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Step back for a moment and admire the craftsmanship of the electric guitar sculptures from Carver Doug. After carving wood for over 40 years, sculptor and woodcarver Doug Rowell claims that he can carve anything, out of anything. He proves his point with an astounding collection of hand-carved guitars, some which he salvages from old…
Here are a couple of currently-available Webcams with improved strategies for making you look better on camera. CNet Asia points out the Elecom UCAM-E1W30TNWH (pictured at right), optimistically named “BeautyCam,” ($68), which boasts of a unique method of retouching its video in real time. It can also shoot in relatively low light with its fast…
From the creator of the Furby comes a new robotic toy. Welcome Pleo: a “life form” that resembles a one-week old, long-neck sauropod that walks, listens, feels and most importantly, emotes. Made by Ugobe, it uses an advanced OS called LifeOS, with 40 sensors and a mobility system that lets it interact with people or…
Audi s A8 and S8 are going to be outfitted with a sound system incorporated by Denmark s Bang & Olufsen. This is not your standard luxury car stereo. For starters, it costs $11,000. For that kind of money you get 14 speakers strategically positioned throughout the cabin and two sets of amplifiers each pumping…
The biggest problem plaguing the new age of televisions is the inability to use the traditional light gun for video gaming. Our problems have been solved with the release of the LCD TopGun, a video game gun designed to work with all TVs. Empty out your clip on that god-forsaken Duck Hunt dog on a…
This is the Radical Six Part Toaster designed by Matt Gossington. It has compartments that hold each individual slice. The compartments are removable so the slice of toast will stay warm on your plate. The carousal rotates while heating is done. Why, you ask? Um. So six people can have toast? At once? And some…
We just got this strange, probably doctored Apple invite for an event on February 22. I suspect what we see here is an Apple Airport Base Station, and what this thing is going to be pumping out is red-hot video to televisions, but this is pure conjecture. It could also be an LED on an…
For those who have a hard time getting up in the morning, here’s a sadistic new way to assure that they ll pay heed to that blaring alarm clock at the crack of dawn. The Sfera Alarm hangs over your head, and each time you press its snooze alarm but fail to turn it off,…
NTT Communications is teaming with Tmsuk to test a RFID-controlled shopping assistant robot at a mall in Fukuoka. Basically the robot reads millions of RFID tags that are embedded into the floor of the mall, collecting information about everything in the shops. It works by having the shopper select a store/product destination, the robot will…
The week in Kotaku: John Madden finally gets something right and it’s not an Ace Hardware commercial line-reading. EA’s NFL franchise cashcow programmatically predicted that the Steel Curtain, fueled by Cowher Power, would win the Super Bowl and it was right. That’s the Pittsburgh Steelers I’m talking about. Sorry. The 2006 NFL Super Bowl XL…
Look for the clamshell Calypso Wireless C1250i at the upcoming 3GSM World Congress 2006 trade show in Barcelona, Feb 13-16, where we’ll see lots of awesome mobile products that will probably get little or no play in the USA. This VoIP phone, however, is a small GSM phone with WiFi that uses an Intel PXA…
Sad news in Dell-land. Looks like the computer company has discontinued the DJ MP3 player— another casualty in the iPod war. And though it’s not too much of a shock that Dell couldn’t compete in the hard-drive space, it’s nice to see that it won’t be ending the life of its $99 flash-based player. R.I.P…
This is a very cool clock from the depths of Asia. This Citizen wall clock has three distinct modes. It can run as a normal 12-hour clock, a 24-hour military time clock, and a backwards-running 12-hour clock for telling the time in the mirror. As it is an atomic clock, it’s set by signals from…
Tokyoflash just posted the Ultra-Violet Watch by Infinity. It’s a unique quartz timepiece that will look incredible after two tabs of acid. The watch uses two effects—day-glo hands and the “infinite mirror” trick to create a trippy amalgam. The hands light up when you press a button on the side which activates a black light…
Looks like we have a full spec list on the P990, and this thing is loaded. This beast, successor to the popular 910, has a very nice feature list in the current era of Blackberry-patent suits, including push email under Sony’s UIQ Symbian-based OS. Other features include a business card reader—what I wouldn’t give for…
By Alexander Roy When was the last time you prayed the government would improve its surveillance technology? I pray for it every day. Why? Because in the escalating technological war between police and speeders there remains a gap—a legal opening big enough for car lovers to drive through far in excess of posted limits. It’s…
Looks like Google and Volkswagen are banding together to work on a vehicle that will use Google Maps/Google Earth in a VW in-car navigation system. Working with NVidia to build the system, it will include three-dimensional graphics and, hopefully, other features like automatic personalized information updates. But don’t hold your breath—there are still no definite…
Though most of us think of Sony as solely an electronics company, you may be interested to know that the Japanese giant also owns large stakes in what it calls “non-core” businesses as well. These include importer-retailer Sony Plaza Co., cosmetics maker B&C Laboratories Inc., French-restaurant chain Maxim’s de Paris Corp., and mail order firm…
Sony’s new 8GB, 1-inch MicroVault Pro HDD comes intact with a sleek design and USB swivel connector—able to plug straight into your PC or laptop’s USB port. About the size of a business card—but, you know, thicker—it’s designed for frequent travelers and comes pre-loaded with Sony s Auto Sync synchronization kit for updating your files…
Nvidia, maker of graphics chips for multiple PC platforms, the Playstation 3, and portable devices, hired a Los Angeles-based marketing company, AEG, that offers traditional public relations services—press releases to media, editor contact, etc.—along with the possible gross practice of hiring employees to shill for clients on online discussion forums. Sister-site The Consumerist is questioning…