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Attack of the Toilet Tube Robots

Wired News writes about development of a new type of swarming robot, called ‘Scouts,’ that can autonomously coordinate their actions, allowing them to cover large areas where GPS can’t find them and human-control would be too cumbersome. About the size and shape of a toilet-paper tube, the units may eventually be led by a larger,…

Tech News Joel Apr 21

Eyeball, Spyball

While remote sensors are becoming de rigeur for battlefield operatives, only the smallest robots are light enough to be lugged around on a pack, and even those take precious time to be set up and deployed. Enter the Eyeball, a spherical sensor pod with a 360-degree camera and microphones than can be tossed into unscouted…

Tech News Joel Apr 21

Elonex Wall-Mounted Media Center PC Preview

Trusted Reviews has a preview of the Elonex Media Center, and it looks like a hot ticket, if wall-mountable 32inch widescreen LCD monitors with fully-integrated PC hardware is your trip. The Elonex prototype runs Microsoft Media Center platform with built-in Ethernet and WiFi, and while not everything was spit shined yet (the speakers, for instance,…

Tech News Joel Apr 21

Smart crossblade, a Motorcycle for Those with Poor Balance

Smart, the Swatch-designed and Daimler Chrysler-engineered European sub-compact car brand has a new variant on the roads, the ‘smart crossblade.’ An open-air runabout powered by a Mercedes-built 3-cylinder rear-mounted engine (turbocharged for your pleasure), the crossblade is described as a “motorcycle on four wheels,” eschewing traditional styling (like, you know, a roof) for an wind-in-your-hair…

Tech News Joel Apr 21

Nextel Motorola i730 Status Light Fix

David Blake sends this handy tip for Nextel Motorola i730 users: Many owners of the Nextel (Motorola) i730 were disappointed to find that it did not have a status light. There is now a Java app that adds this to the phone. Read

Tech News Joel Apr 21

Hello Kitty Headlamps

For just ¥4,179, these Hello Kitty replacement headlamps put our favorite kawaii kitten into the halo of blinding light she’s always deserved. [Thanks, Remo] Look – Fullsize Image Read – Sanrio Store

Tech News Joel Apr 21

BananaGuard!

Banana Guard saves transported bananas from bruising while cruising, cladding your fruits in a hard plastic, ventilated shell with a sturdy locking mechanism. While Banana Guard was “specially designed to fit the vast majority of bananas,” do not feel badly if your fruits do not fit; every fruit is special in its own way. Read…

Tech News Joel Apr 21

8 Megapixel Showdowns

Which of the new 8-megapixel cameras is the best? Two batches of reviews try to answer that question this morning, the first from stalwart DPReview, which includes the Olympus C-8080WZ, the Canon PowerShot Pro1, the Nikon Coolpix 8700, and the Konica Minolta A2; the second is from The Luminous Landscape, which compares the Sony F828,…

Tech News Joel Apr 21

Upcoming Pocket PC Phone Roundup

PDABuyersGuide rounds up a few of the rumored and upcoming Pocket PC Phones in this overview, including the XDA II (more than rumored, but not in the US, either), the HP iPAQ 6300 (which we’ve talked about before), the AnexTEK SP-230 with its Sony Ericsson P900-like keypad, the Audiovox PPC 5050, and the double-flipping Motorola…

Tech News Joel Apr 21

Stuffed Animal MP3 Flash Drive

It was bound to happen. Now that Yet Another Flash Drives have become such a commonplace commodity, they’re starting to be shoved into surprising places—specifically, the insides of this knock-off stuffed Pooh Bear. Although the manufacturer’s page doesn’t make it clear exactly where the flash player is lodged, one can easily imagine, you know, loading…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Share Your Battery Nightmare Stories

JR Minkel, a freelance science writer in New York, is working on a story for Popular Science and he needs your help. I’m looking for stories of battery failures in portable electronics that had harrowing or perhaps hilarious outcomes. There was the story last year, for example, of an Air Force spotter accidentally calling in…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

