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It appears that Thanko has upgraded their Silent Keyboard making it possible to use it with two PCs at once. A toggle switch over the arrow keys allows users to switch between computers, and its relatively low noise output (45dB compared to 60dB for a regular keyboard) make it an interesting choice for power users—especially…
Details are sketchy at the moment, but the Hi-Can high fidelity canopy features beautifully designed equipment that allows you to surf the web, watch movies, play games, and listen to music all from the comfort of your bed. There is even a slick looking control panel on the headboard that allows you to control other…
Now that all the major cellphone carriers except Sprint have a $99 flat-rate plan for unlimited calling, Sprint wants to one-up everybody and undercut the competition by up to 40%. According to Reuters, analysts are saying that a plan could be coming that either hits the $60 or $80 price point, which would be hard…
A new rubber compound that’s made from fatty acids and a component of urine retains its shape to such a degree that it can be cut in half with a knife and then repair itself, retaining its original form. Imagine it: you break a plastic toy in half, only to have it seal itself back…
After all of this talk about the Pentagon preparing to blow a spy satellite out of the sky, missiles have never been hotter. So it is high time you got a piece of the action with this AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile floor lamp. Unfortunately, you can not purchase the lamp in one piece—it has to be…
These AI Tech Racers from Tomy are some of the more interesting slot-style racecars we’ve seen. The cars have built-in sensors to detect and avoid obstacles in their path—provided they have room to maneuver—and as a result, they can fly around a track without being locked into slots. Once started, the cars ride on their…
Logitech’s no stranger to racing wheels, but their latest PlayStation 3 wheel looks even fancier than its predecessors. There’s a 900 degree lock-to-lock turn, which means you can maneuver it much like an actual wheel on your Toyota Corolla when sledding about the tracks of Nurburgring. There’s also a horn, shifter, the standard PS3 controller…
Remember how I told you that the Pentagon had plans to blow up an errant spy satellite with a missile? Well, it’s happening, and it might just be happening tonight if the weather clears up. Blowin’ stuff up, hot diggity damn! The downside? This operation in glorified fireworks is gonna cost taxpayers somewhere in the…
Those of you still on Windows XP (quite a few of you) are probably on XP because you don’t feel the need to upgrade to Vista. But if you’re still into getting some new features and bug fixes for your OS, check out the release candidate of Service Pack 3. RC2 means it’s still not…
The December 22, 1900 Duluth Evening Herald (Duluth, MN) ran this illustration of the 20th Century Santa who, naturally, uses a flying machine. Those poor reindeer, now out of work, have been replaced by machines. KRISS KRINGLE UP-TO-DATE No old-fashioned reindeer for him – he skims over house tops in a flying machine. Twentieth Century…
The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. It records your whole life in an active buffer until it detects your heart rate going up. Then it really turns on, and records whatever’s making you excited until you tell it to stop, so you can…
The LiveSpeakR is a speaker that fits snugly behind the iPhone—or iPod touch—to provide a much needed sound boost. The speaker is unique because it plugs into the USB port unlike many others made for these devices. It also has RF protection so you won’t have to worry about interference from the phone. The speakers…
Remember that old exploding battery episode? Here’s a clip we haven’t seen before of it. A very scary video with fireballs jumping from the Sony battery-infested body of this laptop. The people in the terminal sure are freaking out, screaming "OH MY GOD" and jumping up on those vinyl seats. That’s probably what we’d do…
NASA will definitely beat the Mt. Everest phone calls when they launch mobile phone service on the moon around 2012. Their MoonLite system will link astronauts, the lunar base and Earth via satellite. Even though there is over four years until launch, the service will only have a speed of 3kbps down/2kbps up. One small…
Microsoft just announced that the XNA Game Studio, the user-created games program for the Xbox 360 is coming for the Zune. The demo shown at Game Developer’s Conference shows a person controlling the game with the Zune pad, pausing the game, going out and switching music on the Zune, then going back into the game.…
Ho! Finally an app that makes the Notes software on your iPhone about 100% more useful. MegaPhone, which was iPhoneDrive, lets you view and edit your iPhone-created notes directly on your Mac. You can even switch fonts from the default Marker Felt to another of the built-in iPhone fonts (Helvetica, Arial) on a note by…
The bill to make the Do-Not-Call registry everlasting—so you never have to remind the government that you hate telemarketers—has been made into a real live law by President Bush. [Consumerist] https://gizmodo.com/hey-telemarketers-dont-call-me-like-ever-354454
Phil from Make found these fantastic looking Timberkits over at the NYC Toy Fair this week. They’re actually available now in various shapes, but the gist of the kit is that you build a dragon, pig, drummer or piano player from pre-shaped blocks of wood. It gives you the satisfaction of doing something yourself without…
I was pretty excited when I saw it was a “Robo” desk vacuum, ’cause I thought this was like a Roomba for your desk—it’d clean up granola bits while I fragged suckers and not commit suicide with a running leap off the edge. Sadly, I don’t think it’s that smart, just zooming forward sucking all…
Is that a 10-megapixel camera you’ve got there? Oh, that’s nice. How much did you pay for it? Right. Well, not to rub it in your face or anything, but I’ve got myself a 5.5-terapixel camera. Tera. Yes, that’s bigger than mega, and bigger than giga. Correct, about 1,000,000 times better than your camera. It…
