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With the HD-XA1 already on the streets, what’s a Blu-ray marketer to do? I know this is a bit premature, but clearly we’ve got a first mover advantage thing going on here. Reports on the HD-XA1 have been mixed at best, but that really doesn’t matter. This mass-market player is a beast, but it’s the…
The red version of the Drip Shelf would probably look more sinister than whimsical against a dark wall instead of a light one, but we think it’s fun anyway. It’s available in white as well, but we’d like to get the black one and put it up on a black wall, the better to match…
We can see how cops and bouncers could use a breath alcohol screener this tiny to carry around, but if you’re at the point where you want something like the Alcohawk on your keychain for self-testing, perhaps you’d be better off having someone drive to you rehab instead? Alcohawk Micro [Q3 Alcohol Testing Specialists, via…
Cool yourself off with some eye candy from Antec. The FanPal is a USB-powered fan with disco lighting effects. It’s lit up with red, green and blue LEDs, and it moves 35.1 cubic feet per minute of air right where you want it. Add this trinket to your list of stupid USB tricks. Sure, it’s…
Dell tips its hat toward its new acquisition, Alienware, as it releases its XPS M1710 Gaming Laptop. Available in Formula Red or Metallic Black, it’s packed with an Intel Core Duo processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 512MB graphics, 4GB of RAM, SerialATA hard disk and a 17-inch 1600×1200 display. Doesn’t look too bad, either.…
CNN ran a Reuters piece yesterday on how sex and technology will evolve in the future, talking to academics, scientists, writers and businessmen, it’s a good read but fairly basic if you’ve been paying any sort of attention over the past few years. We thought what Gina Lynn, Wired’s “Sex Drive” columnist, had to say…
TechnoConcepts filed for a patent for its “True Software Radio” technology, an invention that supposedly eliminates background noise from cellphone calls. The invention is also said to “vividly improve voice clarity.” Sure, background noise is one problem with cellphone calls, but another is the amount of time it takes for your voice to get through…
While studies have shown that talking on a cellphone while driving makes you just about as good a driver as a drunk hobo, not one state in the US has banned cellphoning while driving. Yet. According to the Wall Street Journal, 26 states and the District of Columbia are moving toward banning cellphone driving in…
We don’t have any illusions about this product concept, but we sure wish it existed. The C’ALL future phone is a series of drawings and fanciful artwork by designer Dima Komissarov that envisions the all-in-one device that we’re craving, with a cellphone, MP3 player, GPS, hand-held Mac and PC, and everything else all crammed into…
There’s some talk that the new ROKR will have iTunes installed, something that everyone said would probably never happen again. However, because the E2 runs Motorola’s Linux-based OS, which in turn can run iTunes, it seems plausible. The original ROKR E1 flopped and rumors of Apple’s move to make a mobile phone means that manufacturers…
Here’s the latest digital audio player to come from Korean company, Woodi. It looks pretty and all, but it lacks support for a wide variety of media formats. It does support MP3, WMA, MTX ASF and WAV. What, no OGG, AAC? You’re bustin’ my chops here, Woodi. It has a 1.8-inch screen and weighs just…
The beauty of the Homebrew Computer Club, one of the first formal computer clubs in the country, if not the world, was that it kind of broke new ground. The state goal was to bring computing to the masses. The Homebrew Mobile Phone club, however, seems to have missed the boat. Phones are here and…
Sony is teaming up with the European football—soccer for you Americans—club, Arsenal to equip their stadium for HD goodness. Sony will be installing a HD system that includes 439 screens capable of streaming live HD content. Each display has HD receiver cards directly installed. The stadium will also hold 60,000 people. Now if only I…
The horse lamp looks really awesome but unless you live in a big space or have a seriously quirky personality, we imagine it would get real old real quick. The pig table we love and would actually use but we are indifferent to the rabbit lamp. Easter is over, no reason to cut the little…
Allen & Heath make sexy mixers and a number of famous names, including Pink Floyd and the Who, have twiddled the knobs of more than one of their handmade consoles. It appears, however, because each devices uses old-timey tubes and contains some lead, Allen & Heath might have to stop producing some of their more…
Oh man. I guess this is very cool, but I saw this thing at about 8am this morning and only just now got the guts to post it. As Medgadget points out, this robot “really delivers.” This educational dummy by Gaumard Scientific has an IV arm, multiple heart sounds, and virtual instruments as well as…
Formerly the bastion of builders, landscapers and real estate agents, now laser measuring fun comes to the (well-heeled) masses with the Leica Disto A5. In a form factor that looks more like a cellphone than a measuring device, the A5 lets you point its laser beam at any object and its exact distance is read…
Samsung is now shipping the 512MB version of its YP-U2 “Yepp” flash MP3 player in the United States, with a four-line inverse LCD display, voice recording and an FM tuner. If you want a 1GB or 2GB version, you’ll have to wait for those. Perhaps its most distinctive feature is a blue LED that gives…
If everything you’ve done in life, you’ve done in style, why go to your grave in an unattractive box? For $3,500 you can get yourself the high gloss Uono Cocoon Coffin, in your choice of fourteen standard colors (or you can use their Haute Couture service if you’d like to pick another) . Even crunchy…
The Sony Walkman DBP-FX810 and D-VE7000S look like UMPCs, but don’t be fooled: they’re DVD players, pure and simple. The D-VE7000S has a 7-inch screen, and plugs into a docking station with speakers. The DBP-FX810 has an 8-inch screen and a folding form factor. But Sony, hello? So what if they have the Walkman nameplate…