Transcend 16GB Express Card: Fabulousness Comes at a Price
Transcend has a new 16GB Solid State Drive in Express Card form. It will do wonders for boosting your notebook’s hard drive capacity on the road while wreaking havoc in your credit card at the same time: There’s no official US price yet, but it is $1,337 in Europe, which actually is not that 1337.…
School Trades Books For PSPs While Students Keep Playing Nintendo DS
A school in Birmingham, UK, is to use PSP consoles in an attempt to motivate its pupils. Staff at Handsworth’s Holyhead Secondary School have been given two weeks’ training to learn to whup their students’ sorry asses at Grand Theft Auto create podcasts, download pictures and videos and upload their students’ work in subjects such…
Drybike Weathershield: Cyclists will Glove These
With a name that sounds like one of Frank Zappa’s offspring, the Drybike Weathershield will keep cyclists’ hands warm in the driving rain, hail, sleet and snow. Lined in fleece, these 600-denier nylon protective hand guards keep the windchill at bay, and have a reflective strip so that you don’t get Brokebike Scatteredteeth by a…
Samsung YP-K3 Reviewed, Almost Here [verdict: still not an iPod nano killer]
The launch of Yet-Another-Nano-Killer is imminent. Again. Maybe. Or it will be someday, anyway, because according to CNET, the Samsung YP-K3 is not it, even if it’s a “solid sexy player.” While they think it’s nice-o, with a very good design and simple interface, CNET says the touch- sensitive controls can be “challenging to use.”…
Japanese Wooden Automatic Butt-Spraying Toilet
Check out this new portable, auto-butt-cleaning toilet bowl from Toto. It has a folding top for comfortable sitting and controls on the side for a bidet, butt spray (strong), butt spray (soft), and most importantly, the OFF button. It’s made of wood (I have no idea why) and all the waste falls neatly into the…
