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Zdrastvujtie, dorogie tovarischi! Whip out this mini spy camera and grab some compromising photos of the Minister of Sport or create your own former Eastern bloc tractor porn—the Zenit MF-1 is ready for anything. The Russians, way back when, actually purchased a number of Western items and reverse engineered them. The Zenits were based on…
There was this guy I knew when I was a consultant who would get drunk and make this weird claw thing with his hand an go up to my female friends and say “Da CRRRRRRAW is coming!,” but this appears to be nothing like that. The Wolf Claw keyboard is a special FPS input device,…
More news from the Tirols—the Beer Pool! In a story entitled “Das erste Bier-Schwimmbad der Welt,” which we assume translates to “Please Don’t Pee In Our Beer Pool,” it appears that the city of Tarrenz now has a pool filled with sweet, sweet liquid bread. But don’t try drinking from the beer pool directly—according to…
I waffle daily between wanting gadgets that Just Work right out of the box, even at the expense of functionality (Apple products, for instance) and open platforms that might be a little rough around the edges, but can be tossed out to the development community who will almost certainly extend the worth of my purchase…
I’ll cop to being a little unsure exactly what the Blu-Laser Cinema Player is exactly, at least from a format perspective. I think it’s Blu-ray, since they mention that in their press release, but I’m not entirely sure. I did put together that the $6k player isn’t exactly meant for home use, instead marketed towards…
You know, with just a little tweaking (like taking off their branding and making the cases something other than plastic), Pretec could be onto something with these jewelry versions of their i-Disk Tiny flash drives. Not the necklaces, so much—they look too much like dog tags—but the ear rings could work, if the other side…
BargainPDA has details about the upcoming Tatung V620, a Microsoft Portable Media Center-compatible device that will be released in the US (unlike most other Tatung products). The V620 is smaller than most other PMCs (except the Samsung YH-999 it seems to me), but is most interesting as a second-generation PMC device, which means it will…
We have a standing ‘All Ceph’ policy, so the PowerSquid gets a mention, even if it’s not the most useful thing in the sea. The idea is to allow easy plug access that power strips don’t provide, while still offering a minimum amount of protection against surges (there’s a 15-Amp circuit breaker inside). Manufacturer Power…
Nokia announced their 1600 and 1110 models, meant to be affordable, easy-to-use and light on frills. Nokia is targeting developing nations with these models and they look well enough to suit their purpose as part of a plan to eventually offer mobile service for just $5 a month. They both feature talk times of over…
This is pretty hot: TwistedMods has a HowTo that shows you the coolest way to void whatever warranty remains on your CRT monitor by adding a window and lights. They’re quick to note that this mod significantly reduces the ventilation capabilities and thus potentially the lifespan of your monitor, and suggest installing a few fans…
Pirelli announced last month their X-Pressure AcousticBlue tire pressure monitoring system. In addition to the new X-Pressure Optic system (which indicates problems by the color of its valve stem), the AcousticBlue can send warnings to your Bluetooth mobile phone that are presumably helpful. A Bluetooth warning is infinitely better than the $14 “talking” tire pressure…
While this sounds like something that will shoot Junior into a geosynchronous flight path, it is, in fact, a high end stroller/car seat combo called the Orbit Infant System with patented SmartHub. I have been looking around at strollers recently, for reasons that shall remain undiscussed, and it seems like all the good strollers are…
Japanese porno peddler GLAY’z is releasing five hardcore titles on the UMD optical disc format used by the Sony PSP. While the titles themselves are worth noting, including the gems “The Nurse of a Big Breast” and “Erotic Terrorist Beautiful Body,” perhaps even more noteworthy are the rumors circulating that the UMD discs will be…
“Aherm… Is this on, Sheila? Yeah? Are we rolling. Oh, I see, my voice shows up on the screen. Ok. Hello, fellow salesmen. This is my inaugural podcast which will be sent to our entire sales force. First things first. These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. To you, these are gold;…
Dischub has released the newest iteration of their CD and DVD storage desk thingy, with a slightly more space efficient design and rubberized feet (so nothing terribly different, but improvements all the same). They’ve got a $2 off coupon if you put in the code ‘DiscHub2’ during checkout, bringing the price down to $10. We…
Reuters is running a story about Intel that is chocked full of goo info, including information that their ‘Manitoba’ mobile chipset has finally found a customer in mmO2 Pic (the Manitoba came out two years ago, to little fanfare, let alone actual adoption by phone manufacturers). But the big news is that Intel will be…
Holy cats! Rarely, if ever, do we see something that we can say, unequivocally, is a “good idea.” This Radeon X800 card from MSI has two connectors, a standard AGP side and a PCI Express side. I know what you’re saying—just get a new mobo and stop with the whining. But imagine if you will,…
Go old school with your iPod and blast these super-slick portable speakers around the playground. Speaker specs are pretty nice: 1-inch tweeters, two 3-inch mid-range drivers, a 4-inch subwoofer and a 4-inch passive radiator (?) and it runs on eight D batteries, just like the old timey boomboxes of yore. Altec Lansing has been putting…
The MobiNote second-gen PMP includes a nice color screen, some good styling, a built-in speaker, and some sort of DRM solution that may or may not be draconian. The issue, as we have said countless times before, is that we’ll never see this thing and it’s really just more of the same old PMP specs.…
Now it doesn’t get much easier than growing fresh herbs, but I still totally dig these ‘Garden-in-a-Bag’ kits from Wishing Fish, which provide the dirt, nutrients, and seeds you need to grow herbs and plants right out of the packaging. Pop them open and add water and it won’t be long before you have a…