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Feature Low End Theory https://gizmodo.com/low-end-theory-160844 News Verbatim Announces 4GB and 8 GB Store n Go HD Drives Sony 20 MFM-HT205 PC/TV Display The Ultimate Frogger Challenge OHSO Marko Travel Toothbrush GEL-BOT Activity Fuel System Organ Transportation Gets an Upgrade Listen to Music and Phone Calls With i.Tech s Clip M Panasonic Shows Off D-Snap MP3…
Verbatim announced 4GB and 8GB Store n Go USB 2.0 drives which have a 1-inch hard disk inside and weigh just shy of 2 ounces. That makes for an easily portable form factor that’s just 2 inches tall. They are preloaded with Verbatim’s Mobile Launch Pad, which lets you plug the drive into a guest…
Sony just announced an update to their HT-series of LCD PC/TV displays today, the 20″ MFM-HT205. This display has a 16:9 aspect ratio, 1680 x 1050 screen resolution, a built-in NTSC television tuner, plus “the ability to watch TV or DVDs in full widescreen mode, picture-in-picture or picture-and-picture formats” while you’re working on your computer.…
How do you know when the people over at Make Magazine have run out of ways to hack a Roomba? They begin making dangerous games out of it. This Roomba was modded to be controlled wirelessly on a balcony high above the street for a true Frogger experience. Unfortunately the Bluetooth signal was not strong…
Usually when selecting images to use with posts we just grab the one the product looks most attractive in and go with that, but the photo of the male model on the go on the OHSO site made us laugh so hard it just had to come along with the toothbrush. Yes, that pretty boy…
Reader Julie emailed in today to say we should check out the intriguingly-named GEL-BOT, which turns out not to be a robot made out of goo but a refuelling system for athletes. The GEL-BOT is a water bottle with an integrated gel flask (good for 3.2 oz or 2.5 packets of gel), so you can…
The days of television medical dramas consisting of transporting organs in a ratty cooler filled with ice are no more. The TransMedics Organ Care System is the latest and greatest technology used to preserve organs while being transferred to a new body. It works by pumping warm, oxygenated, nutrient rich blood throughout the organ while…
Breaker-Breaker, Got Me a Deal By Brendan I. Koerner Okay, look—I know I promised in last week’s column that I’d be talking about cheapo headphones on this go-around. But something came up, and I find myself whiling away mid-March on the outskirts of Carlisle, Penn. I’m actually staying at a HoJo about 300 yards from…
In today s workaday world multitasking is no longer considered the exclusive realm of MBAs. The folks at i.Tech recognize this and have produced the Clip M, a little something to help combine business and pleasure. While it can be used as a simple Bluetooth headset for cell phones, the Clip M s biggest coup…
Panasonic just announced six new MP3 players belonging to the D-Snap product line. These D-Snap players store all music on an SD card, a big plus for all of you who prefer no moving parts in your MP3 player. The six new players are the SV-SD370V, SV-SD310, SV-SD770V, SV-SD710, SV-SD570V and SV-SD510. Yes, they all…
Griffin has released an iTrip add-on for the Sony PSP. This iTrip is same as its iPod counterparts and allows wireless streaming audio to any stereo device capable of picking up FM frequencies. The integrated PSP speakers are a little weak, so this accessory can give a boost to listening and it looks pretty, to…
Bill Gates apparently doesn’t think much of MIT’s $100 computer project, where the low-cost units are being developed (with some backing of Google) for use in developing countries. At the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in Washington yesterday, after Gates demonstrated a Microsoft-backed $1000 ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), he promptly launched into disapproval of MIT s $100…
Rumors had been flying about it, but now Mio has officially announced its H610, a GPS receiver that also has a video player and MP3 player on board. Its 320×240 2.7-inch screen with 65k colors is not exactly a cinema display, but it might do in a pinch. It has a Samsung S3C2440 400MHz processor…
How much a smaller can a video camera get? Apparently, tinier than a ladybug. Sharp introduced the LZ0P396D, a CCD camera module destined for mobile phones that will be used as a secondary camera capable of 30fps video. The company plans to start mass producing them in April, and each module will be $10. Beyond…
Fujitsu will soon offer its Happy Hacking Pro 2 keyboard with a USB hub in the back. Available in black or white, it’s for only the most confident of touch typists since there are no characters embossed on the keyboard at all. Well, if you do need to look every once in awhile, Fujitsu will…
Thin is in and phones don’t get much thinner these days than the 0.35″/8.8mm VK2020 & VK2010 from VK Mobile. How skinny is that? They make the Motorola RAZR V3 look fat at 0.5″. Unlike the RAZR, there’s no cameras on these babies as they’re meant to be music players. The VK2010 (the one that…
The Slappa Velocity Pro Laptop Backpack is built to protect all your electronics from the worst elements with its thick exoskeleton made out of rainproof Scuba-prene. It has a compartment big enough for a 17-inch laptop, four main compartments and plenty of sub-compartments, too. Available in a few different colors, the nicest-looking is the blue…
Here’s an experimental musical keyboard which is a MIDI controller based on relativity. Israeli industrial designer Eitan Shefer has created the Samchillian keyboard, taking a novel approach to a musical instrument where you don’t play specific notes but select how they relate to the ones before them. For example, if you’re playing a C and…
Wow, Sony. Welcome to the car audio market, it is good to see that you have finally decided to embrace Bluetooth and integrate it into car stereo head units. There isn t anything too spectacular about this head unit:mdash;it can connect to your Bluetooth enabled mobile device for some hands-free goodness with the integrated microphone.…
Our esteemed brothers at Kotaku have uncovered a video showing Mario Kart running at a spectacular 100 MHz on a Nintendo DS. With this rig, it’s possible to dial up and down the overclocking and underclocking, making the Nintendo DS either rock ‘n roll like the chipmunks or slip into slo-mo. Not sure how useful…