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There is just one more day left to vote for your favorite movie in our Laptop Confidential contest. There are a couple steps to doing so. Go here and here to watch all of the finalists. Then head on over here to submit your vote for favorite movie. The winner will receive a Lenovo laptop…
Along with the information we heard about iPods, there is also word about the Intel line of iBooks possibly coming in March. The rumor says that the current 12-inch and 14-inch iBooks will be canned to make way for an Intel-powered 13.3-inch iBook. The rumor also says that there may be an enclosure redesign, claiming…
An unidentified source high up at Palm Sprint has disclosed some information about the future of EV-DO, specifically on the Palm Treo. First, EV-DO is a software solution, he’s reported to claim—not hardware—so with some clever hacking it is possible for everyone’s favorite Treo 650 to do EV-DO. We find that highly spurious. Secondly, the…
Looks like LAPD cops are getting tired of chasing modern-day O. J.s up and down the freeways of Southern California. Someone came up with a great idea, the GPS Dart, a global positioning system embedded in a gummy substance that can be shot up to 60 feet from an air gun mounted to the radiator…
For those contrarians who like to do things a bit differently, here’s a watch that presents its back as the front, and whose text engraving is in mirror image as well. The Backside Watch is the first Swiss-made timepiece created by Russian designers, and is crafted out of stainless steel with a quartz movement. The…
Set to debut at this year’s CeBit conference in Germany is the A4 Tech VoIP keyboard with built-in handset. A nice all-in-one product for your office, it works with Skype, MSN, Yahoo Message, QQ and Net2phone and comes with an additional Audio In/Out port to be used with a headset or speakerphone mode. A4 Tech…
This week at TreeHugger: We dig in to a blog “celebrating the history of technology and creative genius over the centuries to uncover the technology behind the first full-suspension bike. Does the world need any more LED’s? The debate rages on regarding the merits of this long-lasting, hand-held pocket lights. Before there were external video…
Here’s something that will put you off your omelet. A UK firm called Lifestyle Choices has started selling a fertility test called Plan Ahead which purports to tell women approximately how many eggs they have left in their ovaries. Though it won’t provide you with an exact number, it measures 3 different hormones to give…
Honda announced it will began building a new fuel cell vehicle, with the first Honda FCX model hydrogen-powered fuel cell car rolling off the assembly line within three or four years. Along with unique ways of arranging the fuel cells within the vehicle, Honda also dreamed up an idea for obtaining the hydrogen necessary to…
Gizmodo is hardly the type to gloat, but with regard to the news that handheld game maker Gizmondo Europe has gone into liquidation, we’d just thought we’d say this one thing: One-and-a-half years ago, we so called it. https://gizmodo.com/im-not-saying-im-just-saying-9186 Granted, anyone with the slightest ability to speculate the future of a company that threw itself…
The SELK’BAG is a sleeping bag you wear. The entire bag, covered in straps and belts for maximum snugness, fits like a glove and makes you look like a plush Transformer. Confusingly, there’s no mention of the any way to remove the bottom portion for midnight walks to the latrine. SELK’BAG [TheCoolhunter]
IBM is making a big stink about its newest chipmaking methods, which it believes will let its Power6 chip (due out in 2007) run twice as fast as the versions out today. Instead of just miniaturizing, Big Blue says its process actually alters how silicon behaves, “squeezing” it to make it move faster. The company…
Starting out strong at the Fifth Annual Flexible Displays and Microelectronics Conference in Phoenix—there’s a conference for everything, it seems—is a prototype of a full color active matrix OLED display from Universal Display Corporation. The display is 4-inches diagonal, .04-inches thick and .2 ounces, and runs full motion video using metal foil, which the company…
If you didn’t watch the Super Bowl on a flat panel TV, but have been eyeing them up at your local Circuit City, here’s a little something to think about. Certain circles are talking about a breakthrough technology in flat panel TVs from Motorola. The company is said to have unveiled a working flat screen…
Buy 2 UMD movies from Amazon.com and you’ll qualify for a $12 discount. Considering the prices on these little flicks, it’s worth checking out the eligible products. Just use this promo code: SPHEUMDFEB67. I’m thinkin’ Kung Fu Hustle is a done deal. Buy Two Sony UMD Movies and Get $12 Off [i4u]
The Russound UNO-TS2D Desktop Color Touchscreen came out at the end of last month, but it’s neat enough to mention in case you want a simple way to control your multi-room audio system. Small, with an easy-to-use interface (which is important with these techie remotes), the product can be used to control other peripherals as…
Cingular is now offering the 8125—essentially a rebadged HTC Wizard—to business customers. The phone supports Quad-band GSM, EDGE, both Bluetooth and WiFi, and has a QWERTY keyboard and 1.3-megapixel camera. Cingular is selling them for $449.99 and, interestingly, they offer a version sans camera for high security environments. Cingular 8125 launched [MobileTracker]
Elekom presented a series of ball-shaped compact speakers last year, but unfortunately none of the colors (blue, pink, etc.) really made it look cool with your iPod. Finally at the beginning of February, two new colors (or absence thereof), black and white, are going to be on the market. About two inches in diameter, it…
Sony whips out yet another flash memory product with its Memory Stick Micro (M2). Looks like Europe only at the moment, in capacities of 256MB, 512MB and 1GB. Touted as the perfect mate for cellphones, the M2 memory card is about a quarter of the size of Memory Stick Pro media. The M2 adapter (same…
There have been a number of Bluetooth devices that can pipe music from an MP3 player and then switch over to pick up a phone call, but few are as elegant as this little disk. The Blueye connects between your MP3 player and your headphones and acts as a microphone, plus it can switch between…