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As you can see, Panasonic group president Yoshiaki Kushiki had a lot of vim and verve on Friday when he announced that the company will stop making plain-jane GSM handsets and focus solely on 3G phones from now on. Of course, the 1,400 (mainly Filipino) workers he had to lay off to do so weren’t…
If you’ve sent top secret txt msgs over your cellphone (Nicole has gr8 @ss don’t u think?) and worried that it will fall into the wrong hands, StealthText by Staellium UK is for you. Basically, when you delete a message with StealthText, the log will stay on a secure server for a certain amount of…
Seems like everyone is trying to scale up the game of Pac-Man lately. Enter Pac-Lan, a game where players keep tabs on each other with their cellphones while physically playing Pac-Man in costumes and all. Created by researchers at Lancaster University’s Department of Communication Systems, each phone has a pre-programmed map based on the university’s…
When I was a kid it was enough to stick those glow-in-the-dark stars and planets on the ceiling. At first, I tried to do a scale model of the universe but realized there was no scale that would make any sense in my bedroom. I got a bit older and turned the ceiling into a…
You got a sneak peek of the Samsung t809 slider phone a month ago, and now you can now go out and buy one for yourself. Using T-Mobile service, this mobile is slim, black and filled with multimedia goodies. Designed to remind you of a plasma TV (what will those kooky marketers think of next?),…
Bluetooth accessories are useful because they provide a liberation from wires and and the devices with which they connect. This controller, however, has rotating handles to help lock in your Series 60 handset for gaming, thus making the Bluetooth feature kind of pointless. You can use it with Windows Mobile, though, so download some mobile…
It’s not that my smoke alarm is hard to reach, or that I don’t have a spare 9V battery around. But doesn’t this doo-hickey make a lot more sense? Plant the alarm in a light socket, then screw the bulb in. Everytime the light is turned on the alarm charges. Flip the lightswitch twice to…
Hey baby, meet ThunderEyes, the sunglasses that can play up to a gigabyte of Tom Jones all night long. You don’t like the way ThunderEyes looks? The lenses, they are interchangeable, oh yeah. You probably think ThunderEyes is just another Thump, Evergreen, Nu Tech or Harry. But ThunderEyes can please you in ways you never…
Lots of people have iPods nowadays. Why not buy one more accessory for it that ll really turn some heads, like, say, The iBoxer? For only $22 apiece, you can be the proud owner of underpants that have a specially-designed pocket on the side, a perfect place to store that iPod of your choice. So…
A common thesis states that CDs just don t sound as rich as old-fashioned vinyl does. There s something about an analog recording etched into the vinyl that cannot be replicated by a series of 0s and 1s. If you have an extra $23,000, however, a solution to the problem can be yours. The Kalista…
It’s pretty well-known that eBay has a few bad eggs aboard who like to scam people out of their money. Of course, with the popularity of the Xbox 360, you just knew a scam or two would surface. Enter caitlincutie, who managed to sell a picture of the 360 for $823. That s right, a…
Penelope Boston and Steven Dubowsky have received some bling-bling in the form of a grant to design hopping microbots for NASA. A rover would deliver hundreds of these miniature robots to the Mars surface for exploration purposes. The small spheres store up muscle energy and release it causing it to hop into various directions. The…
Our blogging half-cousins twice related through marriage cohorts over at Kotaku have an extensive rundown of the Japan Xbox 360 release, and the main thing they discovered: people don t give a damn about the Xbox 360. Maybe once Microsoft releases an official Hello Kitty faceplate the Xbox 360 rage will catch on. Check out…
What the bloody hell is this? A random tipster hit up Dave over at Mobility Today with these shots of the HP rw4500 Smartphone. This thing looks pretty damn sexy; random tipster-man mentioned it runs Windows Mobile 5, has a 320×240 screen, Bluetooth 1.2, Wi-Fi and a 1.3 megapixel camera. Check out the linkage for…
If you find the need to get your small child more involved in what he watches, this could be just what you re looking for. The “Childs Developmental Synchronized Plush and DVD” (or as I call it, “Babysitter”) is a set that supposedly gets your child to actively participate in the included movie. The plush…
The Canon Pixma MP170 represents yet another reason to ditch your 4-year-old inkjet printer and upgrade to one that goes beyond the simple realm of printing. The Pixma MP170 prints from memory cards as well as cameras, eliminating the need for cumbersome transfer cables. All of this for a moderate $122. Canon Pixma MP170 [Digital…
The Japanese are known for many things: Shinto, fuel-efficient cars, and action-packed anime. That being said, not many people style their computer case mods in the image of Japanese aesthetics. That is, except for Nicholas Falzone. Over 300 hours of work was put into Sangaku, Japanese for mathematics tablet, a wooden PC mod that houses…
Xbox Live for the Xbox 360 is a pretty impressive service. Getting together with your amigos and doing some online jousting is phenomenal. What you may not know, however, is that every little thing you do with your 360 is detailed to anyone you ve so much as said hey to. The system s default…
So you were one of the lucky few to get your hands on an Xbox 360? Big deal. Is your faceplate made of solid gold? Thought not. But for the low, low price of $36,000 it can be! An enterprising person on eBay is auctioning off a 24-karat gold 360 faceplate. So for all you…
Just when getting single-digit gas mileage wasn t enough, now you can make that Humvee defy gravity by scaling a wall. It uses “super power ground force suction” to clamp itself to the wall, giving kids a fun opportunity to ruin your new wallpaper and probably end up breaking the toy when it decides to…