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Although it’ll be about a year before we mold our bodies into any kind of humanoid-esque form capable of running a marathon, but the news that said races are banning headphones isn’t inspiring us to train. Apparently USA Track & Field, the group in charge, thinks iPods and other music devices makes running too dangerous…
CDs may be headed towards obsolecence, but that doesn’t seem to stop manufacturers from coming up with unique new devices to play them. One of these devices, the Japanese made Cathay PK-24, may look like a miniature grand piano, but the only thing it can play is tunes from your CD or FM radio. The…
Bug Labs and their open source hardware might make building gadgets as easy as stacking lego bricks. Here’s the first time we’ve seen the hardware live and we were lucky enough to have founder Peter Semmelhack walk us through the gear, module by module. Below, there’s a gallery walkthrough of the parts. [Bug Labs on…
A new high speed pulsing laser developed by Arizona State physics professor Kong-Thon Tsen and his son Shaw-Wei Tsen, a pathology student at Johns Hopkins, has succeeded in killing a common virus without damaging the healthy surrounding cells. The laser utilizes the principle of “forced resonance” by vibrating the shell of a virus to “crack”…
Aside the fact that it’s easy as balls to spot from a mile away thanks to its impressive heft and blue hue, Domonique Torrence’s Spider-Man-inspired pepper spray bracelet comes close to being a useful idea. It’s loaded with pepper spray cartridges, so you just slam the button in your palm to disperse the mild irritant…
If every corporate American office had workspaces like the Eclipse partition system, I might not be so terrified of becoming a suit. Designer Marcus Curran came up with this concept as part of an industrial design thesis he was working on while in school at the University of Melbourne. The central idea behind this contraption…
The $99 Wal-Mart deal and Best Buy’s subsequent price matching got us to thinking. Just how low do the HD DVD and Blu-ray players have to go before you’ll get into HD? At this point, we’re guessing it needs to be low enough that you can write it off as a loss if that format…
Verizon’s spreading the FiOS lovefest to the HDTV side things today, announcing plans to ballon their HD channels to over 150 by the end of 2008. The HD expansion’s more of a rollout than an explosion, initially doubled to 60+ on a “market-by-market” basis, at least some of those being sports channels. On the HD…
It’s not quite the forecast predicting umbrella design from a year ago, but this ThinkGeek model beats it in the “it actually exists” category. The Ambient Forecasting Umbrella hits up Accuweather.com to fetch the day’s forecast, which then gets converted into a small light show on the handle. Flashing blue lights mean it’s going to…
According to an Infoweek source, a Google / Verizon deal is not currently in the cards and Verizon is “unlikely to be the first operator to sign on with Google.” This contradicts recent rumors that a Sprint / Verizon deal could come in the next few weeks. Don’t you get the feeling that no one…
Another day, another Wi-Fi patent entanglement. Today the troll plaintiff suing practically the entire industry is Wi-LAN, whose two patents—”related to Wi-Fi and power consumption in DSL products”—are apparently violated by anyone making or selling anything from routers to notebooks. The suit, launched in the capital of patent infringement suits, the US District Court for…
We can’t determine whether this DXG-110 is any good or not without actually testing it, but the fact that it crams 10-megapixels into a $169 body just reminds us that megapixel count is not the best way to tell the quality of a camera. However, if you do want a 10-megapixel cam for under $200…
Let’s face it, spinners and gigantic rims just don’t have the appeal that they once did. So what can a modern Cadillac owner do to take car pimping to the next level and potentially cause dozens of onlooker car accidents in the process? The folks at LCD Wheels just might have the answer. Displayed at…
Well, if AT&T and Verizon are having slambang quarters, someone’s gotta get the short end of the stick. And that someone is Sprint, though the picture’s not quite as dire as the summary execution of their former CEO depicts. “Consoliated net operating revenues” for the quarter were $10 billion, down half a billion from last…
Gmail’s rollout of IMAP is complete, paving way for synced GMail on Desktops, Laptops, Mobiles, and the web. Mine says it was activated since day one, but it’s not working yet. For those of you interested, Lifehacker’s mistress of email has posted a guide to tweak GMail’s IMAP, and Google’s posted a video of how…
Is it already time for a new Mac Chick of the Month? Macenstein’s latest Mac fangirl for November is Jesse Coleman, and she’s also an iPod chick of the month, too. Her fave playa is an iPod shuffle, but she still professes love for her Mac as well, citing moviemaking as a huge hobby of…
Samsung is launching the P2 PMP with content partnerships with Rhapsody, Napster and CinemaNow. There will also be an array of accessories ready, homespun hardware like speakers and wireless headphones, plus cases from DLO and Belkin. The strategy, which it calls MPfreedom, is acknowledgment that it takes more than a 3″ touchscreen to compete with…
The BlackBerry Pearl 8310, which we got our hands on here, is coming to Verizon on 11/8 for $200. If you’re too lazy to click over to see the hands-on, there’s a GPS and will have a $45 BlackBerry Data plan on top of your voice plan. An extra $15 will let you use it…
The bloodbath has begun. Best buy is matching Walmart’s $99 sale on Toshiba’s low end HD-A2 HD DVD player. They’re sold out online but local pickup might work for you. I can’t help but wonder how much is lost on these players. If any, since they’re heavily based on DVD tech. And what is Blu-ray…
I never cease to be amazed by the number of completely ludicrous items out there that cater to a mere 0.0001% of the population. Take this corkscrew, for example. It takes corks out of bottles. Big deal. It also has some gold on it and has some fancy engineering behind it. The price? $72,000. Yes,…