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We’ve been hearing rumblings about its imminent release for a few weeks, and now it’s here: The Cowon Q5W is shipping in the US, and the company’s released new details about this Wi-Fi-enabled portable media player with its 5-inch 800×400 touchscreen. https://gizmodo.com/cowon-q5-media-player-to-hit-stores-by-the-end-of-novem-325642 Most impressive are the codecs this .79-inch-thick baby will handle, including the pirates’…
Winter is almost here, and you know what that means? Shocking yourself with thousands of volts of electricity just by being you. But this Static Electricity Eliminator is here to help. Since there’s enough power in those snapping shocks to zap your laptop into oblivion, this $9.99 keyfob discharges that electro-detritus with no harm, no…
Say goodbye to the RIAA, for its days are numbered. EMI, one of the “big four” record labels that feeds $132.3 million every year to trade groups such as the RIAA and IFPI, has decided that its money could be better spent elsewhere. It’s reportedly considering cutting its funding towards the trade groups significantly, which…
You may recall Comcast getting busted for interfering with peer-to-peer file sharing communications, especially picking on its users who use BitTorrent. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a detailed report (PDF) that comes close to proving that Comcast was “forging traffic.” The EFF describes exactly how its experts used Wireshark, open-source packet sniffing…
It’s a familiar scenario: you’ve got a spare plasma that your girlfriend won’t let you put next to your new, bigger flat panel. Whatareyagonnado? Easy: a $200 tow-hitch TV mount. Sure, it means you’ll have to pass up on the tow-hitch tailgate hammock seats and Hitch Critter motorized redneck bait, both available at SkyMall for…
These kids are little future modders, using household objects to take their gaming to the next level, and we salute them. By simply attaching a Wiimote to the back of a rocking horse, they’ve created some sort of crazy horse/motorcycle arcade game in their own basement. Sure, you have no access to the buttons and…
Verizon Wireless today announced it would support “Long Term Evolution” (LTE), the super fast 4G technology currently in testing from Nokia and its European friends in the 3GPP group, and operating at a blistering 100Mbps. It’s certainly hot technology, but one seen as an extension of GSM’s high-speed packet technology. This is a rejection of…
Am I the only person who believes that beds are for sleeping in? (Please disregard the fact that I am writing this from my boudoir, but I have a hangover.) Hollandia, a company that specializes in top-end schlaffen-sites, has come up with the multi-media bed to end all beds. As well as a Sony Bravia…
With the Aleutia, you can now help the planet too, reducing your carbon footprint by getting a new computer rather than stopping the private jet escapades to Bermudas. The Aleutia E1 is a full-fledge Linux-based mini-computer that runs on just 18 watts using a built-in solar panel. And for some reason, reminds me of a…
Designed by a bloke called Delroy Dennisur, the Power Conscience is a cute little gizmo that you plug in to keep an eye on how much electricity you are getting through. It’s a slim white box decorated with LEDs in a floral design that light up depending on your consumption. More flowers means more power…
This Troika Retro FM/AM Radio proves once again that it only takes brushed aluminum and a design apparently created to play ABBA songs in 70s Sweden to make us drool with desire, no matter if it doesn’t contain a single trace of digital gadgetry inside—just pure analog noise, oversized knobs and a seemingly gratuitous choke…
Next year’s Lexus LX 570 has got some pretty spiffy tech attached to it — including a visual system that allows you to clock what’s going on around, beside and below you while you park or un-park. Its “front-wide view and side monitoring system” consists of little spy cameras, one on the radiator grille, plus…
Yahee, purveyors of gadgets that look remarkably like already-established ones (if you don’t believe me, check their fat Nano, for starters) has come up with a solar-powered media player whose charging panels are on the inside. OLPC green in color, the PMP plays tunes, videos, and lets you view photos and play games on it.…
Remember the Sonic Impact T-Amp? It was that tiny $30 amplifier that, according to audiophiles, beat the crap out of $300 gear. Now the second generation is finally here at more than double the previous price. Fortunately, according to the “experts”, it also packs double the oomph and now it’s comparable to $800 gear: https://gizmodo.com/sonic-impact-amp-128453…
Talking about the 3G iPhone at a meeting in California, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson declared: “You’ll have it next year.” He didn’t add any specifics but we hope this is not just some general statement (3G being the obvious next step in the iPhone) and that they are already well into the development phase, perhaps…
Kevin Kidney has uploaded some amazing Magic Highway, U.S.A. images taken straight from publicity stills of the era. He cleaned them up, spending upwards of an hour and a half on each image. As a Disney artist for over 22 years, Kevin’s Flickr account also contains great examples of his work on Disney collectibles. Kevin…
You might have heard of MiShare, a $100 pocket Linux box that lets you clamp in two iPods, butt to butt, to send songs, photos, videos and—truthfully—any other kind of file you want to send from one to the other. In the video, you will see how straightforward it is to swap a couple of…
If math wasn’t already annoying enough, this unique piano shaped calculator plays a tune with each key pressed. In the right hands, crunching numbers could become a tiny concerto. But in your hands, it will undoubtedly result in a swift and brutal retaliation by your fellow co-workers. Let’s just hope Phillip Glass doesn’t get wind…
Forget Folding@home and its feel-good applications. There are cooler things to be done, like cryptography cracking. Taking advantage of the Cell’s vector architecture, a security consultant with Security-assessment.com has cooked up a way to to bust passwords open like bad Easter eggs really, really fast. His Crackstation shoves past “the current upper limit of 10-15…
Using Star Wars films as one of the inspirations for his designs, a masters student at the University of Texas named Jason Mellard developed an aquatic research and housing facility to be located 50-100 miles offshore. Scientists studying marine and bird life would stay on the platform with their families in 6-13 month shifts and…