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Reader Brian sent an email to Maglite inquiring about their 4-LED series that was promised “in 2006.” The result was an actual email sent by a human being rather than the canned ejaculate of a mailbot. Let’s listen in: Here is the schedule we plan to use to deliver our Mag-LED lights: 2, 3 &…
Pretty sneaky. Reader Torben sent us a link to a test server on Verizon’s website showing the Motorola Q in all her badged glory. Feast your eyes on her, friends, for she is majestic. Image Page [Verizon]
File these under the heading “Ummm… Duh?” iPodGear has some shots of real and counterfeit iPod shuffles and Nanos. While they wouldn’t fool anyone who has actually seen a Nano or Shuffle in their lives, it seems that someone has put a load of effort into making sure they are ripping of the ignorant with…
Can I get a “Yeah?” Look at this thing—it’s a wheelchair tank designed for all-terrain use. We think the story says it all: My wife, five kids and I were in a cabin in the woods. To our surprise a herd of elk came walking through our camp. My kids, having never seen an elk…
With iPods of all types running rampant across the globe we need to look back at the original iPod and its introduction way back in the day. Who would have thought that this brick of an MP3 player would soon evolve into a worldwide phenomenon. Kerry Bailey was a little saint and uploaded this video…
The Samsung SPH-V8900 is another slimline handset, this one a slider that’s just 13.8mm thick. Weighing just under 3 ounces, it’s packed with a 1.3 megapixel shooter and Bluetooth compatibility. We especially like the selection of models and pose for this attractive new cellphone. At first, we didn’t notice there were phones in the foreground.…
This week at Lifehacker: De-crapify your new Dell of all the garbage software it had installed on it out of the box. See a video demonstration of iAlertU, the car alarm for the MacBook Pro. DIYers, snugly encase a wifi router inside your Xbox. And if you thought you found all your Easter Eggs this…
If we could have a crush on a podcast, we would be totally crushing out right now all over the recently launched ReFrederator, which puts out a classic cartoon every single day. Some of them star the likes of Bugs Bunny, Mighty Mouse, Daffy Duck, Betty Boop, Porky Pig, Donald Duck and Felix the Cat—ah,…
As we gaze upon the budding Apple Store construction project known as Steve’s NYC Cube in midtown Manhattan, we’re wondering, what’s all the commotion? The five-story homage to Steve Jobs’s cube jones was obviously designed by the Apple CEO, who is apparently micromanaging the project. Word has it that titanium pieces that hold the Windows…
While Panasonic brags about having the biggest (plasma display), Samsung crows about having the smallest, fastest and highest-capacity memory card, this one a 2GB MMCmicro device for cellphones, an alternative to microSD flash memory cards. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-to-ship-103-inch-plasma-display-168180 The performance of these thumbnail-sized cards is impressive, too, at a 7.4MB per second read speed and a 7.1MB…
Meet the Hanaro Plus, the jack of all trades (of computer peripherals)—and probably master of none. It does so many things for €113.75 that we doubt it can do them all well, but oh, what we would give to see Ron Popeil come out of retirement to demonstrate this baby on TV for us. (Okay,…
Gateway is now shipping the E-100M ultralight laptop, but oops, it’s got an Intel Core Solo U1300 processor inside that Intel hasn’t even officially announced yet. The $1399 notebook looks pretty decent, though, weighing just 3.2 pounds with a 12.1-inch 1280×800 widescreen display. That semi-mysterious chip runs at 1.06GHz, working alongside 512MB of RAM and…
Muff recently launched the first three styles in their new Designer Muffs series, limited edition iPod covers created by up-and-coming Australian designers. Each one is handmade in Australia from printed polyester canvas outside with polar fleece and foam inside to keep your 5G iPod or Nano safe and sound. $17 + $6.50 shipping from Down…
Consumers needing digital archival media that really last, and we mean really last, will no doubt be thankful for Kodak’s new 24-karat gold discs. Although regular discs have a rated life-span of anywhere between 20 and 250 years, most of our backups from 1999 have already degraded to the point of unreadability. These new CD-Rs…
Still have an old camcorder hanging around? Is it expensive? Then Sony wants you to go to hell. They’re offering a trade-in on the SonyStyle website but, as some wise folks soon discovered, the deal was a bit weak. For example… Well…the calculator says my Sony DCR-HC90 in mint condition with all the accessories is…
Plantronics offers up a trio of wired earphones aimed at cellphone users, the MX203s, MX200, and MX250. The MX203s (pictured, $29.99) has an unusual under-the-ear design that’s supposed to be comfortable even while you’re running or walking. That button lets you switch from music to a cellphone call. The MX200 ($19.95) and MX250 ($24.95) each…
The recent trend of dual core CPUs in laptops is making its way into MP3 players in the form of the Teclast T19. One of the cores, the Telechips TCC 760, is dedicated to audio decoding. The other core, a Wolfson WM8750, is used to convert the digital signal to analog, which is piped to…
Brando is offering a converter cable to make all your internal SATA/EIDE devices USB 2.0 compatible. The cable works with all hard drives, CD drives and DVD drives. It’s no slouch on the performance side either, with a tested transfer rate of 165.3Mbps. The unit also comes with AC power adapters so you don’t need…
Broadcast camerapeople are like soldiers on a battlefield, and they need batteries that won’t let them down under fire. That’s why they’ve been some of the first adopters of fuel cells, and Jadoo Power has been supplying them with this technology for the past two years. At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show…
So we still don’t know when the Nintendo DS Lite is hitting the US—we were hoping for May (in time for E3) but many retailers have moved their shipping dates for pre-ordered DS Lite accessories back to June. If you’re itching to get your hands on one right now you’ll be happy to know that…