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This week at Treehugger: Get rid of that “ghost who pollutes” without calling Ghost Busters: The Power Genie will take care of the phantom electrical load that so many electrical appliances have while in “off” or standby mode. Meet the Centennial Lightbulb, a light that has been on for over 100 years. The latest addition…
Is it just us or does this look like Sony is condoning the transfer of “home movies” to the PSP. I’m not going to suggest what those home movies might contain, but it sure is awful big of them to offer a nice conversion package for Windows that transfers media from the desktop to the…
Hey, Your Wallet’s Ringing By Carlo Longino Device convergence in the mobile world typically means something like shoehorning an MP3 player into a handset (sometimes with hilarious consequences). But plenty of companies have have designs on cramming your wallet into your cellphone, too. https://gizmodo.com/the-rokr-re-up-125064 Wireless payment systems aren’t all that new. The most well-known example…
Sony is putting out a new CD receiver for the car that will let you take off its faceplate, connect it to a PC and download your music as if it was an external drive. Just snap the faceplate back on, and all is well in the world of digital music. The Xplod MEX-1GP (Giga…
Believe it or not the iPod Shuffle still exists. This headband is from uSport and is designed to hold the iPod Shuffle conveniently. Wearing a shuffle on your face, does it sound like such a strange idea? Well it isn t! This headband would be primarily for workout purposes and having the shuffle located on…
Though it’s been rumoured by Bill Gates that Xbox 360 may feature HD-DVD support eventually, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Xbox Japan’s chief of operations, has gone on record stating that, “It’s a possibility, but it won’t have any relationship to gaming. If the Xbox 360 uses a next-generation DVD drive in the future, it will only be…
The Motorola i870 from Nextel is out and is the first of it’s kind. How? It’s the first MP3-player phone with walkie-talkie capability. Now you can play your freestyle beats out loud and have your friends rap over the breakbeat. Word up. The phone also has some nice features like Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera and…
Sony slyly brings out yet another Cyber-shot digital camera today, claiming its DSC-T9 is the first ultra-slim digital camera to offer both Super Steady Shot optical image stabilization and high light sensitivity. Like, What-Ever. In English, however, the DSC-T9 is an incredibly sleek and good-looking 6 megapixel camera that incorporates “an advanced lens-shift optical image…
That Loch Ness of Digital SLRs, the Nikon D200, has finally emerged from the rumor swamp. This beast is a 10.2-megapixel professional camera designed for taking excellent quality pictures, as expected, but carries a bit of a steep pricetag at $1699. What do you get for that? A nice large 2.5-inch LCD display, 11 area…
Good old Walmart, what will they think of next? Looks like the warehouse of cheap shit is going to be selling Hewlett-Packard PCs and laptops for $398 this Thanksgiving season. The laptop, which will officially be the lowest price for a mainstream Windows machine, comes with a 2800+ Sempron processor from Advanced Micro Devices, 256MB…
Before we have to pretty much stop talking about the Playstation 2 forever, we figured we’d get this review of the Splitfish eyeFX 3D Adapter and 3D glasses up and out. Looks like this product actually gets existing PS2 games to display shifted images, making them look 3D when viewed through the 3D glasses. Though…
Chicago’s City Hall approves the purchase of several $100,000 unmanned robo-vans that snap digipics of speed limit-defying cars. The Windy City would need to issue over 1,100 $90 speeding tickets to pay for just one vehicle. Hey, you gotta spend money to make money, right? [Chicago Sun-Times] The LA Times predicts a meteoric rise in the…
Alienware is kicking us some new widescreen Area 51 laptops that don’t seem as heavy or expensive as some of its other delightful desktop replacement products. The 17-inch m5700 ($1399) and the 15.4-inch m5500 ($1049) both include high-definition audio, an option for WUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD displays and rubberized grips while the 17-inch monster…
Oh, baby, put that goo in my ear! Yeah-ha! Oh, what’s that you say? This goo is a way to make that iPod earbud fit snugly inside my ear while also reducing noise pollution? It’s the new PodFitKit? Good to know. For $9.95 you get a DIY silicon kit which you pack into your ear…
TiVo’s 7.2.1 software update will now include overlap protection, which will prevent you from missing the beginning of a show if it overlaps with another, less important, show in your schedule. Big deal? Kind of. This essentially solves the problem of TV programmers tacking on an extra minute or so to foil PVRs and piss…
Motorola finally launched its powerhouse of a phone, the MS550. This Korea-only handset borders on being a digicam because of it’s looks and the 3-megapixel camera included with it. Still need a reason to move to Korea for this phone? Allow me to continue. To even tell it’s a phone—and not some old-fashioned Kodak—you’ll need…
USB keys are so ubiquitous and cheap that manufacturers are forced to riff on form factors and, most importantly, names. The iDisk Diamond is just a chunk of flash memory attached to the leads of a USB key sans metal cowling. Yeah, I just made up all that terminology, but you kind of get the…
Father of the PlayStation Ken Kutaragi dropped a bombshell at the Tokyo International Digital Conference last week. He announced that the PS3 will be able to run at “an unprecedented” 120 frames per second. (Most games today run between 30 and 60 FPS.) What does this mean for you, dear gamer? Nothing at all, really.…
Seeing as how Kodak is currently being run out of the CEO’s basement and his kids are manufacturing and packing up all the EasyShare cameras, it’s nice to see a little good news in regards to their latest crop of WiFi cameras. This $599 Wi-Fi camera uses a pretty standard 4-megapixel sensor but has great…
This a camera coming from Canon that will support 802.11b. The WiFi has the ability to connect to either a PC or a PictBridge WiFi printer. No let’s do the nitty gritty: this camera is 5-megapixel, 1/2.5 CCD and it has a 3x optical zoom. It uses “Digi II” image processing and has a 2-inch…