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Knock Knock Door Chime

To both confuse and punish your visitors, the Knock Knock Door Chime rings a door chime whenever someone knocks. Wha? Yes, you read that right. One end of the wireless door chime attaches to the inside of the door, while the other attaches anywhere up to 100 feet away in your house. When someone knocks,…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

The Red Phone

Do you take jokes and grind it into the ground? Then this red phone is for you. The old school red “Hotline to the Kremlin” style phone acts as a handset for your cellphone. When you get a call, you pull out the red phone and everyone can have a good laugh at your dry,…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

Joby Gorillapod SLR Launches

Back in February we first saw the Joby Gorillapod. It is an extremely versatile tripod that can wrap around damn near anything. Joby has answered the requests of the people and released a bigger, better version of the Gorillapod designed for small camcorders and SLR cameras. The Gorillapod SLR uses the standard 1/4-inch screw and…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 10 '06

LG KG99 Slim Chocolate Phone

LG continues its choco-dominance with its KG99 Slim chocolate phone. By putting the bottom row of *, 0 and # keys in the fourth column, LG makes this phone wide and slim like the Motorola Q, but without the smartphone features. This slim chocolate phone is Tri-band GSM, has microSD expansion slot and weighs 73…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

ESPYs Gift Bag Make Us Almost Want To Exercise

If we had practiced sports like our parents encouraged us to when we were kids, we might just be on stage presenting at the ESPYs this year. What would we get for our troubles? How about a metric arseload of awesome gifts in the grab bag. Here’s just a taste: Archos Gemini 402 Camcorder, iGroove…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

HTC MTeoR Reviewed (Verdict: Fast!)

Bengalboy, his kitten, and his awful image-resizing program that makes all his pictures look like he rubbed sand on the lens, has reviewed the HTC MTeoR. Two things stick out from this review: the right boob and the left boob the speed and the reception quality. The MTeoR has a 300MHz Samsung processor, which is…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

Pantech’s Four New Concept Phones

Like concept cars, you either love a concept phone or hate it. Pantech’s four designs are probably have a win ratio of 2-1-1, which isn’t too bad. The first is Incense, which is long and has no screen. Maybe it folds out? It looks like an incense holder had a drunken night with an iPod…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

Blu-ray Delayed In Europe Until 2007

With the World Cup now officially over, what do Europeans have to look forward to? It’s definitely not Blu-ray, as many companies in the Blu-ray camp won’t be ready to deploy into Europe until January 2007. Pioneer says it doesn’t have any “concrete” plans for their European launch, but they’d have something figured out by…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

SanDisk U3 Cruzer Drives Are Skype Compatible

This sounds like more of a product promotion tie-in than a technological breakthrough, but the new SanDisk U3 Cruzer Smart Drives have Skype loaded in. You can keep all your contacts, account info, and the Skype program on the disk and use it on any old computer you visit—provided that computer has a mic and…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

Chimp Plays Ms. Pac-Man, Already Beat My Top Score

Check out this chimp dominating a little Ms. Pac-Man. And by dominating we mean doing alright and at least understanding how to play, but that is still a hell of a lot better than I could ever do with that little tramp, Ms. Pac-Man. You may be flailing your arms around thinking you are hot…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 10 '06

De-Drowning a Celly

Our half-sisters twice related through marriage, Lifehacker, points out a nice tip for salvaging a cellphone that has taken a plunge in some water. “I took the phone home, removed the battery and put it in the oven for a good bake on the “warm” setting, followed by a half hour in front of the…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 10 '06

10 Terrible Technologies of Q2 2006

We’re already well into July, meaning that 2006 is slowly approaching its glorious end. More importantly, that also means that we’ve had more time to see what terrible gadgets, gizmos and other technological toys companies have come up with. The crack staff at CNET have come up with a list of 10 of the worst…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 10 '06

