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Described as a “decorative lighting element that also diffuses scents,” the LumiAroma offers the unparalleled style of a light-up test tube wafting a fine selection of scents, ranging from “blue sky” to “green leaves,” and also “pink petal heart.” Each can be used around the house or clipped onto your AC vent in your car,…
Paris Hilton’s ever-present T-Mobile Sidekick II has been hacked, with pictures and contact information from the mobile device showing up in various places on the web (only to be quickly expunged). Since the Sidekick II stores copies of all its data on T-Mobile’s servers, this means that it’s more than likely that everyone who uses…
ThinkSecret is reporting that the next update to the iPod mini will include a 5 ot 6GB hard drive and full-color screens. The price will remain the same, at $250. Expect an announcement within the next two weeks, they say. There’s no word about new case colors for the mini, which were previously rumored to…
MobilePC Magazine’s “Top 100 Gadgets of All Time” spread is fantastic. It’s covers a huge range of gear, isn’t the least bit shrill, and is full of surprises. I’m still going back and forth looking at my favorites from years past, but I thought I’d take a quick break and tell you to check it…
A quick blip regarding the Sonos music system being “broken for Macs.” It’s not, at least not anymore—they’ve issued a fix. More to the point, it wasn’t as broken as we first thought. Apparently, the Ipodlounge problem was an anomaly (confirmed by quite a few happy Mac-owning Sonos users), affecting only a handful of people…
Your fantasy of getting a handjob from Lee Majors is one step closer to reality, thanks to this new robot arm controlled by thought alone. Scientists at University of Pittsburgh have successfully tested the arm and hand unit with monkeys and ready to explore the the potential for fully functional prosthetic arms. And before the…
Publisher Random House has invested in VOCEL, a company that specializes in providing texts of all type formatted for cellphones. While the first titles will be more reference-oriented, including foreign-language tools and videogame strategy guides, there is some chance that novels and other eBook may be published on cellphones, as has been done in other…
My Bluespoon AX Bluetooth headset is great, except for one thing: the blinking blue light that’s always on. I could maybe understand shining a light when you’re on a call—that’s an easy way to tell people you’re too good to talk to them—but the AX flashes every 8 seconds or so, just to let you…
NYU’s .dot.dot.dot project is developing an app for Bluetooth enabled phones that transfers images to a small, wearable LED screen. Users create an image from red dots on their phone and then broadcast the image to the display for all to see. While the suggestion of wearing the the LED display on a t-shirt or…
Korea is fast becoming just as interesting as Japan when it comes to gadgets, but they frustratingly seem to be even more reticent to release their products in North America than their neighbor. Stormblue has a variety of of interesting media players, including this new XUKE AV-700 with a video-playing 1.2-inch color OLED screen, but…
Korean vendor Muzio has announced the JMH-1000, a 4GB hard disk-based player with a 1.5-inch LCD screen, as well as dual headphone jacks (a personal favorite, despite the existence of $1 splitter cables). It sounds like Muzio is pretty into OGG Vorbis, too. MUZIO II fully supports OGG (Ogg Vorbis), the next generation file format…
For a goddamn printer. I love you, Japan (or Korea. Or whoever. I love everybody!) ?? ??? ?? ?????? ??? ????? ?? [BetaNews via AkihabaraNews]
Israeli company Glucon has received a patent for their Glucose Monitoring Watch, which uses an ultrasound unit to identify blood vessels in the arm, then pinging the vein with a laser to determine sugar levels. Once Glucon can bring their watch to market, millions of diabetes patients will be able to check their blood sugar…
Megazooka! The name sings. A little over a foot tall and wide, Megazooka(!) shoots a strong vortex of air over twenty feet across a room. Using no batteries or electricity and coming equipped with a sight on top, you are now on your way to be a proper Fantastic Four villain. And the best part?…
Wow, when you put it next to a RAZR, you can really start to get how tiny the Motorola V8 SLVR really is. Want that. Live Shots of Motorola’s SLVR V8 from 3GSM [MobileBurn]
No pictures, sadly, but Reuters has another story with Motorola’s chief Ed Zander, with a couple bits of interesting info. The first is that the black RAZR, which was originally just a special-edition one-off for the Oscars, is going to be called the ‘BLZR’ when it is produced for we plebes (I’m assuming that’s ‘Blazer,’…
ASUS’s new Windows Mobile communicator, the P505, popped quietly up at Cannes this year. It was supposed to launch late Q4 of last year, but got bumped to the still-vague “early this year”—and it’s definitely a 2004 phone. The P505 looks nice enough. I like the dirt-simple four buttons and five-way joystick for controls, at…
If I thought I could somehow rationalize the purchase of the Iwill ZMAXdp I would have at least one of the dual-CPU small form factor PCs right here in front of me. I barely tax my Athlon on a daily basis, though—why would I possibly need a dual-Opteron system? Because it’s the first dual-processor small…
Pack it in, humanity—we’ve been replaced. Behold the robot toddler Cornell, developed by researchers from the university of the same name and sent back in time to kill the people who wrote Terminator 3. Cornell uses what the race-traitors at CU call a ‘passive-dynamic design’ to closely mimic the way humans walk. No shots of…
If you’re going to fight the iPod, you’ve got to have a hook. The Entempo Rubato has a very nifty one (which is good, because its name sounds like a Yngwie Malmsteen album): it can analyze any song on its 20GB and build an instant playlist by using sound analysis to find other, similar songs.…