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If you’re ready to try your hand at doing your taxes yourself this year, Kingston Technology wants to make it all a little easier for you with a little agreement it made with H&R Block. Instead of buying a piece of software, you can now pick up a Kingston 256-MB DataTraveler USB flash drive that…
Wi-Fi Bunny technology is running rampant, reproducing itself at an alarming rate. First, it was the Wi-Fi Bunny known as Nabaztag, an ambient awareness device which notified you of incoming e-mail, heavy weather or any other variable you programmed into it. It told you of these niceties by blinking its little pulsating multicolored lights, wiggling…
Verizon Wireless has teamed up with UTStarcom Personal Communications to offer its own branded Music Phone. The CDM8945 will be able to take advantage of Verizon’s Vcast Music service and includes up to 256MB of memory on a TransFlash card (not included with phone). Also expect streaming mobile video and 3D gaming from the phone,…
When we see something like these new JVC XA Series MP3 players, we pretty much know we won’t be getting them in the US anytime soon. Especially if they say Victor on them. But, because they are so colorful and happy-looking we’ll show them to you anyhow. The line comes in storage capacities of 512MB…
Hot diggity damn! Another contest this week, it must feel like Christmas for you readers. Now we are giving away a Lenovo Thinkpad Z Series. It features a 1.73GHz Pentium M processor, XP Professional, 512MB of memory, 40GB hard drive, WiFi, fingerprint reader, 14-inch screen and CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. It is valued at $1,499. https://gizmodo.com/hard-drive-dying-dance-track-contest-150040…
All right, you one-handed typists: It’s time to start reading books. Yeah, you know, those rectangular things with pages in them? Now you can do some one-handed reading with this new $2.95 thingamajig that holds the book open for you and doubles as a bookmark. And as you can see, it’s pretty in pink to…
LG wants to make sure its got a phone for everyone, including you guys who are comfortable with your aesthetics. So if style and appearance are that important to you, go ahead and ogle this LG S5000 glossy black cellphone, which has been launched in China as the perfect product for the “metrosexual male.” It’s…
Terrell Owens for Boost Mobile By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch Ad-libbing in an empty gym, eternally controversial Philadelphia Eagles wideout Terrell Owens waxes poetic on his dedication to the game of (American) football. “I’m running routes in my head right now, catching a pass right now,” he informs us, while stealthily flexing his impressive…
This week at Lifehacker: Build yourself a gadget recharging station. Hack together a pen-sized wireless antenna. Revive a a soaked piece of hardware killed by spillage. Finally, download essential free software that Google Pack whiffed on. https://lifehacker.com/diy-recharging-station-150037 The ball and chain’s been on your back for months about doing something with the milk crates stacked…
What’s the point of bringing the Xbox 360 out early if nobody can get their hands on it? Not much, if you ask me. And many gaming geeks may feel the same way once they realize that the 360 may not be available again until the spring. Things don’t look good for Big Bill on…
Want a new pet that listens to your favorite music and dances with you? Meet Otoizmu (or Otoizm) from Konami. You connect this 2.2-inch yo-yo-like device to your music player and a character inside will start growing according to the genre of music you listen to. Not only does it grow by listening to your…
The race to create the lightest, fastest notebook is getting old. So Panasonic, and other Japanese laptop makers, are changing the stakes: now it’s all about durability. Hence Panasonic’s latest Let’s Note CF-R4j notebook, which claims to have a 218 lb. weight resistance (up from 110 lb. in the previous version). The notebook is unchanged…
DefenseTech is covering a pretty unique new system for hunting down folks on hours and hours of video tape or—more correctly—digital video. The system takes a few shots of any person and then combs any video feed for that person’s face, allowing hotels and other “high-security” areas to follow suspects throughout large buildings. Might be…
One of the smallest DAPs ever—just 1.5 x 1.6 x .5 inches (half as thick as the MobiBLU)—and it has a 65K color OLED screen to boot. There are 256MB, 512MB and 1GB models, and it looks like it has every other feature that the MobiBLU DAH-1500 offers as well: USB 2.0, FM radio, seven…
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We’ve seen some sketches and heard some rumours about the Blackberry 8700g, but it looks like both Spain and Britain will be getting the gadget soon. T-Mobile UK will be carrying the 8700g and it should be available sometime early next month. What makes it drool-worthy is its updated design and an even bigger color…
KrazyDad builds an Ascent wooden gear clock and lives to tell about it. The Ascent is a complete clock kit made of laser cut plywood and dowels. The process, according to Mr. KrazyDad, was pretty intense and involved sanding, varnishing, and figuring out what an escapement was. However, the finish product looks pretty cool and…
These are handheld pads designed use with the Playstation versions of the game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). Before you blow your lid yelling at the fat kids of today who won’t even play exercise-inducing games, hear me out. I used to be one of those DDR-playing kids back in the day, and when I didn…
Well, there’s no doubt Netflix wants to make sure any and all early adapters are taken care of, which isn’t a terrible thing. Looks like the DVD rental club is going to be supporting HD DVD at its launch in March, carrying the first next-generation DVD movies—and promises to do the same with Blu-ray when…
Yes, you heard right. If you were counting on those scantily-clad models and strippers for an extra bang at the video game convention E3 this year, it’s time to put it back into your pants, sonny boy. The video game industry is apparently trying to change its image, banning these nubile young women from enticing…