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According to the designers at Transparent House, the idea behind the Perspecktiva lamp was “to integrate an iconic object into modern day life while maintaining the qualities of art and function.” In this case the “iconic object” was a vintage camera inspired by the classic Leica design. The result is a work of art that…
The mandatory period of silence for 700MHz auction participants is over, so AT&T is revealing what’s up their sleeve for the prem-o slice of spectrum on a conference call. AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said that it’ll give them more flexibility and bandwidth to handle surging demand for mobile broadband now and later;…
Intel is currently hard at work on its new Anti-Theft Technology (ATT), a relatively vague new project that would help prevent theft by making a computer inoperable without the owner’s permission. It differs from disc encryption methods of protection by rendering the computer inoperable even if the drive has been swapped out. Intel’s currently working…
The official announcement won’t be until next Monday, but the N-Gage blog just let everyone know that their cellphone gaming platform went live today. If you’ve got an N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95 or N95 8GB, you can go download and install the service now (available on both Mac and PC). If you’ve got an…
Update: It appears this story is completely false. PRNewswire now claims that AbleComm told them to pass along the news that everyone should disregard their release, because the entire thing is “completely false”. Thanks AbleComm. Might want to put your April Fool’s news releases on April 1, instead of April 3. Panasonic’s just revealed its…
We don’t have many details of this Sony Ericsson smartphone called the “Paris”, but se-nse.net claims that it’s a slider, runs Symbian UIQ 3.3 and has quite a large screen. Below the screen will be a P1-style keyboard, meaning two letters per key. That’s pretty much all we know, except for a supposed May announcement…
One of ThinkGeek’s many fantastic April Fools’ products is now becoming real, following the same path as the 8-bit Tie last year. This one, the Personal Soundtrack Shirt, takes a little bit more engineering effort than a tie, so if you’re interested in one you’ll have to put yourself on their notification list. But think…
Apple’s just confirmed the morning’s news on them being the number one music retailer in the US. The stuff to take away: four billion songs sold, six million songs in the catalog, the most music sold in January and February out of any retailer. Hit the jump if you want to see Apple gloat for…
The University of Rochester has just devised a way of reproducing music in a file that’s compressed 1,000 times smaller than an MP3 file. The way they do it—physically modeling an instrument in a computer and then feeding it input variables (breath, tongue, fingers) in order to generate the output tone—seems super obvious. People were…
Our friend Stuart at PocketGamer UK just shared with us his encounter with Meshcentric CEO Scott Fry, who is in Vegas at CTIA telling everyone about the H_T, a cellular gaming 1-mile-range-Wi-Fi hot spot with over-clocked CPU, fluorescent LEDs and GPS. The suspiciously PSP-shaped new multifunction device is apparently the second product to come from…
I used to sleep through class by tuning my cellphone’s FM radio to a classical station, sitting in the back, and putting a jacket over my face, so this XM Radio on BlackBerry is pretty spectacular news. All you need is a BlackBerry 8800, 8700, Pearl or Curve and $7.99 a month. You’ll get 20…
Attention, lazy, lazy people! Say hello to Selfy the Easy Bed. Yes, that’s the name of the product. It’s a bed that makes itself in the morning, using a couple of rails that hold onto the sheets to lift and tuck everything in, giving you a neat bed to crawl into at the end of…
Kung Fu Kidz, he’s really not very tall. Kung Fu Kidz, bald like a billiard ball. He’s got pants, some black pants, and the looks of baby Spock. When the going gets tough, he’s really rough, with a Hong Kong Phooey chop (Hi-Ya!) Kung Fu Kidz, he’s really not very tall. Kung Fu Kidz, bald…
There’s apparently a market out there catering to people who don’t want to use a one-size-fits-all microwave, as evidenced by the Ultra-Mini Microwave we reviewed yesterday, and this Bagetty elongated microwave. Instead of being relatively boxy like traditional models, this thing is long and tube-shaped, making it perfect for hot dogs, wieners, franks, sausages, bratwurst…
Remember that fake bubble wrap cellphone charm from Japan? Well, if you’re more into soybeans than packing material, say hello to Mugen Edamame. Simply push on the pod and the beans will pop out showing a random face each time. It’s not as delicious as normal edamame, but it sticks around a lot longer. [Product…
According to a recent poll by research firm Interpret, 60% of the U.S. is “aware” of Blu-ray. So does this actually mean anything? We’re not so sure. While brand recognition is important, it doesn’t appear that Interpret asked those polled to interpret what the hell Blu-ray really meant. Our guess is that if you asked…
Designed to look like it’s almost not really there, this “Ghost Chair” puts me more in mind of milk poured into water. It’s pretty futuristic, in a curved-yet-straight, acrylic kind of way. It’s apparently the first in a line of chairs and stools from designers Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn that will use this novel…
Sci Fi has announced that they’ll be producing Sanctuary, television’s first entirely green screen show. Its plot explores the possible existence of shadow-hidden mutants living among us (which doesn’t sound like the worst fodder for CGI overload, though a weather drama might have required a lower budget). With the ever-dropping price and simultaneous growing capabilities…
Citing NPD data and internal Apple sources, Ars Technica declared iTunes the #1 music retailer in January, besting Wal-Mart for the first time, along with Best Buy, Amazon and others. Debunkers have claimed that this is only because of gift-card redemption but Ars’ Eric Bangeman updated his piece, calling BS on the BS callers: https://gizmodo.com/apple-second-only-to-wal-mart-in-music-sales-but-for-h-360822…
A grieving widower claims to have been receiving calls and text messages from beyond the grave. Frank Jones, whose wife Sadie died five years ago, says he has been plagued by SMS messages and missed calls since she was buried—her beloved cellphone in the coffin beside her. The weirdest part of all of this is…