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Japanese kids and otaku need slightly more motivation than the rest of us to save money, and to that end, Takara Tomy has made a piggy bank with an RPG game built right on there. It’s called Bank Quest (was Final Bank Fantasy taken?) and you can buy weapons and armor for your dude from…
When I think of snow globes, images of pleasant Christmas settings usually come to mind. Even now, on a hot summer’s day, the thought is kind of refreshing. However, it seems that artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz must have had a traumatic incident involving snow globes, because the imagery they have created in their…
This cute 800 DPI optical mouse with a built-in speaker slides out like a cellphone to reveal a keypad for VoIP calls. It has an LCD display for Caller ID and switches between mouse and phone functions automatically. It also looks much cooler than other combos we’ve seen. No word on price or availability. [Product…
Fortune has a nice package for Bill Gates‘ upcoming departure from Microsoft-the best is their exclusive gallery of 15 rare photos from throughout his life, narrated by Bill himself. I think my favorite pic is the leather biker jacket slung over his V-neck Cosby sweater at a Harley event-or the fist pump when he gets…
Poised and waiting for ATI’s latest graphics card to hit, Nvidia immediately fired off the 9800 GTX+, a nimbler version of its behemoth 9800 GTX, aggressively priced at $229 to put serious pressure on the $199 HD 4850. Benchmarks comparing the two weren’t available yesterday, but PC Perspective has ’em up now. In short, while…
I already have a GPS unit but I’ll be dammed if I’m not throwing it out because the guys at Mio have come up with a Knight Rider branded GPS unit with voice prompts by the one and only Mr Feeny KITT William Daniels. Apparently, you will recognize his familiar voice as soon as you…
Wilson caught this limited edition Red OLPC at the company’s headquarters near MIT’s campus in Cambridge today. The limited edition run of 100 is made for developers working on the dual boot Sugar Linux and Windows XP system, and has specs identical to the regular OLPC, except 2GB of RAM 2GB flash memory—the minimum required…
Like many current iPhone owners, I have been tossing around the merits of upgrading to the 3G version when it hits on July 11th. The debate about whether or not it is truly worth it has gone back and forth since the official announcement, but the bottom line is that I am an early adopter.…
For many of us, the first day of summer starts just before midnight tonight. That means it is time to start thinking about how to beat the heat when the temperatures soar and the air conditioning unit in your home or office inevitably breaks down. In this scenario, survival means being prepared for anything. The…
Just a few short months after Verizon’s Open Development Conference which laid out everything you wanted to know about their open door “any app, any devce” policy, they’ve just certified the first device that’ll run on their open network. What is it, who made it and when can you buy it? Good questions! They’re not…
Japanese TV broadcaster NHK has demonstrated Super Hi-Vision, their whopping 32 megapixel, 8K (7680 x 4320) ultra-high definition projector technology using two LCoS projectors with a combined 8,000 lumens brightness and a towering 6.6m x 3.7m 300-inch projection screen. For those of you who are counting, that absolutely obliterates the 4K (3840 x 2,160) full-HD…
The U.S. military has been running two prototype generators that run on leftovers, shredded documents and ammunition wrappers at their headquarters in Iraq. The Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER) works by breaking down garbage into small bits and then heating it up until it becomes a synthetic gas and then combining it with the…
HTC’s installing an updated ROM on all the Touch Diamonds they’re shiping out in Europe now, which hopefully will fix the sluggish TouchFLO 3D issues we noticed in our preliminary hands on. We’re trying to track down some kinda download link so current owners can get in on the slightly-less-slow action, and we’ll update if…
Jacobs Digital Photo & Video, a UK camera supplier, is boasting a “a big surprise on the 1st July 2008, a major supplier will be announcing a brand new SLR.” The consensus seems to be that it’ll be the D700 from Nikon, a mid-range full-frame DSLR that’s been generating a lot of noise recently. Other,…
As reported from an NBC affiliate, this surveillance video (from May 21st) has just been released that depicts a particularly vicious attack on a Columbus, OH, bus-all to acquire an iPhone. A hooded teen lunges at a man who was wearing headphones on his way off the bus. No one did anything to stop the…
Dash loved the sales of their Dash Express connected GPS unit so much when it was discounted to $299 at Amazon, they decided to make this permanent. Get yours now and never be lost in a dangerous neighborhood again (you know what we’re talking about). [Dash] https://gizmodo.com/dash-express-gps-full-drive-review-total-traffic-termi-372736
LG’s latest viral ad video for their LG Secret doesn’t have nearly the same amount of creepiness as the first, but it’s way, way stupider. We’re not sure what message they’re trying to get across, that the LG Secret is fireproof or that the LG Secret is stupidproof. Both? [Crunchgear]
A tipster told us that the talks between Virgin Mobile and SK Telecom/Helio are going nowhere, with Virgin backing out unless there’s some sort of bankruptcy declaration or huge liquidation. Our tipster says that Helio’s corporate stores and kiosks will be closing very soon, which is backed up by similar info from Engadget. They say…
With ATI’s latest Radeon graphics card already getting benchmarked, I guess cardmakers decided it was silly to wait until June 25 for the official unveil-pretty much everybody is popping the Radeon HD 4850 right now-they’re all over Newegg and assorted other merchants. Built on a 55nm process with 512MB of DDR3 memory running at 1986MHz…
After all the problems and delays with in the 787’s manufacturing, they have finally powered-on the aircraft and completed all the start up tests. In this picture you can see Boeing’s test technician Dave Haskell plugging the aircraft to an external power line. The power-on of all the electrical systems in the aircraft, including the…
