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Jeffrey Stephenson, the man who first looked at a cigar humidor and said, “I can turn that into a PC,” has made another Art Deco PC out of wood. The G-metric Nano, which will be unveiled publicly at CES this year, is the smallest enclosure Stephenson could design that contained a VIA NX15000 Nano-ITX mainboard,…
Note to automakers: cars of the future are meant to be fierce. Sure, they may get the equivalent of 100mpg through electric efficiency, but they’d better look like they can decapitate onlookers during the morning commute. This new solar vehicle (that’s still missing a sexy name) may be by the makers of champion solar race…
To get around IP lawsuits, Canon plans on developing their own SED technology that works better than the type they’re being sued over. [Bloomberg]
Sprint halted sales of the LG Rumor due to a firmware update that inadvertantly reveals a data-erasing debug mode. Spring is offering free repair to those affected, offer over the air updates to unaffected owners, and resume sales when the firmware issue is fixed.
I love going to bed at night, because every morning I wake up I have a machine that makes me breakfast like Pee-wee Herman there’s another development in my geek fetish, LEDs. Researchers from the University of Glasgow have found how to make them even brighter—without a bit more energy consumption. And it’s the most…
CScout Japan recently had the chance to check out Tokyo’s Traffic Center, where a bunch of people work 24-hour shifts and try to stop the city from grinding to a halt. Cameras, helicopters, 17,000 vehicle detectors, as well as reports from both police and civilians, all contribute toward a harmonious transport system. For the full…
Come on. I know the keyboard is tiny and Nicky Negroponte has been going crazy lately, but think of the kids. And a tax deductible ruggedized toy laptop. Today’s the last day to buy one under the Buy One Give One program…until desperation sets in and they kick off the program extension a third time.…
Scientists in Britain have come up with a solution for making electronic gadgets completely waterproof, using a type of coating that repels liquids. The technology has, up until now, been used for military gear, but the makers of Ion-Mask are already in discussion with three cellphone manufacturers with a view to using the coating on…
The Jump Seat Ottoman was launched yesterday by Salamander Design and is the perfect gaming chair for people who don’t want house guests to know their guilty secret. Close the lid, it’s an ottoman chest with a compartment to store your headset and controller. Open it and there’s your gaming seat. More details, including price,…
LG.Philips has announced a barrage of new large-format displays for shopping malls, airports, public areas and mad evil scientists’ underwater lairs in the South Pacific. The displays, which will be presented at CES 2008, range from 32 to 52 inches and offer different cool technologies, like multitouch, handwriting recognition, transflective backlighting for outdoor use, double-sided…
Yup, we thought it was impossible too, but the Asus Eee has managed to become even cuter, all thanks to a slew of official accessories. The range will consist of a mouse, headset, travel adapter and battery extension pack. There are various color permutations of the mouse and headset, but the travel adapter and battery…
If anyone had any doubts left about the 100% veracity of the Apple Firmware 1.1.3, here is full video demonstration of most of the new features, from GPS-like cell-tower triangulation positioning to multiple-recipient SMS, Google Maps hybrid map view, application moving and saving web bookmarks as Springboard icons: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-firmware-1-1-3-video-and-confirmation-by-iphone-338948 Click to view As you can…
Lifehacker’s Adam Pash (co-author of the best iPhone book with some dude called “Jason Chen”) told me this weekend about TuneWiki, an iPhone application that downloads songs lyrics from the web and shows them synched with the song in real time, karaoke-style. It works great and, being a closet karaoke whore, I admit I’m hooked.…
First our little dinosaur friend Pleo had to endure a brutal beatdown at the hands of his cruel masters, and now he is forced to undergo a grueling (and shockingly graphic) 23 minute dissection. Poor Pleo —just remember that this abuse hurts us more than it does you. [PleoDreams]
I gave my wife a Sony Reader for Christmas after she’d talked about them for some time (she deemed the Kindle “ugly” btw, which is important as anything else for a gadget that’s designed to be looked at for hours on end, I guess). Her verdict on the experience? Good, but there’s one thing she’s…
We’ve been a longtime fans of Foxtrot, if for no other reason than identifying with the comic strip as a young, extremely dorky children. Now we have another reason to enjoy Bill Amend’s work, because this Sunday’s Foxtrot takes a nasty swipe at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that law making it illegal to break…
The guys at touchmods.net have been busy readying a VoIP app for the iPod touch, and they have just released a video of the first successful call made using their software. Apparently, the app will be made available to the masses on New Year’s Day, so we are holding our breath. Check out the video…
“Hardly any of this stuff can really help me with my schoolwork,” he says, feet up on a computer desk complete with printer and VHS camcorder. Then the Encyclopedia Brittanica kid, late 80s/early 90s geek poster boy, explains why books rule and computers drool. In a moment of extreme nostalgia we grabbed this clip from…
We have generally been very impressed with what Ziovia has to offer in the media streaming market, and their latest effort, the CS615, seems to be no exception. The new model will be able to stream a plethora of different media formats in HD, thanks to an integrated HDMI output. The ClearStream CS615 really has…
While most LEGO models are smaller than the objects they resemble, this eight foot LEGO R2-D2 Technabob found stands considerably taller than the actual Star Wars droid. The model not only looks like R2-D2, but features working red and blue LEDs and authentic sound effects as shown by the video. Master LEGO builder Dan Steinenger…
