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Sprinters have just been rewarded with the new 1.3 megapixel LX350 phone from LG. Other notable features are speakerphone, bluetooth, voice dialing, and wireless backup service. SMS, T9 text input, external LCD, and location based services are all included. The LX350 is also compatible with Sprint’s PCS Picture Mail, so teens can take pictures of…
More f-ing iPod news today. The iPod PocketDock combo is a device that attaches to the dock port of your iPod and in turn, features a standard USB 2.0 or Firewire port. You can now connect your iPod Video and iPod Nano to any computer with those ports. That’s it. Seriously. That’s all it does.…
If people actually called us, we’d appreciate this Shower Clock Radio with Caller ID so that we never have to leap out of the tub when the phone rings. Not only can you see if your boss is calling because you’re in the shower instead of at work, there’s a radio and a clock too.…
Playlist has a feature up with the best suggestions for prolonging your iPod’s battery life. If you need to make your iPod last that extra mile via road or plane follow some easy tips. Turn off the nonessentials such as backlight, equalizer and soundcheck, avoid playing back large audio files on hard drive based iPod—larger…
Leave it to Sharper Image to help the lazy get lazier. This is the floating pool thermometer with remote display that allows you to check the temperature anywhere in a 433Mhz wireless range. So if you happen to be lounging around in your Swedish leather Laz-y-boy and can’t decide if you should take a break…
Alan over at Hacked Gadgets has compiled a list of the top five projects for a dead hard drive. A couple of which we have covered in the past but this is a nice comprehensive list for those tech junkies with some time to kill and a knack for taking computer components apart. Now I…
This week at TreeHugger: With further proof that the future is green, we report on the latest innovation in newspaper publishing, and it turns out to be gadget-related. Tech giants duel as Google goes green for Earth Day, and Yahoo! goes one better by investing in renewable energy technology. Not to be outdone, Microsoft ordered…
Nina Tolstrup has successfully completely the first step of creating the ultimate alarm clock. This thing has no tiny buttons or complicated setup instructions. Tilt it one way to turn the alarm on, tilt it back to turn the alarm off. And if you happen to lose your hockey stick, attach this to a broomstick…
Let’s give this one a chance, but we suspect that it will disappear into the ether quite soon. Sprint is offering an SMS-to-speech service to almost any phone. It works just like you’d think it would—you send an SMS and Sprint “reads” it to the recipient and allows them to reply with a text message…
This is a hell of an idea and I am surprised I haven’t seen it before. This portable DVD player has a slot in the lid for—gasp!—Game Boy Advance games. The fun doesn’t stop there, either. It includes multiplayer ports to hook up three additional Game Boy Advances, a DVD/CD drive, MP3 player, 10.2-inch screen,…
Those of you with cars, you’ll be glad to know Griffin’s finally gotten around to redesigning and updating their PowerJolt iPod Auto Charger. Not only is it not completely butt ugly now, but they include a second cable, for connecting to the iTrip or another mini-USB port device. https://gizmodo.com/griffin-technology-powerjolt-jolts-the-ipod-back-to-li-117558 The new and imrpoved PowerJolt works…
This week at Uncrate: We try to straighten out our pitiful drives with Nike’s new SasQuatch 460cc titanium driver. The birds in the backyard get fed with a hip Tiki Hut bird feeder. We eye the classy 837 sterling silver Compass from Tiffany and Co. Lots of scheming goes on about getting together $4K for…
If you’re anything like us, you have more than a few gadgets that you carry around with you all day, and you never know where to put them down or plug them in for recharging when you get home. The MultiPot, designed by Dante Donegani and Giovanni Lauda, is a bucket-shaped LED lamp with space…
The TiVo Series2 DT is, as its initials suggest, TiVo’s first dual-tuner model. We have one of these back at the office and didn’t get a chance to film and/or molest it, so we’ll just run down the goodies and give it a full hands on when we have a free moment next week. The…
Want to make your own tornado machine but you’re too lazy to hunt down all the parts? $120 buys you this neat Tornado Simulator Kit, which comes with building instructions, experiment ideas, and all the parts you’ll need to get going except an ultrasonic humidifier. If you don’t have one already the site will sell…
Sony released the 2.70 System Update for the PSP today, so if you’re still using yours—all of our friends who own one put theirs away again after finishing Me & My Katamari—consider downloading it through the PSP Browser over WiFi or from yourpsp.com. The three four key features of this update: 1. They never use…
People still buy CDT/CRT monitors? Not here in the US, but developing countries like China, Samsung is still finding a good market to unload its decades old technology. Measuring 50mm thinner than the previous model at 358mm, the SyncMaster745MS is the thinnest CDT monitor in the world. Isn’t that the same as calling someone the…
Maxell, a company that once made audio tapes so special and so cool that you only recorded your band on them exclusively and then, like, sent the tape around to all kinds of labels, like exclusively because it was so professional, has created an aluminum fuel cell that runs on water. According to the bastardized…
Look out Slingbox, SageTV has just released a $30 addon to SageTV 5.0 that lets users take their media with them anywhere, just like you do. The client application allows streaming of video, music and photos to any machine connected to the internet. The Placeshifter works with SageTV similarly to how Windows Media Extenders extend…
As Keeber pointed out in our comments yesterday for the MacBook Pro 17″ announcement, there’s something very weird going on at the Apple Store: if you have a 15″ model built for you to match the processor and hard drive of the base 17″ model, they both end up priced $2,799—despite the 17″ having, you…