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Keep Burning Man with you wherever you go (without the need for antibiotics) with these $50 electro luminescent wire bikinis and thongs from GloThong. Sure, the two-hour rechargeable battery will have to go somewhere, most likely in between inconspicuous folds of flesh, leaving only a tantalizing mound of mystery behind. Is it a woman with…
Panasonic will be releasing what very well could be the world’s first ceramic kiln that connects to a PC. I say “could be” because I don’t exactly keep up with the latest trends in the cut-throat kiln industry. What business does a kiln have being connected to your PC, anyway? Well, the “Microwave Ceramic Kiln,”…
I had previously though light-up keyboards to be nothing but a gimmick. Probably because they are. A new keyboard from Japanese vendor Century, the “Le Grand Bleu,” has an honest-to-god practical use—the first light-up keyboard whose number pad will light up in response to incoming calls and phones when a cell phone is nearby. While…
We may have gotten back from Japan, but that doesn’t mean the country is now in ruins (I tried, though)—in fact, marketing powerhouse Sony Computer Entertainment continues with pushing the PSP as planned. The latest gimmick in train stations is the installation of an 8 meter (26 foot) PSP, the same one that at the…
The marriage of cellular technology and plain ol’ telephone handsets continues with this new wireless telephone from Uniden. The ELBT595’s handset looks like a clam-shell cellphone and even has built-in Bluetooth so you can use wireless headsets and other compatible Bluetooth gear. And since the system is expandable, each additional unit can communicate using a…
The Cidco MERGE is a docking station for your Motorola cell phone that lets you use your wireless service with any other landline phone in the house. By pressing the # key before making a call, you can opt to route your calls over your cellular service or toggle back to your POTS line as…
Sony is still steaming ahead with its hard disk-based music player plans, presumably refining their product each revision to better compete with Apple’s iPod. The new NW-HD3 player does support MP3 natively, which is a start, but a Reuters story is quoting the price at almost $500 for a 20GB version—five colors or not, no…
Reader Shane Martin postulates that Sony may be running a bit shy of demand with the new slim-line Playstation 2. If you want to get one for Christmas, better snap them up as you see them. I m not sure if this has been brought up yet but it appears that there is a shortage…
Here’s a product announcement more than just a few people have been waiting for, including myself. Sony has finally announced a Network Walkman that actually supports MP3. It’s the NW-HD3, which as far as I can tell, is the exact same thing as the NW-HD1 and NW-HD2 beyond MP3 support. But here’s the kicker; Sony…
If your old ‘convince the grandkids to sit here and crank this handle for three hours’ bucket-style ice cream maker breaks down and you don’t wanna spring for a newfangled electric model, you might be interested in this yo-yo, called the Urawaza Spin Ice. I’m not sure how it stays below freezing, but the up-and-down,…
When I first saw this I was hoping the miniature revers-o-grav antigravity field generator had finally been perfected by Dr. Wiggles in his secret underground laboratory, but unfortunately they’re just using “weightless” as a marketing term. Still, at just over 1 ounce it’s probably the lightest cordless “landline” headset in existence, even with its onboard…
Looks like the TMS600 flash MP3/WMA/ASF player launched recently (and quietly) in the typical 128, 256, and 512MB capacities. Rumored larger capacities (up to 2GB) have not materialized—yet, anyway. They’re currently on Amazon for between $100 and $200. Excluding the flip design, the unit seems pretty vanilla, although it does come with a built-in digital…
Let’s do some quick math together. According to the folks at soundmatters, one box + one wire = six channels of audio for right around $200. How can this be? It’s even less fuss than the 5.1-into-3.1 solutions like Altec Lansing’s GT5051 or the Niro 600—but how does this “simulated Dolby 5.1” sound? Pretty damn…
Product Highlights • MC-1100P Portable Microphone [BIOS] • Freeware ‘My Movies’ Plugin for MCE 2005 [Binnerup] • Siemens X66 coming to Cingular [MobileTracker] • Smell-O-Fone [Mobile-Weblog] Reviews • WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector roundup [Handtops] (When do they start testing logins to show if they are open or not?) • Sony Cybershot DSC-U40 – Digital Camera…
Katie Lee over at Shiny Shiny writes about the new Vodafone VK 530, a tiny clamshell for use on Master Voda’s ‘pay as you talk’ prepaid networks. It’s got a camera and all that, but hold onto your favorite sweater: it comes in pink and purple. Yup, that’s it. Small and pink. Gimme. VK 530…
Okay, I’ve got to mention all this ‘Windows on Treo for Dell’ stuff, I guess, because everybody keeps sending it in. My take? I’ll believe it when I see it. What makes the Treo a good phone isn’t just the Palm operating system, but its integration with the user experience of the hardware combined. Although…
The new LG-KP3800 clamshell handset from LG is pretty typically fancy, with a 1.3-megapixel camera and dual speakers, but the most interesting bit is definitely its ability to do Object Character Recognition (OCR). By just snapping a picture of a business card the phone will parse out pertinent data like names and phone numbers to…
It looks like Nintendo is definitely going to win the sales numbers battle in the DS versus PSP war, simply because Sony isn’t going to have enough units to meet demand in Japan. According to this story on IDG, Sony plans to have only 500k units shipping in Japan before year’s end, compared to Nintendo’s…
I think this idea is doomed to failure: instead of using standard 12cm DVDs, this new Player from CyberHome Entertainment only plays back 8cm ‘mini DVDs.’ While the price is right—just a skotch over $100—I don’t see the least bit of reason to buy something that won’t play full size discs when full size players…
3Yen has shots of the recently-released Sony Ericsson Premini-S, the latest in the ultra-small Premini line. It actually looks a little big to me compared to the other phones in the line-up, but perhaps a little more pocket-ready, too. I was surprised how relatively large the phones in Japan were—only the Premini line was shockingly…