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It was barely two months ago when Casio released the Exilim EX-S500, and they’re already announcing the EX-Z500… in Japan anyway. We’re not too sure why, since they don’t seem too different from each other. The 5 megapixel EX-Z500 has a 2.7 inch display, 3x optical zoom, 8MB built-in memory, an SD card slot, and…
Firefly is a disposable camera that is shaped to fit your standard M203 grenade launchers (Now available at CostCo!). Load this thing into a grenade launcher and shoot it wherever surveillance needs to be done. During flight the Firefly captures recon pictures and sends them back to a PDA before hitting the ground and exploding.…
According to the Microsoft Word spellchecker, Intel doesn’t even exist! Ha, take that! This is important, you see: a Chicago freight company, named Intel-Logistics, is fighting to keep it’s name in the face of a storm of Intel lawsuits. The Federal Trademark laws say that the word must be “famous and distinctive” to fall under…
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Five-megapixel cameras aren’t anything to get too excited about in South Korea, with models available from a few vendors for a while now. But most of them have been fat photo-taking silver bricks that happened to have a cellular radio shoehorned in. But LG’s Dica phones it will sell there come in at just 18.4mm…
Time and time again, mobile phone makers have talked about how they see handsets as important fashion accessories, on par with tying a red bandanna around your knee. Well, maybe not that cool, since most of these fashion-first phones (remember Xelibri?) have failed miserably. But Taiwan’s BenQ has taken an interesting approach by including HOT…
I remember sitting through the TV miniseries Shogun a long time ago, something like 10 hours about an English guy that made it to Japan in the 1500s and made his way through feudal society to become Shogun, or something (I pretty much went back to my Dukes of Hazzard playset after the first 10…
I’m all for God and all that stuff, but can’t He make His PR images a little more appealing? I mean staring down some Jehovah’s Witness with pink-eye is not my idea of a good sales tactic. Aesthetics aside, the Megavoice aka the gPod is an audio device that contains the entire Old and New…
The inimitable Om Malik writes about his experience in India where broadband is defined as 200 kbps. This is based on the FCCs decision to wiggle the definition of broadband in the U.S. down to what folks would consider a crawl in any other country. Ironically, this 200 kbps definition of broadband is becoming a…
Ok. Mea culpa. Just reading on CNET how a CEO has taken away all of his employees laptops and replaced them with “smart” handhelds. What does this mean? It means that to get work done—work obviously consisting of playing solitaire and replying to emails—all the average knowledge worker needs is a nice Blackberry. But wait…
You’d be hard-pressed to fool an eagle-eyed teacher at prom with this sassy, and drink-holding, cell-phone. Priced at $23, the Cellphone Flask looks like a great way to get a few shots of booze into your underage body, provided you don’t mind leaving your real cellphone at home and later looking like a total freak…
I’ll admit one thing. The BengalBoys sure know their presentation, although this set of images/reviews is a bit over-the-top. First off, they have their huge “DON’T STEAL ME” banner over everything—fair enough. Then they have the lens so greased that it looks like Penthouse circa-1975 and you can’t even tell what they’re reviewing. Well, we…
Brent sends us a heartwarming story. His brother, his poor, TB-infected brother, wanted to play video games. What did Brent do? He got him Half-Life 2. Then his poor, orphaned brother couldn’t login to Steam. What did Brent do? He made him a ghettotenna. Using a standard WiFi antenna, some kind of stick, and a…
I loved LED watches. They’re so James Bond circa 1975 when he’s trying to disable that bomb and the countdown appears in a little window looking like some squiggly weird clockwork thing even though it’s really electronic. You can find similar watches on eBay, but they’re usually busted-up gold or busted-up chrome. However, one lad…
Samsung just sent out a massive release on their new and update products. This little bugger really stood out. It’s a flash-based PMP weighing in at just under 2 ounces includes an FM tuner and recorder, MPEG4/OGG/MP3/everything else playback, and up to 1GB of storage. The 1-GB model with 1.8″ screen is priced at $299.…
Furniture dedicated to gaming, like furniture dedicated to beading or sex, allows you to wear your heart on your sleeve. “Oh that? That’s a GameDeck/Love Swing/Beading Chair. It helps me game/sex you up/bead.” Not much anyone can say after that except “Eww. Why does it smell?” The GameDeck Mayfly and the Nex-Sys V1 are two…
Whenever I leave loud, odorous traces on everything it’s because I just ate chili dogs and drank a bunch of beer milkshakes. However, the Trident Triple Action alarm can do all those things sans gastrointestinal distress. The alarm sends out a 138 decibel scream, spreads a cloud of traceable dust that is difficult to wash…
We’ve all been waiting for Optware’s holographic storage system and it looks like we have about a year left to go. The Optware, which stores data on holographic cards, will cost about $10,000 (WHA!) [Thanks, Donald] for a reader/writer and each card will cost around a buck (!!) which means we’ll be carrying 30GB around…
Ultimate Ears has just released a lower-end version of its Super.fi earbuds series, the Super.fi 3 Studio. It won’t have the dual speakers with high and low frequencies that the premium models (5EB and 5 Pro) are known for, but the 3 Studio doesn’t seem half bad for a low-end model. It features precision-balanced speakers…
A lot of hacks consist of “I pulled this thing apart and saw that it contains a flash card.” This hack, on the other hand, turns the CVS Camcorder into a USB-capable, CVS-subsidized video recording device. Any hack, however, that requires the following descriptive paragraph: Interestingly, there seems to be a flaw in the code…