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Orb DVR Everywhere: Take That TiVo With You

If you have TiVoToGo and a TiVo Series 2 DVR, Orb DVR Everywhere will let you stream programs from that TiVo to any Web-enabled mobile device, PDA, or PC. It will also let you access music, photos, or video from your PC. And, if your PC has a TV tuner, you can watch live or…

Tech News Charlie White

USB OptiCam With Infrared

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own Paris Hilton grainy infrared sex video, this USB OptiCam webcam has two infrared lamps and a nightvision setting. Forget hotel chain fortunes; at just $20, even the heir to a trailer park could spring for one of these. USB OptiCam With Infra-Red [USBGeeks.com, via Red Ferret]

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Liquid Power Digital Clock

We suspect we’d love this liquid power digital clock instead of just liking it if it were made out of metal and glass instead of mainly plastic, but $17.95 is a nice low price to pay for something you can power with orange juice and soy sauce that would look so nicely Frankensteinish on your…

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OLEDs Create Sheets of Bright White Light

Looks like the 130-year-old incandescent light bulb’s days are numbered, because OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes)—the same devices that light up screens in cellphones—are now able to emit brilliant white light when electric current is applied. They can be printed in thin sheets, and can turn walls, ceilings, furniture, or anything else into a light-emitting…

Gadgets Charlie White

HD-DVD Players to Hit the Streets Next Week

Think of it as an Easter miracle—Toshiba will be shipping about 15,000 HD-DVD players next week to retail stores across the nation. There will also be four HD titles available including Serenity and OH BOYOBOYOHBOY Phantom of the Opera. Netflix and Blockbuster are also expected to rent HD-DVD movies. All of this is pretty hush-hush…

Tech News Johnb

Iljin Display Develops Coin-Sized Laser Projector Module

South Korean company Iljin Display expects that many cellphones will be equipped with projectors in the future, and it’s giving manufacturers an easy way to embed such devices inside with a laser video projector module. The company has shown a few different prototypes of the tiny projectors, saying that 7-inch images can be projected on…

Tech News Charlie White

Brief Safe Scares Away Thieves

Wait, wait! Before you run away, these skid-marked shorts are fake. What a great place to store your shit valuables! The Brief Safe from Shomer-Tec Law Enforcement & Military Equipment lets you hide cash, jewelry, or documents in the Velcro-closing fly of these bloomers that need a good washin’. Think about it—what thief in his…

Gadgets Charlie White

iRiver T10 2GB MP3 Player

The new 2GB version of iRiver’s T10 MP3 player will be hitting stores in Japan on April 26th. Available in a sporty lime green and with a built-in hook for clipping it to a bag or belt loop, it plays MP3/WMA/OGG/ASF formats, has an FM tuner, can record straight from radio, and a single AA…

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Bang & Olufsen BeoLink Wireless 1 System

Bang & Olufsen has developed the BeoLink Wireless 1 System, using a wireless signal to send high-quality music all over the house. Each transmitter/receiver communicates with the others via 2.4GHz wireless technology, with the transmitters capable of sending and receiving signals 90 feet away. A single transmitter can handle seven pairs of loudspeakers. In each…

Tech News Charlie White

Firefox 1.5.0.2 Released

Firefox 1.5.0.2 was released yesterday with security fixes and improvements to product stability, so don’t walk but run to download it. Those of you with new Intel Core processor Macs, this version comes in a Universal Binary with native support for your machines; The Apple Blog says, “If you load it on your Intel-based Mac,…

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Sony Ericsson Head Says “A TV In Every Cellphone”

Miles Flint, President of Sony Ericsson, believes that mobile TV is coming to all cellphones in a few years. Could it be that SE is working on their own, proprietary system and this is a warning shot from deep within their Swedish bowels? Possibly. When will it happen, you ask? 2007 or 2008. I’m thinking…

