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Wouldn’t it be cool if Gumby did something besides stand around and suck? That’s the idea behind the new $35 iGuy case from Speck products, a posable rubber case that makes your iPod impossible to put into a normal sized pocket. And if you take the iPod out of the iGuy, you get a really…
Music Thing has been posting delightful little vignettes about all the exciting computer sounds that we all know and love. Did you know that the Intel Inside jingle was written by someone who didn’t really use computers? And that the Mac start-up sound was actually a recording of Steve Job’s ego expanding and contracting over…
Michael Oryl actually got off his ass (unlike us) and went to the hands-on with the Nokia 770 “Not a PDA” PDA and got pictures and all the regular stuff. The good things: it’s small, and that silvery white ridge is actually an integrated (but removable) case. The bad things: no Bluetooth keyboard support as…
I had a moment yesterday to see some hot Dual Core action and I can state that yes, Dual Core exists and yes, it’s pretty cool and yes, it isn’t horribly important to the average user at this juncture. Dual core, at its base, offers two undiluted concurrent threads on the same hunk of silicon.…
Interesting bike design from Slingshot. This foldable city bike features a cable wire instead of a cross breamdown tube (Thanks, Yona) or whatever you call them. The wire allows for an inch of shock absorption and makes the bike considerably lighter. Handmade in Michigan, Slingshot also produces off-road and racing bikes at about $2,200 a…
Tom’s Hardware pulls together an odd sort of review where they discuss the potential features of a potential device. They say that the wireless PS3 controllers may be able to hold a charge for 24 hours and that there could be a hard drive in there, as well. They don’t quite give a final verdict,…
A couple of weeks ago we started routing our feeds through FeedBurner, since they have the ability to give us some actual stats on the RSS readership. The other reason is so we can start selling ads through the RSS, and I thought I’d quickly explain our new policy, because I think it’s pretty fair.…
LuxPro, makers of the Tangent iPod shuffle clones, has released their products, it seems, as the Super Tangent is showing up on eBay for a starting bid of $90 for a 1GB model. The Buy It Now price sucks—$130—but if you can get it for less than $100, you’re getting twice the capacity as the…
As a former denizen of the sorrowful Midwest, it’s kind of scary to see that Clear Channel is creating a pirate radio station designed to insult current Clear Channel channels in order to push more Clear Channel channels. That’s kind of like a snake eating a mouse that is eating itself. Get it? What does…
The Inquirer talks about all the fuss over OLEDs and their intrinsic goodness. Essentially, these things are thinner, cheaper, and of higher quality than most plasma and LCD displays and they promise—we’ll see about this—to revolutionize the world of in-home media. The bad news? Samsung’s 40-inch monster won’t be out until 2007 and the initial…
I love me some Bluetooth, and for low-power applications, like phones and other mobile devices, it gets the job done. But Wireless USB, with its many times higher data throughput potential, is going to replace not Bluetooth, but wired USB connections. This orgy of companies you see above have all approved the new standard as…
Maintaining our home tip, here’s a crazy fan that appears to lower itself onto your sleeping house-guests and get all Freddy Kruger on them. Featured in the motion picture I, Will Smith Vehicle, the Enigma fan is designed to make your cool trust funded loft/workspace look even more tool-tastic. Fanimation Enigma Fan – extraordinary fan…
This must be some sort of epidemic. Maybe people’s bladders are thawing out after winter or something. Anyway, we received three distinct toilet tips in the past 48 hours and we thought it best to post them all together, thereby avoiding a run of three toilet posts in close succession (The Three-Eyed Mermaid they call…
So here’s the gist. Joel’s DSL is still down (“THE SUPERVISOR IS VERIZON”), Calltech does support Apple products, and my car is busted so I had to hit the shop this morning so you all were forced to stare at a strange, terrible threesome for HOURS of your work day. We are truly sorry. However,…
Boy, we’ll never listen to the WSJ again. This is up there with the Bush memos. Intel CEO Paul Otellini says that Apple probably told people that it was thinking about Intel to piss off IBM because IBM was tinkering with its stupid Trans Am and not paying enough attention to it, thank you very…
It’s a rare day when an electronic device offers so many possibilities for hilarity. However, we will take the high road on this one, friends. The iMuffs, which look like an OEM rebadge of the Bluetake phones that have been wiggling around lately, play well with the iPod and can also take calls through an…
I’m wandering around Williamsburg, doubly shafted by Verizon, since I can’t get a good signal with my EV-DO card (Manhattan only for high-speed, it would seem). Hauling around a 15-inch laptop is as good a reminder as any how fantastic a light mobile computing platform could be (don’t call it a PDA, or you’ll get…
Burn! SEA head Ken Kutagari drops the geek bomb on the XBox 1.5 nee 360 saying that it’s the PS3 that is going to rock the world of living room media and not the pretender to the throne, the 360 with special built-in Media Center love. Kutagari sez: Kutaragi argued that the PS3 “is not…
Jolly reader Holmez sheds a bit of light on Verizon’s call-center support practices… The verizon DSL support office is actually outsourced to a company called Calltech, located here in Columbus, Ohio. So you are actually getting North American support, but its VERY poor. They hire their support in at $9/hour, no matter what your skill…
This strange system coerces the iPod mini into a predatory and disgusting sexual relationship. The PodFreq enters from behind and then spreads virulent music far and wide over the FM band. The PodFreq appears to be “helping” the iPod connect to car radios and home stereos but instead it latches on and calls non-stop and…