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Hot Pockets By Carlo Longino It was inevitable: porn on your cellphone. While the iPod video is being hyped as the latest platform for adult content, a number of companies are convinced that someday very soon, the lion’s share of mobile-porn customers will use their phones. That’s because handsets are far more ubiquitous than Apple’s…
This is the Ethernet Disk mini, an external hard disk drive that features both USB and networking capabilities. With the ever-growing popularity of media centers, having a networked drive like this is nice to share all of the essential files between the various machines on the network such as laptops, desktops and the media center.…
These two-drawer dishwashers should be standard in dorm rooms. You can run each one separately to manage load sizes and conserve water usage. This way you can throw frequently used things such as cups and utensils in the top and run it while you prep the bottom part with your cooking dishes and big plates.…
This Motorola MS550 has almost no chance of making it to our shores (Korea-only, my friends) but I dig the design. With a 3.2-megapixel camera that has a pop-out lens, it looks more like a camera than a phone from this angle. Of course, it’s also 3G compliant, supports CDMA EV-DO data connections and has…
US Robotics isn’t fooling around. Its Wireless Gateway USR019108 is a broadband networking solution that combines the company’s exclusive MaxG with ADSL2+ technology for a complete broadband networking solution that encompasses a router and a print server. Obviously great for home networks, it’s also perfect for any small business needs. And if your broadband provider…
Don’t feel like loading your own content on your Video iPod? Check out a company called TVMyPod, which will gladly sell you a brand new Video iPod with the DVD movies of your choice already preloaded. Not a bad deal if you don’t have the movies, or the time to deal with ripping, converting and…
You remember back in the 1970s you could go to the Planetarium on Friday nights to check out the Pink Floyd laser light show? Yeahhhh, it was pretty rad, man. Now you can have one in your living room with the Laservibe. Hook it up to your MP3 player, stereo, or whatever, turn it on…
This is the BeoMedia 1. It appears to be a media center of sorts. B&O has focused on simplicity with this media center by offering features that are most relevant to the user. It can do mostly the same features as any other media center: music playback, video playback, streaming radio, limited web browsing, etc.…
For those times when you need to transform your iPod into a rudimentary grappling hook, Elecom’s new retractable iPod cables could be exactly the item you are looking for. Available in 31- and 59-inch varieties. Sure, we’ve seen products like this before, but this may be one of the first (of an impending onslaught of)…
Have you heard the new Xbox comes out today? In honor of Launch Day, I give you an all-Xbox 360 edition of Ink. First, let’s get the stuffy, business angle out of the way, courtesy of the Wall St. Journal. [WSJ (reg)] I’m surprised to see so few articles about Microsoft’s pagan Zero Hour launch…
Well, it’s finally here—the best thing in the world ever, until the PS3 comes out. Here’s the massive bolus of coverage from all around the world. All I can say is that Project Gotham Racing rox. In search of the Xbox 360 [Star Tribune] Xbox 360’s Thrills Are Many but They Don’t Come Cheap [LA…
Over the weekend I spoke with one of the Microsoft brains who hatched the idea for the Zero Hour party in the Mojave desert. He told me that Zero Hour’s resemblance to Burning Man is entirely intentional (check out these structures). Judge for yourself how well they pulled it off from the pics on the…
Looks interesting doesn’t it? The problem is, we’re not sure what it could possibly be used for. Think you can help? We figure you have some good ideas, so let us know your thoughts.
With TiVo’s big announcement yesterday, announcing the simple downloading of programs to your Video iPod and PSP, you may have some questions. So here are some quick answers. First of all, you may have already heard of the TiVoToGo service, which currently lets you transfer programming to computers and laptops, as well as portable products…
We’re aware of the IE crash problem. They’ve been combing the site to figure out what’s up, so please be patient and download Firefox.
Perhaps you own a cheese shop with a rat problem—or a rat shop with a cheese problem. Normally you could lay down some traps, walk away, and check back every few days. This process could be tedious if you have a lot of traps and if some are placed in tight places. Rentokil (nice name…
Investment advisors all agree—buy XBox 360s. I’ve transferred my entire portfolio—stocks, bonds, 401(k), bullion (vegetable and beef)—into XBox 360s. I currently have 5,000 of them in my basement and at the rate they’re going on Ebay, I can expect a tidy return on my money in the next few years. I mean look at this:…
Add live TV to your PC with the WinTV HVR-900 TV Tuner, a very small USB 2.0 stick that plugs right into your laptop or any computer to let you receive analog and digital terrestrial TV. Not a bad thing to have when you’re stuck at the airport and don’t feel like watching Fox News,…
Verizon and RIM introduced the Blackberry 713e, making it the first smartphone to use Verizon’s EV-DO network. And now that RIM has promised that its service will not be interrupted because of its legal woes, it certainly would be nice to use the new Blackberry as a tethered modem for your laptop (courtesy of Verizon’s…
W-O-W. Antec went through a lot of trouble to give us the P180 SPCR Advanced Super Midi Tower Case (and to name it, too). With dual chambers that isolate power supply and CPU into separate cooling zones with up to five, count ’em, FIVE, configurable fans and three-layer, sound-deadening panels that should make it whisper…