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I always appreciate it when an artist is asked about his work and admits that, basically, it’s a total failure. Fortunately, Douglas Irving wasn’t trying to replace traditional clocks when he designed the Sine Clock, a system that pulses three different sine waves to indicate minutes, hours, and a full day, with the shortest-length wave…
Speaking of cold beverages, Tempra Technology has developed the I.C. Can, a “100% safe and environmentally friendly” aluminum can that uses a self-chilling process involving a cooling gel, desiccant, and heat sinks. They claim to be able to drop the temperature of the 10-ounces of beverage inside by 30 degrees Fahrenheit in three minutes. It’s…
Is this why we fought WWII? So the Amsterdammers can have superior home beer technology? Clearly, the introduction for Interbrew and Philips’ new “PerfectDraft” system is cause to wage the bloodiest, hoppiest, deliciously frothiest war ever waged. The €200 (about $240) machine accepts 6-liter metal kegs which, once installed, stay fresh for up to four…
Slashdot Japan brings word that Amazon.co.jp now has the PlayStation 3 listed on their site. Not much else to say about this, except that’s what this appears to be. Sony has stated that the system will be unveiled at E3 2005, and will likely be available before the end of the same year. Perhaps more…
iPod owners may have heard about earlier versions of this product, but today Lumitector has announced a 4G-compatible version of their glow-in-the-dark scroll wheel protector. Also included in the package is a screen protector, helpful when you smash the little thing against your forehead in frustration as you realize you can’t stop buying goofy peripherals…
In the event that you are completely inept at using a computer, Casio offers the ~$450 USD “PCP-60.” And we’re not talking punching cops, thankfully – this is a compact printer that can operate without a PC. I hope it’s really, really compact too, because otherwise I don’t think many people can justify paying so…
Attention Filthy Hippies: I know many of you will be attending the Burning Man Festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in a week or so, conveniently assembling a large percentage of your various freakish/geekish subcultures into one arid, easily-eradicated and forgotten place. Since I have it on good word that, given the current political climate…
So we all love rapid prototyping, the idea that we could design something in 3D on our computer – like a pair of pliers, let’s say – and then just print it out using a machine right in our office. And that’s not a far off future or anything; rapid prototyping very much exists today,…
I think what I love the most about these AU concept phones is that so many of them look possible, in the sense that if the Japanese phone company decided they wanted to produce them they don’t look like they’re so far out there that no one would buy them. In fact, the “infobar” concept…
Good morning, friends. I don’t know that much about this bamboo bike, and reader Douglas Breskin, who sent it in, probably doesn’t know much more, either. It does look like it has at least some metal hardware, but that’s okay. I’ll just pretend they salvaged those pieces from the shipwreck. Read – Creator’s Page [HollandsBicycles]…
I’ve not used HAI’s home automation products, so I can’t vouch for eHomeUpgrade’s claim they are “the best,” but if you’ve already invested in their products and a Windows Media Center PC, you might be interested to know that HAI has announced a new bit of plug-in software for Media Center 2005 that will allow…
Some might call the M-bird XT-21 digital audio player ugly, and it a way they would be right – it certainly is anything but understated. But in a way, really, I think it’s awesome; it sort of lets everything hang out in a way I appreciate. It’s like Maycom said, “You know what, screw the…
I’m surprised, but not disappointed, that a $4,130 gaming laptop doesn’t have a desktop Pentium 4 chip inside of it, instead using a long-lasting Pentium M processor at 2GHz. The choice of the slower, but power saving chip is just one of the many (okay, few) interesting choices Falcon Northwest made with their new FragBook…
Now this is the way to challenge the iPod: go smaller. While most players appeal to the nerd core by packing in tons of obscure (if welcome) features, the Auvi SA1500 tries a different tack, cramming a 20GB hard drive into a unit just a hair bigger than the iPod mini. Add in a 20…
Nintendo Hotpants: Because It’s Ever So Hard To Get a Nerd Into Bed. Available at your local Hot Topic, these hot pants are completely sold out online. Too bad Nintendo has never made a wireless controller that vibrates. Read – Catalog Page [HotTopic via TheRawFeed] Bonus, somehow appropriate link: Fake SMS Girlfriends Read – Virtual…
I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that someone turned a plastic cow into a computer or that there are Wal-Marts in Germany. Either way, walking through the parking lot of German Wal-Mart, carrying around a plastic cow while “having all these German people go Moo or say something that I did not quite understand,”…
Sanyo has updated its Xacti flash camcorder line from the C1 model to these new C4s, which appear to have a few nice improvements for those who go tapeless, including a video stabilizer, an upgraded four-megapixel CCD for still images, and a slightly larger LCD screen (1.8-inch instead of 1.5-inch). There are some other slight…
A pair of articles from Reuters and USA Today try to extrapolate the buying habits of students returning to college, which would be sort of interesting if there were some hard numbers, but they’re mostly a “Talk to Analysts, See What They Like,” sort of thing. Still, it’s good to hear that Averatec’s C3500 Tablet…
Sharp has a new small oven that uses superheated steam to not only cook and reheat food, but melt excess salt and fat away from meats and other delicious dishes. Sharp quotes up to eight times as much fat removed by cooking a steak in the AX-HC1 ovens than frying in a pan, while reheating…
I hate freedom, so I’m not going to comment on the main thrust of this article which talks about the ramifications of the recent MGM v. Grokster ruling on the music industry, but I would point out the odd mention of a wireless iPod, with a twist. While people have been talking about an iPod…