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I’m about to get a bike—I’ve lived in this city far too long without one, and if things go to plan I might be able to ditch my car (or have an excuse to get that supercharger). One thing I’ve been sketched on, though, is the almost-certain death that biking in NYC seems to lead…
Product Highlights • eBay via WAP (I had no idea.) [eBay] • Use Hotmail as Remote Drive (a la GmailFS) [RoamDrive] • Top 100 Pictures and Word Aggregate in Postcard Form [TenByTen] • Human-powered Kitchen Appliances [WMMNA] • Hough Waves Prints: math as art [HoughNO] • FoxyTunes: Control your music from Firefox [FoxyTunes] (Very slick.…
AOL is selling their own branded PC for $300 for customers who sign up for a year of service with the ISP. Although GearLive is sort of down on the whole thing, I’m basically okay with it. A 2GHz Celeron isn’t exactly a beast, but it’ll handle most newbie users’ needs, and with a bundled…
I don’t know who is screwing up the Razr launch: it sounds to me like it is something with Motorola themselves, not the carriers, as Australian reader Pat Cahill had problems getting one from Moto down under but was able to walk right into an OptusWorld store and get one off the shelf. And like…
It’s in Danish, but it’s still useful even if you don’t speak the language: Sprites.DK has a database of a few dozen phones from a variety of manufacturers, with examples of pictures taken with each phone’s camera. It’s a pretty handy way to compare cameraphone quality (as long as that phone is available in Denmark,…
Reader Jay Are points out this off-brand portable media player called the E-Zipy MP20 which actually looks pretty hot, despite its sort of trashy form-factor. A 7-inch screen covers a 30GB hard drive which stores all the normal PMP content like MPEG-4, DivX—those old familiar formats. But the best part (to me) is that it…
MacSkinz has a limited-edition series of stickets for 3rd and 4th Generation iPods, most of which are sort of awesome, especially the Disney-esque rabbits and the ‘Marilyn Monroe as Bettie Page as a Playboy Bunny’ designs. It’s possible, of course, that I just like little hoppity rabbitses. Each of the designs are limited to a…
I woke up in the middle of night, looked at my watch which I swore said 9:30, jumped up in a freak out and got ready to write an apologetic post to you all. It wasn’t 9:30, though, but 2-something, so I took off my watch and went back to sleep (not wanting to have…
Trusted Reviews has a glowing review of Motorola’s not-quite-to-market HS850 Bluetooth headset, which they report to have a great battery life, great sound quality, an extremely comfortable fit, and a really smart design which keeps the headset powered-down until you flip out the boom microphone, which causes the headset to pair back up with your…
A couple of editors from iPodLounge went to the product launch for Oakley’s Thump MP3 sunglasses and came away fairly impressed, saying the sound quality and the fit were both very nice. I personally cringe every time I see them—people wearing them look like a cover of a bad 3DO game—and I cringe doubly when…
Denon has a new flagship DVD player that uses a new video chipset that is purported to give an EB-rating * to regular DVD output that is off the chart. The DVD-5910 is an update to the 5900 that will include DVD-Audio, SACD, WMV-HD formats (and maybe even HD-DVD) and will cost a hefty $2000-2500.…
A hermit was recently discovered squatting on Department of Defense land just a few hundred yards from the famed Los Alamos research labs. Roy Michael Moore, or ‘Mike,’ came to Los Alamos four years ago to work on his own personal theories of space and time, and then presumably to present those ideas to the…
Catherine writes: I just launched a new online shop with lots of handcrafted iPod cozies for sale, and thought you might like to post about them. These limited-edition cozies, one of which was recently featured in a Teen Vogue spread on iPod cases, are heavier on the fashion than function, but oh the fashion! I’ll…
Good golly, internet friends. You send a lot of email. I expect it will take all day just to catch up with the juicy bits sent in over the weekend, so we might as well get started. For the record, though, Boston is a nice town, but entirely too clean. I almost felt bad heaving…
Overclockers Australia has a review up of Zensonic’s Z710 wireless headphones, priced around 90 Australian dollars. My currency converter got all gummed up with Vegemite when I tried to do the calculation, but off the top of my head I figure that’s under $70 US, which doesn’t seem too bad considering the review is mostly…
The iAudio U2 comes to us from South Korea, representing the fourth generation of digital audio players sold under the iAudio name. As we’ve mentioned before, the U2 comes in three capacities (256MB, 512MB, and 1GB) and a multitude of colors. Looking at the promotional photos gives a pretty good impression of just how small…
Monday November 1st, 2004 Canary Wireless Hotspotter PSP Development Kit Audio Shaker NEC N940 and N840 iPod Photo Is Plump Fighting Crime Sans Wires: AlertBox AT&T/Cingular Confirms Treo 650 PMDs: Big Drives, Small Size Samsung Digimax A6 https://gizmodo.com/canary-wireless-hotspotter-24589 Tuesday November 2nd, 2004 Wireless Weather Forecaster Nokia 7710 Pictures Nokia 3230 and Nokia 6020 Cingular Pulls…
Remember the Voltaic Backpack we were drooling over back in September? The one with a Lithium Ion battery pack charged via solar power which you can use to charge up your happy little collection of portable electronic devices? Well, it’s scheduled to start shipping at the end of this month, and you can preorder them…
Just saw this little tidbit from yesterday and thought it was worth mentioning, although there’s very little in the way of details. The gist (actually, the whole of the information available) is that Pioneer and TDK are collectively developing a DVD-R capable of burning a disc in two seconds. Two seconds. Mommy? Movie Pirate Dream…
Ok, so the speakers on the pictured shirt don’t actually make any noise—consider it artistic license. But shirts which do make noise may not be too far off, thanks in no small part to our Japanese friends, who have developed a method for weaving copper wire and magnets into cloth and apparently intend to bring…