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The Nokia 888 Concept Phone from wunderkind non-functioning product designer Tamer Nakisci of Yanko Design takes you to the not-too distant future, where liquid batteries and flexible touch screens and back-talking killer computers are everyday realities. It bends, it curls, it clips, it’s a fashion accessory and a..phone. Will the technology ever exist to make…
Don’t want to excite you too much since this will only be available in Europe this holiday season, but Acer has come up with a wicked cool product called the AT3705W-MGW LCD TV. Quite a mouthful, yes, but it’s an interesting mix of media PC and LCD TV with a 37-inch screen. It has a…
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Mitsubishi, makers of all things, period, is working in conjunction with Japanese cell phone manufacturer NTT DoCoMo to develop a cell phone that has a touch screen rather than actual keypad buttons. The advantage of this design is to allow the phone to easily utilize even more features with the touch screen that can change…
Looks like Sony took some more shrooms and decided to trip out the Vaio F-series’ color scheme. You can get the new notebook in red, blue, green, and uh,white. Don’t worry, the specs are also very pretty. 14″ WXGA screen, a webcam and a CPU up to a Pentium M780 at 2.26Ghz as well as…
A company called Screenlights has introduced a deliciously useless (and ridiculously expensive) LCD screen that comes completely embedded in a fully functional headlight. For a car. Forget that neon edging crap and blinged-out rims. How about riding down the blvd playing The Fast and the Furious in your headlights? How much you’d be able to…
Sony launched a new VAIO for the living room dubbed the Type X. The VGX-XL70S was revealed at CEATEC 2005 in Japan, and it’s a computer that easily blends in with any super-fancy home entertainment system. This thing is packed with a Pentium D 820 processor with 2.8 Ghz, up to 1GB of RAM, an…
Olympus dropped the SP-700 today, the latest in its compact camera lineup. It has 6 megapixels, a 3-inch LCD screen, 3x optical zoom, and VGA 30 frames per second movie recording, along with 24 picture modes. The camera comes with 11MB internal memory and a slot for xD picture memory cards (which I’m personally not…
This tiny two-door hatchback reminds me of a clown car. Maybe it’s the paint job. Or the marketing ploy, which is that it has a hookup for, and comes with, an iPod. The iFox is only available in AustraliaAustria for the time being and goes for 9,290 Euros which converts over to $11,094 U.S. dollars.…
Yeah, Nintendo has released ANOTHER version of the GameBoy, and much to our delight it doesn t suck. First thing is first, the Micro is tiny. The portability is awesome; this can slip into any pocket and not be uncomfortable at all. One concern is that this could be too small to enjoy gaming with…
Computer mice must be a booming business, because here’s another take on the humble pointer. These innovative new “Palvo” optical mice by Elecom come in seven sporty colors and a “modern” shape that looks kinda like my sneakers. It also comes in three different sizes to fit a variety of hands (baby, adult and sasquatch).…
If you’re one of many people who dislike waiting for the water to boil, you’ll definitely like the Quooker system: It allows you to get boiling water from the tap. Water goes into a special tank under the sink, which heats the water to boiling point. Then it’s super-heated a few extra degrees to guarantee…
Reader DennisDavid [sorry, David] just came back from Best Buy where he discovered that the Nano is being recalled. Truth? Fiction? Lies? All Lies? We don’t know, but we will keep our ears peeled. In other news, we haven’t received very many broken Nano photos, although one reader ran his through the wash without a…
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We were actually confused at first. What was going on here? The Thump 2? It just doesn’t look right. However, thanks to the magic of the Mulletinator, a new Photoshop plug-in we’re testing, we’re able see the Thump in its native habitat. It looks like the Thump 2 will look considerably different than we originally…
Today’s DAP headlines: There’s a more in-depth look at the brick-like iUbi 2010 (“Portable” video recorder), the confirmation of some new MobiBlu stuff, a detailed review of Safa’s cute little Q100 and the usual redesigned shuffle clone by LuxPro. We’ve discussed the iUbi PMP-2010 a couple of days ago, and it had spectacularly little going…
This is not the first or the last guide to turning a Mac Mini into a PVR. But this particular configuration is special in that it provides an easy way to copy the programming to VCD (MPEG-1), DVD (MPEG-2), QuickTime (MPEG-4) or DivX. The underlying functionality comes from the Plextor ConvertX digital video encoder, which…
My kitchen sink started leaking something awful a few weeks ago. And I only noticed because of the rust growing on the bottom of a can of paint undernearth the basin. My cabinetry is now warped—but could have been saved if I’d had a LeakFrog. This 3-inch by 3-inch toy detects water using two metal…
I’m looking at this thing and it looks like an old Styrofoam Big Mac container. However, it’s actually some sore of Geode-powered Windows CE deviced designed as a little web browsing appliance. No screen, no keyboard, no inputs—just a VGA, some USB ports, and a dream. A built-in hard drive stores 10GB of nuffin and…
Apple should have known going into this that the diehard music lovers that buy the nano are going to need way more than 4GB of memory. 200GB of storage sounds a little more acceptable for the diehard music lover like myself. There is a nice step-by-step tutorial over at Uncyclopedia showing how to complete this…