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The petgadgets Glo Leash has what the company calls a dual-beam, super-bright LED on its handle that runs on two AA batteries, lighting your way as well as your dog s, and at the same time making you more visible to those reckless drivers careening down your block. Adding to the safety factor is a…
Brunton SolarRolls are waterproof flexible solar panels that are available in a variety of sizes and can power or charge up electronic devices both large and small. The smallest is the SolarRoll 4.5 ($169), a 12″ x 22″ panel when it’s open, which weighs 6.4 ounces and can output 4.5 watts, 15.4 Volts/300mA. That’s enough…
“Photosynthesis Robot” (Franceschini, 2003) Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen As technology gains ubiquity in our everyday lives, a danger exists that we will eventually lose touch with how this increased use effects our natural environment. With a growing reliance on electrical power and silicon chips used in our daily electronics-entrenched existence, the question remains as to…
Did you ever wonder what happens to those props used in horror movies? Here’s a site that’s helping a special effects house get rid of a variety of animatronic critters, all of them used as props in motion pictures and TV shows. For instance, they are offering this scary-looking bat whose animatronic head nods and…
In today’s episode of Apple’s Latest Patent Documentation we see Figure 3. A sketch that appears to show a ultra-wide touchpad for laptops. The patent for this was originally filed on August 25, 2004, but the US Patent office has just now released it. The documentation states that this is a traditional touchpad used to…
In the middle of all the announcements of new phones from Sony Ericsson earlier in the week, someone forgot to mention the matching headsets. All using Bluetooth, the SE HBH-IV835, HBH-PV705 and the HBH-GV435 represent three different (and pretty decent-looking) choices should you be in the market for a new headset. The IV835 and GV435…
This image from above comes from the ultra-mobile PC teaser page put up from Intel. Coincidentally the planned UMPC announcement comes on the eve of CEbit 2006. Technology blog is speculating that this teaser is referring to the official announcement of theRuby PC Prototype that we saw way back in April. We’ll keep you posted…
There’s a shitload of toilet news today for some reason, and here’s a guitar joining the chorus, made out of a toilet seat complete with toilet paper neckstrap and, uh, a poopy pickup. And look—there are toilet paper holders for both ends of the neckstrap and the bridge, too. You ve got to admire the…
The Zylink-100 is a wireless audio and video transmitter that can send multimedia from PC to TV at a distance of 150 feet. Besides multimedia files from your computer, the system can also transmit streaming files in real time to a TV. Now if the company can just crank up the bandwidth of this product…
Despite what the haters say, it s hard to deny Wikipedia its place in the sun. Now you can load up the online encyclopedia on your (third or fourth generation) iPod. Folks with newer iPods, such as the nano or fifth-generation iPod with video, will be disappointed to find out their iPods aren t compatible.…
Thanks to the laws of physics and some good old ingenuity, there’s no need to use water to get rid of liquid waste any more. Even though it sounds gross, flushless/waterless urinals received a 2006 Award for Design Excellence and have been endorsed by the U.S. Green Building Council. Best of all, if just 10%…
Here’s another device riding the coattails of the iPod, Kensington’s Entertainment Dock 500, and this one lets you connect any fifth-generation iPod to your TV or home stereo. The Entertainment Dock 500 lets you charge your iPod and watch its video on a decent-sized screen at the same time. A nice touch is its RF…
Seiko Japan revealed an improbably big watch prototype that hooks up with your cellphone via Bluetooth. The huge display shows you that little envelope indicating that you ve received a new message, and then can also reveal who sent it and the message subject. Continuously communicating with your cellphone, the device can either make a…
December 2005 saw the launch of the iBoxer, men’s boxers with a special pocket on the side to carry your iPod. Play Underwear’s site has a page up for the Womens iBoxer now and it’s surprisingly attractive, as you can see to the left. Price is still TBA though, so who knows if it’ll actually…
While not necessarily known for being the best player on the field, MSI certainly makes a good effort with its Mega line of portable media devices. The Mega View 588, pictured here, is a portable media player that sports just the type of features you d expect: DivX, WMV9 and MPEG-4 video playback; MP3 and…
Bold thievery runs rampant in the streets of Baltimore, where 136 streetlights have been stolen in the past few months. How to deal with this larceny? That’s easy, do something indiscriminate and stupid. Train five solar-powered cameras on the remaining streetlights, and teach those cameras to cry out when they see anything moving around them.…
The LG Xnote TX is reed-thin and weighs just 2.4 pounds, but still finds room for a 1.3 GHz Pentium-M ULV 773, a 60-gig hard drive and a gigabyte of RAM. You won’t be playing a lot of rip-roaring games with its GForce Go7300 64MB graphics card, but that 64MB will be a gracious plenty…
Let’s face it, iPod cases all kind of suck. You buy a gorgeous, super sleek iPod and then in the name of not getting it all horribly scratched up you then have to buy an ugly bulky case to cover it up, one that probably doesn’t even fit in your pocket. So lame, right? If…
Hey, readers. Joel here. This is the first in a series of reoccurring features called ‘Schwag Watch,’ where we tell you exactly what products and gifts companies have given our writers. We never trade editorial for gifts, but in the process of dealing with PR companies—especially in the consumer electronics space—some schwag is going to…
The TripleHead2Go is a small, palm sized device that can expand your one, scrawny display into a big, beautiful three-display setup. It is as simple as plugging three displays into the TripleHead2Go box and then plugging the box into your desktop or laptop. The TripleHead2Go then tricks Windows into thinking that there is actually a…