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Bender. Three inches. Head rotates 360 . Bite his tiny, shiny, metal ass and you’ll probably break a tooth. He costs $9.99 and you can see him all tucked up in his retro-ish box after the jump. [Think Geek]
Yes, we got new impressive models from Samsung. And the YP-P2 —the flash-based multimedia player these sexy cyborg ninja killers are carrying— is not bad either: glossy thin design, beautiful interface running on a big touch-screen, iPhone-style home button, music. video, radio, pictures and even Bluetooth, as you will see in the video demostration after…
Nokia has announced today that 46 million of their batteries are at risk of overheating, offering to replace them free of charge. There is a chance that a short circuit could occur during charging, and apparently 100 cases have already been reported. The batteries in question were all made by Matsushita between December 2005 and…
Less than two months ago, the Motorola-sponsored M-Lab opened its doors at Wannado City, a career park for kids in Florida. Once through the doors, kids are given a white coat and transformed into M-ventors to work on a complex technological problem. Designed by Gensler architects, the M-Lab has more than a touch of Kubrick’s…
Researchers in Japan have started using 3D printers to create replacement facial bones for patients. The new bones are made of alpha-tricalcium phosphate, which we’re told is strong enough for bones, as long as they’re not weight-bearing. Now, my limited medical knowledge may come from watching ER, but it seems obvious to me that the…
Right now it’s a bit hot for one of these, but we salute Lady Linoleum, who made this Darth Vader helmet out of eight Guinness cans and some black wool. [Monster Crochet via Craftzine]
Sony Ericsson‘s K770i Cyber-shot cellphone has been announced today: it’s only 14.5 mm thick, has a 3.2-megapixel camera with Photo fix function and is expected to launch in Europe sometime in the last quarter of this year. Hopefully it will make the jump to the US soon. Full specs and press release after the jump.…
Everybody’s favorite Logitech gripe is, in so many words, “Screw the proprietary RF, where’s my bleedin’ Bluetooth mouse?” Today, in the wee hours of the morning, it seems that wish has been granted. The V470 Cordless Laser Mouse for laptops uses Bluetooth 1.2, and can run on Bluetooth-enabled computers without any proprietary RF dongle. Not…
The April, 1978 issue of The Futurist magazine ran an incredibly forward-thinking piece about the future of newspapers. If we think of a newspaper as being a printed object delivered to our homes, we may be talking about replacing newspaper with an electronic signal. But if we think (as I do) of newspapers as organizations…
Today Epson rolled out its entry level line of printers with a few surprises: the $149 CX9400Fax, a super-valued all-in-one with a truly functional fax, a fast-as-hell $90 printer called the Stylus C120, and two more multifunctions (without fax), the $70 CX7400 and the $100 CX8400. All-in-ones are plummeting in price. I remember when you…
Hate it when your arm is sticking out in your self photos? Afraid of having your narcissistic tendencies exposed? You might want to take a look at the Xshot. The XShot attaches to the tripod slot on your camera, extends out over 3 feet and tilts up and down so that you can snap photos…
OK, we’re calling it: this is the year of the sound bar, those long, slender speaker boxes that you see freakin’ everywhere. (Today alone we mentioned three companies introducing a total of six new models!) When our very own Brian Lam was at CES this past January, he heard the editor-in-chief of a top home…
The iPhone’s hacked video conferencing app won the Iron Coder challenge at the C-4 Dev conference, but the silver prize is tons more fun. “Lights Out” is the world’s first third part iPhone game to run native on the system. It’s free, but you’ll need to download iActivator to jailbreak and run the app from…
Generally we try to be pretty skeptical of R/C cars, what with so many of them being completely worthless, but the Tri-clops is anything but. We got our hands on this little beast earlier today, and it literally attacked us. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves, first off it has three arms complete with omni-directional…
Springtime’s Bike Dispenser allows you to rent a RFID-equipped bike from one vending machine, ride it to your destination, drop it off at another vending machine, and walk away. The Dutch company won an award at the 2007 Spark Design & Architecture Awards for their idea, which is perfectly suited for an urban environment. Unfortunately,…
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MIT have developed a battery that uses carbon nanotubes and paper to make a flexible battery that can be cut by scissor and could eventually be printed. The energy density is fair, at about 110mAh/gram, and small prototypes are powerful enough to power small fans. But the flexibility is…
Steve, the developer behind Netflix’s download service, gives us explanations for Mac, Firefox and TV support, as well as the reason why the Netflix online collection is so tiny. The OS X hold up til 2008 is, of course, the lack of studio-sanctioned DRM, since Apple doesn’t license theirs. (Like it matters, since WM11 and…
1.3 MP ain’t bad, but if you’re giving a cameraphone a huge telescoping lens with it with a 3x zoom optical, you might want to aim for a higher pixel count. China only, and thankfully, only $130. UPDATE: Forehead slap. Obviously, this is not a DSLR, mechanically speaking. [Slashphone]
ShapeServices brings Skype IM chat to the iPhone via webapp, but there’s no real Skype voice chat over Wi-Fi. [PRNewswire]
Rather than sending your kids outside to exercise, why not just modify their video game addiction so it requires a little bit of physical exertion? That’s the idea behind this Jet Ski Simulator video game. Featuring “realistic 16-bit graphics” (ha!), it’ll make your chubby little offspring bounce around on the inflatable Jet Ski all day…