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According to the product page, this is “No Suitcase.” So what is this? Maybe a $28,000 footrest? Well after further investigation, this is a container that holds a lot of stuff to be carried around easily. It also fits a briefcase inside it, so it’s maybe a briefcase holder. It s made out of carbon…
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The Army has finally picked out their new next-gen flight drone. They are dishing out $214 million to General Atomics to produce 48 of the Extended Range Multi-Purpose (ERMP) drones. These drones are capable of potentially staying in the air for 72 hours and are able to take off and land on their own. They…
Not content to let sleeping DOGs lie, Oakley is coming out with next-gen Thumps that look less like alien spoor and more like something a human with a functional frontal lobe might wear. Not many specs to speak of, but the new models will look like Oakley’s GASCAN glasses and come in more memory configurations.…
I remember ZVUE flogging this PMP a year ago and I’m surprised they’re still alive and kicking. Oh well. More power to them. As a testament to their absolute popularity, they’ve slashed the price on their flagship ZVUE Portable MP3 and Media Player to $99 which means we’re going to be able to get our…
Just look at that little bugger. Those are blister buttons, dudes and dudettes, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the days of the Intellivision. Plus it’s all blue and sexy and there’s a nice OLED screen. No news on pricing, availability, or any of that important stuff, but we do know its nickname…
No Dios Fridge for you, poor boy. This fridge has diamonds in the handle and the logo. It comes in a very limited edition of 200 units and you’re not going to see one unless—nope, sorry, nobody will see these. There’s no way. I know it hurts, but we have to stay strong. Sorry, LG,…
It’s so cute to watch Europeans go through their little fads. While we busily sexualize teenagers and rappers, the Europeans are busy sexualizing frogs and alligators, giving them a totemic influence far beyond their creators’ initial intentions (??). Case in point? Crazy Frog and the soon to be popular Schnappi, an alligator created by an…
Those sly geese at The Register! Why would they spoil the fun. For like a week we’ve all been sitting around talking about the wonderful new product line that will revolutionize the PDA world and make people think Palm matters again. What is this incredible device? Well, it’s apparently the LifeDrive. The story, which seems…
This is all in Japanese but looks quite cool. It’s something called the Makrolon and it’s made of see-through acrylic and even has a cute little cable spool for spooling your cable. It comes in three neon plastic colors including hot pink and hot green and is apparently available for about $30 from a Japanese…
OK, Philips, stop it. Let the big boys from Taiwan, the boys like Cowon, SwineFu, BoingSlap, MobileMP3Coolness, make and sell the derivative MP3 players. You’re just wasting our time with this claptrap. Again, just because you can purchase and sell flash memory devices doesn’t mean you should create an amazing new MP3 player just because…
Somebody is making something up, I think. However, anything scientific has to be true, including intelligent design, so this stuff must work. But don’t take our word for it. As your computer sends data, each bit also carries hundreds of invisible WiFi Speed Spray “scrubbing” molecules. It works at the speed of light. and even…
Reader Joo has created the first official “It Plays Doom” certification icon for manufacturers of hair dryers, portable vibrators, and MP3 players. We would suggest that OEMs and even resellers begin certifying their products using this new logo and we will expect a certification fee—work out the specifics with Joo—for every device that sports this…
First International Digital has just introduced the iRock! 5.1 Theater Sound USB Headphones that operate, you guessed it, via USB. These look to be a serious pair of headphones — each sound chamber is packed with six speakers! This means it’s able to capture a virtual surround sound experience, complete with 3D sound configuration, for…
Kyocera announced its Candid KX16 clamshell today for the CDMA market, both U.S. and abroad. It’s being sold as a gaming handset, which means it’ll go together nicely with the freaky Alienware mobile phone GamePad we mentioned yesterday. Pretty standard phone features: VGA cam (thus the “Candid” moniker, we presume), digital zoom, raised keypad for…
I got my digital camera, the Panasonic FX7, partly because it looked great, but mostly because it had a killer feature. In these days of pseudo-feature overload, let me remind you of what that is. A killer feature is a feature that changes the way you use a piece of technology, or substantially improves the…
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Make seems to really like this CVS one-time-use video camera. They like it so much, in fact, that, they’re getting into all sorts of mischief involving cable splicing and soldering. Can we just agree that those guys are crazy? Can we? Using a serial Palm sync cable, a little elbow grease, and some Yankee ingenuity,…
Those crazy baseball loving Japanese are at it again. The Ishikawa-Namiki Komuro Laboratory has designed a claw device that can catch baseballs up to 186 mph. The baseball application is so-so, but the sensory analysis applications are nice. This claw will predict the ball s movement and trajectory to allow for it to catch when…
Months after announcing the MPIO-One, MPIO has finally launched the self-proclaimed world’s smallest portable media player in the UK. It weighs less than 1.2 oz., and measures at a height and width around 1.26 x 2.16 inches. You’ll be able to play all different sorts of video files on this thing, including MPEG-4, WMV, and…