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The Sony Ericsson W800 Walkman phone is finally coming to the United States. This phone combines a cellular phone with a camera and an MP3 player for an explosion of electronic goodness. The phone ships with a 512mb Sony MemoryStick Pro Duo to store the music. While listening to music, incoming calls ring in through…
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NTT—motto: “Just Let Us Embed this Chip In Your Brain”—is introducing a new 3D browser UI that allows for visualization of complex data sets through a “fly through” interface. Very VR circa Mondo 2000. While it’s no Windows Vista (Transparent window bezels! OMG), it’s still an interesting concept piece. It won’t be available to us…
DirecTV and TiVo split up. You knew it was going to happen. They were so quiet at dinner last week and DirecTV kept taking TiVo out to the porch to talk and TiVo would come back crying. But whatever. I’m moving in on TiVo next week. She’s hot. Anyway, DirecTV already has a new girlfriend,…
I’m still fuming about Safari, so I’ll make this short: gold. Burberry. iPod case. This isn’t the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. I just don’t know what to say. They couldn’t put some crystals onto this thing? Some diamonds, maybe? Put some initials on there? Maybe add a pouch for the severed ears of the…
Dear Apple, Please fix Safari so it doesn’t lock up and force me to restart over and over again. I would use anything but Safari except that Safari has in-line spell checking. I hate you, Safari. I hate you so much. More posts after I stop having to restart this bloody computer. DJ sent me…
Oooh… shiny! Japanese company Interworld Electronics has released an all-stainless-steel keyboard that’s apparently dustproof and waterproof. It looks super-thin and the buttons appear flat, which might mean it’ll be a hassle to type. But with a look this gorgeous, who cares? It retails for 39,800 yen which is about 350 USD, though it will probably…
I know after topping the high score of Lumines, all I wanna do is whip out some drums and go crazy turning out beats. Apparently somewhere out there in PSP homebrew-land, someone thinks so too. The PSP homebrew community has come out with not one, but two different drum machines for the PSP: The PSPKick,…
You’ve really got to hate yourself to strap this thing on. It’s a watch that reads out the time when you dial 117 which is the number to the Japanese time and weather service, we’re led to believe. This huge monster of a thing might be fun at parties for the first few minutes, but…
Instrument design is going down the toilet. Cementimental s Optical Theremin Loo fits a photosensitive noisemaker into a tiny plastic rendition of the Porcelain God; adjust the sound by moving the lid up and down. (Insert sexist joke about leaving the toilet seat up here.) Not feeling it? This circuit bender can give you whatever…
Buddup! Dwank! Buddup Dwank! Dum-dum-da-da-dum-dum. Dum-dum-da-da-dum-dum! No matter what happens, I’ll still remember the old James Bond movies with absolute fondness. They can turn the franchise into a strange amalgam of Rambo and Lethal Weapon, but I’ll always love the gadgets. This one reminds me of an old film camera I bought at Odd Lots…
You ve always wanted a notebook computer that looks like an Etch-A-Sketch, and now there s the Flybook. We first told you about Dialogue s 1.1GHz Transmeta Crusoe compact in June. The touch screen-optional notebook, which was made in Taiwan and groomed in Italy, is making its stateside debut during New York City s fashion…
According to the AP, a new technology called “CD burning” is threatening to displace “file-sharing” as the main method pirates—”l33t f[_]X0Rz” in the creole of Hacker Speak—use to share “music files.” These music files contain digital representations of audio in a 1/0 binary format similar to the system computers use to communicate with their human…
Apparently there is some sort of terrible virus that causes the PSP to turn into a “Windows box,” a zombie-like amalgamation of badly written code, or a “Linux terminal,” a violently dangerous Finnish virus that requires knowledge of something called a “command line” to extricate yourself from its clutches. This virus requires something called a…
ABIT is experimenting with a pipe to diffuse the heat from it s A8N motherboard. The advantage is that this is a much quieter solution than those noisy fans, which always interfere with the sound of frag grenades exploding. The pipe leads to a heat sink located on the rear of the motherboard, where the…
The PSA615, an unholy spawn of Philips and Nike whose coming was long-ago prophesied in the tomes of AOLus Timewarnerus, the Lord of the Useless Partnership, is no more. Expect to see a red cast over Philips headquarters and Nike’s army of undead child laborers to clamor up the front steps of the CEO’s office,…
Why propose to the woman of your dreams in person when Luke Jerram has invented a wedding ring that does it all for you? Jerram spent three months figuring out how to etch his message— I love you for ever. Marry me. —onto a silver ring using a diamond stylus that mimics a record player.…
The only reason I decided to put this up is that we survived torrential downpours in New York and New Jersey this weekend while camping and it would have been so nice to stick this thing out of the tent while the heavens fell down around us and twirl three soggy marshmallows over an extinguished…
Logitech has been going nuts this month with keyboards and mice and all sorts of peripherals. Up next is the QuickCam Fusion, an organic-looking webcam with 1.3-megapixel (!!) resolution and light sensing technology which adapts to conditions in the room. This USB 2.0 webcam has a 78 degree field of vision and a built-in stereo…
There is big news out for the media centering Linux ninjas inside us all. It has been announced that VMB s MediaREADY 5000 media center will run SageTV s media center software. SageTV s software is powered by Linux. So some new pricing competition will be in affect because the MediaREADY 5000 is just as…