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Today Audiovox /Jensen announced the release of their new NVX3000PC “Anywhere” Ultra-Mobile PC with Windows XP/ Vista, Bluetooth, and GPS navigation packed behind a 7-inch 800 x 480 dpi screen. But that’s not all — they also managed to cram in other features like: a 30GB hard drive, 256MB of memory, 2 USB ports, 2…
Japanese theremin maker Mandarin Electron has embedded a pitch only theremin inside a Russian matryoshka doll dubbed “Matryomin” as a means of creating art with art. For those of you who don’t know, the theremin is an old-timey electronic instrument that can be played without actually being touched. Apparently, Matryomin can be “easily manipulated” to…
Boost Mobile has teamed up with graffiti artists Mint, Serf and designer Dean Bradley to produce a set of unique speakers shaped like tin cans. Inspired by the tin can walkie-talkies of childhood, these 5-inch speakers won’t crank out a ton of sound, but they will be compatible with just about anything you can throw…
Glenn T. Seaborg, former chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, wrote a piece for the April, 1967 issue of the Futurist (the second ever!) titled “Women and the Year 2000.” An excerpt appears below. In the year 2000, I think that our society will be much more enlightened than it is today with respect…
This design for the LG Touch seems interesting if just for the fact that they took a bunch of different technologies and shoved them into one piece of gear. The Touch looks like a Prada-ish phone on the outside, but takes the iPhone’s touchscreen capabilities and combines them with a dockable base reminiscent of the…
This matte black iPhone or “ccPhone” as the designers at Citizen:Citizen have dubbed it, comes loaded with a “curated series of information,” screen art, video, music, and CCs personal address book in v-cards which is updated twice a year. Why you would pay $2000 for a iPhone that looks like an iPod Touch is beyond…
If you weren’t a fan of the PS3’s Guitar Hero III donglage, you’re probably going to shoot yourself in the face over the USB hub for the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band. It requires external power, so it comes with a power block that you have to plug in (obviously). Not totally unexpected, given…
Those amateur pornographers over at CamcorderInfo really know what they’re talking about when it comes to video recording, which is why their pics for Camcorder of the year have a good deal of weight behind it. This year they select the Canon HV20 as both the Camcorder of the Year and the best under $1000…
Australia-based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has won a patent infringement suit against Buffalo in a US district court, enjoining sales on all 802.11a, g and n products made by Buffalo as of Oct. 1 (full list here). CSIRO is apparently suing the entire wireless LAN industry, so Buffalo has the quite the list…
Police in both Orange County, California and Newburgh, New York are on the brink of field testing the PistolCam —a 1.5-ounce camera fitted below the barrel of sidearms. As soon as an officer draws the weapon, the PistolCam begins recording both video and audio. Naturally, this technology could prove extremely useful for clarifying events during…
The Pirate Bay’s pretty busy these days, reviving dead sites and whatnot, but their latest scheme is even bigger: They’re working on an entirely new P2P protocol designed to replace BitTorrent, since BitTorrent Inc. is no longer making additions to the source code entirely open, which TPB believes grants them too much influence. The new…
The idea of driving a DVI or VGA display with a USB adapter isn’t new, but Sewell’s latest adapter seems to be fairly cheap and useful. Their adapter costs $119 and has 128MB RAM on board, which is then powered by USB ports from your computer to drive a 1600×1200 resolution monitor at the same…
Although we don’t care much for golf, this USS Enterprise Putter actually looks quite cool—if you enjoy Star Trek (we do). The designers didn’t actually intend to make this a Star Trek putter at first, but when they saw how the final double-nacelle cylindrical balancing weight design looked so similar to Kirk’s baby, they had…
If you are one of those people who gets off on riding their bike to work while everyone else sits in traffic, you will love this Lex LED attachment. Why? Because, if you have Windows XP, 2000, or Vista you can type in a personalized message in English, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji using the included…
Not only does he say he supports net neutrality, Obama actually seems to have something of a grasp on what it means and why it’s important (politically tinged examples aside), which is kind of impressive, given how technologically ignorant politicians can oh-so-famously be. And look at all those Web 2.0 companies he namedrops: Facebook! MySpace!…
The Motorola Q9C will also be launching 11/23 on Sprint, in addition to the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 mentioned earlier, says the Boy Genius Report. Price is set at $449 for retail, may be as low as $199 with 2-year contract. [BGR] https://gizmodo.com/more-sprint-roadmap-leaks-293286
Although it’s not a Roomba in the sense that it can clean up your junk, this Japanese Beauto robot can be programmed just like a Roomba. It comes as a DIY kit from Japanese robot maker VStone, which includes the connectors and software to design the robot’s behavior. The Beauto is similar to Lego Mindstorms…
Last week Samsung told us its hybrid BD-UP5000 Duo would be the very first next-gen Blu-ray player. Today, Panasonic rolls out theirs, with plans to deliver even faster. The $500 DMP-BD30 will meet the requirements of BD Profile 1.1, also known as “Final Standard Profile.” This will be the only next-gen Blu-ray player on the…
The Pico Bot has been called the World’s Smallest sensing autonomous robot. The bot is 0.5 inches on each side. And it’s capable of traversing a half a foot per second for 15 minutes per charge, all while dodging all sorts of obstacle by infrared sensing. I’m sure lots of you would love to tinker…
Looking to expand the DS’s base even further beyond casual gamers in its plan for world domination, according to the WSJ, Nintendo’s going to roll in some not-so-game-y info-oriented functions, like a TV programming feature for the Japanese market that will let users “check television listings, run searches by keyword and genre, and highlight each…
