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Boy, they weren’t kidding when they said the iPod Photo had a thick back end. Are all the old accessories still going to work? iPod Stuff [ImpressWatch via DAPreview]
Italian grad students have retrofitted a retro Fiat 500 with all sorts of happy-go-nerdy twists, including the ability to unlock the car via text message, as well as personalized greetings each time they climb aboard. It’s got loads of wireless networking, naturally, and even a built-in video projector between the headlights that serves as a…
Is it wrong of me to want all my communications gear to have telescoping metal antennas coming out of the top? I know that’s not very chic these days, but my heart does a little flutter when I see stuff like this NEC N940 phone (the pic in the right top corner). Sadly, it’s not…
IOGear’s new Wireless Bluetooth Mini Mouse has no bundled Bluetooth receiver—if you don’t already have a Bluetooth-equipped computer, you’re out of luck. That’s good as far as I’m concerned, as everyone should have Bluetooth now (or be willing to pay $20 and get a Bluetooth USB dongle) and it’s a waste to keep treating Bluetooth…
The Turtle Beach Noise Canceling Headphones had a pretty steep hill to climb with me right from the start, because I have a middle outer ear that is apparently atypically small, meaning there is nary a set of buds that will stay in my head for more than a few seconds at a time. These…
The Audioshaker is a project by designer Tom Jenkins and programmer Mark Hauenstein which captures and records sounds in a manner not unlike cartoon physics, where a sound can be placed inside, shaken about, then poured out again. Many different noises come out of the urn, using the initial sound as a base to create…
This new crop of tiny projectors are exciting, both because smaller things are better things, and also because they portend cheaper high-quality normal-sized projectors in the future (I’m still waiting for a quality 1024 by 768 pixel unit under $1,000). IBM’s M400 probably isn’t something to consider for a home theater on the cheap—especially since…
DAPreview got their hands on a not-quite-retail version of the Tatung Elio PJ, a color-screen hard disk-based media player that seems slightly better than average—although it’s not without a few faults. The only thing that disappoints me is that the glowing half-sphere with the logo isn’t an actual button, but instead just houses the seven-color…
Looks like Sony is reusing their “TOOL” Playstation 2s as part of their PSP development kits. I guess I never realized how similar Playstation 2 and PSP hardware really is. And I’m just guessing, but is that a UMD emulator that uses DVDs instead of Sony’s proprietary discs? I know some pirates who would kill…
I guess I sort of don’t understand what the big deal is about a $450 ‘videophone’ package, like the ViaVideo II that Polycom is touting today. I mean, it looks nice enough, feature-wise, but it’s still basically just a webcam with some bundled software, right? It’s not as if the internet has gotten that much…
Office Depot has two Casio graphing calculators on clearance, as long as you can pick them up from the store. The fx-9750G lists for $50, but drops to just $14 with in store pickup, with the fx-7400G lists for $40, and can be had for $10. These items will be useful in calculating exactly how…
Canary Wireless’s new Digital Hotspotter looks like a more useful Wi-Fi location device than most, given that it has the ability to detect not only signal strength, but has an LCD read out to detail information like SSID and whether or not the hotspot is open. At $50, it’s not cheap, but if you’re the…
Live digitally has a review of Sony’s Location Free TV—the one that gets its image via Wi-Fi—and it sounds like it’s a pretty dismal product, all around. A short battery life (90 minutes) makes it only so useful to carry around the house, while a good portion of the functionality is either crippled or half-baked.…
Monday October 25th, 2004 PalmOne Treo 650 Announced Sony UK Launches Two New Flash Players MDA Compact Pocket PC Smartphone Sony Ericsson J200 and T290 Sprint to Offer Remote Tracking, Data Deletion What’s In Your Gadget Bag, Scott Wasson? Rock Dock https://gizmodo.com/palmone-treo-650-announced-24079 Tuesday October 26th, 2004 Subtle Safety Ring SwiMP3 Bone-Conducting Swimmers’ Music Player Verizon…
SGI Japan, Daimei Corporation, and IP Techno Service have debuted two varieties of their “Risk Management System” products, which will be released in December. Both use a camera attached to a helmet for video and microphone to record audio, but the difference lies in the output. The “Risk Recorder” can store up to 2 hours…
“No, really. Just hit ‘menu.'” Original Image [NoiseInTheChannel]
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Japanese company Iwatani makes a variety of butane-powered, portable stoves and rice cookers that are quite fine looking, including this single-burner stainless steel model and this not-quite-as-swanky rice cooker. All models feature piezo-electric triggers for easy ignition. Mocoloco has a few more models. I’ve used camp stoves and the like for years, but they were…
I had been swearing up and down that I was going to buy the very first portable Bluetooth keyboard that came out to use with my Nokia and then, well, I sort of didn’t. Mostly I just started carrying about my laptop all the time, which considering I hardly ever leave the house anymore became…
Hawking Technology is preparing to sell a new Wi-Fi finder next week that not only can discern wireless networking signals from other 2.4GHz broadcasts (like Bluetooth), but can also tell which directly they’re coming from. The HWL 1 has a flip-up communicator look to it, and can display the signal strength with five integrated LEDs.…