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Pointing your speakers in specific directions is overrated. Enter the Modal speakers. The speaker enclosure is on top and aimed upwards. Supposedly it allows the sound to radiate unobstructed and more balanced—as long as you don’t mount it on the ceiling. They are available in woofers and speakers. You could easily just lay your current…
Intern Travis here. As an avid classroom laptop user at my humble university I am intrigued by the latest news of professors banning laptops in the classroom. Some professors supporting the ban include June Entman at the University of Memphis and Charles Mooney at the University of Pennsylvania—Mooney has had a ban on laptops going…
After a Something Awful denizen took apart his MacBook Pro and discovered that Apple had slathered on far too much thermal grease, he found that using a more modest amount dropped his MacBook Pro’s temperatures by several degrees. Now the forum has recieved a threatening letter from Apple’s legal staff, requesting a link to this…
We’ve seen a bunch of audio equipped furniture in the past and today we have another. The rumble seat was designed by James Owen and has one subwoofer, two mid-range speakers and four tweeters integrated into the small ottoman-style seat. It can be AC or battery powered and can support any kind of audio device.…
Motorola announced yesterday that they plan to acquire BenQ Mobile’s research and development center in Denmark. The facility features high-tech measurement facilities such as antenna chambers and environmental laboratories. “This transaction provides Motorola with another highly skilled R&D team and high-tech facility with a proven product track record,” said Ron Garriques, president of Motorola Mobile…
We’re suckers for a good piece of toast, and this concept design would be able to make every piece of toast perfect. It uses heated glass to toast bread to perfection. Inventables, the design company behind this masterpiece, says that currently the glass doesn’t get hot enough to toast bread, but maybe in the future.…
While this isn’t a “real” product, it seems pretty cool. It’s a self-contained emergency kit complete with generator, a propane battery, and a trickle charger. There’s also a first-aid kit in there, for when the rest of the stuff suddenly explodes. Designer Page [VonHeifner via Yanko]
Listen up gamers: all those LCD ghosting concerns are diminishing with monitors like this. Samsung has unveiled the SyncMastermagic CX919B. It is a 19-inch LCD monitor that boasts a beautiful 2000:1 contrast ratio and 2ms response time. I can’t wait to give this a hands-on test with some good ol’ porn gaming. Samsung unveils 19″…
Audio-Technica has announced two odd-looking headphones. The ATH-EC700 and ATH-EC700Ti provide superb sound on a 10Hz-to-24kHz range and 100dB of audio goodness. The only difference between the two is that one is made of aluminum while the other is made of titanium. They have a bit of a stethoscope look, but that’s okay because it…
Dell, HP and Lenovo have announced their support for the new PC display port standard, the DisplayPort from the Video Electronic Standards Association. This new video port, which has legacy support for DVI 1.0, is intended to help solve the problem of displays sucking up too much electricity and should benefit the next generation of…
Say good-bye, Goodyear blimp. Your ride is now obsolete. Lightship unveiled this beast of a blimp at the NAB broadcast conference last week. It has a massive 30-foot by 70-foot LED screen that displays over 30,000 pixels. During the day the screen is limited to a single color for visibility reasons, but at night anything…
This week at Lifehacker: We kicked off our Coolest Workspace Contest with a DIY door-turned-tabletop, an adjustable sit or stand desk and more. Submit pictures of your tricked-out rig for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to Amazon! https://lifehacker.com/lifehackers-coolest-workspace-contest-win-100-at-ama-169129 Also: automatically add an image of the camera model used to shoot photos on…
We had a sketchy report forseeing Sony’s next futile flail at creating an iPod rival last week, and now we have details about it. We were right, it’s a USB stick-like player. Looking a lot like a cheap Bic lighter, it weighs just under an ounce, it’s available in a variety of colors as you…
Here’s another USB peripheral, this one for those whose cubicle smells like the shithouse door on a tuna boat. Dream Cheeky brings you the USB Aroma Diffuser, which keeps that scented wax and oil at a constant temperature, kicking up some powerful sniffage. Surround yourself with pleasant aromas, and you’ll think pleasant thoughts. Yeah, aromatherapy.…
Ever since the Web found its way into every Tom, Dick and Harry’s hands a few years ago, there’s been a slew of dimwitted startups that have failed miserably. Who could forget CyberRebate.com, where they charged insanely high prices for items but then offered a series of rebates that would often nullify the high cost?…
If you’ve accidentally deleted digital photos from a memory card, there’s a way to bring them back to life. Our company cousins at Lifehacker point us to a solution that involves PC Inspector Smart Recovery from Convar, free downloadable software that dredges up those deleted images from the depths of hell and delivers them right…
Fujifilm has developed what it calls Real Photo Technology, aiming to take that speckled and smudgy noise out of poorly-lit images. Soon to be incorporated into Fujifilm’s FinePix V10 (pictured here) and the upcoming FinePix F30, the company says the technology makes images “more vivid and realistic.” Looks like this Real Photo Technology is marketSpeak…
TiVo-using Mac heads should feel pretty confident about the future of the DVR company’s support for the computer that Jobs (or Woz, depending on whom you talk to) built since they just released a Universal binary of their Desktop software for Macs. The bump to version 1.9.3 doesn’t really bring any other sorely missed features…
Skype released a beta today of Skypecast, VoIP software that lets you conduct a live moderated conversation with up to 100 of your closest friends. It’s a free preview, where you, as god of the Skypecast, get to control when people talk, and you can even eject obnoxious participants if you wish. Skypecasts can be…
Don’t expect to saunter into your local mall and pick one of these babies up, but Nokia is shipping their RIM-beater, the E61, to a few select folks. Not much detail, but we do know: “First deliveries started late last week. It’s gradually becoming available across the globe,” Pekka Isosomppi, spokesman for Nokia’s Enterprise division,…