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The tiny MediaLounge DSM-120 Wireless Music Player uses 802.11b/g wireless or a wired network to stream your whole PC-based music library to another computer or any hi-fi speakers. For easy listening when your computer’s off, just attach a USB flash drive or USB hard disk drive to the DSM-120 and play music directly from the…
LG is releasing the 42LP1DR LCD TV soon. The model number may not be that big of a deal, but the feature set is making me wiggle. The 42″ HD-ready LCD TV will feature a built-in 160GB hard drive for recording your HD shows and movies. This is great because it allows you to ditch…
Oops! After all that hype about a December 8 unveiling, looks like Creative’s big product launch was undermined by Japan, where the Zen Vision:M was unearthed a day before its London debut. The product, which is a bit of a mouthful, if you please, is indeed green and white (though it also comes in black…
Internet Week 2005 started yesterday in Tokyo, and this Linux phone was one of the first things unveiled. It is built on Windows CE with an additional Linux bootloader, if that makes any sense to you. The phone also runs Mozilla for web access and can access Google Maps (although I suppose lots of phones…
A new display set up at Tokyo station makes interesting use of e-paper. Six A4 sheets of e-paper are on display for commuters in a snazzy transparent blue housing — allowing them to see how thin the e-paper is. The sheets of e-paper are being fed with the latest news stories via a wireless Internet…
If you’re tired of investing in the coolest, most expensive cell phones on the market, the winds of change may be blowing. Looks like chip companies have been banding together to bring us phones as cheap as $20 by 2007. Promising us the quality we’re accustomed to, the companies are saying that the key to…
Games are gonna get speedier with Hynix Semiconductor’s double data rate 4 memory chip, being aimed mainly at consoles and PC graphics cards. The recently announced 512-megabit density GDDR4 chips are high-bandwidth DRAM, which the company claims will be able to process heavy volumes of gaming and video images a hell of a lot quicker…
The one thing hindering my cell phone usage is the inability to charge my phone via USB or Firewire. Yeah, I could buy one of these at one of those cellphone-crap mall kiosks, but why not just do it myself? Call me anal-retentive, but I’d rather have everything just plugged into my computer charging for…
How often has a birthday or holiday snuck up on you, forcing you to become creative with your food in a feeble attempt to show your can-do spirit? Never? Oh, well in that case, next time you want to create some designer cookies with custom imprints, you can reach for the Cookie Factory. Basically, you…
Playboy is jumping on the podcast bandwagon by offering up their new “Bodcast” daily video podcasts. These Bodcasts will be available through the Playboy website and will feature video of Playmates, the joke of the day, commentary from ole’ Hugh, and advice from the gals. The Bodcasts are free as long as you sign up…
No sir, this isn t some crappy, off-brand guitar plastered with Hello Kitty, this is a respectable Fender Stratocaster featuring the face of that cute and cuddly kitty that seems to be plastered on gadgets worldwide. This Fender costs $230 and there pretty much isn t a reason to NOT get one. David Ponce over…
In what must be a direct result of the space-time continuum collapsing around us, an LCD-screened USB stick device has been released that ISN’T yet another mp3 player. This is a USB memory stick, and a pretty ugly one at that. But wait, before you all say “meh” and start throwing rocks, look at the…
After announcing a few days ago that it plans to compete in the push-to-talk space, today Cingular has also decided to introduce high-speed wireless services in 16 US markets. Obviously part of the big picture that will help the company compete with Verizon Wireless and Sprint, the service should be expanded to most of the…
Yup, looks familiar alright. Eveshams’s latest tiny Mini PC is cute and stylish, just like the Mini Mac. Running Microsoft s Windows Media Center Edition, it’s meant to be really quiet (which I guess is a big selling point for those of us with bionic hearing or suffer from “Telltale Heart” Syndrome) and includes a…
Don’t get me wrong—I hate the high gas prices, pollution and all that jazz. Then again, on the other hand something doesn t seem quite right knowing I could be driving a mobile hydrogen bomb at speeds upwards of 70mph. Danish scientists have developed a way to store hydrogen in a cheaper and safer manner:…
Running a little low on cash this holiday season? Check out our cohorts over at Laptop Magazine. They’re having an enormousa kinda big holiday giveaway featuring 25 gadgets waiting to be won. Cell phones, computer peripherals, software, digital cameras, printers—they’re all up for the taking. Unfortunately, nude photos of the publisher, Ed Brown, are not…
This week at Treehugger: A mechanical engineer creates a DIY solar-powered pontoon boat; The AladdinPower hand generator allows you to power gadgets even when miles away from electrical outlets; A rugged and fairly inexpensive solar-powered projector to help teachers in poor rural communities in Africa and Asia; Two brothers make a solar-powered coffee roaster that…
Haven’t had the time to read your scriptures lately? Now you can hang the King James Translation of The Holy Bible from your key chain and read it anywhere you please. The style is churchly—black with gold lettering and a nice little cross— and it would make a great stocking stuffer for the pious in…
IGN is reporting that the Nintendo Revolution will arrive just in time for another late November console camp-out party. The rumor comes from an anonymous game studio that was given the date from Nintendo itself. Might as well get in line now. What else could tide you over until Mario Kart: Nude Revolution comes out.…
Here s the bottom line, folks: this is a run-of-the-mill PVR and probably the best thing about it is how pretty it looks. The PVR is based on an anodized aluminum shell that would match perfectly with a Mac tower or Powerbook of sorts. It features a 125-channel analog TV tuner and the ability to…