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So I don’t quite understand it, but apparently Whirlpool is offering up a new “Personal Valet,” with a desiccated, tuxedoed servant who will spring out each morning, having been ushered back into life after a misty morning reconstitutional. The tottering personal mummy will shamble – ably – to a low-cost parking lot, where it will…
You know, if you factor in the normal Harley-Davidson markup, the new Road Tech Digital Music Player’s $300 price really isn’t that bad. Sure, it only has 64MB of memory, and it’s on an SD-card, no less, but you can toss that and throw in a gigabyte card, and you’re going to be hard pressed…
Sprint has finally gotten the Samsung SPH-A700 up for sale – 400 bucks free and clear, or $250 with a two-year indenture. The SPH-A700 is a nice enough clamshell, if a little too round and oddly-colored for my taste, but its main claim to fame is its ability to work with Sprint’s MobiTV offering, the…
Somebody needs to steal the concept of the Ventana scroll lamp and manufacturer a cut-rate version for less than the $700 the original goes for, because I would like to place dozens of them in my apartment for various uses, such as lighting up things, looking at, and swinging them out 180° on their mounts…
DVForge’s new JamPlug, an in-line (well, I guess most audio equipment is inline, but bear with me) amplifier that is billing itself as the “World’s Smallest Guitar Amp,” and for once a world’s-smallest claim is probably on the money. The $60 piece runs on a single AAA battery and has a pair of strangely-familiar matching…
Pocket-Lint had a chance to play around with the Sony HMP-A1, the hard disk-based media player that’s already available in Japan (and from importers), although it won’t be officially available in the UK until next summer (Uhm, Sony?). He likes it well enough, but I think if he had a little more time to play…
What does a $350,000 home audio amplifier sound like? Fucking awesome, apparently, which made me cough a little exhalation of relief as I was reading Stereophile’s review of the Wavac SH-833, the third-of-a-million dollar amp in question. I don’t know from audio, really, but I know what I like, and that’s vacuum tubes, lots of…
Dan over at Wooba has taken up a cause that is very near and dear to my heart: encouraging owners of Sony cameras and camcorders to take off those goddamn spec stickers from their cameras. They are there to tell you about the camera you have purchased, like the sticker in a car window, and…
Somewhere between Engrish and driving a fnord lately, Darren Barefoot’s “Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness” could only be better if it had more than the sixty some-odd entries. He does take submissions, though, so after you peruse such gems as “6 in 1 user manure” and refrigerators that ask you to “endure 5 minutes,” keep…
Archos has their Gmini400 catalog page online with details about the updated hard disk-based player with 2.2-inch color LCD screen, although they don’t have a price yet on the ‘Buy Now,’ so it may still be a few days before you can have one of your very own. They pretty much answer any questions you…
Maytag’s SkyBox is an example of product marketing done totally right. In and of itself, it’s not terribly impressive. It’s a beverage vending machine, you see, that keeps 64 12-ounce cans or 32 12-ounce bottles chilled inside – you know, like a refrigerator – for the low low price of $500. So we’re not talking…
From the Japanese company that brought you bizarre products such as the Gameboy Advance TV tuner and USB battery recharger (that also works from the Playstation 2 USB port) comes the “Pokefami,” or a portable version of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Though this reeks of vaporware, I guess because of the renderings rather than photographs,…
Monday August 9th, 2004 Samsung’s Olympic Gold Phones Amitech Media Center PC Belkin to Offer Airgo Wireless Products Why the 2TB µcard Size Doesn’t Matter Smart Clothing Motorola V3 RaZr Reviewed https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-olympic-gold-phones-19108 Tuesday August 10th, 2004 Sharp Releases 3D Flat Panel (Finally) Bulbcap Special Glass Blocks Heat But Not Light Altec Lansing iMmini Speakers for…
First of all, I have the best job in the world, as this picture of my desk will attest to. Secondly, I like to share the wealth, and NiveusMedia, makers of the Niveus PC Remote Control (highlighted here) have been so kind as to pass a few on to me to be given away (we’ll…
There are so many music players flooding in from Asia it’s hard to keep track of them all – especially the flash players – but there are occasional stand-outs, like the Mpeye TS-400, which if it weren’t shot with such a happy, colorful background would remind me of some sort of Klingon device. Sizes up…
Following Apple and SMC’s lead, D-Link is releasing a travel-sized Wi-Fi access point, the “Wireless Pocket Router/AP.” Among other tricks, the D-Link DWL-G730AP can receive power over USB, sort of an odd twist that would mean your handy pocket router all the sudden would tie your laptop back into the wall (unless you brought two…
All Book of Revelation and Book of Orwell and such aside, does anybody really want to install a bit of electronics in their jaw that only has 512MB of memory, Bluetooth-enabled or otherwise? The dDrive is a concept from industrial design firm Creganna [Creganna says they don’t have anything to do with it. -Ed.] that…
Sony’s new “SCD-DR1” Super Audio CD/Audio CD player is apparently the pinnacle of high quality audio playback – or at least we hope so with its $11,000 price tag. Sporting audio interfaces you probably haven’t heard of, such as the “High Quality Digital Audio Transmission System,” the player can output using optical, coaxial, balanced digital,…
A new material called “Metal Rubber” may find its way into gadgets of the future due to its unique ability to be stretched, heated, and generally abused while still conducting electricity – and still able to snap back into form when the bending and smacking is over. Apparently the vendor NanoSonic is being inundated with…
Could be old or could be new, but I hadn’t seen it, and I like the idea, if not the implementation. The APC TravelPower Backpack is basically a bag with a powerstrip built-in, letting you plug all your various devices inside, then plug the pack into a power outlet using a single cord, which can…