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A Karcher 1750PSI Electric Pressure Washer for $59.99, a Philips lapel-style bluetooth earbud for $2.99 … You’ve just missed those, but there’ll be more craziness as Woot! is having another Woot off. [Woot!]
We’ve been ranting about this internet-connected Dash Express GPS for months. Over the past week, we were given the opportunity to test it out for ourselves on both coasts, over a thousand miles, through intense city driving in SF and NY and road trips into the wilds. It’s the real deal, delivering out of the…
The Phenom X4 9850 is at the top of AMD’s latest heap of quad-core Phenoms. It’s free of the performance-sapping bug that plagued the first batch of Phenoms, and AMD hopes it’ll claw back some ground from Intel. Maximum PC stacked it up against two quad-cores from Intel—the mid-rangeish Penryn Core 2 Quad Q9300, as…
This image appears in the 1984 book The Future World of Agriculture and illustrates futuristic farming techniques near a sea city. Robots tend crops that grow on floating platforms around a sea city of the future. Water from the ocean would evaporate, rise to the base of the platforms (leaving the salt behind), and feed…
Adobe’s Photoshop Express, its free, online version of Photoshop is live right now. Targeted at everyday consumers, it’s Photoshop stripped down to a pretty slick Flash 9-powered web app we got a demo of earlier today. It’s super easy to crop, adjust saturation or exposure, or perform several other simple, but solid photo tweaks, like…
These days, all but the most high-end (that is, overpriced) Garmin nuvis cost below $600, so it’s great news that Dash—that fascinating experiment in “connected” GPS—has lowered the price of the Express from $600 to $400, and is selling them immediately on Amazon.com. If you pre-ordered, fear not: You will only be charged $400. Friends-and-family…
I can only imagine the kinds of despicable things one could do with a shirt that allows the wearer to write or draw on a chest display. Plus, everything you write will automatically activate a backlight that can be changed from a gentle glow all the way up to a pulsing strobe. The product page…
The specs for HP’s 2133 have surfaced and it appears the flagship model for the 8.9″ subnotebook will feature a 1.6 GHz Via C7-M processor, 2 GB RAM, 120 GB 7200 RPM HDD, Bluetooth and Windows Vista Business Edition. The cheaper model features a 1.2 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, no Bluetooth and your choice…
By now you have probably heard about or experienced the issue Microsoft has with its broken Xbox Live DRM. Basically, gamers who purchased content on Live found that the downloads ceased to function properly after their original console bit the dust. If a tip from a Consumerist reader is correct, Microsoft may be in the…
No, it’s not just a microscope. It’s a man barometer. And real men? They have plasma sperm. Lots of them. Besides, have you ever seen your own sperm swimming? Please don’t tell me, that’s just what it asks on the box. No really, Chen, I don’t wanna know. [Tokyo Times] https://gizmodo.com/disposable-microscope-card-lets-you-check-your-sperm-co-326226
Step 1: Get a maid. This may be your first instinct when it comes to cleaning anything in your home, but it is not an option that is available to everyone. When it comes home theater gear, this is probably a good thing because cleaning it improperly can do damage—and I’ll be dammed if I’m…
iHome’s iH69 speakers provide an all-in-one solution for music lovers that fight a never-ending battle with gadget clutter. Simply put, these 20-watt, 2.5-inch computer speakers feature a built-in dock that will sync, charge and play your iPod. Looks like a good example of convergence if you ask me. Let’s just hope they don’t sound like…
When’s the last time you saw a Japanese person play golf? Perhaps with these Star Wars themed golf bags and cozies, they’ll be more inclined to put down their Wii Golf and do some Real Golf. Or perhaps not, since golf is the most boring sport we can imagine. You know what would spice up…
The latest batch of mimobot designer flash drives for Spring continue their artist series, this time fronting Italian artist Simone Legno’s Tokidoki brand. There’s just three in the set, but they’re all pretty awesome: Pirate Nero, obviously a frickin’ pirate; Pastaio, who looks like demon kitty chef; and Meletta, which has a monkey on it.…
According to Laurie Fincham, Chief Scientist at THX, Blu-ray doesn’t have much of a future. In fact, she was quoted as saying that “I think it’s too late for Blu-ray,” in a recent interview with Home Cinema Choice Magazine. The reason? She thinks that consumers are waiting for HD movies to become available on flash…
Lee Spievack accidentally cut off his fingertip working on an airplane. His brother, a research scientist, sent him powder made up partially out of pig’s bladder and told him to sprinkle it on his fingertip. The finger regrew itself in four weeks. How did it work? Researchers are using materials such as the pig’s bladder,…
What phone will you be using in the far off age of 2010? Along with our flying cars and robot slaves, you could be sporting one of these concept phone designs born out of a partnership between phone company Pantech (Sky Premium) and Korean university students. Pantech has a reputation for wacky concepts that were…
Normally the headphones you use with your cellphone for music and chatting are small, looking something like the RadTech ones we posted earlier. These Boosted Mobile ones, however, go the complete opposite route and make it seem like you’re some sort of cool urban dude or DJ while you’re answering the phone. Not only do…
Thanks to an agreement with Nuance Communications, Palm will be delivering voice command capabilities to Palm OS supported smartphones like the Centro and the Treo. More specifically, Palm will be utilizing Nuance’s VSuite apps to handle functions like name dialing, digit dialing, message addressing for text, picture, and video messages as well as application launching.…
Another day, another analyst making crazy predictions about Apple products that most likely aren’t true. Today it’s Ken Dulaney of Gartner saying the second generation iPhone will have an OLED display instead of the current LCD display. Where did Ken get this wacky idea? “‘Rumors’ overheard in Asia.” Here’s our take on it. 1) OLED…