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Hate going to the dentist? The CarieScan can detect cavities before they become a problem by sending a tiny electrical current through a tooth, making those visits to the chair less likely to involve major excavation. CarieScan can detect small changes in resistance caused by the presence of water in a tooth, signs that the…
T-Mobile has a Black Friday promotion where free round-trip flights will be offered to anyone who signs up for a two-year contract between 11/23-11/25. The promo is eligible in any of 59 departure cities flying to 10 destinations across the U.S. [T-Mobile Free Flight via MobileBurn]
Still groggy from a kickass pre-holiday kickoff weekend, at first we thought this trailer for the newer and slimmer Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) was part of a bad fever dream we were having. But no, this longish (4:15) piece of video art made us laugh, made us cry, it was better than Cats. While we…
According to evangelical pastor and former NFL linebacker Ken Hutcherson, Microsoft is totally gay. He is rallying his megachurch, which has 3,500 worshipers, to buy stocks in Microsoft to vote down their gay-friendly policies. He hopes to get homophobic dicks from all religions – Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Miscellaneous – to join him on his…
Here’s the tricked-out STYX mouse from Speed-Link, and this one’s unique because it has a selectable multi-fire function, letting you fill the air with virtual lead. You can set it to shoot either two, three, or four rounds at a time, with a backlight under the scroll wheel lighting up a corresponding color for each…
Click to viewWe got a unit, played with it, and shot it from all angles including the hidden SD card slot and the surprise “pleather” protective case. In this post, NYC reporter Jen Hooker and I answer many of your most pressing questions—hell, maybe all of them—including browsing the web, playing music and transferring books…
We’ve already seen the dangerous stuff that Mr Fix-It Rick can do with his Tesla-inspired CD turbine — you know, saw your fingers off, or saw your fingers off er, cut a Hallowe’en pumpkin. His new video is going out to those of a somewhat milder disposition. Using CDs, a CD spindle, a couple of…
KDDI research labs in Japan has developed a new system for detecting pirated material on the internet automagically. By detecting whether the footage was shot on an amateur or professional camera, what method was used to encode it, and things of that nature, they claim they can detect illegal material with a 98% success rate.…
The new iPod nano may be an excellent redesign on Apple’s part, but ECNokia thinks they can do even better (after…err…borrowing Apple’s design). They’ve added an FM tuner, microphone, 1.3MP camera and (.5″ larger) touchscreen to the nano, while swapping out the built-in flash memory for a budget-friendly SD slot. From what we can tell,…
Jeff Bezos is about to launch the Kindle e-book reader at a hotel in NYC, and we’re in there blogging live. Here’s a gallery of Bezos plowing through device features. Jump for the play-by-play. 10:23 – Bookmarks last page read automatically. If you want to clear memory space, you delete them off of your Kindle…
Designer Chetan Sorab’s Matchlight is a clever lighting concept that lets you arrange a pile of matchsticks however you want—and as long as the sticks are touching each other, they’ll all light up, despite the fact that only one of the 16 “matches” has a power cord. Here’s how: Each individual light stick has a…
Sony halved the price of their PS3 development kits in hopes of attracting more game makers. [GamesIndustry]
Last weekend we spent some time driving buggies in the middle of the Arabian desert, 40 miles out of Dubai. After an hour of sliding up and down impossible dunes, we stopped to rest. I took out my cellphone to see if it had survived the craziness, which it had, and was surprised to see…
We just got the official press release on the Amazon Kindle, and it delivers the good news that the Whispernet EV-DO service that lets you surf the web, check your email, and download e-books is totally free. On the flip side, it looks like they’ll be charging per-blog for the RSS reader, with “Wireless delivery…
Are you so helpless that you can’t even dress yourself without assistance? Is your mom making you move out, giving you no one to help you with the tough decisions that face you each morning as you stare at your closet? Well, never fear, you sad excuse for a person, because technology is here to…
As you follow along our live blog of the Kindle launch event, check out this video demo of Amazon’s electronic reading device that’s officially rolling out this morning. Here’s the full-fledged look at the new reader, straight from the Amazonians. We’re digging its mini-size, looking smaller than the advance pics we saw last week. Hey,…
At this point, everybody knows that cigarettes are bad for you. It’s not like a smoker is going to hear that cigarettes cause cancer and be shocked enough to quit; they know what they’re doing. But in this video, in which someone with a homemade setup distills the tar from two cartons of cigarettes, is…
It appears that the new $399 40GB PS3 was an excellent strategy for Sony (happy birthday, btw), because for the first time in all time, the console has outsold the Nintendo Wii in Japan. Sure, only time will tell if the PS3 has real momentum behind it. But when hanging out in Akihabara a few…
Carbon Motors would like to begin selling this made-to-order police vehicle to your local precinct. No, it’s not just a fancily painted Dodge Charger. It’s a car all on its own, the E7, made specifically for cops. And since it doesn’t exist yet, ex-Ford employees at Carbon Motors are prepared to brag heavily about all…
Put on your tinfoil hats, because according to the findings of XianLi, one of the members of Hackint0sh, the iPhone spies on you. The evidence in the code shows that the Stocks and Weather applications send your IMEI number—the unique number that identifies your iPhone and is tied to your personal information—to Apple, along with…
