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We’ve had a couple of similar remote controlled wall switches— our electrician calls them “garbage” and we tend to agree with him, thus far. However, this one is supposed to be extra fancy with some sort of lucite enclosure and hopefully it won’t be turned on and off automatically by things like the microwave turning…
I’ve seen this thing about 5 million times already, but it seems that we’re getting closer to actually getting some shipping product, at least in Japan. It’s basically a paper-thin LCD created by Citizen and is completely flexible and portable. If this goes to market in 2005, as this article says, look for cooler implementations…
Buddy of mine posted a wee tidbit on his site in regard to security and damn foolishness. The exchange is immortalized here: I purchased a Dell server today for work, through our account representative at Dell. At the end of the order process, just before confirmation, the Dell representative said: “Federal law requires that we…
Land-line phones are a thing of the past. With the advantages of cell phones people are ditching cheap land-lines for a little more expensive convenience. A happy medium may have been found. A British company BT is launching a service called BT Fusion. A cell phone connects wirelessly to a hub in the home, when…
Here we go… how to dump your own warez on your 1.5 firmware PSP. Will you ruin it? Probably not. But do you really want to go through all this grief just to play Super Mario Brothers in a MAME emulator? I don’t know, man. These geek obsessions of yours aren’t going to bring in…
Two posts about the aerial advancement dealing with France in one day? Wow, that must be a record. Actually, it is Japan and France who will split a $1.84m investment on a new plane. This spawn of the Concorde will seat 300 people and reportedly fly at five times the speed of sound. The plane…
Most watches use luminescent paint to make the hands and face glow for a few hours—they actually used to use radium and that caused mouth cancer in a countless number of watchmakers. Luminox, however, uses tiny vials of radioactive gas to offer up to 25 years of non-stop illumination. This Blackbird model has two faces,…
If you’ve ever driven your car into a tree at 50MPH because you were mad that they cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise, you’ll know that airbags hurt. Toyota has developed a new airbag system to reduce injury. Instead of a single airbag, the new technology uses two bags to distribute the impact over the sides of…
Have you been waiting for the sublime pleasure of automated ragtime music and the satisfaction of playing your favorite MIDIs out of a wine-barrel jukebox, Gazebo Americana traditional bandstand, or a Horse Drawn Band Wagon, right in the privacy of your own home? Well friend, your wait is over. Just slum over to Ragtime West…
We’re running the gamut here. Lots of cool stuff, from a phone that hooks up to a phone to a Bluetooth rear-view mirror. The mirror, which we see here, has hands-free features built-in and allows for complete control of your phone. I’m not sure that it’s a great idea to have your hands all over…
The Sperwer B. is an unmanned drone plane with two long-range precision missiles. The Sperwer is being produced by a French manufacturer and will be displayed at the upcoming Paris Air Show. This is the part of the post where a French military joke appears. Generally, this is just another rung in the ladder towards…
Weighing in at 4.5 ounces, 4x optical zoom and 5 megapixels this camera is definitely a contender in the market of point-and-shoot cameras. This camera contains a nice large 2 LCD and a button layout that is extremely easy to use and operate. There are three modes of operation: Playback, Shooting, and Movie modes. Even…
I ve considered vise clamping my notebook at times to prevent unwanted intruders from opening it. To my luck a company has released a clamp to prevent unwanted intruders from opening my notebook AND preventing theft. Everyone go put Dad s vise clamp back and pick up this device for $60. Today notebook theft is…
You can be the first randy fellow on your block to wear this cool Space Ninja Mask. Just remember to wear pants while wearing the Space Ninja Mask or the ladies might call the cops on your dirty parts. Target will be selling this cool ninja mask with eye coverings and a mask so you…
This device works with GPS technologies by acquiring locations of all fixed radar positions and also locations of common mobile radar positions. The databases are available for download via the internet and a USB connection. When the motorcycle is in the radar area and small diode, fixed wherever the owner sees fit, blinks. It acts…
Here’s somewhere new you can stick your iPod into. The best feature is that it acts as a portable speaker dock and is definitely cheaper than any of the other speaker docks on the market. Some of the nice features are the Gentle Wake and Gentle Sleep modes that slowly ease the music in and…
Somebody broke their Samsung! This phone, whose screen hangs limply from the hinge like Grandpa’s inflamed goiter, is another QWERTY deal coming out of CommunicAsia. Lots of absolute hotness including: Fold out QWERTY keyboard Bluetooth Blackberry Push Email (!!!) 1.3 megapixel camera Media player If aliens from space carried phones, this would be the one.…
Laptop—the number 3 technology magazine in the Honolulu airport—gives us the pros and cons of the new SE Walkman phone. Although it is quite clearly one of the first audio phones out there, it does have a few problems. First, there’s no WMA and only supports DRMed contact from Sony’s CONNECT service. While there are…
We’ve been down on VHS Ever since our only copy of Leprechaun – The Director’s Cut blew up inside our old VCR. Well, we’re glad to see that Target and Wal-Mart also share our anger and won’t be selling any more VHS tapes. UPDATE – Maybe it’s not dead. Anyway, who cares. Wal-Mart and Target…
Vincent at PhoneMag sent us about fifty thousand links to their coverage of CommunicAsia. What does he have to offer? How about a 3GB HDD phone? Maybe a Sidekick-like Samsung? Here are a few early links and we’ll bring you more as we receive it. SPH-M7000 Pocket PC (shown in image) – An attractive, Korea-only…