Friday, June 15, 2007

Interesting Stuff

Addy and Jesus
6/15/2007 9:13:57 AM
TrustedReviews (with that name, you know you must trust them) just tested one of those mythical Solid State Drives that everybody announces but nobody actually seems to get. This 32GB Samsung SSD has...
tempamatic
6/15/2007 8:52:36 AM
Gold Man promises to turn your ordinary toilet into a urinal. When it's time to pee, just place the Gold Man on the toilet, and there you have it, a big porthole for your piss that supposedly keeps...
tempamatic
6/15/2007 8:30:08 AM
Lutron just rolled out its Skylark EcoDim light switch, helping you save 10% of the energy used on lighting, and the best news is that you won't even notice the difference. This dimmer is...
tempamatic
6/15/2007 7:57:39 AM
FoneGear has shrunk its Mini Blu Bluetooth headset, making it even smaller and lighter, and now it's called the Mini Blu II that'll be shipping in September. No question about it, this is one of the...
tempamatic
6/15/2007 7:18:44 AM
Okay, okay, we've given you plenty of stories about the latest movie-downloadin' Archos Wi-Fi portable media players, but finally we snagged some official press photos of the Archos 605 Wi-Fi...
Addy and Jesus
6/15/2007 5:47:53 AM
After yesterday's slew of phones, watches, etc, here are a few more gewgaws from the Sony Ericsson stable. First up is the MDS-65 music stand, which turns all of SE's current cell phone models into a...
Addy and Jesus
6/15/2007 4:39:05 AM
For some reason, when I read "FBI Tries to Fight Zombie Hordes" this morning I really got excited. The idea of an FBI squad hunting smelly, vicious and utterly stupid brain-dead slobs has a certain...
Brian Lam
6/14/2007 8:26:52 PM
Like most great ideas, the concept behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. But the hardware behind it all wasn't so easy to make, so Justin called up a friend, Kyle Vogt, to...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 7:00:50 PM
Following up on the soft Transformers plushies from the other day, these Autobot and Decepticon pillows brings the movie straight to your couch. They're shaped like the actual Autobot/Decepticon...
adam frucci
6/14/2007 6:30:00 PM
newVideoPlayer("noise_gawker.flv", 475, 376);NY Times badass David Pogue took a look at noise-canceling headphones, looking for a pair that can match the quality of Bose's QuietComfort 3's without...
Addy and Jesus
6/14/2007 6:00:43 PM
It's confirmed: the Queen loves the Web. Her Majesty has just awarded the Order of Merit to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW. That's the most exclusive club in Britain, chaps. It's limited...
Brian Lam
6/14/2007 5:33:57 PM
Here's a deeper look at the Walkman phone line's latest high end model, the W960, most notable for its generous and 8GB of storage, WiFi, 3.2 MP cam, and a 320 x 240 pixel touch screen that can be...
Addy and Jesus
6/14/2007 5:30:45 PM
Yes, they did it again. Danish pals, clown number and technology re-packers Bang & Olufsen want to sell you another Samsung LCD panel in a nice box: the BeoVision 7. Nothing wrong with that. Their...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 5:15:21 PM
Curious Windows users wondering whether the grass is greener, or fed up IE/Firefox users looking for an out? Either way, another cold glass of ice water, indeed. – Jason Chen Press Release...
tempamatic
6/14/2007 5:06:56 PM
We told you about the Archos 605 Wi-Fi portable media player in a bunch of Frenchie news leaks and video, but here's the real and official word on the Archos 105, 405, 605 and 705, plus the all-new...
adam frucci
6/14/2007 4:46:38 PM
Why go through the work of tilting your head back and looking up to see the stars when you can get a cellphone strap that'll show you a tiny version of the cosmos? Bam, here's the Homestar...
Wilson Rothman
6/14/2007 4:20:57 PM
Archos is one of those companies that is known better for its technology than its army of rabid fans. It had a hard-drive-based music player before the iPod, and it had one of the first, if not the...
Addy and Jesus
6/14/2007 4:00:43 PM
Archos has also jumped into the personal-video-recorder-streaming-box-Internet-TV-thing-a-mathon bandwagon. Their TV Plus works on its own, connected to the Internet using Wi-Fi or Ethernet, as well...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 4:00:15 PM
Feel like doing it yourself? Fleshbot points us to a tutorial on how to build yourself a "realistic" sex doll out of spare parts you have lying around. We're not sure how many of us have mannequin...
adam frucci
6/14/2007 3:23:23 PM
In addition to the US Walkman phones that Sony Ericsson dropped today, there were also a couple goodies for our friends overseas. The K530 is a 3G cameraphone that works in tandem with the HGE-100...
Addy and Jesus
6/14/2007 3:21:33 PM
Those cool froggies at Le Journal du Geek got their le hands over le Archos 405 and le Archos 605. They look sweet and quite small for their features, but from here the interface looks like the usual...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 3:00:09 PM
