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At a Christmas event at a mall in Texas, Santa tried to deliver joy and good tidings to the gathered well-wishers by rappelling down the side of the building. Hey, there was no chimney, after all! Unfortunately for him, his beard got caught in his gear about 30 feet from the ground, requiring him to…
Here’s a tiny piece of info that may point to an forthcoming Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR. On a bug report web page for a Capture One software, someone may have slipped, and as you can see, there’s a camera listed there on a drop-down list that doesn’t officially exist yet. Could this be…
My father-in-law, super great guy, eats his popcorn with a spoon. While some find it crazy, I know it’s just a technique he employs to slowly, subtly drive my mother-in-law crazy. Regardless, he may be interested in the $13.95 (12 pack) of popcorn forks. Technically these forks more closely resemble chopsticks or tongs, and they…
Today Rhapsody and Haier launched the Ibiza Wi-Fi music player, which lets you download Rhapsody tracks via Wi-Fi without connecting to a PC first. This is really good news for Rhapsody users, until now there was no true portable device for managing tracks, though Apple, Microsoft and SanDisk (with Yahoo) have launched similar products. The…
Some tea connoisseurs are calling the Sorapot the “sexiest teapot ever,” but we just think it’s downright architectural. There’s function behind that form, too, where the arched handle is supposed to act as a heat sink to keep the tea from oversteeping. All this stainless steel and glass and design overload isn’t quite available yet,…
Get scared! According to a new study published this week in the Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine, Wi-Fi might be linked to the growing number of cases of childhood autism. Dr. George Carlo, who led the study, said, “The electromagnetic radiation apparently causes the metals to be trapped in cells, slowing clearance and accelerating…
Here’s the problem with Black Friday. Other than the one of two clearly awesome deals per store, it’s tough to know if standing your butt in the cold all night will actually save you more money than doing some online comparison shopping from the comfort of your own, very warm home. But the truth is,…
When designing our future robot overlords, scientists are borrowing ideas that have withstood the test of time over millions of years of evolution (or seven days of creation, depending on your point of view). This video from New Scientist shows how animals are inspiring robotics design, as evidenced by these robotic fish, salamanders, segmented wormlike…
Click to viewThis beast is the Antonov AN-124 which, until the titanic Airbus A380 came along, was the biggest mass-produced plane in the world. Only 56 were built, but it is still the biggest cargo aircraft in the world. How big exactly? I got into its belly at the Dubai Air Show and I can…
PS3 firmware version 2.01 has been unleashed upon the masses. There are no true updates beyond more stable PS2 game emulation, but consider the issues people were having with 2.0 fixed: The PSP is supposed to boot the PS3 remotely much more smoothly now (it worked for us before, connecting was slow). And PS3 stability…
The first beta download of Firefox 3 is now available for downloading. Just thought you should know.
Eric Gradman built his own MAME gaming system from a 15-inch LCD, Happ controls and an Ultimarc I-PAC, and fitted it into an extendable dining table that he bought from IKEA. “There’s always someone who doesn’t feel comfortable around large groups of people, and so he sits at the table playing video games,” he says.…
The Nerf N-Strike Longshot CS-6, to give it its full name, is the kind of blaster gun that your kid would kill for. It’s also the kind of thing that would be a gift in name only, because, any child will have problems prying it out of a parent’s hands once unwrapped. And it works…
When Solid Alliance and Christmas meet, there can only be one winner: fans of all things USB. What collector of dumb peripheral stuff could refuse this Christmas cake, complete with 1GB memory key strawberries? And then you see what else they use to decorate the cake. Prawns, rubber duckies and bunnies — hmmm, about as…
European wireless provider Vodafone on Monday obtained a Court order that requires rival T-Mobile Germany to sell Apple Inc.’s iPhone handset to Germans without a service plan. [AppleInsider]
The Blackberry Pearl 8120 has been spotted on the FCC, with GPS, a standard headphone jack, Stereo A2DP Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (no 3G, however). Could be a great T-Mobile@Home phone for roaming between hotspots and cell towers, seamlessly. [PhoneScoop] https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-introduces-hotspot-home-272612
It is unfortunate, and maybe a bit mean, but I feel compelled to point out the headline in the screenshot, “Dell. Now available in Beautiful,” as flawed. The problem with it is that it—correct me if I’m wrong—implies that all previous Dells were not available in anything except ugly. And the clean lines of an…
As cool as we find the whole modular open-source electronics concept that Bug Labs has conjured up, we share some of the confusion and curiosity that you do about how this baby’s gonna fly. We sat down with CEO Peter Semmelhack and, in addition to giving us the first look at the powered-on Bug itself,…
When adults design a laptop for children, it looks like the OLPC or Speak and Spell. When laptops are designed by children they look like the setup above. The PurC PC (Purple Construction Paper PC, my name) was made by an 8-year old girl in the youngster-founded, no-adults-allowed “The Laptop Club”. Alphanumerics are pegged where…
I like the Kindle, but after reading about its price and limitations, i’m pretty sure it’s not for me. Can you look past its pasty white shell (last year’s cool color), slanted keyboard and $400 price tag and love it for its free EVDO connection, paid-for subscription RSS feeds and DRM’d up approach? Wait, those…