Cablevision Caves In, Postpones Network DVR
We mentioned earlier that Cablevision was in some legal trouble regarding its planned network DVR. If you don’t remember, the network DVR differs from a regular DVR in that all of the content is stored on Cablevision’s servers rather than a local hard drive while retaining all of the normal DVR features, such as pausing…
Kiber 6040/1030
Kiber is a Dutch company that makes a number of interesting watches based on Swiss and Japanese automatic and quartz movements. They just released the light yellow 6040/1030 automatic chronometer using a Valjoux movement with date as well as hours and minutes elapsed registers. What makes this special, you ask? Well, it uses a very…
Lego Coffee Maker
These kids deserve our love and respect. They not only made a Lego Coffee Making Think With Tubes and Stuff (TM), they also posed next to it, rocking the full science fair regalia. I have pictures like this in the family album—me hanging out with my Atari 800XL, for example—and I don’t look half as…
Samsung HDTV Tour
Recently, Samsung showed off several of its upcoming HDTVs in New York City. I took some time out of my incredibly busy schedule to check out what the company plans to offers consumers in the coming months. To read all the Dionysian details of what I saw, make the jump. Yes, Samsung makes some mighty…
Citizen Bluetooth Watch
The VIRT from Citizen is the first Bluetooth watch in the whole entire world. This limited edition monstrosity, the VIRT W700 connects to your phone and displays caller IDs and vibrates when you get a call. This presumably allows you to keep your phone in a chest at the bottom of the sea and, when…
SunRocket: Like Vonage, But With a Flat Fee
Not sure how this stacks up to the rest of the big boys yet, but we talked to some folks at SunRocket the other day and they told us about their $199 unlimited yearly calling plan with 30 minutes international calling and all kinds of E911 hotness. Plus, there’s no cancellation fee. If you’re already…
Top 10 Strangest Clocks
Even bloggers have slow news days, but thanks to the Interweb, they don’t have to hire expensive art people to make fancy, graphics-heavy round-ups of old junk. All they have to do is rock the old IMG tag and they’re set. That said, TecheBlog rocked the IMG and EMBED tags to create a list of…
Spectare Keypix Keychain Digital Photo Viewer
You’ve got a digital camera but don’t want to haul it around everywhere with you just to show off your pics. Also for some reason, you don’t have access to an SD card reader. What to do? You could load up to 56 JPEGs on the 512-kb Keypix digital photo keychain, that’s what. With a…
BT Launch Glide, First Bluetooth Landline Handset
More news from Britain today with word that BT is launching Glide, which they claim to be the world’s first Bluetooth handset of the landline variety. With a 300 meter (nearly 1,000 feet) radius, the Glide lets you walk around your big house while chatting with your important friends about the goings-on in town. Since…