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This slab of silicon can detect when your friends and family are lying to your face. Using two unique technologies, Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) and the Voice Stress Analyzer (VSA), the Truth Detector glows red when a speaker is under stress. The resulting readout allows you to asses their truthfulness and helps you decide whether…
Livin’ that vagabond lifestyle? Here’s an idea from Swiss designer Kurt Thut whose benefits become immediately obvious. Just don’t sleep on it without a mattress. If you like this, there’s also a bookcase that carries on the same collapsible porto-theme. Foldable bed and shelf [swissmiss]
Motorola and Skype have put together the Motorola Talk and Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit, a Bluetooth headset for Skype phone calling that doubles as a pair of high fidelity headphones. The kit includes a pair of Motorola HT820 stereo headphones that connect to Motorola’s PC850 Bluetooth USB adapter. Motorola says the headphones work seamlessly…
Hitachi introduced its Wooo 9000 HDTV Series (we’re not kidding, it’s actually “Wooo”), PVR-toting plasma or LCD HDTVs with two digital and two analog tuners built in. You can get any of these displays without the 250GB hard disk if you don’t mind being at the mercy of television network programmers or feel like waiting…
Adding a little color to your bath just got a lot cheaper. Until the $20 Aqua Glow Tub Light became available, if you wanted to enhance your bathing experience with chromatherapy you’d have to pay $8900 for the Kohler Sok chromatherapy bath. The Aqua Glow Tub Light is a waterproof fixture made of ABS plastic…
Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD) has a booth at CTIA and is reminding everyone to mark their calendars for the start of their tiered registration periods for .mobi domain names. May 22nd is the Limited Industry Sunrise, when members of mobile industry organisations get to register their domains. The Trademark Sunrise starts June 12th, and…
It’s those little annoyances that, bit by bit, diminish your quality of life. Here’s one of them: shower curtain rings sticking to the shower rod, sometimes even requiring so much effort that you eventually tear the shower curtain. Glide Shower Rings solve that problem, with concealed brass ball bearings at the top, letting the chrome-plated…
Now that we’ve seen Intel inside the Mac mini, iMac and MacBook Pro, what about the iBook (current G4 versions shown above)? We got a sneak peek into what might be happening in a report published by the Commercial Times, saying Taiwan’s Austek signed a contract with Apple to manufacture 1.2 million of the upcoming…
Apricorn has released a MicroKey USB 2.0 drive with even more capacity, this one holding 8GB. It stores all that data in a relatively small form factor of 3.4″ x 2″ x 0.5″. Yes, there is a hard disk inside as opposed to more-durable flash memory, but Apricorn says it has built a tank around…
Whirlpool, known for its innovative range of home appliances, has unveiled Pret-a-Porter, the clothes revitalizer. It has the size of a vacuum cleaner and is fully portable. You can use the device for removing odor, sweat and smoke stains from the clothes that do not need a full, proper cleaning. It is designed to look…
Not much info available yet on this Samsung A960 foldup handset, but its most unique feature is that great-looking external round OLED display. Haven’t seen one like that before. It’s being shown on the show floor with Sprint branding, but according to Samsung no carrier announcements have been made yet. Samsung Shows Unannounced A960 at…
LG is showing the LG550, a 3G clamshell with EV-DO support, Bluetooth stereo capability and a 1.3-megapixel camera. You won’t be needing any of those iTrip attachments for this baby, either, because there’s an FM transmitter inside that can send tunes to your car radio. There’s also a microSD/TransFlash slot for external storage. Its main…
Nokia announced four new phones at CTIA this morning, the first being the clamshell Nokia 6126, at left. Quadband GSM with EDGE, 1.3 MP camera, a microSD card slot, music player capabilities (MP3, AAC, WMA) and QVGA display with millions of colors, expected to ship in Q2. The other three handsets announced are all CDMA,…
Feeling a little slow? Now you can get yourself a new brain, at least if you’re a Robosapien. Manufacturer WowWee’s deal with Evolution Robotics provides their Roboraptor and Robosapien programmable robots with more sophisticated navigation and pattern recognition systems. So now instead of merely frightening your pets, it can ruthlessly hunt them down. https://gizmodo.com/chrome-robosapien-20475 WowWee…
Probably the next best thing to having a Sherman on your desk, the Media Tank from ATMT is an external media reader that reads pretty much anything you throw at it. Firstly, let’s not ignore its size: the Media Tank is pretty darn big, weighing in at 1.5 pounds. If your desk can handle the…
Everyone is a winner in our book, but we only have one TV to give away so it goes to Mark K. for his impressive, yet tasty-looking, beandip/pizza/meatloaf thing. Thanks all for your submissions and thanks to DISH TV for sponsoring this contest. Remember, friends: Satellite—it’s like space cable!
Qualcomm is showing off its MediaFlo multimedia and data delivery system for cellphones at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, where the company has set up two FLO transmitters in a techno-demo that spans the city. Good for Qualcomm, because there are quite a few FLO-enabled handsets on display at the show, including products…
Here’s a minor upgrade to the CDMA version of the Motorola RAZR, this one adding a microSD memory expansion slot which will let you store a gigabyte of tunes and other stuff. It’s capable of music downloads via EV-DO and the phone also has a built-in music player. iTunes on board? No word on that…
We got this in email this morning and we just about plotzed. This is Boot Camp, an official Apple beta product, that allows you to dual-boot XP. No BIOS issues, on EFI junk, no hassle. You literally just install it, run it, and rock and roll. The best part? The absolute best part? Read some…
A Japanese company by the name of Takanoha has come up with a tiny gadget that prevents you from falling asleep. Putting the Nap Alarm behind your ear, the gadget vibrates once it detects that you are falling asleep. It measures the speed of head movements in order to determine whether or not the user…