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It’s been three months since the iPhone launched, which is plenty of time for four cellphone manufacturers/designers to form an opinion about what’s good, bad and effective about Apple’s phone. Laptop Mag got Samsung, Nokia, Moto and Helio to answer a few iPhone-related questions. The premise is good, but the questions were somewhat tame and…
Today Kensington introduces several new power products to its Power It lineup, including a new Portable Power Pack for Mobile Devices ($59), Wall Ultra Portable Notebook Adapter ($119), Wall/Auto/Air Ultra Portable Notebook Adapter ($139, with plenty of tips to fit most Windows laptops, but not Apple’s proprietary MagSafe connector), and the awesome Auto Power Inverter…
Don’t let her cute, innocent demeanor fool you, Hello Kitty fan is one tough cookie. Constantly scanning back and forth with her giant black eyes. One false move and she’ll gnaw your digits off with her variable speed swirling vortex of doom, that or keep your room 5-10 adorable degrees cooler. [TokyoTimes]
In order to secure the Apple iPhone deal, UK’s O2 had to give up a gigantic margin on any revenues it makes on the phone—up to 40%, claims the Guardian. In addition to giving up 40% to Apple, it also has to split up commissions and revenue sharing to Carphone Warehouse, a deal drafted also…
Kensington is launching a huge number of products today, starting with its SlimBlade mouse-and-keyboard line. The Media Notebook Set shown in the first gallery uses magnets to hold its individual components together, so you can organize them any way you want. The kit itself comes with number pad, Mac-and-Vista-friendly keyboard and mouse all for $129,…
Apparently, there’s a game called Halo 3 coming out for the Xbox 360 soon. Funny, I’ve never heard of it! Microsoft seems to think that people will be so excited about it that they’ll buy a fancy, more expensive system dedicated to it despite the fact that it doesn’t actually come with a copy of…
If the Halo 3 hype/marketing blitz hasn’t made you wanna kill yourself yet and you still want more, check out Future Weapons tonight on Discovery Channel at 8 p.m. EST, since they’re doing a Halo 3-themed episode. No details on what kinds of killing machines they’re going to be showing off, but it should be…
Who needs Twitter when you have E, this electronic device that senses how you feel at any given moment, and communicates that to other people who buy into this electronic nervous system? Simply pick up E, gesture how you feel, and it lets everyone else in on your secret. On the right in the pic…
Leave it to Bill Maher to bring us down to earth about the frickin’ iPhone. Thanks, Bill. We needed that. Well, at least the “nerd tax” was reduced by $100. [Real Time with Bill Maher, via HBO]
Seeing a football game in person is clearly better than watching it on TV, and not just because you get to avoid the 10,000 ads they air per game and John Madden’s idiotic commentary. No, it also gives you a great opportunity to eat meat and get wasted in a parking lot. Helping you out…
ReplayTV? We thought you were dead! Again. But no. An anonymous tipster sent us this shot of the upcoming ReplayTV Personal HD, a USB dongle that lets you watch and record HDTV on your PC, giving you that so-called “living room experience” of which we are all so fond. We hear there are some other…
First it was a rumor, then it was a smashed rumor, later on it was a rekindled, adjusted rumor, and now it’s just awkward. Yes, Woz and Kathy Griffin went to the Emmys together last night, although why either of them were invited isn’t exactly clear. I don’t think I can continue writing this post…
Today only, you can pick up a pair of Shure E2c headphones for $39.99. (Look over to the right at “More Buying Choices.”) [Amazon via Digital Media Thoughts]
At first glance you might think this is some hacked-up clock made out of pieces of a hard drive, but this is actually a hacked-up clock made out of pieces of a hard drive that actually uses the mechanisms of the drive itself in a creative way. The platter itself turns to show the hours,…
Takara Tomy’s 6.5-inch, Guinness-certified “smallest humanoid robot in production,” i-SOBOT, is finally making its way to our primitive shores next month. The English website and price are still “coming soon,” but since this dancing, push-upping wunderbot runs about $300 in Japan, we can pretty safely guess it’ll be thereabouts. Hopefully we’ll have our meatpuppet mitts…
Forget about setting up that windmill on top of your backpack to juice up all those gadgets; now you can just use the weight of the backpack itself to generate power with these energy-harvesting backpack straps. Sure, someone thought of an energy-generating backpack before, but these straps are the tricky part here, using a special…
Sprint’s answer to T-Mobile’s Hotspot@Home, Airave, makes its official debut today in Denver and Indianapolis before hitting the rest of the country next year. Samsung’s femtocell-powered box can handle three calls at once and will go for $50, with the service running $15 a month per person or $30 per family. While you have to…
Hell-bent to cover every single detail of the iPod touch, now we bring you a careless mistake Apple made when transferring iPhone software over to the iPod touch, giving the little iPhone clone an identity crisis when you enter the wrong password into it after you’ve locked it. We’re also hearing the touch thinks it…
Microsoft, shaddap and pay your $689.4 million antitrust fine, Euro court says [New York Times]
This Triops Camera may not be the best device ever invented for family portraits, but with its three lenses and sound-activated trigger, it might be able to snag some of the weirdest-looking photos you’ve ever seen. Made specifically for shooting panoramas and odd shot sequences, apparently you can slam the sucker into the wall and…
