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Those eye strain-reducing glasses we reviewed now have a 25% off coupon. Just go to their store and enter in the coupon code gogunnar after you’ve added a pair to your cart. We liked these things—they actually worked best after we already had a headache—so 25% off is a pretty sweet deal. Of course, you…
Used to be, diving into a whole new product line was something only for the crazy ones, those who live dangerously, the mavericks. “Wise men wait to buy” was the refrain that rang through the web, with fear of hardware defects and half-baked features tempering the go! go! buy! buy! fever of a new product…
It’s not available in the US, but Softbank customers will be able to snag the Aquos Fulltouch 931SH. It may look a lot like the iPhone, but this phone packs slide-out QWERTY along with a 3.8-inch touchscreen running at a crazy 1024×480 resolution. Not only is that as sharp as the HTC Touch HD—it’s super…
Shipping delays have pushed the T-Mobile G1’s Wally World debut back a few days to Nov. 3. (Maybe they were using the G1’s GPS to get there?) Since only 550 of their 4,300 stores getting the G1 makes it kind of a crapshoot if you’re driving around looking for one, Walmart’s site should have a…
If you thought the Leaning Tower of Pisa was messed up, get a load of the Capital Gate tower currently being constructed in Abu Dhabi. Actually, saying it is “messed up” is incorrect given that the 18 degree westward incline was completely intentional. In fact, the project’s architects have submitted a joint application to the…
Good day for Linux guys (and girls!)—the final version of Ubuntu 8.10 is now available for download. The Intrepid Ibex release brings integrated support for 3G cards and better support for media devices as its flagship new consumer features, along with the slew of updates and improvements that go into a new Ubuntu distro. And…
You know how a band’s first album is almost always their best? That’s how I feel about the first iPod. Sure, it’s got a muddy, colorless LCD screen, measly 5GB storage, mechanical scroll wheel, only works with Macs and is a complete brick compared to every other iPod. But it’s so much more Zen and…
I hope you guys drink your milk because strong bones are essential if you want to use this 21-piece finger socket set. Outside of the potential for compound fractures, this idea is actually quite ingenious. The concept has probably been around for a while in various forms, but for any tinkerer that gets frustrated with…
This week at Uncrate: We decorate Uncrate HQ for Halloween with Corpses, get our game ready for Spring with the Practice Makes Perfect Golf Set, and hit the road in the . We also get cookin’ with the Fireplace Grill, keep our gadget-fondling fingers warm with The North Face E-Tip Gloves, and celebrate on-the-move with…
We’ve seen bat-like drones, and even heard of genuine bat weaponry, but now the Pentagon is after micro UAVs with genuine echolocation bat-senses, for real. The Air Force has just awarded a new contract to develop swarms of micro drones that use bat-inspired echolocation for navigation through the complex airspace in urban environments cluttered with…
AT&T apparently realized it was elitist to only let the iPhone get free Wi-Fi at its hotspots, so they’re opening it up to BlackBerry handsets too. The Bold is getting it first, though all of their other Wi-Fi-havin’ BlackBerrys will pick it up later this year. So, um, what about Windows Mobile guys? Smells like…
Several months ago, a variety of legitimate publications got word of a PS3 Wiimote-like device that could split in two. We dubbed it the “DualMotion.” Today the patent for the DualMotion has been uncovered and while it uses accelerometers and LED-based tracking (similar to the Wiimote), the DualMotion also deploys ultrasonic frequencies to determine absolute…
If you don’t mind buying refurbished goods and you also don’t mind those goods being last year’s model, there are deals to be had in terms of the MacBook Air. Like the 1.6GHz model for $1,349, the 1.8GHz model for $1,499 and the model with the 64GB SSD for $1,799. Not bad prices, although still…
No matter who you are pulling for in this election, the popularity polls indicate that the vast majority of Americans are ready to see Bush pack up his things and get the hell out of the White House. While there is tons of anti-Bush paraphernalia out there, few things capture our disdain as well as…
Here they are, the MacBook and MacBook Pro graphics benchmarks you’ve been waiting for. Our basic Mac-only benchmarks used in our dual review were great at showing how close the CPU performance was, but not great at illustrating the disparity between chunky-hunky 9600 GT and the comparatively weak integrated 9400M that we saw firsthand while…
Way back in 2005, Samsung technically showed off a 40-inch OLED screen. We didn’t want to be rude and say anything at the time, but it wasn’t sporting HD resolution and the contrast ratio was a measly 5,000:1. Now Samsung is showing off their new 40-inch OLED (that’s a mere 8.9mm thick), and needless to…
We don’t know the last time that a demo kiosk has actually caused us to look twice, but if a place like Best Buy or Fry’s were filled with Dreamoc 3D displays, we’d probably be more interested in the sales pitch than the product. Because not only can the system display 3D video—it can display…
Square Enix, the famed Japanese publisher behind all 3,000 Final Fantasy games, is hard at work on Crystal Defenders, a new game for the iPhone based on the FF universe. It’ll be a “defense simulation” game that utilizes the touchscreen, so I’m guessing it’ll have more in common with Final Fantasy Tactics than Final Fantasy…
So yesterday, Motorola comes out with some optimistic sounding news (well, unless you’re getting the axe) of streamlining the operation and shifting focus to Android, an OS that is built specifically for its relative ease to bring to market. And then, one day later on their quarterly earnings call (in which they announced a staggering…
Where as most of us grew up on cheap plastic Duncans, the Catch 22 Yo-Yo caters to our new elitist tastes. We may not be able to even use a “Yo-Yo,” but we need an uberpremium version all the same. With just 70 in existence, each Catch 22 is constructed from a black aluminum base…
