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Pocket shots are like those little gel packs that marathoners use to go the extra mile. Except instead of energy-giving sugar, these are filled with vodka, rum, and whiskey. [Wired, Thanks Rob]
The only good that came out of Michael Bay’s mutilation of Transformers is that cool shit like this Nike/Transformers toy keeps coming out. Similar to the Optimus Prime and Megatron toys from earlier this year, this Nike Free 7.0 transforms into a character known as Marine Convoy. Unlike the other two, Marine Convoy seems to…
Canon followed a stellar camera launch day with an equally ambitous printer launch: 12 printers in all, including two of those cute little compact photo printers, two basic photo printers and eight—no joke—eight all-in-ones. Like I said, ambitious, but here’s how it could have done with fewer: In place of two photo printers, just one,…
If you thought your Kia was a cheap car, you obviously didn’t buy it in India. A country with an exploding population of drivers, India has a red-hot market for cheap autos. With that in mind, Indian company Tata Motors (oh, grow up) is selling a plastic car that’ll run about $2,400 total. Yes, that…
In Q2 of 2007, Vizio outsold Samsung in the LCD market by 130,000 units making them the leading supplier of LCD units in the United States. [TG Daily]
Tilera introduced a 64-core processor that is said to be substantially faster than the Intel dual-core Xeon processor. [Electronista]
In theory, these Magwear magnetic wrist bands are supposed to hold your screws, nails and other metal parts for DIY projects. In reality, they will serve me to wear my red and purple pyjamas and try to get my wife to fight me (un)dressed up as Storm. All your fantasies could come true for just…
In light of certain $3000 iPhone data bills for international roaming, it’s fair to assume that many of us don’t really know what the exact policy is jet set iPhone living. The skinny is this, from AT&T directly: “For $24.99 per month, iPhone users get 20MB of data use outside the US. If you don’t…
A man who robbed a bookie shop in England using his girlfriend’s vibrator has been jailed for five years. Nicki Jex, a 27-year-old chef, concealed the Rampant Rabbit in a plastic bag, brandished it at the cashier and then made off with over 600 ($1200) in cash. The crime was caught on CCTV, and Jex…
Get it? Hang up your phone? Ha! Ha! Ha! It also hangs up when you put it on a table. That’s not as amusing. [Yanko Design]
Optimus Prime’s Diary gets its Transformer-wannabe mitts all over Takara Tomy’s sold-out, holy-shit-it-really transforms Soundwave MP3 player, though they don’t exactly offer an in-depth review. But who cares about the specs? It’s a Transformers MP3 player that transforms. Sold. Two more unbox shots after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/soundwave-transformed-into-mp3-player-just-like-we-pr-278674 [Optimus Prime’s Diary]
Paramount and Dreamworks went HD DVD exclusive today. Then, a Hollywood news blog reported that the HD DVD camp paid Paramount $50 million and DreamWorks Animation $100 million for “promotional consideration.” We asked Paramount and the HD DVD camp about this, and received a quick albeit vague reply: “Whenever we conduct co-marketing, production deals or…
We got the whitest geek we could find and threw him into Japan to see if he’d survive. Here are his pleas for a return ticket. To: Frooch From: Matt RE: Washing Machine/Air Conditioner Combo Saves Space, Chills Clothes I saw your post about the air conditioning/washing machine combo, and since I’m on my second…
Sony’s new IMX021 CMOS sensor is good for 12.47MP and 10.39FPS. People are comparing it to Canon’s new EOS-1D Mark III. Enough with the pissing match. I’d take half the megapixels and 12800 ISO, frankly. [digitalcamerainfo]
Aha! Masters of Cellphones over at Wireless Info found a second US-bound N95 today on the FCC, but this one with 3G. The finish? Silver, like the old ones, but the media buttons seem to be different, and this one lacks 8GB of storage but does have a microSD slot. It appears we have AT&T…
[UPDATE: I took a pass, noting inconsistencies. – B.L.]Turns out the rumor of Kathy Griffin fondling Woz’s apples were a bit off, according to Adario Strange. He’s proudly skeptical of the whole thing, pointing to a Page Six post that he claims says the two have never met. But reading the Page Six page actually…
Lite-on’s concept for a USB puzzle game involves e-paper, puzzle pieces and software that feeds an image directly onto the puzzle board. Kids rearrange blocks in order to construct the puzzle (which is made out of the image you chose from your computer). However, it looks like the puzzle pieces themselves never actually change—just the…
Although the automated drink makers we’ve visited are mostly of the coffee variety, this Zarafina Tea Maker suite has the same idea. There are variable settings to control strength, brewing time, type of tea, temperature and adjust for tea bags/loose tea. Kitchen Contraptions tested it out and and found it to be consistent in all…
A Chinese site posted some shots of the shell of a supposed Sony Ericsson K-Series Cybershot cellphone. The interesting part is that this phone, or a phone that looks like this, hasn’t been announced, so we’re left speculating at what its 3x optical zoom and its squarish keypad will be called when it is announced.…
Carrying around a spare SD, miniSD or microSD card in your pocket is just asking for accidental misplacement. But this little SD Card-eating man is the perfect thing to keep your memory cards close to your cellphone and camera while livening it up at the same time. Fun and practical, something those those sexy lingerie…
