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Admit it. At least once, during a long road trip, you’ve pulled over at a gas station, filled the tank, grabbed a $5 bottle of Desani and, just as you were leaving, inhaled a particularly saltilicious scent. Scanning through the aisle, you see its source. Hot dogs. Preservatives with a side of meat. And they…
It has been a few months since we first heard about the upcoming “Alexander” phone from Motorola-a release that was considered a do-or-die for the company. BGR has managed to snag a spy shot of the phone that clearly shows a Windows Mobile platform running (listed at 6.1 but may be 7) as opposed to…
Six beers on my belt. I’m ready for my wedding! I barfed on the priest. [Product Page via Boing Boing Gadgets]
I can’t say that the Matrix Unplugged Chair looks very comfortable, but it certainly does look badass. That’s because it’s made from the torpedo-lifting jaws of a nuclear submarine. That’s right: the parts that used to handle delicate explosive torpedoes will now be handling your delicate ass. You adjust the chair using all sorts of…
We already have plenty of robot sentries/killers in the sky, so Israeli defense firm G-NIUS felt it important to tip the balance a little over to the four-wheeled category (joining the DARPA Urban Challenge folks) with its Guardium UGV. Designed mostly for border patrol and recon missions, the Guardium’s onboard telemetry can receive GPS coordinates…
“Don’t cover your ears, this is what you paid to see!” Glenn Martin shouts to me over the apocalyptic roar of an F22 fighter jet performing a leisurely flyby. He’d abruptly broken off a conversation with someone else just to make this point-before we’d even been introduced and hours before I flew his pack. “That’s…
Phone Arena got some leaked documents on the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro for Sprint and Verizon, and it looks like Verizon’s going to be slightly gimping their version of the Diamond. The general gist is the same with both having a 2.8-inch screen, EV-DO Rev. A, 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera, 802.11b/g, 1340mAh battery,…
Designer Laurent Hongisto has crafted the Lisco USB Snake as an attempt to solve that age-old (ok… decade-old) dilemma of never having a USB cable handy when you need one to charge/connect-up your device. So the design combines elements of those ’90s “slap bracelets” with a USB A to mini-USB cable, wrapped up in colorful…
Well, here’s something you don’t expect to see in the listing for a house on a real estate website: a toilet equipped with a pedal-powered contraption that drags toilet paper across your filthy bits, allowing you to wipe hands free. And, one assumes, leaving a train of vile used TP behind your toilet. I’ve got…
*Squeak* Hello. I’m Pixar’s famous Anglepoise lamp… yes, the one from the CGI film. *Squeak* I’m here to complain about this new Iris webcam from Boynq, which takes a few too many design cues from me and my fellow lamp kind. Look at it: it’s unmistakable isn’t it? As well as a VGA webcam, it’s…
The Stonehenge Robot isn’t the most practical means to keep time, but it’s got charm to spare. Programmed to carefully move any of 14 double-sided cards to display the proper time, Stonehenge gets some leeway as the cards are designed to stick to the magnetic table. The only potential problem is that the robot may…
One thing you can say about the Vudu video wonderbox is that it gets better all the time. AVN-the Adult Video Network-is launching a dedicated porn channel on Vudu. While you’ll have to pay for every flick you watch, there are at least two reasons it’s better than the FyreTV streaming porn box that Chen…
ZOMG! The Dark Knight! Xbox 360! All in one! We were unable to translate the source text clearly enough to get the full story-this unit spotted in Taipei will probably never see wide commercial release-but we’re stomping the shit out of our current system just in case our dreams come true, The Dark Knight 360…
Delta will join the other airlines using Aircell’s GoGo cellular data service, becoming the first of the U.S. biggies to announce concrete plans for a fleet-wide rollout. They’re starting with their 133 MD88/90s, then moving on to hit every plane by summer of next year. It’ll run you $9.95 for flights less than three hours,…
Click to view So, we had the allegedly-USB-powered popcorn maker… and now we have an Instructable for a USB frying pan: good enough to cook an omelet in around seven minutes. This device is a lot more basic, apparently requiring nothing more sophisticated than two aluminum pans, some broken ceramic as insulation and a tungsten…
Get your orders in now, because you won’t see a 128 GB SSD going for these prices, well, anywhere for several years-yet alone inside the tasty 12.1″ Thinkpad X200. Yes, you’re seeing it correctly-that’s subtract $70 from the total, which comes to $1,434 with the mistake. Also notice the 64 GB SSD going for a…
Olympus and Panasonic rolled out a new standard for interoperable lenses and camera bodies today in Japan, which means we could see yet another new camera category smashed in between consumer, pro-sumer, con-fessional, and all the rest. The Micro Four Thirds system is basically a slimmed down version of the two companies’ Four Thirds system,…
We’re not sure what possessed one man to load Windows Vista onto his PS3—hopefully for the science experiment, not the promise of Aero—but he did and the world will never be quite the same. The only catch is that if you think Vista is slow on a PC, you’re a spoiled, rotten person. In this…
At the Rock the Bells festival on Sunday I asked some of the most important hip-hop artists in the game—and my heroes since childhood—what they hated most about the iPhone. Whether they owned it or not, most of the stars had a good reason to dis the overhyped phone, and their answers ranged from the…
In similar style to the SIMable product Wilson showed you back in May, Brando now has its own SIM-hacking device available, and says it works to unlock, unchain, free, liberate—whatever—Apple iPhone 3Gs from being tied to one operator. The slim chip-and-circuit gizmo hugs the rear of your SIM and messes with the signals that go…
