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No! Your shirt is in my heart rate monitor! Adidas and Polar have teamed up to create a fully-connected work-out ensemble complete with HR watch, shirt, and chest band. Called Project Fusion—the name “Project Cool Wow Cool Fuzionizing Coolness Vx100x” was taken—this connect workout garb mixes the best of Adidas style with the potential ligament…
Word has it that HD-DVDs, which should have hit shelves this winter, will be under supported by studios are waiting for Sony’s Blu-Ray solution. What does that mean for us? It means that HD-DVD is slowly straining under heavy manufacturer pressure, leading to lag time between finalization of the standard and the release of something…
If you’re anything like me, you can’t keep your sweaty hands out of jars of vaseline. Just try playing a PSP when you’re all lubed up like that. It’s no fun, let me tell you. Therefore, we suggest picking up the PSP Grip Dock, a little dock with grips that enables even the most carpal-tunnel-twisted…
No, this isn’t a new fertility treatment. It’s a watch that you wear sideways on your wrist (OVA=Optimal Viewing Angle). That way you can see the time just by looking down at your hand at your side or in front of you instead of twisting your entire arm. Important breakthrough in timekeeping technology? Heck, no.…
Poor Robert, he of the DIY Cellphone Antenna got Gizmododotted (is that a term?) What’s a good place folks can post relatively low bandwidth sites to prevent this kind of thing from killing their bandwidth quota? I know slashdot has a community run mirror, but I’m not sure if we could pull that off. Any…
It’s pretty rare to see a full BYO appear on the Internets, but here you go: a working MCE 2005 Media Center in all its rackmounted glory. Very cool external display, dual DVD burners for copying “personal movies” and all kinds of sweet images of the guts of a pretty powerful machine. I haven’t seen…
Analysts—AKA journalists who are paid better—are seeing some trouble brewing in the world of Creative. While they’re pumping out some hot product, Apple and the Taiwan-SoKo-mafia of tiny OEMs with cool PMPs are eating their lunch. Creative also suffered in the September quarter as Apple Computer Inc cut prices by up to 20 per cent…
When I hit the beach, I like to bring my own tunes. Sure, not everyone likes Kraftwerk remixed with Toby Keith, but they soon learn to love the majesty of teuto-tronic techno mixed with the best from Honkytonk University. Whereas they once threw stuff at me, I can now reach into my handy cooler/iPod dock,…
Ok. Last stupid toy. I promise. I just got such a damn kick out of this frog thing that you’re supposed to put your DS into. It looks even more turd-tastic than that Dokumonkey or whatever it was. What you do with is is you feed your DS into its gaping maw and then it…
This device sounds more like a crazy mind control device than a USB dongle, but what do I know. The Black Dog is a self-contained Linux server with biometric security. According to the website: To access and use your BlackDog, you merely plug it in to your host computer s USB port* and BlackDog takes…
The HP website is leaking info on the hw6700, an all-in-one smartphone with, quite possibly, GPS. Coolness includes: This unit will feature Windows Mobile 5, Intel PXA 270 processor, 192 MB total Memory (128 ROM and 64 SDRAM) .. GPRS/GSM/EDGE with 802.11g. Apparently, the info is in a buried presentation, which means some IT is…
Domokun, which I suspect means “Fanged Fecal Matter” in Japanese, is a very popular character. Now he can be even more exciting because they dressed his bile-filled body in snow sports uniforms. Watch him shush down the slopes in his Ski outfit or block pucks and raise a little bolus while tending the net in…
Chris Scheidel has a passion for music and some spare money. He has thrown together an interesting rack mount to run the Guitar Rig software for his guitar and keyboard playing. It is powered by a Mac Mini and a small LCD screen. Very cool looking device and I bet it can definitely make some…
“Hey, Baby, we got to pawn the Shuffle.” “No, Jimmy, no.” “Listen, if we gonna get high tonight, you gotta go down to Frank’s and sell it.” “But I need it! I just downloaded the new Killers album.” “Baby, I got to dribble a little on my abscess at least. It cleans it.” “Can I…
Hearsay Man, our dedicated XM spy, points us to his new lust object, the Delphi RoadyXT. As we see from this picture, it is larger than a quarter but it weighs 2.8 ounces and is just .61″ deep. This obviously means we’re much closer than we were to seeing a truly portable satellite unit. The…
Nothing special about these photos except that they kind of give you a better look at the XBox360. Bluetooth wireless controllers, sexy white case, and all sorts of candy color buttons. It will be so nice when this next crop of devices comes out. It will be like Christmas three times in one year! Exclusive…
There are a few reasons to post a DIY project. First, there’s the cool factor—mounting TVs inside stuffed, dead kittens, making a car that floats, etc. Then there’s the “why?” factor—turning a can of tuna into a mini-PC, giving worms to ex-girlfriends. Then there’s the “He’ll Get Hit By Lightning” factor, of which this DIY…
Baby steps are the name of the game with this lawn mower. Behold the Remote Control Lawn Mower 2006 S-Class. All standard lawn mowing components are involved except the tag-a-long human guide. This lawn mower uses an FM radio remote control and even a wireless electric starter. If you recall back in the olden days…
I don t know what this world is coming too. What happened to the old days, drinking a tall boy and passing out while watching QVC? Anheuser-Busch is rolling out a new drink called “Tilt,” a berry flavored malt beverage that also features caffeine, guarana and ginseng. It is gradually being released across the states,…
Elegance, logic, simplicity, economy: these are the buzzwords that design geeks live for. If only all the gadgets and devices and feature laden wonder packages made sense then wouldn’t the world be a better place? And then we all nod and whine about how we don’t know how to use two thirds of the features…