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Max Rottersman has a neat little guide on creating your own simple teleprompter. Basically consisting of a laptop screen facing up and an angled CD case, it’s a quick fix if you find you’ve become Anderson Cooper overnight and need to do the news from home. (Although, if this has happened, where to find a…
Here s some great commentary on the Japanese Giant’s tendency to keep things nice and closed. The Librie, which we love, is a beautiful tablet/e-reader/etc. However, it only supports MemoryStick, has an unsupported DRM system, and isn’t sold outside of Edo. So, what you have is another great Sony idea that will soon be copied…
Very interesting development in the growth of GPRS and other cellular data transfer systems. Novatel is now selling Mini PCI Express wireless cards that support HSDPA, UMTS, and a few other protocols and won’t take up your PCMCIA slot. Does this mean that carriers will start subsidizing networked laptops? Will Centrino turn into Celltrino? HSDPA…
Those nuts at I4U know what makes a good review—smiling women sitting on the product in question. I think Consumer Reports could learn a thing or two from them… imagine Bob Dole in drag flashing that million-dollar grin next to a box of Cialis in their pharma reviews. Pure media gold. Anyway, the Pyramat is…
Are we not living in the ultimate Mega Man future? These rolling cameras by Remington Technologies, a subsidiary of Remington Arms, can be thrown into a room ahead of an invading force in order to scope things out. Each ball can take video as it rolls or stay stationary. A wireless connection controls the rotation…
It looks like the iRiver H10 20GB is finally for sale. We talked about this colorful little HD audio player a while back but now its finally available on eCost for $289.99, which is $9 less than the 20GB iPod. https://gizmodo.com/iriver-h10-review-excerpts-28159 iRiver H10 20gb for sale soon? [DAPreview]
A Dutch foundation named “Stichting Thuiskopie” has suggested a new way of squeezing money out of the online music industry: imposing a “surcharge” based on the amount of storage in portable audio players. I can’t imagine anything like this ever leaving Europe. Even if it does, I’m sure the innovative public will find a way…
Why is it that Italy gets all the cool stuff? Think about it: good cheese, Popes, Vespas, and Videophone TV channels. The Digital Magics Group is creating a videophone call-in program for Rai Uno to allow viewers to show up on TV. The service uses Mycast, a video hosting service that is already popular overseas…
Here’s a nice video of the VeinViewer in action. Designed to allow doctors to see under the skin for injections et al, it’s quite a trip to see the sweet blood of the innocents pulsing only microns below the surface of their supple skin. If you’re so vein—hah! Willie!—that you need to see what’s going…
By merging a plain overhead projector with a more modern digital video projector and a computer vision system, Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman have developed (well, in 2004) what they call Manual Input Sessions. Essentially interactive and dynamic shadow puppets, the vision system analyzes the shadows you cast over the analog project with your hands…
The Garmin StreetPilot is one of the first really self-contained GPS units to come out of Garmin. Designed to get you from Point A to Point B without all the fuss and muss. TrustedReviews feels this thing looks a lot like the TomTom Go, but I think any GPS unit with a color touchscreen will…
It was quite some time ago that we first reported on the iPod handbag with integrated speakers, and now it’s back (but still not black). BrightonNet Corporation will be releasing the “iPod shoulder Bag” and “iPod Bag” in Japan on May 9th. Both cost 12,800 yen, and use four AAA batteries. Though I couldn’t find…
The iWoodKiosk by Tactus Multimedia is, well, just that—an indoor, interactive terminal that’s made out of wood. (And if the literature’s to be trusted, most decidedly not a witch.) With a website and catalog that prominently features close up, lacquer-coated shots of what can only be described as wood porn, the finished piece looks great…
In wacky California, a bill to limit the usage of RFID in state and other government documents is making its way through the state legislature. This follows after a decision made by the Federal government to include RFID in US Passports; it seems the public isn’t so hot about wireless access to personal information. C’mon,…
So you need that extra five minutes with Eye of the Tiger to get you through this long commute. But your iPod is dead. What to do? Whip out the TuneJuice, man, it’s the only way to charge. TuneJuice is a battery backup that uses one replacable 9-volt cell to supply up to 8 hours…
TigerDirect has suddenly decided to sue Apple over their use of the word “Tiger” in the name of their latest operating system. Tiger is set to go on sale today, but given how long ago it was that Apple announced the OS would be called “Tiger,” this seems pretty dumb. A search for “Tiger” yields…
An interesting concept and on that could take off big in areas with a lower level of infrastructure—a PC that is powered through the Ethernet port. The system, which uses Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), can get a charge of up to 15.4 watts. Some cameras and smaller systems are already using PoE but this is a first…
Samsung, a company that has long been eating everyone’s lunch in the electronics industry, is now teaming up with Microsoft to market their HD displays to go along with the XBox 360. This is a clear shot at Sony because the Japanese giant has a branded game machine (duh!) so Samsung wants one, or at…
Boynq USB goodies, which we originally looked at in March, will be distributed in the States by Polyconcept USA. This includes the fan, the lamp, the retro speakers, and whatever other USB gimcrack they can come up with. What fun! https://gizmodo.com/tec-usb-hub-wheel-fan-37470 News: Boynq Designer-Style USB Gadgets [EverythingUSB]
When you have to write something really, really small, use a nano fountain pen. This chip is used to nudge atoms around into different configurations for quick nano-fabrication and creating nano-patterns. It has a “integrated microfluidic system for capillary feeding of molecular ink” and is based on the actual capillary action of the original fountain…