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So you re at your favorite sports bar watching the big game with your friends. Before heading out and driving home, perhaps it d be a good idea to make sure you re not legally intoxicated. At this point, it s just a matter of whipping out the Alcohol Breath Test Pen, blowing into the…
Leave it to Bang & Olufsen to create Serene, a cellphone that turns the worlds of fashion and design upside down. This time the stylish B&O designers teamed up with Samsung to produce a cellphone that has the keypad on the top and the screen on the bottom. If you don’t like it that way,…
This owl can wreak havoc in the IR universe. Bubo will sniff out the IR transmissions from a variety of devices, intercept the signals and begin learning the commands of the IR device and casting random commands. Put two of these owls in one place and watch and epic battle for the IR kingdom. Bubo…
Like most USB hubs, this one goes above and beyond the common requirement of USB hubs: it must be able to sit on a desk. The Trust Triangular USB hub does just that, it sits on a desk with prestigious glory and gratification saying to itself, “Yes, I am sitting on a desk and I…
Like snowboarding but hate the cold? Then the iJoy Board Trainer was designing for you. It is pretty simple, stand on the board, press on a button on the remote control and then experience the realistic action of snowboarding, skateboarding or surfing. This won’t turn you into an instant professional, but it will help increase…
These days putting a lowercase I in front of any product is tantamount to printing your own money. Following shirt er, suit is something for all the hipsters in the house, the iShirt from PodShirt. It s a standard black t-shirt with the word iShirt printed on the front in block white letters. Cool? Yes,…
LG showed off its V9000 this week at the 3GSM conference. With this phone, LG looks poised to battle Samsung s SGH-P900 for high-end cellphone supremacy. Its biggest draw is that it receives wireless TV signals (using the DMB-T transmission system) on its 256K color display. Additionally, the V9000 sports a 1.3 Megapixel camera with…
Kind reader Jason sent us in this possibly altered photograph of a costume gone horribly wrong.
Another pro DJ equipment company is presenting dumbed-down DJing with iPods, with the release of Phonic’s new MixPod DJ mixer. The feature set, down to the video out connection and onboard controls, is nearly identical to the Numark iDJ. And while the MixPod has none of the iDJ’s visual beauty, it has all of the…
An elementary school in Tokyo has hired a 3.2-foot, 66-pound yellow guard robot to protect against baddies… and more importantly, it can scan students. Get within 13 feet of the lovable robotyke, and it’ll hold out its hand to ask for retina scan and blood sample your school ID that has an imbedded IC chip.…
Another Sony proprietary media has deemed itself a failure. Variety is reporting that many studios cutting down on UMD releases in the future. Studios include Sony Pictures (??), Paramount and Warner. The studios are saying that the UMD is a failing because the amount of “piracy” happening. I like to think it is failing because…
It s about time somebody used all this wonderful new technology to make heating up frozen pizzas quicker. Thanks to what Panasonic dubs FlashXpress technology, the Panasonic FlashXpress Infrared Toaster Oven is able to heat up food 40% quicker. The oven uses infrared radiation to heat up food and coupled with instant heating, there s…
AHT International introduced the P2POD HDTV media player, a device that uses peer-to-peer technology to download and stream HDTV programs from the Internet. This nicely-designed unit reportedly has a user-friendly interface intended to make it easy to manage the thousands of channels now available. It could get much better, too, because when more of these…
Thanko Japan, which has been making MP3 watches for a while now, has developed two watches that can now record sound as well. One has 512MB of flash memory, and the other can store 256MB. They both can record audio in the MP3 format, but unfortunately they connect with the mother ship via turtle-slow USB…
MIT researchers have figured out a way to make a better battery for hybrid cars. They’re using lithium nickel manganese oxide instead of the nickel metal hydride that s used in batteries powering today’s hybrid vehicles. These new batteries can charge up ten times faster than current batteries, which means they can be ready to…
Our smarty-pants sister site Lifehacker points out a ProductWiki tutorial that shows you how to turn an original Xbox into a media center. Using the free open-source Xbox Media Center, now you can stream all kinds of media such as TV shows, movies, MP3s and photos all over the house, thanks to a 30-minute helper…
Denmark s Bang & Olufsen have a reputation for producing high quality, visually pleasing designs. With the Earset 1 Mobile, the company has designed an earpiece to make all the others jealous. The aluminum and hard rubber headset fits well on most ears, something that can t be said about many other headsets. Not only…
This Modular Bed System by Maude can be changed and adjusted to your liking, and it can be quickly put together by just one person. It has tiltable tablets to add a headboard, a shelf or a reading light at either end of the bed. Take your pick of a king- or queen-sized coated birch…
This squirrelbot is a part of Stefan Marti’s “Autonomous Interactive Intermediary” project, where a robot serves as the interfact between you and your cell phone. When your buddies call you, the squirrel checks their number against a list you’ve pre-approved, and asks them some questions to deem importance. If it doesn’t think the call is…
Pentax just took the wraps off the 6-megapixel Optio W10, its newest waterproof compact digital camera. Keeping up with the joneses in its class, there’s a 3x zoom and a 2.5-inch LCD viewfinder, along with Face Recognition automatic focus and exposure, which the company claims can detect faces within the frame and then optimize its…