Pick-Pocket Alarm
Imagine all the theft-stopping power of car alarms, only crammed into your pocket. Of course, the No Touch Alarm Card also comes with everything you hate about car alarms: set to sound off when exposed to any amount of light, it doesn’t distinguish between who pulls your wallet out of your pocket. Of course, there’s…
New Security Camera Can See Through Clothes
Look for applications for airport security guards to skyrocket in the near future: a new technology will allow the wand wavers to see through people’s clothes. It’s to let them see if anyone is carrying a nuclear bomb in their pants, I guess. The process, called passive millimeter-wave technology, currently provides “somewhat fuzzy” grayscale images,…
Voice-Activated R2-D2 Obeys Your Commands, Beats Up the Neighbors
Let’s start our Friday with something sure to put a smile on many of our faces: a voice-activated R2-D2! Yes, now you can own a piece of Sci-Fi movie history in R2-D2, a 15-inch tall robot that obeys simple commands like “turn around” and “move forward.” The little guy responds to 40 commands in all…
Transcend Jetflash V60 USB Flash Drives: Look At All The Colors, Man
USB flash drives are no longer mired in the dull grays thanks to Transcend’s Jetflash V60. The drives are available in four colors, with each color corresponding to a different storage capacity: orange is 512MB, blue is 1GB, red is 2GB and green is 4GB. As is becoming common nowadays, the drives come with basic…
Airplane Toilet IPod Causes Chaos
A poster on the Word of Warcraft forums claims that he accidentally dropped his iPod into the toilet of an airplane on a flight to Canada, and one of the stewardesses found it. This then triggered a series of events that lead to an emergency landing, the passengers being evacuated and him spending several hours…
Asus R2H Officially Unveiled: Final Specs Underwhelming
We’ve spoken of the R2H before but now that’s it’s officially been unveiled, let’s the bubbly fly! Running on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with Touch Pack software and centered around a 7-inch touch screen, the R2H boasts a couple of features that are appreciated, save for the paltry 256MB of RAM built-in. The UMPC…
Logitec Launches Nexas Hard Drives With ASC Cooling
Over in Japan, Logitec just released its Nexas line of external USB 2.0 hard drives that feature what the company calls the “ASC Method” of cooling. The ASC Method senses when the hard drive is getting too hot then flips on a fan in the hopes of preventing some sort of Three Mile Island-like disaster.…