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The Rollei dx63 is a middle of the road digicam with 6.36 megapixel CCD resolution and 3x optical zoom, which is the 35mm equivalent of 35-105mm. There’s 32MB of internal memory with SD card support of up to 1GB cards for added storage. You can use it, like most mid-range cameras these days, to take…
This may be gone about 10 minutes after this post goes up, but this is a pretty good deal if you want 20GB of storage in a non iPod body. The iRiver H10 has 16 hours of battery life, a 1.8-inch screen, and supports MP3 and WMA. It also works with Napster, for those Napster…
With wireless taking over the world it is only a matter of time before houses and buildings have wireless relays integrated into rooms. This is where UStec comes in. They were granted a patent on their Wallport technology, which is essentially that. Integrated wireless relays in every room for better signals and no wire-y mess.…
Just when we thought our 15-in-1 card reader was fancy, this Sweex 53-in-1 reader comes and stomps all over our cake. The Sweex comes in both internal and external formats, and can read: • Compact Flash (CF I, CFI WA,CF I Picture, CF PRO,CF PRO II,CF I Elite PRO,CF Ultra II,CF I HS,CF I Ultra…
This concept toaster, most likely made due to too many burns from touching the toast too quickly, allows you to bake the contents and empty the toaster without hurting your hands. By putting the toasting mechanism on a tilt-able hinge, you can easily empty out the toast onto a plate after it’s popped—saving your finger…
Hell yes flowers like to rock. They are rockin’ out with their cocks out all night long. This planter speaker will help those flowers rock out just a little bit more than normal thanks to the integrated 6.5-inch 125 watt speaker. All of which is housed inside a pretty terra cotta planter that will make…
Palm’s GSM Treo, based off the 700w available here on Verizon, is set to hit Europe through Vodafone’s cellphone provider service. The first countries to get the GSM Treo Windows Mobile phone are the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Palm says the device will work on Vodafone’s 3G network and was hoping to…
We went. We sweated. We didn’t get a free SK3.
Some big players in the media world such as HBO are playing along with new media. The pay cable channel and creative leader has created a miniseries especially for Cingular mobile phones based on its outstanding half-hour comedy, Entourage. Each four-minute episode follows a storyline revolving around one of the characters in the series, Johnny…
iLounge snagged a Nike+ iPod Sport Kit and took it out of the box, giving us a good first look at how the system fits together. First we get a peek at the small red-and-white wireless 802.11 sensor/transmitter that fits into a pocket within the insole of those Nike shoes. A surprising revelation is that…
If you’re a denizen of late-night deck dining, here’s a creative lighting idea to enhance the ambience of your after-hours activities. This rechargeable 24 LED Umbrella Light can be clipped around most any umbrella pole, and you can point it down at the table or up into the umbrella for soft indirect lighting. The $79.95…
This is the latest in Stanton’s arsenal of next-gen DJ equipment. No longer will crates of vinyl be needed at DJ gigs, just pop the C.314 in and go to town. Stanton claims this device is user friendly, I just think it looks pretty. The large touch-sensitive jog wheel in the middle allows for scratching…
Apple has graciously decided to step away from its campaign to force bloggers to reveal sources of leaked information about secret products. Even though the first trial of this case was decided in favor of Apple, the Electronic Frontier Foundation challenged that decision in an appeals court, which ruled that the Cupertino Fruit Company couldn’t…
Skin Deep By Brendan I. Koerner There’s a classic moment early in John Carpenter’s They Live in which the protagonist (ably played by “Rowdy” Roddy Piper) first obtains the Ray-Bans that reveal the aliens among us. He notices one such E.T., disguised as a dowdy fiftysomething women, applying lipstick to her lizard-like visage. “Lady,” the…
You know your product is successful when its brand name is commonly used both as a verb and a noun. Such is the case with TiVo, where on last week’s Pimp My Ride, the show host kept talking about a “TiVo” that was most certainly not anything close to our favorite personal video recorder. Take…
HP will soon begin offering skins for their desktops, monitors and laptops. From the initial photos it appears these skins are more child-oriented with Batman, Tweety Bird and sports teams being offered. The stickers are vinyl and include an adhesive that allows them to be easily switched depending on the mood or even theme of…
Following up a post from yesterday, we heard a Target employee noticed prerecorded movies distributed on Sony UMDs (an acronym meaning UnMitigated Disaster, um, rather, Universal Media Disc) were suddenly absent from the store where he worked, and from other Target locations, too. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-sony-umd-movies-vanish-from-target-store-shelves-186796 Now our beloved brothers at Kotaku have found confirmation from another…
Similar to the Bikini Babe casemod and the wife torso casemod, this casemod combines two things that are dear to our hearts, women and computers. https://gizmodo.com/bikini-babe-case-mod-167671 This one though, however impressive the construction may be—software modeling, sand papering, painting, and more—is kinda weird. The girl’s positioned like a sexy maid, staring off blankly into the…
Ever since I saw my parents’ Rolling Stones Some Girls vinyl album back when I was a wee lad, I have been in love with album art. With the MP3 generation taking over, this artform was slowly becoming lost in a digital sea. Luckily, English designer Michael Kennedy shares the same passion and invented the…
Now here’s a form factor we can get used to, the compact Fujifilm FinePix F20, offering 6.3 megapixels, a 2.5-inch LCD viewscreen and a 3x optical zoom at an affordable price point. There’s also one-touch anti-blur image stabilization, a long-life battery that Fujifilm says will hold out for 300 shots, and it only takes 1.4…