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Dave Zatz has updated his handy TiVo To Go guide to include instructions for moving your recorded TiVo content over to Sony’s handheld gaming device. It’s a little patchy, with a few steps of manual transcoding and the like in between, but I’m sure someone will build a nice all-in-one tool soon enough. Until then,…
Lately I’ve become more interested in the simple feats of engineering that are enacted all around us, an amplification of an existing preoccupation I can trace back to dual-hinge bed door of the Honda Ridgeline. I mean, software is great and all, but if you fail to get excited by a well-executed hinge, you’re missing…
What better way for the new and progressive teenage goth to dry her hair than by pointing this pistol hair dryer scalpwards? The imagery is charming, and as one commenter pointed out, this is not the way you want your children to see their mother drying her hair, lest they try it themselves with daddy’s…
MobileBurn has details on the other Motorola phone to be announced at M3, the Linux-based E680i. The touchscreen smartphone is oriented around music and video playback, but you’ll be able to run a variety of applications on the system, including 3D games. It’s exactly the kind of form factor I can’t hang with in a…
Nintendo is launching the black and white versions of the Nintendo DS in Japan today, in case you’re in the market for a slightly nicer looking model. I’m glad I have a DS, if for the first-party Nintendo games if nothing else (Advance Wars and Animal Crossing will take up plenty of my time) but…
Here’s a fun little flickr gallery of “transparent desktop screens”. Users take a picture of whatever lies directly behind their displays, crop them accordingly, set the picture as their new wallpaper, and take a picture of the whole set up. Ultimately a lot of time spent on something that only works if you don’t move…
Air2Water makes units that generate pure and filtered water from ambient atmospheric water vapor, allowing you to stick it to your local municipality (assuming you’re content with “up to six liters a day). Their website isn’t quite complete in some places, so it’s difficult to determine how well this might work in the desert or…
Targus has a small and convenient Kaleidoscope mouse that will make you all the rage on your next business class flight as the colored light pulses through seven different shades underneath your palm. The mouse also features a retractable USB cable and an ambidextrous design. Would that I could control its color by a software…
Turner Field in Atlanta will become home to the world’s largest outdoor high definition display. The screen measures 79 feet wide by 71 feet tall. Those are feet, not inches. To give you a slightly better idea of how large this is, I’ve mspainted a perfectly to scale picture of what a 6 foot person…
Panasonic has some new inner-ear earphones out with a metal frame named “RP-HDE70.” The 8.5mm unit inside has a frequency response from 10Hz to 23kHz, so no worries about not hearing all the correct pitches. They’ll set you back about 10,000 Japanese clams. Press Release [Panasonic]
Hyundai has announced XM Satellite Radio will come as standard equipment in all vehicles starting with their 2007 versions (scheduled to go on sale long before 2007). For 2006 models, they’ll be putting it in the Sonata, Alantra and Santa Fe. This isn’t really enough to convince me to go buy a Hyundai, but it’s…
My buddy and I were just talking tonight about sticking electronics inside of a Pez dispensers. Coincidentally, I came across this link for a PEZ dispenser turned MP3/WMA/OGG player. In fact, the creator managed to strike up a deal with Pez Inc. and will market this as an actual product. Now all that’s left to…
First it was the “MyRoom,” now it is the “MyStudy.” Yamaha has introduced a portable room with a floor area of 1.5 tatami mats (take THAT, Google Calculator), destined to be rented for a price of about $270 per month. Sort of like the MyRoom, but intended for studying. Is there really such a market…
I had intended to write some short note about the passing of the New York Times’ Circuits section, now set to be dismantled and set to work throughout the paper like nerdy orphans. I was going to write about my sadness at its departure, so quickly after a crowed-about redesign, but before it had a…
You’ve got your shiny black beast home and charged and you’ve already watched Spider-Man 2 twice—what video is next for your PSP? You can convert some of your own content using the software tools we listed in our PSP Omegapost (yes, I regret that name now, too), but if you just want some short free…
Siemens is trying out an interesting new way to get feedback on their prototype mobile phones, by giving out models to selected users, setting them up with a blog, and having them document their experiences. If you get selected in the program, you’ll get a free model of the same phone you have been sent…
This Alifa of China flash player isn’t that spectacular, but it does have one cool feature: the cap that slips over the USB plug also doubles as a speaker. Mostly useless, perhaps, but definitely a neat hack. Asian flash-player number 4665-B, with a hint of cleverness [DAPreview]
Look, he admits right there on the page that he knows this is sort of retarded, so let’s cut him some slack and wallow in the joys of a retro refit well done. I mean, he even made a new label and everything! Retro Flash Drive [BrendanDawes]
The Optek Fretlight combines a standard Stratocaster clone with a light-up LED neck, making it easier to learn how to play the guitar or learn new songs. The Fretlight happens to be a MIDI guitar, too, so you can send signals to it from standard music applications, or even other instruments. That means your instructor…
The Case of the Salty Rasher has been solved. I have nothing else to say except my new PSP is lovely, and it will surely not impose on your success a whit. https://gizmodo.com/im-not-saying-im-just-saying-9186 Gizmondo gadget gets BSODded up [TheInquirer]