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I’m about done with this topic, but we’ve got a few updates from the hivemind informing us that a) the Sony DRM scheme phones home/is intrusive and b) Sony doesn’t care because nobody knows what a rootkit is anyway. https://gizmodo.com/sony-rootkit-worst-drm-ever-134717 First point: Sysinternals discovered that the DRM unisntaller requires you to put in all your…
If you think you’d enjoy the extra work of building a fire before you hit your hot tub, then this Snorkel tub is for you. With stoves that are actually submerged in the tub, you’ll have to work with paper, kindling and small logs to prepare a fire, that will then heat the water. Originally…
At first, I didn’t think this Phoenix Audio Duet USB speakerphone was really necessary — I mean, using a headset with Skype should be enough, right? Well, according to the VOIP-heads over at VOIPSpeak: a USB sound device is much more efficient than using a soundcard for VoIP applications… With a USB audio device, the…
According to an analyst at Caris &Co, we have a general line-up of new Palm stuff. The main course being the Palm Treo for Windows Mobile being called the Treo 700w. Basically, we should still see it before next February on Verizon, which has an exclusive on it until at least mid-2006. Sorry Sprint, no…
This optical vibrating mouse comes with a motor that can be turned on and off using a switch below the scroll wheel. The mouse has 3 buttons as well as multiple bumps on the “palm” surface (for comfort?). This reminds me a lot of Logitech’s iFeel mouse that used Immersion technology. I wonder if this…
GadgetMadness noticed that Amazon (through Toys R Us) isn’t selling the XBox 360 by itself, and only in bundles (no surprise there). The crazy thing is that both the Core Player Bundles and Pro Player Bundles are going for $1,000 each. Yep, $1G. What justifies that G-money? The Core Player Bundle come with 10 games…
The faucet experience is so boring. Clear water, always the clear water. What if you could have a party in your faucet? Turn the water on, and the running water activates the LED, making the water look bright blue. You could also use it as an additional light source for doing sexy dishes. Each faucet…
Netgear is coming out with a new form of wireless products dubbed “RangeMax 240”. They offer 240 Mbps, which is really fast and is something you normally get from being wired, not wireless. Designed for things that suck up bandwidth faster than a Dyson like video-on-demand, VoIP, iChat AV (har har), and online gaming, of…
With a name like the Bluetooth “UFO”, you can probably infer what this new hands-free device from Iqua Ltd, of Espoo, Finland, looks like (even if we didn’t have a big photo right here). Perfect for the small office, the portable Bluetooth product promises easy wireless call management and allows you to make conference calls…
Kerstin von Locquenghien has created an RFID embedded cabinet for her master’s media project. In the center is a screen surrounded by multiple shelves with random items sitting around. When one of the objects with an RFID tag is placed on a shelf located directly below the screen, the information about that particular object pops…
What’s better than a replica of Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet? A life-size fully animatronic, remote-controlled replica of Robby the Robot, of course. Only available from luxury goods purveyor Hammacher Schlemmer, this bot is made by the same artist who restored the original after it was sold to the Southern California prop museum in…
The new Samsung SGH P300 is extremely thin at just 87x54x8.9mm, but doesn’t lose any functionality. A triband GSM/GPRS phone with 1.3 megapixel camera, it also has 80MB of memory for music, images and video and 4MB for Java applications. Other features include a WAP 2.0 browser, Bluetooth, voice memos, calendar, alarm clock and calculator.…
I love Mexican jumping beans. They’re a bit cruel—capturing a growing larva and making it dance could be bad for your karma—but they’re so cool. What is not so cool is the freakish face on this website that stares you down and offers advice. If I wanted THAT in a website, I’d visit my parents…
Now your Nextel Push-To-Talk phones can do more than just act as walkie-talkies. Sprint has announced a new service called Nextel Direct Send Picture, which lets you to take, send and look at a photo instantly while using the push-to-talk features. And you don’t have to switch between voice and data services to use it.…
This is the time of year when we start getting press releases about all the “new” things being shown at CES that are the same things that were shown last year — but with a new skin. Take the Boom Chair, for instance. This is a loungy-looking chair that moves and shakes you around, according…
Philips announced its latest endeavor into home entertainment lighting today: amBX interactive gaming lighting. If you recall, or watch commercials at all, you will see the Ambientlight technology Philips currently has available in some models of televisions — this is the exact same thing, but for games. The technology should become available in May of…
I’ve always loved high-end audio and I’ve never really known anyone who owns any. I’ve seen the $100,000 CD player and $30,000 turntable needles, but I thought they were designed for mad potentates waiting who drink the blood of young boys to stay supple. However, these things exist and are available and it literally boggles…
I call it kind of ugly, though AVing likes to call it a UFC (Ubiquitous Fashionable Computer). Still others may put it in the wearable computer box, but this new product was being shown off by KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) at the SoC 2005 & New Generation PC fair. Featuring a…
Today’s DAP Headlines: Our Korean colleagues came up with some video footage of the Viliv P1 and StormBlue A9, while we ourselves took some time to review the iPod v5. Speaking of iPods, there’s this new set of headphones by Macally, specially-designed for the iPod nano. Our usual weird-DAP-of-the day is Luckystar’s A228. Viliv’s P1…
In an interesting move, NTT DoCoMo intends to invest about 12 billion yen to gain a 42 percent stake in Tower Records Japan Inc (A privately owned company, no longer a part of the US mother company since 2002). They’re basically planning some in-store promotions and of course, mobile marketing, but the main point seems…