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Care for a bit of robotic chili? How about some robotic mashed potatoes and green beans? Thanks to Vita-Crafts RFID cookware you, too, can bland, tasteless, and mass-produced food in the comfort of your kitchen. Using chipped cookware and a smart cook-top, all you have to do start a recipe is drop one of the…
Yay! So now we can see what goodies we won’t buy along with our Samsung Q1 UMPC. First, there’s a sassy keyboard and then we have a charming organizer bag. Oh! And what about the car cradle… you know, for putting in your car? We’ve GOT to get that. Then there’s the ODD, which is…
If you’re expecting to see lots of Sony PlayStation 3 hardware at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo, starting May 10), don’t hold your breath. Sony has reportedly held back prototypes from third-party developers to show in their booths, leaving lots of game makers hanging. One source said the PS3 will be on display in what…
One of the knocks against Skype, the free VoIP service, is that you need to use a special phone that either plugs into your computer or acts as a standalone device. While this may work perfectly for people who have ditched their landline, the rest of us probably wouldn’t mind seeing some way to incorporate…
Samsung rolls out yet another slim cellphone, this one the credit card-shaped SCH-V870 that’s 8.9mm thick. That’s not quite as thin as its 6.9mm-thick brandmate that was also rolled out today but it still has a complete feature set, with a 1.3-megapixel camera with video recording, MP3 player, a memory expansion slot, mobile printing, and…
Fujitsu Japan announced its TX series of Media Center PCs, where both models feature a 37-inch 1920×1080 LCD with a Pentium-packing PC inside. The TX95S/D will have a Pentium D 820 chip running at 2.8GHz, with 1GB of RAM and a 600GB hard drive, while the TX90S/D has a P4 517 chip running at 2.93GHz,…
We know those car manufacturers are fast and footloose with MPG figures, but we had to take notice when we got word that the next Toyota Prius will be capable of 113 miles per gallon (in the UK, which is equal to 94mpg in North America). That’s more than double the mileage the best hybrid…
Not sure how this block of aluminum would feel in your pocket if you sat on it, but the Silver Wallet #1 has six slots for credit cards, driver’s licenses or IDs and can spit them all out with the push of a button. Its mechanical battery-free design has six of those buttons, each with…
We’re going to give this one a “Wow cool,” which we rarely give anything. Apparently these tiles act as switches and can be embedded in walls and floors (??). The entire system costs about $4,500 and currently appears in a home of the future called U-LAT made by manufacturer Tau Ceramic. Not sure where the…
I’m actually in the market for a new bag, so I was particularly excited by these 1600 cubic inch monsters. While they look like something one of our brave Minutemen would wear stuffed full of jerky, comic books, and Vitamin Water, it has enough street cool to warrant a second look. For the nerds it…
We’re thinking there must not be much of a need for grenades in Iraq, where the troops spend most of their time waiting around for car bombs to go off. Maybe that’s why there are a lot of surplus grenades floating around, and now they’ve been made into useful objects: oil lamps available in gold,…
TDK has begun shipping recordable Blu-ray discs to retailers, and the big news is their exorbitant price, $19.95 for a 25GB recordable disc. A rewritable Blu-ray disc will cost even more, $24.95. The company announced that later this year it will release 50GB Blu-ray blanks for $47.99, with the rewritable 50GB version selling for $59.95.…
Always losing your keys? Turn off the lights and you’ll instantly see them with the Neon Glowring key ring, and it doesn’t even need batteries. That’s because it works with a Gaseous Tritium Light Source (GTLS). Uh-oh. Isn’t that radioactive? Yep, that’s why it doesn’t need batteries, and its glow will be visible for up…
The slim wars rage on with Samsung entering the battle with its as-yet-unreleased X828 handset. How slim is it? Try 6.9 mm, beating out the KTF Technologies EV-K100 by a millimeter. Put that in the context of an 6.85mm-thick iPod nano. Now that’s thin. https://gizmodo.com/ktf-technologies-ev-k100-is-ultra-thin-162155 Even though it’s so small, it still has a 2-megapixel…
By now, everyone should be familiar with Boot Camp, Apple’s official solution to getting Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Word from the OSx86 Project is that someone who goes by the forum handle AirmanPika has successfully gotten Windows Vista to install on an iMac. Since Vista is still only in beta (and won’t be…
Have you ever thought your photos were good enough to use in a commercial? Well, Kodak thinks so too. As part of a new advertising campaign, Kodak will let you add your photos online to Kodak’s Gallery commercial, in which a tour guide leads a group of wide-eyed children through an exhibition with a mix…
Cardo made a pretty big bang a few years ago with these headsets that hung from your glasses. Looks like they’ve still got the magic. This little combo has a wireless headset and a little LCD dongle that hangs out near your belt. Not cutting edge, but cute. Product Page [Cardo via MobileMag]
Looks like it’s light out for Canon’s 20Da, a unique but short-lived digital SLR designed for taking images of the night sky. Canon will close the shutter on the 8.2MP 20Da as of April 21st to make way for the new Canon 30D, according to DigitalCameraInfo.com. There was no word yet on whether a possible…
Feature Tuning Fork https://gizmodo.com/tuning-fork-166171 Rumor and Speculation Bye Bye iBook? Rumor: iPod nano 5GB, 10GB On the Way? https://gizmodo.com/bye-bye-ibook-166297 News Rebuttal: CNET’s DRM Battery Test Refuted? Macintosh Ads Circa 1984 CableYoYo Pop and Wrap Microphone PC for Flash MCs Why Cry Baby Monitor Now Available Candle with Matchbox Hands-on With the Sonos ZP80 Bundle Lenovo…
According to CNET’s recent article, WMA DRM caused a 25% reduction in battery life in your portable music player. This seemed fishy to the guys at DAPreview, so they set out on their own test to see whether this shorter play time actually held true if the bitrates were the same in the WMA and…