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Ever want to spend $5,000 to be able to use an ancient technology to create an effect that hasn’t been cool for 10 years? This will do it. The Horseman 3D is a non-digital camera that will create 3D images. No, this isn’t a new age 3D, it is the same damn 3D that has…
Hot off the presses from Lik-Sang comes the Joytech portable 9.2-inch HD LCD for the Xbox 360. It provides beautiful 9.2-inch HD goodness along with SRS 3D surround sound gaming. Don’t fret, oversea-ers. This LCD is compatible with PAL50, PAL60 and NTSC. It is available for $180 and shipping now. Product Page [Lik-Sang]
Napster announced yet another iteration today, allowing users to stream over two million tracks on their ad-supported website and to share links to artists, albums and even specific songs through email or on other websites. Sounds good, but in practice it’s not so wonderful. Catch #1: you can only play each track a maximum of…
Listen up, Richard Nixon wannabes. Now you’re able to record everything that you see with these incredibly inconspicuous video spy glasses. There’s a built-in CCD color camera, giving you, Mr. Paranoid, a respectable 92 degree viewing angle. It’s powered by eight AAA batteries and has 350 lines of resolution. Paranoia comes at a price, however,…
If you’re a MobiBLU aficionado, now here’s a minuscule companion speaker for the diminutive MP3 player that’s exactly the same size as the MobiBLU DAH-1500. When you plug in its retractable miniplug, the result is an unusual sculpture that’s a study in cubes-on-end. Or, you can use the little whipper-snapper with any audio device. It…
With the video game event of the year happening next week, the Kotaku crew gets you up to speed with the latest rumblings on the home entertainment front. The biggest earth-shattering news bomb came in the redubbing of the Nintendo Revolution to the Wii. Yes. Just Wii. Not a joke, not a hoax, but an…
Some forum junkies at notebook forums have a little information about the beautiful and graphically appealing Dell XPS M1210 notebook. This 12-inch beauty has Nvidia 7300 or ATI x1300 graphics, Intel Core Duo processor, Bluetooth, internal optical drive, and the other usual slew of options on laptops. It is good to see a gaming laptop…
Details are sketchy at this point, but some of the specs of this LG XCanvas 47-inch LCD TV caught our eye, such as its quick 6ms response time. We would like to see a bigger hard drive than its 250GB unit built in to accommodate its digital video recorder capability, but it looks like it’s…
Although it’s not recommended for Mother’s Day, you might try out this raunchy double-sided gift wrap on some unsuspecting gentleman, where one side has a mild-mannered striped pattern while the other is, uh, porn-infested. Just as we like it. It’s $5.50 for a super-sized pack. Product Page [Sick UK]
Whether your gadget-buying experiences at Best Buy have been pleasure or pain (ours have tended towards the latter), you’re probably familiar with the uniform their employees wear: royal blue shirt, khaki pants, black shoes. New York-based prankster group Improv Everywhere decided that for their latest mission, they’d get about fifty of their operatives to dress…
Accelerating the indignities of airplane flight way beyond what any of us could have imagined, now Airbus Industries has proposed a standing room concept, apparently the next step toward sliding passengers into drawers resembling a morgue, or packing them onto layered plank-bunks reminiscent of 17th-century slave ships. It’s not enough that the average space between…
Despite MacBook Pros being underclocked in an attempt to keep them from searing the skin right off your thighs, they still get uncomfortably hot. Interrupting Moss over at the Something Awful forums did some research to find out why and now says that Apple got “a little excited with the application of thermal grease to…
There aren’t many drive-in theaters left in the US—none near NYC—so Bryan Kennedy decided to create MobMov, a drive-in theater that drives in: Participating in a mobmov is very similar to attending a drive-in from the days of old, except now the projector is located inside and powered by a car, and the audio is…
As announced last month, ABC launched its streaming video service today, offering a two-month trial that lets you stream full episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost, Alias, or Commander-In-Chief for free. We gave the a new service a try, and it actually looks pretty good, giving you a “full screen” option that shows you a standard-definition…
With electronics manufacturers constantly striving to make everything smaller, here’s the latest shrinkage, a pointing device destined for handheld devices, cellphones and such, called MicroNav 360. This OEM pointing device is 10mm square and scarcely thicker than 1mm, which makes it about the size of your pinky fingertip. We were just wondering, what’s the problem…
The graphic to your left depicts the Aer-O-Scope, a self-propelling, self-navigating endoscope. In English: the Aer-O-Scope is a machine that automagically crawls up your butt and through your colon, transmitting live high-resolution video of what it sees. Yes, it’s disposable. And no, you can’t buy it for home use. The G.I. View Medical Imaging Solution…
We told you about the Seagate Barracuda 750GB internal hard disk, and now it looks like the company has dressed up that drive in a techno-fantabulous enclosure, offering it in external trim for a hefty $559. https://gizmodo.com/seagate-reveals-750gb-barracuda-hard-drive-168719 The 3.5-inch 7200RPM hard drive uses the latest perpendicular recording technology, and can be hooked up via USB…
Here’s another great-looking phone from Samsung that we can’t have yet, or maybe never—the SCH-V890/SCH-V8900 is a slim slider with a 2.2-inch display and a 1.3-megapixel camera with an LED flash. Just 13.8mm thick, the $525 phone also includes a navigation service which will give you real-time traffic information, and it can play MP3s, too.…
If you simply can’t be without your TV even for a minute, take it with you out by the pool with the Outdoor Entertainment Island. Stocked with a JVC 42-inch plasma display that rises from within the island a la Jay Leno, it’s got a quartet of six-inch surround sound speakers with built-in sub and…
Sure, there are digital cameras with WiFi capability, letting you send your photos directly to the mothership with no muss or fuss, but now Eye-Fi has found a way to retrofit anything using a flash memory device for WiFi goodness, where its Eye-Film WiFi-equipped 1GB flash memory card will sell for about the same price…