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Students at the Indian Institute of Technology have developed a pocket-sized turbine that attaches to your cellphone to charge it. Best suited for use in costal areas with near-constant wind flow or long talks with your mother, the device can also be used during travel as long as you set it up against the wind.…
It’s not quite the Hitchhiker’s Guide, but the new MP-O2-OTG is a pretty slick little portable media drive enclosure. Not only does it look like a book (for easy hiding in your wood-paneled study), it decodes a variety of audio and video formats via VGA and component connections. You’ll probably have to wait for a…
From Cultured Containers, this BananaBunker fruit tote serves at least one purpose: To protect your banana from asploding in your backpack or briefcase. Other uses might include an ice breaker for a picnic first date, or alternatively, an easy way to end a date that isn’t going well at all. Their tagline “pamper your Banana…
Featuring a set of custom keyboards and a strappy case, the new Sanrio iPod mini & Hello Kitty Be@rBrick set is sure to be a big hit, despite the actual iPod mini having only the slightest of modifications (a little white Hello Kitty logo on the back). But like the Doraemon iPod mini before it,…
There’s a joke to be made about giant phallic symbols built on Australian sheep farms, but not before my coffee. The 3,280-foot tall solar tower idea first tossed around a few years ago is on it’s way to actually happening, now that land in the Australian outback has been secured. When finished, the tower will…
Jens of Sweden is taking on the iPod shuffle, launching the MP-120, a 1GB player with an OLED display that retails for one krona less than Apple’s flash player. As is typical for JoS players, the MP-120 can play a variety of formats, including OGG Vorbis and WMA. The players all have an excellent battery…
Well, my email is being half-assed right now for some reason, so I don’t recall the name of the guy who made this Mac mini dock. My apologies if your name isn’t actually ‘Lazzwaldo.’ The idea, if memory serves, was not necessarily to make the most attractive bit of drilled metal, but to instead make…
If you’re looking for an easy, hassle-free way to blow $400 on a sub-par MP3 Player, RCA-Thompson would like you to consider their RCA Lyra PDP 2812. The 5GB MP3/WMA/JPEG player has an uninspired design, and 1.5 inch color screen (if the JPEG support didn’t give it away). Showing up in Europe only at the…
It’s very strange to listen to an MP3 recording of your own voice mail. When John Hering of security firm Flexilis told me that they had reversed engineered the exploit that compromised Paris Hilton and Vin Diesel’s T-Mobile voice mail earlier this week, I wanted to see it for myself. I asked John to pop…
What do today’s iPod upgrades mean for Apple’s music player? First off, while we didn’t get the color screen iPod minis as we had hoped for, we did see the iPod photo move to take over the full-sized iPod product segment. Along with the 30 and 60GB iPod photos, Apple also removed all but the…
Lifehacker Record voice on your iPod Make your own font Record your ideas https://lifehacker.com/record-voice-on-your-ipod-33947 Kotaku Microsoft Will Buy Out Nintendo Super Mario Rampage DivX Movies and Wi-Fi Network Coming to DS http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/q-a/microsoft-will-buy-out-nintendo-033900.php Jalopnik Temporary Auto Paint Porsche to Build Mid-Engine Sports Car Above Boxter Counterfeit Mini Ads Round Up http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/gadgets/temporary-auto-paint-033853.php Also Bits This is how…
At last, a use for webcams that doesn’t involve a lonely Friday night and someone named L0litaN1GHT$HADE (it’s easy money, so back off). Students at Hansei University in Korea have developed a program that controls a mouse cursor via facial movements recorded by a simple webcam to make computer use much easier on those with…
Fujitsu-Siemens—and that still sounds more like a finishing move than a company—are rolling out the Celsius H230 this March in a bid to glaze your orbs. The workstation laptop promises the latest from the names you trust to make Half Life 2 look all pretty, including Intel’s 915PM Express chipset, Pentium M processor and Centrino…
You can’t buy this Knife Block, designed by Raffaele Iannello, from Vice Versa—they aren’t the buying sort of catalog—but you can lust after it all the same. The best meat is murder, after all. (Thanks, CrazedAdMan!) Catalog Page [ViceVersa]
A tool for the security conscious or those that like to annoy passers-by, the Halcyonics Caveo is a PC Card with a built-in 110dB alarm that uses its motion sensor to set up a perimeter (of variable radius, I’d hope) around a laptop. In addition, the Caveo has a special software package designed to lock-down…
Brighthand postulates that PalmOne may be planning to bundle its Wi-Fi SD Memory Card along with the Tungsten T5 and Zire 72 handhelds. PalmOne has taken many dings from the tech community (including us) for their lack of integrated Wi-Fi in their products. While the Wi-Fi SD card certainly is useful, it also takes up…
There’s very little detail, but The Inquirer has confirmed that ATI will be showing off a video card at the Texas Gaming Festival with 512MB of RAM on board. Likely an update of the X850 cards, one gamer at the competition will be able to take the card home as a prize, while the rest…
Nobody ever got fired for buying Dell, as long as their boss was really cheap. When it comes to displays, though, Dell does just fine, buying up nice screens from people like Samsung and Philips and repackaging them in an affordable, capable solution. The new 42-inch plasma screens offered from Dell’s web site are reviewed…
Designer Bernard Belanger likes to make custom, one-off computers using the guts of old Macs. This model, ‘Ze CUBE,’ is powered by Macintosh Classic II, with an amazing 16MHz processor. He’s got other models, too, including one built into an old suitcase, and one built into a vintage wooden television case. Cult of Mac has…