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They’re not rocket skates (curses), but these MotoSk8 motorized rollerblades are sure to motov8 that ass down the sidewalk at speeds up to 25mph, thanks to a 22.5cc, 2-stroke combustion engine running on plain ol’ unleaded gasoline. The motor looks for like something off a weed-whacker, but I’d be a lot more worried about whacking…
BT redcare, who according to their web site are the world leader in remote monitoring and management information services (not the Psychic CPAs?!) have just announced a new remote monitoring and management service; this one for your car. Not content to monitor every streetcorner, vending machine, cold storage warehouse, and many private homes in the…
Here’s the Nintendo DS retail box. You’ll notice it has a picture of the DS and a picture of Samus and the Nintendo logo and also, if you look toward the corners, corners. I got nothing, but people keep sending it in, so there you go. Also to our learning-disabled pre-teen readers: this should be…
Italian phone site Cellularmania has pictures of a new Samsung slider they’re calling the SGH-D500e – I have no idea where they get that from – also known by the code name “Corona.” It’s got all the usual good stuff from a modern Euro non-smartphone, including Bluetooth and a 1.3-megapixel camera. It also rides a…
Home Theater Blog takes out the Home Theater Master MX-3000, a $1,000 color LCD remote that competes with the Philips Pronto system, among others (its programming software even imports the Pronto’s .ccf files). Unsurprisingly, the reviewer is pretty captivated by it – these things appeal to the tinkerer nature of home theater dorks like nothing…
Ever wonder what all those famous important people were actually using their Sidekicks to say? Brother-in-smarms Defamer used the amazing technology of making things up to expose hot IM chat between a certain ultramammed star of Herbie: Fully Loaded and her cut-rate Ricky Ricardo boyfriend. Features boobs and talk of boobs – did I mention…
Logitech has a new set of 5.1 PC speakers that push out 505-watts of THX-certified vibration. The Z-5500 is your standard PC speaker concept – powered subwoofer connecting to a bunch of satellite speakers, a setup that lets you forgo a receiver (for better and for worse) to plug them up directly to your PC…
Whoever decided to put morning right at the beginning of the day was an idiot. Fortunately for me there was some good news with my coffee, including word from MobileTracker that the Motorola A630 has shown up for pre-purchase on Amazon, meaning you should expect to see it everywhere soon. After all the hyped up…
Nevermind that feline-inspired monitor we reported on a couple weeks ago; IT Japan’s new “FrienZoo” line of all-in-one desktops is the cat’s meow. Clearly aimed for use in elementary schools and nurseries, the lineup consisting of 10 different animals is intended to give off an image of “a friend” to children. That’s until your friend…
Panasonic has announced their newest “Letsnote R3” notebook will be available in a total of 14 colors, online. Featuring your favorite shades such as “Glassy Black,” “Peach Blossom,” and even world-renowned “Cocoa Brown,” surely something here will suit your tastes. On the inside, you’ll unfortunately find your standard notebook PC. But wait a minute –…
IO Data Device has a new RAID1 solution for those of you interested in data mirroring. If you’re wondering what “RAID” is, it’s not the stuff that causes roaches to explode; RAID1 describes data mirroring across two drives. The advantage to RAID1 is that you get redundancy, increasing reliability. The disadvantage, of course, is that…
There are like two or three dozen pictures of a new Sprint Treo 650 over on TreoCentral, although most of them make the new smartphone look like a melty creature because the photographer got entirely too close to his subject. Still, there’s some good stuff to be picked out, like the fact that the 650…
For the rest of my life, no matter if Gizmodo is as good as it gets, I’ll always have my creamy peach skin and my beautiful blue eyes – plus I’ll be able to look back and say, “Nintendo sent me bongo drums.” I told them I don’t review video games, but they convinced me…
So my buddy Matt Gallant – who should really start a weblog of his own – was telling me about this new mobile phone game that got a great review on Gamespot, and I bet my reaction was about the same as yours: good game… phone? But yeah, apparently the new Might & Magic game…
It seems that when most people think of virtual reality games, they envision some schmuck in clunky headgear “running” through a Quake-style world shooting at monsters and having sex with cartoons. It’s hard to blame them; We’ve all seen this style of VR at various theme parks and shopping malls (maybe the sex with cartoons…
This new Sharp Actius PC-AL27 is weird. They’re billing it as a desktop replacement machine, and I’ll grant them that putting an AMD Athlon 64 2700+ (Mobile version) and 512MB of PC2700 RAM is a good start, but then they inexplicably shackle it with an S3 Graphics video chipset which renders it unsuitable for serious…
French auto maker Venturi should get a healthy round of applause when it shows off its 245-horsepower “Fetish” sports car in January. Not because it’s super-powerful – although it’s quick enough, with a 4.3-second 0-to-60 time – but because it’s the world’s first production sports car to be powered by electricity. Of course, when it…
Product Highlights • THQ Brings Old School Arcade Games to Mobiles [MobileMag] • PalmOne to launch ‘big RAM’ Tungsten next week [TheRegister] • 3DMark 2005 Released [Blues] • Tropos Unveils Wi-Fi Mesh Node For Vehicles [TechWeb] • Blackberry gets Bluetooth with 7290 [Pocket-Lint] Business • Nintendo stock price rockets [Gamespot] • Open Letter to Steve…
Wow. What else can be said? This waste collection contraption may be but a prototype, but I smell a huge potential market. Designers take note: add a swing tray for laptops, and maybe speakers in the headrest for the next revision, and my gut instinct says this could make a huge splash. I question the…
Pocket-Lint’s Gizmo Girl reviews the Motorola E398, a mobile phone whose main claim to fame is its built-in stereo speakers. The short answer? Ms. Davies found the E398’s sonic capabilities more than ample, with extremely loud volume and decent tone (considering), but a wonky control stick and an iffy battery life make it less than…