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No, it’s not painted green and it doesn’t sell green muffins. This old-school bakery in NYC’s East Village is green because of the way it’s been overhauled, as completely safe for the environment. Now being dubbed the “Birdbath” Bakery, it was recently re-opened with only organic materials inside (including the food of course). Think cork…
Here’s a remote control that attempts to one-up the Logitech Harmony 880, one of the best and easiest-to-use universal remotes I’ve tried. With the OpenPeak SimpleRemote you can avoid that pesky USB cable, and simply grab codes and program guides from its mother ship website via WiFi. If you don’t have WiFi in your house,…
Share your tunes with everyone by carrying around a speaker set that’s not much bigger than an eyeglasses case. The Creative TravelDock 900 gives you 32 hours of rock ‘n roll from a quartet of AAA batteries, and when you’re done you can tuck all that musicmaking away in a little travel pouch. Too bad…
Like some odd-looking pentagonal-shaped polyhedron flying saucer from a 50s flick, here’s a hemispherical loudspeaker that’s made especially for musicians performing on stage. Electrolap makes this Hemisphere Point-Source Emanation Loudspeaker, a $599 enclosure that contains six Polk Audio db525 drivers and weighs 17 pounds. The enclosure, which is 21 inches in diameter at its base,…
It’s just a rumor, but we hear that the iPod Shuffle could be killed off because of the success of big brother nano. Not so hard to believe, considering the lack of screen on the little guy and the fact that it’s still not as slim as the newer product. The only thing keeping it…
The price of admission for GPS navigation keeps dropping, and now we hear about the NaviGPS, a $97 unit you can strap to your arm or latch onto your bicycle, and off you go. This little electronic homing pigeon will tell you which way you’re going and how far it is to your destination, along…
From Mantis, UK-based stencil artist.
Always looking for new ways to kill or maim people, the Defense Department has come up with a new vehicle that packs a three-way punch. Project Sheriff is now reportedly beyond the concept stage and on its way to Iraq, according to Inside Defense. In addition a variety of regular guns, it has a special…
In the wake of Pentax’s new *ist DL2 6.1 megapixel DSLR camera, it looks the company is giving us a nice break on its fabulous *ist DL digital SLR kit. At $599.95, down from $799.95, the 6 megapixel camera is one of the lowest price of its kind, competing with Nikon s D50, Konica Minolta…
As humidifiers go, this one is simply stellar. Shiny, round and found in five different colors, this device by Plus Minus Zero will add a little class to your room—as well as a nice scent with its built-in “AromaTherapy” function. Along this beautifully-designed product, you’ll get eight hours of computer-controlled, extremely hot, fine mist steam.…
Paradigm does a nice set of speakers, and these Cinema 220 and Cinema 330 Left/Right/Center models are no exception. Both include a more-powerful driver system, though the 330 takes on a different look, with two 4.5 ICP injection-molded co-polymer polypropylene bass/midrange cones and two 4.5 high-power polypropylene bass cones. The 220 features two 5.5 ICP…
During my time at CES I got my EV-DO cherry popped and since then I am all about EV-DO. This USB flash drive, the CCU-550 from CMOTech, can connect you to the internet anywhere that there is a cellular signal. It can surf up to 2.4Mbps which is nice especially since you can get it…
No longer do you have to wear horribly ugly Thumps in order to carry around a self-contained MP3 listening system. Koss, the company that’s been making headphones for the past few hundred years, offers MP3 T go, self-contained MP3 headphones that do away with wires by placing everything you need right there on your head.…
Sony enters the security camera market with the SNC-CS50P intelligent IP network camera. This camera is intelligent because it can detect unattended items and human movement. In addition to the intelligent capturing, it also has day/light functions so it can operate in low-light conditions. Even better, this camera can operate with power over Ethernet, so…
If you’ve been eyeing up a 20-inch PowerPC iMac, but didn’t want to spend the dough, here’s your chance to get it on the cheap (if anything over $1000 is really cheap). Looks like this particular iMac 2.1GHz PowerPC-based desktop is selling at a retail price of $1500, down from $1700—with the hope of getting…
Here’s another DVD camcorder, this time from Canon. The DC40 is compact, super slim and well designed, combining a 4.3 megapixel CCD image sensor with an RGB Primary Color Filter for what Canon believes will be extremely high resolution image quality. It also comes with 10x optical zoom, 2.7-inch widescreen display and a 4:3 CCD…
I tell you, Valentine’s Day sure cleans up. And I’m glad to see it’s not just us stupid Americans who take this ridiculous holiday so seriously. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice excuse for me to get flowers and presents (note to husband, no chocolate thongs please) but to actually name a…
Russian design firm Art.Lebedev set the tech world all a-twitter when it announced its Optimus keyboard last July (non-working prototype pictured at right), an ambitious design that didn’t exist yet, but promised to embed a small OLED display in each key on its otherwise normal-sized keyboard. The idea was, all the keys would be soft…
This week at Lifehacker: Free your iPod from the shackles of iTunes. Witness operating system multiple personality disorder on a real live ThinkPad dual-booting Windows and Mac OS X. Scare your cat and get in shape with a sledgehammer and a sweater. Finally, master the art of portable computing with some tried and true laptop…
Yes, that’s right, even more greedy bastards are trying to pick golden apples off the Research in Motion Tree today, with a company called Visto, which is allied with NTP (everyone’s fave Blackberry patent-wielding villain), filing a patent infringement suit against one Good Technology Inc., a provider of e-mail software to cell-phone companies for smartphones…