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The iOps JOCK is awfully small and plays WMV files as well as MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG4, WMV and DivX. It can even play back video on its tiny color 96 x 64 pixel LCD screen, but think about it: 96 x 64 is really small. At that resolution, someone’s head will look like…
This came out last week but warrants mention. Apparently in the halls of Redmond it is forbidden to speak the word “podcast.” It is, in fact, a “blogcast” and this “pod” thing is just clouding the issue. I mean the iPod and iTunes are not the only media combo out there. They’re just the best…
Now this is cute. It’s a nice little Sony tote with a CD player and a tape deck on the back. There’s a cute little remote control and it’s white and pink or white and blue. Not very high tech, but it’s so nice to see a Japanese device aimed at the gentler set without…
OK. It’s official. I’m RAZRed out. RAZR this, RAZR that. Now we have the RAZRWIRE which is just a little dongle that hangs off of a pair of Oakley sunglasses that looks like a caterpillar dropping. This thing looks worse than the THUMP and supports Bluetooth 1.1 and 1.2, which means you may be able…
So you and your lady friend are turning in for the night buy you’d love to get through that last chapter of “The Esquire Compilation of Humorous Stories Involving Policemen and Blondes.” Well, have no fear. Now you can lay completely prone and still read a book. These specs use a prism to send images…
Reader Matt comes to us with a question. Don t know if you guys have covered this slightly embarrassing problem, but: After four years of heavy use, my iBook s keyboard area is starting to, well, smell bad. The odor is pretty much what you d expect: sweaty hands, sweaty hands, and more sweaty hands.…
Now you’re wondering “Who put that hole in that nice little hassock! If that came in Burberry tweed we could put that in the living room!” But this is no ordinary footstool, friends, this is the Bodybouncer, offering the most intense grooves in the galaxy. See, you put your wanger through that hole and some…
Did you know that every time you flush in a public restroom—you do flush, don’t you? Cause that big mint ain’t going to cover up your Margarita-infused asparagus pee—you waste about a gallon of water? The goal of this project, thought up at the Kaiser Permanente French Campus Facility in San Francisco, is to create…
Red laser pointers are so passe. These portable laser pointers from Laserglow come in blue and yellow as well as the more commonplace green. But these high-power beams are not made for PowerPoint or KeyNote presentations. They’re built for industrial and scientific use and can do things like pop balloons and slice through tape. Sounds…
Nokia USA has just made available the highly anticipated Nokia 6682, the successor to the much acclaimed 6680 model. Not only is this phone smokin’ hot with a 1.3 megapixel camera with 6x digital zoom, it also comes with Xpress Print, a service that’ll let you print directly to a compatible printer via USB. Though…
Fujitsu, which just got married and is going by the name Fujitsu-Siemens—but we can call it Fujitsu until they change its Outlook and business cards—launched a notebook that can go for about 12.5 hours on one charge. Very special? Comparatively, considering that the beefiest notebooks I’ve seen in a while have lasted about 10 hours…
Give it up fo’ Vonage’s “Pimp That Phone” contest, where four design enthusiasts get to bling up tired ol’ ringers into an “uberphone,” and you get to pick the winner! We’re hoping for bejeweled dialpads, luminescent numbers, and whicka-whicka-whack receivers. Let’s just hope their phones are better than my pathetic attempt at ghetto slang. Pimp…
Why wait fifteen to twenty-five years for Windows Vista when you can have a cool external laptop display—flogged by MS since last year as the latest in rocking UI—right now. MAKE magazine repurposed an old iPaq to become a super-ninja external display with all the color trimmings. Then, by using Konfabulator, AKA Apple Dashboard for…
Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh — make way for my DNA. DNA 11 is offering to create artwork based on your very own DNA, so now you don’t need any talent to create truly one-of-a-kind masterpieces. A group of different sized pieces of your DNA is run on a type of “gel,” which is then treated…
Tomer Sapir’s “Concept for a bedroom unit” —aka Unit 1.1—features a table, a reading lamp, a ring and an alarm clock. The alarm clock “provides a fresh awakening by synchronizing with your sleep cycles.” We’ve heard of that before: there’s a watch and a headband that do the same. They just happen to be the…
An enterprising Nintendo fan has built his own custom-made Nintendo chair modeled after the original NES controller. Made out of vinyl and high-density foam, it looks likes he did a fantastic job — it looks to be the ideal gaming chair for playing Contra and Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. Now all someone needs to do…
The sheer amount of crap they can fit inside a little sliver of plastic is truly mind-boggling. The Spectec MiniSD card is a full-bore WiFi card in something the size of one of my dandruff flakes and those geeks at Daves iPaq have gotten it up and working. Dave writes: One of our members has…
A number of folks have confirmed the PS3 launch date and sent better images of the aforementioned presentation which don’t appear nearly as render-y. So we’ll have PS3s next Spring, guys. Are we happy? Reference tool? I know a number of folks who fit under that category. Related PS3 in Spring 2006 http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/entertainment/index.php#ps3-in-spring-2006-113911 PS Meeting…
Those who see showering as an inefficient process in obvious need of technical innovation should be delighted by the Avant “Santelubain 999” automatic personal washing machine. Upon slipping inside the clamshell-chic device, users will find a variety of functions at their fingertips including everything from “Body Shampoo & Shower,” and “Sound Therapy,” to the decidedly…
Looks like the our upcoming Winter months will be spent staring idly at this image, rubbing our arms raw, and dreaming of Blu-Ray goodness. According to this slide, taken by one of our Bothan spies, many of whom died to get this information, the PS3 will be available in Spring 2006. This means that the…