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Born from the disturbing yet pragmatic copulation of Friedrich Nietzsche and Jakob Nielsen, the Ubertap promises to increase party efficiency fivefold. With three spigots and a foot-operated pump, buzz loss is now a thing of the past. Your parties in the past may have dragged on for a tedious hour, frustration building with each passing…
The US is obviously far behind on parking meter technology. The photo you see is a current parking meter in Sydney, Australia. Look how cool it is. So it should come as no suprise that it’s neighbor to the north, New Zealand, is getting rid of meters altogether and switching to Phone2Park in some areas.…
TokyoFlash is making a name for themselves in the watch market. These watches that they are selling look cool as hell, but are a little less than practical. This is the same company that brought us the highly anticipated equalizer watch. Now they have a watch tells the time by giving the morse code audibly…
Today’s DAP Headlines: It’s DAPland’s National Korean Picture Gallery day, as we show you some new material on Maxian’s T600, as well as the highly-anticipated i-Station V.43. One of our users (p)reviews the Philips HDD6330 and those Chinese boys are girls are at it again… just look at them partying! Boy, is this PMP/PVR/whatever-you-want-to-call-it market…
This Week in Kotaku: A blogger lets top secret World of Warcraft expansion info slip and is promptly silenced. On the heels of a security update, Sony’s PSP gets TV capabilities. In the wake of X05, Microsoft unveils yet another viral campaign, Hex168. Kotaku goes interactive with comment launch. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/world-of-warcraft/two-new-races-for-wow-expansion-130314.php An email with the subject…
It’s ok not to have friends sometimes, but I’m afraid this is really pushing it. iAttire demands you deck out your iPod in costume for Halloween so it can go out trick-or-treating with you. These “limited edition” outfits run the gamut from cowboys to bikini-clad sex goddess. They’re handmade so expect to shell out some…
One Possible End of the End User By Clay Wiedermann As we spend more time communicating, playing, and working in the digital world, our expectations and ways of acting will transfer to the physical world. Digital objects are, above all, plentiful, easily copied and easily shared. And they are beautifully malleable. We transform them, recombine…
It seems as though the European electronics job market is a little weak. Mike Minton, an electronics engineer turned entrepreneur has made a nice little invention to assist him in creating toast soldiers. What the hell is a toast soldier you ask? It’s okay I had to research it too, a toast soldier is a…
Unlike Motorola with the ROKR, Sony-Ericsson got the music phone down 100% right with the W800 Walkman phone. Now that the W800 has been out for awhile, the W900 is here to be let out of its cage so that it may take names and kick ass. But that’s not all. Americans actually get something…
Research in Motion, the company responsible for the Blackberry Connect email service has FINALLY finished the deal with Palm. The deal will bring Blackberry Connect email service to the Palm operating system, at the current time specifically with the Treo 650. The deal will add many features to the Treo 650 including the Blackberry Connect,…
Yet Another Small Form Factor PC (YASFFPC) has been announced by prolific German-based Shuttle in time for the holidays. The Shuttle XPC Media Center is, of course, small, but is also being marketed as a digital entertainment product. And most importantly, the product was developed to work with all new features from Update Rollup 2…
Palm cuts a deal with RIM that will put Blackberry’s email software on a version of the Treo 650. What has gotten Palm so amorous lately? First, they allow Microsoft’s PocketPC OS to bespoil future Treos, and now they’re in bed with RIM. Either they’re in total desperation/survival mode or someone snuck a roofie in…
Vince here. As I awoke this morning for the daily Gizmodo grind, I looked in the fridge for something to eat for breakfast. Some Apple-Cinnamon Dannon Yogurt caught my eye so I snatched it up so I could consume it as fast as humanly possible. I noticed a cute message on top of the foil…
This condom, with packaging that reduces the risk of HIV infection by ensuring that the wearer does not touch the latex during application, is not entirely new. But it is one of the more remarkable pieces on display in “SAFE: Design Takes On Risk,” an over-the-top exhibit that opened this weekend at the Museum of…
We knew the new Sony Ericsson W900i was coming, though we got the look of it all wrong. So now we’re happy to announce the official brand new Walkman 3G cellphone, which includes a digital music player and a 2 megapixel camera. You’ll also be able to download new graphics and video games with this…
Other than two giant corporations merging to take over the world, one nice thing about the partnership of Sony and Ericsson is that sometimes, Sony’s CE expertise really does shine through. Like with the new Home Audio System MDS-70, a small cradle which connects to a set of pretty high performance, portable speakers, letting you…
The hax0r who released the Nintendo DS bricker trojan horse woke up from his coding binge full of remorse for his slutty ways. I do not have clear reasons and I can’t blaim the little headache I had at the time. I just had to realize the idea I had after seeing the PSP variant…
Yes, that’s right, the MD format is still alive and kind of kicking. And it’s not only Sony that’s still making MD products. JVC seems to have come out with a new MD player, the JVC XM-C17, that features a 250 hour battery life in LP4 mode, but won’t play any MP3 files. There’s really…
Some things are a joke. The J-Mat “gaming system” from XaviX along with all their other “gaming systems” are probably the epitome of the word “joke”. First off, their company name sounds like the next pill that will get your johnson up from Merck. The J-Mat is basically a toned down 1988 Nintendo Power Pad.…
Hello, Mrs. White Person! Please put your suitcase on the scanner! You are going to a tropical island? That sounds like so much fun, Mrs. White Person! Have a nice flight! Maybe you can bring me back a pet wombat! Hello, Mr. Brown Person! I’m afraid you are on a watch list. That is because…