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Xantech s XTR39 infrared remote, introduced at this year’s CES, has a 3.9-inch LCD touch screen customizable to your personal taste. Our first impression is that it looks like the company borrowed a bit from the iPod with its touchwheel control. Although there are a group of dedicated buttons at the bottom for the most…
Bob will become a hated name in households throughout the world if this product comes to market. Bob lets mom and dad assign each of their kids a pin number, and when parents install this timer in between an AC power source and anything that plugs in such as computers, TV or games, it will…
Oh, TDMA, we hardly knew you! You and your analog friends over at Cingular are still used by 2.5 million former AT&T subscribers, but by 2008 they’ll have to buy a new GSM phone or lose service. Fair? No. An example of what happens when you invest too heavily in one, proprietary standard? Absolutely! Cingular…
If you don’t actually want this product, you should at least know about it: a mouse with a microphone and transmitter hidden inside. The CP-1 from surveillance productmonger Endoacustica starts feeding audio back to the mother ship as soon as it’s connected to USB port. If some IT guy comes around telling you he’s going…
Toshiba says it might wait around a while before it launches its new HD DVD players, sensing the pointlessness of having players on the market that are all dressed up with no place to go. Playing a chicken-and-egg game with content, Toshiba will probably wait for movie studios to release content on HD DVDs before…
If you’re longing to get yourself off the grid, the Air-X is a personal wind turbine that gives you 400 watts of power when the wind is blowing at 28mph. When it s not, you can use batteries, and Air-X helps out there, too, with its charge controller that s smart enough to figure out…
If the George Foreman grill just isn’t chic enough for you, here’s the Breville Indoor Grill, a stainless steel sandwich maker that can change from a panini press to an open unit with a flick of a switch. You can also adjust the height of the grill, either smashing your sandwiches into a RAZR-thin pancake…
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory filed a patent earlier this month for eye and ear implants that can be controlled from outside the implantee’s body. The patent application discusses things like magnetic forces and electrode arrays, but as far as we can make out it’s not anywhere near as amazing as how your…
For HD shooters lucky enough to have JVC s first-rate GY-HD100 720p HDV camcorder, Focus Enhancements just released the DR-HD100 Direct To Edit (DTE) recorder built specifically for JVC s line of ProHD camcorders. This portable hard drive recorder lets HD shooters pack eight hours of 720p footage on its 80-gig disk instead of using…
Our Crackberry-addicted readers in the UK will be happy to know that RIM and Vodafone will be launching the latest in the 8000 series over there very soon. Hip hip hurrah for Royal Britannia, etc. The BlackBerry 8707v has the same 320×240 colour LCD screen as the 8700, as well as the dedicated Send and…
iSetBox-Home Multimedia Communication Center is an oddly-shaped set-top box from Bulgarian company Media Systems Ltd. that uses a PixelWorks CPU running Linux. It has a DVD player, accommodates six different types of flash cards, has a PAL and NTSC digital/analog tuner, and it also functions as a networkable PVR if you spring for its optional…
We love getting emails from you guys, serious or silly. This is our favorite of all the ones we woke up to this morning: Subject: The iFan: What is this world coming to? While I was walking through my local Wal-Mart, I found this. It wasn’t where the electronics were, as you might think; no,…
News LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive Pre-Order GhostFace Killah Doll TiVo Lifetime Subscription Deadline Extended Alcatel OT-C850 Music Phone Jobo Giga Vu Pro:evolution for Pro Photogs Close Up Your Clothes with the Compact Wardrobe Jesus in a Solar Handheld Woody iPod Blaster DIY Personal Video Recorder Mago Luxury Smart Phone We Used to Think Sponsors…
Remember LaCie’s new portable hard drives that we told you about in January? The Skwarim drives designed by Karim Rashid are already out, in pink and blue. https://gizmodo.com/lacie-hard-drives-ribbed-for-her-pleasure-146373 If you wanted one of the Neil Poulton-designed LaCie Rugged All-Terrain drives (seen above), they’re now available to pre-order for April. $169.99 to $359.99, depending on which…
For $500, the GhostFace Killah Doll comes with a real 14k gold chain, a gold chalice with Swarovski crystals, a special mixtape, original recordings of GFK’s catchphrases, and a 1 in 500 chance to hang out with the Killah himself in person. Perhaps most importantly, you will earn the right to say “Holy shit, I…
Didn’t find out TiVo was ending lifetime subscription till it was too late to sign up? Gnashing your teeth at all the money you’d’ve saved had you acted in time? Lucky you, the deadline’s been extended through April 15, 2006, but you’ve got to do it over the phone. TiVo Lifetime Subscription Extended To 4/15!…
Alcatel’s new OT-C850 Music Phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 65K color 176 220 screen, plays MP3s (256 MB of memory onboard, plus a MicroSD slot) and EDGE, blah blah blah. Let’s be honest now: the most interesting thing about this phone that it looks like it was designed by Knight Industries. Would you use…
The Jobo Giga Vu Pro:evolution is a portable media player created specifically for professional photographers, with specialized capabilities that will be appreciated by those who create high-end images in the field and need a portable yet trustworthy proofing tool. Bring images in via CF card, and this player is able to review them using a…
If space is as a premium, take a look at designer Naomi Dean s compact wardrobe, which has a two-piece split design that telescopes into itself, saving lots of space. Pull on the handle in front and there’s a drawer in the bottom, shelf space in the middle and also behind the door, and a…
It’s nice to share link love with small fry purveyors of unusual and potentially useful junk, so here you go: Speaktome.com. This site consists entirely of talking products, including a Talking Solar Bible. Obviously, this is for blind folks, but I could see it as a great way to endear yourself to your friends by…