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I was the coolest kid in PreCalc, having splurged and bought the six colored TI-83+ calculator cases offered on their web site. (True story.) Now you can rice out your TI from the inside, overclocking your calculator with a quick trip to Radio Shack, a soldering iron and a basic comprehension of the term “will…
In an effort to thwart chip giant AMD s nefarious plans to create a dual-core 64-bit chip, scrappy underdog Intel is rolling out their new chipsets early. Dual core processors, which use two CPUs on one hunk of silicon, are a way to get around the massive amounts of heat modern chips are throw out…
Frothy prose aside, it s extremely interesting to see that Patek Phillipe, the centuries-old watchmaker, has entered the Jet Age by using Silicon wheels that are punched out of a wafer—just like high-tech computer chips. The silicon apparently wears better over time and doesn t require the regular lube jobs mechanical watches require. For more…
The Nikon Coolpix 5900 is a step towards the consumer camera of the future. It doesn’t offer a lot of finesse, like manual exposure control over aperture and shutter speeds, but it does offer things like ‘Face-Priority AF,’ (automatic focus on human faces) and D-Lighting (automatic contrast correction). Now they don’t always work—the Face-Priority in…
We first mentioned Wacom’s Bluetooth Graphic Tablet when it was released in Japan last month. Renamed the Graphire Bluetooth Tablet, it comes with a rechargeable battery that lasts for 25 hours. The Graphire Bluetooth also features a cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen with eraser and a similarly battery-free cordless mouse. With a list price of $250…
Samsung has announced the Digimax A402, a 4.2-megapixel camera with a 5x digital zoom—no optical zoom to be had. That means, effectively, that I can’t imagine any reason whatsoever to buy one, except that it might be sort of cheap. Still, releasing a digital camera these days without optical zoom—when even cameraphones are starting to…
If we had owned this high-tech Winnebago during formative family vacations, I m sure I d be that be that much closer to getting my CISCO certification. Inside are six Herman Miller Aeron chairs, a DirecPC satellite network connection, and enough A/V gear to keep tabs on the Martha Stewart mansion. And it s all…
We don’t generally delve into the software side of things, but this is pretty big news for webheads and the public at large. Adobe announced this morning that they will be acquiring webdev tool powerhouse Macromedia in an all stock exchange valued at approximately $3.4 billion, pending SEC approval. Adobe’s PDF (Acrobat) format and Macromedia’s…
England’s MI5 and MI6 secret service agencies are looking for a new gadget maestro to fill the role of ‘Q,’ made famous by Desmond Llewelyn in the James Bond films. Who knew it was even a real position? Whoever is appointed will earn between £90,000 and £100,000 a year and will be expected to provide…
Synnex brings us the datago, a stylish Skype-compatible VOIP device that makes VOIP conferencing a reality. It features a built-in microphone and speaker and features echo cancellation technology while plugging into your USB and mic-in ports. Synnex touts the datago as a good solution for the mobile user, given its relatively diminutive size and convenient…
Corinex is hoping there are still a few networking situations out there where wireless won’t do, but you can be arsed to run Ethernet. Its AV Powerline Ethernet Adapter uses your powerlines as the cable, based on the new HomePNA 2.0 specification that can supposedly hit 200Mbit/sec transfer rates. That’s all well and good, except…
Details are lean at the moment, but T3 has information about a new desktop audio system from Sony that can stream not only MP3s, but WMA and AAC as well. If Sony supports the DRM schemes from Apple and Microsoft, the NAS-CZ1 will be the first device I can recall that is able to play…
Design studio Robrady, having cut their teeth designing vehicles for brands such as Yamaha, Suzuki, and Buell, is showing off this on-paper concept called the ‘rMoto,’ an all-electrical super bike. While it’s all a buzzy figment at the moment, it sounds like Robrady does intend to produce at least one prototype rMoto, perhaps just to…
Now available together for the first time on Blu Ray, X-Men Trilogy. Box set includes X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand. Purchase includes $10 Movie Cash toward X-Men Origins: Wolverine, In Theaters May 1. Own it Today.
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I don’t know what’s up with the Verizon ad sticking in Internet Explorer, but we’re looking into it. Sorry for any annoyance. Update: Okay, we killed it! Sorry about that. Apparently it was getting stuck on the page like a pop-up, although that’s certainly not what it was intended to do. Thanks to the dozens…
Samsung has released the P207 on Cingular today, a black flip phone with EDGE capability. It’s not all that exciting in general, but it does have one particularly interesting feature: a speech-to-text technology that lets you speak SMS messages and emails into the phone in lieu of typing them in. If that works well, that…
Chad Lewis writes: The official Sony PSP forums are filled with stories, like mine, describing how Sony sends us back PSPs that are worse off than the ones we sent them, after we paid to ship them. Basically, the company line is “try your luck and send it in again, on your dime of course.”…
I can finally buy one of these USB fans for the impending summer, because Thanko has finally done something (slightly) useful with them. They slapped a 7-in-1 card reader or 4-port USB hub inside. The “USB Fan with Card Reader” and “USB Fan with USB 2.0 Hub” are each available in Japan for 2,980 yen.…
Toshiba brings another 3D display technology to bear, where they use an ultra-thin film that acts as a sort of lens to control the direction of light exiting an LCD panel. This technology led to the display you see at the right, which is intended to be placed on a flat surface (think: playing chess…