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Dear Competition Pro engineers: Life is full of tough choices. I’m sure with your education and experience there were many career paths open to you, many places you could have landed in the scientific, engineering, or medical development fields. You took the road less travelled, adding a USB connection to a twenty some-odd year old…
I want a scooter. There, I’ve said it. New York might be one of the more scooter-friendly cities in the US, but I’m still going to look like Grimace doing a hand-stand from behind. Still, if Honda ever decides to commercialize this Numo gasoline/electric hybrid prototype, I would stoically face down the jeers and stares…
Those punched holes in the front of the Apple G5 Powermac’s aluminum case just happen to be the perfect size to hold standard-issue LEDs. Swedish hacker Anders Lundberg built his own LED clock that fits right in the bottom, and I think it’s sort of swell. Can you think how rad it would be if…
It’s hardly the most attractive watch I’ve ever seen, but it has one quality that is sadly rare to find in modern watches: nixie tubes. The Cathode Corner Nixie Watch is a two-digit prototype that shows hours, minutes, and seconds as you flick your wrist. There won’t be a big production run, but David Forbes…
If you absolutely have to use Compact Flash, and its not us judging you, just… at least don’t carry more than one card. The tripper Mini is a portable hard drive with a CF slot for the reading and storing of your pictures. While the display screen looks decidedly unimpressive and probably can’t display images,…
Wired News has more the HP DJammer we talked about before, including early reaction from the DJ community and new developments on teaching it to beat match and its Wi-Fi capabilities. And yes, you’ll still look like you’re five minutes into a seizure while using the DJammer, but that’s how you indie kids dance these…
So when we said the future iPods could have triple the battery life using the new PortalPlayer PP5022 chipset, what we meant to add was, “the very same chipsets already in use in the new 2G iPod minis.” Why we didn’t put together the greatly increased battery life of the new iPod mini and the…
In today’s world of high frequency product launches and developers trying to convice customers their product has something to do with whatever new hipness Apple’s rolling with, it was only so long before we came to this name. The Mini Mi is a stackable speaker unit—several stackable speaker units, actually, using powerful magnets to form…
MS Mobiles has “tentative” specifications of the upcoming HP Mobile Messenger devices, the iPaq hw6515 and hw6715 (those model numbers not locked down yet, as well). There’s nothing exactly surprising here, but the 4-band GSM/EDGE radio gives us an idea which carrier we can expect to see these handhelds on (hint: it’s Cingular). It also…
New York City and trash have a long history. Branching out in their waste management solutions, the city is trying a new trash can that uses solar power to detect when it is full and automatically compacts the garbage inside. Then, an indicator light blinks and it can even send out a wireless call for…
Sony isn’t giving us much to go off of regarding the PSP’s place as a productivity tool, but Gameseek has a 47-key keyboard by Logic 3 ready for sale that at least tells us someone is planning big things. A fold-over unit that also acts as a screen protector, the roughly $38 keyboard “will be…
Samsung’s SCG-S260 cell phone lets you dabble in compositing, allowing you to superimpose a handwritten note over another image. Just snap a shot of your note and your background image and let it work its magic. Potentially useful for a quick, creative annotation, I can also see it being a slight bother to find a…
King Tinkerbell Phillip Torrone made this hand-cranked iPod shuffle recharger. Why? People he’s a big nerd—that’s why he’s such a good fit for Make. We look forward to him working out the kinks and showing us how to make one of our own. Hand powered iPod Shuffle [MakeZine]
Lifehacker Google Image search montage-maker Listen to your iTunes library over the web Gmail saved searches https://lifehacker.com/google-image-search-montage-maker-34851 Kotaku Microsoft Brings Games to 25 Universities Petition to Add Video Games to Walk of Fame IVP Gives Away a Crapload of PSPs http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/events/microsoft-brings-games-to-25-universities-034854.php Jalopnik Brabus in Geneva: Tuning the Exotics Geneva Premiere: Nissan Zaroot Concept Ferrari Scaglietti…
This isn’t something new for you to buy (sorry), but it’s so cool I had to share. Amit Singh patched into the six-axis motion sensor in the new Apple Powerbooks—originally designed to measure quick movements, like drops, and park the hard drive to prevent damage—and wrote a program that rotates the windows based on the…
eSommelier is a management server for wine collectors. Little more than a touch screen and a hard drive, the system allows users to search its database of over 130,000 wines based on country, vintage, winery and sassy name. Users can also add notes to each entry describing taste, body and quality and manage their collection…
Most of us have no need for Sonance’s iPort Docking Station for iPods, but that hasn’t stopped plenty of you from sending me links about the $600 wall-mounted unit for months now. It is a neat idea, and I have to admit to coming up with a few scenarios where I might use one while…
Samsung’s Syncmaster 930mp display has a ridiculous options list, and I mean that in the mostly-good way. It’s a 19-inch LCD monitor or with a built-in TV tuner (and s-video in). Which is all very good and fine. But what I don’t get is the inbuilt FM radio. Was somebody playing truth-or-dare during the devolpment…
Product Highlights • applse.cx or… Fisting For Apples [PlateletsMusic] Most of this is par for the course, but no free upgrade CDs? Thanks, Apple! Business • Nextel’s secret weapon [MobileTracker] • LG Mobile Phones Retains Top Spot In The U.S. CDMA Handset Market [MobileBurn] • NTT forecasts 76% profit fall [JapanToday] Culture • My Interview…
Just when you thought you were safe from hearing U2’s ‘Vertigo’ every five minutes, Virgin Radio has started broadcasting on a global scale over 2.5 and 3G phones, via a simple streaming application. In addition to the standard pop-rock of their main station, you can also tune into the Virgin Radio Groove or Virgin Radio…