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HTC can go bite me. For a while I was all excited about everything they had to offer but at this point this thing seems like a cross between an overhyped PDA and the Phantom game console. Anyway, more news is leaking about the new HTC line of smart phones that are in the works.…
With this product, I was faced with a dilemma. See, it’s old. And very much so, as it was created in the mid-80s by Philippe Starck (who, incidentally, likes to spell his name a very artsy “S+arck”). Yet, it has got to be the most striking lemon squeezer I’ve seen, and as such deserving of…
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What is it about new OSes? They’re like ice cream or toys—you get so excited about them at first and then you’re sitting there staring into the Tiger Dashboard or the little shadow under the mouse pointer in XP and just ask yourself “I waited for that?” Anyway, Extremetech looks at the new gaming features…
Panasonic is now offering Oxyride batteries in the US. Ok. Fine. Oxyride is an update on the standard Alkaline batteries that we in New York buy for a dollar on the train and which end up strewn on the tracks like so many CD player turds. If Oxyride really does last longer, I suppose that…
According to market research firm iSuppli—get it? Like supply with an i—the prices of 40- and 42-inch LCD panels is swiftly falling down to about $950, meaning a nice big Christmas LCD will cost about $2,500 or less in December. Smaller LCDs are almost free, now, at $550. Generally, there’s a glut of these things…
Now, you have to examine the picture very carefully to understand why this chair is exciting. At first glance, it looks like something you’d make your neighbor’s mangy misbehaving dog sleep on, as a punishment of sorts. It’s full of edges and hardly seems comfortable. However, if you look at it some more, you notice…
Because waiting around for cash just isn’t “fun” anymore, starting next month, Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank will be rolling out new ATM machines featuring a slot game that customers can play while they wait. According to a bank spokesman, 1 in 10 will hit tripple sevens having a 150 yen payout, enough to cover the bank’s…
Razer, makers of the Diamondback mouse, has come up with its successor: The Copperhead, which is supposedly the world’s fastest gaming mouse. It boasts 2,000 DPI laser precision, 32kb onboard memory (in a mouse?!), 7 programmable “hyper response” buttons, up to three customizable weights, and way more features than a mouse should have, all for…
Canon continues to push the envelope for digital camcorders with two new Optura miniDV camcorders: the Optura S1, and the Optura 600. The sleek Optura S1 took some major design cues from the iPod, and features a smooth and clean exterior. The choice of the miniSD card format, a new thing for Canon, also meant…
People don’t want to spend time figuring out what a business does, so our home page will highlight the most important features of both our business and our web site. We’ll think of the home page as a kind of portal, giving customers the information they want at a glance, and offering lots of links…
Fujifilm introduced three new cameras today, each with different levels of usability: the E900, the S5200, and the S9000. Of note is that two of them, the E900 and the S9000, finally broach the nine megapixel mark. All three support the RAW format, and all three feature “TV-quality” VGA movie recording. The E900 is the…
I liked the Famicom as much as the next guy, but would I make a mini model of every single old-timey Nintendo console and embed them in lucite? Sure! Each one of these stylish keychains contains a console like the Super Famicom and even a mini controller. These keychains are not playable, but they show…
Hello, my name is John and I’m an ATRAC user. I didn’t want to use it at first, but the Sony Network Walkman FunFun 20-17X was so attractive and shiny. It started out small—I’d rip into ATRAC and upload it to my MiniDisc player then I’d put it into my Vaio and I never tried…
Digital pens have long been a touch and go technology, which a number of interesting, if stupid, ideas coming down the pike. This one appears to be useful little tool that digitizes handwriting without depending on special paper, touchpads, or ink. It’s Bluetooth compatible, as well. However, I just don’t know if handwriting will ever…
The unfortunate and somewhat comical side effect of having fully inserted a purple wax crayon up my nose (for kicks) as a child, my brain is incapable of learning certain things. Specifically, things having to do with bicycle modding trends. I know that people do it. I’ve seen’em around. I… just don’t know anything about…
Plans for homemade projectors are appearing around the web and our fatherless Jeep loving friends over at jeepbastard are providing a little insight to this homemade project. Essentially all plans work around the same concept, remove the backlight and reflective material from an LCD (monitor or laptop) and place it on top of an overhead…
Innovations in urinals are usually technological: they flush faster, quieter, more automatically, less wastefully; they massage you in all the right places and take your temperature and such. That’s all fun and games… but California artist Clark Sorensen doesn’t care for all that hi-tech stuff. Instead, he wants to make you pee in a pretty…
For a small fee of $445, you too can annoy thousands of people on a daily basis. This little device has the potential to jam wifi and Bluetooth signals. I predict those Amish are behind this, trying to put a halt to the Google takeover of the world. Unfortunately this gadget will start popping up…
I don’t quite get what’s going on here, but this appears to be some sort of early Vocoder that creates Dr. Who Dalek voices—or any other crazy noises—using old skool components. There are two inputs, one from a mic and one from an instrument, and one output. I suspect someone out there has some sort…