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If you’re as poor a driver as I am, the idea of things like vibrating seat belts and directional horn sounds to alert you to an accident sounds like a nice addition to any car. Looks like Oxford professors feel that these kinds of sensory signals will help improve our reaction time in those first…
Falling into a tiny, sub-niche section of the market that I can’t even begin to describe without the very real fear that my eyeballs might be blown out of their sockets by every individual brain cell in my head saying “what??” simultaneously, are these ridiculous conversion lenses made for MOBILE PHONE cameras. Coming in telephoto,…
In the UK, since they don’t really have trailers, the word “white trash” seems to have been substituted by “Chav.” Used in a sentence: Kevin Federline came out today looking more like a Chav than a D-list celebrity. Got it? Good. So it’s interesting to hear that in Britain, the iPod Shuffle, along with Burberry…
Shinya Matsuyama and Makoto Hirahara have designed a cube-shaped lamp that can sense color and then recreate that color. It is technically not a camera, but it is being described as a simple one-pixel camera anyway. It works with a switch on the bottom and red, blue and green LEDs. When the switch is pressed,…
Calling all pervs. Looks like a family business is coming apart at the seams, and you could be the lucky bidder to scoop it up. Of course, you’d have to be ready to wade knee-deep into the skin biz, but if your job has been getting you down, maybe it’s not such a bad idea.…
United Nuclear has a good idea here. They believe that all other magnets are wimpy and puny! So they make high-quality neodymium magnets for you to play with. These magnets are rated at N40, unlike other magnets which clock in at under N40. What’s this mean to you? It means these are some strong-ass magnets…
We talked about these a while back, but they’re shipping now. Essentially, if you’re going to have to use USB peripherals, you may as well make sure they’re not horrifically ugly right? That’s what Boynq thinks, and has brought out a nice selection of attractive designer gadgets in time for the holidays. For VoIP, check…
Japan decided they needed to one-up the Americans yet again by unveiling a Segway that is minus the handles and steering mechanism. Safety and “riding-while-drunk” issues are my immediate concerns with this…? Hell, look at this guy: his eyes are closed so tight because he’s probably crapping himself. Expect Segway PMP-2 lawsuit news coming in…
Vertu, maker of expensive phones, recently got some credibility handed to them it seems. The company is marketing their Ascent Motorsport Edition, which is an ultra-luxurious phone made with petroleum-resistant automotive leather inlaid with carbon fiber and Liquidmetal—you know, the stuff the future Terminator was made of. In short, it’s strong. So Vertu claimed the…
At IREX over in Japan, the focus of today’s leading technology was defined with one word: breakdancing. You best grab your Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five LP and get ready to bust a move, because this robot is one hand-plant ahead of you. With a hot red paint job, the little guy will pop,…
South Korea is a pretty fierce place for the MP3 player market. Apple only holds a measly eight percent of the market share there, compared to the 280 percent that they seem to hold over here in the states. In a fit of rage, Apple has decided to file a complaint against iOPS regarding two…
Looking for that extra boost out of your AirPort Express or possibly other Wi-Fi router/access point? Give this a shot. Simply stick that thing inside of a steel wire basket ladle. In a way this creates a passive Wi-Fi antenna enhancer. Proper positioning at the focal point of the parabola-shaped kitchenware can enhance the signal…
More CES news from Aopen, which claims that we’ll get a peek at the first Intel Viiv small form factor PCs at the big show in Januray. The miniPC runs both Windows and Linux and Viiv machines will probably use both Intel’s Pentium and its Yonah notebook processors. Of course, I’m sure there’ll be about…
Every once in a while somebody comes around wanting to scam someone else. Usually it’s something stupid that gets them caught and thrown in jail. In this case, we have a 19-year-old gentleman who decided to use the program BarCode Magic to create custom iPod barcodes that made them drop in price…a lot. So it…
Plextor’s PX-608U is a lightweight portable DVD recorder drive that comes with double layer DVD+/- writing, multi-format DVD-RAM capability and high-speed USB 2.0 data transfer. And if you get a writing failure because of a slow or stopped buffer (it’s got 2MB), the drive will actually pause for you and start burning again as soon…
Sony’s PSP graf-admen have it all wrong. Convince the world that your product is superior and it will appear in graffiti without having to pay shills. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-psp-graffiti-is-pissing-people-off-140940 iPod Graf [Cult of Mac] Via Taniwha’s Flickr
Newgen’s latest PDA, called the T3, is a standard candybar cell sans keypad. The company seems to like to stick to touchscreens on their products (like the earlier edition, the T1), so it’s up to you whether you think you can get used to the idea. The T3 also comes with a 2.2 inch TFT…
Verizon announced today that its online store will begin offering the Motorola RAZR V3c tomorrow, with the phones arriving in retail stores around December 12th. This updated RAZR, originally announced in November, features a 1.3 megapixel camera, 30MB of internal storage, Bluetooth and also supports Verizon’s EV-DO V-Cast network. It can be good as yours…
If It Feels Good: Skateboarding toward the future of digital user interfaces by Jared Ficklin When I’m not busy creating user-interface prototypes, I’m co-director of the local Public Skatepark Action Committee. The two gigs aren’t as dissimilar as you might think; a skatepark, after all, is just a user interface for skateboarders, and one with…
Sick of hearing about the Nokia N90 yet? Well, we aren t—we love this thing. The N90 features Zeiss Optics with its camera that is supposedly way better than the average bear. Some European bloggers gave these Zeiss Optics a test run by recording a Jamaican reggae band in Portugal, then uploaded the video for…