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We’ve seen iPhone/iPod alarm-clock docks before, but something about the simplicity of the Cygnett Grooveneo’s design struck me. Could be that massive LED display like the best of 1980’s radio-alarms, could be the sleek curved edges. It’s got 2.75-inch stereo speakers, iPod dock connector, integrated AM/FM tuner, alarm function and you can even wake to…
Nokia, in collaboration with UC Berkeley, has opened a six-month pilot program for Mobile Millennium, a crowdsourced traffic reporting system that grabs data from GPS-equipped cellphones. The Mobile Millennium client will work on any Java-capable GPS phones with a data plan, so the hope is that adoption would be wide enough to provide useful, real-time…
Way back in June Optoma promised to release its picoprojector this year, and now there’s news that indeed it will. Still reportedly the world’s smallest and lightest, it’ll go on sale December 1st in Japan at the Apple store, of all places. In case you’ve forgotten the DLP device is just 0.67 x 2 x…
In case you’re looking for a stylish and sturdy third-party keyboard option for your Mac, try out Logitech’s new diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition. The peripheral features a full-size layout, nineteen shortcut keys for direct access to Mac programs, an integrated number pad, no cords (using 2.4GHz wireless) and a 3-year battery life. We reviewed the…
Opera is releasing a preview of the next update to its mobile web browser, Opera Mini 4.2. The beta release offers improved support for YouTube, the ability to play nice with a wider selection of phones, note sharing between phones and PCs and a selection of new skins for greater customization. Best of all, it’s…
Now that we’re going to have a new president, it’s time for a new presidential limo-and GM is whipping up quite a doozy for the new Prez-elect. “Cadillac One” will be based off of the GMC Topkick, which you may remember as Ironhide from Transformers. For pretty obvious reasons, details on what exactly makes up…
Now that more or less everyone uses cellphones to tell the time, watches have been relegated to mere decorative pieces. At least that’s what it seems like with Tokyoflash’s watches, which look great but are nigh-impossible to read. It’s latest watch, Fire, is a beautiful streamlined little thing that wraps around your wrist and flashes…
While everyone is trying to emulate the iPhone’s look, iRiver keeps playing their own metallic tune: Following the design of the beautiful Spinn—although more conservative than their experimental products—the new iRiver cellphone also has a brushed metal look, featuring both a pad as a controlling device and a large touchscreen, which supports handwriting recognition and…
Before starting the Paleo-Future blog I had no idea that weather control was such a prominent feature of mid-20th-century futurism. Raised on Jurassic Park’s pop version of chaos theory, I suppose that little Matty was deathly afraid a butterfly beating its wings in Indochina would cause a typhoon in Omaha. And thus, messing with a…
Now that Circuit City’s closing up shop, perhaps we should take a minute to remember other failed gadget dealers from our country’s storied history. Technologizer’s compiled a bunch of old television ads from now defunct tech stores and they’re a treasure trove of early 1990s cheesiness and the repetitive mantra, “Lowest prices! Best Selection! Amazing…
Looks like the U.S. will get its own chance to experience the joys of posture correctors/torture devices-the iPosture, which consists of an one-inch button that attaches to your clothes and vibrates when you slouch, is now available States-side for $90. Using it for four hours a day for the first two to four weeks will…
The folks at Laptop Mag have gotten their hands on Samsung’s slightly bigger brother to its ultra-thin Macbook Air contender, the X360, and they’re absolutely loving it. The X460 is one of the thinnest and lightest notebooks on the planet with a 14.1-inch screen—it has all the style of the X360, but with a built-in…
It looks like the reason Gibson’s self-tuning Robot guitar had a limited run is that the legendary guitar innovator had a much more insane second stage already blueprinted up: Gibson’s Dark Fire Les Paul-style digital guitar is the crowning shred-related scientific achievement of our time. Think of it as the Robot plus the Moog synth…
If you’re a devoted dog lover and have ever created a Facebook profile for your loyal companion (and I hope for your sake that you haven’t), SNIF Tag offers you the chance for beloved Fido to get in on the action. Just for $299, the SNIF Tag clips on to your pet’s collar and picks…
Google’s fixed that one bug that had you trying to figure out synonyms for “reboot” in daily texting, lest you actually cause your G1 to reboot. The bug, which causes Android to interpret every word as a command, actually got a cure in late October, but Google’s only starting to roll it out to affected…
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s backwards writing, this gadget plays with the idea of what the Renaissance Man’s watch may have looked like, if watches existed back then. The numbers on the faceplate are not just written—and listed—backwards, but the hour and minute hands move counter-clockwise as well. For $36, this watch simply tells time…
How much do we take being able to play games for granted? Disabled gamer KitsuneYume surely doesn’t, seeing as he rigged a PS3 controller setup to work by using his entire body as input triggers, which allows him to hit a respectable 20 out of 25 possible PS3 controller functions. How well does it work?…
No idea who did this originally, but Wired found a video of two dudes playing Wii Fit LEGO Mindstorms Soccer. Wait, what? Looks like the guys hooked up two Wii Fit balance boards to a LEGO Mindstorms trucks(?) and made them move around in sync with whatever leaning or jumping motion was made. A very…
This Digital/Analog clock design is a pretty interesting take on the old “clock” concept. Shown off a Tokyo Design Week ’08, this version displays the hours digit-style while keeping the hand free for minute-pointing. Going half digital is a good start, but here’s our challenge to concept designers out there: all digital. Who’s with us?…
We’ve posted about China’s e-waste problem before; a problem that stems from other countries needing to offload their trash and China being more than receptive because of good money to be had from salvaging. But what we haven’t seen much of is video. 60 Minutes tried recently to capture it, but were attacked from Chinese…
