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TokyoFlash brings you The Scope, an LCD display watch that achieves new levels of geeky-cool, but how difficult does time-telling have to be before it gets to be just goofy? Press the scan control for the time of day, where The Scope springs into action, moving its x and y axis until it’s honed in…
Award winning brothers Christopher and Gregory DeSantis took the time to make a spec ad for the Apple iPhone/iTalk. The video has pretty good direction and choice of music, making this pretty Apple-like. Widescreen display, dual flip, large lens and scroll wheel on the back were all things the DeSantises decided would work well in…
These new Korean only KT landline phones, released under the brand “Ann”, do two notable things. One is sending an SMS to your mobile phone when you’ve missed a call on your home line. The second is recording audio if someone enters your home when you’re away, giving you evidence that you can eventually turn…
It’s a week and change before E3 and rumors are already flying. The scheduled outage of Xbox Live on Tuesday is leading some people to guess that Microsoft is finally releasing the update that allows people to download marketplace content in the background. This makes sense, seeing as MS providing loads of E3-related content on…
Gateway, like Dell, wants to make itself a contendor in the high profit margin area of gaming computers. But instead of buying Alienware, Gateway’s released the FX510XL, which got a score of 4 out of 5 from PC mag. The FX510XL comes with a 21″ LCD widescreen monitor, Logitech Z-5300e 5.1 speakers, 3.73 GHz Pentium…
A team of grad students at UIUC have developed a way for people to securely share their bandwidth with their neighbors. Called Practical End-host collaborative Residential Multihoming (PERM), the device allows users to choose the best internet connection available among the current pool, and alerts the connection owners if there’s any misuse with their bandwidth.…
3M was so sure their Security Glass was unbreakable, they put a large stack of cash behind it and shoved it in a bus stop. Great advertisement, right? Actually, it was only $500 of real currency stacked on top of fake money, and people could only use their feet to try to break it. A…
South Korean company DasaTech is looking to fill the robot-dog-void left when Sony discontinued the AIBO recently. Looking at the sample video, we can say that the Genibo’s motion isn’t very smooth — more like quick and jerky. Pretty much what you would expect of a robotic dog that hasn’t been a couple cycles of…
The Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP gets a video review demonstrating all the real time video manipulation features. Specs are: 1.3mp sensor with RightLight, microphone, and adjustable base. Even better — put glasses on yourself, change your hair to Elvis’s, and mask your face entirely to be a dinosaur or a pencil drawing. Much more features…
Lovers of cute things (and the Japanese) will snatch up this USB MyPet Webcam that comes in both monkey and puppy models. Supporting up to 640×480 at 15 frames per second, this webcam is perfect for the girlfriend that hates tech. Readers could also use it to spy on a victim who doesn’t know this…
Bought all your equipment secondhand from craigslist, or just frequently misplace manuals? Lifehacker has found a site that stores a bunch of manual PDFs for anything from antenna distributors to microwave ovens. Great for us impatient types that rip apart the packaging in a new toy and end up throwing out the manual with the…
Eager to relive the Hypercolor T-Shirt days of your youth? Pick up the color changing iPod Nano cases and flash back to the days of Saved By The Bell, Jordan before a championship, and Reebok pump sneakers — all while keeping your Nano free of scratches. With the Nano getting a size upgrade this summer,…
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader may look cool and be very useful in storing your passwords, but it’s lousy when it comes to working with Firefox. We found this out the hard way last year when we purchased a reader and it didn’t work a lick with Firefox. Now there’s a Firefox extension that allows a workaround…
Is the 5th time the charm for Sony? We’ll see later this fiscal year, which ends March ’07, when they release yet another digital music player to compete against the iPod. Sony hopes save their flagging audio player business, as its music player sales have across the board have decreased 6.2% in the last year.…
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For workers in a relaxed office environment, this “Slacker Chair” will make your entire workday like an afternoon in a bean-bag. Except you’re there in the morning too. And sometimes into the night. So it’s not really just an afternoon. You know what, just forget the whole thing. What we want to know is, does…
Freezing your freshly washed parts off as soon as you step out of the shower? With Aquavision’s towel warmer, you can wrap yourself in pre-heated goodness so you’ll never wake the dog with another loud post-bath sneeze. Not only does this warm towels, it also has a TV and a mirror. Bathe while watching TV,…
Motorola’s patent application for a Feng Shui measuring phone leaves us drinking our two-week-too-old milk in hopes that it will spurt us back into the real world. Alas, it’s not to be. Moto’s new theoretical phone will have: Three-dimensional Hall-effect sensor for measuring the strength of electromagnetic fields and to form a compass to determine…
We popped into Tumi’s Soho store on Prince the other day as part of our ongoing quest to find a new computer backpack and a very nice salesman named Andre showed us this, the new T-Tech Pulse Forsyth. Made of a high-performance hybrid nylon, the Forsyth is less bulky in person than this photo lets…
Those of you born in the 80s—or the 90s! You zygotes!—should probably feel free to just skip this post, but everyone else, if you had a Creative Labs Soundblaster card in the early 90s you probably spent more than a few hours in conversation with Dr Sbaitso, a program meant to show off the sound…