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As of today, the Burj Dubai skyscraper in the Middle East stands at 650 meters, and here’s a diagram found on the SkyscraperCity forums, comparing it to all the other towers. The construction has finally surpassed the current tallest man-made structure, the Warsawa radio mast in Poland, which stands at 646 meters. Only another 169…
A pair of new DS Lite flavors—and they do look more like yummy cherry and lime candy flavors than mere colors—have been spotted on a couple of Spanish retail sites, one of which is GAME, apparently the second-largest specialty gaming retailer in the world, so there’s some solid reason to believe these babies are real,…
Do you remember the most annoying song ever from last month? The duo behind it, Komar and Melamid, have used data from the same survey—about the music people like the most—to compose what, the survey says, should be the best song ever. I think it’s worse than the most annoying song, actually, like a South…
Good Morning America did a segment this morning on Hi-Tech food and restaurant gadgets, which ranged from really cool to really weird. There are menus that yap at you, doggie bags for your unfinished bottles of wine, and a waiter pager so that you can harass that smug bastard who’s been ignoring you. But the…
These official Xbox 360 pants are 100 percent cotton with an elastic waistband, adjustable drawstring tie and an open fly (which is how Chen rolls). They’re only 18 bucks, but I’m deathly afraid of what happens if you get the Red Ring of Death. [WebUndies via Max Console]
If you can’t hawk your wares with a standard appeal to people’s vanity, there’s always good old-fashioned fearmongering. Like you’ll DIE in a fire caused by TERRORISTS. Unless you’ve got the Subivor survival kit! Ominous music and death-hype aside, it’s actually not a bad little pack of emergency gear—a mask that protects against toxic smoke,…
We’ve raved on Sprint’s EV-DO data service more than once, in no small part because they were the only carrier to have truly unlimited 3G data, while AT&T and Verizon capped their service at 5GB. Our love affair just might be over. According to a leaked update of their terms of service, effective July 31st,…
I can’t tell you how many times I have looked down at my Guitar Hero guitar and wished that it could be used like a real instrument. The only problem was that I lacked the ability to build one. Oh, and I have no musical ability whatsoever. Fortunately, it appears that someone with skills has…
We’re not sure where this came from originally, but we found this on Digg under “Kama Sutra For IT People.” Hit the jump for a bigger pic. [Digg]
Amazon’s Kindle might pull in $750 million by 2010, growing from an estimated 189,000 units this year to 2.2 million in the next couple, according Citi analyst Mark Mahaney. But how does that stack up against other important gadgets in their first year of life? Silicon Alley Insider has done the hard work for us.…
I don’t know about you, but I get stuck with calls every so often from family and friends looking for solutions to their computer problems, only to find out that their systems are bogged down with viruses and spyware. Naturally, a lot of what your computer may be infected with comes down to your browsing…
RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, who was hating hard on touchscreen keyboards last time we heard from him, took the defensive on the BlackBerry Bold‘s iPhone-esque aesthetics at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, saying that the Bold “wasn’t a response to another device…. This was actually designed three years ago and the actual physical design of this…
This is one of the reasons you don’t cheat on your women, my friends—because they will hit you were it hurts. And that usually means a swift kick in the nuts followed closely by a thorough dismantling of your precious gadgets. The poor Zune pictured here met its demise after a scorned woman found videos…
Schlage is planning on taking door lock security into the internet age with a new lineup of Z-Wave devices that can be locked, unlocked and monitored from a cellphone or other web enabled device. By connecting a Z-Wave gateway to any broadband router, users will be able to take complete control of up to 256…
We had to double check that this wasn’t a story about Second Life, but rather is an actual event in actual meatspace occurring this past weekend in Moscow. As former chess champion Garry Kasparov was giving a speech to unite opposition political forces, a radio-controlled penis flew across the room to some applause and laughter.…
You know that gigantic LEGO Indiana Jones boulder? Turns out that only the outside is LEGO. The inside (based on this photo) is made of styrofoam. We suppose that it would be way too cost-prohibitive to build the entire boulder out of LEGO, but that doesn’t make us any less disappointed. [Photo Credit – Thanks…
Matthew Miller from ZDNet loaded up Opera Mobile 9.5 on his HTC Advantage, a Windows Mobile device, and thinks it’s even better than the iPhone’s Safari browser. Why? Because he can select text, copy and paste, save passwords and even email individual images from a page. He says it’s the best mobile browser he’s ever…
The push towards non-rectangular displays is in full swing now that NEC has developed a more flexible TFT display that integrates the wiring circuits along the perimeter of the LCD glass. As a result, a wider variety of shapes becomes possible—like the heart-shaped prototype pictured above. Despite its prototype status, my guess is that it…
The Radioraft is a 400W, five-speaker stereo system that floats around the pool while keeping your iPod dry in its waterproof compartment. And it has cup holders. Priced at $2,000, we were a little confused at how the Radioraft stored eight hours’ worth of power, but from the product photos, we can only assume that…
Sharing USB Printers over the network is old hat, but IOGEAR’s USB Net ShareStation lets you share just about every USB device you’ve got. There’s external hard drives, flash drives, card readers, USB webcams, USB Speakers and USB printers, all extensible over the 10/100 port to your network. There’s also a built-in USB 2.0 hub…
