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If you’re trying to lose weight and want to lose your appetite, here’s the fastest way to do it. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. [Book of Joe]
Click to viewOur rant about those $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables found its way to the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), and Randi offered $1 million to anyone who can prove those cables are any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables. Pointing out the absurd review by audiophile Dave Clark, who called the…
Here’s the perfect flashlight for those candlelight presentations you’ll be giving to all the other heathens after the apocalypse. The lasers/LED combo flashlight requires no batteries whatsoever, and gets all of its power from your squeezing hand. Remember those fake ray guns you played with when you were a kid? Except for the sound effects,…
Nintendo knows that the best way to keep a product hyped up is to make sure said product is difficult to get. If there’s a shortage, that must mean that lots of people want them, and you’d better buy yours before someone else beats you to it! Right? While Nintendo has had plenty of time…
AT&T has revised their Terms of Service in a manner that should horrify the consumer public. Usually such updates screw the customer subtly, but AT&T’s new adjustment ironically pulls freedom of speech directly from those using AT&T’s service to speak. In short, if you slam AT&T, they can pull your service: AT&T may immediately terminate…
You’re in a hotel lobby when your mark walks in. You pull out the Digital Card Calculator Camera and pretend to casually crunch sums, while in reality you are snapping Top Secret Digital Photographs. Your target would only know you’re a spy if he/she spots the enormous VGA lens and bezel right next to the…
Sim2, maker of high-end fancy pants projectors, will be one of the first manufacturers to release a model using the new DLP DarkChip 4 from Texas Instruments. And get this—three of those chips will be shining inside Sim2’s Grand Cinema C3X 1080 projector, set to ship in November. Besides bringing you what the company calls…
Radiohead dropped a bomb on the music industry last night, announcing their new album In Rainbows. What’s the big deal? Well, first of all, it’ll be released in a mere 9 days, catching everyone off guard (it was expected sometime next year) and keeping the tracks from leaking to the web. Secondly, you’ll be able…
Australian soldiers are now beginning deployment with wearable solar panels. Just like most of us, their military is weighed down by too many gadgets that are consuming too much power. But unlike most of us, their use of night vision is for more than “recreational” purposes. So the government has spent £1million developing a 14-…
Nokia is buying Navteq, the world’s biggest digital map maker, for $8.1 billion. Nokia wants to be a leader in location-based services, and buying Navteq gives it the best access to the best database. GPS-maker TomTom is in the process of buying Tele Atlas, Navteq’s only major worldwide competitor. [NYT]
Phew. After months of waiting, your diamond-encrusted Nokia N95 is finally ready. In fact, Alexander Amosu, ringtone mogul and maker of the oh-so-necessary golden iPod, has built 10 of these N95s, each with 325 diamonds covering its 18-karat white gold surface. You’ll be glad to hear that when you pay the £12,000 sticker price, your…
It looks like Nokia is firing cannons against the Apple armada: their latest campaign—spotted in New York last Saturday—argues that their phones are better because they are not closed devices and they are open to any third-party development. We don’t know for sure if this shot aims at Apple’s lack of support for third-party iPhone…
After kicking George Foreman’s ass in the ring, Evander Holyfield hopes to kick his ass again in the kitchen (with a grill, not boxing gloves). After signing with manufacturer CirTran Corp, Holyfield produced a 30-minute infomercial about the $99 Real Deal Grill that will surely Change Your Life. At the moment, we’re only moderately excited…
T-Mobile’s clammy Samsung Beat EDGE music phone is official, as expected, with a 1.3-megapixel camera and music controls on its front side. Previously undiscussed are its stereo Bluetooth support and the fact that it actually comes with USB cable and 1GB microSD card, so you don’t have to pay the accessories mafia any extra. UPDATE:…
Click to view Last Saturday we reported on how to unbrick an unlocked iPhone. Today we have discovered that you can send and receive calls, SMS and mails too, as well as surf the web with it. However, to do it you must have used IPSF paid software to unlock your iPhone (like they claimed)…
The Bush TR04DABBLK is a retro-looking, piano black DAB, with touchscreen controls. The device has a two-line display showing useful information, including artist and station; onboard memory will store a pathetic 10 DAB and 10 FM stations. The vintage styled DAB marks the first device by Bush that incorporates touchscreen controls, and is surely indicative…
In just 3 years, Nintendo has sold more than 50 million DS units, compared to the 11 years it took GameBoy/GameBoy Color to reach 100 million. [pcworld]
As you saw last Saturday, Crazy Austrian Markus Stöckl has smashed the world bike speed record on a plain mountain bike: 130.7mph (210.4km/h.) Now, here’s the video of him going down a one-mile-long snow slope in La Parva, Chile. Markus—who is also a Red Bull Air Races pilot—crushed his own record by 14.3mph. It’s not…
If you have fallen a little short of the $50 million price tag for a Poseidon 180, fret not, the Jelly-fish 45 Habitat will set you back only a mere $2.5 million. Bargain! Designed by Giancarlo Zema, the “floating dwelling” comprises five separate levels all connected by a snazzy spiral staircase. https://gizmodo.com/poseidon-180-is-super-sexy-super-spenny-272271 The floors are…
It may be a bit too early for freshly drafted beer from a HomePub fridge, but it is never too early for caffeine. Thanks to Whirlpool’s Espresso refrigerator, you can now get your xanthine alkaloid-based fix any time of the day or night, fresh out of your fridge. The multitasking food cool closet boasts Whirlpool’s…