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Strange… we can’t find these anywhere else but the seem so delightfully cool. This speaker set is completely wireless—the sub-speakers don’t even have power cords. While the link a kind reader sent us is translated from French, it’s almost impossible to find anything else about this set. See, paragraphs like this: Among the obstacles with…
Compared to most of the phones that Japan is currently using, the Blackberry is like giving stone tools to a technologically advanced race of super beings—it’s a nice sentiment, but they’ll probably prefer to stick with their warp drives and ninja holograms. Anyway, DoCoMo may be working on a Japanese Blackberry interface and that the…
This is a bit roundabout, but it’s interesting. IC testing house King Yuan Electronics Company, which tests chips that go into the PSP and the Xbox 360, is currently testing a great number of PS3 chipsets, thereby improving their overall financial standing and proving to us that the PS3 should be hitting the streets very,…
Oh, ho, ho, ho. What will small companies think of next to get a mention in USA Today and freak people out? Secure Networks is offering a free service called SecureSingles which allows you to punch in a few pertinent details about your next date and, if things don’t go so well or your date…
How much is a bowl that holds ice cubes, five bucks? How much is that same bowl, but with blue LEDs and fog effects? Apparently, it’s $60. If you really need to have your ice be 2000 Flushes blue, or love fog, this is for you. For the other 6.6 billion people in the world,…
Turns out those rumors of Sharp being the manufacturer of the Sidekick III were true. The FCC’s website coughs up the goodies again, with details that it will have a 1.3 megapixel camera, bluetooth, IM software and expandable memory in the form of some type of SD card. We can’t say exactly when it will…
This new Iomega Network Attached Storage (NAS) device is more connected than Skynet. With gigabit ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports, wireless 802.11G networking, your Desperate Housewives bittorrent downloads are available anywhere you have a connection. On the storage side, RAID 0, 1 and 5 can be configured to support four 250GB hard drives, which makes…
Readers who use their iPods in the gym know just how poorly the stock headphones fit. Sennheiser’s new “Sport” line of headphones are aimed at you and your fit buddies at the gym. With features like magnetic earpieces that clip around the neck, 3 sizes of earbuds that twist for better fit, extension cables, you’ll…
The classy broads over at Simon Fraser U in Canada have come up with a purse to keep forgetful dames from leaving the house without their important items — cellphone, keys, wallet, iPod, lipstick, or anything they choose. The purse works by having an RFID reader inside that knows when each item is inserted by…
In honor of the Maker Faire going on this weekend in nearby San Mateo, here’s a DIY project to track someone from an ordinary cellphone. Using the $100 kit from Mologogo and a $6 a month data plan, a java enabled phone will upload its GPS coordinates to the Mologogo server every few minutes. You…
If Natalie Portman’s character in V for Vendetta had this safety alarm pedometer, she would have never met V and the movie would have been 10 minutes long. The Sportline 334 is a regular pedometer — tracking your steps and counting your calories burned — but it also makes a 100db noise to alert bystanders.…
When some Wong is selling bootlegs of your product on the streets of Nanjing for 6 RMB (75 cents), your only choice is lower your prices. Warner Home Video is offering a trial run of the DiCaprio flick The Aviator for 12 RMB ($1.50). This relatively low price is achieved by packaging the disc in…
Apple has announced a nice upgrade to their recycling program. Starting in June, new Apple computers purchased either online or at a Apple Store will receive free shipping and eco-friendly disposal of old PCs or laptops. Also announced is that the fifth generation iPods—including the video, nano and shuffle—are 100 percent compliant with the RoHS…
Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Muste,r is reporting that Apple will be launching an 8GB and 10GB iPod nano this summer. Who is to blame for this new release? The touchscreen iPod, of course. Munster says that Apple needs to launch some lucrative in the meantime while the touchscreen iPod is delayed until likely next year.…
This project is from the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, Italy. It is similar to an oversized webcam. The wall of virtual bricks recreates the image recorded from a webcam. So, walk up to the piece and get turned into a 20 feet by 13 feet monstrosity. This would be great to use with Skype,…
Are you skinny, but married a fatty? Sony’s new patent for bathtubs allows the interior walls to become wider, narrower, deeper or shallower at will. Their powers come from the strong flexible polymer walls that are backed with elastic cushioning panels. There’s no chance of spillage due to a water sensor that measures how full…
Remember the days of the square-shaped mouse with only two rectangular buttons, with not a mouse wheel in sight? Those things were pretty torturous to use for any extended period of time, mainly because of their unforgiving design. Perific hopes to eliminate that problem with a new wireless mouse/trackball that forgoes feature bloat in favor…
We may have reported on news of a white PSP almost a year ago, but now it’s finally here. That is, if you don’t live in Europe. For reasons unbeknownst to us, Play-Asia is refusing to ship it there. If you really must have it, open up Craigslist Tokyo and offer an otaku something in…
Acer announces an upgrade for its 32″ LCD HDTV line today with the AT3205-DTV. The his model improves on the previous AT3202 by offering both HDMI and DVI connections and support for HDCP. The press release states that viewers can watch a digital broadcast while recording an analogue one. We’re not sure if that’s a…
When you see a road submerged in four feet of water, what should you do? The answer is definitely NOT to try to go through it, as one or two UK motorists learn each day. Listen, just because your satellite navigation is right most of the time, doesn’t mean you need to listen to it…