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Oppo Blast PMP Loves FLV

The Oppo Blast is one sexy PMP. At only 6.9mm thick, its waistline is identical to an iPod nano’s. But the Blast has a few tricks up its sleeve… On top of standard MP3/WMA/MP4/AVI/Lossless audio support, the Blast will play flash video, XVID and animated gifs—yes, animated gifs—the best of Web 2.0 in your hand!…

Asuka HD32F Looks Like Clamshell, Is HD Without Cables

This is a neat little idea from Asuka, a 1.8-inch HDD that looks like a cellphone. Slide it into the card slot of your laptop and it can transfer data at 1056 Mbps. Neat idea, huh? Cost is $123 for 20GB and $230 for 40GB, but it’s a shame it’s only available in Japan en…

iPhone Can Now Serve Web Pages, Run Python, Open Source Apps

Click to viewAfter the first Hello World application, hacker NerveGas and the people at #iphone-shell have built Apache, Python and other Open Source apps for the iPhone. Yes, your iPhone can now be a web server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone will happen no matter…

Brazilian Gamer Gets Struck By Lighting… With Joystick in Mouth?

Following last week’s RPG kidnapping, a 18-year-old brazilian near Sao Paulo has been hospitalized after being struck by lightning while he had one joystick in his hand and another in his mouth. I know, weird. The proof that Mother Nature can be a bitch sometimes was left in the teen’s bedroom wall, as you can…

Cellphone for the Blind Has Angled Keys, No Screen

This cellphone concept design by Peter Lau allows blind users to easily dial numbers and make calls. It doesn’t rely on Braille, but instead has differently angled keys that users can learn to recognize. So how do you send and receive an SMS then? There are no details on this, but presumably it would be…

Up-Wing Priorities (1981)

Paleo-Future reader Mark Plus sent me a very interesting piece from the June 1981 issue of Future Life magazine. The author, F.M. Esfandiary, insisted that the Right/Left political and social dynamic was outdated. The new direction was Up. Mr. Esfandiary would later change his name to FM2030 because he was convinced that he would live…

Samsung the First to Develop DisplayPort LCD panel

Samsung has announced that it has developed the world’s first LCD panel that uses DisplayPort. The 30-inch LCD, which goes into mass production in the second quarter of 2008, has 2560 x 1600 resolution thanks to the zippiness of the new interface that, at twice the speed of today’s interfaces, transmits graphics data at 10.8Gbps.…

BarbieGirls MP3 Player Unlocks Chat Rooms, Content, Peer Pressure

These BarbieGirls MP3 players are bizarre for more than their creepy doll shape: Apparently they are designed to teach your kids about exclusion and peer pressure. When you plug the $59.99 device into the included dock, they unlock exclusive content and chat rooms that only other kids with dolls can access, making them a My-First-Country-Club…

Sleek O2 Cocoon Plays Music, Transforms into Bedside Clock

Yes, it’s no iPhone and it’s British, but the O2 Cocoon’s has a blue LED screen that shines straight through its retro-’70s white clamshell design. It can display time, caller or track information, while simultaneously looking awesome. Best of all, it can transform: It comes with a dock that converts it into a bedside alarm…

ActiveSync and Exchange Support for Helio Ocean

Helio is announcing Activesync support for the Ocean. The phone will then be able to sync calendars, email and contacts from an Exchange server. They’re also doing a file viewer app that will view PDF, Word, Powerpoint and Excel docs. $10 a month for Helions with All-In service plans. HELIO LAUNCHES MAIL FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE…

Much-Needed Rest (1903)

A common fear of the future is that life will become much too hectic. This idea is commonly portrayed in cartoons such as the one above, which ran in the June 4, 1903 edition of Life Magazine. The caption reads, “Mr. A. Merger Hogg is taking a few days’ much-needed rest at his country home.”…

Space Spiders (1979)

The 1979 book Toward Distant Suns features the “Space Spiders,” illustrated below. Space Spiders are designed to help build the space colonies of the (paleo)future. Use of Space Spiders to build a space colony of the Stanford torus type. In the foreground mobile teleoperators carry rolls of aluminum to restock the Spiders’ supplies. Detail shows…

Third Party iPhone Battery Replacement For $25-$65

Worrisome iPhone users, are you dreading the day when your battery inevitably fails and sticks you with an $85.95 bill after you send it in to Apple to have it replaced? If you’re not afraid to try something new, you can start saving a little less each month because ipodjuice.com is hawking a replacement battery…

Sony Hana, Lamp + MP3 Player = What?

After playing a little too much Viva Piñata, somebody at Sony decided to start mashing together random, seemingly incompatible product lines. The resulting mutation was the Hana, a standing lamp that also includes an MP3 player and full-length speakers. I guess they’re targeting the “music lover who hates to listen in the dark and is…

Hands-On TiVo Unbox Movie Rentals, PC-Free

TiVo’s $300 HD player was fully revealed today, so it’s a good time to explore TiVo’s pumped up Unbox functionality that this and the Series 3/2 all have. TiVo has been working as a set top box for Amazon’s Unbox movie rental and purchase service for a while, but only in the last few weeks…

6-foot Neon Rainbow Apple Computer Logo on eBay for $4500

If you’re a die-hard Apple buff and want the world to know it, place your bid for this massive original Apple Computer sign. This sign comes from the era of the manly rainbow-colored logo and has been hanging on an authorized Apple dealer’s store wall for years. The dealer is relocating and you can be…

Cooler Scoop Prevents Ice Hands

You know how you get the Han Solo shivers after you shove your arm into a cooler to find the last beer in a sea of Diet Pepsis? What you need is the cooler scoop, a scoop that proxys for your arm in order to dig out a drink without freezing to death. The only…

XM CEO Hugh Panero was expected to step down after the Sirius merger, since Mel Karmazin was slated to be CEO of the new two headed monster. Now it’s official. Here’s hoping the soulless bot-DJs go next. [PR Newswire]

Green Airways Flying Saucer Plane Design

Is this green flying saucer plane the eco-friendly plane of the future? It’s a design from the CleanEra project, aimed at making air travel more economical (in the environmental sense) by using lighter materials and weird ass shapes. Their goal is to get the carbon usage down to less than 50% of current planes. Whether…

Spring 2007’s Gayest Cars (Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That)

Following up our post on Gay Cars in 2006, we present Gaywheels.com’s survey of which cars are gayest (not that there’s anything wrong with that). They base their research on their server logs, quantifying which cars get the most research from their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual readership. (I feel like the list is more…