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LG is joining the likes of Pantech & Curiel with a strange form-factor phone. This is the LG SD 910 phone that is currently only going to be available in the Korean market. Not much else is known about it except the screen appears to slide outward revealing more keys underneath. Eat your heart out,…
You know that you get sick of the wind blowing by your ears when you take your hog out for a spin. Sometimes it’d be nice to have some music playing without jeopardizing your safety. Now that’s possible with a bone conduction speaker from Nippon MNI Inc. The speaker costs about $50 and can be…
Say goodbye to Cingular. Not as a service, but as a brand name. Looks like SBC, the majority holder of the cellphone provider has finally gone through the final throes of merging with AT&T last Friday and plans on changing its official name to AT&T. Though Cingular is certainly well known at this point, I…
A Motorola slider phone with a heat- and touch-sensitive keypad has been unearthed by Chinese phone bloggers. The A732 comes in silver and black, includes a 3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, 64 chord polyphonic speaker and a T-flash expansion slot for extra memory. The odd, heat-sensitive keypad seems to let users scribble characters using their…
Today the headlines are all about oil shortages. But tomorrow’s precious resource is water. That’s why Industrial design students Wendy Chua, 21, and Gabriel Tan, 23, from the National University of Singapore invented the waterless washing machine. Unlike dry cleaning, which relies on chemicals, this machine uses negative ions, compressed air and deodorants to clean…
Back in September we mentioned that Apple was effectively screwing everyone out of the 4GB and 6GB flash player market because Samsung was offering a huge volume discount to the company (up to 50 percent for the nano). Now it’s been announced that Apple reached a long-term agreement with Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics and…
The Vogard is a nice piece of wrist machinery. It’s basically a nice automatic watch with a unique system for changing timezones. When you land in Tokyo, simply flip out the bezel lock and turn the outer ring to the proper city. Both the big 24-hour hand—the one that looks like a triangle—and the outer…
Big news for motorcycle riders. Who needs those annoying mirrors on your bike when you can have a rear view mirror built right into your helmet? The recent announcement from Reevu unveiled just such a product that includes an integrated 180 degree unbreakable mirror system, letting you see the road behind you through a window…
The portable sat-radio scene is in an uproar today over several unexpected “features” of the Sirius S50 portable audio player. It turns out that only shows without music can be saved to the device via the Scheduled Recording. You are only allowed to record ONE SONG at a time, and when the song is over…
The longer a press release is, the more the company has to hide. This is a Bluetooth-enabled trackball. You and I grasp this concept immediately—roll ball, make object on screen move. However, the makers of the Ball inform us that trackballs are popular with air traffic controllers and were once used to play Centipede. Obviously,…
XLink is a framework that allows local multiplayer gaming devices like the PSP, XBox, and Nintendo DS to emulate a local network over the Internet. The result? Instant on-line multiplayer without having to invite 20 of your friends to roll in every weekend. Saves on chips and beer, basicially. Apparently the folks at XLink tested…
GPSP is a nifty little piece of software for your PSP. It was created via some circuit hacking and using a piece of PSP software called “Lua.” Using a GPS dongle, you’re able to pick up a signal and use the PSP as a full-blown GPS device. It can show your location and update in…
While Sony talks about beefing up LCD production, LG goes the other way and announces a plan to add another plasma display panel production line in 2007. LG expects the PDP market to get up to 25 million units by 2010 and hopes its new line will put out 550,000 units a month. “We are…
If you are looking to drop some cash on a device that stores images, check out Digital Foci’s Media Buddy, a hard disc drive that lets you copy and store photos from a memory card without any wires. The backlit LCD shows text only, so you can’t view any pics (but we all know how…
After news last week that the DVR maker is losing customers to other forms of DVRs (including satellite and cable makers), sneaky TiVo rebounded today with an announcement in the Wall Street Journal of plans to let users download any of the TV programs stored on their recorders to video iPods (as well as PSPs).…
Yes, the day has finally arrived; Sony is getting into the vibrating dildonics market that we have been waiting forever for. LOLLERS I’m just joshing you. This is the “Touch Engine Module” being produced and released by Sony. It uses a piezoelectric vibrator that allows touch panel devices to vibrate when touched. It is also…
Oh, you kids love your vintage crap gaming memorabilia. We’ve seen a slew of
Claustrophobic and have a fear of water? Quick, buy this. This is a six-foot-wide ball that encloses a person and allows him to run around, on the water. You know, like Jesus. These are designed with intentions to battle other morons people in other big inflatable balls on the ocean. This Nuclear Globe inflatable tube…
Sadly, these are not another variety of iPod-powered sex toy, these are Logitec Japan’s colorful new cigarette lighter-powered FM transmitters, to play your DAP-of-choice through your car stereo system. They’re available in 5 colors to ensure a perfect match between your car interior and DAP player, thus making for a greater sense of smug self-satisfaction,…
Something I came across today assured me that I have not yet found my holy grail of world’s most pointless USB peripheral, but is a clear sign that I am getting closer. This is a USB Christmas Tree, which lights up, blows styrofoam snow around and plays 4 popular Christmas songs, all thanks to the…