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All About Symbian is featuring a full hands-on preview of the Nokia E61 smartphone. This is rocking all of the standard bells and whistles of smartphones: Wi-Fi, SPRS, 3G connectivity, mini-SD expansion, and IR. The screen is an average 240×320 and the keyboard is a bit on the small side. Best of all this runs…
Hey hey, my my, karaoke will never die. Not in Japan, at least. Especially not when there is the Wireless Karaoke MKW-50 microphone from Onkyo. It holds 600 songs, includes videos and can be connected to a TV to be enjoyed as a full karaoke station. Tempo, echo, etc. can be adjusted. The mic even…
Come on, girls, do you believe in cell phones? Well I’ve got something to say about it and it looks something like the MDA Compact II in pink. Yes, T-Mobile is releasing a new PDA just for you. Don’t worry—it isn t overly geeked out with stuff and it will match your rosy cheeks. It…
Did somebody say bandwagon? With the release of the Xbox 360 and the option of customizable faceplates, it seems Karl Lagerfeld has jumped the couch with these fancy, yet compelling faceplates for the Xbox 360. Along with Lagerfeld’s designs, other top designers in Paris have been commissioned to give their twist to this geeky artform…
Now s here s a great gift idea for that special person in your life. From the folks at Banana Design Lab comes My Beating Heart. This wholesome-looking heart resembles all the stuffed animals you ve ever had, but with one small difference: the heart beats. Yes, so now on those cold winter nights you…
You ever wanted to take a nice, big paintball gun and really give it your boss or supervisor? Or maybe splatter a little pellet of paint at some women wearing only their delicates? Today s your lucky day! Live-Paintball.com lets you remotely control a paintball gun, letting you shoot people dressed up in whatever costumes…
This week at Lifehacker: Cell phone modem connection got you twiddling your thumbs? Find out how to survive a slow Internet connection. Carry your OS on your keyring and boot Windows from a thumbdrive. Save cameraphone photos to Flickr with the press of a button. Finally, create multiple iTunes libraries on one computer and switch…
By Alexander Roy In the last 10 months, I ve driven almost 6,000 miles on public roads at well over 100 miles-per-hour. That s almost 30 hours at speeds most wouldn t attempt for more than a few minutes. I received only one speeding ticket. My speed-demon ways are due to my twice-a-year participation in…
The Intelliscanner Kitchen Companion is a Bluetooth-enabled device that scans barcodes to keep inventory of your kitchen. It’s powered by a database containing more than 300,000 barcodes of various grocery products. All you have to do is scan in your products as you get them and scan them out as you stuff them in your…
Why would you ever want normal lamps again when you can have the TwistTogether Lamp from Glide? The lamps look like 1950s TV sets and illuminate your room with internal LEDs. They can be stacked upon each other, stuck in corners, and probably will cook your dinner if so asked. They re easily the best…
To be honest, I don’t know which I’m more sick of hearing about, Podcasts or Bird Flu. But I guess the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary didn’t want to be alarmist this year and decided to go with “Podcast” as the Word of the Year. Along with Bird Flu, the other runner up…
Admit it, you can’t match for shit. It’s ok, it seems you’re not alone. So to help the color blind (or fashion unconscious) out there, a couple of students at Keio University have invented a scarf woven with optical fibers that can somehow figure out what color you’re wearing, then trigger LEDs which will light…
How many times has your pet gotten lost and you became sick with worry? Tons? Then I’m calling the ASPCA. But if you worry about your pet getting lost, why not equip your doggy or kitty with the PetCell? PetCell is a cellphone specifically designed for pets that comes with its own dedicated phone number.…
Hot off the heels of last month s DRM crisis, Sony and the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced that they discovered a new critical flaw in an unrelated DRM technology. Thankfully, the flaw was fixed and shouldn t pose any real problems to consumers. The flawed DRM in this instance is produced by Sunncomm, the…
The Brits seem to be ahead of their time, now allowing BskyB digital satellite customers to download hundreds of films as well as highlights from major sporting events onto their PCs—all for no extra cost. Stunning, really. Called skybybroadband, the service promises a good mix of films, including Hollywood blockbusters and classic movie titles, as…
Reader Josh dropped us a note about the PXR-5 watch which is now available in the US from Charles & Marie. When it was announced a while back we had an eye on it and now we can be the proud owners of a sexy $75 digital timepiece that looks like a caribiner on growth…
Well, all you whiny little Nellies out there who wanted Joel Johnson back can have him—at the Consumerist! Yes, Joel has dried out and is now blogging full time for the Gawker Network’s latest creation. The Consumerist talks about the suckiness of commerce and allows us, the little guy, the fight back through endless rants…
We try and try to keep ignoring MiniDisc. We really do. But it just keeps coming back to life right when we think it might be dead. This time around it’s going to be a bit harder with these JVC XM-C37 players because the battery life is absolutely insane. With a full charge, you’ll be…
Ok, I’ve dealt with Europe and Asia getting the cool phones first. But come on: They get HBO on demand from 3G too? That’s OUR channel! Looks like Vodaphone is announcing a global Mobile TV service, which will offer series like Sex and the City, Six Feet Under or Curb Your Enthusiasm on its Vodafone…
The iGo brand is old news, but this recent addition of Mobility Electronics’ iGo everywhere130 AC/DV power adapter is pretty darn sweet. Instead of carrying around all kinds of adapter tips that would fit into different products with the older iGo products, this is all-in-one and promises to charge all your mobile devices, be they…