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Smoking Breathalyzer

In Japan, actively damaging your alveoli is as cool for schoolkids as it is here. Keeping with this trend, administrators (headmasters, etc.) are now using a new type of breathalyzer to determine just how entrenched in Flavor Country you might be. Kanematsu Wellness’s iki iki Monitor is a $650 grey box for convenient breath testing…

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Solio Solar iPod Charger Reviewed (Verdict: Needs More Sun)

We first mentioned the Solio Solar iPod charger back in November, but Pocket Lint’s review of the unit is none too favorable (less favorable than our review last month, even). Garnering a mere 6 of 10, the review clashes with the company’s claim of a “fully-charged unit within eight hours,” saying it’s closer to six…

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Rio Unite 130

A slide-out USB connector and infrared port are some of the more creative features on Rio Japan’s new flash-based Unite 130 MP3 players. A four line OLED, line-in port and of course, an FM tuner and voice recorder might make the Unite sound rather tempting, were it not for prices from $150/256MB to $360/2GB. A…

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Jazz Speakers Bzcom Net Speaker

Jazz Speakers offers their Bzcom J1302 Net Speaker: a “business communication” device that combines the functions of speaking and listening. Offering “Clear Voice and Echo Cancelled” as well as “No External Adapter Required” (it’s powered by love), the “Bizzycom” is pretty much a—surprise!—USB speakerphone for your computer. Jazz Speakers kindly reminds us that it is…

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Box.net Contest Winners

Congratulations to Luis Vaca, TFC, Jason Murphy, Taz Goldstein, Frumin, Jeff Smith, David Grant, Avi Schwab, Denny Cave, and Richard Horsman—all winners in our Box.net giveaway for a year-long 1GB account. Even bigger congratulations to Dara Kong, who was randomly selected by a hand-carved d12 from the winners to be the recipient of the lifetime…

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ClockBall Desk Clock

I suck at math, but even without the long series of equations I can tell that ClockBall’s neat factor is pretty much equal to its complete and utter uselessness. ClockBall is a desk clock that rolls forward a centimeter ever hour until it reaches the black border of its pad. Then it rolls backward. Time…

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Beovison 7 Home Entertainment System

Bang & Olufsen’s is the prettiest demand to hand over my wallet I’ve seen in a while. This home entertainment center is built around 32-inch widescreen LCD screen that automatically adjusts picture quality upon powering up. The screen also includes an intergrated DVD player and top box controller module for pulling in satellite channels. It’s…

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Sleeptracker: Wearable Sleeping Aid

Sleeptracker is a watch you wear while—wait for it—sleeping that monitors muscle activity and tension along with body temperature and mysterious “other signals.” When those signals match the particulars of an “almost-awake” moment (the weakest points of your sleep cycle, usually around the REM phase), it can wake you up. The idea is to program…

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Chewbacca Pod Pouch

I’m actually looking for another iPod case for my 3G (which is harder than it should be), so I want this lawsuits-be-damned Chewbacca Pod Pouch to be the one. But the thing is, if I’m going to stuff my iPod inside a $16.50 merkin, I at least want to be able to control it from…

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Nintendo DS New Colors in Japan

Nintendo is releasing four new colors (maybe five, if that silver is different than the original) in Japan, including ‘Candy Pink.’ I’d say it’s likely we’ll get our colored DS soon, although knowing Big N, it’ll be a few months after the March and April launch in Japan (and probably not as many colors). Product…

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Couch Potato Tormentor

Taking a page from the TV-B-Gone playbook, the new Couch Potato Tormentor is a $15 device that can be hidden in the living room, spewing random infrared signals designed to frustrate your loving husband into turning off the TV. And make no mistake, this is clearly an anti-man device, according to their graphics and typography.…

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Home-made Robot Sentry

A group of Japanese students have built their own programmable guard robot out of a Kuro-Box mini PC, a web cam, and some flashlights. They had me at, “clacking steel crab.” Mini PC Crab [AkihabaraNews via Ubergizmo]

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The Puma Bike

The Puma bike looks pretty ideal for inner city travel with its minimalist design, oversized tires and single gear. But as anybody who’s biked before in the city can tell you, how you park and store it is nearly as important as how it rides. For those of us living in furnished broom closets, the…

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Golla Mobile Bags

Although the name sounds a little bit like the soundtrack to a Britney Spears video—Golla Bag, ya’ll!—these Finnish-made gear bags are nothing if not smooshy. They aren’t designed for any specific model of phone or PDA, instead making up for wiggle room with ample padding. If a brightly colored bag swinging from a carabiner is…

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Arts and Crafts Moment: iPod from RAZR Box

I don’t know what bothers me more: the amount of time Anders Hansen must have spent making this, or that the Motorola RAZR V3 packaging is so big. I don’t think this is what Motorola had in mind for an iTunes phone.

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Contest! 20GB of Storage from Box.Net

At 5PM EST, we’ll be holding a contest to give away 11 accounts on Box.net, a new online file storage service. 10 winners will receive a 1GB account for a year, while one big winner will get a 10GB online storage account with Box.net for life (or the life of the company, of course, which…

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PISA’s F100 Media Player

China continues its global campaign of taunting us with pretty things we’ll never have as PISA launches the F100. The media player comes with a 20 GB hard drive and 3.5 inch TFT LCD screen, and plays a variety of media formats, including VOB files. And because what’s insult without a little injury, early word…

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Denon’s DVD-A1XV

The Denon DVD-A1XV looks like high-end player for those of you who did not come to play. For the $5,000 price tag you get a handful of A/V geek firsts for any DVD player, like Silcon Optix Realta chip and 10-Bit DVDO Professional Scaler—support for THX and 5.1 sound, as well. Component Video output with…

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Voom Goes Boom

Cablevision has announced it will not be retaining the Voom high-definition satelllite television service, despite plans for Cablevision chairman Charles Dolan had to run the service himself. With only 26,000 customers, the service proved to be too expensive to maintain, which is a real bummer—the HD service from Voom was gorgeous (not that I could…

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Smoking Breathalyzer

Solio Solar iPod Charger Reviewed (Verdict: Needs More Sun)

Rio Unite 130

Jazz Speakers Bzcom Net Speaker

Box.net Contest Winners

ClockBall Desk Clock

More Good From Gawker

Beovison 7 Home Entertainment System

Sleeptracker: Wearable Sleeping Aid

Chewbacca Pod Pouch

Nintendo DS New Colors in Japan

Couch Potato Tormentor

Home-made Robot Sentry

The Puma Bike

Golla Mobile Bags

Arts and Crafts Moment: iPod from RAZR Box

Contest! 20GB of Storage from Box.Net

PISA’s F100 Media Player

Denon’s DVD-A1XV

Voom Goes Boom

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