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Pack n Chair

Only a little bit dorky, the ‘Pack n Chair’ is a folding seat that wraps around a standard-issue, detachable backpack, allowing you to traipse merrily after fish taco vendors without worrying about unshaven smell bombs engaging in impromptu relations on your lawn-section blanket. The backpack even has a built-in cooler at the bottom, easily accessible…

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World’s Most Inexpensive iRiver H-140 Case

It’s been the gadget industry’s quiet secret for far too long, and it’s about time someone took the spermicide issue into their own hands. Infection and impregnation by digital manipulation is portable media’s silent killer. Available in fine truck stop restrooms everywhere (tickler models may not be suitable for use with multiple headphones). (Thanks, Paul!)…

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Paris Hilton’s BlackBerry Hacked

February 20, 2005 Update: It’s happened again. Now with pictures. See also: The Collected Works of Paris Hilton’s Hacked Sidekick [Gawker] Paris Hilton: Hacked [Defamer] (With link to her famed phone book) Paris Hilton’s Sidekick hacked [Lifehacker] http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/danger/index.php#paris-hiltons-sidekick-ii-hacked-what-about-yours-033637 An anonymous ‘source’ has claimed that Paris Hilton’s Blackberry has been haxorbated, leaving us with a quote…

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TubeSurround Headphones

It looks as if ‘the tube’ surround sound headphone is actually being sold, despite the fact they did not personally ask me to weigh in with my skepticism. To an extent the idea makes sense—placing speakers around the head to simulate surround sounds more effective than using strange phase algorithms, at least in theory—but the…

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Hand Band

Hammacher Schlemmer has a new crap toy for sending to your step-sister’s obnoxious children—one that makes grating, out-of-phase noise while also conveniently allowing you to see what would have happened had they been blessed with a third 21st chromosome. Made to fit all but the fattest-handed children, The Hand Band can generate keyboard, guitar or…

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Kubrick iPod mini iBear

From what we heard from import shops last year, the iKub Kubrick iPod Cradle ended up being a blockbuster hit—people couldn’t get enough of the $50 white robot that held the iPod with cold, but loving precision. Now it looks like there is a new model, which we’re told is called the iBear, designed to…

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Explorer Gloves: By Kid for GapKids

Nathan Tung was just 10 years old when he won the Wild Planet toy design contest for his ‘Explorer Gloves,’ a clever pair of gloves with built-in signal lights, watch, compass, and more (Wild Planet has worked with GapKids before). Now GapKids has decided to pick up the gloves for inclusion with their new subtle…

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YES Zulu Watch Reviewed

It’s rare that a watch strikes my lust gland as clearly as the YES Zulu did. The $800 titanium-clad timepiece not only tells time (through a digital display), but has a built-in analog 24 clock. As the single hand moves through its 24-hour cycle, the display underneath shows how much daylight is left in the…

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Noon Bits

Product Highlights • Nokia and TI to develop single chip GSM phone [MobileTracker] • Aiwa adds 512MB and 1GB models to XDM series [TechJapan] • Kutaragi defends PSP design despite high defect rate [GameIndustryBIZ] Business • Maxtor won’t think small after all [Reuters] No 2.5-inch laptop drives. • The Good, The Bad, (RIM), The Ugly…

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iTech XFM DAB Radio

Pocket-Lint surely likes the iTech XFM DAB radio, a pleasant-looking mantis-headed radio with lots of features, including 10-minute live rewind and MP3 playback from SD/MMC flash memory cards. If it’s got any shortcoming, it would be the 5 D-cell batteries it takes to power it off the wall—you’d be better off keeping it on mains…

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Whovel

Perhaps not the newest bit of gear on the ice-covered block, but certainly topical enough considering: the Whovel is a snow shovel with a giant plastic wheel attached to the middle, making it easier to flip snow without straining your back. It’s supposedly been reviewed by a real doctor, as well, who verified its ability…

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Verizon EV-DO Handsets: Samsung A890 and LG VX8000 Reviewed

Matt Maier reviews a pair of new Verizon EV-DO phones, the Samsung A890 and LG VX8000, both of which operate on the carrier’s newish high-speed cellular network yet don’t allow any mechanism for getting content on or off the phone (no Bluetooth, no memory cards). While Maier is impressed with the speed—and should be, because…

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Glad ForceFlex

Part-time Gizmodo operative and full-time ladykiller Brendon “I,” Koerner talks about the “Mercedes of Trash Bags,” the Glad ForceFlex. Each of the new, stronger bags is comprised of ribber diamond patterns, each of which can expand out when internal pressure gets too overwhelming without compromising the entire bag integrity. As Clive notes, the most interesting…

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Soldier Breath Health Sniffer

I cannot tell a lie: the space hookah picture does not actually show the prototype devices being developed by Defense Department contractors to test if soldiers are sick or tired just by sniffing their breath. In fact, I think that man might be inventing the world’s bitchunest french horn or maybe one of those MIDI…

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World’s First MP3 Players

Eliot Van Buskirk writes a fun, if nerdy column for CNet about the world’s first MP3 players—and they definitely weren’t from Rio or Apple. While many of us in the US first bought the Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300, a flash player with a massive 32MB storage capacity (honestly, it felt constricting even at the time),…

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Simple Ferrite Bead Absorbs Cellphone Radiation

A British professor is urging for the use of ferrite beads on wired, hands-free headsets to absorb excess radiation that may travel up the outside of the wire. The same sort of ferrite beads are often seen on monitor cables—it’s that bulging cylinder right before the plug—and should add only pennies and a little weight…

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Bug DAB Radio to Support Electronic Programme Guide

Digital Audio Broadcasts are really starting to take off in Europe, where the smaller average country size means they can use shorter, and thus cheaper radio wavelengths. Or maybe that’s a lie and it’s because the format offers not only an improved sound quality, but all sorts of really smart, useful features like the new…

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M¼-Card: Yet Another Memory Card Format

When I rolled out of floor this morning I thought, “Golly, I hope there’s yet another ass-eating memory card format to talk about today!” My prayers were met with a double blessing it seems, as a Taiwanese technology consortium not only announced a new format, but named it something that required me to look up…

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Earthquake Resistant School Desks

It would seem to be a bit silly to spend all night safely tucked into an earthquake resistant bed, only to travel to school to be buried under a crushing wall of homework. (Ha ha, just kidding. I mean rubble or knives.) Come February 1st, children in Japan’s schools will start seeing these ‘earthquake resistant…

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rapidBox Skype Router

For as cool as $20 Skype USB handsets are, there’s something a bit cluttered about having seperate handsets for both VoIP and regular phone calls. The rapidBox is a simple USB router with three RJ11 (phone plug) jacks that lets you use the handsets you already own to make calls over the Skype network (including…

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Pack n Chair

World’s Most Inexpensive iRiver H-140 Case

Paris Hilton’s BlackBerry Hacked

TubeSurround Headphones

Hand Band

Kubrick iPod mini iBear

Explorer Gloves: By Kid for GapKids

YES Zulu Watch Reviewed

Noon Bits

iTech XFM DAB Radio

Whovel

Verizon EV-DO Handsets: Samsung A890 and LG VX8000 Reviewed

Glad ForceFlex

Soldier Breath Health Sniffer

World’s First MP3 Players

Simple Ferrite Bead Absorbs Cellphone Radiation

Bug DAB Radio to Support Electronic Programme Guide

M¼-Card: Yet Another Memory Card Format

Earthquake Resistant School Desks

rapidBox Skype Router

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