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What’s that, old-timer? Can’t tell if that Oxycontin is expired? Well head on down to Target and try their new ClearRx pill bottle. The bottle is ergonomically designed and even has a nice colored ring, one for each member of the family. Future improvements include specially treated paper that changes color to signify an expired…
I can’t believe the nerve of Motorola, traveling back through time to show the secrets of Samsung’s new V740 phone to their engineers so that they could release the RAZR almost a year earlier. Is there no gentlemanly conduct among those who practice chromo-fold mobile engineering? SlashRumor: New Samsung SCH-v740 for Real? a Motorola v3…
According to a nice, long Wall Street Journal feature, we tech journalists are no better than Armstrong Williams when it comes to doing it for cash. In November, Child magazine’s Technology Editor James Oppenheim appeared on a local television show in Austin, Texas, and reviewed educational gadgets and toys. He praised “My ABC’s Picture Book,”…
No, silly, it’s not Bugs Bunny. It’s a walking, non-talking bipedal robot from France. The Rabbit is one of the first bipedal robots to move like a human. There’s also Honda’s Asimo, which can climb stairs, but the Rabbit can also run, with apologies to John Updike. It was designed in a partnership between the…
Although we’re partial to Sirius (they’re getting Martha Stewart and we need advice on great spring centerpieces), the new Polk I-Sonic is a standalone XM satellite radio with a built-in CD and DVD player. Yes, that’s right—It has a video out, making it an interesting new general purpose shelf-top hybrid. XM reception requires a separate…
OMG! SFF PCs R so small! This review from SFFTech gets deep into the AOpen EX855-II XC small form factor mobo and case. This PC uses a Pentium M processor and Centrino chipset, a combo once reserved solely for the laptop market. Using Centrino in a desktop seems a little weird, but the boys at…
The Zling Photo-Wallet accepts SD/MMC and CF cards straight from your digital camera and dumps them into an internal 5GB hard drive for later retreival. The Zling, which comes with a sexy black pleather carrying case, runs on a built-in Li-Ion battery and doubles as a portable disk drive. Z-Cyber looks to be an OEM…
Just another PMP? Sure, but this one, created by Video Without Boundaries (not related to Doctors Without Waiting Rooms), has a USB 2.0 link so you and all your Flyboy friends can share media. Everything else is pretty standard MPEG4/MP3/RealMedia(!) playback, audio and video recording via RCA jacks, and a nice, twee size. Packed inside…
PodGear, makers of the Shuffle Station, have expanded their line of vinyl iPod condoms by creating the JumpSuit Shuffle. https://gizmodo.com/podgears-shufflestation-35154 I’m extremely partial to the fleshy pink model. It looks like sweet candy. JumpSuit Shuffle protects iPod shuffle [PlaylistMag]
createdigitalmusic‘s Peter Kirn has been out musical cool-hunting again. Here’s his latest report: Who says you can’t fill your home with lots of music gear and look good doing it? If you’ve got two turntables and a very large wad of dough, you can dock your decks in style with one of two space-age turntable…
Need to hide from thermal imaging cameras or alien predators with heat vision? Sure, we all do. Now a Greek company, Intermat, has created an exciting body cream that not only significantly reduces visible pores but even breaks up your heat signature. COMMANDO-HIDING CREAM [DefenseTech]
Microsoft is expanding the reach of its instant messaging platform (casually referred to as ‘MSN’) to more mobile devices, including RIM’s BlackBerry platform. So just to reiterate and clarify: if you have a BlackBerry, you should be getting an MSN client soon. Otherwise, move along. Microsoft Expands Messaging, Partners with RIM [Reuters]
In celebration of selling 3 million units, Tomy will be releasing a special discounted edition of their “Hidamari no Tami.” With a 300 yen discount, the unit comes to 714 yen (about $7 USD). When trying to find out what the thing does, I learned that it just sits there and bobs its head under…
SUVi Corporation is all set to release their “DLA7000” full HD D-ILA projector next month for around 4,500,000 yen. Only 100 of these will be produced per year. The specs aren’t too crappy (and I’d hope not, for $45K), with support for all HD signals up to 1080p and a contrast ratio of 2,000:1. Product…
au is all set to launch their “EZ Book Land!” e-book service in Japan, hoping to breathe new life into the dying market. I seem to recall e-books failing on pretty much all fronts, but given most of us have our mobile phones close at any given moment, this may prove to be a better…
Coming right after the desktop announcement from Fujitsu is the same thing for notebooks. Of interest in their new notebook line is the “BIBLO NX90L/W” costing around 340,000 yen. This may be a tad expensive for a consumer-level notebook, but it features the new Sonoma platform for great justice. And a bizarre feature of this…
Fujitsu’s DESKPOWER TX now earns the title of “desktop with largest integrated LCD,” if there is such a thing. At 32″, the screen of the DESKPOWER TX90L/D is far larger than others in its class. I’m pretty disappointed in the resolution, though, at a mere 1360 x 768. I might add that the TX90L/D is…
The NEC N840, which we mentioned in November, is a big 2-megapixel cameraphone not yet available on American shores. It’s quite beefy and underpowered but the camera and reception are excellent, according to MobileBurn. https://gizmodo.com/nec-n940-and-n840-24614 It’s nice to see that the phone has an externally accessible Mini-SD storage slot. That’s the one thing that saves…
In an excellent example of how to reach the ‘tween audience, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is now offering some hep ringtones for cool cats and hot eats or whatever it is kids in commercials have been forced at gunpoint to say. What better way to convince kids to stay off…
I’ve got no opinion on the overall quality of the upcoming X2 Stylebook from a computing standpoint—it looks like a pretty decent, if pedestrian laptop to me—but I am loving the branding idea. It’s one for the ladies, but instead of just making them pretty colors, they’re also selling matching bags and purses that complement…