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If you’re a 13-year-old boy or just someone with the maturity level of a 13-year-old boy, you’ll love this breast-related mouse and mouse pad combo. The mouse features a couple of boobs as buttons, while the mouse pad uses boobs as a wrist rest. For $38, it’s probably the only way you’re ever going to…
Japanese scientists are so hyped up on the possibilities of building a real life space elevator that in just two months’ time the country is playing host to a conference designed to set a production timetable. Carbon nanotube technology has advanced so rapidly that a material capable of withstanding the amazing forces in the space…
We know that you can get your fill of Midway classics easily enough through emulation, but this officially licensed tabletop cabinet is pretty tempting all the same. For $200 (and $5 shipping) you get a 14″ CRT, a duo of 6-button joysticks and 12 games like Rampage, Joust and Root Beer Tapper. Plus, there are…
In the 2009 defense authorization bill approved last week, the US Senate called for the defense industry to get serious about bringing laser weapons like Boeing’s Advanced Tactical Laser system (pictured) to the battlefield. The bill allocated more funds to laser programs large and small-from green lasers used to temporarily blind individual troops called “dazzlers”…
Last weekend we caught a fleeting glimpse of the latest build of Windows 7. Today, the same source of those screenshots is gracing us with two brief videos. The first is just a very simple clip demonstrating Window 7’s updated Start button glow animation. The second, listed after the jump, demonstrates the powerful new integrated…
It’s not perfect, but we love the idea. One modder connected his Wiimote to Google Maps’ Street View, allowing the Wiimote to track his jogging in place to guide him through the streets of Tokyo. As you can see, the flaw is that the image updates more like a slideshow than fluid video, as Street…
In case you missed it the first time, James Madison’s favorite 65-inch 1080p LCD TV from somewhat troubled brand Olevia is back on Woot today for the same low price of $2300—40% off of Amazon’s price of $3810. Panel’s made by Sharp. Woot away: [Woot]
Carbon nanotubes are one of the surprising new carbon supermaterials, and it looks like their application in supercapacitors may have a role in replacing clunky old car battery tech. Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have invented a technique to make supercapacitor “paper” made from randomly tangled carbon nanotubes embedded in a polymer.…
I’m not sure how many of you are buying (aka not renting) movies from Sony’s PlayStation 3 video store, but to those who are willing to drop $15 on a permanent, DRM’d digital product, know that Sony only allows you to redownload these products one time.To be fair, Sony’s licensing agreement claims “Content cannot be…
Sony and Toshiba announced that they had successfully shrunk the 65nm cell down to 45nm earlier this year, and now thanks to Japan’s Nikkan Kogyo, we now have a date for mass production: 2009. At a 40% reduction in power consumption, the shrunken Cell will generate less heat, which would help the PS3 to lose…
From left to right: HTC Touch HD, HTC Touch Diamond, and HTC Touch Pro. Note that while the Touch HD’s footprint isn’t much bigger, the screen appears ginormous. [CNET]
Palm’s been quietly developing its OS II, and says it’ll now be finished by the end of this year, meaning we can expect to see handsets bearing the OS sometime after June 2009. It’s another delay to the Linux-based OS, also dubbed Nova, with Palm’s CEO originally promising OS II handsets in 2007: current Palms…
Pentax’s upcoming entry-level DSLR, that we brought you news of on the weekend, is now official. It’s actually named the K2000 inside the US and K-m outside. The sensor is indeed 10.2-megapixels and it does have a 2.7-inch LCD and lacks live-view, just as we’d heard. With an auto scene-detection mode, it’s also aimed squarely…
Over at BoyGeniusReport they’ve got more info on the iPhone 3G home activation story: it turns out it is true-ish. A source has apparently confirmed to BGR that home activation is indeed coming…but it’s only the pre-activation billing and credit part. In other words you’ll still have to turn up at an Apple store (presumably…
Samsung’s original Armani phone was a tiny, touchscreen, haptic-feedback gizmo, and actually not bad looking at all: so I’m confused about the upcoming Armani 2 Night Effect. It’s a plain candybar cellphone, emblazoned with large Emporio Armani emblems and it seems to have totally forgone attempts at simple stylishness. Get this—around the edge of the…
Since Olympus and Panasonic together developed the micro four thirds camera format, and Panasonic’s Lumix G1 is already on the way, it shouldn’t be a surprise to hear Olympus is working on one too. Olympus is currently making noises about the camera, saying it’ll “bring dramatic reductions in size and weight to the Olympus E-System”…
Sandisk’s slotMusic cards are not much more than tweaked 1GB microSD cards with a logo and a special USB-compatible sled: but the fact that they’ll carry albums from big names like BMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group makes them interesting. They’ll also be DRM free too, which is a pleasant…
The above pic is a splash screen you can see when visiting Canadian electronics and appliance retailer Easyhome, notifying visitors of a four-day sale. Depicted on the Sony TV in front of the American flag is a politician flashing pearly whites and a double-thumbed “This guy!” Beneath him is the none-too-veiled message “Even BS looks…
My friend Steve the Audiophiliac unearthed this crazy video of a guy who recounts all the reasons his Nordost Valhalla reference power cable is better than a woman. I know it’s supposed to be funny, but the horror-film lighting, the intensity of the delivery and the reasons themselves—snapping his scissors, he says, “She doesn’t care…
There’s no definition for the word “worthless” in the Hammacher Schlemmer dictionary; these Fingertip Piano Gloves are “ingenious,” a portable subway piano concerto waiting to happen. Each glove plays an entire octave in the key of C, and the final three notes in the scale are achieved by pressing down on the palm. The gloves…
