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Who needs that tired old Dirt Devil when you can have a Crumb Pet. Yes, the Crumb Pet not only picks up your dirt and foodstuffs, but it’s shaped like a barnyard animal to boot. Get your bagless, battery-powered portable vacuum in the shape of a pig, cow or sheep for just about $10. It…
Continuing the phenomenal sales momentum of the Prius is the order of the day for Toyota, and brother site Jalopnik tells us the car company is working on another hybrid, this one a sports car with a midships engine that may appear sometime around 2008. The all-wheel-drive sportsmobile may have a 105hp next-generation hybrid engine,…
We’ve seen an overabundance of iPod docking speakers, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to be bombarded with Qool Labs Xensaxion for your Motorola ROKR. A neat little gadget, it’s a pair of docking speakers that also allows you to charge the phone, synchronize your files and even take a call using…
Oops, this is somebody’s big mistake. It looks like a 67 year old woman’s Freeview TV set-top box sent out an emergency signal that launched 2 lifeboat rescue teams in Wembury, England. Poor Mary Donaldson was stupefied when officials from the Falmouth Coast Guard showed up at her door, asking why she would have sent…
It may be a little bit longer before you are able to get your hands on a HD DVD version of Firefly thanks to Blu-Ray. The specifications for the AACS (advanced access content system) have been delayed because of a extra anti-piracy measure that Blu-Ray is using, called BD+. BD+ is a dynamic encryption scheme…
Motorola always gives its latest, just-released phones away to Oscar nominees, and this year’s, ahem, gifting experience includes the special edition PEBL shown above. Moto is touting the “gunmetal” finish (as opposed to silver or black), as well as the personalized “keepsake box”—although why anyone would keepsake this is beyond me. The phone is only…
If I was young enough to have had this product when I swam lap after lap on my high school swim team, singing Bon Jovi tunes to myself to keep from drowning of boredom, I would have gone out and purchased a lifetime supply (ok, so I’ve dated myself, what of it??). Behold, the Finis…
The TORQ P120 is a Windows Mobile 5 smartphone that seems to have just about everything under the sun stuffed into its slim chassis. The phone includes Bluetooth and WiFi along with GSM/GPRS and is as clean as an old-time Palm V, which is always nice to see. Best of all, this is a video…
Hoping to get AMOLEDs (active matrix organic light emitting diodes) up and running for future mobile technology, LG and Kodak have united to “jointly evaluate” the displays. The technology, which is thin with extremely quick response times, sandwiches carbon based films between two charged electrodes, one of which is a metallic cathode and one a…
Here’s another Samsung cellphone just announced at 3GSM in Barcelona. The i320 is pretty straight forward, running on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 with 120MB of onboard memory (with a microSD slot just in case you need to add more storage). It’s uses tri-band GSM, supports Bluetooth and is capable of GPRS/EDGE where available. Other features…
Mirror mirror on the wall, what’s the silliest product of them all? From our wacky friends at Oregon Scientific, this Mirror Weather Station may take the prize on combo products that make little sense. For just $130, you too can own a mirror that tells you the outside temperature. You know, in case listening to…
Some 3D renderings have popped up that are claiming to be conceptional designs of the Apple iPhone. From appearance alone it looks as though this phone will be a traditional clamshell design constructed from brushed metal. Of course Apple has made no announcements about this phone, but this could be one of those purposeful leaks…
This week at Lifehacker: That sound your computer’s fan is making? It roughly translates to “Help! I’m being strangled by cat hair!” Get under your PC’s hood and evacuate the dust bunnies partying on your video card. https://gizmodo.com/spring-cleaning-for-your-computer-evacuate-pc-dust-bun-153409 Speaking of video, YouTube junkies can use a little Javascript voodoo and some free software encoding to…
Minox intros the DC 6011, a 6-megapixel camera that s slim and trim but fat on features. Even though it’s just .7 inches thick, 3.4 inches wide and 2 inches tall, it packs a 3x optical zoom and a 2.5 inch LED screen into its meager frame. It’s versatile, too, able to record video and…
Next Generation has the hot scoop—the PS3 will probably be hitting the streets on September 21st in the US, September 16th in Japan, and include a new XBox Live-alike system, HUB. According to well-placed industry sources, PlayStation HUB will offer PlayStation 3 owners much the same services as Xbox Live, including chat, downloadable demos, independent…
With 3G (supposedly) coming up quickly here in the US, it’s nice to know that Intel is thinking fast on its feet and talking about equipping future laptops with a SIM card slot to add easy WAN connectivity. The idea was launched by the GSM Association (GSMA) and Intel plans on working with them to…
First those kooky guys at MAKE figured out how to control robot-vac Roomba with a laptop. But that used an old-fashioned serial cable. Now they’ve figured out how to run the thing wirelessly with Bluetooth. Using the software from that first Roomba-controlling experiment, they fashioned a Bluetooth RF device out of a few cheap parts.…
Those robot-car DARPA Grand Challenge desert race winners from Stanford University are at it again. This time instead of sending their VW Touareg to pick its way through the desert, a robotically-controlled car will attempt to find its way from San Francisco City Hall to downtown Los Angeles at highway speeds in October, 2007. The…
Well, looks like Microsoft has found a good scapegoat for its nasty Xbox 360 shortage with German chipmaker Infineon. Basically, the company is being blamed for not making enough chips at the right speed for the 360—many of them running slower than the required 700 megahertz. The problem, it seems, was all the time it…
While this model looks as cool as all get out, I had a horrible time trying to figure out the KleerDrain website. This video, which I couldn’t find on the site, shows the latest KleerDrain product— the KD100— pounding a simulated nut log into submission by sending a huge burst of gas through the pipes.…