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Click to viewIt’s a matter of taste, but seeing the technological phenomenon in motion, this slot loading Xbox 360 is fairly enviable. Modded with a Frankensteinian hybrid drive combining half the Xbox’s stock Hitachi (DVD) drive with half of an iMac’s stock (CD-ROM) drive, the job looks like it must have been a complete pain.…
Initially, HP indicated that a 3G WWAN-equipped version of their newest netbook, the HP Mini 1000, would be arriving sometime in December. But if we are to believe a forum poster on Pocketables.net, all it takes to get 3G humming on an HP Mini 1000 today is to download a driver and slide in your…
I never got the whole carry-your-own-breathalyzer thing. If you are going to drive, just don’t drink. And if you are not going to drive, who cares. I measure my alcohol levels by the next morning’s hangover and/or the distance from the bed I wake up in to my house. But since some people have to…
The guys over at PhoneWreck couldn’t contain themselves: they’ve already taken the BlackBerry Storm apart into a pile of little tiny pieces. And they discovered the secret behind it’s “click” touchscreen—the whole screen’s backplate presses on a single microswitch, so it’s one big button. They also found the Qualcomm MSM7600 processor in there somewhere, and…
Verizon Wireless customers are going to have to drop an extra $50 than their AT&T brethren to get the qwerty-sliding HTC Touch Pro. It popped up on VZW’s web shop for $420 minus a $70 mail-in rebate (hopefully not administered by Rebatestatus.com). [Verizon]
The Lemur Autovision is a key fob that records and displays a driver’s habits, including miles driven, average speed and the frequency of braking. With a base transmitter hooking into the car’s on-board diagnostics port, all information is fed directly (and accurately) from your car’s computer to the LCD dongle itself. Priced at $80, it’s…
Click to view Stringed instruments are diverse in sound and design, but they all share the same basic shape. That similarity hadn’t really bugged anyone too much for the last few hundred years, but where most see variety Zoybar sees redundancy: they’ve proposed a modular, build-it-yourself guitar-ish thing, with interchangeable parts that can convert it…
Dell’s Mini 9 may be going for a pretty good price already (and an irritating disk error) but check out this deal sweetener: Dell’s added a 32GB SSD option for just $100. The base model with that larger solid state drive is thus $449—and to me, that’s pretty bonkers good value. [Dell via Engadget via…
This IS301 dock system from Marantz looks pretty swish, particularly as the dock part can be rotated for wall-mounting, but it’s a little confusing. It adds Bluetooth remote streaming to your hi-fi, which is nice, can charge iPods (including touch, but not iPhone) when it’s powered up, and it allows for direct control of Marantz…
Max Burnet worked with computers for his whole life, and he hasn’t strayed far in retirement: he’s collected a massive amount of vintage computer hardware in his house, creating the what is claimed to be the largest collection of its kind in Australia, and one of the most extensive in the world. He’s got everything…
Ok, so it’s only a selection of the sale products, but Amazon’s Black Friday sale is actually underway now. There’re some sales on Blu-ray players, headphones, lots of external hard drives, GPS units and such, and one eye-catcher so far is a Sony Vaio VGN-SR140 13.3-Inch laptop reduced by $600, which is 38% off. Check…
Nanobioscience’s AdminPatch sounds like a pretty amazing way to deliver drugs into the body: it’s got a metal surface covered in millions of tiny microneedles that puncture the skin. You may instantly think “Ouch!” but since these are so small and pierce the skin shallow enough to avoid pain receptors, the system is apparently painless.It’s…
Emoji: if you’ve never heard of it, that’s because you’re probably not living in Japan, 12 years old, and a highly social schoolgirl. An emoticon standard that is widely used in the country, it was included in the iPhone 2.2 firmware on the SoftBank network, but not for anyone else. Apparently fed up with his…
Meizu’s fabled M8 iPhoneclone may indeed be soon on sale, but until now we’ve only seen bits and bobs of its user interface: Now Meizu is demonstrating this with a neat little animation site. And guess what? Go on, you’ll never guess! …It’s a pretty similar beast to the iPhone. There’re some tweaks and differences…
Buried amongst the piles of Newer! Bigger! Better! TVs, pico projectors and paper-thin, flapping OLED screens at FPD in Japan was an absolute gem: a folding OLED phone concept from Samsung. This isn’t some half-assed, flat-to-sightly-bowed demo either: this thing folds over on itself completely. In its folded mode it looks quite similar to the…
We all take LEDs pretty much for granted, but the guys over at MAKE have done a good job with this movie that shows the history behind the little glowing things. Turns out the Light Emitting Diode was one of those devices that was more or less discovered by accident, during an experiment at Marconi…
The The Kids’ Whole Future Catalog really is a treasure trove of 1980’s futurism. Today we have a letter from Jenny, writing her friend Susan about the amazing space hotel she’s visiting in the year 2002. Having graduated high school in the year 2002, I’m a little disappointed that my graduation ceremony wasn’t held at…
We just got a tip that Best Buy was selling MacBooks and MacBook Pros for $100 each off the list price, and in at least one case $150 off (as Lizard King points out). This is an unusual phenomenon in the MSRP-only world of Apple products. We don’t know how the deal came through, but…
This USB drive featuring Han Solo frozen in carbonite was so cool (cute? weird?) that it sold out in five days, apparently before we could even write about it. I am a fan of the cartoony style crafted by jasonscreations, likely without the permission of Big George. All I can say is, I hope Jason…
Whether it’s wishful thinking, educated guessing or true leakage is unclear, but the photo nerds are now abuzz about a Nikon D400 follow-up to the D300 we love so much, which would have D90-like video capability that could potentially rival Canon’s 1080p-shootin’ EOS 5D Mark II. If that was all gibberish to you, don’t think…
