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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…
The last meals of people on death row are actually interesting facts to read about. Upon further research I found an interesting site that actually had all of this information nicely organized. Designers Erik Strom and Steve Bowden have taken this fascination and decided to run with it. Eric has designed some food trays that…
Day in and day out the one thing that plagues my mind all day is ensuring protection of my Gibson from the hackz0rs of the world. There are so many different firewalls out available to the public and they all share a similar idea of protection code and algorithms. What makes the Stingray Firewall different…
Cleanliness, efficiency, compactness, cool-factor… for a variety of reasons, automatic doors have become a standard feature of Japanese shops. While the typical sliding star-trek style design has proven itself, the tanaka auto door aims to improve upon a good concept. This new design entails strips equipped with infrared sensors that open to the approximate shape…
PC Mag is talking about the Zen Photo Micro. It will have an MSRP of $249 and feature an FM tuner and longer battery life. More as we get it. A Bigger, Cheaper Zen Micro Photo [PCMag via DAPReview]
The Poopsadaisy— Let your dog carry the load. —is a strap on sack so Fido can carry his own leavings on those long walks in the back country where there are no trash cans for miles. While I can’t really imagine the niche of dog-owner that might enjoy this—perhaps the sort that doesn’t want to…
Lifehacker – SanDisk USB SD Card Kotaku – Xbox 360 Lineup on EB Games? Screenhead – Biting the hand that needs you Jalopnik – Pioneed Offers Aftermarket Navigation System With Live Traffic Updates https://lifehacker.com/sandisk-usb-sd-card-117022
Those crazy kids over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are taking a really odd idea and putting it into action. They are developing a Jerk-o-Meter to determine how engaged a person is in a phone call. The program analyzes variable such as speech patterns and voice tones and rates the person on a percentage scale.…
Word has it that TiVo is working with IFC to supply some of their content to TiVo subscribers. This is very important. TiVo isn’t doing very well—they’ve got a great product and they have the total first-mover advantage, but everybody and their dog can now embed TiVo-like functionality into every ugly box in Best Buy,…
Motorola Q In the Wild Thump 2.0, Mullet – Must-Haves for 2006? Razer Copperhead, the Uber Mouse Reviewed (Verdict: Uberish) Doom on the iPod Stock Market Dependant Self-Watering Plant irock! 5.1 USB Headphones Black Dog USB Key Linux Server Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard OS X for Intel Hacked In-Car Mac Mini https://gizmodo.com/motorola-q-in-the-wild-116899
Was just watch browsing/drooling when I stumbled upon these beauties. Nothing too high-tech, but in terms of watch design they’re just about perfect. These use a standard, automatic ETA movement in a nice 46mm steel case. They’re priced at about $1000, so maybe I need to go sell a kidney. I like this steel on…
LuxPro, makers of the Shuffle-inspired Super Tangent, are up to their old tricks, taking the best from Apple’s marketing materials and remixing them, Tangent-style, to create something that’s just shy of Apple’s intellectual property. The Super, which is appearing intermittently on LuxPro’s website, will be joined by the Top and the EZ, two Super-alikes with…
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No, it s not you: those 99 bottles of beer on the wall really are singing. The idea of a beer bottle organ was born some time in the 1800s; I m guessing those who were there didn t recall the details too clearly, because you naturally have to drink the beer before the bottles…
Mmmm… big touch screen, sexy removable keypad, huge tri-band love. The Kinpo iDo S600, which we will never see, is just about the nicest little phone I’ve seen in a fortnight. It looks a bit like the Sony Ericsson P900, actually and runs Windows mobile on a Freescale i.MX21 266MHz CPU. It does video recording…
Finally, a WiFi finder that actually makes sense. I’ve seen so many of these things with just two LEDs—red for no WiFi, Green for much WiFi—to know that the previous crop of WiFi detectors were hunks of garbage. This one at least has an LCD screen and can scan the current WiFi environment and supply…
Eagle-eyed reader Robert sends us this lovely photo of a few 40GB iPods for $100. Notice the guns in the foreground. Insurance? A “friendly reminder?” An intimation, but by no means a suggestion, that these iPods were stolen? An attempt at selling guns on Craigslist without angering the overseers? All I know is that you…
NTT DoCoMo out of Japan are releasing a new phone later this month that is a small step in getting those chatty people of the world to shut up. The phone has the ability to slow down rapid speech of the callers. With the simple tap of a button mid-call the speech on the other…
It’s great to see crazy people branch out. Troy Hurtubise, inventor of the Ursus bear suit designed to convince bears that you aren’t food and the Angel Light, designed to allow the user to see through walls, is now using his magical God light to grow trees in Canada. As we see from this photo—what…
Some serious ninjas devised a way to properly play videos on an older V1, 2 or 3 iPods in all their black and white glory. Unfortunately this method won’t play back sound and video at the same time, so all the porn will have to be silent. Still interested? Sure you are. Instructions [Via DAPReview]