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Yes, it’s no iPhone and it’s British, but the O2 Cocoon’s has a blue LED screen that shines straight through its retro-’70s white clamshell design. It can display time, caller or track information, while simultaneously looking awesome. Best of all, it can transform: It comes with a dock that converts it into a bedside alarm…
Helio is announcing Activesync support for the Ocean. The phone will then be able to sync calendars, email and contacts from an Exchange server. They’re also doing a file viewer app that will view PDF, Word, Powerpoint and Excel docs. $10 a month for Helions with All-In service plans. HELIO LAUNCHES MAIL FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE…
A common fear of the future is that life will become much too hectic. This idea is commonly portrayed in cartoons such as the one above, which ran in the June 4, 1903 edition of Life Magazine. The caption reads, “Mr. A. Merger Hogg is taking a few days’ much-needed rest at his country home.”…
The 1979 book Toward Distant Suns features the “Space Spiders,” illustrated below. Space Spiders are designed to help build the space colonies of the (paleo)future. Use of Space Spiders to build a space colony of the Stanford torus type. In the foreground mobile teleoperators carry rolls of aluminum to restock the Spiders’ supplies. Detail shows…
Worrisome iPhone users, are you dreading the day when your battery inevitably fails and sticks you with an $85.95 bill after you send it in to Apple to have it replaced? If you’re not afraid to try something new, you can start saving a little less each month because ipodjuice.com is hawking a replacement battery…
After playing a little too much Viva Piñata, somebody at Sony decided to start mashing together random, seemingly incompatible product lines. The resulting mutation was the Hana, a standing lamp that also includes an MP3 player and full-length speakers. I guess they’re targeting the “music lover who hates to listen in the dark and is…
TiVo’s $300 HD player was fully revealed today, so it’s a good time to explore TiVo’s pumped up Unbox functionality that this and the Series 3/2 all have. TiVo has been working as a set top box for Amazon’s Unbox movie rental and purchase service for a while, but only in the last few weeks…
If you’re a die-hard Apple buff and want the world to know it, place your bid for this massive original Apple Computer sign. This sign comes from the era of the manly rainbow-colored logo and has been hanging on an authorized Apple dealer’s store wall for years. The dealer is relocating and you can be…
You know how you get the Han Solo shivers after you shove your arm into a cooler to find the last beer in a sea of Diet Pepsis? What you need is the cooler scoop, a scoop that proxys for your arm in order to dig out a drink without freezing to death. The only…
XM CEO Hugh Panero was expected to step down after the Sirius merger, since Mel Karmazin was slated to be CEO of the new two headed monster. Now it’s official. Here’s hoping the soulless bot-DJs go next. [PR Newswire]
Is this green flying saucer plane the eco-friendly plane of the future? It’s a design from the CleanEra project, aimed at making air travel more economical (in the environmental sense) by using lighter materials and weird ass shapes. Their goal is to get the carbon usage down to less than 50% of current planes. Whether…
Following up our post on Gay Cars in 2006, we present Gaywheels.com’s survey of which cars are gayest (not that there’s anything wrong with that). They base their research on their server logs, quantifying which cars get the most research from their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual readership. (I feel like the list is more…
Reader Jeremy’s mother knows about his obsession with gadgets, which is why she sent him a gift basket full of gadget cookies for his birthday. The only thing she could have done better would be to include some modern gadgets like the iPhone or a TiVo, but her heart’s in the right place. Jeremy agrees:…
The $69 iPhone Apple Care we told you about is now live on Apple’s site. You can order online (free shipping) in order to extend your one year of complimentary iPhone repair service to two years. Telephone support, on the other hand, is still free for two years even without AppleCare. AppleCare is not available…
This hearing aid-like device called SpeechEasy helps relieve stuttering by the “Choral effect.” This effect, present when stuttering is reduced or eliminated when people speak or sing in unison with others, is replicated by piping a person’s own speech back into their ear with a slight delay and on a slightly modified frequency. This in…
Sony’s stealing a bit of Denon’s release thunder today with its Elevated Standard line of home theater receivers. Not only does it have Wi-Fi, like the Denon, there’s the PlayStation 3/PSP/Sony Bravia Xross Media Bar onscreen interface, six HDMI 1.3 inputs, Faroudja DCDi Cinema 1080p upscaling via HDMI, Sirius and XM satellite ready, Deep Color…
Most people may already be happy enough with 1 and 10 Gigabit speeds, but most people don’t stream HD movies or move around entire hard drives over their network. The Ethernet Alliance knows this, and has just laid out a roadmap detailing how they’re going to add 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit speeds to the…
Transformers fever is all but dead now, but that doesn’t mean that the ladies can’t get in on the something-becoming-something-else action. The Dos Caras jacket functions fine as a jacket, but when removed, can twist and turn and reconvene into a shoulder bag. Definitely cool, but kind of unfortunate that you have to pick one…
Motorola is the first major cellphone maker to officially plan on putting Microvision’s Pico Projector technology in future gadgets. The laser-based display engine is being placed in a prototype for now, using a 854 x 450 image. [Microvision via Oh Gizmo!] https://gizmodo.com/ces-2007-microvision-to-debut-miniature-projector-226157
The original NES controller is incredibly iconic, which is why it lends itself so well to being hacked and modded in any number of ways. Today’s entry in the NES controller mod-o-thon: the NES controller mouse. Sure, it doesn’t look like it’d be comfortable to keep your hand on all day, but come on! It’s…