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Remember the 9.8-inch Bumbleebee Speaker? Yeah, the one that tries to copulate with your MP3 player, dances, lights up and even ruins your music mixing it with annoying effects when you touch it, then makes you have nightmares and cry for your mom? Well, looking at these shiny Transformers porn pics, it looks like it…
I just wanted to give you a heads- up that I will finally be posting the finale of our HDMI Cable Battlemodo today at 2 p.m. EST. Before you see the results, though, I wanted to take you through the testing process, so the results will make total sense. You with me? As you will…
One Japanese company is developing a device to help with those moments (because you were drunk) that you might not remember (due to drunkeness) that you set down your phone (to hold another drink) and forgot to pick it up (surprisingly, just due to a general poor memory). The device fits in your pocket and…
This is the Eco One, a one-seater sports car that is green in more ways that you would imagine. Not only does it run on wheat and sugar beets at 150 mph, going from 0 to 62 mph in less than four seconds, but the bill of materials looks like a salad: potatoes, cashew nut…
Two MIT grad students want to install devices in public buildings that generate electricity from footsteps. They want to install a type of floor that will power train stations and other commuter-heavy areas. The problem is that this energy has to come from somewhere – you. This type of floor will depress slightly when you…
iPod docks are a dime a dozen but none are more mobile than Wei-Lieh Lee and Kevin O’Callaghan’s dock-in-a-dog-jacket, which will convert your pet into a walking boombox. At the moment it’s just a concept (and given that rather tooty tartan fabric that looks like it should be wrapped around Jessica Fletcher’s knees in Murder,…
Check this full size Nascar sitting on top of a steel belt sliding at 180mph. While wind tunnels have been used to design cars for years, the results can be affected by the fact that the ground is still. This machine solves that problem, in truly dramatic and dangerous fashion. Just like NASCAR itself. The…
The GV-HD700E, Sony’s first foray into on-the-move HD video editing is coming out in Europe this Fall. Chockablock with pro features, it boasts a seven-inch widescreen LCD and has just three buttons for 14 functions (which include search, index mark and playback zoom). On top of that, the GV-HD700E can play back HDV as well…
Halluc II is a robot that thinks it’s a tank and a cockroach. A product of Leading Edge Development and the fuRo center of Chiba Institute of Design, the ‘bot can move in six mysterious ways, including going forward, sideways, up steps and slopes – and if you ask nicely, it’ll spin around. Weighing 44…
The 1982 book Our Future Needs (World of Tomorrow) contains this two-page spread of robot farms of the future. No, they don’t grow robots. The robots just work on the farms. But combine the idea of robot farms and the robot rebellion we looked at a few months back and you’ve got a hilariously horrifying…
An ingenious tinkerer over at Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews decided that the standard remote for his Orion Atlas EQG telescope was too clunky. So he decided to modify the telescope to be controlled by his Wii Remote. Now with the simple flick of the wrist or finger he can control the direction and Right Ascension/Declination…
That’s a picture taken from a helium balloon at 28km in altitude. To put that in perspective, the average airliner flies at only 9km. The balloon, created by Jean-Sébastien Busque, carried a video camera, still camera, GPS and a ham radio, but sadly Jean didn’t get to take a joy-ride himself. Probably because he didn’t…
This holiday season Target will start selling the Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray player for $499 along with movies from Sony and Disney in their stores, but no HD DVD players, which Target only offers HD DVD in its online store. [Forbes]
In what seems to be an ongoing string of new product launches, Logitech today introduces its Wave keyboard ($49.99) and Cordless Desktop Wave system ($89.99), both available in late August. The star of the show is Logitech’s first ergonomic keyboard in a while. Its contoured design and cushioning hold your wrists comfortably in place, while…
While we already tossed the rather rosy raw numbers at you, one tidbit lost in the general hubbub over Apple’s obscenely profitable quarter is the fact that iPod sales are in fact down 7 percent from last quarter both in the number sold (10.55 million to 9.815 million) and revenue ($1.7 billion to $1.57 billion).…
Looks like mobile TV provider Modeo’s service won’t be getting any better: it’s dead. [BusinessWeek] https://gizmodo.com/modeo-mobile-tv-service-hands-on-one-day-in-240944
Here’s an interesting combo — 12MP in a slim camera body. That’s a bump from 8MP in the F40fd, which is weird because Fuji doesn’t often engage in these MP cock fights. Anyhow, the 7th generation CCD sensor is pared with a 3x zoom, face detection that can, like other Fuji’s equipped with, focus and…
This is the most colorful and cheesy of Fuji’s camera blitz today. It’s a slim fashion phone that the press release claims, to “flirt with youth.” Never mind the generation Z target demographic, the Z10fd has 3x optical zoom, 2.5-inch lcd, slideshow mode, face detection tech with auto red eye removal, IR beaming, a blogging…
I’ve never wanted a Fujifilm camera quite so badly as this S8000fd, the successor to the S6500fd, one of the original face recognition cams. First off, its been bumped from 6 to 8MP, still lower than the competition, but for the sake of better light sensitivity. Running in 4MP mode, more than enough for most…
Fuji has two new entry-level digicams coming down the line. First is the Finepix A920, sporting a 9-mp CCD, 4x zoom and a 2.7-inch screen all for $199.95. But if you need your camera to be a little more on the trim side than you’ll want to take a look at the F480. This guy…