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FootLume Glowing Rug Solves Midnight Stubbed-Toe Problem

The FootLume carpet design is basically a high-tech rug jammed with electroluminescent lights and weight sensors. As you stroll across your bedroom in the dark on your way to, you know, get a drink of water, the rechargeable rug lights up to guide you on your way. No bright light to wake your sleeping partner,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Mar 26

XCOR Lynx Bringing Sports Car-esque Travel to Space

A two-seater spaceship smaller than a private jet that will take people up for a 25-minute space flight, is being launched in Mojave today. According to the Lynx Mark 1’s makers, Xcor Aerospace, the spacecraft is expected to be at the test-flight stage by 2010. The two-seater craft has room for one passenger besides the…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Mar 26

There’s a Laptop Battery Shortage

Bad news, folks. After a fire earlier this month at an LG Chem plant (South Korea’s second largest battery maker), Dell, HP and Asustek are all admitting noticeable supply shortages for portable power. While they scramble to secure other battery manufacturing, know that Dell has already raised their battery prices (the exact percentage, we’re not…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 26

Artist Turns Bead Curtains Into Star Trek Works of Art

Bead curtains are like, so 1950’s huh? Artist Devorah Sperber doesn’t think so. Her amazing Star Trek bead curtains are much more likely to be adorning gallery walls than the front door of your local grocery store. Kind of like pixel-art in 3D, she slides tens of thousands of beads onto threads to create these…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Mar 26

Luminous Handy Strap is Stylus, Ewok Jedi Lightsaber

On a slow news day, one company can always be relied on to bring out something so unutterably useless that I fall to my knees and give thanks to James T. Kirk and all the angels: Brando. Their phone strap-slash-stylus-slash-lightsaber-for people-of-extremely-restricted-growth costs five bucks and would redefine the word pointless if it didn’t actually have…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Mar 26

Sporty Robot Webcam With Choice of Balls, the MPC-095

A posable sports robot-theme webcam, with a choice of ball: basketball, baseball and football (US and Euro style). Who’d’ve thought there’s a market for this? Chinese company Rodintech for one, though a trip through their website shows that they’ll try and stick a USB webcam in just about anything. This MPC-095 has a 350 kilopixel…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Mar 26

Toshiba’s ApriPoko: a Remote Controller Companion Robot

Toshiba’s new robot pal is basically a voice-operated infrared universal remote control, heavy on the cuteness. Programmed to be fairly smart, he’ll wait until you use a controller for your electronics, then ask you what you were doing: the next time you want to perform the same action, you just have to tell ApriPoko to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Mar 26

Microsoft Branding Xbox Live Cheaters for Life, Like Sex Offenders

Microsoft justice is cold but apt. If you tried to goose your Xbox Live Gamerscore to match Chen’s (he’s an achievement demon, but I still rock his face at Halo) with game save hacks, the long arm of Microsoft is squeezing your nuts right about now. To start, they’re nuking your Gamerscore, and you can’t…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 25

Callpod’s Drone Bluetooth Adapter Automates Connecting Headphones and Headsets

Callpod—maker of one of our favorite charging devices, the Chargepod—has just come out with a Bluetooth adapter called The Drone. What’s special about this Bluetooth adapter that’s not in any of the hundreds of other Bluetooth adapter sticks already out? It “automatically pairs itself with your headset or headphones,” which saves about 30 seconds of…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 25

New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers

Sadly, I think these lightsabers planted by SpikeTV might not be the real *bzzt* *plop* flesh-disintegrating deal, so even if you did break in case of Sith (or muggers) at best you could just beat them over the head and hope they don’t Force choke you and steal your wallet. Since people will swipe just…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Mar 25

Sewer Gas May Allow For Suspended Animation

Suspended animation – the state that space travelers are always put into in movies so they don’t age while traveling for many years – may turn out to actually be possible, and it’s a simpler process than you’d expect. Yep, all you need to fall into a deep sleep and not age is a good…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Mar 25

Over the Counter DNA Paternity Tests Seem Like a Great Idea

After home pregnancy kits revolutionized stick peeing from an office to a home affair, the door was opened to the general public performing previously lab-only work on their own toilets. Identigene and Rite Aid have taken it one step further, allowing you to tell whether or not that kid is yours with a simple $29.99…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 25

