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This week at iLounge: The annual E3 expo isn’t just for games — we stopped by the show floor and checked out a number iPod accessories. Black is back in our First Look at Klipsch’s iGroove HG, which finds the curvy silver competitor to Bose’s SoundDock recast in glossy jet black with iPod nano compatibility.…
A couple of days ago we mentioned Samsung’s E500, a cellphone designed specifically for the womenfolk, and now we’ve found pics where you can actually see the handsets without all those distracting hot babes getting in the way. There’s a nice-looking mirror on the front there, which also functions as a screen. Here’s proof that…
Designer Peter van der Jagt from Greener Grass Design offers “Bottoms Up,” a doorbell that toasts your guests’ arrival with the charming ring of two fine crystal wine glasses. It uses a conventional electromagnet with a hammer on the end, clinking and clanging the glasses with the push of a button. We say it’s about…
Touch my exquisitely puffy tummy one more time and I will be forced to smash your grabby hands with my rolling pin. DOUGHBO COP! [Random-Good-Stuff]
For eons, scientists and their monkey progenitors have thought that the stars in the sky were innumerable. Not so, friends. Sega has created a planetarium that shows just 10,000 of the most important ones, including a red hot shooting star function, for kicks. The HomeStar—yes, we know, Strong Bad—costs $229.99 and lets you project the…
Sony is letting information ooze out about its Alpha digital SLR (DSLR) line, where we don’t even know how many megapixels its sensor has yet. We do have this picture, but Sony says the final version of the Alpha DSLR may not look like this. Sony and Konica Minolta started working together on this joint…
Something good has gotten into Dell. At E3 it gave us a sneak peek at its next-generation XPS gaming desktop, with an aluminum case that comes with either red or black accents, and leans forward as if it’s encountering a stiff wind. Gone is the stodgy fogey-ish design of previous Dell cases, replaced with a…
British design firm Sybarite aims to develop a modular treehouse concept that the company says could encourage a more organic approach to country living. The plan is to pre-fabricate modules of the house, quickly assembling a dwelling with up to five bedrooms. Situated just above the tree top level, the idea is based on a…
Here’s a little 8GB micro hard drive from PNY that looks kinda like a miniature attaché case. The PNY Maxfile Attaché has a tiny hard disk spinning inside, and gives you USB 2.0 speed in a form factor that’s 2″ x 1.75″ and just three quarters of an inch thick. Its anodized aluminum housing keeps…
Plug this USB foot webcam into your Mac or PC, and establish a foothold on the world—just don’t get too close or that foot might end up in your mouth. Its camera is probably just about right for webcam use, giving you 30fps at 320×240, or 15fps if you want to go 640×480. It has…
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We’re at E3 this week writing stories for our dorky pale sibling Kotaku and just spotted this pitiful Dell Inspiron in the press room, desperately wishing it was something it will never ever be. And yes, we’re totally typing this on our beautiful new MacBook Pro.
Sony and Panasonic have finally figured out a way to get content from high-definition camcorders onto DVDs without going to Blu-ray. Create another new format. Yes, if you aren’t already confused by the frustrating format wars between Sony’s Blu-ray and Toshiba’s HD-DVD high definition disks, here comes AVCHD also created by Sony in collaboration with…
This keyboard made its debut at CES back in January, but since then it has gotten quite a makeover with some new fantastic features. The Tarantula has added complete macro functionality. Any kind of macros can be bound to the outside keys on the left and right sides using Razer’s software. In addition to the…
You Mac users are a demanding bunch, so it’s nice to see companies support the new Intel-based Macs, even if it took them several months to get with the program. Skype is showing new Intel Mac users some love today with the release of version 1.4.0.49 (at least it’s an easy to remember numbering convention)…
The Korean company NAVIsis has developed a technology that can transform any old regular monitor into a touch screen monitor of sorts. Their EZ-Canvas is a pair of sensors that you attach to the upper corners of your monitor, and when combined with a special stylus and their own proprietary software, you can treat your…
Purveyor of high fashion for men, Thomas Pink is introducing what it calls the Commuter Shirt, a $140 classic men’s dress shirt available in blue and white with a few extras thrown in to help the commuting, tech-savy crowd out there. The gang at Spungle gave it a nice overview, but found a few faults…
Our friends and colleagues at sister site Lifehacker tried uploading a video to the YouTube video sharing service via a cellphone, and they tell us it worked beautifully. YouTube just rolled out the mobile upload capability, where you can easily e-mail cellphone video clips to the site. It looks like a fairly well-developed routine, where…
Panasonic says it’s working on a way to record HDTV images on SD cards, following the trail it has already blazed with its P2 solid-state memory cards for its DVCPRO HD line of professional-level camcorders. Using the SD memory cards, Panasonic plans to develop small solid-state HDTV camcorders for consumers. The company says the 1080i…