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In case you forgot there’s a big RED announcement happening this week on November 13, RED CEO Jim Jannard is again lighting up the RED User forums with another cryptic tease. Saying nothing more than “Not sure what this means…” the outspoken exec lets fly some ports for the company’s upcoming übercamera. As CrunchGear rightly…
We have some bad news for people with pacemakers this afternoon. A new study found that headphone ear buds can make them a bit wonky. So, while you take a breather from Lauren Hill’s Killing Me Softly, and drape those iPod ear buds around your neck, they could be, well, killing you softly. With his…
This video shows how FEMA no only deals with credible threats as hurricanes and terrorist attacks, but also with credible threats like alien attacks and UFO crashes: They have an entire chapter dedicated to this topic in their firefighters manual. Great. As if it wasn’t enough with the UK government revealing airplane encounters with UFOs…
The Australians, not content to dive in the ocean deep with a mere shark cage, have taken to hopping in the water with 19.6ft long salt water crocodiles using nothing but 4cm of acrylic plastic to keep them safe. As the croc gnashes its teeth against the cage, you piss your pants, the wife takes…
There’s minimalism, and then there’s this LED concept watch from Hiranao Tsuboi at design firm 100%. The LED lights forgo the need for a watch face by being interwoven with the links on the wristband. The look is sleek, and unlike many concept timepieces these days, I can actually tell the time. [Design Boom]
As the economy slips deeper and deeper into oblivion, we can take some solace in these wonderful Black Friday ads that will inevitably trickle out up until the day after Thanksgiving. Today, we bring you the Dell Black Friday ad, complete with deals on their computers, media devices, monitors, peripherals—pretty much you name it, it…
Tucked away in Steve Ballmer’s Webkit lip service from Friday was this gem about the potential for an Apple-esque Microsoft App Store. “I actually will agree that there’s some good work, particularly at Facebook and also with the iPhone, where both of those companies have made it easier for developers to distribute their applications,” he…
Apparently our polite neighbors to the north, the Canadians, are going to use two underwater robots to bolster their claims over the Arctic in 2010. These twin $4 million Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (not T-1000’s, lame), are being constructed by the very un-Cyberdyne sounding International Submarine Engineering to scout out and claim potential drilling locations in…
Onyx Online, for the iPhone, is kind of like Xbox Live. Sort of. The ambitious service is the brainchild of Trism developer Steve Demeter, who hopes to add a slew of “social media” features to iPhone games, like leaderboards, achievements, forums, and the like. There’s even a pissing contest feature, wherein Onyx-enabled games will allow…
World-famous DJ/mashup artist Girl Talk (a.k.a. Greg Gillis) has gone on record: he’s a PC, and his sweatband may not be totally ironic. His “I’m a PC” short features a lot of his philosophies on music, which aren’t so interesting, and his habit of taping Saran wrap to his computer during shows, which is sort…
When I lived in San Francisco, there were two things people wanted to talk about: tofu corn dogs and how much Southern California sucks. Well, get ready to kiss and make up (if you’re of different genders), because the California High Speed Rail Association has posted a bunch of videos of their planned 220 mph…
I’m kinda disappointed Google CEO Eric Schmidt really won’t be the country’s first ever chief tech officer after all. Despite rumors and (fairly reasonable) speculation he was not-so-subtly campaigning for the position (and Obama), yesterday he definitively said that he wouldn’t take the position if offered: “I love working at Google and I’m very happy…
Woot Wine has a great deal on the Epicurean Wine Preservation System, selling it for only $55, which is more than half off the list price of $120. It’ll reseal all kinds of bottles, even keeping your champagne (or sparkling white white for the uncultured masses) bubbly. Its roto-ciprocal (what a great term) vacuum and…
A couple weeks ago, Apple made its grand entrance into our Shipping Hall of Shame by sending out its new, less horrifically hazardous USB power adapter for the iPhone 3G in these monstrous boxes, despite their huge emphasis lately on going green. All those boxes really add up too, since Apple recalled every single adapter.…
Here’s another Black Friday ad, this time from Kmart. Sort of slim pickings, but there are some decent deals to be had here. Some of the highlights are an Element 32″ LCD HDTV for $399.99, a Samsung 42″ PN42A400 Plasma HDTV for $699.99 and a Nextar X3-03 Text-To-Speech GPS System for $79.99. Hit the jump…
The latest big bug discovered in Android has to be one of the craziest that’s shipped with a phone. Basically, Android invisibly interprets every word as a command and executes it with “superuser privileges.” If you open up your keyboard and type r-e-b-o-o-t, your G1 will, yep, reboot. (It’ll do this with any other command…
Just last week, Time announced what they considered the 50 most important technological breakthroughs of 2008. Not to be outdone, today Popular Science has named their 100 “Best of What’s New.” Unlike Time, PopSci has categorized their awards into achievements in Automotive, Aviation & Space, Computing, Engineering, Gadgets (of course!), Green Tech, Home Entertainment, Home…
I know I’d want a velociraptor more than a funny-lookin’ little computer. Other things per child we’d like to give kids in developing countries: •One Game Boy Per Child •One Pizza Per Child •One Eliza Dushku Per Child •One Terminator Per Child •One Flux Capacitor Per Child •One Sunny Day Per Child •One Pogo Stick…
Amazon’s standard price for Kindle-formatted ebooks is pretty reasonable at $9.99, and a lot of titles are even available for less. But then we’ve got the the Kindle’s equivalent of the Apple’s “I Am Rich” app: the breathtakingly expensive Nuclear Energies, available for a mere $6,232. Wait, what? Nuclear Energies is a three-volume compendium of…
Just as Dash—makers of the internet-connected, traffic-terminating GPS—is bailing out of the hardware game to sell its awesome software to other companies, TeleNav is officially doing the exact opposite: Jumping in with its first GPS device, which sounds a lot like the Dash Express (on paper, anyway). The internet-connected Telenav Shotgun delivers real-time traffic reports…
