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Here’s the iPod U2 Edition. It’s black. Somebody punched it. God damn Irish. Update: The U2 Box Set is not included with this 20GB iPod. Check it out: Apple has created the online music industry s first-of-its-kind Digital Box Set. The first digital box set, The Complete U2, will contain over 400 tracks including all…
It lives: iPod Photo. Back in a minute with details. Lots of tasty details in this post, if you’re coming in from a direct link.
Announced back in September, it looks like you can now purchase the Zipit Wi-Fi-powered messenger at your favorite retail outlet for around $100. Teens are the target here, but when I was a spry youth haunting the hallways of Generic Suburban High School, this kind of thing would have been banned faster than overalls with…
Hot, hot rumor that is unconfirmed. The Apple Store is down and we’ve just received word from technology analyst Brian Blair that the new color iPods are launching today, capable of holding 25,000 photos. Update: We’re hearing a a 60GB color version for $600 and a 40GB version for $500. Also, the U2-edition iPod will…
That portable XM radio is here: the Delphi XM MyFi, a $350 portable designed to be used when either out and about or in your car. Notable features include an entirely-internal antenna, a “Memory Mode” than can store up to 5 hours of content right on the device (flash or hard drive, I’m not sure;…
Samsung is teaming up with wrap-dress maven Diane von Furstenburg to develop yet another line of ‘fashionable’ products, starting with this sort of wretched limited-edition DVF Mobile phone. While the clamshell has all the usual bits, its most unique feature is an accessory called the “CityBand,” which allows lip gloss, credit card, and phone to…
Motorola just sent out a spam that said “Be the first to get one. The Moto Razr V3 is coming soon!” Motorola’s customer service reps have confirmed that the (for now) exclusive Cingular phone should be in stores, like, now. Has anyone actually seen them in Cingular yet? It’s not on their site. Related Razr…
200 mile per hour electric car? We’re okay with that. AC Propulsion’s tZero is an electron-powered supercar, whirring up from zero to 60 in just 3.6 seconds. Unfortunately, because our battery technology still sort of sucks, it only has a 300 mile range—probably way less when you’re pedal to the plastic. On the upside, it’s…
Product Highlights • PalmOne Tungsten T5 In Stock in UK [PDA247] • Gas-Powered Blender [GadgetryBlog] • PalmOne Issues Bug Fix For T5 Calendar Glitch [PocketFactory] • RoboNexus Robotics Show Report [EverydayRobots] • House-Bots Becoming a Reality [eHomeUpgrade] • SanDisk announces higher capacities of digital media [MacMinute] (Again) Business • Intel drops LCOS TV idea [TheInquirer]…
John C. Dvorak, you old crusty battleship, it’s time to head back to port for decommissioning. His latest wobbling shot is fired across the bow of Podcasting, the RSS and MP3 combo that lots of people are using to broadcast music and talk shows to portable audio device—not just iPods, as Dvorak blubbers. Not only…
If you scroll down to the bottom of this short writeup on MoCoLoco (which focuses on a dot matrix clock also by Japanese designers) you will notice something that looks vaguely like a Power Macintosh, except wood. It’s composed largely of birch and walnut (and not CherryOS oh ho ho) and designed by Masato Tokuno,…
Since the Powerbook is notoriously a hot-running machine, I thought I’d try out The Lapintor, the painfully-named laptop heat shield made from foam and Thinsulate, designed to not only keep your legs from getting too warm when using your machine, but keep the machine running cooler overall, as well. At $25, it really wouldn’t have…
We are go for juggernaut. The Powell-run FCC has approved the 41 billion dollar Cingular bid for AT&T Wireless. There are lots of repercussions from this decision, most of which I am too retarded to understand, I’m sure, but here’s an immediate one that springs to mind: what’s going to happen to the EDGE and…
It probably won’t do much for you unless you’re an attorney or a journalist, but LexisNexis has announced the availability of its information super-database via BlackBerry wireless devices. Even better, if you’ve already payed the arm and leg for the Lexis account, you can access the information for free—no additional subscription fee required. Of course,…
We’ve gotten pretty slack around these parts with our reviews. We’re not a review site, exactly, but I think it’s important for us to be familiar with a wide range of products so we can speak with some authority about what we like and what we don’t instead of extrapolating from regurgitated press releases all…
This Aaton Cantar-X portable field recorder is so beautiful I don’t know what to say, exactly. I think I want it inside of me. The ruggedized recorder is built around a 120GB hard drive with an 10 to 15 hour battery life, 18 simultaneous inputs, water- and dust-proof linear sliders and rotary faders designed to…
If I had to make a wish list of must-have features for my next phone, it would include a camera of at least 1-megapixel, Bluetooth, and a web browser. Motorola’s V710 delivers on all these feature requests, and adds other desirables as well—MP3 support comes to mind—that I wouldn’t necessarily consider must-have, but that do…
Take a few polystyrene balls and some PETG plastic, wrap it around a light, and call it art—that’s the recipe that makes the little, fluffy cloud called “Nimbus,” from Mosley Meets Wilcox design haus (I don’t know if they’re technically a ‘haus,’ but it’s better than ‘design hoss,’ I think). And this is the kind…
The first thing I look for when I see a product like this JVC DLA-HD2K is the price, because then I can estimate exactly how long the product reps will laugh in my face when I request a review unit. And let me tell you, an MSRP just short of $30,000 is a lot of…
The next time Verizon or Sprint cripples some phone’s Bluetooth implementation or locks you into some crazy two-year contract, take a look at this rechargeable SIM card vending machine in Tsim Sha Shui, Hong Kong, and ask yourself why we aren’t using a system where switching carriers is as easy as putting $13 in to…