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Toshiba’s budget HD camcorder, the Camileo H10, actually doesn’t skimp on features, it seems. The SD-based device records in 720p to its internal 64MB memory, or SDHC cards (up to 8GB, around 4 hours of footage) and has a 10 megapixel CCD. It squeezes in a 5x optical zoom, video stabilization, motion-detection shooting, night mode,…
Being an amateur chef with kitchen obsessive compulsive disorder, I’m glad that someone thought of these color-coded Index Chopping Boards, which are not only purty but smart and extremely useful. The polypropylene, dishwasher-safe boards are designed to be easily stored, like folders. They are also easy to pick up, with icons for each food group:…
A few months back, some troops driving a Humvee in Iraq got hit. The troops evacuated before a blast blew the doors off of the vehicle; only one of the soldiers sustained a shrapnel injury. As you’ll see, the Humvee didn’t make it, but a Garmin eTrex left behind in the wreckage still worked. UPDATE:…
We spend around a third of our lives asleep… but that can’t justify spending $60,000 on a bed, can it? The makers of Cosmovoide think it can. Their luxury bed is shaped like an egg (to either give you Morkian dreams, or wrap you up in cozy cosmic harmony or some such nonsense), has hammock-like…
Sporry guyss, there’lll be speling mistkes in this post coz I cnt see the keyboord proply: my eyess ar watercingg to much. *dab dab* Ah that’s better. Just don’t think too much about the eyelid jewelery from designer Eric Klarenbeek, or your eyes too will fill up in sympathy with that poor model. Wearing jewels…
It’s a Woot-off at Woot again, cheapo-gadget fans. “Woot!” you might say, when you hear you could get a Netgear RangeMax 802.11g 240Mbps USB2.0 Adapter for a paltry $19.99. Who knows what other gizmos will arrive next? Well, Woot.com, presumably… [Woot]
Probably dismayed by the current smleh state of games for the iPhone, game wizard John Carmack has announced that iD Software is bringing something very special for the iPhone. Knowing that John is the creator of Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, but, more importantly, Commander Keen, you can imagine how excited we are. Yes, that excited. In…
There’s been a bit of a rush of pocket/USB digital microscopes recently, but none can hold a candle to this development from the clever chaps at Caltech. They’ve done a neat bit of thinking and redesigned how microscopes work: their new optofluidic microscope combines microfluidics and standard chip design, and floats samples over a pinhole-camera-like…
Asus’s EeePC 901 has already proved itself very hackable but Buffalo’s newest product won’t require much modding: 32GB or 64GB replacement SSD’s. Not much more to say, apart from the obvious: more storage, more impact resilient, longer battery life. The best bit? The 32GB SHD-EP9M32G is a mere $156, and the 64GB SHD-EP9M64G an equally…
Last week the Internet Archive announced a partnership with NASA (nasaimages.org) which provides searchable access to video and still images from NASA’s vast archives. Above is a 1957 artist’s rendition of Project Red Socks, which was to be the “world’s first useful moon rocket.” From the press release: NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital…
The Seattle PI has the first look at Microsoft’s multi-touch Surface Sphere—simply Sphere—that we’ve known would debut this week. It’s more advanced than Surface, since it has to use algorithms to round images, and uses an infrared system to detect hands and objects touching it. It plays omnidirectional video and what has to be the…
Dell’s Hybrid mini PC is pretty much their worst kept secret ever (which is kinda sayin’ something!) but as of now it can officially adorn the desktop corners of eco- and space-conscious college freshmen or slip into entertainment centers for $499. It’s 80 percent smaller than a standard desktop while slurping 70 percent less power,…
Bringing up the rear of tonight’s new Dell extravaganza (and its three consumers lines) is some back-to-school Inspiron action, the main attraction being the Inspiron 13-it starts under $800 (Wal-Mart will sell a special $700 config), with a 13-inch “high definition display,” touch controls, and a slot-loading DVD drive. Plus it has some decent design…
The new version of the popular NES emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch now includes accelerometer control for all games. The implementation is very simple: A tilt is equivalent to controlling input in that direction. This means that tilt control can be used in any game loaded into the emulator, but also that some…
Dell isn’t the only laptop maker offering its customers help if they have laptops with certain Nvidia chips that are prone to overheating. HP has issued a list of laptops of its own that feature the chipset and states that it’s been a known warranty issue since late last year. While not offering to swap…
If Frankenstein taught us anything it is that fire is bad and if you stick a bunch of random stuff together the result is not going to be pretty. Case in point, this 4-in-1 USB webcam from Brando. This multi-headed Medusa has additional features like a dimmable LED light, microphone and a fan on bendable…
By now you have probably heard about the original DIY sawed-off flash drive project which was so popular that it quickly evolved into an actual product. Well, now annoying pranksters can get in on the act with a DIY version that randomly turns on Caps Lock, Insert, Num Lock modes “and other mischief” in 30…
If getting a natural tan is on your summer to-do list despite all of the health warnings about sun exposure, a French company called NéoSun aims to make the process easier with their NéoSunMore lounge. Besides its futuristic look, the chair can be rotated 360-degrees with simple movements of the armrests. That means you can…
This extremely fancy treadmill puts in a whole lot of effort to make you feel like you’re running outside when you, in actuality, aren’t. While it’d be easy to cynically joke about how people hate the sun so much that they’re devising ways to pretend to run outside, this is clearly designed for physical therapy…
Casio’s G’zOne rugged-ass cellphone has been updated yet again, and this time it’s called the Boulder. The Mil-Spec clamshell’s got GPS, a 1.3MP camera, an LED lantern, microSD support and a digital compass in its shock-, dust- and water-resistant frame. The Boulder is out now in black or orange for $130 after 2-year Verizon Wireless…
