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Boeing has created a modern day Spirit of St. Louis, except instead of Charles Lindbergh there is a computer brain and instead of inspiring generations of dreaming children it will drop 4,500 pounds of bombs on them. The newest “unmanned combat aerial vehicle,” the X-45C, weighs about four tons, has a 49-foot wingspan, and will…
And while we’re on the laptop tip, Averatec’s new Tablet PC is coming out, the C3500 Convertible Notebook. It looks pretty hot for the price, too, with a decent speed AMD Athlon XP-M chip, 12.1-inch screen, and 802.11g for “as low as” $1,350 (although not sub-$1,000 quite yet). Except for the limitations convertible screens put…
Is there no such thing as a bad laptop anymore? That’s what Trusted Reviews’ Gordon Kelly wants us to believe, at least for a padded out paragraph or two. (He should learn to do it in a sentence or three like me.) HP Compaq (HP’s Compaq? HP Compaq’s) new nx9110 is a solidly built, well…
Somewhere between a hard-drive based storage solution and a low-end, disposable storage sits 1GB memory drives like this new Swivel Flash Drive from Imation. And although the $360 retail price is steep — way steeper than a tiny hard drive solution — it’s hard to get upset about a one and two-thirds of a CD…
Canon has released an updated PowerShot, bumping the A70 to the new A85, a 4-megapixel/3x optical zoom sidearm that also adds PictBridge comparability (for easy one-button transfer direct from camera to printer or portable hard drive). The A85 also ships with a 32MB Compact Flash card, which is a nice step up from the usual…
SorobanGeeks’ Portable Media World has a killer review of the MPM-20X from NHJapan, a (duh) portable media player with a built-in 30GB hard drive. One of the best things about the MPM-20X is the fact that it can record via direct from a video source, instead of being reliant on a computer to get its…
If this doesn’t epitomize Ghettecho Fabulous, I don’t know what does; a 24-karat Gold Plated security tag. Nothing could say “I stoled this because I’m hard like the iron tracks of the G train,” more. Read – Gold Plated Security Tag [CoolHunting]
If you’re unfortunate enough in life to have to have some sort of medical device, like a prothesis, or a tracheal cannula, let’s say, the best thing you can probably do is try to squeeze all the use of it you can muster. Like, say, modding your Montgomery-brand trach into a 5 into “tracheal cannon,”…
Although they may be dying out slowly in this age of Serial ATA and other four-prong power cables, the venerable Molex DC power connector is going to be around for a while longer. And what happens when there’s a replaceable part inside the modern-day PC? That’s right, someone puts lights in it. These PowerMod6 Molex…
Produce giant Dole is introducing a new Japanese service that will allow cameraphone users to track the history of their fruits and vegetables by scanning a special “QR” barcode. The service is even more exclusive than Japan-only at the moment — for now, the only vegetable history available is that of broccoli. Everyone knows where…
LG Electronics is providing a pair of 3.24-megapixel camera phones to SK Telecom (the LG-SD350) and KTF (the LG-KP2500) which use a mechanical shutter instead of a software technique to improve image quality. Also interesting is the fact that the handsets are clamshells, instead of candy bar phones — the last 3-megapixel phone we saw,…
Sensory Impact plucks some of their favorites from this year’s IDEA Awards (Industrial Design Excellence Awards), including this fantastic Circular Printer concept from Samsung that uses rotational motion instead of the regular linear movement to make portable printing even more portable. Not suitable for giant, Temple of Boom-era spliffs, sadly. Read – IDEA Awards [SensoryImpact]
The Caplio RX is the new top-end model in the Ricoh line and has much to recommend it: 5-megapixel sensor, wide-angle lens, and “world’s fastest” shutter response and start up times (no more missing the premature money shot), all for a mostly reasonable price of around $500. Photography Blog took one out for a little…
So Apple has put up the new iPod product page on the Apple Store, so if you had any lingering last doubt that the Newsweek leak was legitimate it can now be put to rest. As is my usual response to an Apple product launch, I was initially underwhelmed, but have started to warm to…
Verizon leaps headfirst into 2003 with the addition of the PalmOne Treo 600 Smartphone, the hit all-in-one mobile wonder that most of our first-adopter customers already jumped ship to go use. With an updated version of the Treo just around the corner, be literally one of the last people on your block to take advantage…
If you’ve ever said, “You know, I just didn’t feel Jet Li’s punch right in my ass,” when watching a DVD — this is an especially strange thing to say if it’s not even a Jet Li movie — then Crowson Technology’s TES 100 “tactile transducers” might be worth keeping an eye, or ass, on.…
Neonode has updated their (annoying, Flash) product page with some real live information about the shipping version of the Neonode N1 GSM phone, including information about the features that are there by default, and those that will be included via free firmware updates in the future. In all, it looks to have the majority of…
We hoped too hard, but it’s still not bad. Here’s Monday’s Newsweek cover with Steve Jobs and the new iPod. We’ll have more details as the come. Also, what the hell is an Iraq? (Thanks, everybody!) Update: Oh hey, the article is online now, too. Read – iPod Nation [MSNBC] Update Update: And another article,…
ThinkSecret is reporting that the new iPods will be announced Monday, will be cheaper than the current models (I doubt this), and will not be released in different colors (as previously reported), but will instead be launched in the trademark white. If that’s the case, I would expect the new iPods, which are said to…
Thosten Van Elten.com is making the imbibing of two of my favorite liquids even more fun, as if that were possible (gilding the liver, some might say). These “Stamp Cups” by Valeria Miglioli and Barnaby Barford turn the inevitable spilled coffee into an opportunity to add attractive swoops and swirl patterns to your nice linen…