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If you’re tired of using entire halves of your citrus fruits when you’re squeezing, try these Stainless-Steel Citrus Squeezers by Global Decor, that for some reason, look like fish. Lemons? Maybe. Fish, not so much. These are for small squeezing jobs, like your gin and tonic. Though I really don’t mind using my fingers to…
From Rain Man to Spider-Man: A Tale of Two Products By Adam Richardson Gillette recently introduced its Fusion razor for men, to inevitable jokes about the jump from three blades to five, leapfrogging competitor Schick with its measly four blades. Really, where will it end? But this move was so predictable that The Onion mockingly…
Missed this item from DEMOfall a few weeks ago: Canadian company ComVu is offering free webcasting services for mobile phones running Windows Mobile 5. The software includes some sweet features such as tags support, geo-positioning data to allow viewers to locate transmission point on map, automatic video-blog functionality, and instant group notification via SMS, IM…
The new Eurythmics song I’ve Got A Life isn’t getting high marks as a pop tune, but the video is covered in retro synthesizers. Music Thing notes the “Akai S612 with the ‘toast rack’ disc drive.” There’s got to be a Roland in there someplace. Let’s play name that synthesizer… Softcore synth pr0n from Eurythmics…
Siemens and Lufthansa announced that they have successfully tested a fingerprint recognition security system for use at airport check-in. This comes just days after a British prison admitted that its fingerprint recognition security system was hacked by inmates. Feel safer now? Eyes and fingers airport security [We Make Money Not Art] Fingerprint-Lock Failure In a…
The BenQ Joybook. I want to meet the marketing genius who came up with that name. But no matter, it seems the ridiculous title hasn’t stopped the company from introducing yet another laptop to its series. The new Joybook R53 is supposedly the “world’s fastest 15.4-inch display laptop with 16 ms response time.” A full-featured,…
For a true bare bones computer system, check out the VoomPC, by VIA and Min-box. It’s actually made for your a car or other vehicles and goes for $299-$399. Integrating the Mini-box M1-ATX 12V power supply unit, it can protect itslef from power surges and eliminate car battery drain by monitoring battery levels, even when…
Tired of waiting for the bartender to get you your next beer? There may be a light at the end of your tunnel. An intelligent beermat that not only absorbs your spills, but also sends a signal to the bar for a refill when your glass is almost empty. Brings tears to my eyes it…
Here’s another compact camera from Sony. The Cybershot DSC-N1 is small and pretty much focuses on easily sharing images with its 3-inch LCD touchscreen. The touchscreen is a new feature for this size digital camera and in addition to being able to control the camera functions and search for thumbnail images, it also lets you…
Newsweek offers a glimpse of inventions and gadgets of the future, and profiles inventor Danny Hillis. The feature makes no mention of what we really want—personal jet packs—so we’ll have to settle for mind chips and holographic displays. [Newsweek)] More details on Google’s plan to blanket San Francisco in a warm blanket of WiFi goodness:…
Not coming to the US anytime soon (as we still struggle for 3G service), Nokia has announced the launch of its first VoWLAN consumer cellphone. Basically combining voice, data access and WiFi using a hybrid product (think mixing IMS and UMA), Nokia’s first product is set to hit stores in early 2006.
Tired of looking at your plain, white, naked iPod Shuffle? The Germans know cool when it comes to stickers, so they created ShuffleSome, a site featuring a bunch of black on white/pink/whatever stickers. The designs are kind of clip art book meets Photoshop masking, but they’re not so cutesy or pointless so’s I want to…
My dear old dad pointed out this site. This is an American whistle factory, aptly named the American Whistle Factory. I’m not quite sure if they do their own manufacturing out there in Columbus, Ohio —America’s Heartland (TM)—but I think one of their customized, fancy-pants golden whistles is just the right gift for the crusty…
Oh, Sony, how could you? After years of loyal MiniDisc fans sticking with you, you’re really going to cancel the format? Looks like this may be more than just a rumour. According to the MD geeks at independent discussion board Sony Voice, the new restructuring and catching up of the Sony brand is going to…
Mapquest and GPS company TomTom have gotten together to launch a new navigation device for the car for all us schlumps who don’t already have something built-in. Basically a TomTom Go 300 GPS navigation device rebranded as the Mapquest Personal Navigation Device (PND), you’ll only be able to buy this product on the Mapquest website.…
Giving us hope that the LCD TV will be the flat panel of choice in the future (as well as maybe come down in price sometime soon), Sharp has come up with an LCD display with the world’s highest contrats ratio of 1,000,000:1. Yes, the company’s ASV Premium LCD display panel is 37-inches with 1920×1080…
If you’ve got room for this strange looking phone, it could be an interesting conversationg piece, but other than that, it looks pretty confusing to me. Called the Phonebook by Krohn Design, it’s a telephone, answering maching and message printer that looks a bit like the old file-o-fax.When you want to change modes, you flip…
Here are some first shots of the 7100i, Sprint/Nextel’s Blackberry with walkie-talkie messaging. My absolute favorite thing is that it has the whip antenna which is sure to bring the real Nextel audience—composed primarily of guys in baseball caps who constantly get paged by their girlfriends and then who go “WHAAAT?”—some much needed antenna modding…
Woo! Black Walkman phone! And look at that MemoryStick Duo sticking out of the side like a goiter! Yeah! Sony++! Black Sakura W850 images [WalkmanPhones]
I didn’t realize compasses were made for certain hemispheres. What can I say, I guess I just don’t get out enough. But it seems that if you buy a compass for the Northern hemisphere and use it in the Southern hemisphere, you’re gonna get lost. So, to make things easier for all of our wayward…