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Wanting desperately to stimulate 2 senses instead of just one, Solid Alliance has announced its fruit fragrance iCool MP3 players in Japan. The players come in 6 flavors (and include chocolate- and rose-smelling products, as well as fruity scents) and come with 256MB of internal memory and an SD slot, with USB 2.0 connections and…
If you’re looking for a close shave for your clothes, the Piripiccio Clothes Shaver, available in sprightly primary colors, aims to take those annoying pills off your sweaters and knitted fabrics. Sure beats pulling a stray thread from your sweater and then discovering much to your chagrin that the whole thing is unraveling right there…
Using WiFi and 2 hard drives, the Evesham MBox looks like a great way to store and push all your multimedia files from your PC to the rest of your home. The Mbox comes with a MBridge network music player and (this I like) back up software for any disasters you may encounter. Just download…
Although there’s not much tech news in the 2006 Fiscal Budget released yesterday, one interesting tidbit estimates that the FCC will auction off the 90 megahertz band on June 29. The band may go for about $15 billion while future auctions will raise up to $10 billion more this year. Much of this cash is…
Hard-driving executives who just can’t stop thinking about cars can now sit in the car all day. Well, at the car, because this desk by Mini Statement looks just like a Mini Cooper. At $4,422, it’s probably cheaper than the finest mahogany, but you might be able to do better by going to a junkyard…
The long-awaited Songbird project has released their ‘user test’ today for download. The program is built on the same framework that powers Firefox and Thunderbird and has been developed by some of the same people who also built good ol’ Winamp, back before Nullsoft was folded into the gritty loins of AOL, never to innovate…
While we wait patiently for 3G phones to come to the US (and work here as well), software company Symbian has joined up with chipmaker Freescale to deliver a blueprint for a smartphone using the 3G networks, and most importantly, will halve its license fees for these phones to give smaller cellphone companies a chance…
If you’ve been wondering what a Blu-ray disc is going to cost you once it hits the markets, Sony has deigned to let the world know. As the first studio to put forth a price (as well as a marketing strategy), Sony revealed that it will also bundle formats together for better flexibility. A catalog…
Skype and Intel are working together to offer 10-way free VoIP calling, they’ve announced. What s in it for Intel? The new Skype service requires Intel s dual core processors. Without a dual core processor powering your PC, 10-way calling will not function, they claim. Nobody has, as of yet, said whether or not the…
Cat owners know that our cohabitants enjoy technology only insofar as it allows them to intake heat and sharpen their weaponry. The infamous Afroman of Afrotech Mods decided to take matters into his own hands and developed this USB-powered ultrasonic cat-repelling device. The device uses an alarm powered by the computer that emits a 25kHz…
The TH-P1SD and the TH-LB60NT are two new compact wireless SD projectors set to be released by Panasonic. The TH-P1SD is designed for both professional and personal use. On the business side of things, the TH-PS1SD allows you to project your PowerPoint presentations and picture files directly from an SD card. For personal use, you’re…
Sega‘s arcade game, “Oshare (look cool, fashionable) Majyo (witch/sorceress) Love and Berry” is targeted at primary school girls in Japan. 6800 of these machines have been placed in arcade game centers and shopping malls. Using the “Oshare magic card” the girls over here compete with a rival character to win a fashion contest. It is…
Here’s a great idea whose time has come: a case for your ear buds and that spaghetti-bowl full of wires that go along with them. Just place your earphones in the middle of the SendStation Ear Buddy and wrap all that cable around the ABS plastic spool surrounding it, and you have a great way…
Every once in a while an iPod case stands out from the rest of the ugly ducklings and makes us salivate. This is a carbon fiber iPod case designed by C6 Manufacturing. It is constructed of carbon fiber, aluminum and stainless steel screws to hold it all together. It is available for the video and…
Thanks to the Mac Mini, Apples are no longer getting the cold shoulder by case modders. A Japanese fellow put a Mac Mini inside of an old-school Macintosh SE/30. Best of all, he managed to get the grayscale monitor to work with the Mini’s DVI connection. If you look closely, one of the front slots…
Believe it or not, transforming an entire apartment to look like the Starship Voyager from Star Trek costs a bit of money. Tony Alleyne started transferring his apartment after his wife left him, and $175,000 worth of maxed out credit cards later we can safely say he is a tad obsessed. The apartment is full…
The Cube Table takes its inspiration from classic board games. It actually reminds me most of a Rubik’s cube, but it’s unfortunately non-functional. It’s made from 1/8-inch thick acrylic, measures 16-inches wide, deep and tall and goes for $500 per cube. Product Page [Via Uber-review]
Rumors are running rampant lately and today we hear that Apple may be evaluating a Palm purchase. This rumor comes about after two of Palms biggest investors are calling for the company to be sold. There are a few connections that link Palm and Apple—some more concrete than others. They are located close to each…
Because as all Engadget readers know, the best thing you could possibly do with your Treo would be to read Gizmodo.
Seeing as how we have the greatest technical minds of our generation reading Gizmodo every day, let me ask you all a question to see if someone has come up against this. I just got a Time Warner HD box, the Pioneer Voyager and I have the following setup: – a COMPONENT HD cable hooked…