Overclock Your T-Mobile SDA And Run Skype

Who needs an actual dedicated Skype phone when you can mod your T-Mobile SDA to run Skype? We know, the standard SDA isn’t fast enough to run Skype and causes a 10 second delay whenever you make a call. That’s why you’re going to increase the clock rate! This isn’t for the faint-of-heart or the…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

LUCKYee LY-PM06: Cheap iRiver Knockoff

Those Chinese knockoff manufacturers are at it again, this time making a knockoff of the iRiver U10/Clix—guess iPod knockoffs are so passe now? https://gizmodo.com/chinese-phone-knockoff-maker-telsdas-phone-designs-186003 The LUCKYee LY-PM06 is pretty similar to the Clix on the outside, but has a different UI inside. The features of the LUCKYee: https://gizmodo.com/iriver-clix-2gb-pmp-174156 512mb and 1GB capacities 2.2″ TFT Display…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

Internet is Hard

I appreciate all the feedback we’ve been getting about the redesign, both positive and deleted. We’ve been knocking out bugs and making tweaks based on your suggestions all last week and will continue to do so. But do me a favor: I’ve heard tell that there are some rendering errors hanging around, especially in Internet…

Tech News Joel Johnson Jul 10 '06

D-Link DPH-540, DPH-541 WiFi Flip Phones Shipping

The first clamshell WiFi Phone from D-Link is now shipping. This is a SIP (PsipTN) compatible phone, so Skype users may want to look elsewhere. https://gizmodo.com/d-link-dph-540-is-first-clamshell-wifi-phone-160904 To make calls from the phone, users will have to subscribe to a VoIP plan with a 3rd party provider, as D-Link just makes the phones. The phones will…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 10 '06

Lipstick Pepper Spray

For females or even males there is always a chance of being attacked in a dark alley behind your favorite shady bar. This small and cheap ($13) gadget can trick the attacker into thinking you are prettying up for them when really they will just get a load of pepper spray in the eye. I’m…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 10 '06

Tuning Fork

Attention HDTV Shoppers: Patience is a Virtue by Brian L. Clark There’s nothing quite like covering a technology in its infancy. Take HDTV, for instance. It seems every day, there’s something new coming around the bend. And as the markets for those technologies wax and wane, they all have an impact on prices. For example,…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 10 '06

Aromatherapy Travel Pillow

Placebo or not, people seem to flock to anything with “aromatherapy” in the name. Take this aromatherapy travel pillow, which supposedly makes “uncomfortable long trips a thing of the past.” This could have been useful to me since I’m about to fly halfway across the country for reasons unknown, but I guess we’ll never know.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 10 '06

Seattle Columnist Sez Microsoft Portable Player, Argo, Will Be More Than an iPod Rival

Last week we got some juicy initial information regarding the portable media player that Microsoft has in the works. Today a juicy little column appeared in the Seattle Times that has a boatload of information about this device, unfortunately, it is a column therefore none of the facts are backed up. The columnist said his…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 10 '06

Knock Knock Door Chime

The Red Phone

Joby Gorillapod SLR Launches

LG KG99 Slim Chocolate Phone

ESPYs Gift Bag Make Us Almost Want To Exercise

HTC MTeoR Reviewed (Verdict: Fast!)

Pantech’s Four New Concept Phones

Blu-ray Delayed In Europe Until 2007

SanDisk U3 Cruzer Drives Are Skype Compatible

Chimp Plays Ms. Pac-Man, Already Beat My Top Score

De-Drowning a Celly

10 Terrible Technologies of Q2 2006

Overclock Your T-Mobile SDA And Run Skype

LUCKYee LY-PM06: Cheap iRiver Knockoff

Internet is Hard

D-Link DPH-540, DPH-541 WiFi Flip Phones Shipping

Lipstick Pepper Spray

Tuning Fork

Aromatherapy Travel Pillow

Seattle Columnist Sez Microsoft Portable Player, Argo, Will Be More Than an iPod Rival

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