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I have an old iPaq MC-1 Jukebox that’s as big as a VCR, holds 20 GB of ripped CDs, and sounds like a jet taking off. I love it, but it’s just so loud. That is exactly what is keeping the PC out of the den. Networking and UI are secondary. It’s the fans. Your…
According to Jupiter Research, ringbacks just aren’t working. We Americans are slow on the uptake, apparently. “What’s that strange music?” we say. “What happened to your phone?” Then we cry. Oh, how we cry. Two or three blogs are commenting on it, but I like Jupiter Analyst Julie’s take on it: And, I have to…
Listen, folks, this is the year 2005 and where are we in terms of database management? Nowhere. In a country where Ted Kennedy is on the No-Fly-List sans explantion, it’s not surprising that Apple and Amazon can’t create a special “Do-Not-Post-Until…” list. My favorite is the price. The MSRP is $3,000 and you don’t get…
CNN perks up for about five minutes today and realizes that satellite radios plus iPods are like chocolate and peanut butter. Sirius, which getting caned by XM, is pestering Steve Jobs to co-brand a satPod or whatever and apparently the analysts, who are one step ahead of CNN in all of this, are salivating at…
The Bell & Ross Instrument Series is a new set of watches based on aviation instruments. The specs are standard: automatic movement, brightly lumed hands, 100M water-resistance. The crown, however, does not pull out to reveal a garrote, which is a bummer. Product Page [Bell&Ross via WatchReport]
This chair, according to the press release, is a “fusion of sound and feeling.” I think I experienced that in college once, but it was chemically induced. The BodySound vibrates in time with on-screen action and even has a volume adjust feature to improve hard-to-hear sections of dialogue. No MSRP, yet, but rest assured it…
Imagine—from around the world, thousands of pasty, mole-eyed Star Wars fans converging on one spot to watch replicas of R2-D2 race against each other. It’s enough to make a man cry. I respect a person’s right to love and fondle robot parts and I think droid racing is cool. But maybe, next year, they could…
CPUs are so funny. You turn around and they’re all grown up, dual-pumping at 4 GHz. Then, before you know it, they’re out the door, getting ready to have chips of their own—twins, even… and they never call, never write. In an effort to seem cool—we know the score, lads, and it’s alright with us—AMD…
Mow down those Segway riding freaks with this hot little number from Electric Vehicle Technology. For about $1,999, you can ride with the not-so-big boys on your electro-scooter. The batteries last up to 50 miles at 35 MPH and the 48-volt 2000-watt motor is hooked up to four 12-Volt 50-Amp batteries. The introductory offer includes…
Nobuhisa Ishizuka’s Heaven’s Eye is a creative installation from 2004 wherein a monitor is placed on the floor face up, with video playing of a cityscape beneath it. Creating the impression of a window to a non-existant space beneath you, the user can move the monitor along the floor, and with it, the view they…
FlexiSkin is, according to the product site, soft and flexible to the touch, like real skin. If only our own hard, care-worn hands were so soft. We’d be so much more attractive. Anyway, BoxWave, makers of multiple soft, flexible device covers, have decided to manufacture FlexiSkins for the NW-HD3, which is nice for the folks…
QR Code Blog explains (exclusively in QR codes, disturbingly) how one might go about creating a QR Code using white and dark chocolate. As if Google’s Japanese translation wasn’t finicky enough, the QR Code Blog relegates us to decoding the QR and then translating the results, all in the name of journalism. Actually, RFID in…
With Carly gone, the boys at HP could either rock out full throttle with an incredible line-up of uber-great products or they can manufacture and sell more easy to use mass-market digicams. They chose the latter. The M517 is a 5-megapixel cam with 3x optical zoom and full PictBridge sharing capabilities. I hope, however, this…
The great thing about a free market economy as that anyone with half a brain can create and sell anything they see fit. No more 5 year plan for us. We make as many AudioBuddies as we want. Anyway, it’s a nice concept that will probably end up being a trade show giveaway instead of…
MoCo Loco shows us the Wall Wave—a modular wall sculpture by Tung Chiang with sound-dampening qualities. You can flip the pieces vertically or horizontally to create new sculptures, but no matter the configuration, they’re going to look like Shredded Wheat. If nothing else, they give you a great opportunity to use the word “anechoic” when…
For several years, my neighborhood was in the middle of a cellular black hole. In fact, up until a few short months ago, most cell services failed to get a reliable signal in our basic vicinity. This infuriated me, as I stared nonplussed at the pink cloud that blanketed my part of Arizona on T-Mobile’s…
Some people don’t like flare on their desktop. “Why,” they ask, “should my mouse upstage my buzzing personality and God-given charisma?” Well, RadTech’s plain white or plain black BT510 Bluetooth Mouse may be the answer for them. Actually, what the BT510 lacks in style, it makes up for as a travel mouse with some of…
Griffin has begun shipping their AirClickUSB remote control. Plug it into your PC or Mac, and for $40, you can control iTunes, WMP, PowerPoint, Quicktime and (eventually) more. Obviously made to fit in with the rest of your Apple-white components, the AirClick provides a convenient little RF-based basic wireless controller. Griffin sells the AirClick in…
I don’t speak very much Korean but this thing looks pretty cool. I suspect it’s an MP3 player and not a portable shaver—I could be wrong—but it’s has an OLED screen, FM tuner, and voice recorder. It seems to slide shut, hence the suggestion, when closed, of a monolith. No word yet on if it…
We talked about NESPOT service a few weeks ago. Now we’ve got some pics of a color, Wi-Fi enabled handheld they’re branding to pull down their content. More news as we get it. https://gizmodo.com/south-korean-psp-wi-fi-nespot-details-38572 Ultimate PMP: Nespot’s Hand PC [DAPReview]