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Last year, an audiophile review site run by a priest and a mathematician discovered the T-Amp. The $30 toy amplifier outperformed gear costing thousands more, sending sonic nerd forums into a frenzy. This new amp does the same, but it connects your audio source and speakers via a 5.8-Ghz wireless transmitter, good for 150-feet. The…
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Samsung’s just released a statement that the softness in video playback that some reviewers noted was due to an incorrect setting in the noise reduction chip. This setting, unfortunately for early-adopters, isn’t user accessible. That means their only choice is to wait until September—says Samsung—to download a firmware update that they can burn to a…
There are those times when you need extra support for your gadgets. Korean company Urban Tool made this nylon holster to carry a few of your precious close to your chest while you’re jogging. You know, so they don’t bounce around and hit you in the face. sportHolster [AVing]
We’re not quite exactly sure how to tell time with these things, but when you have the money to buy a platinum, gold, or 277 white gold covered watch, the other guy can wait for you. The Urwerk UR-103 watch has four satellite dials that swivel around and align with the “minute hand” on the…
This isn’t a ringer, per se. It attaches to your landline phone to allow you to turn off your phone ringer and still be alerted, via blinking light, that someone’s trying to get ahold of you. Perfect for parents of little babies, parents of teenagers who call late, and parents who just want to take…
Despite jargon blather about codecs, quality, and buggy review units, It’s hard to sort out the hardware between the two new disc formats; in the end, the one that still plays new releases 3 years from now is the winner. But today, here’s how many films are out for each. (Drumroll!) Blu-Ray has 14 flicks…
When we were kids, during the transition from the age of pushing a can with a stick to the age of home entertainment consoles like the Nintendo, Legos were one of the things that everyone could love. Here’s 10 of the coolest Lego structures built by adults that never grew up—or couldn’t, due to the…
Click to view This radio controlled jet beats the pantaloons off anything we ever had as a kid. The Gruapner Hotspot Jet goes up to 200MPH and has a Jetcat P80 turbine on the back. The best part is that actually sounds like a jet. Be careful buzzing little Susie’s house with this one—one wrong…
From the land that gave you tentacle porn comes the tentacle-like USB hub from Buffalo. Even better than the USB Rota-Rota Hub, this USB hub from Japan spaces each connector far enough apart so there’s practically zero chance of devices colliding with each other. https://gizmodo.com/usb-rota-rota-hub-187753 Convenient, yes, but not powered, so placing four USB hard…
The collective hive mind of Howard the Forum have hacked together a way to let you use a Motorola Q’s EVDO connection with your Laptop. The registry tweak in Windows Mobile 5 gets around Verizon’s typical Cockblockery, letting you use the EVDO connection over the phone’s Bluetooth link. Even if the Bluetooth link will bottleneck…
Back when we were young, lawns were for getting on instead of getting off, and DJs used these weird black things made of wax that spun around. Times are a-changing with the Numark D2 Director USB DJ rig. This sucker has a USB port on the front, two on the back, and an LCD screen…
Kotaku’s own video game sleuth and my personal fashion mentor, Brian Crecente, did a little investigative work to find out if Nintendo is repairing the broken hinges of Nintendo DS Lites. If you recall yesterday another Kotaku poll showed that 14 percent of readers’ DS Lite hinges were broken. So this is obviously quite a…
Nortel is going to be supplying Verizon with the new EVDO rev. A equipment, upgrading download speeds to a theoretical maximum of 3.1 Megabits per second (Mbps), and upload speeds to a theoretical max of 1.8 Mbps. Of course, theoretical means that unless you’re living or working within cancer distance of the tower, your actual…
We’d all like to be superheroes, but none of us are getting any stronger by sitting our asses in front of our beautiful, baby blog. That’s ok — you can follow this instructables.com tutorial to make your own Tazer gloves for $20 dollars worth of rubber gloves, tin foil, some AA batteries, and a disposable…
It was merely a couple months ago when we first heard word of XM stopping sales of some select XM receivers because of FCC concerns. The problems came because the emission levels of the FM transmissions were not compliant with the federal pound-me-in-the-ass regulations. Today Sirius told manufacturers of select receivers to stop manufacturing receivers…
The SCH-B450 DMB phone has a flip-and-fold feature that’s dubbed the “Free Folder” over there in Korea. You can play games or watch portable TV in the horizontal view, both of which runs quite smoothly thanks to the “1 million polygon” 3D game chip from Immersion. The screen is 2.2-inches, but the phone has a…
This Daily Show clip kicks the point through with a double-foot-to-face-stomp-of-fury that the internet is not a big truck. The clip stars our favorite Apple PC vs. Mac commercial actor and Daily Show “resident expert”, John Hodgman, and tells us in G.E.D. terms what Net Neutrality really is. The best part? The throwout to the…
I love rollercoasters. But the sunburn, long line, and puking, I can do without. Here’s a 1/87th scale Coney Island styled ride, at about 1 foot tall, for all the thrill of the ride without the…thrill. They were thoughtful enough to give it an electronic car lift, night lights, and a glowing sign. It’s classy,…