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The MousEX Glider pad is weird in the sense that most people wouldn’t come up with a pad you rest your mouse on that you slide around with your hand. Why would anybody do this? Because that same pad holds different add-ons like a navigational wheel, a giant button, or an 18-button pad that you…
Gamersweb stumbled upon this set of gadget bondage pictures on 2chan, the anonymous Japanese internet forum that wrought the nerdling train romance onto the world. We’re not sure what exactly traditional Japanese bondage rope has to do with Game Boy Color, computer speakers, or a roll of toilet paper, but it looks like somebody’s getting…
You wouldn’t think of Staples as your go-to place for tech deals, but with this $20 off $100 coupon you can make pretty much any gadget a deal. Hit the link to see some other deals for today, such as a 400GB external hard drive for $89 and a GPS for $179. Deals expire today,…
First they wowed us with their treadmill love, and now OK Go are looking to light up fans’ lives with the costumes for their upcoming tour. Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer (standing on the right in the fifth gallery picture), who has collaborated with London-based fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, as well as architect Zaha Hadid and…
After the thrill of unboxing your new iPod nano is over, you are left with a clear plastic case that will undoubtedly take millennia to biodegrade. Thanks to the folks at Bird Electron, turning your case into a fully functioning speaker kit takes all of five seconds, a boon for the environmentally conscious yet lazy…
Displaytech announced they will be supplying 13 companies with micro displays for Pico Projector use. Displaytech’s Pico Projector technology, intended for use in cellphones, will be rolled out at CES 2008, and can project video onto any surface . It’s not the most exciting news, because it’s just a component, but it excites me because…
TiVo and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) have announced a new external adapter that will bring switched video capabilities to CableCARD devices, such as series 3 TiVos. Due in the second quarter of 2008, this adapter will finally put good use to that spare USB connector found on new TiVos. This might not…
Whatever Dell’s planning with the zingspot.com website, it’s got something to do with being an “online consumer portal for digital entertainment content acquisition and distribution,” which was the description for Zingspot in the recently filed trademark papers. It all stems from Dell’s acquisition of Zing, the people that power Wi-Fi music players. What that above…
If you picked up Nine Inch Nails’Year Zero remix album, 1337-ly titled Y34RZ3r0r3m1x3d, you probably noticed the second disc “halo 25 data,” containing the multitrack master files for every song from Year Zero. Some of them had already been posted online not long after its initial release, and that experiment’s success led to the full-blown…
LG’s shine has finally made it to the States in actual Shine form—as opposed to the Verizon flip version—and you can get yours for only $149 and two-year contract. We showed you what the phone looked like with our spy shots, but the above image is a closer (non-blurry) look at the phone before you…
I’m usually turned off by video transfer/burner devices like this Canon DW-100 because of how unrefined DVD burning still is. The DW-100 takes high-def AVCHD video from your camcorder and burns it to DVD without a computer. It’s hard to argue with that. It can also function as an external burner for any PC or…
In case you haven’t heard, a rumor has been floating around today stating that AT&T may recall certain BlackJacks due to an antenna issue that could result in poor reception and dropped calls. Reaction to the story by the Samsung camp was swift. The official word is that there is not going to be a…
The MPAA is such a kind and giving organization. After compiling a list of the top 25 schools for piracy, it sent them a letter last month offering the free, super-helpful University Toolkit to track naughty file-sharing on their networks. It “can produce a report that is strictly internal and therefore confidential to illustrate the…
That’s a pretty cool photo, eh? There’s a lot going on at once, it must have taken a lot of takes to get right, and that dude’s face must have been destroyed at the end of the day. Well, sort of. It did take lots of takes, but it involved all sorts of photo and…
The little portable media player that could: According to PriceGrabber, Shopping.com and eBay, the fattie Zunes (30 and 80) were the second-most bought product online during Black Friday, right behind the Wii. The snag in the numbers is that it doesn’t include individual retailers like Amazon or Cyber Monday sales, but the chocolate Zune 30…
Forget strollers and RF monitors: the first thing expectant parents can now buy is the AngelSounds Fetal Doppler System, which tracks down prenatal junior’s heartbeat and plays it through a standard pair of headphones. The monitor will also make a recording, giving you one more annoying memento to email to friends and family. Fetal Doppler…
Many stylish watches are fantastic looking but more difficult to read than Clint Eastwood’s leathery mug. This Past, Present Future watch, however, tells you exactly what time it is now, but omits everything else we’ve come to expect on a watch—namely, the rest of the watch. It’s conceptual yet friendly, exactly like our imaginary girlfriends.…
We already know that the fall Dashboard update for Xbox 360 will bring expanded friends list viewing, parental timers, and original Xbox game downloads, but what else will it bring? There’s got to be a reason why the fall update has dragged on past fall into winter (last year’s update came in October), but what…
If those 1TB Greenpower eco-friendly low-powered hard drives from Western Digital were too much space for you, they’re now shipping 500GB models that conform to their Greenpower standards. At $149, they’re not all that much more expensive compared with regular drives, either. [WD] https://gizmodo.com/western-digital-launches-efficient-greenpower-drives-f-281251
According to the folks at Electronista, fancy-pants watchmaker TAG Heuer will team up with the French designers at Modelabs to develop a new line of luxury cellphones. The news follows closely on the heels of other fashion icons like Armani and Prada entering the phone biz, but there is no word yet on how the…