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Tea Forte has created an interesting twist on the old tea bag concept. These “silken tea infusers” contain herbs and flowers and have a cute little wiggly thing hanging off the end, making them look like pixie laundry. At 15 for $24, they’re expensive, but should be easy to emulate by other tea makers should…
The Morel Nova MKII surround system gives you 5.1 sound without all those clunky speakers taking up a lot of space and generally looking ugly. Perched atop wispy white and gently curved SoundStands are half-moon-shaped surround speakers that complement the minimalist design of the 100-watt SoundSub 9 subwoofer that’s pretty enough to sit out front.…
Not when you fill them with explosive Acetylene gas. (Who does that?) On the way to a Super Bowl party, a 46-year-old Wyoming man didn’t count on the forces of static electricity. When the balloon he had filled with welding gas rubbed across his back seats, it ignited and exploded — leaving him and his…
We’re not sure how reliable the source is, but in an interview this week, a Motorola design manager told one of your faithful Gizmodo newshounds that the Q could be released as soon as next week. What makes us think it might be legit? He was holding a working model in his hands, and it…
Acer is planning a PMP with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, and interesting departure from the usual “dump and watch” PMPs we’ve been seeing. The MP-500 will come in 20GB and 40GB flavors and offer four hours of video playback on one charge. No info on Wi-Fi et al, but this would be a nice competitor to…
Transflash or microSD or whatever you want to call it is quite tiny. Enter Stik and Store, a sticky memory key with a thin tape lead that ends in a T-Flash card. You can add up to 8GB to your phone by installing this thing just like an internal flash card and then threading the…
Among a few digital still cameras introduced today by Samsung are the GX-1L entry-level digital SLR and the fashion-conscious Digimax L60. The Gx-1L (above) is a 6-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses that were developed jointly with Pentax Corporation. It’s designed to be easy to use, and includes a variety of automatic modes as well as…
If you could encapsulate Japan’s otaku culture into a single kanji character, it would likely be the word mo , a term that has hit the big time in the past year, helped along by the maid cafe boom in Tokyo and Densha Otoko (“Train Man”), a popular drama about an anime fanboy who wins…
The DVICO TViX HD M-5000U is a versatile device that can play back 1080i video (that’s HDTV, people) either from a set-top box or personal digital recorder, or from its own internal hard drive. The 7-inch-tall cylinder-shaped network player has the unusual ability to store disk images of DVDs in .iso or .ifo format on…
HDTV not sharp enough for you? The world’s third-largest LCD flat-panel supplier, Chi Mei Optoelectronics of Taiwan, developed a 56-inch flat panel display capable of resolution that’s four times higher than garden-variety HDTV. Quad Full High Definition (QFHD) is the next step in high-rez display technology, and this 56-inch flat panel can handle it, cranking…
Samsung announced the 8-megapixel Digimax L85, the first digital still camera with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). Many newer HDTVs are equipped with HDMI, into which you’ll be able to plug this camera and view its pictures quickly and in high quality. The L85 has a 5x optical zoom lens by Schneider Kreuznach, and…
Well, we’re down to the final few hours before the RIM vs. NTP cat fight gets crucial. With 81 percent of businesses reporting that their Blackberries are invaluable to making their thumb-typing employees look like total assholes everywhere they go, this is big news. The issue now is whether the judge forces an injunction on…
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Jenna Jameson will be lending her talents voice to the new animated series, Samurai Love God. This show will be produced by Comedy Central and only be available for mobile phone users using Sprint, Verizon or Amp’d carriers. The series will run for eight episodes, with each episode being 2.5 minutes long. Ed Helms, correspondent…
In Google’s recent efforts to take over the world, they are taking on the next step: the mobile phone market. To help their fight for global Googality, research is being done on the type of queries being performed from mobile phones. The numbers are showing that the mobile users are more likely to search for…
There are a couple problems plaguing the use of laser weapons. First off, they take a ton of materials and power to properly shoot an effective laser and secondly, they are hindered by range. Lasers beams have no curve, leaving them to only be targeted within direct sight. In comes the Tactical Relay Mirror System.…
Cheap British electronics merchant Goodman’s announced its latest attempt to assault Apple’s iPod from every conceivable angle with its latest design, the Star Player, an MP3 player that can glow in three eye-catching colors. The model GMP31G2 player will be available in sizes of 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB, and pricing and availability haven’t been…
(2/23/06) Today’s posts were all over the map, from 150 feet under the ocean where an autonomous spy jet sneaks to the surface, to the pinnacle of the personal music player market where the iPod holds court. Rumors were flying about the mysterious announcement coming up next Tuesday from Apple, where the most likely of…
If you’re sick and tired of stumbling through the darkness during your late-night trips to the can, here s help: carpet that glows in the dark and helps you find your way. It doesn’t use any electricity; inside the yarn is some kind of juju that absorbs light energy from either natural or artificial light…
The Matrox Extio F1400 is a high-end remote box that allows four monitors, a keyboard and a mouse to be separated from their host computer by 820 feet of fiber-optic cable. It’s a great idea to have your workstation far, far away from the area where you actually do your work, and this F-1400 takes…