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No we aren t talking about the fact that cats love to lie on top of keyboards (cat owners know what I’m talking about) but this is a revolution in wearable input device technology. KITTY TECH, the manufacturer, is an acronym for Keyboard Independent Touch Typing Technology and if it is kitty-related we here at…
On a nice autumn day, I like to go walking outside with my sweatpants on, being cozy, and admiring the changing leaves color. Eventually I end up walking 5 miles and call it a day. But now, with this contraption, I can go sightseeing for hours upon hours as long as my dog has some…
So we learned today that the 360 runs just about everything in the XBox back catalog—especially “best-selling” XBox games—and it will basically emulate everything in software. That’s a pretty unusual but sassy solution, I suppose, and it will be tres cool to play Halo every once and a while. So far, they’ve confirmed about 200…
Now that some cellphones are getting video, it only makes sense that really bad programming should trickle down to the small screen. Seems a bunch of scriptwriters from a hip Chinese soap opera are banding together to bring cellphone users everywhere a serial program called “The Appointment”, centered around “two motorcycle racers who fall in…
Well, I’m not sayin’ it’s true, but just so you know, a San Diego-based company called Nethercomm is claiming that it is now in development of a system to use your natural-gas pipes to transmit broadband data at speeds of 100 megabits per second. The glitch to this masterpiece? Um, it’s never been tested. Basically,…
Apologies in advance for the gruesome picture, but it has to be seen to be believed. The University of Utah College of Pharmacy has developed a hydrogel that enables printing of organs by layering thin sheets embedded with cells. The system uses a patient’s own healthy cells to create bio-ink and bio-paper. The liquid hydrogel…
Today’s DAP Headlines: The Cowon iAudio U3 gets picture-reviewed once again, Creative’s Zen Touch gets a firmware update, and we find the last remaining remnants of Rio’s last beta test. Cowon’s new iAudio U3 seems to be getting pretty good English previews so far. The Koreans have been playing around with this little gem for…
Sony BMG announced that they will be temporarily suspending the production of CDs containing the First4InternetXCP content protection. Why you may ask? Well they tried to stop the hax0rs of the world from stealing music, so the hax0rs used Sony’s technology to exploit a Trojan virus. Touch Sony! The technology employed by Sony to protect…
Here’s a novel idea: an MP3 player with wireless headphones that can switch you from listening to your tunes to a phone mode to answer cellphone calls via a bluetooth link—all using a digital audio System on Chip (SoC) solution from SigmaTel. The FunTwist C-Chord800 supports MP3, WMA and WAV formats as well as EQ…
“Marlon Reynolds’ Prototype Machine” (Timothy Archibald) Interview by Noah Robischon Given the explosion in popularity of doing-it-yourself, it’s surprising that so few hacks and mods are devoted to the greatest form of doing it ever: sex. But an exhibition that opened earlier this month at the Museum of Sex, “Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews by…
All of us like to show our gaming prowess when possible, so why not while networking with the PR people from Nintendo? Next time I throw them a business card, I want to do it with style using my Retro Famicom Business Card Holder. They’re shaped like the old Famicom cartridges and controllers and open…
Boris Volfson. Remember that name, because it will go down in history. He is the inventor of the “space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state.” Translation: Anti-grav spaceship. And it looks an awful lot like that device from Stargate. I’ve read a lot of science-fiction in my day, and the abstract to…
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences wants to give some love to creators of original content for cellphones and other portable devices. The group, masterminds of the Daytime Emmys (but not the slightly-farcical Primetime Emmys), plans to include the new category first at the next Sports Emmys and then carry it over to…
Ben Q comes out of the gate hard with a 19-inch LCD monitor with a super quick 2ms gray-to-gray (GTG) response time. The FP93G X, as well as being nice and fast, is also quite attractive with a slim bezel and a high contrast ratio of 700:1. Ben Q is claiming the monitor as the…
Could it be true? Could the PS3 really follow the PSP by adopting a region-free games policy? We don’t know all that much about the PS3 in terms of its intricate workings, but seems Michael Ephraim, Sony s Managing Director of Computer Entertainment Australia, has said some things in a recent interview that makes us…
The KTF-TR2000 cellphone, called the Ever Twist, is pretty standard when it comes to features. It’s got a 1.3-megapixel camera, a MP3 player, PictBridge and a T-flash external memory. But what makes it really special is it’s origami-inspired design, which manufacturer KTFT claims is a “twist rotation design” to let you see the screen as…
Seecode’s most recent Bluetooth handsfree car kit is definitely a little different, being that instead of sitting on your dashboard or between your seats, the VOSSOR is actually a rear view mirror that slips right over your mirror. Why, you may ask, would you need something like this? Well, why not talk through it while…
Well, we’ve picked ’em. Announcing the 5 winners of our earbuds haiku contest. Read on… Ryan Earbudclips are gay, But I want some anyway, Free stuff all the way. Justin Earbuds love my ears, But who loves my earbuds back? Earbuds are lonely. Peter Twisted Like snakes Like coathangers run amok These are not my…
ZDNet UK got their paws on OS X for x86 machines and basically is acting like the monkeys that discover the monolith and learn to use tools. That’s not really all that bad, but it’s amusing. They go through the whole process—2 hour install, partitioning fun, and the magic of Sherlock—to come to the conclusion…
Hey, girls, do you believe in rootkits? Well Sony’s got something to say about it, and it goes like this: poison every piece of media that comes through your front door with badly written malware. Infect Macs and PCs indiscriminately and cause all sorts of bad will in the techie world. Then pretend it never…