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Gizmodo reader Scott sent us this totally excellent guitar with built-in screaming hell death monster face plus death monster knobs and a kickass flaming fretboard. Fair warning: potential buyers are encouraged to howl like a wolf and a witch will open the door and to follow her and meet the high priestess. Essentially, they’ll want…
A at first glace this product appeared to just be an overpriced USB extension cable. After further investigation, I was only partially correct. This is a cradle that charges and syncs the Shuffle. Some of the key features highlighted on the Pacific Rim website are the white color that matches the Shuffle and a blue…
The Gawker Managerial Menagerie sent this to my attention. They’re looking for people to make Gawker sites beautiful. Do not, under any circumstances, AIM or email me about this because you will get nothing but haterage in return. CSS GURU. Gawker Media is looking for a CSS master — a real markup genius and a…
German robot maker, Kuka has developed what they are calling the world s fastest robot. The Kuka KR 40 is a four axis robot that integrates carbon fiber into the design. Three out of the four motors on the robot are built into the base thus reducing weight and allowing for more speed and acceleration.…
DoCoMo’s latest journey into the wacky world of phones friendly with the environment is based on NEC’s N900iS handset. The phone uses bioplastic that contains Kenaf fibers — don’t ask me what those are — and is supposedly stronger and more heat-resistant than similar plastics using poly-lactic acid. Don’t expect these any time soon, though,…
Give them an inch, they take a mile. Give them a PSP with version 1.0 firmware, and they take ISOs of your precious UMDs. I’m sure Sony is well aware of this new “UMD dumper” software for the PSP which will dump the contents of a UMD (the PSP’s disc format) onto a Memory Stick…
Sharp also announced their new HTPC today, called the “AV Center PC Mebius.” They announced it, but couldn’t be bothered to actually tell us any of its specifications so we can decide whether or not it’s crap. We do know it has a 32″ LCD with the dual display feature we addressed earlier today, but…
David Pogue will go to any lengths to get the story. He’ll climb Kilimanjaro to get a glimpse at the fabled “ice blue iPod Photo.” He’ll slay hordes of mutant PR orcs to get to the vaunted “Legend of Zelda skinned Nintendo DS.” He’ll ride a little bike to show off the extreme sports video…
Nokia hit the ground running with their MP3 cellphones and now LG and Samsung are taking the rear flank. Specs: 50MB of internal storage, a flash card slot, 1.3 megapixel camera, and Jogdisk, which isn’t quite a jog wheel, apparently. The SGH-5480 should be around $400, if it ever comes to these shores, and I’m…
Sharp’s new “IT-32X2” LCD TV is loaded to the teeth with functionality. I am leery of any product with “32X” in its name, but Sharp appears to be on the right track with this one: it features integrated 802.11a/b/g wireless or wired LAN for connection to digital media files, a USB hub for connecting your…
Call me a big OS X/Linux hippie or whatever but come on—aren’t they about ten years too late? Consider the fact that while Mozilla/ Firefox/ Monkeytooth and Opera and everyone else in the entire world has had tabbed windows since 1937, IE has been stuck in the Dark Ages. Overall, this doesn’t help my opinion…
Looking good, Creative. The new Zen Vision PMP holds 30GB and uses what appears to be a non-Windows Portable Media Center OS. Looks like there’s quite a bit of added excitement as it is a definite improvement over the original PMC-120. Interestingly enough, it supports MPEG4, WMV, DivX, and XviD as well as an CF…
ITmedia reports on the world’s first “tasting” robot, developed by NEC System Technologies in cooperation with Sanjuu University. Since actually slapping taste buts on a slobbery, robotic tongue would probably be far too difficult, the company opted to install an infrared sensor in one of the robot’s “hands.” When you put a piece of food…
An update of the D70, the D70s—the s is for Super!—improves the UI and includes a nicer battery. The specs are pretty standard: 6.1 megapixels, compatibility with Nikon Nikkor lenses, and RAW aka NEF mode for hi-res hotness. Generally, this is a mid-level pro camera with lots of nice post-35mm features and sure looks pretty.…
Vodafone has announced the “V501T” and “V501SH for the Japanese market. The picture above is of the V501T and one of its many “costumes.” There are a total of 12 such costumes available for the phone, making anything I could say about its actual specifications unimportant. Wait, that’s not what I meant. We should have…
Remember those Seagate hard drives we talked about yesterday? Oh, well neither did I. But I was kindly reminded of them this morning when I read that one series of the drives — the LD25s — will be used in the Xbox 360. In fact, Seagate even prepared a fantastic press picture with a reflection…
It’s 5MP, from Casio, and orange. Or at least one of the models is; Casio today announced the “Exilim EX-S500.” There are upgrades (you may remember the EX-S100) all around, but the notable ones are the “Anti-Shake DSP” and enhanced video functionality. You get two different recording buttons on this unit — one for stills…
Omygodomygodomygod! Not since I pulled my original Furby, Squizzlepoots, out of his box have I been so happy. Squizzlepoots fell in the sink when I was washing his fur and his batteries corroded inside of him and then he caught fire but these new Furbi are to be released June 13 (OMYGOD!) and have Emoto-Tronics,”…
Camcorderinfo is jumping with joy about Sony’s DCR-DVD403 DVD Handycam, since it is reportedly the best DVD camcorder ever. They give it high marks all across the board, saying that it really only falls short in one area: manual controls. I’d be willing to bet that most people who buy DVD camcorders aren’t into hardcore…
infoSync World has posted their review of the iPAQ hw6515, and they conclude it is a “Ferrari powered by a Wolksvagen (sic if you’re not German) motor.” While the integrated GPS, EDGE support and other features are certainly nice to have, they are greatly crippled by a non-responsive thumbboard, slow CPU, and short battery life.…