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This wooden clock has numerals that mysteriously appear on its surface, as if they were being projected. It works with a thin layer of wood over the numerals, so they can shine through. But until those numbers appear, it looks exactly like a Scandinavian-designed, well-sanded 10-inch-long block of teakwood. There are no buttons to be…
Looks like we missed this one on Sunday, but Motorola seems to have released a Fiery Red PEBL “for the ladies.” It was supposed to be a Valentine’s Day promotion, so we’re not sure if this will appear pressed against the ear of short girls in furry boots and huge sunglasses around the world this…
Trusted Reviews has a write-up on this projector based on Texas Instruments’ DLP technology. They ogle over its back panel, which includes a five plug GBRHV BNC input, S-Video, phono, and the standard component inputs, along with the new standard HDMI socket that is set to replace DVI. They also note that it has a…
This came out a while back but this is the first time we’ve seen it in the wild. The US and Canadian ski teams are sporting a new garb that they now supposedly refuse to ski without: a lightweight material in their body suits that hardens in less than a thousandth of a second, then…
Motorola has unveiled the W220, a RAZR with less bells and whistles, at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona. The phone comes in the same popular slim design of the RAZR, but is aimed at consumers not especially willing to spend an arm and a leg on a cellphone, especially those in developing countries. The W220…
With cellphones leaning towards becoming full-fledged media players, it’s nice to know someone is trying to come up with something to help us easily store all our stuff. Orange mobile phone group announced plans to launch a SIM card that will hold 8,000 times more data than the SIM you have in your cellphone today.…
It’s a mouthful, but Sharp is taking a step forward with its PN-655 1080p 65-inch LCD HDTV. We saw this at CES, but we never got a time frame or price out of the company in Vegas, so it’s nice to see it’s finally out there. Of course, the news here isn’t that it’s just…
That old favorite Battleship has been updated, but Hammacher Schlemmer has substituted a fleet of Star Wars cruisers for the old gray battlewagons, and livened things up with digitized voice commands and sound effects from the Star Wars movies. In addition to playing against an opponent, you can play the game solo or in two…
There s bad news about ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards and their alleged “support” for high-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP), that wrench in the works that will keep you from watching high-definition content on a monitor unless both card and display have this special juju. If you buy a graphics card today, even if it…
These battery-operated lights by Slide design of Italy, called PZL Module Lamps, are easily taken apart and put together, so you can have a different lighting scheme every day. Some are U-shaped, some are square—each lamp is shaped differently, and they fit together like pieces of a puzzle. Cool Adjustable Lights [Cool Hunter] Product page
A Stanford neuroscientist wants to understand the relationship between the human brain and consciousness, and to do this he’s asking for regulatory approval to implant an electrode into his own brain. Said Stanford’s Bill Newsome: I don’t know how to figure it out, but it seems to me that stimulating a human brain such as…
Forget toothpaste. Now it’s time to put some flavor in your life with Breath Palette. At $161 for a kit of all 31 flavors, who could resist? Looks like an all-natural idea for packaging toothpaste and then selling it for hundreds of times more than was spent to manufacture it. You didn’t realize you needed…
Think ahead 14 years and imagine your home in 2020. That’s what the Electrolux DesignLab competition asked designers to do in the Imagine the Home in 2020 design competition. The first prize winner was Air Wash, a waterless washing machine that does its work with negative ions, antibacterial deodorant, and a lot of hot air.…
If you want a battery charged in a quarter hour, Duracell is launching a new charger as well as higher capacity 2650mAh AA and 1000mAh AAA rechargeable batteries. In just 15 minutes the charger can refuel up to 4 2400mAh batteries or standard NiMH batteries. Duracell is also claiming that these batteries will give you…
HELIO, a new mobile carrier aimed at the kids—you know who you are—will launch this spring with two phones, the black Hero and the white Kickflip. The Hero is a rebadged Pantech phone with a slide out keyboard and 3G compatibility, while the Kickflip is made by VK Mobile. Like Boost and others in this…
Got a chance to review this 70-inch beast in our usual ghetto video style. The TV is actually very nice, with great color and quality in HD. CORRECTION – This ain’t DLP, it’s D-ILA. I thought it was a generic term. So sorry.
Sanyo has introduced the latest additions to its Diply line of voice recorders, and both have a rather odd look with their stalk-like external microphones attached up top. The behemoth of the bunch is the ICR-S340RM (left), which holds a gigabyte worth of sounds—that’s good for 140 hours of voice recording. If that’s not enough,…
LED technology is so cheap that now you can throw it away. So the Graffiti Research Lab has dreamed up LED Throwies, colorful little LED markers you can make yourself. They require a 10mm LED and a button-size lithium battery and are taped together with a rare earth magnet for superior stickage. Each “Throwie” costs…
This LG, full-featured swivel cameraphone has a whopping 5-megapixel camera with built-in flash and a nice big display for image viewing. Other features include a MP3 player, miniSD memory card slot and Bluetooth. The lens cover is also a nice addition because with a camera that mighty, you don’t want to get crud all over…
Though we’ve shown you images of the HTC Star Trek cellphone before, it’s finally been formally announced at the 3GSM show. Also known as the i-mate Smartflip, it’s a thin, clamshell phone that runs Windows Mobile 5. Specs include a QVGA display, quad-band GSM, EDGE data, 64 MB ROM / 64 MB RAM, a MicroSD…