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Who needs that honking alarm clock when you have the Light Sleeper pillow and duvet, a design concept for bedding with electroluminescent threads embedded into it? Designers at loop.PH note that exposure to certain bright lights makes you feel better, especially in the wintertime. Problem is, your body is only receptive to these bright lights…
What’s this 1080p Stuff? By Brian L. Clark Ok, so I admit to sometimes being caught in a time warp. Last week, for example, I referred to Bonjour, Apple s open, standards-based networking technology as Rendezvous, or what it used to be called. My bad. The truth is, Bonjour is designed to help discover services…
Reading the press release for the LG Emotional series monitor is like getting a massage and being licked by kittens at the same time. Monitor specifications be damned, LG loves me and wants to provide relief from everyday hassles of long hours of computer use. They accomplish this through the Feng Shui of flatscreen LCD…
You may need a degree in higher math to understand the assembly instructions, but once you get the PhD out of the way, the BioWall looks pretty cool. First you bend fiberglass rods make rings, then you use the rings to make dodecahedrons (I ll save you the Google – that s 12-sides) that are…
Ain t It Cool News seems to have confirmed rumors that Sony will be releasing an updated PSP in time for Christmas. Details are light and there is no corroboration yet, but the redesigned PSP2 will reportedly be lighter, thinner, have a camera and 4Gb of memory.
Mamiya s 22-megapixel digital SLR is finally showing up on shelves. Dealers are able to pick up body only for around $12,000. Announced almost two years ago, the camera is still touted as the fastest medium format digital SLR, shooting at 1.5FPS with a body size and shape similar to current D-SLRs. The preview is…
Until now, you could have just about any color iMac you wanted, as long as it was white. Not any more. If your iMac is just too white for your taste, take a look at Mactallic, shiny and colorful stick-on metallic overlays that fit perfectly on the front of an iMac. Don’t let some eccentric…
If you ve ever met a doctor at a party and showed him your rash, you can now take that experience to a whole new dimension and email him pictures of that rash magnified 250x. Giving you all the features you’ve come to expect in a USB powered magnifier, the Skin Sensor switches between 50x…
LG is shipping the UBNM 1GS01 USB drive which will store 1GB of data and charge the battery on your Nokia or Sony Ericson phone. The drive also acts as a backup for the data on your phone, synchronizing the information when you plug it in. Support for other phone models is expected soon. LG…
Red Ferret points out the only reason left to buy a film camera: this one automatically vignettes your image next to Elvis. Elvis will look dreamily at you in his army uniform, while strumming a Ukulele, manning it up in a dude ranch background or any of three other settings. For better or worse, all…
Proporta sells a variety of cases for iPods, and now the company offers a free pink silicone case for the 30GB 5G iPod if you buy any other 30GB 5G iPod case. If you’re looking for a chic enclosure for that iPod, they ve got some nice-looking leather, aluminum and neoprene cases that get the…
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory and TDK Corporation have created the first bendable passive RFID tag. The prototype is 800um thick and process improvements look to move the thickness of the RFID compnents closer to 100um which would cut the final size in half. Since paper is commonly over 300um, the tag could be embedded in documents…
C sar L pez may be the first one to convert a gun into an instrument rather than just playing tacky guitars shaped like guns. Using AK-47s given to him by Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos, the street musician has put the escopetarra into the hands of Columbian pop singer Shakira and the United Nations…
Microsoft has just announced some potentially devastating news. Well, devastating to those folks who wanted to be able to boot Windows on their Intel-based Macs. Contrary to earlier assumptions, Microsoft Vista, the company s next major operating system, will not support EFI, the method used by MacIntels during boot up. EFI, which Intel hopes is…
As everybody knows, sake needs to be kept at a consistent temperature in order for it to be the best that it can be. But how do you ensure that the sake stays at that temperature all the way from the warehouse to your tabletop? NTT and others are keen on RFID as the solution…
Call-Dropping Motorola RAZRs “This just confirms what I’ve always suspected. All the new phones are getting pretty good at a lot of new tricks – taking pictures, playing MP3s, web surfing, etc. What they’re not good at is what they were made for in the first place – making a goddamn phone call.” by darkstar…
Another item in the “Huh” category. This thing is a haptic MP3 player that vibrates in time to your music. Hot little OLED display and up to 1GB storage are nice, and this thing is tiny. Why a vibrating MP3 player, you ask? Who knows. Let’s just assume that this thing doesn’t necessarily have to…
I’m not going to dump my standard mouse for this, but it’s nice for sufferers of carpal-tunnel syndrome. This is a pen-shaped mouse with scroll wheel and two buttons on the front. It was actually very responsive. Although I wasn’t able to sign my name with any fidelity, I was able to make curves and…
I’m not going to lie and say this isn’t really just a boring cable-laying robot, but the entire system is pretty cool. You’ve got this snake-machine with on-board cable stays that moves through live, but clean, sewer pipes. Every meter or so, it releases a spring-loaded ring and then another robot comes by to place…
We talked with some of the folks at BenQ and they’re basically saying that we probably won’t be seeing a lot of these phones in the U.S. this year. For example, you’ve got the E61 with dedicated music keys on top. It comes with 1MB built-in but the phone supports MiniSD for up to 1GB…