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Hummer HT1 Phone Gets 9 Miles Per Gallon

Oh, look, a regular phone that’s very expensive because it’s got some car company’s logo on it. This time it’s a Hummer, one of the more deplorable car brands out there, and it’s got the great “feature” of having a camo finish on it. If you’re in a jungle, it’ll make you look like you…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Get a Remote Control Outlet, and Never Get Up Again

You don’t need an elaborate and expensive system like X10, Insteon, or Lutron remote switches to control the world, not when you have one of these $19.95 Remote Control Outlets with its accompanying IR remote control. Whatever’s plugged into it gets instant off/on remote control, and you can get up to three extra outlets for…

Tech News Charlie White

Coke’s Still Cool: Launches Mobile MySpace Knockoff

Straining to prove it’s “with it” to keep the youngsters slurping down high-fructose corn syrup loaded soda, Coca-Cola’s launching a mobile social network for teens. The Sprite-branded, cellphone-only network (because Sprite’s more extreme? Why not just bring back Surge? Actually, please do—Vault sucks.) will let teenyboppers post profiles, pictures and hook up with other sugar-addled…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Robotic Piggy Bank Eats Money, Gives Me Nightmares

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I can ever sleep or get an erection after watching this robotic piggy bank do its thing. Seriously, eating your coins is one thing, but designing the face like a demonic orangutan baby? That’s not cool, guys. Totally not cool. Product Page [Strapya World via Tokyo…

Tech News Jason Chen

Did You Buy a MacBook Pro in Late May?

If you bought a Macbook Pro during the tail end of May, there’s a good chance you can return it for an upgrade to the much nicer Santa Rosa powered LED backlit models. Specifically, if you bought your laptop within the last 14 days and want to pay a 10% open box restocking fee, you…

Tech News Ben Longo

Sony’s Souped Up TZ11 Reviewed: Ultraportable with Muscle and Outstanding Battery Life

The guys at Stuff UK got their hands on Sony’s new VAIO TZ and from the looks of it, they might never let go. The 11.1-inch ultraportable has a 9-hour battery life, an LED backlit screen and packs enough muscle to fly through Vista Aero. The system passed all of their tests with flying colors,…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

An Insider’s iPhone Hands-On & New Details

A proven inside source of mine points me toward his posting on a forum describing his hands-on with the iPhone. Here’s are his non-fanboy impressions along with some new details: •”It does have email and it is already set up for AOL/GMAIL/HOTMAIL etc.. and you can use your own POP email address.” •”Not worth the…

Tech News Brian Lam

OMG There’s a Curtain at an Apple Store!!!

Gumshoe Richard Blakeley heard through the grapevine that something was afoot at the Cube Apple Store in Midtown Manhattan, so he headed up there to see what was going on. What he found was a big black shroud covering something he couldn’t get access to. When he tried, he was accosted by jackbooted Apple Store…

Tech News Adam Frucci

First Location-Based DS Game Hits, and We Want It

Plundr is the first Nintendo DS game that uses your location to affect how the game plays. Figuring out where you are using Wi-Fi positioning, the game gives you different “islands” to go to based on your location, and “depending on where you are in the physical world, you’ll find different islands, different market prices…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Apple TV Profit Margins Not As Obscene as Most Apple Wares

On top of not selling so well, even when Apple does manage to unload an Apple TV, apparently they’re not doing so at the slam-bang profit margins they’re accustomed to. Masters of component/cost analysis iSuppli broke down the parts of the Apple TV to estimate that Apple’s pumping at least $237 into each one—and that’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Red Zune in the Wild (Again)

Contrary to popular—belief thanks to other blogs dumping on the Zune whenever they post about it—there’s actually interest in Microsoft’s player. And thus, there’s actually people getting hyped up in the red Zune. This time a lucky reader Steve got his hands on an actual red watermelon Zune. No, it’s not the same one we…

Tech News Jason Chen

X-Keys Give You Shortcut Buttons on Your Monitor

X-Keys are a strip of shortcut buttons that you stick on your monitor and assign macros to using software, allowing you to quickly do tasks you do frequently with the push of a single button. It’s pretty neat for people who use programs like Photoshop all day and do macroable things, but my repetitive tasks…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Hanging Harry Light Pull Gives Your Room a Touch of Gloom

