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John Sciacca at Sound & Vision says his DVR no longer lets him record his favorite show, Survivor. Sciacca claims that despite setting his Time Warner box to record every episode of the reality show, when the time comes, it acts as if there is nothing to record. Sometimes, he says, the record light even…
The age-old battle between Intel and AMD is resurrected every year as the two duke it out for control of your computer. Back in the day, when I was broke and into building PCs, I often opted for AMD because of budget restrictions. After I graduated, performance was the objective which, at the time, meant…
If the Di Grisogono Meccanica DG was the first watch with a mechanical-digital display, the Opus 8 watch by Harry Winston comes in at a close second. While the DG used mechanical tubes to display the time, the Opus 8 works using a complicated system of mechanical pixels that rise up from the display when…
This Banquette Chair is as close as you’re going to get to a chair made entirely out of Pandas unless you’re David Bowie. It’s a chair. It’s made of stuffed pandas. It’s $75,000. What more do you need to know? Create one for yourself after a trip to Ikea, a trip to Home Depot, and…
Using a car’s AC vents to hold cellphones is an old idea. Using a car’s AC vent to hold an iPhone so you can watch movies/Cover Flow your way through your music is a new idea. DLO’s VentMount seems like an incredibly practical way to keep your iPhone/iPod Touch within short reach, especially in cars…
Comcast officially loves P2P as much as George Washington loves freedom. It’s calling for an industry-wide P2P bill of rights and responsibilities that would cover ISPs and users and “clarify what choices and controls consumers should have…as well as what processes and practices ISPs should use to manage P2P applications.” Furthermore, as they stated earlier,…
The Wi-Fi Predator is like a Wi-Fi swiping sniper rifle, capturing distant ethereal Wi-Fi signals for your internets. Basically it tosses a directional antenna with the relatively easy (and awesome) DD-WRT router firmware hack, which will let you boost your router’s power to 200dB and set it to feed off other wireless signals. The instructions…
The August 17, 1923 Rock Valley Bee (Rock Valley, IA) ran a short piece titled, “Whole Meal in Pill Is Scientist’s Dream.” The entire piece appears below. A good hearty meal, all in one pill that can be carried in a vest pocket, is the dream of scientists of today, according to Hugh S. Cummings,…
IHome today revealed their new IP99 alarm clock/iPhone dock specificially designed to shield out the rather annoying TDMA buzz associated with the iPhone and other GSM phones. The IP99 is the latest to protect against the buzz (the Altec-Lansing we reviewed in February also does this), as this is becoming desirable feature in the speaker…
The Original T-Mobile HTC Shadow was quite good for a Windows mobile phone because of its non-Windows-Mobile Windows Mobile UI. If this leaked picture really is the Shadow II, then T-Mobile is continuing on the same path of loading a proprietary UI on top of the standard WM facade. There’s not much else we can…
Windows XP SP3 will start shipping to manufacturers and IT workers next Monday, 4/21. The Following Tuesday, 4/29, it will be made available for download over Windows Update. This is the final version of SP3, following the RC1 and RC2 builds offered earlier in the year, which promises to boost performance by 10% and network…
Remember the badass mom who put her son’s Xbox 360 up on eBay after he broke the vacuum to get out of playing chores and was busted surfing for porn on the web? Well, it looks like being a tough parent pays: Dyson is sending her a $500 DC25 vacuum cleaner free of charge. So…
Coway’s new cleaning device uses megasonic soundwaves to clean everything from meat, to produce, to dirty dishes — all with the frequency of a soundwave. The secret behind this gadget is inductive micro cavitation, which shakes dirty particles loose from the surface of the object. The sanitizer also provides running water to prevent secondary contamination…
The Guardian did a little research on this Psystar, the company that vows to continue selling their generic Mac OS X clones even if Apple decides to sue them. Turns out that not only has the Miami Chamber of Commerce and BBB never heard of them, there’s essentially no trace of them on the internet…
Jabra, having mastered the art of monogamous cellphone to headset pairing, is moving on to the trickier task of two chicks at once—except instead of chicks, it’s any two Bluetooth devices. The M5390 can connect simultaneous to any two endpoints, making it extremely easy to swap back and forth between, say, two cellphones, or a…
Russian scientist Alexander Bolonkin has a way to protect our cities from nuclear attacks: just slap a gigantic dome over it. Of course! As an added bonus, we’ll also protect ourselves from inclement weather and the annoying tourists that airplanes bring with them when they land. When can construction start?? So wait a second, how…
Seriously, if you buy this thing, you’re an idiot. The LapStrap is supposed to save you the trouble of bagging your laptop by looping it around the hinge and closing the lid. But I have issues with this thing. I can imagine the laptop lid flying open while on the go, almost ensuring destruction. Muggers…
Bullshit patent suits are annoying when it’s a do-nothing patent holder trying to extract cash from fat corporate wallets, but even more so when it’s a bigger company trying to muscle over little ones. Like Monster Cable suing Blue Jeans Cable for having connectors that looked like theirs. Blue Jeans’ CEO, a former evil lawyer,…
Wow! What is this? Did The Cheat made some terrible cybernetic experiment, blended that Homestar dummy with the terrifying BigDog into a fatter, shorter, uglier Phil Collins-wannabe trashcan bot, then christened it Push-Kun and sent it to destroy all those stupid robots at the Baka Robocup 2008 in Japan? For shame! I bet it only…
Did you know your teens are swapping naked pictures of themselves with their dates? We’ve got a few questions about how widespread this is—mainstream news sites love to take a few cases of anything and pretend it’s an epidemic—but it is an interesting enough topic for us to look into. You know, teen nakedness. According…