Television Johnb

PS3 OS Rumors

No screehshots yet, but we’ve got a crate-load of specs for the new PS3 OS which will be always available, like the XBox 360 Dashboard. Multi-User Voice Chat across all games, even outside of the games own UI – Multi-User Video Chat across all games, even outside of the games own UI – Notifications and…

Tech News Johnb

Print New Organs With Bioink

Our donut and fizzy sugar water consumption aside, we’re working hard on keeping our arteries from clogging these days, but we must admit to being somewhat more reassured about our prospects of longevity whenever we read stories about tissue engineering like this: Gabor Forgacs, a biophysicist at the University of Missouri in Columbia, described his…

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Amadana Cooking Timer

The Amadana Cooking Timer is available in white or black, and shows you little pieces falling down that kinda remind us of Tetris, but not exactly. This is more like an hourglass than Tetris, and when the variously-shaped blocks fill up the display, your time is up. If that doesn’t float your boat, the timer…

Gadgets Charlie White

Netgear Gets Speedy with 802.11n

Netgear has announced the availability of its latest Wi-Fi products. The RangeMax NEXT series of product that operates at 802.11n speeds. Being fast can be pretty damn expensive, The RangeMax NEXT Wireless Networking Kit Gigabit Edition—that includes a Wireless router and wireless notebook adapter—has a blistering $349 price tag. At least it is still backwards…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Maxtor Launches Pocket-Size Portable Drive

Maxtor is launching the OneTouch III Mini Edition on Monday. It is their first small-form-factor external storage device. It only weighs 7 ounces and it even comes fully loaded with software for managing digital content, backup, encryption, synchronization and system rollback. It is chock full of nice software and security features to be the ultimate…

Tech News Travis Hudson

TiVo Beats EchoStar’s Butt

TiVo went up against EchoStar in a patent infrigement lawsuit and won, with a jury awarding TiVo $73 million in damages. Why the lawsuit? When EchoStar put together its own digital video recorder for its Dish Network, TiVo cried foul, saying that its patent for a “multimedia time warping system” was violated by EchoStar’s DVR.…

Tech News Charlie White

Crusher: Autonomous War Wagon

Like a giant, autonomous Half-Life crate, the Crusher—and its little sister Spinner—is a rolling, intelligent battlefield delivery system. For example, the Crusher aka the UGCV PerceptOR Integrated (UPI) can wander along with a platoon and dispense rocket launchers like dangerous Pez. It can also right itself and carry its own payload and complete its own…

Tech News Johnb

Monome MIDI Controller

This may not look like a musical instrument, but it is—and a whole lot more. It’s a grid of 8×8 buttons that light up when pressed. A USB interface connects this thing to almost any sequencer or MIDI system and allows you to simply press the buttons to get a sound, change a setting, or…

Gadgets Johnb

QuaNext Linux PC/TV

This a 19-inch TV/PC combo that you switch with a remote control. It runs SUSE Linux and a Pentium 4 processor with up to 220GB hard drive and a CD/DVD player. Designed as a home TV with web surfing and email functions, it seems to have everything we hackers love—Linux, commodity hardware, interesting design, and…

Television Johnb

Orb DVR Everywhere: Take That TiVo With You

USB OptiCam With Infrared

Liquid Power Digital Clock

OLEDs Create Sheets of Bright White Light

HD-DVD Players to Hit the Streets Next Week

Iljin Display Develops Coin-Sized Laser Projector Module

Brief Safe Scares Away Thieves

iRiver T10 2GB MP3 Player

Bang & Olufsen BeoLink Wireless 1 System

Firefox 1.5.0.2 Released

Sony Ericsson Head Says “A TV In Every Cellphone”

PS3 OS Rumors

Print New Organs With Bioink

Amadana Cooking Timer

Netgear Gets Speedy with 802.11n

Maxtor Launches Pocket-Size Portable Drive

TiVo Beats EchoStar’s Butt

Crusher: Autonomous War Wagon

Monome MIDI Controller

QuaNext Linux PC/TV

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