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The Shuttle X100 Ultra-Small Media PC is a design concept that s so tiny you’d think it was a FireWire drive, but even though it’s small, inside there’s a full-scale computer powered by an Intel Core Duo mobile processor. There’s also ATI Mobility Radeon 1600 graphics in there, and it’s ready for the home theater…
Speculation about Apple’s April 28 announcement is swarming around the notion of full-length movie downloads sold through the iTunes music store. Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research went out on a limb, oddsmaking the chances as greater than 50% that Apple will open up the floodgates for full-length feature films for download next…
If you recall, Apple will be having a little get-together next Tuesday that will potentionally have an unveiling. Coincidentally after we saw touchscreen patent documentation all rumors seem to be leading to a touchscreen video iPod debut. Enter stage left, a photo that has appeared on Flickr claiming to be the new touchscreen video iPod.…
Inclosia has been cladding all kinds of things in all kinds of things lately, from Disney phones clad in sexy Mickey cloth to this Asus laptop wrapped in leather. I’ve seen these in real life and they’re very cool and very fashionable, and you know how important fashion is in terms of hardware performance. It’ll…
Not much high-tech about this, but it looks a sight better than some ripped up Ikea lamp. Dikas of Spain created this lamp out of one piece of bent steel and a box of milky glass. Very this season, friends. Estiluz Tovier Table Lamp [Apartment Therapy]
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Big news from Lenovo/IBM. They just launched the C100 Available and expect the V100 Ultraportable and N100 Widescreen to be available later this year. C100 will sell for a surprising $599 and weighs about 6 pounds. The N100 is a widescreen model and the V100 has a 12-inch screen and is the baby of the…
Moconews is reporting that Nokia’s high-end N91 phone—the hefty, metal model with a built-in 4GB hard disk—has been pushed back to the third quarter of 2006, despite originally being scheduled to ship around last Christmas. The hangup? Implementing Microsoft’s Windows Media DRM, which for unstated reasons has proven more difficult for Nokia to include than…
Cool little system for hospitals. Ekahau, Inc. has already created some sort of “panic button” to contact hospital staff at a moment’s notice. Now they have location-aware IV pumps. If you’ve ever watched nurses and doctors shuffling gear back and forth between rooms, you’ll realize how important this is. When the wife was in for…
Time Isn’t Always Precious By Brendan I. Koerner One day soon, I’m going to disappear for a few months and write the opus I’ve long dreamed of bestowing on the world: a 879-page book tentatively titled Great Moments in Low-End History, with a foreword (hopefully) by Crazy Eddie. Now, I haven’t exactly worked out what…
Spanish brewer Grupo Cerveza Alhambra has modified some of its beer cans with the misophobe in mind, putting a wrapper on the top of the can to keep the lip clean. After all, you never know where those cans have been. Drink now, drink plenty, and drink with confidence, with sealed beer cans for your…
Netgear will release a powerline networking device that it says will be capable of 200Mb-per-second throughput through a home s existing wiring, eliminating the need for stringing network cables all over the place. It uses a chipset developed by Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2), which Netgear says is dependable and fast enough to enable…
Lockheed Martin is now testing Cormorant, a stealthy autonomous spy jet that starts and ends its mission 150 feet under water. Launched from Ohio-class submarines, the four-ton aircraft is designed with folding wings that allow it to fit inside a Trident missile tube, which is about 48 feet long but just 7 feet wide. The…
If you’re looking for a convenient place to carry that iPod nano, the Pink Commuter tie is for you, that is, if you don’t mind looking slightly fey wearing pink. Actually, this 100% silk tie is available in red and navy for metrosexuals, in addition to pink for all you others. The tie has a…
For a mere $69.99, you, too, can own a piece of HAL 9000’s core memory. This 1-GB USB key may LOOK like it just has a sticker that says HAL on it, but this is the operational memory for the most maniacal robot in universe. Just don’t pull it out without ejecting it first in…
A great article on building the cheapest and best PC possible. The total price? $525.46 with LCD and $461.02 with CRT. That’s less expensive than a stripped down Mac mini and better than a low-end Dell. What did they pick? An AMD Sempron 2800+, 512MB of memory, on-board sound and video, and a $178 Acer…
Logitech’s PR agency may have jumped the gun a little in announcing the ‘NuLOOQ navigator,’ a $150 peripheral targeted towards users of Adobe’s Creative Suite 2 on the Mac. (If you’re thinking that’s a fairly specific niche, you’re completely right.) Described as roughly the size and shape of a bisected tennis ball, the NuLOOQ navigator…
Eighty PCs running artificial intelligence software used survival of the fittest principles to evolve a tiny antenna that will be used on a space mission next month. NASA called the group of computers a Borg computer collective. After starting with a random antenna design, the hive of computers spent just 10 hours going through millions…
Ricoh announced two digital cameras, the Caplio R4 and the Caplio RR630. The 6-megapixel R4 (left) has a 7.1x optical wide-angle zoom, which at 28-200mm (35mm equivalent) the company says is the largest range in the compact class. It also features image stabilization in a small form factor of 3.7 inches wide and just over…
ExtremeTech gives does us quite a favor and finds five cool mice for under $20. While I would suggest getting a better cordless mouse—every gimpier model we’ve tried has failed miserably—they run through all manner of corded and cordless meeses and even include a handy slide show of potential candidates. Five Mice Under $20 [ExtremeTech]