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My ability to decode Czech web sites not at all what it used to be, all I can tell you is that this looks like the Nokia 8000 (or 8xxx) and rumor has it it’ll be available in three weeks. It’s a slider and it’s coated in shiny aluminium. It’s also only slightly larger than…
The Commonwealth Games baton started its trek today with the ceremonious passing from the Queen to Elle MacPherson. Looking rather cobraesque, this year marks the first that the baton includes a GPS device and two miniature cameras, allowing people to watch what has to be is most definitely a completely disorienting jaunt of a video.…
Bringing me back to the days when I used to play C&C: Red Alert, a few engineers in London have devised a way to quickly erect cement structures in the field. The “building in a bag” is essentially “a sack of cement-impregnated fabric” that, with a little air and water, inflates into a Nissen-shaped structure…
Nani Marquina shows us that not all (bicycle) tires are destined to become fodder for long-burning fires in boring Simpsons episodes. Instead, designer Ariadna Miquel has developed a carpet made from bicycle inner tubes. “The Bicicleta collection was born out of research into the possibility of using recycled rubber to create new textures.” A trip…
Well just leave it to everyone’s favorite DVR company to wait until the 11th hour to find a way to resurrect themselves. TiVo and Comcast today announced a strategic partnership wherein TiVo will develop new software to be integrated into Comcast’s existing DVR platform. TiVo’s vice chairman toyed a bit with grand understatements: It is…
Gizmodo being the family-oriented, award-winning weblog that it is, I’m disinclined to tell you what I first thought the Clocky looked like. On closer inspection, that’s carpet, although Gauri Nanda might’ve done better with a more vibrant color. Regardless, Clocky rolls off your nightstand, bounces off your startled dog and finds a new place to…
If you find yourself in the other camp of the RFID “controversy”, then you might be interested to learn that Wireless Dynamics has developed the first RFID Reader/Writer SD card. Any device with an SD expansion slot can now read and write to RFID tags, which means a great deal for the future of all…
For the incredibly privacy-conscious (or those with something to hide), the TagZapper by West End Laboratories is a handheld device to wipe RFID transmitting devices. I’ll be completely honest and simply say that I can’t wait for the day when I just push my cart through a scanner, select my payment method and go, instead…
Bluetooth on your iPod can finally be a reality. AirLogic is offering the icombi AP11 wireless stereo iPod dongle. Stream the audio signal directly from your iPod to any compatible Bluetooth device (think laptop, headphones, etc.) while it sucks power from your iPod. Conveniently enough, AirLogic’s icombi line also offers (or will soon offer, as…
The Chicago Tribune has a good article about how much more advanced the use of biometrics is in South Korea and Japan compared to here in the States. (Shocker, I know.) One use that I personally hadn’t heard of which I liked was the biometric speed dialing system, linking a different person for each finger…
Torgoen has developed a pretty nifty watch, if you were born before the 50s and also had a stint at NASA. The Pilot Watch with Slide Rule features a circular slide rule that is “useful for units of measure conversions and multiplication/division problems” as well as for calculating time, distance and speed. Or you could…
Not to be outdone by Yamaha and their silly “pedal taxis“, Toyota has built an entire bus that runs on fuel cells. Called the Intelligent Multimode Transit System (it’s a hybrid), these buses of the future are poised and prepped to move people around the World Expo without contributing too much to our atmosphere’s declining…
ATI announced their new media processors, the IMAGEON 2282 and 2182. The chips offer something of a package deal to cell phone manufacturers with 3 megapixel camera support, hi-fi digital audio, and a digital camcorder with streaming video and video conferencing capabilities. Although nothing spectacular from an individual feature standpoint, the chips act as media…
Verizon is all abuzz about their newest Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) which they’ve termed “Amp’d”. If the target demographic wasn’t immediately apparent to you right there, the new service for “active youth” will launch third quarter of this year and exclusively use EV-DO phones. All Amp’d phones will feature Push-to-Talk, a memory card slot,…
Audio Books For Free has announced a great, psuedo-legal way to use your spare Kalashnikov (read: AK-47) assualt rifle with their new AK-MP3—an MP3 player built into ammunition magazines from AK-47s. Able to function loaded in an AK or standalone, the player offers 20GB of storage and a USB 2.0 interface, as well as a…
LG demonstrated their new 3.5G high-speed cellular happiness technology at CTIA which allows for transfer speeds of up to 14-Mbps over W-CDMA. There was an earlier successful test run at a Nortel Lab earlier this month that LG claims used the same model of phone. It should be noted that even 3G is hardly anywhere…
IBM announced on Monday that they’ve developed mouse-based input technology that can compensate for manual tremors. The new system uses similar algorithms as those found in image stabilization systems for digital cameras. Montrose Secam is selling an adapter based on IBM’s technology which can have its sensitivity adjusted by a few large knobs and switches.…
If you’ve ever wondered why your brain goes ahead and gets the most obnoxious songs stuck in your head, collision detection sheds some light on the “earworm” phenomena with their look at a Dartmouth press release. By hooking up some folks to fMRIs and watching their auditory cortexes whilst blasting both familiar and unfamiliar music,…
Sprint announced their new LG-made MM-535 phone at CTIA today. It features an integrated 1.3 MP camera along with a built-in flash and a 262K TFT color display. It’s a slider with an MP3-playing trick up its sleeve, boating a miniSD slot in addition to its 32MB of integrated memory. Programmable shortcuts, a 3D graphics…
Japanese sunglasses manufacturer KT Optica shows off their new temple design, wherein the glasses hook to the inside of your ear (although, it should be noted not directly into the canal, sadly). The company claims they’re a great solution for sports but I’m thinking you should just pony up like this guy. Selling for about…