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In our quest to someday live off the grid, here’s another device we’ve added to our list: Sunlight Direct hybrid solar lighting technology that collects sunlight on the roof and brings it inside with fiber optics. Once inside, that solar light automagically combines with your choice of the fluorescent lighting you see here, direct halogen…
In this corner, we have Motorola’s newest flip phone, the successor to the popular RAZR, the MOTOKRZR K1! In the opposite corner, we have the venerable MOTORAZR V3i, the phone that’s starred in more Entourage episodes than Kevin Dillon! And in the third corner, we’ve got the dark horse, the upcoming MOTORIZR slider phone. https://gizmodo.com/moto-krzr-unboxing-and-grope-207018…
If you’ve seen that classic movie A Christmas Story, this 4-inch nightlight will mean one thing, but if you haven’t, it will probably mean something entirely different. Either way, it’s good for a laugh or two, or maybe even a boner if you’re easily impressed. Remember, those (dreaded/cherished, insert one or both here) holidays are…
Addonics aims to make swapping hard drives as easy as changing floppy disks with its Snap-in SATA Mobile Rack. Mounted in a 5.25″ drive bay, it lets you hot-swap any 3.5-inch SATA hard drive. The rack itself is $26.95, buy a bunch of drives and you’ll be on your way to having unlimited storage. Sure,…
By Brendan I. Koerner I’ve got this uncle who’s just thirteen months away from taking early retirement. He won’t miss the work whatsoever—let’s just say it involves getting up at 5 a.m., and wearing a uniform—but he’s bummed about one thing: he’ll no longer have a tech support guy on call to deal with his…
If you’re looking for the fanciest range hood of all time, the Zephyr Elica OM Glass Hood might fit the bill. The 31.5-inch vent hood is available in black, red or white and has electronic touchscreen controls right on the glass. Its remote control sits on any flat surface, and rotating it controls the fan…
Robots are gonna rule the world one day. If they’re not cooking for us, then they’re out chopping weeds in a field somewhere. A group of engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently developed a solar-powered, weed-chopping robot. The high-tech killer, which uses GPS for navigation, stands a little over 2-feet tall and…
Mylo owners just scored a year of free T-Mobile HotSpot access. As anyone who has popped open their laptop in a Star*ucks knows, that’s a $30 per month value. We’ve been high on Sony’s personal communicator ever since we got the first look at it back in August. The only hangup was: How do you…
Sony’s SRS-BTM30 Bluetooth Speakers look like a pair of binoculars with the caps on, but don’t tell our beloved Commander-In-Chief. The two 48mm speakers inside are amplified with 3 watts of power for each one, and can play back 30-foot-distant sounds from any device supporting the Bluetooth A2DP profile. It’ll also connect with players using…
This is Microsoft’s first commercial for the HD DVD player that is slated for a release later this year for $200. Kind of cool, kind of cheesy—you be the judge. – Travis Hudson Xbox 360 HD-DVD Commercial [Techeblog]
Dell has announced this lower-end 20-inch widescreen LCD display, the e207wfp. It has a 1680 x 1050 resolution with a DVI input. It also has a 5ms response time and a price tag of $289. Three hundos for a 20-inch wide monitor, hot diggity damn! It should be available immediately—it’s not on the Dell site…
I got my hands on the Motorola KRZR. What can I say? You already know its the narrow, long followup to the now-classic Moto RAZR. The 1.9-inch screen is 176 by 220, and fair enough. The phone seems surprisingly hefty, in a good way. Yes, it’s so freaking shiny that it deeks out my DSLR’s…
Sharp is improving its in-vehicle LCDs, now touting what it calls an industry-high 1500:1 contrast ratio in its latest screen destined for dashboards. The 8-inch widescreen 800×480 panel has triple the contrast of in-vehicle LCDs previously released by Sharp. This is the next step toward the era where instrument displays in cars will resemble those…
According to our ever so sexy counterparts, Kotaku, both versions of the Japanese PS3 will not be bundled with HDMI cables. Rather they will have the bare essential cables bundled. Those cables being a power cable, USB cable, Ethernet cable and composite cables. No, not component, just a single, little yellow composite cable for the…
What a pleasant morning. I wake up to find Woot having one of their legendary Woot-Offs. Here, Wikipedia explains what a Woot-Off is pretty nicely. Go check it out and enjoy your Woots, kids. Woot
There are people out there still using pencils, and this is the perfect pencil sharpener for them. Stab the robot in it’s big, oily, mechanical heart, twist and not only will you get your pencil sharpened, it will also wind up the robot and he will walk a few steps. It’s pretty cheap, too—own your…
Our old pals at CrunchGear got their hands on a trio of Zune players yesterday, coming back with some cool close-ups and a Ken Burns-style video, too. No user interface shots yet, though—we’re told that’s still under wraps ’cause it’s a work in progress. For that, we’ll have to wait until November 14 when we…
Coca-Cola and Nestl will roll out Enviga in test markets in the Northeast US next month. The carbonated green tea-based beverage is supposed to be able to actually burn calories. Its blend of green tea extracts is said to boost metabolism, burning 50 to 100 calories per 12-oz serving. That’ll cost you, though, about $1.29…
At the same time it launched its latest Walkman S Series, Sony also rolled out three Sony NetJuke systems, giving you a place to plug in/charge your Sony digital audio player, store tons of audio files, play CDs and MDs (MiniDisc), and also transfer their content to the Walkman players. The M90HD has a 250GB…
This can’t be good news for those of us who fantasize about driving the Skycar, flying over traffic and thumbing our noses at the rest of the world as we jet along at 500 mph. Alas, the Moller M400X Skycar Prototype is for sale on eBay, its owners saying they’re trying to raise capital for…