Microsoft Developing Native Office Apps for iPhone

The iPhone is definitely turning into an enterprise heavyweight. Tom Gibbons, head of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group (which houses their Mac developers) confirmed to Fortune that Microsoft is looking at bringing native Office apps to the iPhone with the SDK: “To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 25

Trapeze Chandelier Really Spices Up Key Parties

What better than a pajama’ed gentleman swinging gracefully back and forth in the middle of your living room to make the statement, “I am an adult, and I have arrived.” Unlike traditional chandeliers, which have too many lights and too few places to hang off of, this trapeze chandelier allows five models to lounge around…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 25

Robo-One Robot Street Fighter: Actual Robot Chicken Beats Metal Ass, But Where’s the Beef?

Twice a year Japan holds the Robo-One championships, which is like Street Fighter for robots. The most awesome one by far is Leghorn, a robot chicken (hell yes) that beats down other tin cans with its "Chicken Chop." But is that really all they’ve got? One of the dudes said it’s all about making robot…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Mar 25

ABB FlexPicker Robot’s Legs Move So Fast it’s Scary

The ABB IRB 340 FlexPicker’s legs instantly put me in mind of a kind of merciless Matrixesque robot, snatching up human bodies and doing terrible things to them. But apparently, it’s the world’s fastest industrial robot, and is used to pick and sort items on a production line— innocent things like sausages and croissants. By…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Mar 25

Cellink T USB Thumb Drive Stores, Links

Here’s a weird USB thumb drive called Cellink T from Korea’s Human C&C which looks like a normal thumb drive at first, but flips out into a two-pronged cellphone connector. One of the ports still goes into your computer’s USB drive, naturally, while the other slides into a cellphone (Korean, naturally) in order to transfer…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 25

NASA Leaving Spirit Mars Rover to Die Due to Budget Cuts

Sad news today from NASA: Spirit, the Mars rover, is perfectly functional and waiting for instructions that it’ll never receive on a sunny hillside on the red planet. It’s being left to die due to budget cuts. UPDATE: Looks like NASA has changed their mind. Physorg reports that “it has rescinded a letter that recommended…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Mar 25

Technosexual: One Man’s Tale of Robot Love

Zoltan is a 33-year-old guy from Georgia. Average height, average looks, and not a rich man. He works in an arcade, where he fixes video games for a living, and still lives with his elderly parents. No wonder he was nervous about asking his slim redheaded girlfriend Alice to marry him. To make things more…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Mar 25

Windows Mobile 6.1 Hits Apr. 1st

Now for the Windows Mobile 6.1 detail you’ve been waiting for: The release date. Pocket Lint says their sources peg D-Day as April 1st. Possible, given that the 6.1-powered Xperia was originally due middle of the year, so even if the date’s a bit off, we’ll see it not too long after that. [Pocket Lint]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 25

FootLume Glowing Rug Solves Midnight Stubbed-Toe Problem

XCOR Lynx Bringing Sports Car-esque Travel to Space

There’s a Laptop Battery Shortage

Artist Turns Bead Curtains Into Star Trek Works of Art

Luminous Handy Strap is Stylus, Ewok Jedi Lightsaber

Sporty Robot Webcam With Choice of Balls, the MPC-095

Toshiba’s ApriPoko: a Remote Controller Companion Robot

Microsoft Branding Xbox Live Cheaters for Life, Like Sex Offenders

Callpod’s Drone Bluetooth Adapter Automates Connecting Headphones and Headsets

New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers

Sewer Gas May Allow For Suspended Animation

Over the Counter DNA Paternity Tests Seem Like a Great Idea

Microsoft Developing Native Office Apps for iPhone

Trapeze Chandelier Really Spices Up Key Parties

Robo-One Robot Street Fighter: Actual Robot Chicken Beats Metal Ass, But Where’s the Beef?

ABB FlexPicker Robot’s Legs Move So Fast it’s Scary

Cellink T USB Thumb Drive Stores, Links

NASA Leaving Spirit Mars Rover to Die Due to Budget Cuts

Technosexual: One Man’s Tale of Robot Love

Windows Mobile 6.1 Hits Apr. 1st

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