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Trunki Ride On Luggage For Post-Stroller Babies

Kids are cute, but suck while you’re travelling. They whine, they drag their feet, they throw food, and cry for McDonalds every…freaking…meal. One good way to shut em up is to pretend their luggage is a little race car, or giraffe, or a hearse. This is perfect for that, with a tow handle, a durable…

Gadgets Brian Lam

First Sirius Stiletto Promo Video

Slashgear’s got one of the first Sirius Stiletto 100 Promo Videos. Looks like they’re emphasizing that it’s portable, can do internet radio, record 100 hours of stuff, and play your own Coldplay songs. Could be an internet ad, but I guess they could go ahead and put this on TV as well. Hop on over…

Tech News Jason Chen

Other Bits and Bytes

•HP Spied on Own Directors [Wired] •Watching a Single Thought Form in the Brain [Technology Review] •AMD and Intel embroiled in government spat [The Inquirer] •Google Archives 200 Years of News [Feed Burner] •AOL Vows To Never Let Anyone Cancel [The Consumerist]

Tech News Travis Hudson

Cell Phone Call Recording Anti-Stalker-Ware

For all those phone calls that end with “that’s it, I’m getting a restraining order!” Dave Ciccone of Mobility Today points us towards LivePVR, a Windows Mobile call recorder. Yes, it has nothing to do with TV, making it stupidly named. But useful for catching interviews on cellphones, and collecting evidence against former loved ones…

Tech News Brian Lam

Samsung Announces Three Fast Response Time LCD Displays

Three monitors announced today from Samsung—two 19-inchers and one 17-incher. The SyncMaster 971P is a 19-inch “premium” monitor that has a triple hinge stand and a black bezel. It has a crazy pretty decent 6ms response time, 1500:1 contrast ratio, 178/178 degree viewing angle and a native 1280×1024 resolution. The triple hinge lets you contort…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Is there a PSP Phone Coming From Sony Ericsson?

The PSP seems like a platform that’s ripe for VoIP-integration. A powerful CPU, WiFi, and a relatively sizable user-base. Its young-ish users are also quick to pick up new technology. Plus, Sony’s phone brach, Sony Ericsson, probably could lend a hand or two in getting the PSP phone on its feet. So what’s stopping it?…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung t719 With BlackBerry Connect Coming Soon to T-Mobile

Just like the Samsung Trace t519, the Samsung t719 has a coming soon page up on T-Mobile today. The flip-phone t719 has some interesting features, like the BlackBerry Connect software inside to enable this phone to use BlackBerry’s push email. This means you don’t need a bulky BlackBerry if all you’re doing is shooting off…

Gadgets Jason Chen

HP LP3065 30-inch LCD Display

HP’s just announced their own 30-inch LCD display, taking on the likes of Apple and Dell in the monster LCD arena. HP’s LP3065 has a 92% color gamut, requires a DVI-D dual link graphics card that supports up to 2560×1600 resolution, and won’t have any component, composite or S-Video. It will have three DVI inputs…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony STR-DA5200ES Receiver has PSP/PS3 Menus

John Falcone, lone-star-gadget-sherriff at CNET, tips us off to his exclusive look at this Sony A/V receiver that uses, of all things, an onscreen PSP/PS3 Interface. The point? To let people configure the labels on inputs to say non-Sony things like Xbox, and make configuring the 7.1 channel monster by moving around icons, rather than…

Tech News Brian Lam

Apple Recall Batteries Rolling In Already

One of my two recall batteries arrived this morning. The first one was for my iBook G4 12″, that coincidentally was down to 8% battery life after about 30 months of usage. Readers should be getting theirs soon as well, quite a bit faster than the state 4-6 week turnaround stated when we filed for…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung 40-inch LED LCD TV

No, that’s not a typo, Samsung’s 40-inch LCD has LED technology. The LEDs are there for backlighting, and the technology got Samsung an “Innovation Award” from the European Image and Sound Association. The LEDs make the colors richer and is “46% improved” compared to previous models. The LCD itself has a 100Hz refresh rate, sticking…

Gadgets Jason Chen

T-Mobile’s Samsung Trace t519 Coming Soon

Remember the T-Mobile release calendar we posted about last week? Well, it seems that at one of those Samsung phones on that list are going to be released under the “Trace” label, just like it said on the list. What that means for T-mobile, we’re not sure, but the first Trace phone is the Samsung…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Dealzmodo Supplemental: Roomba For $103.99

