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Apple is slowly taking over the flash memory market; the iPod and iPhone account for 25% of worldwide NAND Flash production this quarter. [I4U]
We’ve seen plenty of these wearable computer displays in our time, but the Japan-only DataGlass 3/A Head Mounted Display is reinforced to be dustproof as well as waterproof. The 800x 600 DataGlass eyepatch connects and draws power via USB and, once plugged in, the wearer will feel as if a monitor is hovering in space…
She ain’t much to look at, but the Everex IMPACT GC3502 is a basic box, running a 1.5GHz VIA CPU, 1GB of RAM, 80GB of HDD and a DVD burner, and for $300 includes keyboard, mouse and speakers, but no monitor. Best of all it comes with Vista home, OpenOffice 2.2 and is free from…
Designed to help previous heart attack victims regain confident mobility, this unnamed prototype heart monitor takes frequent electrocardiogram readings and uploads them to a customized cellphone via Bluetooth. The phone is equipped with an ECG analyzer that watches for signs of impending heart failure. If your ticker stops ticking, your ECG is sent in an…
You ever wanted to play with yourself? A 12-inch version of yourself? Sure, who doesn’t? For the low, low price of $425, you can get a custom-made action figure that kinda looks something like you! And if you’re at all satisfied with the presentation, you can pay another $39.95 for each additional action figure. Think…
Instead of always having to remember to lock your desktop when you go for a whiz at work, this Security Ring by designer Yang Hai takes care of all of that for you. You put the ring on one of your fingers, and when it gets a certain distance away from the base station (which…
Although the Gomadic charge station, the Chargepod, the Mahogany charge station, or even the DIY charge station are good enough for us males, our wives may have something entirely different in mind. For them, the Bedford Smart Recharge Station from Pottery Barn could be just the thing to charge your gadgets and keep your decorative…
The iceBar moves the party stereo from the poolside into the pool, securely holding your iPod in a waterproof polycarbonate case. It floats, too, though it has a wrist strap if you’re worried about it drifting off. The nano’s clickwheel, power and mute functions are all accessible with the case on. The iceBar does have…
That hair feature I’ve been talking about for a while is finally up. Good times. If you’re wondering why there were no pictures of my shaven crotch, well, check on Fleshbot (kidding). I decided to save everyone the pain of having to look at that, even though Frucci and Travis really, really wanted to see…
The U.S. has commissioned an squadron of General Atomics’ MQ-9 Reaper drones like the one above, shown at Creech Air Force Base. The Reaper will do more than surveillance, carrying up to 14 satellite-guided Hellfire missiles that can cause some serious damage. Click for a super-high resolution version of the Reaper showing all its naughty…
Want to get great pictures of lightning without sitting outside all night? Check out this DIY lightning activated camera shutter trigger. It works by detecting really fast changes in light—which is either a lightning flash or your 2-year-old going nuts with the light switch—and triggers the camera shutter. The result is a convoluted way to…
Taking a note from the wearable pillow we ran a couple days ago, comes the glow-in-the-dark halo pillowcase from Apytyk. They’re taking the idea of Godliness and pillows one step past looking like a nun, by selling you your very own glow-in-the-dark halo. Showing off your santity while you sleep at night will run you…
The Palm Z Micro Plane is a lightweight flier controlled by infrared remote control. What’s really awesome is the plane’s bi-wing design and flaming paint job. Then there’s the remote’s tri-band functionality, allowing for three of the planes to fly in the same space, so you and your friends can trail one another under the…
This is still unconfirmed, but intomobile is claiming that the Nokia N93 will get a Transformers edition coming some time in Q3 ’07. It’ll be essentially the same as the regular N93, but include a Transformers game, some background images, and Transformers-ish ringtones. For those of you who actually saw the movie, there’s a scene…
Sanyo, not the first name you think of when you dream of GPS navigators, just came out with the NVM-4070, equipped with a 4-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, a SiRF Star III receiver, traffic, text-to-speech for reading off street names, 1.8 million points of interest, Video/Photo/MP3/WMA playback and an FM transmitter to get the nav and music…
There are good ideas, there are bad ideas, and then there’s 3D Mailbox. It looks like someone took the cutting-edge graphics of 1997, willfully ignored every trend and advancement in email and the internet in the past decade, and got the world’s dumbest venture capitalist to give them funding. Voila! Failure in its most pathetic…
We saw the Neonode N2 a couple of times this past year, even giving it a spot in our top 10 phones of 3GSM. But for such an eagerly awaited phone, we have to wonder why it was launched in Greece instead of the US first. No matter. Its touchscren, 1GB miniSD card, 2-megapixel camera,…
Xbox 360 hack changes DVD key and game region. [Xbox-Scene]
Leave it to Brando to fill in the hole of USB warming by providing an actual stainless steel camping-like cup to the equation. So not only does this USB cup warmer warm cups, it provides its own cup to warm. Other than that, there’s a four-foot USB cable, a lid, and an LED indicator to…
I am a surprisingly hairy man. All that hair needs the right tools to tame, trim and shave. The three devices up to the task? The Mangroomer, the Philips Bodygroom, and the Flowbee have been around for a while and are great separately, but this is the first time that we’ve seen their full power…