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This week at Uncrate: We get ready for Thanksgiving with Neiman Marcus Holiday Turkeys, clean up the yard with the Worx TriVac Blower/Mulcher/Vacuum, and play drunk scientist with the Cocktail Chemistry Set. We also light our world with the Mega Bulb Pendant, keep our feet covered with the Vans Fixed Gear Era, and help out…
Have you ever heard the adage that you can buy a better golf game? I really is true. Over the years my game has improved dramatically because of improvements in club design—but I never expected to be swinging anything like the Air Force One. On paper, PowerBilt’s idea makes a lot of sense—by filling a…
The Mars Phoenix said goodbye last week. It’s very sad, like the end of Wall-E. Publicly, the Mars Phoenix was sent to study the planet’s water history and whether it could have ever supported life. But we’ve all seen enough sci-fi movies involving the government to know that there’s probably more to it than that,…
The latest Bond is the perfect Bond Movie. Yes. It is. In fact, Quantum of Solace is not only the perfect Bond movie, it’s the best Bond movie ever, period. Even surpassing Casino Royale-and I mean both the Craig’s one and the original Peter Sellers, David Niven, and Woody Allen’s delirium-which to me surpassed Connery’s…
This is the Black Friday ad you’ve been waiting for: Best Buy’s. Too bad it’s actually a big ball of disappointment, with most of the stuff still cheaper on Amazon. If you want people in the door, you need to do better than this, guys. There are a few standouts, though, mostly amidst the “doorbusters.”…
Apple generally tends to merely dip its Designed in California toe into the Black Friday blackwaters, usually offering a one-day $100-off promotion on a single product family via online and in-store purchases. But analysts at Barclay Capital and the folks at Apple Insider are projecting bigger things this year, which could include more aggressive one-time…
Normally I’d say digital photo frame, splidgital photo frame…but iGala’s one has a couple of features that make it stand out. It’s an 8-inch touchscreen, with standard 4:3 ratio 800 x 600 pixels so you get less irritating crops or letterboxing, plus its wireless and has 1GB of internal memory. But it’s actually got its…
We wouldn’t go out of our way or anything, but if we were already planning on dropping $25 at Amazon’s Audio/Video, Camera, Photo & Video, Office Products, PC or Wireless store, we’d make sure to score a free 1-year subscription to Wired in the process. Amazon’s not so clear about how long the offer lasts,…
An office tower in downtown San Jose, California has long served as home to McColo-a hosting company whose servers in turn have quietly served as a conduit to a huge majority of the world’s spam email, scam prescription drug markets and child porn sites. After investigations by the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog identified McColo…
I don’t know what to think about Terminator Salvation. I like the gritty decay in these leaked production concept illustrations as opposed to the shiny robots shown in the previous movies. But on the other side, it’s like the producers took the look and feel of the Matrix, Transformers, and a John Romero zombies movie…
The Dell Inspiron Mini 12, Dell’s upcoming 12-inch netbook, has been priced for the US. The 1.33GHz Atom version with 1GB RAM, 40GB storage, and Vista Home will start at $549. The 1.6GHz version with 60GB storage and 6-cell battery will debut at $599 (or $654 after promo). And if you’re interested in the high…
This strangeness is a leaked photo of an upcoming Nokia handset, dubbed “Wahoo” internally, and we can’t decide if it reminds us more of Motorola’s aging RAZR range or the BlackBerry Kickstart. It’s got a half-QWERTY keypad, is quad-band and UMTS/HSDPA, has an internal and external display, 2-megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth and AGPS. BGR…
Last week Sony Ericsson predicted quite a few things for the cell phones of 2012: faster processors, high-resolution screens, superfast connectivity and most specifically, 12-20MP cameras. Well what do you know! Sony — that Sony — has just announced a 12.25MP CMOS sensor for phone cameras. Looks like either a horrible breakdown of internal communication…
This 130m skyscraper has been approved for building in London, but unlike “dead” conventional buildings, the Sky Garden includes plans for two three-story gardens to be built inside it. The idea is to “create a space for social interaction” and “foster micro communities,” which sounds like a neat way of combining green eco-friendliness and dense…
While the lines wrap around Best Buy, extending into the oceans and back around Best Buy again, a lone electronics store will sit in the dark of night with little fanfare but definitely a few good deals. And especially if you’d like to save big money on small, often quirky electronics, RadioShack is a pretty…
Almost immediately after news of a release date and lovely little price on T-Mobile in Germany, RIM has let on a little info as to the new Curve’s US release: it’s imminent, and should come within Q1 of next year. RIM is just going through the motions with the FCC for now, but T-Mobile and…
Sometimes a simple idea will make you react with ambivalence, but designers Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim’s Solar Vertical Lamp probably isn’t one of those. At its core it’s a solar-powered lighting system, but unusually it’s embedded in standard window blinds. During the day tiny solar panels charge up the individual lighting elements (LEDs?), and…
Last year Ooma, the only VoIP provider starring Ashton Kutcher, announced an unlimited VoIP calling package, available for a one-time fee of $400. It sounded crazy then, and it sounds crazy now — but they’re somehow still at at. Now the price is $250, and they’ve got a new phone and router on the way.…
Mathmos‘ eight-inch tall windlights are pretty simple—just a generator, 2.4-inch propeller and two LED lights—but that doesn’t stop them from having their own cute, glowing eco-charm. Basically when the wind blows strongly enough, they light up: dot them about your garden and you’d have a great display, but only if the wind is blowing. If…
Rumors of a RED DSLR had been confirmed a long time ago, but what of the Scarlet and EPIC übercamcorders? On the REDUser forums, RED CEO Jim Jannard has explained it all: Scarlet and EPIC are the DSLR — all cameras are “part of the same DSMC system”, so each and every camera will be…