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Poor netiquette can be downright infuriating. If you or someone you know has a problem with “shouting” online, the caps lock trainer key should take care of it in a hurry. As you can see, it is a standard key that has been fitted with two fourteen-gauge 10mm lebret spikes. It may seem a little…
A little earlier than expected, the faster new MacBook Airs with Nvidia graphics and more storage are making their way to your door right now if you ordered one two weeks ago. [MacRumors]
Check out this all-in-one USB gadget: it wraps up a 4-way USB hub, speakers and digital alarm clock in one box. In one big, ugly, LED-laden, stolen from a bad B-grade sci-fi TV show set box. It’s even battery powered for when your PC’s off. It’s so very, very bad, it goes roaring out the…
TMCO is a manufacturer of metal products in the bustling metropolis of Lincoln, Nebraska. Not exactly somewhere you’d expect to find experiments involving robotics. But here we have a video of one of its factory robots that’s been suited up with a shirt and tie and taught to man a set of beer taps. It…
Remember the voting machines in West Virginia that just couldn’t bring themselves to let people vote Obama? Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright, who “hates stories like this” was good enough to show Video the Vote how a mis-calibrated voting machine would take a vote for Obama (or anyone) and turn it into a vote for…
Redrock’s “cinematizing” kit stirred up some attention last week with its bolt-on professional movie-camera-alike zoom controls and lens hoods for video DLSRs, and now Zacuto has something similar to offer. The camera sits up front in this rig, with the same kind of light controlling barn doors, fine focus and zoom controls, but this system…
Designing a game for consoles is much tougher than PCs, if only for the costly certification testing process that can be daunting to development studios who are accustomed to grabbing extra ketchup packets at lunch just to make soup for dinner. But Sony Europe has completely removed the PS2 certification process in their region, effectively…
Our in-depth preview of Windows 7 mentioned a few major features that didn’t quite make it into the copy we tested, but the wily crew at Chilean site FayerWayer have caught a more advanced build on (sickeningly shaky) video. Most notably, the long hands-on shows off the new dock-esque taskbar, with decent task grouping, contextual…
Motorola’s got plenty of problems. A really big one being that their development focus is spread across as many as six cellphone platforms. To help streamline (err, slash up) things, Sanjay Jha, the new head of cellphone operations, plans to do what many have been suggesting and suspecting: reduce that number to three, while shifting…
There’s just $100 standing between the $199 hard driveless Xbox 360 Arcade and the more functional $299 Xbox 360 Pro. And now you can find that $100 in this Xbox 360 Live Pack which features all the vital stuff missing from the 360 Arcade, like the 60GB hard drive and (fist pump) an ethernet cord.…
The New Xbox Experience—which we just gave a stellar review—will not only stream Netflix movies. It will be streaming Netflix movies in HD. Whaaa? Nobody else does that!Well, maybe they don’t. But Engadget confirmed that when NXE hits on November 19th, 300 HD movies will be available to stream from Netflix (as opposed to just…
We already know Hop-on and Motorola are planning Android-based cellphones, but now there’re a few hints that Asus is interested in joining the game. Some unnamed company sources are reportedly saying it’ll hit the streets during the first half of 2009—which is about the same timing as Motorola’s promised version—though it appears it may be…
Perfectly content to dance around, blur, move or even erase the line that separates notebooks from netbooks, Asus — the company that practically invented the market — is planning on including discrete graphics hardware in some of its EeePC models. Why would you want to make an already-expensive piece of “budget” hardware defy its original…
Boston Dynamic’s BigDog is already an impressive and freakishly animal-like beast, but Darpa it seems has bigger plans in mind and is asking for a smarter, bigger BigDog. The upgraded robot needs to carry 400 pounds of payload, run 20 miles on any terrain and survive un-refueled for a whole day to please Darpa’s request.…
Back in February we showed you a slightly botched-together system that lets your houseplants Twitter, but now there’s a complete kit available. After soldering it together, you simply shove it deep into your plant’s pot, connect it up to with an ethernet cable, and when its moisture sensors detect that you’ve been a bit lax…
Samsung has unveiled an ultra-thin ‘flapping’ OLED screen at FPD International 2008, demonstrating the flexibility of the display by letting it bend and flutter in the wind. At a paper-thin .05mm, the 4-inch screen is still able to create an image of 480×272 pixels, with a 100,000:1 contrast ratio and 100% reproduction of the NTSC…
Sony’s basically just confirmed we’re unlikely that we’ll see a price drop of the PS3 for the holiday season. Speaking at the Gamer 3.0 conference in London, Sony’s UK managing director noted that the PS3 is essentially sitting at just the right price point, that there’s a market out there for it and the console’s…
Sure, that Thanko cooling fan keyboard was a great addition to your desktop for the summer, but temperatures have gotten chillier now and we’re all wondering how to keep our wrists warm. Why, with Thanko’s upgraded heating AND cooling keyboard, of course! The wintertime edition has three different warming spots that’ll make your hands all…
We’ve long known about certain companies in China “borrowing inspiration” from more well known gadget makers, but it looks like architects aren’t safe from copycat syndrome either. Check out this spa building in Chongqing, the capital of Sichuan (where the earthquakes happened), which looks a little like it may have been designed by someone with…
In case you’ve got a niece or nephew that’s hankering for an Elmo Live, but you personally can’t stand the strangely frightening little muppet, why not get them animatronic wild animals from Japan that are, in my opinion, much cuter. Made by Bandai Namco, these cuddly robots react to petting and hugging, make cute baby…
