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If you’ve been waiting for a combo MP3/satellite radio portable player, Dell and XM Satellite have finally come up with something. It basically looks like most of Dell’s MP3 players, can soak up XM satellite radio content while it’s on its cradle, and can hold up to 15,000 of your fave tunes. So, yeah, you…
Get where you’re going while listening to your favorite music. Obviously, that’s what the Joyfriend MP3 player with integrated GPS was made for. Real small, real red and with a 128MB built-in memory, it’s being sold for $1 a MB. Don’t have much more info than this, but really, what more do you need to…
For heaven’s sake, could it be that only a Swedish designer could get away with making plush toys that represent pee and poo, and have them called cute, cuddly and unique? Pee & Poo toys have been sold solely in the Swedish market thus far (I don’t even want to know what Laura Bush would…
The most recent additions to the Alienware line of laptops are the Sentia M3200 and the Aurora M7700. The M3200 is the fashion plate, all light and thin, while the M7700 is about muscle, with desktop-like power, dual hard drives and dual optical drives. It’s actually being touted as the first mobile system to be…
It’s official, the Nintendo Revolution will make sure your ever impressionable kids will be guarded against those nasty Mature games with a password controlled censorship system. Each game will include a code that will give you the rating of the disc and this will activate the system to remain locked or unlocked. “Even though many…
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows when you have an MSN Direct Weather Station by Oregon Scientific. This gadget will tell you everything weather-related including a 3 day forecast, moon phase, and even an EPA air-quality reading. This up-to-date information is provided by the metrology meteorology professionals at the…
I didn’t really know they still used the word sailor if it had nothing to do with the Navy, but Suunto likes to say that its M91 (a rework of the the company’s M9 wristop computer) is “the world’s smallest wrist-worn GPS for sailors.” Ok, whatever. So if you fit in that narrow category, the…
Good news for PC gamers: the Blade B-75 boasts big performance with its nVidia Geforce Go 7800 GTX or ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphics chipsets and 256MB of dedicated memory. An Intel Centrino laptop, it’s got a 17-inch high-resolution screen, stereo speakers, up to 240GB of storage and a second battery in case you poop…
We don’t have a branded image for you yet, but Sprint Nextel and Samsung have teamed up to bring out the A900, an ultra-thin cellphone, hoping to finally put a dent in Motorola RAZR sales. And to make sure Sprint users won’t have a choice, Sprint Nextel’s chief operating officer Len Lauer mentioned that the…
You think you have what it takes to be the world’s fastest drummer? Better start practicing with the Drumometer. The Drumometer can detect how fast a drummer’s hands and feet are moving and will count the number of movements that you make with a special electronic drumpad. Because of this device, a “World’s Fastest Drummer”…
Texas Instruments will be working with Mitsubishi to make the world’s most beautiful plasma-screen graphing calculator, the TI2010. Just joshing. They are actually working together to make possibly the world’s most beautifulest DLP projector in the land. The Mitsubishi HC3000U projector will use a color processing technology that was developed by TI to make colors…
Whilst I fully agree that the Optimus is one sexy piece of keyboarding equipment, it has the unfortunate trait of not actually being real yet. Call me a fussy heathen but I am of the opinion that things which aren’t real are distinctly more difficult to use in real life than things which are. Sigma…
Unfortunately, many of my digital images end up looking more like this picture than I’d like to admit, so it was with a happy heart that I read about a new technology that could refocus photos after they’ve been taken. A team at Stanford University are claiming to have figured out how to adjust the…
Okay, I realize that Kotaku got theirs first. But it was only by a few hours. And I have a better human model posing with my new toy — don’t you think? https://gizmodo.com/kotaku-gets-an-xbox-360-137365 The first thing you need to know is that the power cord does indeed have a huge brick attached to it that…
The InFocus line of low-end home theater projectors don’t draw great reviews. But I have high hopes for the company’s upcoming models because they are all shiny black and alien looking. These all use DLP, and the IN76 is a native 720p high definition unit. The demo gal said she thinks the contrast ratio is…
Thomson sneaked its newest Gyration product today, the Gyrotransport. This curvy white mouse could fit on a keychain and even get lost in your man-purse. There is a 1GB USB dongle that snaps into the underbelly too. Slide that sucker off, plug it into a Windows XP machine and it carries both the software required…
Well, if you’re looking for more headphones, Shure has got some recent developments. In fact, the company is rolling out two kinds of headsets, the I Series integrated earphones and mobile headset and the E Series:Gaming Edition. The recent E Series includes the E2g ($99), E3g ($179), and E4g ($299) products, all with Shure s…
Just back from a pre-CES soiree here in NYC with some tantalizing tidbits to share. The tiny Jabra JX10 Bluetooth headset that first appeared in the spring at CeBit was supposed to have been available this summer. Turns out the device, crafted by the Danish designer Jacob Jensen, has soft-launched in Europe and will arrive…
CineForm and Wafian will be introducing the HR-1 HD video recorder. This DVR is capable of storing up to 18 hours of HD video in either 720p or 1080i/p. This rack-mountable media center contains two hard drives in a mirrored or striped RAID array. It also has an integrated touch-panel LCD, gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0,…
Samsung is going to be demonstrating WiBro (Wireless Broadband, or what we like to call Mobile WiMAX) at this year’s 2005 APEC IT Exhibition during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) by showing the first two WiBro phones— the mobile phone-typed H1000 and the PDA-typed M8000. The H1000 is a clamshell phone that can open either…