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As if the ill-conceived and poorly executed RocBox of last year wasn’t enough, Roc Digital, the “urban electronics” brand fronted by Damon Dash is coming back for more. https://gizmodo.com/roc-a-fella-rocbox-22614 The Model 14000—any more zeros and the box would have cost more to print—is a standard flash device with a screen and no OGG support. Prices,…
This is either the scam of the century or a pretty ground-breaking piece of news. An Israeli company has patented and prototyped a tankless underwater breathing apparatus that separates absorbed gas in water. By using a small centrifuge, this system extracts breathable oxygen in depths up to 200 meters. The system can run for an…
You’re alone and you’re wondering why. The ladies—or men—don’t look twice at you. Your “I Stood In the Wrong Line for Star Wars III” sweatshirt isn’t getting the kind of attention you had hoped for at work and your Match.com ad isn’t getting any click traffic. What to do? iPodStyles—the iPod sticker company to the…
Avi Greengart is a real American hebrew. He got his wife to crochet this badass yarmulke with all his favorite gadgets, including an iPod, a Treo, and a PSP. It even has Bluetooth, although it doesn’t work, as Avi explains: The Bluetooth functionality of my yarmulka is non-functional. Some have speculated that this is because…
Because I work from home, my shirts often appear to have spent the past month inside the colon of a silver-back gorilla. However, when I do venture out into the bright world I enjoy wearing a crisp, clean, and nicely pressed camisole. This, however, takes time. Therefore, I rarely wear a shirt at all. Friends,…
More peripherals for the Xbox 360 are popping up that look more or less legit, including pictures of the memory card and Wi-Fi adapter [both pictured]. There are also some details of what equipment will be bundled with the Xbox 360 by default, including component video cables (good) and an optional VGA cable (eh), but…
AOpen is hitting on all cylinders this week. Their Media Center Server system looks like a high-end audio component and includes a “vacuum fluorescent display (VFD)” which sounds like a nice-looking LED readout on the front for track and video information, etc. The specs are quite breathtaking. The system will probably be a sold mosly…
Bruce Pechman is the self-proclaimed “Muscleman of Technology,” who not only reports for San Diego’s KUSI TV morning news on technology and gadgets, but also is a “living legend in the health and fitness community.” Bruce was nice enough to wake up in the wee hours and talk to us before his morning workout. Gizmodo:…
A wee motor company based in the goatfields of Neath is offering an electric engine with enough torque to give Ferrari a run for its money. The IMP engine uses a series of charged rotors which turn in series, like pistons. Instead of using massive, permanent magnets, this motor is extremely lightweight and can churn…
The multi-wonderful HTC Universal is growing ever closer to our hot, sweaty hands. This super ninja phone is 802.11b-compatible and has an SD card slot and GSM support. It’s starting too look nicer and nicer as more and more info leaks out from behind the beaded curtain. Again, we’ve been covering this for about fifty…
We talked about the P505 a few months ago and it has just been sighted in the wild over at Computex. This tri-band GSM smartphone is compact and quite shiny. However, there was an odd menu item on the main screen—a Skype client. https://gizmodo.com/asus-p505-33508 Clearly, this cuts directly into the revenue stream of any carrier…
Wal-Mart is selling this strange mixture of DVD player and game machine for $178 and I’m extremely curious as to which games they’ve secreted onto this thing. Old Famicom titles? “Remakes” of arcade hits? Sounds cease-and-desist-tastic to me. I hunted down the Alco homepage, to no avail. However, for less than $200 you get an…
Reader John Greysmith wrote us, asking about a watch so bright it can be used to “signal aircraft.” Crazy hype or best watch ever? Feel free to write us at [email protected] and let us know what you think—and if you can find it cheaper than 400 clams. John’s email after the jump. UPDATE after jump.…
More gear from Computex, as Bargain PDA gets a look at the Asus 636 Windows Mobile PDA with built-in GPS. There’s a lot of mystery when it comes to the actual tech specs, as different booth staffers told different stories that conflicted with the marketing information, but the built-in GPS is certainly the stand-out feature.…
MAKE has a quick review on Luxpro’s now notorious Super Tangent iPod shuffle clone. We mentioned a few days ago that these were popping up on eBay, so it’s nice to see an first-hand account. MAKE’s overall impression is that the Tangent works as promised, including a nicely executed FM receiver and surprisingly decent voice…
If either price or lack of capacity were the only things holding you back from picking up a pair of Oakley Thump MP3-playing sunglasses, we’d like to have a word with you regarding style and common sense. Still, you may be interested to know that Oakley has assembled their best and brightest to deliver a…
ThinkGeek offers up a nifty little clock, powered solely by water. Using electrolysis or some other polysyllabic term, the clock can run for weeks with nary a refill. It will also run off of any electrolytic fluid so if you want to get a little creative, you’re more than free to (hopefully with respect to…
AppleInsider.com whispers that the iPod photo will soon be able to run Tetris. In addition to the quintessential block-dropping classic, Apple apparently also intends to add transition effects (think “fade” and “mosaic”) to the photo’s slideshow utility. Rumor continues to have it that it’ll be available sometime this month (June, now) as a downloadable firmware…
An odd, if useful, little bugger is this JC-U1008T. Looks like a foldable portable game pad that you can carry with you to the skanky PC bang or your dirty friend’s house so you don’t befoul yourself with someone else’s filthy controllers. There’s an extremely helpful graphic on the product page which shows the potential…
While we don’t foresee the Scooba being trained to wash the old and infirm, Toyota is planning on creating a set of robots to assist in day-to-day childcare and nursing home supervision. Citing a declining birthrate and an increasingly aged population, Toyota’s Japanese researchers have decided that it will be easier to make silicon service…