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Nokia said they didn’t care about the iPhone back when it was introduced, not even commented on it beyond a brief “smeh.” Then, they presented their iPhone killer concept, a demo that looked and acted exactly like Apple’s handset, even while it was “no competition for Nokia.” Now they have announced they are “readying” the…
The Local River is an aquarium-vegetarium (hang on a minute) by Mathieu Lehanneur, the same guy who thought up last year’s Bel Air plant filtration system. Using the same curved white design that tickled our fancy with the Bel Air last year, the Local River is a home storage system for fish and greens that…
The chaps at Super Talent are not only incredibly modest, talented and super, but they must also be fantastically tiny to have put together the world’s smallest 8GB flash drive. (Flawless logic, I’m sure you’ll agree.) Retailing at $35, the price is pretty reasonable, at least until you drop it into your chest hair and…
Samsung’s follow-up to its D880, the D780, launched today. Available in Russia from next month, followed by SE Asia, Europe and the Middle East, the candy-bar cell has Dual Standby, meaning you can receive calls to your second number even while taking a call on your first. Full specs and a pic of its two-in-a-bed…
Those of you into teeny-tiny gadgets might like Panasonic’s latest SD camcorder aimed at the Japanese market. The SDR-S7 weighs in at just 160 grams—that’s 5.6 ounces—and shoots MPEG-2 format in 640 x 480 resolution, storing on either SD or SDHC cards. More specs below. There’s a 10x zoom, a battery life of 70 minutes,…
These traditional Japanese-style keyboards are a class apart from the grey or white boringness of the average keyboard. As well as looking different, and neat these devices are even handmade for that extra “creative” touch. The gold one’s damn attractive and would look cool on many a desk: but not the green “kara kusa” one……
Reviews are pouring in of the HP 2133 sub-notebook (now dubbed the Mini-Note) which is now up on Amazon. It costs more than the Eee PC or Cloudbook, but you can actually configure all the specs yourself, and the aluminum chassis tells people you spent more on your ultraportable. It’s a bit bulkier and heavier,…
We pretty much flipped over the Casio EXIFILM PRO EX-F1‘s insane rapid fire mode when we get our hands on it: 60fps still shooting, and up to a retardiculous 1200fps video for super slo-mo. David Pogue gives the full review, and spends a page lauding how freakin’ fast this camera is. Besides loving the sheer…
The July 30, 1969 Progress-Index (Petersburg, VA) ran a piece titled, “Little Work, Big Pay Forecast Year 2000.” Thirty hour work weeks, lawns that needn’t be mowed, and automated kitchens are just a few of the innovations mentioned by Richard Gillis Jr., in a speech given to the Petersburg Kiwanis Club in 1969. An America…
It’s a mini tabletop vacuum that’s shaped like a toilet. Yep, that’s pretty much it. Except! There is a large piece of shit floating in it when you lift the lid. And that’s what makes it worth posting, really. It’s $14 priceless for the next time your mom drops by your disgusting living space. [Smutty…
Officially, the iPhone and iPod touch support 640 by 480-pixel video running at up to 30 frames per second. But Ars Technica is reporting that it’ll actually take 720×576-resy video churning at 25fps, which is the same resolution and frame rate that PAL (mostly Euro) DVDs run at. Obviously not all that useful if you’re…
If there’s one thing Canadians know how to do, it’s party it up with either Rock Band or Guitar Hero III. Seen in this flyer by reader John, you get a free “More Cowbell” hat whenever you buy either of the two games. Walken, who made another appearance on SNL over the weekend (monologue was…
Do you know when you see something so completely retarded, you have no response other than to rub your face with your hands and mumble to yourself, “What the fuck?” That’s exactly what we did when we saw this $300,000 Day&Night watch that doesn’t tell the time, but shows you whether the sun is up…
According to a University of Hertfordshire survey of 1,158 kids aged 18-24 in the UK, 95% of them have “pirated” music before. The other 5%? According or our estimates, they’re either technologically illiterate or they don’t like music. [Guardian]
That blurry GPS shot above is of the Dash Express with its IP-enabled mesh network of traffic monitoring. But most of you don’t have such tech in your GPS, you’ve got something else without live traffic data. For those of you who have GPS devices without live traffic, do you use a phone with Google…
The lack of extraneous features on the iPhone’s Camera app is great for most people, but heavy-duty cameraphone aficionados want to be able to adjust stuff like digital zoom, greyscale, auto-rotation and burst mode. Snapture is the solution. If you’ve got a jailbroken phone just install the app from Installer.app’s Utilities section and you’ll be…
OS X Leopard’s Time Machine works on Airport Extreme routers as of the last firmware update, but TidBITS found out directly from Apple that it’s an “unsupported feature.” What does this mean to you, the guy who wants to use Time Machine on the Extreme you purchased last year instead of shelling out a couple…
When we last compared Wal-Mart’s MP3 store to Amazon’s, only Universal and EMI had gone DRM-free, and Wal-Mart still stocked tunes locked down with Windows Media DRM. Now Wal-Mart’s store is completely DRM-sanitized, but their saber rattling to Sony and Warner for DRM-less music has gone ignored, so they’re not selling any tracks from those…
While we kinda already figured that Bill Gates was just a little over-eager to put Vista behind Microsoft when he volunteered that the next version of Windows would be ready to go next year, Microsoft wanted to be super-clear that you’ll have to wait until 2010 to leapfrog this generation’s Windows ME. It’ll be Jan.…
These Japanese Game Suppli vitamins come in two varieties, “Blue Berry”, which refreshes you after a gaming session, and DHA, which boosts your attention during a session. It’s not quite as crazy as eyedrops, which incapacitated Matt for a good ten minutes. There’s only one other nation, Korea, that could combine the dubious gaming benefit…