CoCoPod Music Player Reviewed

You were hoping, I bet, to see a review of the CoCoPod, that 20GB hard drive music player we spoke opprobriously of earlier. Here is one from Techtree.com, but be warned: they start out by saying the CoCoPod has a “classy design and suave looks.” Do with that what you will. [Thanks, Lindsey!] Read Read…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Hitachi’s WOOO Series Hard Disk Recorder

Check out this MangleFished translation about Hitachi’s new hybrid 400GB hard disk video recorder and DVD burner, the first in its ‘WOOO’ series of A/V products, which appears to allow burning of recorded shows to DVD-RAM, and DVD+RW/-RW. It’s a sign of something when (even a fairly full-featured) PVR has an 800MHz processor, although I…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

U.S. Gadgets Lack Features

Fazal Majid wants to know why Americans are becoming “second-class citizens” in the world of personal electronics, as many products are now shipping with less features in US models than in European or Asian markets (such as Sony’s PEG-TH55 Cli PDA and its lack of Bluetooth). He asks a very good question: if the US…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Sony Ericsson Z1010 Sees Swedish Shores

Sony-Ericsson’s 3G Handset, the Z1010 is “tog slut direkt,” according to this ComputerSweden report. Translated, that means the Z1010 has begun shipping in limited quantities—just enough for those who pre-ordered the phone—but Sony-Ericsson is reportedly ‘on track’ to produce more, with no additional delays after this first run. [Thanks, Johan!] Read (Swedish) Read – Sony…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Pacemakers + Electricity == Elderly Bloopers

The Times has a short ditty warning of the dangers of modern electronics and pacemakers, ending up with an unintentional ‘chuckle at the unfortunate elderly’ piece, including the story of a man whose use of an ‘alternative medicine’ device called the Zapper (dude!) would stop his pacemaker until he fainted and dropped the device. Unfortunately,…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Blade Electric Motocross, Quiet Riot

The Electric Moto Blade is an battery-powered all-electric motocross bike which can be tuned to a variety of torque programs, providing power enough for fifteen-foot jumps or low-power, extended-range trail rides. The Hawker fast-charge battery amps up in just 30 minutes, and the whole assembly can be hosed off without damaging the electronics (assuming the…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Festo’s Humanoid Robot

German industrial robotics company Festo will unveil a humanoid robot with servo-pneumatic muscles this week, says The Raw Feed. Called ‘Tron X’ (the X is for ‘Xterminate the Makers’), the machine uses over 200 controllers to emulate human-like muscle movement. I think it was Nostradamus who said the end of civilization would come by the…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Shimy Shimy Cocopod

The CocoPod is a goofy-looking audio player, with a 20GB hard drive, built-in FM radio and voice recording, on-the-fly MP3 encoding, and an SD/MMC slot for backing up data directly to the device. It’s sort of ugly, but in 18 months when it’s selling on discount racks for $99, it’ll start looking pretty good, I…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Sony Cybershot DSC-F828 Review Redo

PC Magazine reviews the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F828, an 8-megapixel camera that was first marred by slipshod image quality, but after a firmware upgrade warrants a second look. The four-color Sony CCD still has some problems getting the colors quite right, but good controls, nice weight balance, and logically laid-out menus put the $999 DSC-F828 back…

Tech News Joel Apr 20

Attack of the Toilet Tube Robots

Eyeball, Spyball

Elonex Wall-Mounted Media Center PC Preview

Smart crossblade, a Motorcycle for Those with Poor Balance

Nextel Motorola i730 Status Light Fix

Hello Kitty Headlamps

BananaGuard!

8 Megapixel Showdowns

Upcoming Pocket PC Phone Roundup

Stuffed Animal MP3 Flash Drive

Share Your Battery Nightmare Stories

CoCoPod Music Player Reviewed

Hitachi’s WOOO Series Hard Disk Recorder

U.S. Gadgets Lack Features

Sony Ericsson Z1010 Sees Swedish Shores

Pacemakers + Electricity == Elderly Bloopers

Blade Electric Motocross, Quiet Riot

Festo’s Humanoid Robot

Shimy Shimy Cocopod

Sony Cybershot DSC-F828 Review Redo

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