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Is this a shopping site or a Rube Goldberg machine? It’s both. Ride along with the rambunctious kitchen items in this brilliant example of Flash programming on a promo site from Dutch retailer Hema. The site loads slowly because there are probably thousands of readers just like you trying to view its hilarious animation, but…
If you’ve got some serious underwater basket weaving to do, these H2O Audio H3 earbuds might be just what you need to keep you entertained. The company says it’s improved the sound of these earphones over their predecessors, boosting the bass response as well as increasing their overall output by 10dB. The H3s are made…
Doctors and nurses will soon be able to receive updates on their patients with a quick glance at their cellphones, thanks to RFID skin-patch technology developed by Gentag, a DC-based IP development company. The Band-Aid-like patches are flexible and water resistant, and will be able to keep track of a patient’s drug interactions and allergies…
The recent iTunes update didn’t just bring fun new games, it also had a few new resource strings buried inside that point to some new features. Among them are the long-awaited disk use so you can store files, manual music management, iTunes-chosen music syncing and voice memos. We’re willing to bet these strings are there…
This week at TreeHugger: We’ve had our eyes on EEStor supercapacitors for a long time. With baited breath, we wait for them to come to fruition and change the world; finally, we have an update. If we’re ever going to find our way to a hydrogen future, we’re going to need one thing: sweet, sweet…
These new Softbank phones headed to Japan are styled out with designs from the manga Gacchaman. In addition to the outer shells being painted, the icons and wallpapers also sport the theme. I don’t understand why we don’t have more painted phones here in the States. It seems like a pretty cheap way to make…
Not content to dominate living rooms with their upcoming Rock Band music title, Harmonix has made a Guitar Hero-esque iPod game called Phase that can take your own music and lay down a rhythm game on top. The game costs $5 and needs the iTunes 7.5 update we told you about earlier. Although you may…
I recently showed you a relatively bananas hose-powered CD spindle turbine with a sawblade, but you complained that the video was all build-up with no release, as he never turned the thing on. Well, here you go: here’s a video of him using it to carve a pumpkin. For future reference, using a hose-powered CD…
I just got around to reading the Fortune piece done on Giz vs. Engadget and although I’m glad the story is being told, I’m a little dismayed at how good it makes me look when I purposely hedged every positive story with at least two embarrassing ones. Here’s a good one that I left out.…
By now you’ve seen Intel’s sexy server: it’s the one chosen as a reference design by Velocity Micro and Fujitsu Siemens for their Windows Home Server products. Well apparently Intel is not content to just be the silent partner in this, because it will now market the device as the Intel Entry Storage System, in…
Here we turn our attention to Sony, selling a soft leather TWA/T for $39.99. You’d think the company might vet its naming conventions before publishing them for all to see, but no. “Draw envious looks,” says Sony, by carrying your camera around in your TWA/T. This LCS-TWA/T carrying case for Sony CyberShot W- and T-…
This PED3 rotating stand can hold your iPhone either vertically or horizontally, and also rotates 360 degrees, putting that useful appliance at your fingertips 24/7. It’s also designed to keep those wires out of your way. This grippy black stand would come in handy on a cross-country plane trip, letting you watch a movie without…
We just got our hands on the the Asus P527 we told you about a month ago. We confirmed that it does indeed have GPS, Windows Mobile 6 (shown here in, yes, English!) Wi-Fi and at least EDGE. (We will soon know if it has HSDPA, but don’t hold your breath.) Asus will sell it…
The Hossly V8 barstools would drive MADD mad…literally. Because while seated upon a standard barstool, drinkers can harness the power of engines normally reserved for trucks and heavy luxury cars. Apparently the contraptions make an obnoxious amount of noise, which should be an effective ear shield for our own drunken idiocy…but there’s only one way…
Home Theater PC (HTPC) prices don’t necessarily have to be in the $4000-$5000 range, as evidenced by this CX100 entry-level media center just introduced by Okoro Media Systems. The $1795 HTPC has an ATI digital cable tuner into which you can plug a CableCARD, and its NVIDIA 8500 GT graphics card gives it the video…
Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford just told reporters at a conference that the Android phone OS presented by Google and the Open Handset Alliance is “another Linux platform.” He added: “There’s 10, 15, 20, maybe 25 different Linux platforms out there. It sometimes appears that Linux is fragmenting faster than it unifies.” He also said that…
Sweet merciful crap. A seriously obsessive gentleman spent 30 years of his life collecting video game consoles and games, and now he’s selling his entire 1,768-piece collection on eBay in one shot, presumably at the command of either the courts or a lady. Just the system list is insane, not to mention the games. Check…
Most people don’t think “I’ll go to Dell!” when shopping for a PS3, but according to Dell’s current deal, they really should. While the 40GB PS3 will run you $399 at most stores, Dell’s offer packages a free HDMI cable and copy of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (one of the biggest releases…
This Star Trek TNG home theater is ubergeek in the absolute best way, which is probably why at CEDIA 2007 it was named the best theme theater installation. Featuring a quasi-faithful re-creation of the Enterprise NCC-1701D, motion activated “air-lock” doors and an alert button producing an alarm and flurry of red LED lighting are enough…
This Closer Than We Think! strip ran in the March 13, 1960 Chicago Tribune. Community center planners are getting ready to meet tomorrow’s challenges. For proof, look at “Boytopia,” the concept of the Boys’ Clubs of America for the age of automation and space travel. Such centers would teach youngsters the mechanics of space travel,…