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I4U has a few details on an impressively lightweight LCD screen from Scalar Corp. that can be mounted on ordinary glasses that weighes a scant seven grams. The screen offers a simulated 14-inch screen with 180,000 pixels (roughly television resolution). It’s not terribly expensive, either, at just $460 or so. I don’t have a subscription…
We’re not the only country that is still in love with the Nintendo Entertainment System. To complement the Famicom TV Remote Control (the NES was the Famicom in Japan), Banpresto is offering the Official Famicom Cashbox, a piggy bank that plays back one of four tunes when coins are inserted. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-japan-famicom-tv-remote-control-31866 Catalog Page [GoldenShop via…
For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to configure my phone to pair with my Bluetooth headset and still ring, which means I miss a lot of calls if I’m not paying attention. The (relatively) new Jabra BT800 headset has a built-in vibrate mode that would alleviate that problem, while giving me…
I don’t know what these people are smoking. That’s the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen.
There’s not much a company can do these days to make me give a portable video player a second glance, but MEXX’s PMP-1200 gets a free pass mostly because it’s 1) not obnoxious, and 2) it’s been a while since we’ve mentioned any new models at all. The PMP segment is definitely getting as generic…
A Japanese tuner has built this real-life version of Akira’s motorcycle on top of a Honda Bick scooter. I got the impression that a company might be selling a kit you can purchase to do this yourself in the future, but I could be wrong. They’ve got about another 14 years to pull it together.…
Since all it takes for an American with insurance to get a CT scan is a slight fever or a missing Q-tip, it’s probably important they have the fastest, most accurate technology available. Philips’ new Brilliance 64-Slice CT Scanner, recently installed at the University of Chicago Hospitals, has four times the resolution of a typical…
So if the details coming out about the PalmOne LifeDrive PDA are legit, it really does look like an interesting product, albeit one that gives me that weird ‘why wasn’t this out three years ago’ feeling. Still, for devotes of the traditional PDA form factor, it looks dreamy, with almost everything Palm users have asked…
Quite a few of you wrote in after this morning’s post about the BowFlex SelectTech Dumbbells to point out PowerBlock, a set of dumbbells with a similar ‘choose your own weight’ trick. They look at little more unwieldy, but from what I’ve been told they got for almost half the price. What’s more, apparently the…
Toothing was supposed to be a hot new way to meet other ugly people, using a Bluetooth-enabled phone to solicit anonymous sex from other lonely hearts. But Jim Hanas asks a good question: Was it ever really happening in the first place? All the stories written about (including ours) pointed to sites that no longer…
Verizon has officially announced its intention to carry the PalmOne Treo 650. Its Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking—as has been the case with all other carriers who offer the 650—will be crippled. No word if it will offer EV-DO support or not, however. Since they don’t mention it, I’m thinking maybe not. Update: We’re getting very sure…
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The AP is reporting that Diego and Samsung have inked a deal to make set-top PVRs using Diego’s Moxi Media Center. Currently, the first generation of Moxi boxes are deployed in Huntsville in a testing capacity, but if everything goes as it should, the Moxi II boxes will be rolled out to both Charter and…
This is god-damn gorgeous. The KT401 Tape Timer is an aluminum kitchen timer. If you can’t figure out how to use it, that’s between you and your case worker. The site Kikkerland is only offering them in sets of six, but I bet you could find them elsewhere. Catalog Page [Kikkerland via RedFerret] Update: Only…
Watches are great. If I had my way, I’d have a dozen, mostly metal, with very little digital technology in them at all. Ignoring my calculator watch obsessions (in which I still lean toward metal), watches are the sort of technology meant to be appreciated in spite of their anachronistic place in the progression of…
I can’t say I was familiar with ‘NXT’ technology, apparently the technique that made all those slick-looking but poor-sounding flat-panel speakers possible a few years back. It seems the technology itself can actually be used to make some pretty decent sounds—sound that can be heard from a variety of listening positions, instead of right in…
Brother site Jalopnik reports a new Italian GPS-based system that lets automobiles steer themselves with an accuracy within 50 centimeters. That’s probably good enough for high-speed highway driving, but the self-parking car will probably have to wait a bit longer. The sooner they can develop a system that enables me to sleep off Mountain Dew…
The Pokemon Corporation will be releasing a special edition blue Nintendo DS to go with the opening of “Pokemon The Park 2005.” Add this to the list of blue DSs; you may remember the Pepsi Twist DS or Turquoise Blue from a couple weeks back. In this new one’s defense, it is pretty hard to…
NEC has a new wireless video transmission technology using the 60GHz band, and has already developed a palm-sized transceiver just for it. Video and audio signals are digitized into a signal measuring about 1Gbps, at which point they’re transferred using “ASK,” the same high speed transmission used in optical fiber. Because of the small size…
Evergreen continues the tradition of releasing low-cost Chinese electronics with bizarre features, the newest of which is the “EG-LR320” learning remote controller. Sure, it’s your standard learning remote controller with touchscreen interface and backlit LCD. Sure, it costs about 9,980 yen. But it also has a USB port, and more importantly, the ability to change…