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The MobiBlue DAH-1500i and Canon EOS 5D this week in reviews MobiBLU DAH-1500i Price: $99 for 512 Mb; $130 for 1GB Availability: Now, only at Wal-Mart “We want one,” and “the official smallest MP3 player in the WHOLE WORLD” are just a few of the accolades you’ll find written about the new MobiBLU DAH-1500i MP3…
Now that DIRECTV has finalized its divorce from TiVo, a new DVR is ready for prime time. The R15 DIRECTV Plus DVR will be out sometime in October and has all the good features that you’d expect and then some. It will feature a 90-minute live buffer (up from 30-minutes), a feature called “Cruise Control”…
The Boston Globe puts mainframe computer technicians on the endangered species list, cell phones are all the rage in Africa despite the lack of electricity in some regions, an upstate NY school bus equipped with GPS will never get lost again, smart cards proliferate in Philly, and the Baltimore Sun attempts to make sense of…
More iPod detritus. Digiana has announced the Audia X iTube for the iPod shuffle. It’s obviously yet another dock/transmitter combo for your iPod. This time it’s for the shuffle and your fly car. The unique looking device features two flexible necks and plugs into the cigarette lighter outlet. Your iPod shuffle connects via the USB…
Fold-Up Unmanned Vehicles, Biomedical Micro-Robot, The Weird-7 DIY, and ESA’s Mars Rover… Following-up on Monday’s Gizmodo Ink, The National Forest Service in Utah is testing a fleet of robotic fire-fighting planes. “Some of the aircrafts can be carried in a backpack, unfolded, then dispatched day or night to spy on a fire.” They are also…
While, admittedly, any device that measures tempo, rhythm, backswing, length and speed of your shot sounds like the beginnings of a Cialis spam to me, golfers just might salivate over the Suunto G6 golf watch. The watch includes acceleration sensors to measure your swing and Golf Manager Pro software for dumping your game to your…
The Homeland Security Blanket is sure to make you feel safe from any potential terrorist threat. Networked to the US Government’s Homeland Security Threat Level, the blankets provide instant feedback by rising in temperature or flashing an indicator light. Think of this as an electric blanket on night patrol. The next feature we’d like to…
The CowOn A2 Personal Media Player is looking to actually do things right in a market that tends to always release half-assed stuff. It has a 4″ screen, 10 hours of battery life in video mode and 18 hours in video mode and DivX, XviD, Mpeg4 and WMV9 compatibility. The 30GB HDD one will cost…
The ErgoChair might be meant as a quack, er, quick posture fix but its design seems more like a kiddie ride gone bad. Hatched by a crack team of physicians and engineers in Switzerland, this chair is intended to strengthen abdominal and spine muscles and take a load off your back and neck. It also…
We’ve heard so much about all-day batteries and Centrino power reduction technology that it all is kind of blending into one big PR burp. It’s an impressive burp, and some manufacturers have hit the vaunted 10-hour mark, but hopefully this Matsushita battery will do it all within the battery hardware itself. The science behind it…
We knew this would turn up sooner or later, but it took a big research budget at IBM to make it a reality. Ah Big Blue, what will you think of next? The Head Tracking Pointer is a cheap and simple mouse replacement that allows a person to point and click by simply tilting his…
I get all kinds of emails about how you all hate hearing about new iPod crap. Trust me, I feel the same way. But there’s just something about that slab of white plastic that makes people a little dizzy and encourages them to hire an edgy designer to fab a little something for the kids.…
No sooner do I receive an Atari Flashback 2 in the mail, than someone homebrews an Atari 2600 emulator for the PSP. This is a port of the Stella Atari 2600 emu—so there is a flickering kink that needs to be worked out, and not all the games are running at full speed. But the…
An intrepid spy on the TreoCentral forums reports on a Treo 670 sighting he saw in a catalog at work. He says: The company I work for gets a 4th quarter catalogue for our 4th quarter “product show” we have to go to every year to order our stuff for christmas and stuff. In the…
Now this is a Smartphone. Not only will the new Mio A701 have the brand-spanking new Windows Mobile 5.0, it’ll also feature integrated GPS functionality — whichmeans we’ll never need to ask for directions again. Running on an Intel processor at 520 Mhz, this gem will also have a 2.7 inch touch screen, a 1.3…
If you’re a fitness-minded gamer, and you’re sick and tired of Dance Dance Revolution (and really, we wouldn’t blame you), you might want to check out this MOG equipment by neXfit. It’s an “ExerGame Bike” that hooks up to your Playstation, XBox, or the Internet, and incorporates game and navigation controls right on the handlebar.…
Lifehacker – iPod Accessories for the Gym Lifehacker – How to Clean Your Mouse Kotaku – Micro has Arrived Jalopnik – GM’s Three Little Hybrid Systems https://lifehacker.com/ipod-accessories-for-the-gym-119015
John checking in. I like to look at these little tech emergencies from the outside. My Mac Mini’s HD started the old “grind ’em til you find ’em” routine this morning, causing massive panic. I have some projects that I started last night on there and would like to get them back, so I’m trying…
Our headlines for today: Another day, another screenless MP3 player (known to many as a “shuffle clone”). This time, the South-Korean manufacturer AirPie takes the stage. The company’s new TH-31 comes in three different colors slash memory capacities. Unfortunately, it seems that we’re missing out the infamous “flying cake functionality” once more. The quest for…
Now that camera phones are yielding somewhat decent photos, and higher megapixel phones are definitely on the way, Fuji has announced a Digital Mobile Printer that weighs about 7 oz and uses two CRT lithium batteries to create a credit card sized image. Of course, the MP-70 only works with infrared enabled cameraphones—mainly from Nokia,…