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I think the coolest thing about this page is that in German an Oilcomputer is an lrechner, which sounds very Checkpoint Charlie spy mission. “Sir! The lrechner is ready! We must attack!” The creator of the lrechner, Markus Leonhardt, basically dunked his entire PC into a fish tank of grease. It keeps the entire thing…
The Sky IM8500, which is probably going to be Korean-only, is a crazy looking 2-megapixel cameraphone with a very unique and never-before-seen design feature: a center scroll wheel. I wonder where they got that idea from? Perhaps it was from the mythical one-eyed Cyclops or from Earth’s orbit around the sun. Interesting. Otherwise, not much…
Oh, those jokesters at Sync! Always Joke Joke Joking. What did they come up with this time? Some gadgets for football players, including the air cooled jock strap, shown above. Plus they even have the football phone of the 21st Century – the Pigskin Slider. Silly Sync! Gridiron Gadgets [Sync]
More info on the GPX2—the poor-man’s PSP. The GPX2 is a personal entertainment player (PEP) with a nice, 3.5″ LCD and support for just about everything under the sun, including DRMed WMA et al. It runs linux so it has plenty of “games” already available under MAME and NES emulators and it plays back pirate…
The elf-sized Nintendo Micro is now set to launch September 19 for about $100. This also coincides with a $20 price drop in the DS in conjunction with the release NintenDogs—which is actually quite a cool little game involving lifelike dogs except that these electronic dogs rarely excrete feces, unlike our own dog, Phoebe, who…
Walk free, as free as the wind blows. As free as the… Umm. Forgot the rest. So what we have here is a pair of wireless USB headphones running on the 2.4GHz band. They don’t appear to be using any common wireless networking method and they’re definitely not Bluetooth, so they seem to be a…
What is with these overseas cameraphone companies making large megapixel cameraphones? More importantly, what is with the U.S. not getting in on the action? Xcute has a new cameraphone out called the DV2, and a 6 megapixel camera is but one of its many features. Other crazy-awesome features include video recording at 30 frames per…
I hadn’t heard much from Sanyo recently and then they go and spring this cool little number on us. This is a beautiful 6-megapixel camera with a 3-inch LCD and 3x optical zoom. I particularly like the lens placement and the clean lines of this point and shoot. Very rare to see a camera that…
Exciting news. Sprint and the NFL are now in a synergistic relationship whose goals are to leverage the NFL’s top content and valuable value-add output leadership and to offer both parties the opportunity to create a symbiotic content-stream by leveraging video (“moving picture”) technology as well as cellphone-centric connect-ability thanks to Sprint’s premiere wireless service.…
Intel’s dual-core Xeon aka Paxville chips will drop later this year and not Q1 2006, as previously announced. Why? And why do we care? Well, AMD is pinching at Intel a bit with their dual-core server and desktop offerings, which makes Intel cry a little. The new chips, which will probably end up in servers…
DefenseTech runs down a full list of unmanned drones that may soon be coming to a field of battle near you. They’re not in production yet, but they’re generally pretty cool. First up we have the DP-5X, an unmanned helicopter that can be taken apart and put back together in the field. Then we have…
We’re so proud. Samsung has released its first Series 60 Symbian Smartphones, SCH-D720 and SGH-D730 — thus showing the world that, yes, Samsung can so make it in the Symbian Smartphone arena, if you’ll just give it a chance. They both look and feel like regular handsets: the SCH-D720 is a slider, while the SCH-D730…
One of the worst things that could befall an otherwise happy-go-lucky roadtrip is one’s iPod dying. Don’t believe me? Have you heard today’s radio stations? Full of annoying deejays, bad music, and even worse talk radio? Yeah, well, there you go. And forget about turning the radio off and making conversation — everyone else is…
The XBox 360 will cost about $477—it will probably be a bit less in the US, but we’re seeing the general pricing structure here. It is actually pretty ‘spensive. The source of this information? Some sort of internal Swiss Microsoft page. I’ve got a buddy of mine who speaks Swiss German [I could have sworn…
Pioneer just dropped two new receivers, the VSA-AX4AVi and the VSX-AX2AV. The VSA-AX4AVi is tres hot because it accepts USB connections from audio players including something called the Apple iPod. Otherwise, the differences are pretty standard: the 7-channel VSA-AX4AVi rocks at 220W per channel and the VSX-AX2AV runs 200Wx7 channels. They support HDMI and WMA9…
University of Tokyo researchers have created a form of robot skin that reacts to touch and temperature and may, in the future, react to strain and light levels. The skin is pliable and can cover multiple robo-surfaces, leading to robots that can react to more than just visual stimuli, and, in the case of the…
I’ve long been a fan of Samsung monitors, not only for their crisp displays, but also for their cool design aesthetic. Well, looks like Samsung is set to wow us yet again with two shiny new 20-inch LCD monitors: the SyncMasterMagic CX201TS and the SyncMaster 204Ts. Both feature 1600 x 1200 resolution, A/V input, and…
First we got the G15 Gaming Keyboard and now Logitech has an LCD keyboard for the rest of us non-AWSD-tapping computer users. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-g15-gaming-keyboard-116969 This keyboard has a slew of interesting features including an external temperature sensor (!!??), a “dashboard” displaying the time and current user, along with media and email notifications. There’s even a feature…
We’re pulling a tip from our brothers over at Jalopnik by highlighting some big news from Toyota. Toyota has some images and information available on a concept car that is powered by fuel cell and battery hybrid engine. The vehicle, named the Fine-N definitely looks like a concept car, but according to Toyota, this is…
This QoolQee i MP3 player definitely falls into the category of weird. The player appears to be shaped like its name, the letter i, sans floating dot, obviously. The design would actually work nicely for a runner. It could be gripped in the hand and the top of the device has a knob that handles…