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If you’re going to go camping, go camping. Don’t use it as an excuse to play Xbox in the woods. This Eureka E! Powered Tent misses the point completely. Would it be kind of convenient to have outlets in your tent so you could plug in stuff like a hairdryer or your Blackberry? Sure. Would…
Click to viewTurns out the rumor was spot on. Sony’s officially announcing the Home—or PlayStation Home as it’s less confusingly known—feature for the PS3. We got a demo of it last night from Sony, and we can definitely say we were impressed. Very impressed. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-sonys-playstation-home-to-be-achievements-miis-240824 Sony’s taken the best of various community aspects and blended…
Pardon my anti-Blu-ray whoredom, but could this be a sign of the future? Amazon is clearing out a lot of their Blu-ray titles with discounts up to 50-percent off. Surprisingly, the movies aren’t crappy either. There are some good flicks in the list. Product Page [Via Bargainist]
Apparently these are headphones. I gather the arms are headphones that you can pull out and the body is a carrying case of some kind that you can clip on your shirt. Cute? I guess. Practical? Not so much. The Sega mu-bot headphones will be out in Japan come April 21st for about $25. Product…
St. Patty’s Day is coming up, which is yet another excuse to go get obliterated in celebration, and here is a gadget that can assist in the obliteration. This talking beer glass is the perfect for the person who always needs to be told what to do. It is also great if you have previously…
This week at Lifehacker: Supercharge your Firefox downloads with DownThemAll “When it comes to heavy duty download jobs, Firefox’s default Downloads manager just doesn’t cut the mustard.” Screenshot Tour: Share files with Firefox and AllPeers “The AllPeers Firefox extension adds drag-and-drop peer-to-peer file sharing to the comfort of everyone’s favorite browser.” Copy TV shows to…
The drawing above is of the proposed Palace of Technology in Moscow. There was a competition in 1933 to design the palace but alas, it was never built. The drawing below is of the Building of the People’s Commissariat of Heavy Industry. It was rendered in 1934 but it too was never built. You can…
CrunchGear did an investigation into the safety of tasers, and what they discovered is a bit troubling. Despite the fact that Taser International just loves zapping reporters to get themselves on the news, they also sue the pants off of anyone who does studies on the safety of their devices and gets results they don’t…
Imagine this Vending Machine Fridge right next to your favorite chair, and then substitute a dozen cans of serious brew instead of those pussyfied cans of sugar water you see in the picture above. Push a button next to your selection and after a few little bumps and grinds just like a real vending machine,…
In a big media event yesterday, which we unfortunately missed, Apple unveiled the iLaunch, according to The Onion. “Get ready for the future of product introduction,” said Jobs, looking resplendent in a black turtleneck and faded jeans. “The iLaunch will be able to make announcements from this, or any other stage, making human participation in…
Sony may have killed off the Trinitron CRT displays and said they were going to stop all production of other desktop-display LCDs, but that didn’t stop them from doing exactly the opposite of what said and announce the Luma series of widescreen desktop displays. The Luma series of LCDs will be focused more on the…
It won’t be ready till December, but the folks at the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) are already demoing the next version of Bluetooth dubbed Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. The feature we’re psyched about the most is near field communication. NFC lets you pair and transfer files/images from one Bluetooth gadget to another by putting them within…
Manufacturers of cheap flat-panel TVs, like Vizio and Olevia, could be partially blamed over the recent closing of 128 CompUSA stores and 70 Circuit City stores. Obviously, the low prices of the off-brand LCD flat panels have put a lot of pressure on the “premium” flat-panel manufacturers like Sony and Panasonic to drop prices to…
What? We haven’t been on a steampunk kick lately. This white-gold watch is the work of Vianney Halter. It comes in the familiar rectangular case and has rivets out the wazoo. This is your kind of watch—as long as you are into futuristic antique-looking steampunk watches that may or may not be comfortable. Steampunk watch…
Well, well. Look what those Japanese automakers are playing around with in the hybrid arena. On the left is what some wags are saying could be the next Toyota Prius, but for now it’s called the Hybrid X concept, loved by many but called such epithets as “jellybean” and “suppository” by others. Inside this concept…
With PMA 2007 starting tomorrow, in the middle of all those DSLRs and such are companies dying to help you deal with all that digital data spewing out of those cameras. Case in point is Delkin Devices, which just rolled out the eFilm ExpressCard 34 6-in-1 one adapter (pictured at left) and the eFilm ExpressCard…
Zenum is a company that does a lot of designing but no shipping yet, and here’s an example: the Zenum Organum, a music player that the company says will roll out by the end of this year. It’ll supposedly have a built-in mic, and will play back all the usual suspect audio files. Its 1.8-inch…
The same folks that bought us those leaked images of the BlackBerry 8300 (Daytona) are now bringing us the first video of the handheld. Granted, it only shows you the demo clip that comes loaded on the device (which is the same video that comes with the 8800), but it’s further proof that RIM’s got…
It’s hard to judge how big the FlipStart is even with a gallery with shots of it next to Brian’s hand (he has dwarf-like appendages, in case you were wondering). So here’s the UMPC-like device next to the businessman’s favorite love/hate gadget, the BlackBerry. In fact, business people are so familiar with RIM’s little emailing…
Finally, here’s a device to put an end to that dreaded attack of the moldy shower curtain once and for all. That mysterious physics-defying principle, the shower curtain effect, has finally been defeated by the ShowerBow, a flexible bow attached to a 1-pound pivoting weight, holding that slimy piece of plastic away from you and…