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Lifehacker Discount travel search Sidestep Email your future self Flickr + Firefox = FlickrFox http://www.lifehacker.com/software/search-engines/index.php#discount-travel-search-sidestep-033045 Kotaku Gamefly Now Renting DS Titles Ballmer: Xbox 2 will Kick Sony’s and Nintendo’s Collective Ass GBA as Digital Car Display http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ds/gamefly-now-renting-ds-titles-033017.php Jalopnik The High-Efficiency Jetcar Brabus-Turned Smart Forfour to Appear in Geneva Another Great Japanese Car Magazine: Garage Life…
You know, if you sign up for Napster-to-Go and don’t realize that your music is going to disappear when you stop paying them money, you’re not a victim of the bloodsucking media barons—you’re a tard. Once, I payed the cable company $50 a month, but then I stopped paying them, and they turned off my…
Despite common cartoon knowledge, it’s actually quite difficult to have new ideas about lightbulbs. That’s why this concept from Mahendra Chauhan and Sanjay Rajput is so surprising—it obviously took twice as much brainpower to conceive it. The idea is simple: put two filaments inside a bulb instead of one. When the first one burns out,…
Space exploration is for suckers and Russians. Understanding this, Robotus have repurposed their would-be Mars bot into a potential high tech guard dog called something like ‘Big Black Rolling Ball’ (they didn’t actually get around to naming it, it would seem). At least the design is hot. At around two feet in diameter and weighing…
Microsoft kicked off day one of the 3GSM World Conference by announcing that a team up with Singapore-based Flextronics to produce a series of cheap, high-spec hand units running Windows Mobile. Called the ‘Peabody’ platform, the phone will be able to do all the old tricks like record video, run Windows Media Player, or erase…
We almost forgot the Motorola E1120, a lovely candybar phone that has a 3-megapixel camera sensor. No optical zoom, of course—no one has the stones to make something that fragile and/or power hungry, it seems—but it does have a 30 Lux lamp (LED, likely), that allows it to illuminate a scene well enough to get…
For the obnoxious prick who has everything this Valentine’s Day, Denki presents the Gigaphone, a pocket-sized megaphone around the size of a cigarette pack and able to project sound a good forty to fifty meters. A microphone headset is included, so you can do that funeral-pleasing ventriloquist humor with the power of a small thunderclap…
Via my email: To Whom It May Concern: As you may know, the Bluetooth SIG owns the Bluetooth Trademarks, including the Bluetooth word mark, the Bluetooth combination mark, and the Bluetooth figure mark. We understand that you are using the marks for reporting purposes, however, we still ask that you use them appropriately. In a…
Motorola has also announced an update to their Euro 3G smartphone, the A1000. The new A1010 keeps the touchscreen, but adds a 2-megapixel camera and support for TransFlash memory cards. In general, it looks like a fairly minor update, but if you’re a fan of Symbian slate-style smartphones, it’s not like you have a lot…
So here it is, the mythical iTunes phone. The Motorola E1060 will be the first Motorola handset to run the mobile Java version of iTunes that will become the default media player for future Motorola handsets. “We’re committed to have iTunes as the default music client, but we’ll also continue to support other music players…
It doesn’t get much hotter than this: a 21-inch LCD flat-panel display with an integrated, touch-sensitive Wacom integrated overlay. The new Cintiq 21UX is shipping in March for just $2,500—really a pretty amazing price, considering what you’re getting.
If international neutrality has a downside, it’s way too much free time. Hence Sonic City, a joint project/potential fashion nightmare from Sweden’s Viktoria Institute and RE:Form group that promises to turn running to catch a bus into your next hit single. Sensors scattered throughout the jacket record ambient sound from the wearer’s environment—be it footsteps,…
While it’s not quite fair to call it part of the RAZR line, the new PEBL V6 is definitely a companion product. Part of the swank is that the stone phone has a dual-hinge that “lets you open the device in one smooth motion.” How smooth that actually ends up being is anyone’s guess, but…
Motorola is releasing a new pair of Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses with Oakley called the RAZRWire. Available in three frame colors (all of which are, sadly, still Oakleys), the RAZRWire will presumably work just like a standard Bluetooth headset, except integrated into the glasses themselves (I wouldn’t expect a lens-mounted display, for instance). Motorola and Oakley confirm…
Everybody pretty well lost it last week over the PDD Helix Prototype with the flipping screen, but this candybar prototype is nice looking, too. Carriers need to pick these guys up as a design firm right now. https://gizmodo.com/pdd-helix-prototype-32727 3GSM – 01 – A Day Full of Phones [Treonauts]
Andrew Carton from Treoanauts is at 3GSM in Cannes, taking pictures of lots of interesting new phones, including this phone from a Korean company called Newgen, which at 45 grams claims to be the world’s lightest 2.5G phone. 3GSM – 01 – A Day Full of Phones [Treonauts]
Product Highlights • Canon EOS 20Da [LivingRoom] Just an update, sans the “hot mirror.” • Nokia intros Series 60 3rd Edition [MobileTracker] • Siemens tests crypto for cell phones [CNet] Business • PC manufacturers want OS X? [ArsTechnica] “I’ll believe it when I see it.” • Verizon, MCI link up in $6.7 billion merger [CNet]…
This DiBoom 5GB Player from Dibon Technology is nice, with an OLED screen, line-in recording, and even an English-Chinese dictionary with 250k words. And for once, a generic player has a nice, unique look, with the red buttons on the remote and red joystick on the main unit definitely popping out (like it or not).…
I’ve heard of women, and they sound awesome. If Mandy Fujiko Amano, the new Pepsi/iTunes promotion girl, is a typical unit of this type, I might cancel my order. She’s pretty, no doubt, and is apparently of a refined pedigree—her father draws comics, for god’s sake—but every time I see her in this commercial I’m…
CNet’s Declan McCullagh breaks it down one time like they used to in 1984, when men were women, and the gradual erosion of anonymity was just an ironically distant rumbling. It seems Congress has endorsed a “standardized, electronically readable driver’s license” initiative that would effectively end up being a Federal-level ID card. That’s bad, I’ve…