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Tchibo, a German coffee chain, has, for some god-awful reason, decided to create a Roomba-like vacuum that doesn’t really vacuum anything. While it has settings for Large, Medium, and Small rooms, this thing seems to just run around and push dirt into corners, kind of like a Shi Tzu. Overall, this $100 vacuum sucks. But…
Now that everybody can afford a cell phone, laptop and MP3 player, it seems insurance companies are taking huge hits. Tower, a New Zealand-based insurance outfit, quotes “in excess of $750,000 per annum and rising” in claims for portable electronics. And unfortunately for them, being drunk and leaving your mobile in a cab is a…
Memorex is shrinking. The new Mini Traveldrive portable storage device is about an inch shorter than the original Traveldrive, comes in a prettier platinum color (in case you’re dying for something to match your purse) and holds up to 2GB of storage for $179.99. Includes SecureTD with password protection, and is compatible with Windows, Mac…
Chicago Sun-Times lays out details on the Next Big Electronic Toy, and the Chicago Tribune reports on Japan’s newest electronic crime-fighter, Newspapers mourn music synthesizer inventor Robert Moog. The Chicago Tribune ran an AP wire story about the Roborior, a $2,600 robot guard dog equipped with infrared sensors, a digital camera, and a videophone. If…
Why must they always couch good, old-fashioned vibrators in granny-ish euphemism. It’s not a “personal massager,” it’s a full-on, rock-your-world, buzz fest. This little program, for example, is supposed to “help you relax by relieving mental and physical stress.” Wrong! It’s supposed to allow you to send strange pulsing vibrations to your friends via SMS.…
Tired of the RAZR yet? I mean, if one more person whips his out on an episode of Entourage I’m going to puke. We deserve a cool new phone already and NEC is FINALLY challenging Motorola’s design royalty with its clamshell NEC L1 (or e949 in European and U.S. terms). At just 11.9 mm thick,…
In another example of Asia kind of getting too excited about crappy movies, we introduce to you the Herbie: Fully Loaded phone. Yes, now you too can own the phone that may or may not be endorsed by Lindsay Lohan, that siren temptress in a Volkswagen. It’s a pretty slick looking cellphone that comes with…
Dell has introduced its 5100MP, a single chip DLP projector aimed at classrooms, conference rooms, and anyone with a home multiplex. It has a 3300 ANSI lumens brightness rating, SXGA+ resolution, HDTV inputs and a 2500:1 contrast level (for when your PowerPoint presentation demands stunning color and true black levels). Dell also promises a perfectly…
Looks like Nickelodeon and Virgin are teaming up to release another hunk of branded crap into our hands. This time it’s a Star Trek cellphone that is designed to resemble the Starfleet communicator from the series. It will be powered by Sona Mobile’s Sona Wireless Platform and has a tentative Sept. 30th release date, yet…
So now we’ve got an FCC leak of the iTunes phone, known in the WWE as the ROKR!!!! (RAWR!!!!!): a complete manual and some red hot screen shots. Basically, it discusses how the phone works, delivers content etc. I must say, I am quite surprised. I could have sworn they were going to use a…
Intel s future posterboy-processor has apparently taken a few too many whippings from Dad and is being reduced to just another mewling, underpowered CPU. The Montvale is an Itanium chip being produced by Intel. Intel was pushing this chip to the absolute furthest for top of the line server performance, but the chip isn t…
Rumor has it that the Sony and Toshiba-led camps have once again failed to agree on a standard for next generation DVD products. The original end of August deadline has come and gone—and without the promise of joint development from the Blu-ray and HD-DVD camps, we’re looking at another massive Betamax vs VHS battle (although…
The last time we mentioned the Nokia 70 was in April of this year at the Nokia launch in Amsterdam, and now it’s finally got the FCC stamp of approval for stateside release. Brief review of specs: It’s tri-band, has a 2.0-megapixel camera, 262k color display, Bluetooth, a VGA unit for video calling, and an…
There are very few things in life that I love more than sushi. That magical combination of vinegary rice, raw fish, and wasabi, just sends my taste-buds singing. So imagine my delight when I found out about this crazy contraption, Sushi@Home, which makes devices to help you make sushi at home. The round device makes…
This is a wooden log with two speakers and an iPod dock designed by contemporary lumberjack, Ben Durrell, over at House Special. I d imagine one of those trendy iPod listeners out there would try to be innovative and put this in an actual fireplace to impress party guests with the faux fireplace sound system.…
Now while I ,by no means consider myself a Mac or iPod fanboy, I do definitely love my iPod, but the battery is one problem that is slowly creeping up on my baby. My third generation iPod is only lasting a few hours of playtime now compared to the seven or eight I was getting…
There were rumors about Treo and Audi dating, but no one knew for sure. It was the gossip of the town. Then Treo and Audi decided to make their relationship public, and performed a Bluetooth pairing right out in the open. And it was beautiful. Anywho, apparently the rumors we mentioned a year or so…
This system has the capability to turn even the crappiest, rotten mix CD into beautiful 5.1 sound. The KEF KIT200 is the upgraded bigger brother of the KEF KIT100 that was released back in 2004 and is a distant cousin to KITT, the car. This system has some hot 5.1 surround sound goodness that is…
It’s so close, I can almost taste it. The folks over at MobileTracker noted that Cingular is probably about to ship the Nokia 6682, based on a recent ad in WIRED Magazine, and that it has images of the phone up on its website. They also got a scoop from a reader about the prices…
Princeton Technology has created an external hard drive tailored for the Mac Mini. It not only looks like the Mini, but the product page shows how perfectly it stacks on top of a Mini—yet it’s compatible with windows systems as well. The PHD-MM series comes in 160GB or 250GB, with either USB 2.0 or Firewire.…