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Made from a Real Squirrel(TM), this delightful little flask offers the heavy tippler a number of exciting opportunities to sneak drinks out of the corpse of a dead rodent. While some would question the value of such a delightful beverage container, I assure you that anyone who sees you sucking on the desiccated neck of…
It’s so nice that Ericsson is getting out a little bit. They’re in such an difficult relationship with Sony—Sony gets all the attention, Ericsson just kind of hangs out and sometimes pipes up during dinner conversation but it hasn’t been the same since they got married. Sony is so pushy. I don’t know what Ericsson…
This guy seems to have done it all—early computer graphics on the Cray, designing the handwriting recognition for the Newton, building software that simulates life, and generally doing more cool stuff than anyone has any right to do. Reader Jeff interviewed him for Ars Technica and the resulting three-part discussion kind of made me a…
I’ve been lax this morning because the OS X Intel torrent finally downloaded. I approached my computer with apprehension and palpable turgidity—could this be the fabled x86 OS X ISO? Had I found the Grail of legend, the last disk from which Steve Jobs accessed data before he passed from this world into the darkling…
Messiah has created multiple 2.4ghz wireless controllers for the NES, Famicon, and SNES. For those that still have the functional old school Nintendo systems this may be for you, if not check out the USB NES Controller for all of the emulating fun possible. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/nintendo/index.php#usb-nes-controller-mostly-107597 For $29.99 you too can relive your childhood, but from…
You, in back. Stop snickering. I hear you. Ok. Now sit still. The El-Vis Screw Stool is a stool that has a screw-off top revealing a deep, dark hole into which you can place items like pencils, cucumbers, or light switches. The unfortunate naming decision by the El-Vis people will obviously prevent folks from Red…
Brother site Kotaku reports on two mountain climbers who for some reason decided to tote their Nintendo DS along with them on the grueling hike up Mt. Everest. Apparently, the DS “DS held up the best of any of [the electronic equipment].” And hey, fanboys even climb Mt. Everest! “I can guarantee a five-year-old can…
This $275,000 bus is the only safe way to travel along the roads in Iraq. Steel plates cover all six sides of the bus and are available in two fashionable colors, gray and off-white. This troop transport can carry 26 passengers (or troops) in moderate comfort and is always escorted by armored Humvees and helicopters.…
I’m not sure which is cooler, the skull guitar or the shark guitar, but I bet if you put them both into like some kind of water tank and made them fight it out, I’d bet the shark guitar would win. But like if you had like a graveyard level and the shark had to…
Evesham has released a new innovative media center computer. Radeon X700, 200GB SATA hard drive, 1 GB of ram, TV tuner card, DVD burner and 5.1 audio are all nice features. Why, it even has s-video and composite outputs integrated into the motherboard. Appearance wise, this Evesham Axis is built into a smaller form factor…
The D720 has it all. As smartphones are becoming more popular, Samsung has released their D720 to compete. One of the key features includes the use of the Symbian Series 60 operating system to help enforce the slogan of this phone, smarter than the average. This phone also includes a 1.3 megapixel camera and integrated…
I suppose this CVS camera is a pretty good buy and a good idea. You’re on vacation, you forget the camera, and, like those disposable cameras that are so popular. I guess you can put these out on wedding tables or whatever so anyone can take some footage. These folks really liked it and said…
Camcorderinfo takes a look at the DCR-DVD203 camcorder from Sony, and conclude it pretty much blows goats. Sure, you get the direct recording to DVD, the fancy widescreen LCD, and all that other jazz — but what’s the point if the thing’s image sensor has sorry image quality? Camcorderinfo recommends picking up a similar model…
Cnet got their hands on one of those fresh new Creative Zen Vision PMPs, and they decided to put up a video about it in their “First Look.” They go through the basic functionality of the player, and given what we already know about the device, it’s all nice. This is shaping up to be…
I’ve always been a fan of destroying consumer electronics for the sake of science, so this article posted at a Chinese website is right up my alley. They took one of those NW-E series Walkman players (you know, the ones that “support MP3”) and absolutely obliterated it. 肢解索尼！充3分钟听3小时的锂电啥样 [pcpop via dapreview] Related Sony NW-E507 Network…
Hot Topic shopper, this post is for you! A new website is available to provide you with more video game retro than Hot Topic could ever handle. Gamepressure has hosted 2,480 older and recent video game commercials free for download. Some of the top downloaded include a Resident Evil 4 commercial containing nudity, a commercial…
I know you think we are a bunch of lilly-livered weaklings with soft, useless hands. However, we do enjoy a bit of wrenching and twisting now and again. Thus unique wrench automatically adapts to any nut head and offers some nice leverage thanks to the long handle. Plus they have a cool snake monster logo…
Evergreen has introduced two more of those MP3 playing wristwatches we keep on telling you about, this time adding WMA playback and voice recording. Available in 256MB and 512MB capacities, the watches still unfortunately feature the same USB 1.1 connection. But it’s not like someone would buy one of these to be on the cutting…
Anything goes in the world of Ipods. I carried my Ipod around in the stomach of a comatose possum for a week and I was the coolest kid on campus. Just when the Tic-Tac fad was going away someone decided to put an Ipod shuffle in the Tic-Tac box and call it a work of…
The Mio 269, which we will probably never see on these shores, is a cool little device. It’s a portable 2.5GB device with GPS mapping and an MP3 player for rocking out to the tunes while you get lost in New Jersey. It also includes 32MB flash ROM, a 3.5-inch LCD, and 300MHz processor. Best…