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I think that most people will agree that charcoal grilled burgers taste better, but getting those little briquette bastards to light can be more trouble than it is worth. Fortunately, there are dangerous man-tools out there that can help get the job done. Hammacher has just such a device—in fact, they claim that their starter…
Rockwell Collins has been selected by the US Marines to deliver 3,000 of its ParaNav GPS units for parachutists. Soldiers plummeting towards Earth will soon have the advantage of GPS navigation with a HUD that will help improve landing accuracy and allow for target zones to be easily changed on the fly. The system itself…
The brilliant minds at Quaker Oats are currently hard at work on an alarm clock that’ll prepare a steaming bowl of oatmeal for you just as it wakes you up. Containing an insulated milk container, a clock and a heater, it’s got all the necessary equipment to make sure you stave off hunger with some…
LEDs are popping up in all sorts of home products these days. Now, I’m no interior designer, but I know that lighting can really make or break a space. With that in mind, here are 10 ways that anyone can utilize LEDs in their home (plus one way to outfit your wardrobe). And by anyone…
It’s not exactly a secret that Sony/Sony Ericsson’s making a cellphone that has PSP features in it. Hell, even the Sony Ericsson gaming boss says that a PlayStation-branded phone is coming some time. Sony Magazine’s putting an updated timeline on the project, saying that there are “suggestions that it could be in the shops as…
The most recognizable signature of the Knight Rider car KITT (besides its bulletproof body, turbo boost and smarmy Mr. Feeney voice) is its evil red LED scanner. Muscle Car Blog has the info on how the new KITT’s LED scanners work. Turns out it’s made up out of 480 distinct LEDs, arranged in three rows…
We suspected this, but now it’s clear that NVIDIA’s end game when it picked up PhysX-maker AGEIA was to integrate physics processors into graphics cards. Right now, they’re porting the PhysX engine over to run on GeForce 8s, and it’ll be a simple software download, bringing some additional physics-crunching juice to current cards. The next…
Most of us would never need an electrocardiogram embedded into our cellphones to monitor our hearts, but most of us aren’t recovering from a heart attack. For those people that are, this Swedish invention that turns any old cellphone into a monitor that can automatically call a doctor or the hospital if your heart explodes…
The high end (read: super expensive) Niveus Storage Server and Storage Server Pro doesn’t just act as a file dump for your movies—any network attached storage can do that—it interfaces with much of your networked media equipment as well. Here are the key features: Available in a 2TB or 4TB modular design Audio/Video Form Factor…
I’m in awe with Kota The Triceratops Dinosaur, a $300 fully articulated 40-inch-long robot in the shape of a real-sized baby triceratops that, according to Playskool, any kid can ride. Yes. Full size. Baby. Triceratops. Riding. Robot. Really, this thing looks so cool that makes the Pleo look like a bag of bricks. Playskool says…
Starting today through Monday the 18th, you’ll be able to get a new T-Mobile plan without having to pay their $35 activation fee. This is cumulative as well, so if you’re activating five lines, you’ll save $175 total. Think of all the money you’d save if you activated one billion lines. [T-mobile]
Those of you excited about that cheap, small Everex Cloudbook Wal-mart laptop as an alternative to an Eee PC might be slightly disappointed. Laptopmag just unboxed theirs, and found many things wrong with it. The pointing device is above the keyboard on the right, but the left and right mouse keys are on the left…
You know, if your grandma is old and senile enough that you need a twice-daily email letting you know when she last used which appliances and for how long, it might be time to stick her in a home. But Zojirushi has developed a new system that does just that, so you have the peace…
If you liked the burger phone from Juno but don’t want to be seen as the type of person who just buys something because it was featured in a trendy movie, despite clearly being that type of person, don’t sweat it. Here’s a sandwich phone. It’s equally stupid/ironic, but it’ll make you look at least…
Paul Klotz is a Dutch applied art engineer and lighting designer who makes crazy light installations under the name of LED-Art. Tunnel Vision is a tribute to Tesla and is a 15-foot-long sound-and light sculpture that changes when you put your hands in the opening—sort of like an audio-visual theremin. Tunnel Vision’s shape is, apparently,…
What would happen if you converted the downtown of a small or mid-sized city to an eco-friendly wonderland, with open waterways and no cars to be seen? Well, you’d have an impractical fantasy on your hands, for one thing. That didn’t stop Ecocity Builders from doing some pretty sweet concept designs for how they would…
Wal-Mart is going Blu-ray exclusive by June—they won’t even stock older HD DVD stuff at that point. While Netflix and Best Buy pulling Blu were hard blows to HD DVD, when the world’s largest public corporation won’t stock your products, you’re basically doomed. Wal-Mart is the avenue to the unwashed masses, and, as an emerging…
A ROM update (version 1.62.502.0) for AT&T’s Tilt—basically the best Windows Mobile phone around, hardcore bugginess aside—is supposedly rolling out today that’ll fix a handful of the critters, such as device freezing during a password unlock, busted Bluetooth headset functions, tones for the slide-out keyboard and occasionally buggy touch screenage. [WMExperts via BGR] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-at-t-tilt-gps-enabled-windows-mobile-307399
Basic Fun had a little bit of help from their friends at Activision and Red Octane for their miniature version of Guitar Hero. Measuring just 3 x 7.5 inches, the guitar neck folds down so you really can whip it out of your shirt pocket and thrill commuters with your ax licks. Of course, it’s…
Jesus and I were talking about how on the scale of countries that start with S, Sweden is probably in the top three. If not the top three, then definitely top five. Do they have really, really fast internet in Sweden? If they do, we’re going to blog from there starting in April. Thanks Alaska…