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So hey! Looks like Apple may be coming out with a Tablet PC-alike after all, according to some fine investigative work by The Register. A filing made in May by Apple (but only revealed this week) details plans for a “handheld computer,” a (rather uninterestingly-styled) keyboard-less PC that may serve as a front end to…
I have no pictures, nor do we really need them, I think, of these new fruits, developed by the Food Innovation Center at Oregon State University, that fizz. As in carbonated. As in they are working to carbonate other things, like vegetables, yogurt, canned food (yum!), and ice cream. Soon every food will have a…
It’s sad that so often we have to preface cool and useful software with a sort of ‘Get it while you can,’ warning, but this looks like just the sort of thing the RIAA is going to come after with crate full of lawyers. TimeTrax is a $20 piece of software that can turn your…
So when we talked about the Pentagon’s plans to shoot “medical missiles” at wounded soldiers, many of your might have thought, “Hey, I’ve immobilized myself in a shell of Cocoa Puffs and my own drools and even I know that’s stupid.” But maybe it was all just a concerted effort to make this latest supplies-system…
Surfers are a lazy, cowardly lot, but by nature also rather inventive. So rather than get up in the wee hours of the morning to check the waves, Elmar Trefz develop a special pillow that connects to a PC that vibrates depending on what wave conditions are like that morning. That way, if the breakers…
Peripheral maker Griffin has announced the RoadTrip, a multi-function iPod unit that serves as both a cradle, charger, and FM transmitter with digital readout. While it’s not the most attractive unit I’ve ever seen – the faux brushed aluminum and readout is kind of corny – just having a separate interface for the FM transmitter…
CITY Magazine has a spread featuring a few high-end iPod cases – you know, the kind that sometimes cost as much as the iPod itself. Some of the cases, from the likes of Louis Vuitton, Dior Homme, and Gucci, are okay, if surprisingly plain, but Kate Spade’s fuchsia mock-crocodile leather case with brass accents and…
Leaked information on the website of an online retailer has revealed more information about Rio’s upcoming hard disk-based player, the Rio Chroma. While most of the data we already knew, such as the onboard SD-card expansion slot (although it’s listed as SDIO in the specs, which might mean possible peripherals, such as Wi-Fi cards could…
If you’ve been dying to experience the trippy visual distortion or the impaired driving ability of being drunk without the side effects people usually get drunk for, you’re in luck. Fatal Vision, a company focused on impairment education, has created “beer goggles” and a vehicle which will do just that. Four different levels of intoxication…
If you were worried that you weren’t ever going to be able to turn every glass of water you drink into a sticky, syrupy soda pop with the press of a single button, worry no more. The Soda-Club Home Soda Maker lets you make seltzers, colas, sugar-free root beers, Rotting Corpse™ sulphur fizzes and more…
Inspired by index cards, the “Thin Cut” lamp by Cordula Kafka is a set of ceiling-suspended porcelain sheets that have cut outs on the inside for four bulbs. Light shines through the panels with various amounts though the panels, which move in the wind (or whatever sort of draft you get inside). Read – Thin…
We now bring you your at-least-once-weekly inadvertent iPod Case moment, this time with two corporate-fashioned versions and a homebrew option. From RadTech comes the fabric-based PodSleevz, cloth sacks that hold tight to the iPod or iPod mini (4G versions next month) but have thinner fabric over the controls, allowing you to still fiddle the click…
iRiver is pushing it’s new N10 flash memory player as jewelry, and while it’s not the first company to market a wearable MP3 player, they might be the first to do it with any measure of success (an attractive ad campaign goes a long way). That said, they’re far from being the only ones to…
PC vendor Packard Bell is releasing a 5GB hard disk-based player called the Pocket M@estro (get it? The @ means it has something to do with the internet or maybe computers). The player will support MP3 and WMA, transfer via USB 2.0, and has an OLED screen (I would expect a two-color version, though, not…
Despite what you might think, this clock is a solid piece of wood with a faux cord running out of the back, designed to purposely confound you into ignoring the fact that the only method in which a block of wood could display the time is if it were impelled by dark, heathen sorcery. If…
God, I really hope this is a trend. Not the part where O’Rite Technologies’ Webcam 352 looks like Kenny from South Park – I couldn’t care less about that – but the fact that the defining feature of the webcam is that it comes with little outfits to dress it up. Specifically, as reviewed by…
A team called “Umbrella.net” (no relation to Umbrella Corp, we hope) has developed a prototype system of Bluetooth umbrellas that facilitate “sudden, striking, and unexpected connections between people in public and urban space” by forming ad-hoc mesh networks when unfurled. As each umbrella is opened and added to the network, it lights as it comes…
• Toys “R” Us May Leave the Toy Business [AP] Big box store getting killed by Wal-Mart. • FCC certifies Freescale ultrawideband technology [CNet] Possible Bluetooth replacement. • Digital Cameras Change More Than the Way We Take Pictures [ABCNews] • Blu-ray Disc spec approved by Blu-Ray Group [CNet] On a related note, I declare myself…
Is this the most foul iPod case ever conceived? Why yes, yes it is. It’s normal for boys to drop white loads in their socks, but they shouldn’t be spinning their thumbs around on it. (Thanks, Nathan!) Read – Apple iPod 4G superCase Protect Screen Case Cover WHITE [eBay]
This new optical mouse from 3R (not 3M) Solutions has a wind-up cable and USB connector. With a design obviously inspired by Microsoft products, it weighs about 75g (every product released from Microsoft in the last 15 years, including their entire WebTV line, has weighed just 75g). Not much else to say, but I’d likely…