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I wish we could take credit for this, but the whole ‘What’s In Your Bag?’ trope has been around since bags were invented. “Verily,” our ancestors noted, “Thy Sack Art a’Brim with Mysterious Treasures Onto Which We Would Cast Our Orbs.” Now some Flickr tag hag sends us this great little tip: search for ‘whatsinyourbag,’…
My friend recently spent roughly $300 on a brand new Motorola V300 because his Nokia 3390 Gold was starting to show its age. After setting it up to work on his account and sitting down for a nice bowl of soup, he called my friend Evan to tell him about his purchase and give him…
Creative’s announced that their newest USB Sound Blaster Audigy will include video editing capabilities, including hardware encoding and THX Certified 24-bit music playback in as high as 7.1 surround sound. The device lets you connect camcorders, TVs, VCRs and whatever else you can think of through its DV, S-Video, and composite video ins and outs,…
SanDisk announced their newest USB 2.0 flash memory drives, including their Cruzer Profile which features an integrated fingerprint sensor to help secure your data. Fingerprint images are maintained on the unit itself and so it requires no additional software to be installed on a client PC to read the data—just swipe your finger and the…
These two network storage devices from CellVision—one with Wi-Fi, one without—aren’t so good looking in and of themselves, but it gives me hope that more companies will take up the form factor—and then one of those companies will make one bound in cloth and leather.
We dig robotic rovers, so robotic rovers able to traverse sub-zero Antarctic ice sheets while receiving power from the sun and wind are always enough to catch our eye. Carnegie Mellon tells us that their Nomad rover (which earlier trekked 135 miles through Chile’s Atacama Desert and across Antarctica) is being prepped to search for…
LG’s new Porsche-designed M4300 Music Phone is sort of neat, especially when you see the graphic equalizer bands going crazy on the front. But it feels cheap in the hand, and the Porsche influence seems to be about as misguided as Motorola’s Pininfarina-designed clamshells. Making a phone look like the hood of a car isn’t…
I have nothing to say about the MDA IV that hasn’t been said before, except that if HTC finds it in their heart to pair up with an American 3G-capable provider (preferable Cingular, if I had to pick a steaming iron with which to be internally seared), I would—wait for it—buy one. There were no…
LG has announced their new clamshell music phone, called the M4300. Featuring an MP3 player in addition to a whole host of other goodies like Mini-SD external memory, Music-on-Demand with 3D surround sound, dual speakers, Bluetooth, USB, and more. Bonus points for the inclusion of audio controls on the front of the phone, a cool…
Matt Turner was kind enough to drop us a line about his month-long endeavor of permanently installing and integrating a Mac mini into his 2001 Volkswagen GTi. He pulls out all the stops with a 7″ USB touchscreen monitor, a Cirque EasyCat USB trackpad, a USB FM/AM tuner, an installed iPod dock and some very…
A few of you complained (rightly so) about a talking audio ad from Vonage on the site. It has been nixed. Sorry about that. We hate those sort of ads, too, and won’t knowingly put them on (it was part of the ad server rotation). Feel free to let me know if this sort of…
Designer Ronen Kadushin’s collection of furniture, called “Thinology” is lovingly made, he describes, …with a technique of forcing by hand a laser cutout of sheet steel to form a three-dimensional object, while it does not break or ‘forget’ its flat origin. The table pictured, called the Low Square Dance, is made from a single sheet…
QuickerTek has released their new 27dB Plug and Play Transceiver to help boost your AirPort Base Station’s reach. Compatible with the complete line of AirPort Base Stations, the device requires no disassembly and “resolves the range problem often experienced when using AirPort Base Stations.” The $180 kit includes mounting brackets, an adapter cable, a wall-mounted…
Tania Fox has developed just the invention for my editor (whom you know as Joel), the next time I forget to use a dash instead of a hyphen. The Keyboard Emergency Airbag is designed to keep you from sending off a string of volatile, bridge-burning expletives to your deserving boss, coworker, loved one or intern…
If you’re the type who’d give anything for a Red 5 to complete your Star Wars Customizable Card Game collection, you might be interested in Lego’s Death Star II set from Episode VI. For $300, you’ll finally have a gigantic, incomplete base of operations for your wayward TIE fighters and bombers. Of course, if you’re…
Luxpro introduces their screenless flash player that bears what some might call a slight resemblance to the iPod shuffle in both looks, appearance and, well… name. The Super Shuffle (MX-575D) comes in 512MB and 1GB and plays back MP3, WMA and WAV alongside its FM-tuner and built in voice recorder. Rumor has it they’ll be…
Toshiba has announced their newest addition to the Qosmio line with their G20. The G20 sports a 17″ LCD panel that takes advantage of their “QosmioEngine” for high quality image reproduction using “motion edge smoothing” and other superfluous technology. While the press photo just screams “LiteBrite”, Toshiba makes up for it by allowing either RAID…
I’m not sure what sort of ideas Sony Ericsson has up their sleeve, but according to Josh Spear, this is one of them. This “cameraphone” eliminates the need for a display by projecting said image on the closest surface. I’m not sure what sort of battery life you would get out of a tiny projector…
Kotaku is reporting that the Nintendo Revolution (the company’s next console) will not only be backwards compatible with GameCube games, but that it supports the Nintendo DS wireless protocol. For gamers, this means they will be able to use their Revolution as a bridge between the Nintendo DS and the Internet, bringing much hoped for…
This guy I know—I wouldn’t call him a friend, but one time I called him a scrotum or something—has written a great review of the Sonicare Elite HX7351/02 electric toothbrush. Now I have no idea exactly how new this particular model of Sonicare may be, but I’m fairly certain you’ll enjoy the review all the…