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Mad regimes like Crumpler only know one thing—coercion. To that end, they are holding a Beer for Bags event at their New York store where they will offer some of their messenger and laptop bags in exchange for cans of sweet, amber lager and ale. A selection of the company’s finest products, including the Barney…
The saga of Art.Lebedev Studio’s Optimus mini three keyboard goes on. The three-button device with OLED screens underneath each button, which the company says might someday be expanded out to a full keyboard, has been delayed again, now pushed back from June 1 to August 15, 2006, because of, according to its developer, “additions and…
There is a good news for the VoIP fanboys out there—yes, all two of you. The WIP300 and WIP330 Wireless-G IP Phones from Linksys are now available. The speeds of 802.11g provide high quality VoIP with clear voice communication. The WIP330 also includes an integrated web browser that can be used for any web based…
The emphasis is on music with the Sony Ericsson W850 Walkman phone, the company’s first GSM/UMTS slider. Equipped with the Walkman Player 2.0 which Sony touts as “easier to use,” it also includes Gracenote Mobile MusicID, a service that lets you record a few seconds of a song off the built-in FM radio or with…
The hype run-up to the Motorola Q continues, where Verizon Wireless taunts us with its flash-y site chirping about how the “weight is over.” We’re thinking the phone will be available next week, but there’s no evidence on this site revealing when we’ll see the “world’s slimmest smartphone” from Verizon Wireless, which will be the…
Sony Ericsson announced its W710 Walkman clamshell handset today, with a 2-megapixel camera and an MP3 player that’s fed by Sony’s Memory Stick Micro. This is one sporty phone that walkers and runners might like, where it has some GPS-like features such as the ability to measure your speed, distance and time. Sony bundles a…
News Ten Highest Radiation Cellphones MacBook Disassembled I-O Data 2TB External Hard Disk Logic3 i-Station 8 Speaker LCD iPod Dock Microsoft RingCam – 360 Degree Camera TomTom Go 510 Video Review (Verdict: Goes Decently) LaCie Encrypted Portable Hard Drive Shower Tanning LG L1900 19″ Monitor Lenovo Waterproof Keyboard Cheap Phone Customization – Cingular and Motorola’s…
Guess who has eight on this list? If you answered Motorola, give yourself a tumor cookie. And the cellphone with the highest radiation? The Motorola SLVR L6. You fellas should really get yourselves a bluetooth headset. Ten highest-radiation cell phones (United States) [CNET]
Do you go to the San Diego Zoo and wonder what the guts of an orangutan would look like sprawled out? Kodawari-chan (honorifically owned!) does, and he takes his love of dissection and directed it towards a MacBook instead. As much as we wince seeing a perfectly fine piece of equipment manhandled this way, his…
Mmmmm, digital storage. Made up of four 7200rpm, 500GB hard disks, this two TB external drive can store all those movies you took of booth babes at E3. In fact, it can probably store this year, last year, and all the years back to when E3 first opened. Of course back then, John Carmack and…
How many speakers do you need in your iPod Dock? 2? 4? You could not be more wrong. The answer is eight. You need eight speakers. And i-Station’s Logic3 is the one to bring them to you. What else do you need? How about a one line LCD, SVideo and composite output, AA battery and…
We can see these things being useful for security applications, or conferencing, or for, you know, an orgy. But we don’t think consumers have ants in their pantaloons for a 360 degree webcam. Made up of four cheap firewire webcams of 640×480 pixels each, the images are combined to make one large panorama pic. According…
Cinemazement has a video review of the TomTom Go 510 GPS unit. Actually, the video is more of a demonstration of the 510 than a review, but it’s interesting nonetheless. Their thoughts: bluetooth cellphone calling is mediocre but useful, driving directions are sometimes off, and the touch sensitive screen has easy to navigate menus. The…
Guess Lacie’s getting tired of making silly hard drives. Their new SAFE Mobile Hard Drive has biometric access (fingerprint recognition) that encrypts all the data on it with a 24-character passphrase. You can also set up access for 5 different users with differing levels of read/write permissions. https://gizmodo.com/lacie-lego-bricks-138934 Available now for $179.99 (40GB) and $339.99…
For those too modest to go to a nude beach to get an all over tan, there’s the Idrolux luxury tanning shower that, get this, tans while you shower. Two models are available, the Symphony, which fits into your current unit, and the Idrolux, which is an integrated replacement for your entire shower. Since you’re…
LG’s making some inroads into being a “cool” manufacturer. Sleek black frame, curved base, 4ms response time, 2000:1 contrast ratio, and a glossy finish all for around $589. Comes in 3 versions, L1900J, L1900E and L1900R, all with different lighting systems. Then again, what do we know about being cool? If we got back all…
Intern Travis just hates it when he spills the water from his smoking paraphernalia on his keyboard, and honestly, so do we. Lenovo demonstrated that their new keyboard technology can take a whole cup-full of water and keep on clacking. After reading all those lame comments on Fark—lol omgz you owe me a keyboard!!11eleven!!111—we think…
Remember those cheap phone $5 phone covers you got down at the mall in the ’90s? These phone tattoos are kinda like that, except they’re just stickers. A 3-pack of pre-made tattoos or a 4-pack of blank, printable ones are available for $9.99. You can make your own images or grab some from deviantart and…
How cheap can they go with mp3 players? Single digits? You got it. Evergreen makes a screenless mp3 player for $9. USB2.0 and 1 gig SD card support are both included. Who needs an iPod shuffle when you can get this for less than the price of a movie ticket in NY. Evergreen [via Trusted…
This week at Uncrate: We check out Dior’s icy Chiffre Rouge A02 watch, step back into 1988 with the Nike Air Stab, and give our shirts the pirate treatment with some Skull cuff links. We put the new Snow Patrol CD on repeat and get ready for the special edition Napoleon Dynamite DVD and New…