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The Free Wheelchair Mission is an organization that aims to provide free wheelchairs to those in countries too poor to afford proper medical equipment. Inspired by the sight of a crippled Moroccan woman dragging herself across a dirt road (and a little old timey religion) inspired the mission’s founder Don Schoendorfer to develop a simply-designed…
Pocket-Lint has a short take on the Pentax Optio S40, a pared-down (feature-wise) but swollen (size-wise) version of the Pentax S4 that forgoes a rechargeable battery for two AAs but kept the 4-megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, and aluminum casing. All in all, Stu seems fairly happy with the product, despite some image noise problems…
I can’t decide how to interpret these numbers: 11.4% of cellphone users surveyed are interested in buying music and other audio services (endlessly looping, ear-tearing sine waves, strangely enough) for use on their mobile handset. The question is, did the other 89% of people not really think it was practical yet, but will come around,…
I have nothing to say; I just love this picture. Someday I will have one of these old-school hard drives on my wall and I will be a happy man. (Thanks, O2!) Look – New Hard Drive [Gizmodo] Update: Daniel V. Klein offers up some insight on this drive (and a hilarious anecdote about moving…
Well, you can say one thing about the TooDis MPal 400F flash memory video player: your hand isn’t going to get tired watching movies on it. Well, not the hand holding it, anyway. The flash player has a 12-hour playback time on a single AA battery, although it must first convert all your movie files…
Threebase is reporting that Video Without Boundries is still planning on releasing the MediaREADY 4000, a set-top media hub and networked DVD player with a variety of flash memory card slots, a built-in hard drive, and Ethernet (but no wireless?) It certainly looks full-featured enough, with FireWire and USB slots right up front (and hopefully…
So hey, we’ve got a couple of interesting opportunities coming up around here for bloggers, and I thought I’d pass along word. The first is that we’re looking for someone who is an absolute car nut — someone like me, but who actually follows the whole industry, not just the part where you crash them…
Just because I’m a sucker for customized Game Boy Advances (even if it’s just a sticker), I thought I’d pass along this competition to win one of five Rip Curl GBA SPs on this Australian kid’s site, K-Zone. Presumably, you have to be a kid to win, and probably an Ozlander, as well, but let…
When I4U mentioned this new 1.5GB hard disk music player from NHJ Japan, they wondered why NHJ isn’t released a 4GB version to compete with the Apple iPod mini, musing that perhaps Apple bought all the 4GB drives available. Last I heard, that’s pretty much the case, actually. This VHD-1500 player, while still the same…
Jack Campbell of MacMice (not pictured: that’s Chuck Leonard) has announced a new 37-key USB MIDI keyboard called ‘GarageKey,’ designed specifically for use with Apple iLife ’04’s GarageBand software. For $130, there are probably more full-featured Casios or Yahamas with MIDI output — and really, MIDI output is pretty much MIDI output on something like…
iPaqHQ has one of the first reviews of the new HP iPAQ rz1715 “Mobile Media Companion” Pocket PC, and let’s just say that they aren’t terribly impressed. It’s not that it’s bad so much as it’s not any better than previous generations (like the h1945, say), and in a few objective ways (it’s larger; it…
The semiconducter industry is taking it in the crotch when it comes to cellphones, continually racing to cram more and more features into handsets that oftentimes don’t sell for as much as they cost to make — at least according to the EE Times, but hey, they would know, right? Still, there seems to be…
More than one of you have written to let us know that Radio Shack of all places has gotten the Verizon/Motorola V710 in stock; you can purchase them as we speak. Of course, this is only in the Northeast, where Verizon actually provides service, but if you’ve been itching to get your hands on it,…
Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing has announced his involvement with a new magazine/book hybrid (a mook, they call it!) from O’Reilly called “Make,” aimed at the gadget and technology tinkerer who already has all the toys, and now wants to start building and tweaking their own. Sort of like a magazine for would-be Phillip Torrones without…
For $18, I guess you shouldn’t nitpick, but this Protocol Smart Park Ultrasonic Parking Assistant would be much more useful if instead of the red/yellow/green lights it could actually tell you how many inches you have before crunching into that guy’s bumper again. Of course, it may actually be two pieces (one on the wall…
In my experience, most of the RIAA-hating nerds who swear they’ll never to buy another album again continue to download copyrighted, RIAA-financed music from less-than-legal sources (and I’ve done it, too, so simmer down). What’s crazy, though, is that if you really don’t want to bend any laws, there is a wealth of free music…
DAPreview found some new hi-resolution shots of the upcoming iRiver PMC-100, the Microsoft-based Portable Media Center that is the cousin to the non-Microsoft PMP-120/140. It looks considerably different than the original, more slab-like mockup we’d shown you, but it does look a lot more practical to use. It also looks like it is probably just…
For a second I was excited about Addonics’ new “MFR” device (Multifunction Recorder), a new 25-function device (so they say; I didn’t count) that can read 11 different types of flash media cards and can record onto six different types of optical media (DVDs and CDs, that is). But while copying flash memory to DVD…
MacCentral has more details about Alpine’s upcoming in-car iPod interface, including the single-greatest quote ever to slip past the lips of a VP of Marketing, “Consumers love a knob more than anything.” I’ve been saying that for years. The Alpine unit looks nice, though. I think the best thing is that it’s part of a…
Sharp has unveiled a new street lamp in Japan called the “Lumiwall” that uses solar power and LED arrays to remain entirely off of the electrical grid. Although each unit costs in the neighborhood of $4,500, the idea is that the initial cost outlay will be offset by the power savings and lessened environmental impact.…