shared Storage II (MSSII) brings 1TB (1,000GB) of networked storage capacity to LAN near you. As you can imagine, 1TB of data is quite a lot, but with gigabyte-hungry high definition content currently gaining momentum in the consumer market, the more hard drive space…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jul 6 '06

DAP Fiesta, Courtesy of Thomson

Thomson, or RCA, or Thomson/RCA or whatever the hell their name is now has dropped a fiesta of digital audio players. These DAPs cover the entire spectrum of available players. Anywhere from the low end EM2600 all the way to the redesigned X3030 portable media player. Get the scoop on all of the players after…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 6 '06

OtterBox Waterproof, Rugged Laptop Case

There are two types of people who should own a rugged laptop case like this. Either clumsy people who have tendencies to drop laptops often or people who just want to look like a bad-ass, carrying around a nuclear-football style briefcase. I probably fit in the latter category. The water-proofness of this case will only…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 6 '06

Berretta Extrema2: In the Hands of a Master

If you’re a trap or skeet shooter, you know how your shoulder feels after firing off a few cases of shotgun shells at those defenseless clay pigeons. Beretta comes to the rescue with its Xtrema2 Recoiless Shotgun, a gas-operated shooter with a hydraulic recoil damper which keeps that sucker from knocking you over every time…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 6 '06

SmartRetina Computer Controller Prototype

No, that’s not a picture of Johnny 5’s head you’re looking at, but the SmartRetina, a computer interface that tracks your movements to interact with a PC. With the SmartRetina hooked up to a PC, you can navigate the complex environs of your PC’s GUI without so much as touching a mouse. It’s supposed to…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 6 '06

More Information Surfaces Regarding Microsoft’s MP3 Player

The New York Times is reporting today with some new, juicy information about Microsoft’s iPod rival that has been in the works and speculation for quite some time now. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-close-to-releasing-ipod-rival-181396 According to the Times, entertainment industry executives briefed on the plans for the device last night and said it should be ready for a holiday…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 6 '06

Ten Feet Under: Freestyle Audio Fusion DMP

MP3 players are moving underwater, and now here’s a completely submersible player and earphone, the Fusion DMP from Freestyle Audio. Available in a Hobson’s choice of 256MB ($160) or 512MB ($200) capacities, it has a rechargeable battery that will give you 40 hours of underwater music goodness, where you can dive to 10 feet deep…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 6 '06

Gigabyte g-YoYo All-in-One Cellphone

From the land of Godzilla comes word of Gigabyte’s latest all-in-one cellphone, the g-YoYo. Now, I don’t know if the name is supposed to be some sort of play on words vis-à-vis the hip hop culture, but it certainly is an attention getter, for better or worse. Just like every other all-in-one cellphone, the g-YoYo…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jul 6 '06

Pet Spa: Traumatize Fido Forever

I think it is safe to say that most cats and dogs have traumatic experiences with this device, but at least they will smell nice afterwards. Sure, being covered water and chemicals in a tight space is something all pets love, right? The Pet Spa system will clean, de-flea and dry your beloved pet in…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 6 '06

FlashMic: Broadcast Mic with Flash Recording

Flash memory is turning up in all kinds of unusual places, and here it finds a home in the base of a high-quality Sennheiser omnidirectional microphone. Powered by two AA batteries, the FlashMic can run for eight hours, and its gig of flash memory can store 18 hours of broadcast quality audio. Although the memory…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 6 '06

Pocket LOOX N100 GPS Receiver From Fujitsu Siemens

I guess you can say it looks like there’s another member of the LOOX family of GPS devices on the way. Unlike previous LOOX models, which were full-fledged PDAs with GPS built-in, the N100 is being positioned as a portable music player that also GPS built-in. The N100 plays MP3, WMA and AAC digital audio…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 6 '06

Million Dollar Cellphone

For those who have billions of dollars and nowhere to spend it, here’s yet another object to acquire rather than giving away money to those pesky charities. It’s a cellphone by Goldvish of Switzerland that costs a cool $1,278,000. Heck, starlets walking the red carpet at the Oscars wear jewelry worth way more than that,…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 6 '06

LED Fan: Tacky Blinkinlights

We showed you a programmable spinning LED fan last month, but that was just a prototype shown at Computex that might be available sometime next year. Now here’s a lower-end $35 table fan with LEDs inside that’s available now, but it won’t able to display the customized designs or slogans of that more-sophisticated prototype. https://gizmodo.com/programmable-spinning-led-fan-179653…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 6 '06

Nespresso Aeroccino Automatic Milk Frother

Body Bag Bean Bags: Dead-On Chic

Self-Watering IV Plant Pot

Lightning Storms are iPod Haters, Nuff Said

iLuv i7500 2.1 Channel iPod Audio System

Low End Theory

Verizon Launches Samsung A990 Clamshell

Maxtor Shared Storage II: 1TB of Storage

DAP Fiesta, Courtesy of Thomson

OtterBox Waterproof, Rugged Laptop Case

Berretta Extrema2: In the Hands of a Master

SmartRetina Computer Controller Prototype

More Information Surfaces Regarding Microsoft’s MP3 Player

Ten Feet Under: Freestyle Audio Fusion DMP

Gigabyte g-YoYo All-in-One Cellphone

Pet Spa: Traumatize Fido Forever

FlashMic: Broadcast Mic with Flash Recording

Pocket LOOX N100 GPS Receiver From Fujitsu Siemens

Million Dollar Cellphone

LED Fan: Tacky Blinkinlights

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