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iPodlounge reviews the official Apple iPod Camera Connector, the little clip-on bit that makes direct transference of pictures from your camera to your iPod photo. It’s far from perfect, but it at least fixes the most glaring flaw of the iPod photo: the ability to copy pictures directly to your iPod and then view them,…
The worst part about April Fool’s is that I want so many of these things to actually be real—especially on ThinkGeek. iPod-to-iPod transfers would be fantastic. Pod On Pod Data Transfer Action! [ThinkGeek]
A GPS device with pre-loaded location data for the UK’s toilets. So wouldn’t that just be the whole country? Zing! Also, it would help if I had seen more of your homeland than just Heathrow, I guess. UK company creates iPoo – the GPS toilet locator [Pocket-Lint]
Here’s a watch concept from TAG Heurer that’s super-accurate—360,000 vibrations an hour, and it’s all mechanical. New TAG Heuer Calibre 360 Concept Chronograph [WristDreams]
A fridge so adorable that you could just eat it up is really the last thing you want when struggling with your diet [You actually wrote that? —ed.], but for the skinny crowd, Fujitronic makes a series of animal-styled mini-fridges. Available shaped as a polar bear or puppy dog, they feature an on-door LCD which…
Mobileburn talks about their brief hands-on experience with the Firefly kids cell phone in this piece. We first saw the Firefly last month and noted then that it lacks a standard numeric keypad, instead limiting the user to a “Mom” key, a “Dad” key, and a phonebook which can store up to 20 preset numbers.…
The DISPY 2 makes for a quick-and-dirty memory card backup solution, writing the contents of your memory cards to CD with no computer required. The DISPY takes nearly every form of memory card, including CF 1 & 2, SD, MMC, miniSD, MemoryStick and MemoryStick DUO. The device possesses an understated style-magnetism, illustrated by the memory…
G4’s Attack of the Show unveiled what they’re calling the Largest Working Nintendo Controller. The classic NES controller is eight feet wide and only cost them $400 to build. The best part, of course, is that it’s fully functional. G4 includes some great instructions on how to go about making your own utterly useless, incredibly…
This is nearly too geeky, even for us: Hokey Spokes make up a set of LED blades that attach to your bicycle’s spokes and spell out words and poor images while you ride about town, keenly aware of precicely how idiotic they make you look. The perfect compliment for your favorite pair of bicycle shorts,…
Hugms, by Mark Argo (of .dot .dot .dot fame), is definitely in the running for the most bizarre Bluetooth-enabled device I’ve seen. The squeezable, torpedo-shaped hugging unit communicates with your Bluetooth-enabled cell phone to convert the power of your hug into a respective text message. I truly kid you not: https://gizmodo.com/dot-dot-dot-bluetooth-display-33528 for example, a long…
Treehugger shows us the Ibiza Scooter (no relation to the aforementioned light fixture), an electric wheeler with a range of 28 miles and conveniently, a speed of 28 MPH. It runs for about $1,560 and leaves Treehugger debating the environmental impact versus the human cost of its Chinese “heritage”. Imported by Spectra Importing in Canada,…
Italy’s Oluce has unveiled their new line of outdoor lights called Ibiza. The Oluce fixtures are made out of white, weatherproof polyethlene and feature an integrated speaker. They’re not wireless, sadly, with a separate stereo cable included. The speakers also only put out 20 watts, so this might be the type of fixture for your…
Mavromatic moves gracefully into part two of their do-it-yourself inwall LCD touchscreen project, discussing the decision to go with an industrial panel over NEC’s. He has plans to update it shortly, but for now, there are some great pictures of his progress insofar. While this post is a little bit short on content for the…
It looks like some interesting cameras will be unveiled at this year’s NAB. A week back we heard about the JVC GY-HD100U, a three-CCD camera that could record at 720p (progressive scan). Good, but not as crazy as the unconfirmed details of the Panasonic AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2 camcorder, which is being listed as supporting…
Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K500 offers two flaps of firsts, being not only the first to hit half a terabyte in a single drive, but one of the very first to use the SATA II interface—that means more data at faster speeds. If you don’t have an SATA II interface in your PC, though, Hitachi will be…
This glowing, animated ‘drum|head’ project is a one-trick pony, but it’s a mildly amusing pony, like those seen in many Eastern European videos. Also, is it just me or did he hit it once and it didn’t fire? I smell a rat in this horse. (Thanks, Scott!) Project Page [MuratNKonar]
The HP iPaq h6315 Windows Mobile smartphone has been troubled since it first launched on T-Mobile, with email and connectivity issues that caused the carrier to effectively pull the device off its shelves. Now they’re releasing a new ROM update that purports to fix most of the issues, so if you’ve already plunked down the…
MSMobiles, the only tech site run by a real, live madman (mad about Windows Mobile, of course!), is reporting details of the hybrid offspring of the hit Motorola RAZR and the unreleased-in-the-States MPx smartphone. The new hybrid will be called the ‘MPx4,’ feature a RAZR-like flat design, but no built-in QWERTY keyboard (the very thing…
Lifehacker Keyboard skin Make your own gift wrap Web-based FTP https://lifehacker.com/keyboard-skin-37688 Kotaku Sony Cans PS3 Unveiling in Japan Gutting Your PSP Severed Hands = Free DS http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/playstation-3/sony-cans-ps3-unveiling-in-japan-037727.php Jalopnik Connaught GT: Bespoke Luxury for the Conservationist Set Japan’s Mini VW Micro Bus Replicas Is Suburu Planning a Hot STi Hatchback for 2007? http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/alternative-energy/connaught-gt-bespoke-luxury-for-the-conservationist-set-037728.php
I had thought, perhaps, that the TiVo users were getting a bit worked up over the TiVo pop-up ads that are in testing, because last I heard they only take up a quarter of the screen. Matt Haughey took this found this picture of it in action, though, and now I get the ire. That’s…