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Marantz rolled out another one of its higher-end 1080p DLP projectors for home theater today, wrapping up this VP-15S1 in the same package as last year’s model but significantly enhancing the specs. The contrast ratio is punched up, from 6500:1 in the old model to 10,000:1 on this one, and it’s significantly brighter, up to…
How does a pre-paid service handle over-the-air music subscriptions? Answer: very cheaply. Virgin Mobile’s Wild Card by Kyocera is the first phone that can receive music from its Headliners streaming audio player. The service is $2.50 per month, and you can listen to a given song on demand for 25 cents. (Electronista says that the…
The eagerly anticipated Dash connected GPS navigator just made another extreme promise, offering third parties a chance to develop for the system. The example Dash uses is the real-estate value database Zillow—you can use the tool to check values of homes in the vicinity, as you see in the above pic. Dash will also encourage…
Behold the Fentix Cube, where each of its intensely colorful sides gives you multi-touch control of a variety of games and electric light shows. The fun starts at a Rubik’s Cube-like diversion, and then goes far beyond into all sorts of puzzles and enough multidimensional shenanigans to give you dementia. It’s invented by designer and…
Click to viewJohn Davis spent eight years and 15,000 building a Boeing 747 flight simulator in a room in his house. And now the 47-year-old’s hobby has turned into such a full-time occupation that he has jacked in his job as a graphic designer to run a full-time flight simulation business from his home in…
This touchless keyboard system’s breakthrough is that it combines both the typing and the mousing in a single sensor. When configured on a standard PC, the user wears the headgear shown in the picture, and navigates and types by moving their head and neck. Here’s what separates this product from similar ones: The machine translation…
Designed with witches and warlocks in mind, this USB extractor fan with its “mysterious touch” pentangle on the top should prevent Gandalf from burning his penis (and, lest we forget, there’s a lot of it to burn.) Attach the two-speed, 60g gadget to your laptop via the USB port and keep your machine cool. You…
The Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/GPS-enabled 3G HTC Polaris has been presented in the Netherlands and although we don’t have official pictures yet, we have its final name and confirmed specs: it’s going to be called HTC Touch Cruise, which probably means that it will have a “jump-on-sofa” vibration mode and a button to communicate with aliens. Looking at…
At last, someone has made a device that will lighten the lives of office workers and boost the bank account of trauma surgeons worldwide: the Scooterdesk, an infernal device that not only is ergonomic and beautifully designed but also serves the noble purpose of racing down cubicle aisles faster than Luke Skywalker in the Death…
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It may look like a decompression chamber, but Senjo No Kizuna is a networked arcade game in which you pilot a Mecha against other players. The game, developed by Banpresto, is, according to notre ami de Akihabara who gave it a spin, pretty damn good. Regular players can log their gaming history (scores, weapons, etc)…
Compatible with Windows and Macs, this $46.79 SATA HDD Stage Rack will allow you to plug any bare 2.5- or 3.5-inch SATA hard disk drives into your computer like Nintendo cartridges or, for those of you old enough, 8-tracks. Just take the HD, plug it into the base, connect the base to your Mac or…
Jeff over at Hyperion 2719 has this photo from the 1980s of assorted Disney characters in their futuristic rainbow costumes. See also: EPCOT’s Horizons EPCOT Publicity Materials (1981)
Click to view Hey people who’ve been following the tubgirl stuff. I’ve been thinking about it for the better part of the day, and I’m sorry, I should have used a lesser image for the prank. Yea, it wasn’t very thoughtful considering the many readers of Kotakuwho view the site from work and school. Also,…
The Nokia N810 was launched this week, and among the main details, I’ve got a few more impressions for you. (What few impressions I could draw from the quirky device.) • Screen is A+ in sharpness, color, brightness and res (800×480). It’s not multitouch, though, and you’ll need a stylus. • The keyboard’s clicks are…
The next time you’re with a woman for a romantic evening at home, turn down the light on this 13 Amp Fuse lamp to get the mood going. That will turn her on. Then explain how these fuses were used in the BS 1363, an AC socket commonly used in homes in the UK. Then…
According to the product page, the Franklin Digital Cooler uses “a tiny NASA microchip” that allows the device to go from “hot to freezing cold in a matter of minutes.” So, theoretically, you can keep you hot dishes hot and your cold dishes cold when traveling. There is even an LED thermometer and thermostat that…
Nearsighted nerds may soon have one less reason to personally interact with the outside world thanks to a technology that allows users to “virtually” try on glasses via their cell phones. Here’s how it works: customers take a quick snapshot of themselves and then combine it with images of glasses downloaded from the merchant’s mobile…
A simple but brilliant design—build an arcade style cabinet for Guitar Hero with a real Marshall cab acting as the base, a marquee and speakers on the top, and connect it to a hacked PS2 with every Guitar Hero game loaded on the hard drive. Then go ahead and deck out a couple of guitar…
We applaud the craftsmanship of this homemade LED hat, especially the nerd-core Space Invaders and Pac Man animations, but seriously, I think there’s a reason the digital milliner is never shown actually wearing the hat. CORRECTION: For 2 seconds at the very end, you do see him wearing the hat. I rest my case. [Hacked…