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I can t tell you how many times the pimply-faced teenage me wished I had something like this Cyclops Camera Car for covert ops like investigating the girls locker room. If nothing else, I could have been a more popular guy with my more athletic gym terrorpuppets classmates, as we huddled around the controller and…
I have a feeling you aren’t quite sick of looking at videos from the Tokyo Game Show, especially if they include more footage of the new Playstation, PSP, and neverending lines of bouncing, beret-bearing booth babes. Sony has that same feeling, it would seem, with a whole mess of streaming videos for your perusal. Seriously,…
The YP-T6, unveiled in Korea this week, follows Samsung s YP-ST5 as yet another “world’s smallest” tiny form-factor flash player with USB 2.0 support. It comes in similar capacities (128 MB, 256 MB, 1 GB) and supports MP3, OGG, WMA, and ASF. Bored yet? The snazziest feature, aside from its teeny-tiny size, is its ability…
Free iPods for everybody! Or at least discounted! We’ve gotten heads up from readers about a couple of new ways to get your hand on an iPod mini; one for free, one for $150. J&R (and maybe other retailers) is running a promotion where a one-year subscription to audiobooks vendor Audible.com ($15 a month) gets…
It isn t called HypoSpray, but the SonoPrep is a similar means to an identical end: painless injections. After 20 years of research and development, Prof. Joseph Krost of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel (there is a beer-by-injection joke in there somewhere) has developed the device which applies ultrasonic waves to a small area of…
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You know when you pick up a toad and it sort of wets itself all over you? I can’t help but thinking that’s sort of like what a smoke screen for tanks would be like – a pointless last-ditch attempt that would only serve to sort of embarrass everyone involved. No matter what these people…
A Mexican limo company has converted a Boeing 727 airliner into an 18-meter, 50-person limousine powered by a 6-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine. They’ve thrown out the cramped quarters to include a bar, a dancefloor, a lounge, and even a “romantic space” in the back (romance is near the engines, it seems). For just $1,500, the…
If you don’t want to shell out the $20 for the new Griffin iBeam flashlight (and laser pointer) accessory for the iPod, you can always shell out $20 for parts (fine, a little less) and build your own using this German fellow’s design. It won’t be all white and shiny like a Griffin one, though,…
You know a new television is starting out on the right foot when its manufacturer shows a picture of its mainboard on its product page. The Toshiba Meta Brain is an 37-inch LCD television that bridges the space between dumb display device and home media PC, with dual Ethernet, FireWire, and USB ports that allow…
Epson joins the personal video club with the P-2000 Photo Fine Player, a 40GB PMP that focuses primarily on photos – for a while I wasn’t sure it played anything else – but also manages to play back MPEG4, MP3, and even AAC. The P-2000 has on-board CF and SD card slots and USB Direct…
Wired News points out a growing issue troubling political polling groups like Zogby and Gallup: they don’t call people on cell phones. That might sound like a positive thing at first, but consider the number of people who use only mobile phones and don’t have a land line (about 3% of Americans at the moment).…
I have a funny feeling that wearing a silver stop sign around your necks to listen to music isn’t anybody’s idea of a good time (as usual, we are exempting RUN D.M.C.). Then again, I don’t know too many people here in the States who are really into these pendant flash memory MP3 players like…
Hitachi Labs has developed a new LCD technology that I’ll just go ahead and call “LCD force feedback.” Using a touch-sensitive screen, the entire LCD panel will “push” inwards 1 or 2 millimeters in response to touching certain regions of the screen. And by “certain regions” I mean buttons. I could think of some other…
Wacom, pretty well known for their desktop-based tablet input solutions, appears to be branching out into other fields. The “W8002” IC is a chip to be inserted in mobile phones to add pen-based input capabilities to the screen. The sensor is apparently embedded behind the screen, enabling it to still keep “100 percent luminous light…
Canon is pulling a mystery product announcement on us, and putting up nothing but a silly Flash animation and a vague phrase. Here’s a picture of what Canon has dubbed “a next generation printer.” I basically drew a blank about what could be “next generation” in terms of printers, but hopefully Canon’s got something up…
I’m having a hard time deciding what it is that suprises me more about this announcement – the fact that it’s about a tape player, or the fact that it’s a new tape player that costs about $80 USD. I didn’t even know they made these things anymore, much less continue to try and innovate…
Lots of people have been looking forward to Alpine’s KCA-420i iPod interface unit for the Ai-NET head units (which is to say, a nice way to hook up an iPod to your Alpine car stereo). Playlist Magazine got a hold of review unit and took it out for a spin, but I can’t say I’m…
So about that HP iPod contest we’re running – I’ve got good news and better news. The good news is that everyone who has entered so far is going to get a free entry into the contest, even if you flubbed a question or two, because I sort of screwed up one of the questions.…
Did you know the new, smaller Playstation 2 was top-loading? No, I didn’t either. Rumor Control: The top-loading, no-HDD, neo-PS2 [GameSpot]