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This looks clever: MP3Tunes’s MP3Beamer is a music management program that does more than make party play lists—it streams songs to any bit of tech you have that can receive them (meaning your laptop over Wi-Fi or whatever, and eventually cellphones). The software runs $69, which is somewhat reasonable when you consider it’s a full-blown…
KUTV in Utah has an article on ARIBA X-Ray, Inc.’s new portable x-ray system, uninspiringly-named the NOMAD. Completely cordless, it allows for more than 100 exposures on a single battery charge, letting you conveniently cancerfy your molars anytime, anywhere. The device is still awaiting approval from the FDA, but the article reports that the inventor…
All the hubbub floating around the tech sites (including us) about Sony killing the PSX may, in fact, be completely off the mark. TechJapan says that the people claiming they’ve translated the official PSX homepage into messages of doom, destruction and halted production are just plain wrong. In fact, they say there is no mention…
In keeping with our brave new, hamster-powered world, Levy Lorenzo has submitted his contribution to society in the form of the hamster-controlled MIDI sequencer. “It’s three note polyphonic. Each channel is controlled by two hamsters, one for the melody, one for the rhythm.” Heaven have mercy on the poor fool who switches the rhythm hamster…
Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware system for your Archos Jukebox, iRiver and one or two other players. There’s a new plugin for Rockbox in development called Rockboy, which allows you to port the gnuboy emulator over to your iRiver iHP-140 (only?) and play your favorite GameBoy Color games. Rockbox only supports monochrome, so…
ADT Security Services has a new service for those of you who don’t think just putting their little sign in your window is enough to ward off evil doers. The Panasonic Plus phone is a cordless home phone (remember those?) who’s base comes with dial pad and second, corded phone (remember those?). The dial pad…
Smell that, kids? That’s the smell of leaked information (let’s not tell your parents). Details are filtering in about the new Orange SPV C550, and to make it all the more tantalizing, they’re not confirmed at all. Early word has the SPV C550 showing up at your English doorsteps with 1.3 megapixel camera and a…
We take our toast seriously. In a device where so many things can go wrong in such a short period of time, we have a lot of patience for those developing the perfect bread carbonizer. Sternform graces us with their lamp-like Toaster, which they sell using the power of personification: https://gizmodo.com/oh-super-toaster-29778 A toaster made out…
The liklihood of a US carrier getting the MDA IV sometime before Jesus comes back is about as likely as a bloodless resolution of my campaign to make Chef Boyardee the 13th apostle. For now, then, let’s look at these new images on ‘World of PPC,’ note that its tri-band radio isn’t soon for our…
In what is hopefully my last iPod post of the morning, I have to note that the Shuffle Art Archives are great. I don’t know who sent me the link—I woke up this morning and it was on my desktop, which happens more often than I’m comfortable with—but thanks. What is it? It’s remixed iPod…
I actually read the iPodlounge review of the new second-generation iPod mini, despite the fact I’ve never been a huge mini advocate myself and don’t expect to be any time soon. The new iPod mini looks like a great player—the 26-hour battery life is killer—but Apple’s definitely moving away from some of the values that…
The PodBrix people keep appealing to irony-steeped journalists and Mac sycophants alike with the new ‘Keynote’ minifig, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the imperious, turtlenecked leader of a certain Cupertino company. Since my ‘Mac users’ dial is currently pegged at “OMFG SUCK” thanks to the angry email I got yesterday for suggesting…
I4U plucked out details of an upcoming Sanyo Xacti camcorder that will be unveiled at CeBit next month, the DMX-C5. Details are slim, but there’s probably not a whole lot we need to know, beyond the fact that it’s using a 5-megapixel sensor. The new case design is more squared-off, too, and I think better…
Lifehacker Document business hours of your regular stops One photo per mile across the U.S. Make a hard drive wind chime http://www.lifehacker.com/software/digital-photos/index.php#document-business-hours-of-your-regular-stops-034120 Kotaku Four Story Mario Post-It Pointillism Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy Flash Game Final Fantasy Creator Making Two Xbox 360 Games http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/oddities/four-story-mario-postit-pointillism-034033.php Jalopnik Monster Garage to Build Flying Esperante Kleeman Makes Butterfly Doors…
Though I would near-absolutely prefer a USB flash drive fashioned after the sacrosanct Lemonhead character in The Curse of Monkey Island 3, I’m content angering (or appeasing) the Volcano gods with the TikiMac brand Big Tiki Drive. The USB cable glows a lavaesque red, illuminating the eyes and beneath the imposing, spirit-dwelled hand-cast and hand-painted…
From Craigslist LA: Popular television program seeks gadget addict ASAP. Do you always have to have the latest gadget or know someone who does? Cars? Clothes? Computers? Stereos? Mp3 players? Stuff no one else has heard of? Do you have way more stuff than you really need? We would like to interview you and check…
CreateDigitalMusic‘s Peter Kirn is back with this week’s coolest gear from the world of electronic music. This week it’s video gear, not music, that earns drool: new kit for VJing from Korg in Japan. Imagine loading 40GB of video onto a single device, triggering, mixing, and effect the clips via a touch-interface, and cross-fading between…
Sony’s given up production of the PSX media center device in Japan. The PSX was the hybrid Playstation 2 and DVR machine, which launched with much fanfare in Japan, with product shortages and the whole bit, only to leave most customers unsatisfied. That was in no small part to the lack of promised features in…
Siemens is set to rock the cellphone market to its core with the launch of their A-Series phones. With features like WAP capability, sixteen-chord polyphonic(!) ringtones, and two games loaded in standard (please be Snake 1 and Snake 2!), you can expect the competition to spend the rest of this quarter scrambling to keep up.…
This would normally be a post where I’d tell you the posts just write themselves, except they don’t. I totally wrote what you just read. As should be obvious, I have nothing to add to this little bit of hax0rneering, except to remind you that your SeXBox jelly dong is connector to a controller, which…