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If you and your glam rock bandmates go through a few costume changes during every performance, now your guitar can join you with its own wardrobe malfunction. Here’s the Wave Guitar from RKS Guitars, the first ax with an interchangeable pick guard and body shell. Just unscrew the old skin and replace it with the…
Yawn … Another day, another Motorola phone for people to unnecessarily drool over. The E1070 is their latest 3G handset that seems to have the same stuff, but in a new casing. Incoming feature list: 1.3 megapixel camera, QVGA display, 64MB internal memory, MicroSD expansion, Bluetooth, etc. No word on pricing, but this phone should…
Tabletkiosk is now taking preorders for their eo UMPC. The base model has 256MB of memory, a 30GB hard drive, 1.0 GHz VIA C7 NaNo processor, 7-inch TFT-LCD touchscreen, Wi-Fi and runs on Windows XP Tablet Edition. This model runs a hefty $899 with higher-end model featuring double the RAM and a larger hard drive…
Before we discuss LG’s new M6100 multimedia slider phone, we’d first like to ask you all some questions about this photo from its recent launch. Why is the model on the right wearing a chainmail blouse? Is she cosplaying a character from some Korean MMORPG we’re not familiar with? And why is the model on…
YouTube is getting scared of the copyright police, and has created a tiered system of use so that videos with a running time of over 10 minutes can only be posted by premium content subscribers. In a statement, YouTube said, “We did some analysis of the videos in our system over 10 minutes in length,…
We’ve been hearing about these for a few years now, but now they’re real. You can drop these tiny sensors in any environment, where they’ll report back on enemy movements and other news for up to 180 days. They actually create a mini mesh network and share data and video with each other and with…
If you’re thinking of starting a podcast or do one already and you’re looking to upgrade your equipment, Alesis has put together two podcasting kits you should consider. One has their MultiMix 8 FireWire mixer (8 channel mixer, 24Bit /44.1/48kHz eight channel recording direct to your computer), the other the Multimix 8 USB mixer (8…
Apple announced today that it would release an update to its iPod nano and 5th-gen software that allows users to set a maximum personal volume limit. Parents will also be able to set a volume limit for their kids and lock it down with a PIN number. Thus Apple joins the ranks of lawsuit-paranoid companies…
Western Digital throws its hat into the portable hard drive ring with its 6GB Pocket Passport, a 1-inch 3600RPM disk drive with a 2MB cache. Its USB 2.0 jack is nothing new, rotating into the drive housing just like many of its competitors do, a good thing because that gives it room to squeeze into…
Moog Music’s synths are beloved for their sound, playability, and quality standards . . . and the fact that they’re not ugly and boring. As true analog synths, they produce sound by directly controlling the electrical voltage that courses through their innards, something that is difficult to translate to digital instruments. But Moog keyboards are…
Man, we think WE have it tough. Apparently the Nintendo fans in Europe are mad and aren’t going to take it anymore. The idea is that gamers in Europe are fed up of being treated like shit compared to their American counterparts. So why not create a site for Microsoft and Sony too? Europe, according…
As much as we’d like to intelligently ruminate in this post on whether future technology and social attitudes will be advanced enough for us to not actually have or want to get wet to get clean, we just can’t, cause we’re too busy laughing at this silly graphic on the right we found on the…
We’ve reported about dual-core and even quad-core processors, and now the pissing contest takes a geometric leap with whippersnapper startup Azul announcing plans to stoke its nex-gen Vega 2 64-bit chip with 48, count ’em, 48 cores. Azul has made quite a splash in Silicon Valley with its first-generation Azul Compute Appliance (pictured here), a…
I’m kind of weirded out by this picture. Apparently this is some sort of illuminated rug but if you look at it wrong it looks like the dog has disappeared. Created by Johanna Hyrkas, the entire rug is full of embedded LEDs can stand up to most foot traffic… hopefully. LIGHT CARPET [TheCoolHunter]
Spring is supposedly here and it’s allegedly not so cold during the day that one can go out in a fleece hoodie instead of a winter coat. We wouldn’t know from experience, since Gawker Media recently had us fitted with house arrest anklets to keep us home typing up posts for your enjoyment. At any…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Fortune magazine that the company is interested in taking on the iPod, and hinted about combining the player with a cellphone. Ballmer said, “In five years are people really going to carry two devices? One device that is their communication device, one device that is music? There’s going to be…
Is it a bed? Is it a chaise lounge? The answer is yes with Sapapa Extreme, a couch/bed that’s marketed as smart furniture and comes with an odd-looking tripod-mounted multimedia unit alongside it. It’s available in a variety of colors and cushions you with a combination of physical springs and what the company calls a…
Panasonic announced it will ship the DMP-BD810 Blu-ray player in September, and is also planning to release a line of 1080p plasma TVs at the same time. The Blu-ray player will also be able to play back most DVD, CD and image formats, and will have a feature Panasonic calls “EZ-Sync HDAVI control function,” where…
New York apartments most often than not don’t have dishwashers in them, partly because of the lack of space and partly because in many old buildings water is folded into your rent and the landlord just doesn’t want a hefty water bill. As a result, we know more than a few people in the city…
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