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Nearly-naked college kids posting with iPod shuffles for charity. What’s not to love? (I mean, besides the charity part.) And ladies, there are boys there for you, too, although every last one of them looks like a tube. It takes a while for men to get that oily, hairy bagel of maturity. Project Page [iPose…
Remember the guy who had an RFID implanted in his hand? BMEzine’s Jordan Ginsberg has a nice interview with Amal Graafstra, the geek in question, about why he did, it, what the procedure was like, and what he plans to do now that he has a radio-frequency tag stuck in his hand. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/index.php#man-rfid-implants-self-037545 One Small…
Product Highlights • ABS Ultimate E2 Media Center PC First Look [DesignTechnica] • Toilet Tree [Treehugger] Business • Cingular Wireless leads in FCC complaints [MobileTracker] • Unswitch [TBray] Apple is so opaque it’s silly. I understand the sentiment. • Comdex Still Dead [FiringSquad] Reviews • D-Link DSM-320 Media Lounge [TrustedReviews] • Sony PSP Handheld Entertainment…
Nikon Germany accidentally let the product manual for the new Nikon D50 leak on the web for a bit. It’s been pulled already, but not before the pertinent details of the new entry-level DSLR were extracted. Expect the the D50 to have a 6.1-megapixel sensor, a silver case, and use SD cards for storage. Now…
Dell surprised me today with the announcement of the Latitude X1 Ultraportable, better known around these parts as the Samsung Q30. Dell licensed the design from the Korean manufacturer and is selling it through their site starting at $1,700. It’s a fine bit of laptop, with a 1.1GHz Pentium M, sealed anti-spill keyboard and all…
Starting today, you too can be a next-generation optical disc pirate. MemoryTech is the first company to introduce a low-cost HD DVD production unit with support for all HD DVD formats. They haven’t said how much it will cost, but it is reportedly the “first system for mass production facilities that supports the full HD…
We reported on Luxpro’s “Super Shuffle” around CeBIT, and it’s pretty obvious why Apple is spittin’ mad. It has more functionality than the iPod shuffle, yet looks exactly the same. Apple has managed to get through to Luxpro, because Luxpro today announced the product’s name has changed to the “Super Tangent.” The same iPod shuffle-like…
Alright, I’m convinced. These new pictures of the purported PalmOne ‘Life Drive‘ 4GB PDA look pretty darn authentic to me. It’s not like I know anything you don’t, but it looks pretty legit. Of course, the internet was built by liars wielding Wacom tablets, so we won’t know for sure until PalmOne spills the beans.…
Everything USB takes the Logitech MX518 Gaming Mouse out for a night of LAN gaming and says it’s A-OK. The MX518 is the new model with the DPI changing switch on the side, making it easy to flip back and forth between quick movement with high DPI settings (up to 1600!) down to the low…
Just a quick blip to mention that Orb Networks has changed their model for their Orb streaming media platform, which allows you to send your music, video, and other content from your Windows machine to any portable device with a web connection. Now, instead of paying for Orb, you’ll get the client for free, and…
Shimadzu’s HyperVision HPV-1 camera can shoot one million frames per second, although with a limited clarity of 312 by 260 pixels in monochrome. Still, imagine the excitement of a three hour movie detailing the intricacies of drying paint. Unfortunately, as fast as it is, it can only shoot 100 frames at a time—oh, and it…
There isn’t a whole lot going on with this Pilot Electronics MP-08 flash player except a weird shape, but that’s good enough for a post in these days of escalating gadget lust. It doesn’t even have a screen or play non-MP3 file formats, but it’s sort of neat in its way. I wouldn’t want it…
Joey Roth designed this ‘Sorapot’ concept tea pot, which looks impractical, unwieldy, and lovely. Project Page [JoeyRoth via CoolHunting]
Sure, it’s cliche, but how can you not love Ron Jeremy? He’s like the Pope of Porn, except he brings his own feeding tube. Now the Hedgehog is following in the stiletto-heeled footsteps of Jenna Jameson’s Wicked Wireless, offering ‘Groan tones,’ presumably ringtone clips of Ron doing his special business. We sort of have to…
I have a long and silent war with the skaterats that live down my street, who have of late taken to calling themselves the ‘Dobkings’ (our street is ‘Dobbin,’ get it?) and spray painting their new stencils all over the street’s dumpsters. I wage this war normally by walking down the street, using a hula-hoop…
XDR RAM is going to be fast. I predict even more unneeded processor cycles in my near future. Toshiba is lining up the world’s fasters memory chips. Testing has begun and they should be on sale in the second half the year, the company said. The 512MB XDR (extreme data rate) DRAM chips run at…
Hilton Hotels are rolling out new radio alarm clocks to their rooms, complete with a line-in jack for plugging in your MP3 player. In addition, the new units are supposed to be a lot easier to set yourself, and can wake you up with the sound of one of four pre-set radio stations instead of…
Prosthetic limbs have come a long way lately, but there are still limitations when it comes to things like climbing stairs or other activities where the prosthetic itself needs to replace some muscle power. The new aptly-named Power Knee, developed by Victhom and marketed by Ossur, aims to address that issue by putting not only…
One of my biggest criticisms of Microsoft’s Portable Media Center platform has been that there’s really nothing to watch. You could download a few B-list movies from CinemaNow and Major League Baseball games or copy stuff from your Windows Media Center PC, but if you wanted to put anything else on the device, you had…
Sure, you could just manually copy the images from your favorite web comics to the PSP, but 8 Bit Joystick has some tips to automate the process. Slurp down a whole web comic archive, do some basic conversion (as necessary) and copy it over. Classics like Penny Arcade and Diesel Sweeties are natural choices, of…