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Want to see a video of Eric Scott showing off his jetpack at this year’s Rocket Belt conference, held last weekend at an air base in Niagra Falls? Thought so. [Boing Boing]
Though Logitech has had a few iPod docks in the past, it never seemed to be a major initiative. Now, the company is getting in the game for real with the debut of the all-new Pure-Fi Dream Bedroom Music System ($249.99), a clock/radio-based dock with some delightfully nerdy features (motion sensors!), and the revamped lithium-ion…
As expected, Sprint has announced their allegedly-WiMAX Xohm service, claiming that “the internet is on the verge of another revolution.” They want to “empower PMPs, video cameras, MP3s and more with internet access.” We just want cheap zoomtastic Internet action everywhere. [Xohm] https://gizmodo.com/xohm-is-either-wimax-from-sprint-or-new-mystical-chant-289596
The August 3, 1958 Chicago Tribune ran this Closer Than We Think! strip, demostrating the automatic highway construction of the future. Something very similar to this appears in the May 14, 1958 Disneyland TV episode Magic Highway, U.S.A.. Tomorrow’s turnpikes will “flow” out of giant machines like magic ribbons across the countryside. The basic equipment…
Fuze Media Systems unveiled their full home media system, which has several advantages over the pretty and fully competent Microsoft Windows Media Center. In a nutshell, it’s designed to be used throughout the entire house, with multiroom streaming. There are extenders called the Fuzemini that have HDMI out, DVD/CD drives, CableCARD. There’s even a touchscreen…
The Firefly flyPhone (OMG, IT RHYMES WITH iPHONE!) is a phone geared towards children with a fuller feature set than the original Firefly Phone. The new model has an actual keypad, a camera, memory expansion via MicroSD, and music/video playback. But this phone doesn’t exactly strike us as kid-friendly. Not only will parents have to…
The USB-powered Bright Idea Light designed by Graham Alexander Bayne will provide just enough light when needed most. Although the soft silicon and plastic light bulb doesn’t get any brighter when you actually have an idea, it still looks cool…and it’s USB. [Gramatron via Yanko Design]
PingMag got a one-on-one interview with Yasushi Kimura, founder of the Japanese design firm Sea Hope. And for as awesomely insane as their watches are, his responses were interesting and and not crazy at all. When questioned about peoples fascination with LED’s he responded “Simply put, people like light and illuminations – it just enhances…
What happens when you run over a MacBook Pro in a Crumpler laptop bag? Not much, actually, other than the screen being completely destroyed and the case being bent crooked. Despite being completely unusable as a laptop, this guy’s MacBook Pro can still be used as a desktop if it’s plugged into an external monitor.…
Here’s a video of last weekends Rocketbelt convention in Niagara Falls, amazingly no one blew up.[Google Video]
Restoration Robotics has created a robot that will help out with hair plug installations, not that we’d ever need such a thing…[Cnet]
D-Link’s all white DIR-660 Limited Edition Wireless N router looks great on the outside, and performs decently on the…outside. There’s MIMO, which is fantastic, along with an OLED display on the top for status updates, but an old Netgear G router i4u tested with had better range than the 660 even in N mode. Speeds…
Did you know Sirius makes a $40 receiver called the InV2? Unfortunately, it won’t work with docks, but you can’t argue with that price. On top of that bit, you saw a lot of major gear today from Sirius’s show—the new Stiletto 2, the Altec Lansing dock, the Polk dock, the Sportster 5 with color…
The honkin’ GM Sirius box, which replaces the XM box currently found in most XM-enabled GM cars 2003 and newer. This new Sirius box is compatible with about 8 million cars on the road. There are boxes from Directed that do the same for Hondas, Toyotas and Lexus autos, too.
Get a free 19-inch HDTV when you sign up for DirecTV HD at Best Buy. [Best Buy]
Both a coffee table and a foosball table, this Offside Foosball table is just the thing for millionaire former dot com employees to re-live their happy days in the office. The $7600 table has a glass top, a mirrored foosball field and is hand-crafted by Howard Bushell in Worcestershire, England. Classy and tacky all at…
Instead of making a chicken dance around by typing in commands, this Frank’s Cubicle website has you making Frank play with all his USB gear by clicking on links. It’s interesting for a few minutes, especially when you see what he’s been looking at with his Spyplane. Makes us wish we had a bunch of…
While a regular old wall clock just tells you the time, this Lexon Status wall clock gives you a bunch more info: the date and the weather, to be exact. It provides the outdoor temperature via a wireless barometric sensor that you stick outside, which is probably what drives an otherwise modest clock up to…