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In the comments for yesterday’s post about the unconcious jogger identified by her iPod, deeddawg pointed us to a company called Road ID. Founded by father and son team Edward and Mike Wimmer after dad asked his marathon-running son what would happen if he had an accident on the road, they make wearable IDs you…
Rumors continue to swirl about the upcoming Origami portable tablet PC, and now a picture is floating around the net and hey, it looks like it could be real. If it’s not, it certainly should have been entered into our Phake Photo Phun contest, because this is one nice-looking Photoshop job. Origami Pics Leaked! [origamiportal]
The top auto designers in Detroit have been slam-dunked by a group of high school kids from Philadelphia who built the K-1 Attack Hybrid, a sports car that gets 50 miles per gallon and can go from zero to 60 in four seconds. During auto shop class, the group took a Honda Accord chassis, a…
We stumbled upon these gorgeous works of airbrush art and couldn’t resist showing them to you. Painted by Smooth Creations, a White City, Oregon company headed up by Jim Smooth Saling, it costs between $300 and $500 to have a custom painting like this on the back of your notebook. Sounds like a bargain. Saling…
At CeBIT, we ll be looking for what s touted as the smallest wireless DLP projector yet, the BenQ CP120. At 8.5 x 6.7 x 2.4 inches, you’ll agree that it is pretty small for a projector, and it weighs just 2.5 pounds. It has 1024×768 resolution and connects via a the usual suspects of…
HP just dropped two new dual-core laptops including this new 6320 series and the nx9420. The 6320 has a 15-inch screen and can run as fast as 2.16-GHz with its Core Duo processor. The nx9420 is a more generic 17-incher and also goes into the 2.16-GHz range. The 6320 also includes a card reader and…
iPodGarage has an interesting essay about Apple’s entry into the iPod accessories space. At first blush, it seems that Apple is trying to grab a piece of a lucrative pie by nudging out other players in the market. However, this would be suicide. Those same players would just go and congregate around any number of…
Appears that the names, no specs, of seven new Garmin products appeared on a Hungarian website. These include: Garmin i3D Garmin c510 Garmin c510D Garmin c550 Garmin n vi 310 Garmin n vi 310D Garmin n vi 360 I’m going to say whoop-de-doo, but Garmin is planning on releasing up to 60 new products this…
Scoffing at that 100-song limit of other music phones, Samsung plans to roll out a smartphone at CeBIT this week with an 8GB hard drive that runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and also has a 2-megapixel camera on board. In addition to its internal stereo speakers, it will also support Bluetooth stereo headphones. The phone has…
Shouting me too from the highest rooftops, Sony Ericsson launched the Cradle Audio CPF-MP001, its own boombox designed to work with the company s Walkman music phones. The 25-watt system will accept any Sony Ericsson phone with a Fast Port connector, and will charge that phone while it plays music from it. Sony Ericsson touted…
This is a piece of software, but it’s a fascinating use of the DS’ Wi-Fi capabilities. It’s essentially a version of VNC that can run on the DS and shows two screens—a larger version of the full PC screen and a zoomed window. The software is completely homebrew and it’s called PointyRemote, which could also…
All we’ve gotten so far are Photoshop mock-ups, but it feels like XM is planning a streaming satellite video service that may or may not be the coolest thing in the world. Apparently XM is showing this device, or something like it, to Analysts and other folks to can effect XM’s financial outlook. All the…
HP vice president Chi-Teik See said HP won’t support 3G in its smartphones until at least next year. Despite 3G’s comparitively fast 384kbps bandwidth and the numerous 3G handsets already available, Chin-Teik noted that 3G occupies just 3% of the cellphone space, calling it a nascent market. He also mentioned that 3G s subscription and…
An internal memo allegedly from LG s U.S. sales VP Bob Perry says the company is planning to ship a disk player compatible with both Blu-ray and HD DVD in the late summer or early fall. In the memo, Perry also said LG s BD199 Blu-ray player, which we saw the company demonstrating at CES…
If you’re in the market for a new digital SLR you might want to hold on just a little longer until Canon’s EOS 30D comes out in mid-March. At $1399, it replaces the EOS 20D—now available at a deep discount, if you’d rather spend more cash on lenses. The 20D and 30D are both 8.2…
All the way from Germany comes news of Faderfox s latest compact DJ controllers. Compatible with the Ableton Live and Traktor DJ Studio music mixing software, the LV2 (pictured here), DJ2, DX2 and LX2 all boast MIDI interfaces, German engineering as well as just about 1 million buttons each, useful, no doubt, for all that…
Just when you thought you ve seen every type of USB drive imaginable, Taiwan s A-Data steps into the picture and shows off its Solar Disk. The Solar Disk combines the usual 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB or 2GB USB flashe memory with a solar cell, powering an LCD on the drive s face. The LCD…
After being burned by Attack of the Show’s wide-screen iPod caper we’ll reserve all judgement on this little machine until April 1st (at least). We’re told it’s called the ‘iPod AV.’ The scan lines in the third image look a little sketchy, considering the bottom half of the image doesn’t have them. (And the ‘graphic’…
As a huge Futurama fan and pinball fanatic, this mod just tickles me pink. This pinball machine began as an old Superman machine and with a lot of beautiful work it is turned into a Futurama themed machine. It even includes an integrated LCD screen showing episodes. This was a six month project by Evan…
Oh yes, today is the Oscars. I must have been so excited that I completely forgot about it. Every year the Oscar nominees are awards with bags of swag usually full of tech and other goodies. Don’t fret, there are some rules to these gift bags. The individual items cannot be valued below $500. The…