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XMI’s X-Mini claims to be the “the world’s first pocketsize speaker with a built-in bass support and rechargeable battery.” Apparently either feature alone is not a world’s first, but together…stand back. You have the stuff PR is made of. Focused on portability, the X-Mini features an extendable, accordion-style vacuum tube that attempts to mimic the…
Being a girl, I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that boobs are the best gadget evah. And some of them can even open a bottle of beer. [13gb via Fleshbot]
Rollerman, aka Jean-Yves Blondeau, a crazy Frenchman whose Buggy Rollin’ suit effectively turns him into a 60-mph trolley, was pitted against a racing motorcyclist for a TV show earlier this year. Check out what happens at 1 min 10 secs in [Updated with more info about it.] https://gizmodo.com/look-out-here-comes-the-human-skateboard-203877 —for a moment, I thought there was…
Microsoft rolled out final versions of those two proto-SP1 erformance and compatibility patches for Vista. Manual install only for now. [Microsoft/Microsoft] https://gizmodo.com/vista-service-pack-0-5-patch-leaked-284140
Netflix’s online movie-streaming service has been hacked by a Very Clever Person . The tools: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player 11, FairUse4WM and Notepad. The method: finding and downloading the URL of the video file, getting the license key and stripping the DRM. Sounds simple enough. The catch: Only Netflix subscribers can do it. Logically,…
In case our coverage of yesterday’s “Apple Special Event” just wasn’t enough to satisfy your Mac lust, Apple’s posted a streaming video of yesterday’s event in its entirety, minus the Q&A at the end. It’s just like being there, but without the choking sensation from all of the smug. [Apple]
A “mole” at Microsoft has told Ars Technica that after the current inventory is spent, they’re going to “soft launch” new Core and Premium Xbox 360s in late August or September that are loaded up with HDMI and possibly quieter DVD drives, along with the long-awaited 65nm process CPUs. While this is complete hearsay, the…
T-Mobile made it official today: It launches the Samsung Blast, a pretty black and crimson slider otherwise unromantically known as the T729. We heard rumblings about this MotoRIZR-like cellie a couple of months ago, and as promised, here are the details on its big launch date. Its $99 price (with a 2-year contract) isn’t bad…
Lukas Koh’s Space For You printer is rather a clever concept, combining a table with a printer, saving space – and, probably, your printer, if you’ve ever parked your coffee on it by mistake. It’s a simple idea: One drawer, paper in. Another drawer, paper out. [Yanko]
This Ford concept car appears in the 1966 book Automobiles of the Future by Irwin Stambler. The description of the car appears below. Exotic engines of tomorrow may provide the power for a sports car such as this, which could be mass-produced while keeping the appearance of a racing car. This post originally appeared at…
Here’s a video I took in Cupertino today of the new Apple keyboards, iMacs, and what I consider the best features of iPhoto and iMovie: skimming and…skimming. As for the rest of the day, here are the highlights: •New, thinner iMacs, crafted from glass and aluminum like Mr. iPhoneface, with 20 and 24-inch screens. Awesome,…
Unleash your inner explorer with the adventurous Triton handheld GPS from Magellan. There are six models in total, all sporting QVGA touch screens (2.2″or 2.7″) that are waterproof up to one meter. Some feature expandable memory via an SD slot alongside a 2-megapixel digital camera and digital audio player. The top-of-the-line Triton 2000 has a…
The Halo 3 Limited Edition Xbox 360 console will emerge in September for $399.99. [Press Release] https://gizmodo.com/halo-themed-xbox-360-277039
Set to be launched next month, the whale-looking Aeros ML866 uses a combination of buoyancy (like a blimp) and lift (like a plane) to cruise comfortably through the air with over 5,000 square feet of interior room, it has more lounge space than some houses. It can take off vertically, without taking up runway time…
I don’t know how carving a bunch of geometric lines in a phone helps a company “tap into the cultural zeitgeist,” but that’s what Nokia is claiming their now-official line of Prism phones does. The lower-end 7500 is your basic multimedia phone complete with music player (MP3/AAC/WMA), 2-megapixel camera and Opera Mini for web browsing…
Digitimes is predicting a video-playing flash iPod in September. Digitimes, being based in Taiwan, does have easy access to manufacturers, but their track record is mixed, as are all of ours. We’ll see soon enough. [Digitimes]
iPhones already have the “Send to Gallery” feature in the photo menu, but you need iLife 08 to take advantage of it, and you have to have a .mac account on your handset. [TUAW]
Click to view It’s impossible to ignore the unique brand of fun the Wii brings to the table with its motion-sensitive controller, but if you aren’t into minigame fests, you don’t have a lot of options for taking advantage of it. That’s why one dedicated gamer decided to meld the power of the Wiimote with…
Apple adds Gigabit Ethernet to their Airport Extreme units, finally resolving one of the biggest gripes we’ve had with the router. [Apple]
The HTC Advantage, HTC’s not a girl, not yet a woman smartphone/umpc hybrid is available now. You can pick one up on Amazon and CompUSA for $899, and take it wherever people don’t stare at you funny for using a big phone with a keyboard. The specs, to refresh: • Windows Mobile 6 • 5-inch…