Hiptop3 did some digging around on whois databases and discovered three new domains registered by T-Mobile. They are, in random order, sidekicklx.com, sidekickle.com, and sidekickslide.com....
Addy and Jesus
6/14/2007 2:36:24 PM
Archos has just announced their Generation 5, their new line of multimedia players. We will get a hands-on later today, but the 605 Wi-Fi has been posted on their site. Although it looks very similar...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 2:30:31 PM
Set to be revealed at SEK in Korea, the iRiver M10 and D5 both have a glossy black look found in other players like the iRiver Clix 2 (but not in the MPlayer). The M10 will be a navigation-centric...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 2:00:38 PM
This deal between DirectTV, EchoStar (DISH's parent), and Clearwire (a WiMAX service provider) seems to be the first big solid WiMAX push in the US, if everything goes to plan. In the agreement two...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 1:45:45 PM
These cardboard box chairs are priced entirely wrong for the market that's going to buy it. Each soft, sittable box costs $465, which means your entire dorm floor will have to pitch in just to buy...
adam frucci
6/14/2007 1:30:00 PM
It's official: LOL___ are this year's All Your Base. Enjoy it while it lasts, this crap will be driving you insane any day now, if it doesn't already. –Adam Frucci LOL BOTS [Unnngh]
adam frucci
6/14/2007 1:15:00 PM
Note to gadget designers: Wrap your next product in leather, write something in a fake language on it, call it steampunk, and nerds will pay twice as much for it. We're in the middle of some sort of...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 1:14:20 PM
Sony Ericsson's partnering up with Gracenote to provide an even better TrackID-like service called Mobile Music 2.0. Available on the Sony Ericsson W910 and K850 (both shipping Q4 2007), Mobile Music...
tempamatic
6/14/2007 1:00:00 PM
We got a quick hands-on with Sony Ericsson's latest Cyber-shot camera phone, and it's a sweet 5-megapixel camera shoehorned inside a great-looking little cellphone. It's the K850 and it has a...
tempamatic
6/14/2007 1:00:00 PM
Sony Ericsson first revealed its MBW-150 Bluetooth watch this morning, with Sony insides and design by watchmaker Fossil. It lets you control your Bluetooth-compatible cellphone or music player from...
Mark Wilson
6/14/2007 12:30:57 PM
Today's bracket battle is between the Kensington SX3000R ($169.99) and the Altec Lansing iM600 ($149.99). Two docks. Two grudges. Two legit to quit. So who will win the battle? The iM600. Oops....
Addy and Jesus
6/14/2007 12:30:01 PM
Yes, unless this is one incredible Photoshop job, someone is already toting an iPhone around and his name is not Walter Mossberg. We know little about this except that the shot was snapped aboard the...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 12:30:00 PM
This week at Uncrate: We straighten our drives with the Callaway FT-i Driver, learn to kick ass at thumb wrestling with The Way of the Thumb, and rock out to Boxer by The National. We also find our...
6/14/2007 12:15:38 PM
By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch What first seems to be a field of rectangular tombstones turns out to be a field of Zunes, tiered upwards like stadium seats. One of the players flickers to life,...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 12:10:45 PM
If we're going to look inside our ears, we prefer something like the Ear Scope GXL. Unlike this Thanko USB Ear Scope, there's a pick on the end of it so you can scrape out earwax. This Thanko one? It...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 12:09:22 PM
Those of you who downloaded the the Windows Safari 3.0 beta earlier this week should head on over to the download site and grab the new 3.0.1. Or even easier, just use the auto-updater included with...
Jason Chen
6/14/2007 11:50:40 AM
Incapable of making a fist, an open palm or a peace sign? Try this electronic Rock Paper Scissors gadget. For $8.89, you get two so you play RPS with a buddy with minimal (and we mean minimal)...
adam frucci
6/14/2007 11:30:39 AM
Projectors are great and all, but how annoying is it when someone comes in the room, walks behind you, and puts a shadow of their oblivious head across the screen? Making the image travel that far...
Wilson Rothman
6/14/2007 11:30:00 AM
Last Monday, Brian and I had a chance to run down to Monster HQ in Brisbane, CA to run some tests for the HDMI Cable Battlemodo. This time, we brought along a bag full of awesomely priced cables,...
Louis Ramirez
6/14/2007 10:30:46 AM
Chances are you won't be seeing this kind of action from your friend's overclocked system, but the crew at Universal ABIT showed off a Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU overclocked from 2.93GHz to 5GHz. The...

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