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FoxHollow Technologies has designed a handy gadget to treat peripheral arterial disease. Basically this small catheter tube is inserted into an artery and when it finds a Krispy Kreme blockage a tiny blade begins rotating at 8,000 RPMs. As the blade spins the surgeon slides the catheter up and down the artery clearing out the…
Last week I was happy to find a nice shiny new Samsung T809 arrive from T-Mobile. I powered it on and started to check out it’s features right away. The T809 has Bluetooth, a 1.3MP camera with swivel lens and video capability, it’s a slider phone and about as thick as a RAZR. There is…
TokyoFlash specializes in difficult accessories and the EleeNo G watch is no exception. The G, as the site helpfully explains, does not stand for Gangsta. No, it stands for Graphic. To read the watch requires a degree in physics and a background in ancient Sumerian astrology, so you won’t ever have to show anyone the…
As we reported this morning, Sprint’s new Music Store will let you download songs straight to your cellphone without any wires. But to use this service, you’ll need a compatible phone. That’s where the Samsung A940 comes in. Operatingg on the Sprint Power Vision Network, the A940 includes a 2 megapixel camera and camcorder, Entertainment…
Being that it is currently All Hallows Eve, a night on which the demons and ghosties come out of their uneasy graves to destroy the souls of the living, we decided to get a jump on those selfsame ghosties and destroy our own souls with JustBorn Peeps Pumpkin DelighFills. Peeps, to those not in the…
Hearing Is Believing: Make It Sound As Good As It Feels By Claudia Bernett —now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. With the lights off…
If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Paranormal investigators equipped with electromagnetic-field meters, radiation and motion detectors, barometric pressure monitors, and thermometers, of course. [San Francisco Chronicle] Mini pilotless reconnaissance planes that fit in a backpack are the hot money-making ticket with military contractors. These mini drones are popular with the…
This product comes from some Internet-inspired adaptataion of La Boheme (or Rent, same diff). These cool-looking camo gloves plug into your USB port—ideal for a laptop, but your tower will work just fine I’m sure—and the excess heat begins warming your hands a few minutes later. Perfect for the art student living by himself who…
Life is tough: You are on the verge of buying that new BMW series 5, but then the Porsche Cayenne is coming along and you can’t quite make up your mind about which car to drop your ducats on. Well, this news should tip the scales for you. Samsung has partnered with BMW to add…
Uh oh. Looks like the Cingular ad for the new 8700c Blackberry got leaked onto PinStack. Now don’t get me wrong, it could be photoshopped, could be altered. But has that ever stopped Gizmodo from writing about something before? Didn’t think so. As you can see, the deets include a $299 pricetag with a 1-year…
While Sunball sounds like something you get after spending too much time in a Speedo, this is actually some sort of solar generator that pounds out lots of electricity for just about $1,600. It uses a high-efficiency solar cell, the kind used on the Mars rovers, and a Fresnel lens which concentrates the light onto…
Blu-ray is still in its relative infancy but that won’t stop your local IT shop from picking up a few of these hulking UDO compatbile SCSI drives. First, a quick explanation: UDO stands for Ultra Density Optical and it is based on the Blu-Ray standard. However, these disks are encased in a honking big cartridge…
If you don’t feel like investing in a new Sprint music phone to get your music there another way. Nokia and music label EMI have devised a dandy way to get your tunes on your cellphone using Bluetooth. The system will also allow you to get ringtones, wallpapers, video clips and vouchers—all streamed to your…
Tivoli audio is famous for producing some of the smallest, finest sounding and most stylish devices on the market. My Tivoli Table Radio is in constant use, and produces amazing sound from a single speaker. So before you start carping about how this is yet another iPod accessory, know that the folks at Tivoli don’t…
Sprint came out swinging today with the first over-the-air music service for U.S. cellphones. Sprint partnered with Groove Mobile to offer song previews, browsing and downloading for $2.50 per song. Groove isn’t playing with kid gloves either—we received this quote from Adam Sexton, Vice President, Marketing and Product Development for Groove Mobile, just moments after…
The Air Force Research Labs have created a unique “laser gun” called the PHaSR—Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response—designed to dazzle crowds and individual enemies. Apparently, you shoot this at a target and the laser blinds them for a short period, which sounds kind of like a handheld Klieg light—effective, but not terribly cool. While I’d…
BlogTuts has assembled a great tutorial on how to get Linux running on your 1G, 2G or 4G photo iPod. Everything you need is right on the page—the modded installer plus the lastest Podzilla and uClinux Kernel. Nice to see this come along since iPodLinux.org had a server crash and seems to have run off…
Oh, what joy. What palpable excitement. The PSP headset AKA the Casque exists. Our brothers in arms at Kotaku have an early shot. Pic of PSP Chatting Headset [Kotaku] http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/psp/pic-of-psp-chatting-headset-134033.php
Flooding the industry with more LCD panels could be a good thing for all of us if it means better quality LCD TVs and lower prices. Samsung has announced that it will start producing new liquid crystal displays from a new production line in April 2006. The line will be using larger glass plates which…
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news for those of you pumped up for the Xbox 360, but it looks like Microsoft is going to slow production of the newfangled console. In a bid to keep expectations low (and really, what’s better than low expectations?), Microsoft says it will not spike production during the…