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Japan’s Hagiwara Sys-Com has introduced two USB flash memory devices called “Auto-run USB Flash Memory.” The interesting one is the “UD-Internet,” coming pre-loaded with Firefox and Thunderbird. That’s not exactly spectacular seeing as how you could just download Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird yourself and load it on any USB device, but it’s pleasing to…
We’re probably as excited about the Sony PSP as you are (unless you’ve already got one, and then we hate you). To assuage the pain a skotch, we’ve compiled the mother of all round-ups, gathering all the launch titles, peripherals, software, tools, movies, and more, including the history of the PSP product, from rumors to…
Jacques Cousteau’s grandson Fabien is building a shark-shaped submarine that will use pneumatics to power a working tail so that he will be able to slip in undetected with real live sharks. It sounds a little scary: … the dive team on the Calypso “probably getting bored” decided to make the robotic shark act erratic…
Creative is apparently launching a new Zen, a full-size version of the Zen Micro, with a 20GB hard drive. Other than the size and capacity increase, it appears to be exactly the same. If you like the Zen Micro—and it’s a pretty decent player, for sure—then you might be excited. The playback time is a…
So sure, Sony is throwing a launch party for the PSP at the Sony Style store in Manhattan tomorrow night, but the real news is: you might just get to meet Carson Daly. (I know!?!?) Actually, Danger Mouse is supposed to be developing, packaging, and delivering sonic science at the party, too, which is pretty…
CNET reviews the Evoluent VerticalMouse 2, a peripheral designed to ease the stress of mousing by making you hate mice altogether, apparently. Although the idea is sound, according to CNET, the execution is flawed, forcing you to hang your hand on the mouse against gravity, which is tiring. Plus it sounds like there are some…
PodBrix, the people who sell Lego men with iPods and tiny Steve Jobs figures, are now offering the Brixwear 1000, a shirt that uses an attached magnet to hold your iPod shuffle in the hands of a PodBrix minifig silhouette. Or rather, were offering it, as the first run of 1,000 are totally sold out.…
Last year during the launch of the Treo 650, one of the overlooked bits of news was that the mail client would work with Microsoft Exchange Server (well, not totally overlooked, but you know what I mean). Now Microsoft has announced a deal to license a similar function to Symbian-powered smartphones, which is generally seen…
Straight out of a (low-budget) Bond flick is the Solar Death Ray, a combination of particle board, 112 mirrors and, of course, Sol. Each of the mirrors are pointed towards one area, focusing the sun’s rays onto a target easily heated up to 930-1100 degrees Fahrenheit. The project page contains bunches of science facts and…
InfoSync World cleans up their CeBIT coverage with a piece on Panasonic’s 65″ Plasma HDTV with an infrared frame that turns it into an enormous touch screen. Referencing Minority Report far too many times, the reviewer tells us that Panasonic had developed some very specific weather tracking and aerial navigation software to take advantage of…
Providing you with the perfect excuse for a belated Daiquiri, Lehman’s Hard-Cranked Blender lets you hit speeds of 3600 rpm (based on 80 turns/minute) and blend just about anything without using any electricity. Just $100, the 5-cup capacity blender has two gear ratios allowing for “low” and “high” speeds, so if you want “Puree”, it’s…
More goods from the Interaction Design WORK IN PROGRESS show manifest in the Pixel Roller, by Stuart Wood and Florian Ortkrass. It can be viewed like a hand printer, the pixel roller can roll out any image, video or text manually, at any speed or direction, round corners and over surfaces. … The pixels are…
Nokia is now shipping their 6680 “3G Imaging Smartphone” which they introduced last month. The 6680 has two integrated 1.3 MP cameras which will allow for easy two-way video calls and a flash. PictBridge allows you to send your pictures directly to your printer via Bluetooth, a USB cable or the included memory card. It’s…
SimpleTech has announced their new Serial ATA Solid State Drive called the Zeus. Lacking any moving parts, it’s effectively a gigantic flash drive with an SATA interface. The Zeus will be offered in capacities up to 128 gigabytes with read and write rates reaching 60 megabytes per second. (Being a solid state drive, though, it’s…
Siemens has announced their new SP65 cell phone which features Bluetooth, Outlook and Lotus Notes synchronization, a reduced size memory card slot, and a 260,000 TFT display. The phone is targeted towards business users and has a pretty sharp design to boot. It purposely lacks a camera in order to meet emerging corporate security and…
While this should appear as a strikingly bad idea to the lot of you, I’m sure there’s one of two “extreme” folk out there, salivating at the RollerCycle—a 1.5 hp engine that ups your max speed, on blades, to 25 mph. Honestly, I have not the words, except to say Cycle at your own peril.…
How long have wireless touchpads been around? Don’t ask me. But Sony has a wireless keyboard and mouse combo called the “VGP-WKB1” intended to be used with their Vaio line of computers. And the fun part: not only does the wireless keyboard have a touchpad, but the entire deal can fold in on itself for…
TheRegister has gotten their paws on a Fossil Wrist PDA, the FX2008, and posted their review of it. After having waited “an extra year,” the reviewer says it has some serious pitfalls — it’s too damn big and has too short a battery life. One is a critical blow to the “watch” aspect, and the…
Those of us who dabble inside of their PCs have surely, at one time, concerned themselves with static electricity. Sure you can take some precautions like getting one of those retarded looking wrist things or touching some metal object. But why would you want to do that when you can now spend $29 on a…
It’s been quite some time since we addressed this, but it appears the “Jackito” thumb-operated PDA still lives. The product page has an “order” option with $600 price tag, so I guess that means they’re ready to actually start shipping the damn things. For those of you that missed the “announcement” 9 months ago, the…