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Here’s some good news for graphic designers who wouldn’t mind seeing how a prototype design actually looks on paper. The Xyron Design Runner is a tiny (about the size of a computer mouse) portable printer that prints directly onto various surfaces, such as wood and fabric, making the task of jazzing up birthday cards—or, if…
These are rubber wristbands that are being developed by Casio. Each wristband will contain an RFID chip filled with information of the said wearer. Step up to a workout machine and an attached PDA will read the RFID information and begin a personalized training session. Besides being able to control training sessions the wristbands can…
Another day, another average media center is being released, right? Eh, more or less correct. The e-box3 is powered by an Athlon 64 processor. The base model includes a 160GB SATA hard drive while the higher end model has a 260GB SATA hard drive. It has full PVR functionality with single or dual TV tuners.…
Our commute to work most days is the five inches we reach to get the laptop off of the bedside table and into bed, so we read stories about extreme commuting with great horror and begin to think things like the working WMF espresso machine Audi placed in the rear-seat console of its Roadjet concept…
Listen up you silly Europeans. Sky HD and Sony have teamed up to give you the chance to leap into the world of HD and receive 100 bloody pounds, to boot. The promotion begins this Wednesday, April 26 and you will need to first purchase the Sky HD box and subscribe to Sky HD service…
Following the Global Hawk into battle, the Air Force’s latest drones, the Penetrating High Altitude Endurance system, is designed for stealthy flying behind enemy lines. These drones are thought to be covered with radar absorbing material and are thought to be based on the Compass Arrow design created back in the 1970s. Strangely enough, it’s…
Logitech has been pumping up their V400 wireless mouse for quite some time now, nearly going so far as to claim that it will do your homework and wash your car. By far, the most hyped feature is its so-called dual laser engine, which is supposed to improve upon regular laser mice that take snapshots…
Finally officially announced at NAB 2006 in Las Vegas today, the RED ONE camera is the latest greatest project from Oakley founder Jim Jannard, a serious photography and video buff who owns about a thousand different cameras himself. The RED ONE is designed to be a modular, upgradable system, so users can add hardware, software,…
Today Sprint and Sanyo unveiled their latest phone, the SCP-3100 clamshell phone that is available in a rainbow of colors. Feature wise this phone is pretty average—speakerphone, LCD, camera phone, etc. But for colors, Sprint says it will be available in blue, silver, pink and espresso in the U.S. This retails for $199 straight up…
A friend of ours had a very one of his intricate drawings laser etched onto his Powerbook last year and we’ve been extremely jealous of him since, even though he probably totally voided his Apple Care. If you can’t afford a $7k+ laser cutter, or don’t know anyone with access to one, perhaps you should…
Not to be outdone by Netgear, which a few weeks ago announced its very own foray into the unexplored world of 802.11n Wi-Fi, Linksys today announced the Wireless-N Broadband Router (WRT300N) and the Wireless-N Notebook Adapter (WPC300N). No longer making grandiose claims of 802.11n’s capabilities, Linksys now says that the new Wi-Fi standard is “up…
OGIO has taken a page out of their golf book and adding a shling style strip to their line of laptop carrying bags. The shling has made carrying a golf bag much easier and more comfortable. The bag itself – completely empty – weighs an already hefty five and a half pounds. Add a laptop…
It’s Getting Better All the Time by Brian L. Clark I’ve bitched on several occasions about the high price of HDTV, particularly flat panel HD sets. Well, the tide finally seems to be shifting in consumers’ favor. Earlier this year, the price of flat panels for 32-inch LCD TVs dropped about 10 percent, from $540…
Get up to speed quickly with all the pre-E3 hype and video game announcements from Kotaku. Here’s what was most definitely goin’ on last week. E3 hype in full effect! We have tons of info coming in every day including release lists from tons of companies, plus some solid speculation from the Kotaku staff. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/bomberman-act-zero/the-games-of-e3-168226.php…
Product Design for the Elderly By Gretchen Anderson If we are what we use, then it seems the elderly people in today’s society are cranky, stupid and tacky. Of course, looking at products made for the elderly really says more about what product designers and manufacturers think the elderly are. Even as technology has gotten…
Philips spin-off Liquidvista is currently working on an electrowetting display. While this sounds like the light show you get when you pee on an electric blanket, it is not. Instead, it is a system that expands or contracts a drop of ink or oil under glass to draw one pixel. When contracted, the ink “disappears.”…
Skype’s had a deal to sell ringtones from Warner Music Group artists like Madonna and Green Day for a few months now, although we’ve yet to see them pop up on the Skype Store, and so the news that they’ve also signed a deal with EMI Music Publishing didn’t raise our eyebrows any—or at least…
Toshiba’s the official IT partner of FIFA for World Cup 2006, so it makes sense that they’d launch a limited edition laptop commemorating the event—but we sure didn’t expect it to be, you know, quite so gaudy. Slathered in gold paint and retailing for ¥199,800 (around $1,737), each of the 600 units has exclusive World…
This little bugger originally caught our eye because we were thinking how cool it would be to have a webcam that follows you around the room. Instead, we discovered that this fellow, the Live! Motion Webcam from Creative, just uses Creative’s face-tracking technology, which is pretty cool but not so cool that we would spend…
The new 17-inch model of the MacBook Pro just popped up on the Apple Store this morning. $2,799 will get you 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo processors, 1680×1050 screen resolution, 1GB (single SODIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, a 120GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive, a 8x double-layer SuperDrive, and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3…