How would you like your own red robot slave for only $103.99? Enter in “FALLSAVE” at the coupon code area and get an iRobot Roomba for $103.99. Will Smith sold separately. Product Page

Tech News Jason Chen

Burton Liquid Lounger Backpack Holds Playing Cards, Tunes, Chair, and Malt Liquor

This bag is technically snowboarding gear, but I think it has definite “animal house” applications. It fits a 12-inch laptop in a dedicated sleeve. But has built-in speakers, cd wallet, an amp, and an aux input jack. The frame folds out into a chair, so you can sit down after you’re all shitfaced from sipping…

Tech News Brian Lam

Gizmodo’s Charlie White Is Too Cool For School, Gets Crowned Cool Geek of the Week

Charlie, er sorry, I meant King Charlie just earned a spot on Born Rich’s Cool Geek of the Week. A guy whose face is under Wikipedia for “Cool Geek”—because he put it there himself—Charlie is connected in every way possible. How about a guy who automatically updates a website every five minutes, 24/7, using a…

Tech News Jason Chen

DIY “Bio-Hazard” Containment Cases for Mac ‘Books

With all this talk of keeping yourself safe from laptops, what have you done lately to keep your laptop safe? Electronic duo effect69 went to extremes for a Burning Man performance by building custom “clean room” containment for their Mac laptops. Constructed out of PVC and acrylic, the cases even include the requisite built-in rubber…

Tech News Peter Kirn

First iZ3D Three-Dimensional Gaming Monitor Reviewed (Verdict: Jason Can’t See In 3D)

The iZ3D is a 17-inch LCD monitor that’s actually composed internally of two displays, the combination of which lets you see games in 3D. How does it do it? Well, by connecting with an nVidia Geforce 7600 GT with two DVI outputs, the iZ3D takes in two separate desktop signals and places them a certain…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple OS X’s Built in Dictionary

Hey you guys might know this already, but Brian had no clue, so I’m passing it along. Press and hold Apple+Control+D over any word in a cocoa application (Safari, iChat, Mail etc…) and up pops a handy dandy Dictionary/Thesaurus. You can even move your mouse over any other word on the page and it will…

Tech News Ben Longo

BenQ C1000 10-Megapixel Camera

BenQ has unveiled an update to their C800 digital camera. Welcome the C1000. This thing has a whopping 10.1-megapixel CCD, 3x optical zoom and 2.4-inch LCD. This camera also has PASM, a feature that allows a wide variety of different shooting techniques. It even allows manual control of aperture and shutter settings. Damn, make it…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Multifunction Desktop Digital Frame

This is one of the few digital frames out there that I would consider thinking about possibly buying, if I had the extra money, of course. I’m not a big fan of this whole digital frame movement, but this one is a bit different because it is more useful. The Digiframe can store 22 pictures…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Trunki Ride On Luggage For Post-Stroller Babies

First Sirius Stiletto Promo Video

Other Bits and Bytes

Cell Phone Call Recording Anti-Stalker-Ware

Samsung Announces Three Fast Response Time LCD Displays

Is there a PSP Phone Coming From Sony Ericsson?

Samsung t719 With BlackBerry Connect Coming Soon to T-Mobile

HP LP3065 30-inch LCD Display

Sony STR-DA5200ES Receiver has PSP/PS3 Menus

Apple Recall Batteries Rolling In Already

Samsung 40-inch LED LCD TV

T-Mobile’s Samsung Trace t519 Coming Soon

Dealzmodo Supplemental: Roomba For $103.99

Burton Liquid Lounger Backpack Holds Playing Cards, Tunes, Chair, and Malt Liquor

Gizmodo’s Charlie White Is Too Cool For School, Gets Crowned Cool Geek of the Week

DIY “Bio-Hazard” Containment Cases for Mac ‘Books

First iZ3D Three-Dimensional Gaming Monitor Reviewed (Verdict: Jason Can’t See In 3D)

Apple OS X’s Built in Dictionary

BenQ C1000 10-Megapixel Camera

Multifunction Desktop Digital Frame

Protect Your Car Without Overpaying, Batteries Plus Makes Finding the Right Battery Size Easy and Affordable

WD 5TB Portable External Hard Drive for Mac Drops to $0.03 per GB Even After Amazon’s Spring Sale

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

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Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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