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Firefox 1.5.0.2 was released yesterday with security fixes and improvements to product stability, so don’t walk but run to download it. Those of you with new Intel Core processor Macs, this version comes in a Universal Binary with native support for your machines; The Apple Blog says, “If you load it on your Intel-based Mac,…
No screehshots yet, but we’ve got a crate-load of specs for the new PS3 OS which will be always available, like the XBox 360 Dashboard. Multi-User Voice Chat across all games, even outside of the games own UI – Multi-User Video Chat across all games, even outside of the games own UI – Notifications and…
The Amadana Cooking Timer is available in white or black, and shows you little pieces falling down that kinda remind us of Tetris, but not exactly. This is more like an hourglass than Tetris, and when the variously-shaped blocks fill up the display, your time is up. If that doesn’t float your boat, the timer…
Netgear has announced the availability of its latest Wi-Fi products. The RangeMax NEXT series of product that operates at 802.11n speeds. Being fast can be pretty damn expensive, The RangeMax NEXT Wireless Networking Kit Gigabit Edition—that includes a Wireless router and wireless notebook adapter—has a blistering $349 price tag. At least it is still backwards…
Maxtor is launching the OneTouch III Mini Edition on Monday. It is their first small-form-factor external storage device. It only weighs 7 ounces and it even comes fully loaded with software for managing digital content, backup, encryption, synchronization and system rollback. It is chock full of nice software and security features to be the ultimate…
TiVo went up against EchoStar in a patent infrigement lawsuit and won, with a jury awarding TiVo $73 million in damages. Why the lawsuit? When EchoStar put together its own digital video recorder for its Dish Network, TiVo cried foul, saying that its patent for a “multimedia time warping system” was violated by EchoStar’s DVR.…
Like a giant, autonomous Half-Life crate, the Crusher—and its little sister Spinner—is a rolling, intelligent battlefield delivery system. For example, the Crusher aka the UGCV PerceptOR Integrated (UPI) can wander along with a platoon and dispense rocket launchers like dangerous Pez. It can also right itself and carry its own payload and complete its own…
This may not look like a musical instrument, but it is—and a whole lot more. It’s a grid of 8×8 buttons that light up when pressed. A USB interface connects this thing to almost any sequencer or MIDI system and allows you to simply press the buttons to get a sound, change a setting, or…
ESPN’s Sanyo 900 aka the MVP is selling for $99 and, well, who cares? The $499 video phone sank upon release and it appears that ESPN Mobile is either updating the line or dropping the idea entirely, as this newly cheap Sanyo is available “while supplies last” which in carrier-speak means “we have lots of…
Nokia unveiled its 6175i CDMA handset, a midrange clamshell with a 1.3-megapixel camera as well as a GPS receiver. It’s loaded for music, too, where you can listen to its built-in stereo FM radio or receive streaming audio or video in a variety of formats. Of course, it’s Bluetooth compatible, and it has a 262K-color…
Samsung filed a patent application for a virtual screen for mobile phones, where the design has a tiny lens projecting an image in front of the phone on which you write with electronic pen. There’s a detector that determines the position of the pen and recognizes the characters you draw. That projected screen will have…
Here’s the way they design computers in Stockholm, Sweden: the Kapsel Media Center PC runs Windows Media Center with the help of an Intel Core Duo processor. It’s uncommonly small, at just 10.6 inches tall and 4 inches thick, and is made of an unusual shiny ceramic material. Made specifically for home theater use, it…
Feature Low End Theory https://gizmodo.com/low-end-theory-167012 Rumor and Speculation Rumor: Apple Video iPod Delayed Angel Labs Massive Yet Tiny Engine: The Little Engine That Could? https://gizmodo.com/rumor-apple-video-ipod-delayed-167049 News DIY Digital Photo Frame (Powerbook Version) Mini Catapult and Trebuchet Kits 2GB MiniSD + Symbian OS 9 + S60 3rd Edition Device = Good PixelClean: Clean Your Screen Star…
If you’ve got a Powerbook with snapped hinges lying around like we do, Instructables has a great step-by-step tutorial with photos on how to turn it into a hanging digital painting. Photo of stuffed Moose not included, sadly. Hanging Laptop Digital Painting [Instructables, via Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/diy-digital-picture-frame-part-2-167053
One of our favorite episodes of Junkyard Wars was the pumpkin-flinging catapult competition so when we saw these functional mini catapult and trebuchet kits we briefly but immediately wished we lived somewhere with a yard big enough to use them—the catapult can hurl things ten feet and the trebuchet twenty, so they wouldn’t be much…
We love reading employee blogs that talk honestly about their company and their products, instead of the verbose, often meaningless gushing we get in press releases. We were reading the See Into S60 blog today, written by people working at Nokia Technology Platforms, and were charmed to see one of them posting about being nervous…
We’re going to hope and pray that there’s something in this PixelClean juice than just water, because believe it when we say that dried blood and vomit are hard to wipe off of a glossy screen. That said, whose laptop couldn’t use a quick swipe with some strange liquid that removes fingerprints and smudges and…
Assuming any of you are actually smooth enough to get the object of your desires to come home with you, pour them a drink with the assistance of these Star Wars bar tools: Darth Vader the corkscrew, Yoda the wine stopper, foil cutter C-3PO and the handiest of them all, bottle opener R2-D2. They’re all…
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Vespa has developed two scooters that feature hybrid engines to give you even better gas mileage. The LX 50 has a 50cc gas motor and a 1000W electric motor. The Piaggio X8 125 has a 125cc gas motor and a 2500W electric motor. The addition of the electric motor will give a 25-percent boost to…