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If you liked the Giant Nintendo controller with the built-in NES, chances are you will get a tremendous amount of geeky gaming satisfaction out of this PC mod as well. The case was built as part of a school project by students in Sweden, and the result is a precise, clean-looking mod that cost only…
The new TurboUSB from Buffalo is being hyped as the fastest flash drive on the market by a whopping 20% margin. That kind of speed would certainly be useful if you are planning on transferring data approaching its 32GB storage capacity. Unfortunately, claims like that don’t amount to anything more than big talk and Buffalo…
Microsoft probably thinks they’re making things easier by rebranding its PlaysForSure program as simply “Certified for Windows Vista,” the sticker that’s slapped on all manner of gear and software. But they’re not—they’re folding apples into oranges, making for an even bigger flustercuck. Cue confused customers wondering whether newly “certified for Vista” media players will work…
Jetpacks, the invention we’ve all been waiting to become a reality for as long as we can remember (along with flying cars and teleporters), are pretty much a reality at this point. While a few months ago the only two commercially available jetpacks had paltry flying times of about 30 seconds, Jet Pack International is…
A friendly reminder for those of you near Brooklyn or Denver: Fünde Razor is tonight. So rather than drink and play video games by yourself like you normally do, be a little less pathetic and drink and play video games with some new friends. There are prizes, too! And it’s for a good cause! Who…
On top of the still running “please go HD, we’ll give you 10 free HD DVDs” deal, Amazon’s got a buy one, get one special up now too. Some winners from the 58 flick-long list include Letters From Iwo Jima, The Departed, and Happy Feet. Mix those deals up with a cheap HD DVD player,…
Curious about how that new phone works? Check out tryphone.com, the site that takes screenshots of just about possible screen and ties it to button presses on the virtual keyboard. In the case of the iPhone, you get to feel what it’s like to press all the buttons, but you won’t be able to do…
• Traffic camera in Capitola, California is way too sensitive, issues tickets to innocent drivers 60% of the time. Makes sense to me, the only California drivers I’ve ever seen aren’t much for speeding. [Ubergizmo] • UPS using software to minimize left-hand turns in their deliveries, claims it will save three million gallons of gas…
The GX-5 Xtreme Swing (dropping the E makes it that much more Xtreme) ain’t your pappy’s backyard swing. Flinging passengers at speeds of upwards of 80MPH from heights of almost 150 feet in the air, it looks to be a supremely terrifying and fun experience. Unfortunately for us, it’s only located in Singapore and New…
Click to viewAfter decades of popsicle promotions that included prizes printed on the stick, Brazilian ice-cream company Kibon has taken it to a new level by including the actual prize inside the popsicle: they will manufacture 10,000 specially made propsicles, identical in size and color to the actual thing, frozen with iPod shuffles inside. We…
Temperature-detecting faucets have been available here for a while, but the same concept for shower heads has been mostly a Japanese-only affair. Imagine our surprise when we found these shower heads from China, which have four different shades to correspond to different temperatures: white for “I need to pay my utilities,” blue for “damn it,…
We probably shouldn’t judge anyone’s home theater builds when our own looks like it was built by a seeing eye dog that had to retire because he himself went blind, but this Terminator home theater system seems kind of tacky. Electronic House has the details on the owner, who built it “with no knowledge of…
Old, busted and tiny: Sony’s 11-inch OLED display. New hotness: Samsung’s 40-inch OLED display, the largest in the world. Previous reports held they were showing this monstrosity off at CES, but the latest has Samsung saying they might hose us with a punier 31-inch model because “the bigger and pricey one could face difficulty in…
Newegg has a bunch of deals on cameras, notebooks, and more just in time to miss Hannukah (Thanks a lot, Newegg!). For those of you who celebrate that other holiday, or just expect presents in the winter, here are some of the better ones: • Canon PowerShot SD870 IS: $295 • Canon PowerShot S5 IS:…
The city of San Francisco is working on a groundbreaking new solar energy initiative, working on adding a combo of loans and rebates that would make installing solar panels a cheaper and more attractive option for local residents. Under the proposed plan, businesses would be eligible for rebates of up to $10,000 while residents would…
The Register is reporting a security flaw in HP laptops that run the HP Info Center software: “One of the ActiveX controls uses three insecure methods that leave users open to remote code execution and remote registry manipulation-based attacks.” What does that mean? Wander too far off the beaten path and you might find yourself…
We saw a bunch of Nyko gear back at E3, but we didn’t get a chance to do a hands on with this Charge Base 2 for the PS3. It’s essentially just a dock that you can shove two SIXAXIS controllers onto to charge them when not in use. Why would this be useful? Because…
Orb is releasing a new piece of software called Winamp Remote that will allow you to listen to your home music collection from anywhere with a Wi-Fi signal, and it won’t even require you to hack your iPhone. It works completely through the web browser, letting you get to your home collection and stream it…
We might have been a bit harsh on Masi Oka and his OLPC ambassadorship when it was first announced, but this ad of his seems pretty solid. He’s pimping the OLPC Give One Get One program, which lets you buy two laptops (one for yourself, one for some kid you don’t know) for $399. Seems…
If two is a coincidence and three is a trend, then T-Mobile’s third 3G phone, Samsung’s slidin’ t819, will solidify the carrier’s commitment to rolling out a 3G UMTS network in the spring, delayed from the original promise of Q4 2006. This FCC leak comes on the heels of the Nokia 6263 arrival, but also…
