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This Wipe Board phone from BT looks pretty cool, but besides the mention and picture of it on The Red Ferret Journal, I can’t confirm that it actually exists. Nonetheless, unless you want to purchase one for your very own, it doesn’t really need a lot of explanation. It’s a white board with a phone.…
The good news about the Apricorn EZ Bus Mini 20GB, a USB bus-powered hard drive design for on-the-go backups, is that it works very well (if a little slowly), and even has a pretty nice suite of software if you’re using Windows (OSX can see the drive fine, but there’s no software). The bad news…
SlashPhone has gathered up some information about a new Microsoft Windows Smartphone clamshell from Chinese vendor TCL, called the e777. It’s a dual-band (900/1800) flip with SD/MMC support and a megapixel camera, with no word on the speed of the main processor. Looks okay if, you know, sort of boring. What’s the point of having…
Good morning, friends. It’s important to teach children about the future. Some “experts” would say that despite clear evidence that we will spend a large percentage of our time throughout our lives encased in a nontoxic, translucent blue gel – something almost every expert science man is in agreement on – that it is inappropriate…
Monday August 16th, 2004 Archos Gmini 400: Everything But A Price Sprint Launches Samsung SPH-A700 (aka MM-A700) Sirius Stream Jockey, Then A Sharp Turn Into a Delphi XM Roady 2 Review Sprint Gets BlackBerry Hello Kitty Desktop Vacuum Microsoft’s Fall Keyboard and Mouse Lineup Revealed https://gizmodo.com/archos-gmini-400-everything-but-a-price-19630 Tuesday August 17th, 2004 PalmOne Wi-Fi Card To Ship…
Keyboardists will appreciate Yamaha’s new “CVP” series of electronic pianos and keyboards, providing they can afford the ~$5,000 USD these cost. The most prominent new feature of this series is direct streaming – meaning, you can not only connect to Yamaha’s site directly from the keyboard and play live songs, but you can also broadcast…
Thanko Limited today announced a new 2.5-inch hard drive case dubbed the “Victoria 120,” which uses a combination of fingerprint recognition and hardware level encryption in an attempt to secure your precious data from third parties. The model including a 20GB hard drive costs about $260 USD, so all I can say is “use sparingly.”…
/>It may not be as “official” as the 3D flat panel announced by Sharp on the 10th of this month, but IO Data’s “Play3D” LCD filter is much cheaper – about $467 USD compared to the Sharp display’s $1500 USD price tag. Seeing as how this is only a filter, you have to wear those…
My buddy Tonx has what he calls “the second-coolest job in the world.” As a barista at Seattle’s Victrola Coffee, it’s his job to hand-roast the daily coffee blends in the huge Diedrich IR-12 roaster they have on site, and he’s written a great walk through (with pictures) of everything involved. And really, how can…
The Register has a properly in-depth review of the Neuros II 20GB HDD music player, a bulky and sort of awkward device whose main claim to fame is swappable ‘backpacks’ that allow additional hard drives to be added without the need for buying a whole different unit. Sadly, it seems that the implementation is less…
Oh good, rice for bikes! While ostensibly the Down Low Glow from Fossil Fool is for safety, I think we all know what the real purpose of these kits are – to siphon money away from filthy Burning Man participants and/or gangbangers. But whether you’re caked in dried mud or just the shame of your…
Pria Diagnostics has developed the Element, the world’s smartest sperm cup. Designed as a home fertility test for men, the $40 kit can tell with 95 percent accuracy whether or not your little sailors are fit for creating life. Currently, lab testing costs around $350 and many times isn’t covered by health insurance. For just…
Researchers at MCG Medical Center (First Hollywood, then Science!? That man is amazing!) are testing a new implantable device that is designed to stop seizures in patients whose fits – can you say fits? – are not otherwise well controlled by drugs. By pre-recording a patient’s seizures, they establish a pattern that can be used…
Oh hey, awesome! I had just gotten my weekly bonus check from Gawker, and I was thinking about buying one of these 84-inch Akira PK-8401 Plasma televisions, but at $44,900, I was about $400 short. But they just lowered the price! Maybe I’ll just wait until next week and buy two. Read – Catalog Page…
Okay, Portable Video Players are so over. Sure, we’ve barely had any released here in the US, but they are just pouring out of Asia. Here’s another one, this time from Taiwanese manufacturer Arlink. It’s called the PMP 400, has a 5.8-inch screen, CF-card slot, and a 20GB hard drive. What the article on Digital…
XM Satellite Radio has announced the Audiophase SKYBOX, and all-in-one boom box that includes the XM service (duh), AM/FM tuner, and CD/MP3 player. In addition to all the standard features, the SKYBOX will also come with a remote control and the usual two-line XM radio display. There’s no word if the SKYBOX has an audio…
Ars Technica mentions that Motorola is working on a dual-core version of the G4 chip that currently powers Apple’s iBooks and Powerbooks. Although it’s possible that Apple might release a final tweaked version of the Powerbook that utilizes the chips before the expected G5 upgrade, Ars’ Hannibal postulates that because a major overhaul would be…
The MYMO phone is a pretty fun idea for parents who want to provide their young children with the safety and convenience of a mobile, but don’t want them making calls to just anyone. The MYMOs are locked down to just five numbers, all controlled by just three buttons. MYMO knows their market, and knows…
Panasonic’s new VDR M70 is another DVD-burner on-board digital camcorder, although in addition to DVD-R it also supports the DVD-RAM format (in 3-inch disc varieties, of course). In addition, the VDR M70 has an anemic 1.2-megapixel still camera, 10x optical zoom, and a 2.5-inch LCD monitor. Altogether sort of pedestrian, really, although it does have…
By detecting and processing electrical activity from lightning strikes, the Insight StrikeFinder helps pilots to avoid dangerous weather that can turn a small aircraft into a aluminum coffin. Compiling and interpolating data from thousands of strikes “gleaned from the background noise,” the StrikeFinder lets pilots determine if that impending storm cloud is really as dangerous…