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What an excellent idea! Multimedia displays over fire! The Faber Imago range hood allows you to check your email, watch DVDs, and view remote webcams all from the comfort of your blazing Viking range. The 14-inch touchscreen works in concert with your home multimedia network to distract you even more in the kitchen. The design…
Just because you can do something doesn’t meant you should. Case in point—the magical “television pocket” that turns your cellie into a FOMA-based webcam that can be transmitted to a PC or TV. The makers suggest that this can also be used to talk to your pets, which seems like a perfect use of airtime,…
The title says it all, but don’t throw out your gaming rig quite yet. This security hole affects mostly machines doing multi-user operations (think ‘webservers’ doing secure transactions) and is, according to LinuxLinus TorvoldsTorvalds, not “all that worrying in real life.” [Sorry, Joel uses BeOS and is does not speak Finnish] Intel Hyper-Threading A Security…
A company calling itself Docomo, which probably isn’t the telecomm company, has created a 40 gram MP3 player that appears to be a rebranded Olympus DAP with a fluffy, fuzzy ‘shroom outer casing. I believe it’s that the ‘shroom is actually just an MP3 player case and not a standalone device, as gleaned from this…
Gamerebal, makers of custom keyboards, created a mouse/keyboard for a young lady named Haley who proceeded to attempt to wear said keyboard, with disastrous results. Essentially, this link sends you to geek porn and may or may not get you fired. However, if a custom Logitech keyboard truly has this effect on women, some of…
I picked one of these up in Tokyo when I was there and the family and I had a wonderful time cleaning our screens with it. Essentially, it’s a stuffed animal with a soft, warm underbelly designed to clean cellphone, laptop, and camera screens. The obsession with cleaning screens is something else I don’t understand…
Toshiba has announced its second Apri robot, the ‘ApriAttend,’ a taller version of the ApriAlpha that is designed to help people around the house. It has no arms but can scream, as well as recognize voice commands from multiple users and follow its owner around in crowds, using image recognition. Both models are being shown…
Gawker editors are really just one big happy family. That’s why I was excited when Ana Marie “Wonkette” Cox’s agent sent me a link to her story about Steve Jobs’ talk at the ‘D: All Things Digital’ conference last night, where he explained how suplexing subpoenaing bloggers’ email records makes for better journalism. Swisher: “Would…
Why does God hate laser tanks? That’s the question (more or less) posed by DefenseTech, who is tracking down the work by ‘Ionatron Inc,’ a firm supposedly developing a system that uses lasers to carve conductive channels of ionized air, down which superheated plasma beams are conducted. But there is apparently trouble in LaserLand, with…
MSI aka The Little Laptop Company that No One Knows About has joined the gloss white bandwagon with their S250, a OEM rebadge with a few bells and whistles. This model is particularly thin and light, very Apple-y in its aesthetic and very portable. Actually, we saw another OEM version of this laptop a few…
Great Caesar’s Ghost! Dear Japan: I know Tokyo is a big city and it gets lonely sometimes. But you don’t have to resort to purchasing a human shaped sleepy-time pillow on which to furtively spew your indelible need while your mom, grandma, and pops sleep on the next mat over. Maybe get out a little…
The King of the Flash is in the house! The T-8 turned some heads at CeBIT and then disappeared, only to reappear with a scrappy little product page and an charming misuse of the definite article. Looks like the same, standard fare: OLED, FM radio, voice/radio recording, and on-board photo viewing. There also appears to…
This appeared up last week by we were too busy tearing up our hardwood floors and building our own wooden iPod case to post it. Our own, homebrew version looks like an orange crate with an iPod in it, but these are much better. Peter Kinne design makes wooden iPod and laptop cases out of…
Apple insiders have told the Wall Street Journal that the Cupertino Kid is in talks with Intel to build an Intel-based Darwin MaPC or whatever you want to call it. These sorts of rumors—especially when they come from the IP ninjas at Apple—are usually unfounded, but the business model is sound. Dell, it seems, is…
I caught hell from some folks when I made fun of virtual reality headsets last week, because apparently there’s still at least two people in the world who still consider themselves VR/AR (augmented reality) enthusiests. You can add ‘research doctors in Georgia’ to the list as well, as Georgia State University announces a test program…
There aren’t any pricing details yet (at least not in this Inquirer story), but Samsung will be offering solid-state hard drives in sizes up to 16GB. What this means to you is lighter laptops, with greater battery life (although only about a 10 percent increase; I would have expected more), and faster read/write speeds. It…
Although it’s not really a new gadget, per se, the latest version of the GiveMePower Windows Mobile drafting software can receive data from Bluetooth laser range finders. This allows an on-site technician to take measurements of buildings that can be saved in an AutoCAD format and emailed to a customer or office. The whole thing…
Kentia Hall abounds with ancient technology, some of it wearing new logos and giant, inflatable versions of the product. But it’s still old crap, like these three separate VR headsets, presented in descending order of coolness, yet ascending order of wearability. I won’t bother with the actual product names, because that would take work, but…
I actually like Kentia Hall, the place where crappy, five-year-old electronics go to not die. You get to see all sorts of weird things like these Philips (yes, that Philips) ‘Freak’ controllers—this one is for Xbox, and is called ‘Dragon.’ It’s awful at first glance, and horrible at second, but it’s only $30 and comes…
The details are sparse but it seems that Sunyang DNT has created a phone with a 12-inch heads-up-display. Now this could also be some sort of projector unit, which we have heard of before, or something else entirely. I suspect the HUD moniker is a misnomer. What this seems to be, according to a TelecomsKorea…