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Contrast Ratio Shoot-Out (Everyone Loses)

Pioneer lined up its newest plasma display next to top-of-line TVs from Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Sharp today. An interesting experiment, for sure. And it got everyone in the room talking about the same thing: contrast ratios. You can see why just by looking at the image above, which shows three plasma screens with power…

Tech News Noah Robischon

Comments: How to Make Them Hop

Do you feel like you’re talking but nobody’s listening? That’s probably because you don’t have a comment account. Here’s how to get one: 1) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom. 2) Click “New User? Here’s what to do.” 3) Fill in the comment, choose a username and password (the one…

Tech News Jason Chen

Wooden Midget Guitar and HDMI Cable for Non-Elites Coming to Xbox 360

Team Xtender just made an announcement today about two products coming in the next two months. The first is a half-sized Guitar Hero guitar that’s made out of wood and sized for midgets. They claim that it will be easier to carry around, but you’re not playing actual gigs with that thing. The second is…

Tech News Jason Chen

How to Sync Your Contacts with the Ocean

The Helio Ocean is an emailing machine, allowing you to manage a whole slew of email accounts at once. Also, Helio, unsurprisingly, would love it if you stocked up on their phones. You know, if you grabbed an Ocean for going to work and a Heat for going out at night. But what about loading…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Digital LED Fan Isn’t any Colder than a Normal Fan

This fan uses LEDs to display the temperature on its whirring blades. That way you can look over at it and realize just how hot it is and that you should have bought air conditioning instead of a gimmicky fan. Nice work, idiot. Product Page [via Book of Joe]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

High-Rez Transformers Pics Posted by Director Michael Bay

Whether you’re an Autobot or a Decepticon, you’ll certainly dig these high-rez pics of the Transformers that the movie’s Producer-Director Michael Bay has placed on his personal blog. And hey, you can clearly see that Megatron has pointy teeth! Now we can wait until July 4th (Transformers movie debut to the uninitiated) in peace. After…

Tech News Charlie White

Mozilla Prepping a Mobile Firefox Browser

Looks like our favorite Web browser is about to go mobile. Mozilla head honcho, Mitchell Baker, told the folks at APC magazine that Mozilla is working on a Firefox to go for your cellphone. It’s a long-term project (meaning it’s not coming out any time soon), but the goal is to allow it to work…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Dog Beats Man at Wii Tennis

We’re not sure how “real” this video is, but if taken at face value, it’s a dog beating a stoner-looking dude at Wii Tennis. Our guess? They probably rigged up one of those fake dog arms (like the fake cat paws) and strapped a Wiimote to it. Otherwise, this is the smartest dog we’ve seen…

Tech News Jason Chen

Xbox 360 Spring Update Fixes Washed Out VGA Display Problems

Remember all the problems people had with washed out colors on their Xbox 360 when using a VGA cable? Well, the Spring Update actually offers a fix to those problems, which came from different interpretations of black levels on HDTVs and PCs. Adjust the new settings in your display and you’ll be set. Xbox 360…

Tech News Jason Chen

Pong, Anytime, Anywhere

As part of the ECE 476 Microcontroller Design course at Cornell University, two students have taken the game of Pong and added a new twist. This version of Pong can be played on any flat surface using two laser-sensing paddles and a laser projector that projects the Pong ball. The entire project only set the…

Tech News Travis Hudson

USB Eraser Doesn’t Erase Data (Hopefully)

Sometimes the most simple shape can bring back a lot of fond memories. Remember the days of elementary school and the school supply lists? Call me a bit of a geek but I was always fond of the classic pink eraser and now it has been converted over to a more modern application in the…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Commuter Helicopter (1947)

This painting by Alexis V. Lapteff (1905-1991) is titled “Family Departing Visit with Grandparents in their Commuter Helicopter.” It was produced in 1947 and is featured in the Petersen Automotive Museum book, Driving Through Futures Past. See also: Flying Car Patent (1991)

Tech News Matt Novak

Samsung Developing Low Cost, Low Power HD Radio Chips

Samsung is tossing their hat into the ring of HD Radio with an announcement that they will be developing chipsets for this up-and-coming radio format. This is pretty significant because the chips being developed by Samsung are of the low-power and low-cost variety, therefore HD Radio may be able to tap a market that it…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Quick News: Sprint’s Lifesaving GPS and More

Hitachi is betting that you like your storage fast and portable with their latest drive the Travelstar 7K200. This laptop drive will give you 200 GB of storage at 7200 rpm, and it still manages to keep heat and power consumption down. A young boy has a new heart thanks to some quick thinking and…

Tech News Ben Longo

New BlackBerry Product Line

With the speed new gadgets come out, their clever names like RTU-4789r and the ever-dwindling time we have to keep up, we can all use a refresher course once in a while. So today we’re giving you a cheat sheet for the updated BlackBerry line. Once upon a time, you just owned one kind of…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Unique BBQ Grills for the Average Joe

You may think you are a badass for being a self-proclaimed “griller,” but once you round up the troops for a true summer party, the truth will be unveiled that your so-called “grilling” is done on a $50 Wal-Mart jobber of a grill. Any respect you previously thought you had is now gone. This is…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Nokia Phones Ask To Be Unplugged

When you leave your phone plugged in all night, it continues to draw power long after the battery is fully charged. Nokia launched a new initiative to program phones that send an audible alert when they are full up, so you can unplug them. The first phones to have the feature will be the 1200,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Invite to Launch of Motorola iPhone-Battler on May 15th

See that on the left of Derek? That’s an invite to the NY event, May 15th, 10 a.m., where Motorola saves its ass by unveiling something radically new by way of an iPhone-battling video focused device. The moneymaking RAZR line has lost its soul. With these countless variants, the last being a yawn-inducing purple model,…

Tech News Brian Lam

Wattson Wireless Power Meter In Action

Here’s a clip of a Reuters reporter interviewing Richard Woods, one of the designers of the Wattson energy meter. It’s still not clear when Woods’ firm DIY Kyoto will be mass producing them for the US market (we introduced you to a $600 handmade original over a year ago), but in these Gore-y times, it’s…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

The Helio Ocean’s Hardware Design Secrets

Along with the external hardware you’ll see in the shots below, the Helio’s triple decker mechanism has a special triangle-shaped spring that operates both the keypad and QWERTY. So interesting that MIT’s Tech Review put the phone on its May/June cover, along with a well-written and romantic feature, Soul of a New Machine, penned by…

Tech News Brian Lam

Contrast Ratio Shoot-Out (Everyone Loses)

Comments: How to Make Them Hop

Wooden Midget Guitar and HDMI Cable for Non-Elites Coming to Xbox 360

How to Sync Your Contacts with the Ocean

Digital LED Fan Isn’t any Colder than a Normal Fan

High-Rez Transformers Pics Posted by Director Michael Bay

Mozilla Prepping a Mobile Firefox Browser

Dog Beats Man at Wii Tennis

Xbox 360 Spring Update Fixes Washed Out VGA Display Problems

Pong, Anytime, Anywhere

USB Eraser Doesn’t Erase Data (Hopefully)

Commuter Helicopter (1947)

Samsung Developing Low Cost, Low Power HD Radio Chips

Quick News: Sprint’s Lifesaving GPS and More

New BlackBerry Product Line

Unique BBQ Grills for the Average Joe

Nokia Phones Ask To Be Unplugged

Invite to Launch of Motorola iPhone-Battler on May 15th

Wattson Wireless Power Meter In Action

The Helio Ocean’s Hardware Design Secrets

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