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What happens when you smash a super-thin OLED display with a hammer? Last week, Wilson and I learned all about OLEDs, but after our factory tour we were left with that one nagging question. Lucky for us, mystery solved, as UDC has the answer courtesy of this video demonstration. Personally, I’d like to see this…
This, my friends, is the greatest patent the world has ever known. Brilliant in its simplicity, it’s a headrest for placement above urinals. I mean, haven’t we all been in a state where we would just love to take a quick nap while peeing, but worried about the cleanliness/comfort of the tiled wall above the…
Cellphones’ genocide of pay phones just leveled up: AT&T will be totally out of the pay phone business by the end of next year. It’s a hard blow to a long languishing subset of communication hardware that was eulogized way back in ’03 by schmucky Joel Schumacher’s Phone Booth. There are about a million pay…
Digital photo frames can be boring, but Toshiba’s Tekbright pumps up the features with a 7″ touchscreen LCD display with 720×480 resolution. The translation of Toshiba’s French site was unhelpful: the Tekbright was oddly described as “retro,” and we still don’t know why, if it’s a touchscreen, it has an array of buttons along the…
According to its creator, the Flaming Thor Helmet was inspired by his own hat, which he says he wears at Burning Man, probably while shouting at people on top of a fake drakkar. The flame goes out of copper tubes “raised above the helmet,” so apparently there’s no risk that all the silver plastic would…
The long-running CBS News magazine 60 Minutes takes time out from its Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith coverage to give us a peek at the $208 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), and here’s a clip with Walter Bender, president of software and content on the project. He claims battery life of 10-12 hours “by…
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The problem with setting up spy cameras in places where you’re not supposed to is that you need to find some source of power to plug them in to, which make it hard to be sneaky. Not so with these Symbiotic Cameras, which mooch power off of fluorescent lights. Simply slide the ring around the…
Any way we look at it, this Mr. White Collar Calvaire Pen Holder and Message Stand leaves us nonplussed. WTF? Is this supposed to insult black people, christians, white collar workers, racists … everyone? While it does offer a place to hold one pen and helpfully includes a pad on which you can write messages,…
In an already interesting article chronicling the last 10 months of the second coming of Michael Dell at his namesake, Forbes mentions two more interesting upcoming products: A suicide chip for stolen laptops that remotely nukes the hard drive, and a smartphone coproduced with Quanta—led on Dell’s end by one of the RAZR’s daddies, Ron…
The Thodio iBox is a handsome iPod amplifier handcrafted out of wood, sure to make your desk look much classier. It’s got a rechargeable battery that’ll provide 15 hours worth of juice, and the two speakers deliver 25 watts of power each. You’ll pay dearly to buy a speaker made by hand, however, with prices…
The How to Install Applications on iPhone 1.1.2 Video Tutorial we published last week was only intended for iPhone owners with valid AT&T, O2, Orange or T-Mobile SIM cards. If you previously unlocked your iPhone with iPhone Sim Free, however, this was not possible… until now. Follow this tutorial to get your unlocked JesusPhone 1.1.2…
The December 11, 1989 Post Standard (Syracuse, NY) ran this piece about Jean Du Teau and his newly opened robotics store, Robot World. Du Teau appears immensely optimistic about the future of personal robots. “Robots are today where computers were 10 years ago,” he said. “Most people perceive that the robotic age is going to…
If you need to run a PC in a wet or dirty environment, behold the Small PC SC240M, a completely sealed PC that not only keeps dirt and grime out of its innards, but is completely fanless and silent, too. You can stuff some pretty good components inside, including a Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor,…
We like the idea of a straw that can filter water as you drink it, but the first version of the LifeStraw and its similar-looking cousin the iStraw added an unpleasant iodine taste to the water. According to its makers, the Lifestraw Mark II almost completely eliminates that yucky aftertaste while filtering out 99.999% of…
The biggest yet least splashy news may still be Verizon Wireless’s choice of 4G network, that is, following parent Vodafone to Nokia’s Long-Term Evolution rather than choosing the Sprint/Intel WiMax way or sticking with EV-DO. Today Nokia, the self-styled “the world leader in converged devices,” applauded VZW for its new openness and willingness to evolve…
We don’t expect most of you to sit through all 25 minutes of this PSHome walk-through, but let the video buffer and give it a quick skim. Our impressions? Sony’s online Sims/Second Life clone looks fantastic. And embedded multimedia like games and video streaming look excellent, included with some interesting effects like walking up to…
Click to viewIn another demonstration of humanity’s relentless quest for fun, a guy has installed a touchscreen on a Guitar Hero guitar as well as a magnetic switch that allows him to play it with a magnetic pick. Pointless? Actually, not. Cyberpyrot told us that it “plays much better than before.” And while it may…
Even if the remaining major labels who have yet to ditch DRM are dragging their feet on the road of inevitability, major online retailers don’t feel like waiting around for them to finally do the deed. Wal-Mart has reportedly made an ultimatum of some sort to major labels demanding that they start selling their catalogs…
The U27, with its neat military name, looks like something scary that Jack Bauer would defuse heroically while US citizens sweated in front of their tellies*. Luckily for us, it is not, or mass destruction of the world’s population would be just an “Add To Basket” click away. The U27 is actually an MP3 player…