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Justin Frankel of Winamp and Gnutella (and Waste, sheesh!) fame has a new project—and it could be his most wicked yet. The Jesusonic CrusFX 1000 is a prototype effects processor for musicians, designed to run the text-based Jesusonic software (available for download on the Jesusonic website). Each button on the prototype triggers a different, linking…
Freecom has upgraded their strangely appealing USB Card Pro to a 1GB model. The USB Card is a magnesium alloy flash memory drive with a pop-out bit to connect to PCs—the idea being that it’s easier to carry in a wallet than a standard thumbdrive. Whether or not that’s worth the price premium to you…
Finally, a company goes and creates a decent “external hard drive that doubles as a media player,” and it happens to be Japan-only. Typical. The Japanese firm “Logitec” is not to be mistaken for the American Swiss “Logitech,” but that’s not important. They have this new external hard drive available called the “dvdjuke Pod” in…
I’ve had a prototype Voltaic Solar Backpack for the better part of two months now and I’m ready to call it an only slightly-qualified success. It’s not going to be for everyone, simply because not everyone has the need to drop $230+ on a backpack. That being said, if you’ve got a hankering for gadgets…
Remember Diamonds Are Forever? The 1971 Sean Connery comeback as 007 after we were collectively tortured by George Lazenby’s ineffectual performance in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service? The film made into an object of ire in Wichita by the line, “Well, if we blow up Kansas the world may not hear about it for years?”…
Nintendo had planned to have a million DS handhelds on, uh, hand for their December launch but now they’re pulling out all the stops to double that amount due to unexpectedly high pre-orders for the gaming device. They’ve brought a third factory online, in fact, to try to ramp up production over the next couple…
Ouch! It looks like that Skype USB adapter (the Gigaset M34) that would let owners of Siemens cordless phones use Skype voice-over-IP instead of their traditional long distance service isn’t coming to the US after all. Om Malik gave them a ring to ask for a review unit and was told there aren’t any plans…
Looks like the T-Mobile is offering the Samsung P735 now. Another megapixel camera phone plus MP3 player, kinda like Motorola’s promising-but-mediocre v710, except double the onboard RAM (yay!), RS-MMC instead of TransFlash (yay?), and IR instead of Bluetooth (bleh). It also swivels and flips rather than just flipping, which is fun to idly play around…
PCMag today reviews the Maxx Home MiniWoofer, a small $150 sorta-subwoofer utilizing Waves’ MaxxBass DSP, which you can also find as a plugin for your favorite audio editing software or as a standalone signal processor. The MiniWoofer can’t compete with the real deal subs many people have attached to their PC or home theatre systems,…
In preparation of their December launch, Sony has placed four working PSPs inside Shinjuku station—the busiest train stop in Tokyo. Each of the four units are behind plexiglass and are guarded by three men who encourage passers-by to keep a respectable 20-centimeter distance. Two million commuters pass through the station each day, they say. It…
The 686 Tool Belt isn’t for me—the only snowboard I’ve ever used is a mirror. But if you don’t pay for your snow-covered slopes by the hour, the integrated Philips and flat-head screwdrivers would be very useful for tightening up loose bindings, and the built-in bottle cap opener would be perfect for busting caps on…
Maybe some of you will care less about these new Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Servers, but there was a time when I was working as the World’s Worst Systems Administrator, and we had a bunch of Dell hardware around. It was surprisingly good, too—a definite cut above their consumer gear—and I’ve been looking forward to…
The Montego Portable Media Player looks sort of hot—and by ‘looks’ I mean ‘is ugly but is full of features.’ The default model has a 20GB hard drive, but you can upgrade up to an 80GB version—not a bad idea considering the Montego can play not only music but MPEG4 video. Even better, it has…
$110 teflon pants better be pretty amazing, especially if they’re khakis. The Scott eVest Hidden Cargo Pants aren’t quite perfect, but according to Pocket Now’s review, they almost justify the price. 12 hidden pockets make carrying around lots of gear pretty easy—especially since each pocket is sewn to keep bulges to a minimum (sort of…
While it’s designed for those paralyzed with spinal cord injuries, this tricycle has a bright future as a weight loss device (says me). The idea is twelve types of awesome: by strapping up bum legs to a device that sends electrical pulses, the rider can force them to fire and power the bike—even if they…
Everybody thinks Apple is planning to release a flash memory-based version of the iPod in January, it seems. The newest buzz is that Apple is skipping the Christmas season to instead queue up 2 million of the devices so that there won’t be the sort of launch shortages the iPod mini had—something that is great…
If you’ve got $200 burning a hole in your daddy’s credit card, the plaid lads of Burberry are selling two new iPod cases at each of their 5 US stores. It’s really not even a whole plaid, though, really, but instead a zoomed up implied plaid. Maybe for $400 they’ll give you a pattern that…
Not content to co-brand advertisements all over the packaging of our food products, Pringles is launching a new method which lets them print graphics and text right on the potato chips themselves. It looks like the first wave of ‘Pringles Prints’ are from The Incredibles, but the company plans to release new colors and designs…
So I don’t really care about the new Citroen C4 coupe, but apparently the commercials for the new car have it transforming into a dancing robot, which cuts to molten center of what I do care about. The problem is, while I can find pictures of the commercial and stories about it, I can’t find…
It looks like Motorola is pulling the MPX 220 from Best Buy (and presumably other stores) to fix a glitch with the ear-piece speaker. Apparently quite a few customers have been returning the phone with complaints of low volume. Fortunately, it looks like Motorola can tweak it with just a reflash, so all the models…