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Sharpened Up for a Bit of the Ol’ Ultra-Useless By Brendan I. Koerner As a Geekish-American pre-teen, I kept two publications stashed beneath my boxspring: the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (especially the one with Elle McPherson in the Dominican Republic) and the latest Sharper Image catalogue. Man, how I loved peeping those seemingly fancy gadgets,…
USA Today reports from the floor of Demofall, and while they say the technologies shown lacked the “wow factor” of previous shows (PalmPilot and TiVo both debuted at Demo conferences), they offer up a list of stuff that caught their eye. [USA Today] The dangers of playing your iPod too loudly continues to be a…
Got a hot cellphone that can run Java or BREW apps? Then you know you need DoomRPG, a turn-based role playing version of the popular Doom series. It looks extremely well done and is designed to play like everyone’s favorite favorite FPS. You can get UAC credits and buy ammo and health, interact with scientists,…
Yes, that’s right folks, step right up and gaze on the new, improved Titanium Edition of the Thinkpad Z series notebook. Forget the boring black, Lenovo is taking a tip from Apple and giving us some choices in color and style. The Thinkpad Z60m has a 15.4-inch XGA widescreen, is scratch resistant and comes integrated…
All this talk of Windows Mobile 5.0 PDAs has got European mobile giant Orange in tizzy with its new SPV M5000. Saying that this is an actual alternative to a laptop may be a bit of an overstatement, but Orange insists its QWERTY keyboard is “slightly larger than such keyboards on many PDAs.” It also…
More Panasonic Toughbooks are ready to hit the shelves for all you butterfingers and adventure seekers out there. The CF-29 and CF-18 both have brighter displays and LCDs with Anti Reflection technology—which let you use the notebooks in direct sunlight. An SD slot was also added, which seems like a pretty weird thing to be…
If acronyms like PCS, GSM, 3G, CDMA, TDMA and APS don’t come rolling off your tongue with the ease of a seasoned network analyst, and you want to keep up with these know-it-all kids today who seem to have this wireless slang encoded into their DNA, the folks at phonescoop have created a handy guide…
Every parent has an underlying fear of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), so enter the Respisense Buzz by Pretoria IT engineer Hans Pietersen. Looks like a tube of dental floss but can really protect babies by “triggering a cellphone vibrator motor inside their nappies when sensors detect that breathing has stopped for 15 seconds.” It…
Ever wonder why you never see a grandfather clock on Star Trek? The reason is the TIX LED clock. Sporting the oblongular dimensions of 10-inches x 3-inches, even your Klingon friends will feel at home reading the time as if they were prisoners on the Starship Enterprise. Split into three panels, time is read depending…
This latest GPS tracking device from Navicom is small enough to be placed on a keychain, but features full-on GPS capabilities. The C-TRAC GPS Personal Tracker has unlimited GPS tracking/locating, an E911 emergency feature, and even a push-button concierge service akin to GM’s OnStar (!!). Other features include a two-way speaker phone, programmable buttons for…
We know some of you guys like these Bluetooth headsets, as is evidenced by the number of people seemingly talking to themselves in my neighborhood (or maybe that’s because they’re just a touch insane). Anyway, you Nokia cellphone owners out there might like to know Nokia recently came out with a new Bluetooth headset, the…
We ve been waiting a long time for video games to get their own musical mascot and Nerdrap by YTracker might be the perfect answer to the call. This seven song, downloadable MP3 album features tracks like Warez Loader and Meganerd —in which YT raps: I played a couple sports just to keep it copasetic…
So you received that free Spider-Man 2 UMD with your PSP but don’t relish watching it on that pretty-but-dinky screen. No worries, this PSP TV/PC adapter is a way for you to watch it on your TV instead. It does involve changing the PSP faceplate (which will probably void your warranty), but after that all…
It only took a couple centuries but the top military dogs in the world have finally taken a hint from good old George Lucas and have begun development of combat robots (or droids, as the Star Wars geeks would say). Some smarty engineers over in Seoul won a bid of $32.4 million to develop these…
Verizon Wireless has recently announced it will be the official carrier for the LG VX-9800, LG’s latest messaging phone. It’s capable of CDMA EV-DO broadband high speeds, and features a 256 x 320 display, 262k color display, 1.3 megapixel camera, full QWERTY keyboard, and a miniSD memory slot. It’s available for $299.99 with a two-year…
X-Micro has a new miniature player that seems to be targeted towards students. It is called the Video MP3 400. This player is pocket-sized and includes a full color video screen capable of displaying 65,000 colors of OLED goodness. The screen supports “music video files” (whatever that means) along with most common picture files. This…
Hot on the heels of Motorola’s ROKR, Virgin Mobile has gone ahead and launched its very first music phone with Kyocera. The Slider Sonic is based on Kyocera’s Slider Remix KX5, save for a few aesthetic differences as well as additional features. It’ll support WMA and MP3 formats (as opposed to the Motorola’s AAC support),…
This is the kind of thing that makes VJ’s hearts beat a little faster. The Livid Tactic m2 is a control surface for VJ software, with built-in video preview, crossfader, knobs and faders for controlling effects, buttons for triggering clips, and even a built-in LCD screen. This sort of thing used to be ultra-pricey, but…
Altec Lansing introduced several new iPod-related products at the Apple Expo recently, which include new speakers and earphones. First is the inMotion iM5, which looks to be an update to the inMotion iM3. It’s a compact speaker system that has four full-range micro drivers and an iPod docking station. It also has a composite video…
I can’t help but wonder whether the tepid reception to the ROKR influened Nokia’s decision to hang back on the N91 music phone until after the new year. The un-announcement included a choice bit of corporate double-speak: ”The process of integrating Windows digital rights management solution into the phone happened faster than expected,” the spokesman…