Most light pulls brighten up your room. Hanging Harry, on the other hand, darkens it up. The suicidal light pull comes with a limp, lifeless body and 6.5 feet of string/rope. It’ll appeal to your morbid sense of humor (or make everyone think you’re weird). It goes for $15, which is a lot cheaper than…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Asus Wooden Laptop Prototypes Give Us Wood

Asus opened up the doors to the woodshop to make three gorgeous laptops for the Computex Taipei 2007 show. Although company reps say they don’t have any specific plans to actually sell these PCs, they’re part of a skilled design exercise that shows an delicate interplay between craftsmanship and tech. Take a look at the…

Tech News Charlie White

Xbox Controller Makes Iraq Like a Video Game with No Respawns

Apparently, being really good at gaming on your Xbox 360 might prepare you for more than a lonely life in your basement yelling at 13-year-olds while wearing a headset. According to this photo, soldiers in Iraq are using Xbox controllers to control SUGVs (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles) that go out on patrol and keep soldiers…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Robotic Display Mount Makes Life Easy

This motorized screen mount can tilt and swivel that flat panel display so that every seat in your living room can be the sweet spot. It fits displays from 37 to 63 inches, and give you 7 degrees of tilt up and 25 degrees down. The right-to-left swivel action is a full 56 degrees, too.…

Tech News Charlie White

HTC Touch Live Sizemodo

We aren’t lying when we say the HTC Touch, HTC’s newest finger-touching phone, is the smallest and thinnest Windows Mobile Professional phone we’ve seen. The obvious reason being that HTC’s taken out the slide-out keyboard, but everything else that’s good in the world seems to be intact. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-adds-finger-groping-to-windows-mobile-6-265912 Take a look at the gallery to…

Tech News Jason Chen

MSI GX-600 Overclocks with the Push of a Button

If you can’t wait around long enough for Intel’s new mobile gaming chips, check out MSI’s GX-600. The Core 2 Duo-based laptop has a “turbo” button, that when pushed automatically overclocks the system by 20%. Push it again and you’re back to default. Aside from that, the 15.4-inch notebook has some other tricks up its…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Press Meetings on June 11th?

For some really weird reason, I’ve been invited to half a dozen press meetings scheduled to occur next Monday. Which is insane. You guys know what Monday is for geeks and tech writers, right? Next Monday is Apple’s WWDC keynote. We never miss it, and nearly no tech journalists in town miss it. And judging…

Tech News Brian Lam

Intel’s Mobile Core 2 Extreme Will Give Lappies a Shot of Adrenaline

Mobile gamers listen up. Intel’s prepping a mobile version of their Core 2 Extreme processor. It’s expected to give laptops (gaming laptops in particular) a nice shot of adrenaline without zapping your battery (Intel claims the dual-core CPU will have energy-saving features). It’ll use Intel’s Santa Rosa 800MHz front-side bus, though actual clock speeds are…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Hummer HT1 Phone Gets 9 Miles Per Gallon

Get a Remote Control Outlet, and Never Get Up Again

Coke’s Still Cool: Launches Mobile MySpace Knockoff

Robotic Piggy Bank Eats Money, Gives Me Nightmares

Did You Buy a MacBook Pro in Late May?

Sony’s Souped Up TZ11 Reviewed: Ultraportable with Muscle and Outstanding Battery Life

An Insider’s iPhone Hands-On & New Details

OMG There’s a Curtain at an Apple Store!!!

First Location-Based DS Game Hits, and We Want It

Apple TV Profit Margins Not As Obscene as Most Apple Wares

Red Zune in the Wild (Again)

X-Keys Give You Shortcut Buttons on Your Monitor

Hanging Harry Light Pull Gives Your Room a Touch of Gloom

Asus Wooden Laptop Prototypes Give Us Wood

Xbox Controller Makes Iraq Like a Video Game with No Respawns

Robotic Display Mount Makes Life Easy

HTC Touch Live Sizemodo

MSI GX-600 Overclocks with the Push of a Button

Press Meetings on June 11th?

Intel’s Mobile Core 2 Extreme Will Give Lappies a Shot of Adrenaline

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

Forget Tower Desktop, GMKtec Mini PC Drops to a Record Low as Amazon Clears Out Final Spring Sale Stock

‘Fallout’ Season 2 Was a Hit Despite That Unsatisfying Release Strategy Change

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

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You Too Will Learn to Fear the XenoFrog

Amazon Echo Dot Sees Its Last Price Drop in the Spring Sale, Final Hours Tick Down Ahead of an Uncertain Prime Day

Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

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Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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