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Got a lot of money to spend and a fetish for obsolete technology? The Certus Turntable by Teres Audio will play whatever records you still own for the hefty price of between $13,900 and $25,500. For the annual wage of a migrant farmer, you get a “magnetic damped multi-phase synchronous drive system to directly drive…
Belkin has unveiled several solutions that’ll help keep laptop people like me from burning our tender flesh. Come this October, the bunch of us that adamantly refuse to work from an actual desk can choose between the $64.99 CushTop Hideaway, which doubles as a laptop storage case, or the $39.99 Laptop Cooling Lounge, which uses…
Fans of laser engraving can now prettify all their stuff with Epilog Laser‘s new Zing Laser, a machine that’s roughly about the size of a bulky office scanner. The Zing Laser, one of the first fully functional low-cost laser etchers on the market, has 25 watts of cutting power and can engrave designs into wood,…
Japan, the land of using technology to solve problems we didn’t know we had, has come out with a new robot that will let people shop at malls without ever leaving their home. Robot developer tmsuk revealed a telerobotic shopper that can be controlled using NTT DoCoMo’s cellphone technology. In the demo, unveiled at the…
The original iPhone with its metal back couldn’t survive the Blender’s assault, so what chance does this iPhone 3G’s plastic spine have? Zero. Then again, has anything ever failed to blend properly? I’d say these guys need a new shtick but we keep linking and you keep clicking so I guess I’m not actually as…
It’s officially up for $9.95 and you can download it from iTunes. [iTunes via Macrumors]
I play Rock Band like a champ, and when I’m with my crew I’m usually on drums. I’m a drummer, and I love playing them, and the included drum controller always seemed just fine to me. Kotaku found this photo of the premium Rock Band 2 kit and I’ve decided I must have it. UPDATE:…
Could the rumored upcoming “Lips” accessory + game to the Xbox 360 have the most advanced karaoke microphone for a game yet? Quite possibly. The game’s made by iNiS, a team that’s no stranger to music games, and features the accessory that pulses in time with your singing, plus detects how you swing it around…
Remember Topless Wii and Topless Wii: The Revengening? Well this is different. This is Topless Wii Fit, as inspired by that one underpants video of the Wii Fit girl gyrating around. Like we said, different. Zoo Today has a really NSFW video and a slightly NSFW video. The slightly NSFW video after the jump. Head…
The Xbox 360 price drop has pretty much gone official, with Target offering an in-store price of $299.99. The only thing weird about this is that it’s not the rumored 60GB version that we thought was coming, so it’s possible that Target is just clearing out old inventory for the new SKU? We won’t know…
S’mores are definitely one of my all-time favorite snack foods, and this weird Progressive International Microwavable S’Mores Maker claims to make two perfect s’mores in 30 seconds flat because the little “arms” keep the marshmallows from expanding too much. I still think you need a fire to make perfect s’mores, not some gadget that looks…
Just in case you haven’t noticed the outrageous charges on your bill every month, Uncle Sam just loves taxing cellphones and wireless charges. While the average tax rate for most products is 7.07%, on wireless services it’s a whopping 15.9% when you combine the local, state and federal taxes. Not cool. Well, some senators are…
Not only does Monday mark the start of the week where you can wave your new iPhone 3Gs around in your coworkers’ faces, it’s the start of (what used to be) the biggest video game event of the year: E3. We’ll be there with Kotaku, and by extension, you’ll be there. There are a ton…
It looks as though Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is ready to lay the hammer down on Comcast regarding their wanton BitTorrent blocking. As was evident in the recent net neutrality hearing, Martin is hellbent on protecting consumers by establishing rules for transparency within ISPs. In an interview with AP, Martin noted that “The commission…
Forget the iPhone, the real news today is that 7-11 is giving away free Slurpees today, 7/11/2008. They do it every year, yet somehow people don’t know about it. So we’re letting you, the blog-reading public, in on the deal. Go now, they always run out after the work day. [Free Slurpees!]
The iPhone Dev Team has a video up showing exactly what their PwnageTool 2.0 looks like. You know, the tool that unlocks iPhone 2.0. Check back in a couple minutes to see the video. This works in both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G on both 1.1.4 and 2.0 firmware. Woohoo, unlocked iPhones! UPDATE:…
While Nike is releasing some half-baked Back to the Future “inspired” shoes, purists know that they aren’t the real deal. Sort of looking like the shoes from the movie isn’t enough. They need to be the shoes from the movie. Well, here you go: the original prototype shoe built for the movie. It doesn’t get…
There are simple reasons why the new iPhone 3G is better than the last. Apple has eliminated so many annoying little hang-ups that you might run into when using the old one. The GPS pinpoints to meters instead of blocks. The 3G connection slashes web loading times by minutes to seconds. The more rounded case…
Macrumors has a useful post on how you can upgrade (downgrade, technically) from the leaked “iPhone1,2” firmware to the official “iPhone1,1” firmware issued early this morning. The leaked firmware was intended to only for use with iPhone 3G before it got out to the masses. In short, you need to download the correct firmware, and…
Whew! There is a little too much iPhone stuff going on out there. It’s getting a bit overwhelming-even for someone who actually owns one. Not to worry though. If you are tired of all the hype or you are a frustrated Apple hater, welcome to the anti-iPhone oasis. Here you can sit back, relax and…
