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Listen Ms. Sally Citizen, I honestly doubt that anyone in their right mind wants to steal your hundreds of cat pictures and cheesy animated gifs from your USB flash drive, but I guess I can understand your concern. So here you go, protect all of that stupid crap on your USB flash drive with the…
After the stint of natural (and unnatural) disasters around the globe this year, wouldn’t you like to be instantly alerted to any emergency happening near your home? To help with this, and make sure people who may not be near a TV or radio could still get danger warnings, the Dutch government has decided to…
Nintendogs addicts know that the black lab is the hardest dog to find in the game. I recently got a call from a Nintendo publicist who was searching for someone who had a black lab, because they don’t know which cartridges have the rare breed loaded on them. (For the uninitiated, each Nintendogs cartridge comes…
This is a new lighting concept from Batti and Brion Experimental, creators of the Placentero chair. The three spheres sit in the base, and those three buttons correspond to RGB colors. By manipulating the buttons, the spheres change color to produce whatever illumination you are in the mood for. Then you take the mood spheres,…
This week at Lifehacker: Crack open your PC and install a PCI card. Resuscitate the backlight on your dying LCD monitor. Find bomb tripwire with Silly String. Keep snoopers from undeleting the data on your hard drive. Finally, have your say about assy software design. https://lifehacker.com/hack-attack-how-to-install-a-pci-card-135479 Yeah, I know – you’re a hardware badass who…
So we got about 480 haiku and they were all good in their own right. You are all so creative! I’m so proud of you. Well, here’s your chance to vote on your favoritest Earbudclip haiku in the WORLD! I’ve picked 10 haiku and now we have to narrow it down to 5. Please vote…
The keyboard is one of the most overlooked parts of our computers. A good keyboard can make the difference between the effortless, precise typing of shakespearian-quality prose, or the jarred, repeated-bashing-of-sticky-key OOPS PUT CAPS LOCK ON AGAIN ROFL!!1 drunkenly-typed ramblings of a person with anvils for hands. The keyboard is also the portal to your…
By now, I’m sure everyone has heard about the lawsuit against Apple for the easy-to-scratch-up Nano Nano Class Action Lawsuit – It SKWATCHES Too Much! but now it ain’t just the good ole’ US of A leveling these malicious rumours. Looks like Nano buyers from the UK and Mexico have put their two cents in…
Wireless carriers band together to establish a rating system for cellphone downloads, including video, music, ringtones, digipics, and games, but the media is smart enough to know all of these shenanigans are just meant to pave the way for what we all want: legitimate, abundant porn downloads. [NY Times (reg)] iRobot Corp., makers of the…
If you’re tired of plain old MP3 players that actually look like MP3 players, Japanese brand Frisk mints are handing out 1000 players that look like a box of candy. It’s got 256MB of storage, an FM-tuner, an OLED display, and a USB port. The buttons are recessed and cleverly hidden so it looks like…
Brian Eno is selling the DX-7 he used to create the Microsoft startup sound and other, more amazing, compositions. He’s also auctioning a Prophet VS, Jellinghaus DX-7 Programmer and two Mackie Mixers. The auctions are taking place at Vemia, a terribly designed site that is an eBay alternative for musicians. Why is Eno selling his…
NEC, master of utility, brings two simple candybar phones today. The e122 weighs in at 90 grams and is 4 1.6 .7 inches. And because it’s not a US phone, it’s also got a 3 megapixel camera with a 4x digital zoom. The e122 is a GSM that offers 2.5 megabytes of memory. The e353…
When the cameraphone first appeared, there was joy throughout the land. Handset shutterbugs dreamed of taking Ansel Adams-like photos without having to drag cameras to high mountaintops. And then there was a collective sigh of defeat. Because, as we all learned in one instance or another, these cameras don’t actually take photos. Instead, they render…
Knockoffs are terrible for the business — especially when they are so well done. But if you’re a poor student and want a phone that is more stylin’ than the $50 special, this is a pretty attractive deal. Granted, you can now get a RAZR for $89 through Cingular (and Comp USA will be offering…
What do former NASA scientists do when they retire? I mean, once you’ve built rocket engines, why waste those brain cells on something meaningless? Instead, help us all out: go into consumer electronics and solve important problems—like how to stop discs from skipping. SkipDR Advance and SkipDR Automax by Pinpoint are “advanced disc repair systems”…
Having force feedback or vibration is never a bad this right? Earlier today we mentioned the Laos Japan Vibrating Mouse, well it seems those crafty Japanese aren t the first to come up with this concept. Commenter leadingzero made himself a similar gadget using one of the rumble packs from the Nintendo 64. Check out…
At $4995, this new dual-screen, wireless-capable, dual-screen computer may not be the most accessible piece of equipment around, but we can’t say it’s not a fascinating idea. Harrisburg, PA company Estari—Atari was taken—has developed this mobile computer for those of us who constantly look at more than one screen at a time. With the 2-VU…
Tuesday Matrox announced a peripheral that can take a single VGA input and split it out to two monitors. With all of the latest and greatest PC video cards already having dual-monitor supports, this product is probably aimed more towards the laptop user. The DualHead2Go actually is pretty cool. Instead of just cloning the image…
Here it is. It’s liquidy and crystally, and made by Epson. It’s the liquid crystal projector that features a blinding 2000 lumen, 3 LCD, 170W bulb that will make even the crappiest movies look beautiful on your raggedy old wall. This projector also eliminates that pesky warm-up time with a quick start function that will…
Nikon announced a voluntary recall of nearly 200,000 batteries for three models of their digital SLR cameras. The three models affected at the D100, D70 and the D50. The batteries are being recalled because they could potentially short circuit causing fiery explosions and deaths to millions of cute kitties and puppies—actually the battery could possibly…