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This isn’t a hard drive per se, but it allows you to hook your PCs hard drive up to your 360 and shuttle data back and forth with reckless and hacker-like abandon. Plus it has blue LEDs, which means it’s good. The XSATA attaches to your XBox hard drive and turns it into a USB…
The latest news out of the media event of the season, also known as the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, is that Apple is in preliminary talks with in-flight entertainment providers to license its iTunes media store for commercial airplane use. Several airlines are already investigating the possibility of putting iPod docks or USB ports…
In what can only be seen as the international business equivalent of a raspberry, China Unicom announced its own mobile push email service called the Redberry. CU hopes to lure local Chinese businesses with its lower princing and blatant disregard for brand ownership. Less than $1USD a month for 5 megabytes of data on its…
We’re suckers for a good sob story. Whether its a dame who’s husband has turned up missing with the deed to the family manse or a kid, Stefan, with an old 450MHz ThinkPad, we’re suckers for folks in trouble. That said, let’s help this kid out. He wants to buy an iMac for $2,375 and…
Details are sketchy at this point, but this PixelShade lets you create digital patterns and then it projects them on the inside of its cylindrical shape. The phosphorescent lamp shade can display images, text, or anything else on its surface, and it’s easily modified, too. The lampshade was shown at a design exposition in Milan…
TDK confirmed that it’s working on a 200GB Blu-ray disc—that’s four times the capacity of the largest first-generation dual-layer Blu-ray blanks that are just about to be released worldwide. TDK already showed a next-generation four-layer Blu-ray disc with 100GB of storage in May of last year. No target date was given for the release of…
If you’re considering breaking up with TiVo now that lifetime subscription is almost gone for good (the deadline for signing up was extended to April 15th, by the way) and other commercially available DVRs just don’t strike your fancy, the exceedingly crafty Adam Pash over at our most organized of siblings, Lifehacker, put together a…
BenQ announced a few new members of its Joybee portable music player family, including the E520 (left), an MP3 player with a built-in Bluetooth module. Link it up with your cellphone, and it can stop music playback when a call comes in. It has a 65K color OLED display and supports MP3, WMA and AMV…
Bike racks are usually horrid black things that not only take up loads of space in your hallway but uglify it. We know New Yorkers who’ve spent twice or thrice as much on folding bikes as they would on regular ones because they didn’t have enough space to store their bikes in their apartments or…
Some might call this fish-shaped MP3 and WMA player by Toshiba cute, though we call it just downright goofy. Hidden underneath the fish’s tail is a USB 2.0 connector, and it has 512MB of flash memory in its belly. An LCD panel is underneath and on the sides are transport and volume controls. Plug your…
Rumor and Speculation Next-Gen Prius: 94mpg, 0-60 in Under 10 Seconds? Rumor: Sony PlayStation 3 to be a Low-Show at E3 https://gizmodo.com/next-gen-prius-94mpg-0-60-in-under-10-seconds-166462 News The Latest in Advertising Technology It’s Potty Time DVD Lenovo Gets Retaily at Best Buy Mini-Fridge Case Mod Rechargeable LED Lamps Sentinel SafeScout: Camera Phone Home EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger…
Who needs popup ads and banner ads all over the place when you can just slap a jacket on a sheep and call it good? These hotel-supporting sheep showed up in the Netherlands. Expect Gizmodo.com cattle coming to a Kansas feed yard shortly. 20 Minutes [Via We-make-money]
Just when Duke University was almost in the clear with bathroom-related incidents they pull another rabbit out of the hat with the It’s Potty Time DVD that was developed by the Duke Medical Center. The manufacturer, Potty Training Solutions, explains it pretty well: https://deadspin.com/duke-dna-bomb-drops-166439 It’s Potty Time, shows all the steps of using the bathroom…
In the biggest twist-of-the-year Lenovo has agreed to sell Thinkpad notebooks and the 3000 series PCs at Best Buy. Also being sold in the Best Buy/Lenovo bag’o’tricks is the ThinkCentre desktops. Best Buy is already hocking HP and Gateway computers, but the addition of Lenovo branded computers actually might make the Best Buy computer section…
This project was completed with a $200 budget and most mini-fridges will run your $100 or less, but this is a nice addition to any geek’s setup. Paying two times as much to be two times cooler? I think it is worth it, just imagine how many ladies you could get with this. Essentially it…
Rechargeable LED lamps are fantastic to have around the house because they give off soft light just like candles, but you can leave them anywhere you like without worrying about burning the place down. The Rotondo (left, above) is one of three mouth-blown glass LED lamps Lightology sells for $125.10, all of them are water-resistant,…
This kind of stuff has been around for years, but until now it’s been prohibitively expensive. Now, for a mere $199 and a monthly fee, you can feed your paranoia with a webcam that sends images and SMSes to your cell phone AND blasts out an audible alarm. We’re a surveillance society, and it’s only…
This week at TreeHugger: We delve into how to get rid of computers and other electronic gadgets without the toxic chemicals, carcinogens and heavy metals coming back to haunt us. Plus, we sit fireside for a chat with Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug In America, a plug-in and electric vehicle alliance, about a gasoline-free, electricity-full…
Sony is adding six new models to their Bravia line over in Japan. They are adding three new models to their V2000 series, 32-inch, 40-inch and 46-inch models. Additionally Sony is adding three models to the S2000 series, also 32-inch, 40-inch and 46-inches. All of them features a 1,300:1 contrast ration, 8ms response time and…
We kind of love how the copy for the Stainless Egg Odor-Eater reads like an anti-perspirant/deodorant commercial: “Chop onions and garlic with confidence!” For $11.95, this metal egg will sit in your kitchen looking vaguely like an exotic, expensive sex toy and will supposedly let you remove pungent smells from your hands just by picking…