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The Klegg Mini seems to be the world’s smallest MP3 player with a color display. This measures 1.8 inches by 1.6 inches by .5 inch. It acts as a normal MP3 player and is capable of photo viewing. Maybe I’m just sick in the head, but I thought the entire purpose of having a photo…
So these were designed by “Pat Says Now.” They are calling these “creative mouse” design, to me they seem more like “horrible novelty” mouse designs. I guess if you really want an extremely uncomfortable mouse but be able to giggle all day while physically clicking women’s breasts, then maybe these are for you. Stick with…
Yeah, you wish you could have a headset that actually looked like a transformer, but this is a transformer in the sense that it is able to be somewhat disguised as a pen and easily carried. Regardless this Bluetooth headset, the Movon MF200, still falls in the overpopulated category of weird-looking Bluetooth headsets. Pen Style…
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Looking For Mobile Search By Carlo Longino Mobile search has been quietly chugging along, with all the usual suspects and a big group of startups releasing their furtive efforts without too much fanfare. Things heated up last week with with separate announcements from giants Yahoo! and Google — with Yahoo saying it was working with…
Sony knows they screwed up finally and is now admitting their DRM allows hackers to penetrate your system and royally screw you over. So now Sony has killed it’s DRM program in the meantime and is pulling most DRM-protected CDs off the shelves. However, Sony is going to be a gentleman this time around and…
Instead of going with the ole’ downloading music thing, Cingular decided to go another route, introducing a mobile radio service that includes about 40 channels of commercial-free music running over data connections. The content is coming from Music Choice and MobiTV Inc’s streaming media service (which also delivers video clips to Cingular and Sprint multimedia…
The Marines have begun using a weapon that is easily capable of turning buildings—and humans—into bits of rubble. This is called the SHAW-NE (shoulder mounted assault weapon novel explosion) and it uses a thermobaric mixture that produces a shockwave in the air easily crushing walls and sending entire buildings collapsing to the ground. Supposedly this…
What better way to trick out a high-performance vehicle than to make it compatible with the most popular music player in the WORLD? Yep, not only is the Nissan Wingroad Rider Super Ultra really hot, it’s got an iPod port. But that’s not all. It also has a sick navigation system with a 7″ LCD,…
So the balstards dudes over at Kotaku got their Xbox 360 in the mail and we’re jealous. The Xbox 360 came with a shiny metal briefcase full of goodies and a debug unit. Yes, the power brick is the size of a small child. The 360 a great unit though and the games are fantastic…
More Mac rumor madness for you kids. Now people are saying that Apple will have an Intel-based Macintosh by January, 2006. The big Intel deal is supposed to be announced during MacWorld in January, which makes sense to us. The original guesstimate was that Intel-based Macs wouldn’t hit stores until June, 2006, but that seems…
If the Terminator ever had a plaything, it would look like the CyberBeast. This ball-creature-toy-thing expands like a peacock to turn into a monster and it can flip itself around the room and over obstacles. It even carries a dangerous payload of fun! Tyco Shell Shocker RC CyberBeast/CyberBall (Almost Samus) [GadgetMadness] Price for Tyco Shell…
This is perfect for the shut-in in your life. It’s an art project, really, but it is a commentary on the blah-de-blah of the blah-blah-blah and the singular nature of the bloo-blah-blah. In reality, it’s a very small cookie kit cast in ceramic and it makes just one tiny cookie. You could see it as…
This is a great accessory for the cellphone power-user in your household. It’s a really small card reader/writer designed for MiniSD and Memory Stick Pro Duo cards, which are found on a lot of multimedia cellphones these days. Made by Greenhouse, these little bundles of love come in Black, White, Blue, and Red and are…
This thing looks kind of dopey but let’s give it a chance. It’s a video and audio recording system that looks like a button. Attach it to your blazer, run the wire up to the little handheld storage system, and record a few hours of super-secret spy stuff onto a RS-MMC. Does it look believable?…
The surf, Dude, is up. The Roxy Deep Tide Watch gives you tide tables for 200 beaches on 5 continents and even includes a “surf heat timer” which goes off when that impetuous Ryan punches another stoner on the OC. It’s water resistant to 10 ATM and is mostly for girls, but I guess guys…
Hardmac ran an interesting upgrade article and one valiant reader took the plunge and cracked the hermetically-sealed titanium beast. After installing a DVD burner, a gigabyte of RAM, and a sassy new hard drive, he pulled the speaker cable out of the thing and had to use a soldering iron to put it back together.…
Just when you thought that every possible variation of USB-powered peripheral was on the market, another one comes along to fill some tiny, microscopic niche and re-confirm that the world has gone completely bonkers. The iSharpener is a USB-powered pencil sharpener, which in itself is either a clever satire on the rampant USB-ification of otherwise…
Viewsonic has been a good old maker of LCD monitors for as long as I can remember, so it’s no big surprise that it has finally decided to throw in a high-definition HDMI multimedia interface and pump out LCD TVs. The 32-, 37- and 4-inch TVs all support digital TV and audio transfers though the…
Sun Microsystems has decided to come into the ring swinging with its latest microprocessor called the UltraSparc T1. Codenamed Niagara (boy, that’s ominous huh?), the chip uses around 70 watts of electricity, which is at least 30 percent less than most other microprocessors. It consists of eight processing cores on just one piece of silicon…