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A widescreen iPod Video! With scroll wheel! With a beautiful bright screen? Or is it just a Photoshopped all to hell iPod Photo? You decide. [Thanks, Jamie!] UPDATE – Read on for an excellent exchange with Ben. Ok. Read this email exchange. Ben, who was a great sport, caught me in an asshole mood this…
Now what have we here? Another audio player? That’s chromey and boxy? OLED display? FM tuner/recorder? Why, this must be one of those Asia-only DAPs that are spawning in waters of the Tamsui River. Yes. It looks cool. It’s really light. It plays MP3 and WMA and you can’t have it. i-Bulldog BF-100 & BF-30…
The only sport I’m interested in is mass slam-dunking spam email into the proverbial black hole. I’m sure, however, there are people out there that actually like playing sports. If you’re one such individual, this line of basketball-style PCs from Style Gate may just be for you. They also come in soccer and American football…
This is a hardcore smart phone for those hardcore mobile warriors of today. I-mate is sporting Windows Mobile 2003 edition for a giant explosion of PDA/smart phone capabilities. This little beast has it all: email, web browsing, media playing, Bluetooth, expandable memory, IR port, USB charging, large screen, extra batteries and even a calculator! There…
Being fit is overrated these days. Like gay hairdressers, fat is the new black, it seems, and some of the more emaciated of you might feel ill at ease at the beach. What with being surrounded by all that rotundity, a few of you may even feel the need to revert to somewhat desperate measures…
We’ve been lusting after this for a while and it’s nice to see that its finally out. Portable recording has usually been a hit-or-miss proposition, but with this thing you know you’re at least going to get something that sounds like beautiful music. The MicroTrack 2496 is a compact two-channel digital recorder that will fulfill…
Instant Ramen, the long-standing foundation foodgroup of the college diet, has earned itself a ride into orbit on space shuttle Discovery. After the successful launch this week, Nissin Foods announced that Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi was headed into space packing “SpaceRam,” a specially developed ball-shaped version of instant ramen designed to be easily edible with…
Just watched Million Dollar Baby and this is kind of like this. Except the Tapwave rarely wailed on anyone’s buttocks. The Zodiac, my friends, is gone. We are sorry to inform you that the Zodiac business was discontinued and service and support are no longer available as of July 25th 2005. The funny thing is…
Some of you may remember the wonderful Mr.Suicide. Now comes what looks like a close relative: Propaganda’s Mr.P. He is a blue plastic keychain man, with courage some of us wouldn’t even dream of. You see that quizzical expression? Well, he dons it while dangling from your cars keys from his, uh, stainless steel one-eyed…
Some ninjas at Davesipaq have figured out how to get the PSP to download podcasts—or blogcasts, if you’re crazy. Not much too it, but the principle is pretty exciting. The PSP treats the podcast just like an audio file, which we’d assume it would do anyway. But the podcast even includes the podcast image and…
Not to toot our own horn, but we’re tooting our own horn. Forbes.com, that bastion of good taste and style, has given us their coveted “Best of the Web” award, shown here, which is, in reality, a pattern of bits that, when decoded using the GIF89a standard, recreates a pattern of colored lights which take…
This is just iPod day, isn’t it. Arstechnica is saying—and this is all rumors and lies—that the iPod Video will contain Sharp’s Sharp LH7A400 system-on-chip to drive the LCD and playback. That means you’ve got some flash card support, a little ARM processor action, and MPEG4, MP3, and JPEG decoding. That’s nice, isn’t it? The…
A number of folks foresee a color iPod Mini in October, meaning that the iPod line is definitely going to the video side soon. You don’t buy up color LCDs just to show a sexy blue Aqua UI and pictures, right? In the announcement Gary Johnson, president and CEO of PortalPlayer, revealed, ‘We have completed…
I know the above tautology is self-evident, but Napster and XM are teaming up to bring us ounces of sweet downloadable content from XM and Napster combined. The partnership means that you’ll be able to download XM content over the Interweb and they will co-brand a number of satellite MP3 players in the next quarter.…
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The “gadget-girls” over at eBay have managed to get their hands on a nice piece of vintage memorabilia for all of those interested in death and destruction. This is the bomb and rocket control panel that was once in a B-52. Surprisingly this control panel is in excellent condition. All knobs and switches are in…
Could this be the decade that the U.S. will get satellite media broadcasts to our phones? DMB, which is a method to send audio and video through satellites straight into small devices like phones and PMPs, may be touching us sooner than we think and Samsung is ready. The SCH-B200/SPH-B2000 is a swivel screen phone…
The essay contest is still open. We’ve received quite a few entries. Some of them have touched me to the core of my being and some are kind of psychosexual, so there are a lot of folks out there who should probably stay away from the nitrous. A recap of the rules: This is an…
Come on man, admit it: your work area is nothing but a spaghetti and meatballs of cables and plugs and such. It’s okay, some of us (me) call that neo-cybereclectic… which is a (made up) euphemism for “I’m too lazy to tidy things up, so I’ll pretend I like it the way it is by…
This looks to be a conceptual/functional (pardon the paradox) implementation of a modern day sundial watch. The brainchild of Designer Gina Reimann, The Orbit allows you to tell the time the way the ancient Greeks did… well, sort of. An integrated compass tells you which way to face, and the sun then casts a shadow,…