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We had to read this twice to be certain, but Verizon is teaming up with researchers at Yale and a P4P Working group in order to speed up peer to peer file sharing. How is this beneficial to Verizon, who has the burden of carrying P2P traffic, which measures at about 1/3 of the internet’s…
Oh Japan! Why must you take something so pleasurable—massaging breasts—and devise a mechanical substitute for doing it yourself? And not only that, paint it gold, call it “Lucky Palm”, and plaster a Buddha on the side? That’s right, it’s a Lucky Palm Breast Massager, straight from Japan, powered by AA batteries. As someone who studied…
Joel Escalona, the same dude that brought us the Seven alarm clock concept is back with a design for a USB bomb-shaped storage device. I can definitely see where he came up with the design—bombs are cool, the cord makes for a great fuse and the size of the device itself would mean that it…
When does a cordless phone not look like a cordless phone? When it looks like this Thomson Symbio DECT VoIP phone, which allows you to hang up the receiver like a “old time phone,” but picks up and works like a cordless one. There’s a small LCD screen in the body in order to view…
We popped this feature last night, but wanted to remind you so you didn’t miss some key explanations: • Why there won’t be a $199 Blu-ray player this year • Why BD-Live online won’t take off quickly • Why Paramount and Universal’s biggest blockbusters will suffer most this year due to the studios’ HD DVD…
We gonna die. We gonna die. We gonna die. We gonna die. DIE. I can has wings? Moar vodka? I hates Crazy Russians and crazy parachutes! (Editor’s note: really, what’s the deal with this? No kitty cam? The cat should have a cam to see his point of view, especially for when he rips his…
How much contrast does one man need? Meridian’s MF10 1080p projector is said to deliver 30,000:1, and for the low-end-automobile sticker price of $15,000. (Too bad it’s not scalable: I’ll settle for 10,000:1 for $5,000—or hell, a 30:1 for $15.) This projector doesn’t use the more common lower-end engine based on TI’s DLP chip, but…
Ph.D student Leah Buechley has designed several items of electronic clothing, but her signal jacket for cyclists is, I reckon, something that should be picked up by clothing manufacturers at soon as possible. LEDs embedded in an arrow formation flash to indicate the cyclist is about to turn left or right, warning motorists, and so,…
Oh how thankful we are that we’re not the one caught up in a sting. Especially Adam Frucci, who escaped the country to duck the heat. Thanks Alaska Airlines, American Apparel, SciFi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica, BMW, CTIA, Insecticide, Mini, MS Office Live, Netgear, Sprint, Toshiba, Toyota, and Unscrew America, from us and from Adam. [Join…
Referring to Microsoft’s desire to use soon-to-be-opened broadcasting bandwidth for low-powered unlicensed wireless devices, Bill Gates argued that it will make for improved Wi-Fi, a term he appears to be using as simply non-regulated, subscription-free wireless. He said: “We’re hopeful that that will be made available so that Wi-Fi can explode in terms of its…
Designed by Sung-Kyu Nam, the Okids phone can shape-shift from a cell to a heart-shaped game console at a flick of the wrist. It’s aimed at five- to six-year-olds, and the heart and pill shapes represent the love you have for Mario and Pac Man children, apparently. The Okids phone-console thingy is a concept and,…
We already knew that the $80,000 Fisker Karma electric car may make it into production in 2009, complete with a whole bunch of lithium batteries and a small gas-powered engine (designed to work only in case of emergency). What we didn’t know is that instead of being silent, the car will be fitted with speakers…
Intel promised that their Atom chips (click here if you don’t know what the hell an Intel Atom chip is) will bring us cheaper computers great for surfing the web and general, lighter task loads. But I think I speak for the whole room when I say, how cheap is “cheaper?” https://gizmodo.com/intel-silverthorne-is-now-atom-carry-on-362821 A standard PC…
The new Gulfstream 650 was unveiled yesterday at their Savannah factory. Yes Steve Jobs, yes Al Gore, yes Kevin Rose, this one can take you anywhere in the world with its 7,000 nautical miles range at a top speed of Mach 0.925 (704mph,) almost the speed of sound at a 41,000-feet altitude. You and your…
/> Did you know that the same ultra-fast, ultra-intense laser (UUL) that can blast individual cancer cells without harming any good cells in the vicinity can also be used to fuse metal to bone? A new laser lab at the University of Missouri has been built to test the awesome power of this system, whose…
In testament to old world craftsmanship, Japan Steel Works is both a samurai sword maker and the only company in the world that’s good enough with steel to produce the central part of a nuclear reactor’s containment vessel in one piece, an engineering necessity in order to reduce the risk of radioactive leaks. The company…
Well, it seems there’s unnecessary Swarovski bling, and then there’s a $40,000 solid 18 karat white and pink gold iPod shuffle. With 430 diamonds, no less. Personally, I can’t stand blinged-up gadgets, diamonds or no, but at least this one might do some good: the iDiamond is really going under the hammer at a charity…
Office Depot is offering the Motorola H350 Bluetooth headset for just $4.99 after rebate. It’s a pretty average device, but if you are the type who is less diligent with their tech than their rebate forms, this might be a good deal to order. [screwy listing and rebate pdf via crave]
Battlebots never quite made sense on Comedy Central, but hell, we’d watch robots fight on the Spanish channel hosted by that bee suit guy if necessary. Now the show is coming back, limiting the challenge pool to collegiate and pro competition and airing on ESPN2 or ESPNU. Plus, some other neat changes are in the…
iPods are all very nice, except for when you want to piss-off amuse passers-by with your music, and even then your standard boombox is awkward to carry. I mean, what if you need both hands for your shopping? Enter Joonas Saaranen’s Reppo 2, a backpack boombox design, and simplicity in itself. Easy to carry, and…