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YelloMosquito Qingbar GP300 wireless video glasses get cheaper
2008-05-27 14:53:00 YelloMosquito introduced its Qingbar GP300 wireless video glasses with built-in media player and Divx support late in 2007. At the time the glasses were billed as the world?s first wireless video glasses with Divx and a built-in media player. What makes the GP300 wireless is the inclusion of an internal rechargeable battery that allows everything to ... More About: Video , Wireless , Glasses , Yello
Rock Band stage kit spotted
2008-05-27 06:43:00 Those into Rock Band will love this news. The Rock Band Stage Kit has been spotted and it will help you more fully forget your current reality of slinging hash by day at some burger joint while crashing in your mother’s basement at night. Instead, you’ll be on stage with your band mates with lights ...
Solar-powered iPhone in our future?
2008-05-27 06:04:00 Is Apple getting into solar power? It looks that way. According to Tradethenews.com, the company filed a patent involving placing solar cells on portable devices. This means that Apple?s iPhone or other devices could have photovoltaic cells stacked underneath LCD touch screens, which maximizes the area available for harnessing and soaking up the power of ... More About: Iphone , Future , Solar
Tee off with the Golf Ball Mouse
2008-05-27 05:48:00 This is probably not the best mouse to use gaming-wise. But Golf fans will have fun hitting a tiny ball in the hole either with the mouse that resembles a squished golfball or included putter. It even comes with the mousepad, looking like the green, and a flag. Great for getting some game play in ... More About: Mouse , Ball
Earth Trek: ?world?s smallest? projector
2008-05-27 05:30:00 Though it likely won’t hold the title for long, Earth Trek has christened their new 90-805R projector the “world’s smallest”. It measures roughly 4 inches X 2 inches. The device will give you a 22-inch diagonal image, though I have no idea from what distance. It sports an SD card slot and a 3.5 ... More About: World , Projectors , Projector
Awesome ?66 Barris Lego Batmobile
2008-05-27 04:02:00 Check out this amazingly detailed ‘66 Barris Batmobile LEGO replica. The creator has a great eye for detail and even included a Bat-Phone in the car. The Batman and Robin figures are pretty awesome too. Now, if Lego had this kind of amazing creation sitting on the store shelves, I’d be buying one faster then ... More About: Toys , Awesome
DimP: Browse videos by dragging objects on-screen
2008-05-26 21:24:00 Here’s something that should revolutionize the way we edit/browse videos in the future. It’s courtesy of Pierre Dragicevic and Gonzalo Ramos, the pair who created it. Now you can browse video clips by interacting with moving objects on the screen instead of having to use a slider. DimP stands for Direct Manipulation Video Player ... More About: Videos , Screen , Concepts , Objects , Browse
Cellphone Voice Changer for prank calls
2008-05-26 17:48:00 Do you ever have the urge to mess with your friends, but don’t, because your voice would give you away? Well, check this out. With the help of this simple and cheap device, you?ll be able to make a phone call without being recognized. It works just like other hands-free headsets. Just plug it into ... More About: Voice , Prank , Calls , Cellphone , Prank Calls
Star Wars fishing gear: For when the force won?t work
2008-05-26 17:32:00 The force works for all kinds of things. Everything from shooting a laser into the Death Star to lifting an X-wing out of a Dagobah swamp. But apparently, it won’t help you catch fish. That’s what this Star Wars fishing gear is for. The fishing rod has a lightsaber handle(of course), and you can get ... More About: Fishing , Work , Force
Make your Xbox 360 glow neon green
2008-05-26 17:05:00 Xbox 360 owners can now make their Xbox glow like depleted uranium, without setting off the geiger counter. In the light of day, the XCM Pearl Glow is translucent so you can see the insides. Turn out the lights and it glows a bright X-Files green. It replaces the case entirely. You’ll think it’s the ... More About: Xbox , Xbox 360 , Green , Make , Neon
Samsung announces 256GB SSD
2008-05-26 06:55:00 Samsung has announced the world?s fastest MLC-based 256GB SATA solid state drive which boasts some amazingly fast read speeds of 200 mps and 160 mps write speeds. It’s also the thinnest and largest capacity drive with a SATA II interface. Salivating yet? It measures just 9.5mm thick. No pricing info is available yet, but expect ... More About: Samsung
K2 EMF meter makes ghostbusting a breeze
2008-05-26 06:27:00 If ghostbusting is your thing, you’ll want to check out this K2 EMF meter before you get slimed. EMF (electromagnetic field) energy is similar to what is emitted by your gadgets. The device is simple and portable and will have you catching ghosts so easily that you’ll hear them cursing you out when you review ... More About: Breeze , Meter
Log Pillow is exactly what it sounds like
2008-05-26 06:24:00 The Log Pillow is just that. A pillow comprised of logs. You might have noticed that working with a laptop on your lap can make your legs a bit hot. Ideally, you want to have some sort of buffer between you and the hot laptop. That’s where this comes in. And yes, this thing looks ... More About: Sounds
Evolta Robot scales Grand Canyon cliff
2008-05-26 06:08:00 What’s the one thing we need more of in the 21st century? If you said that we need more robots performing daring feats, you’re in luck. It just so happens that on Saturday, the Panasonic Evolta battery robot, a 17-centimeter tall super-hero looking bot and all around bundle of cuteness, scaled a 500-meter cliff at ... More About: Robot , Scales , Grand Canyon , Grand , Cliff
Shelly E-Paper digital camera
2008-05-26 06:03:00 Polaroid is finally a thing of the past. Almost. You can probably still find film, but not for long. The Shelly E-Paper Camera could be the new way of doing Polaroid type instant photos in the future. According to the designer, ?You take a picture, stock on the i-paper (consumables), send it via the Internet ... More About: Digital Camera , Digital , E-paper
Phoenix Mars spacecraft makes safe Mars landing
2008-05-26 02:24:00 After over three years of direct planning and ten months of traveling through space, NASA’s Phoenix Mars spacecraft today sent back signals that it has made a safe landing on the surface of Mars. The Phoenix spacecraft appears to have hit the intended target in the icy area of Mars’ arctic circle. Signals sent from Phoenix ... More About: Spacecraft , Safe , Landing
McDonalds lets you order with your phone
2008-05-25 19:18:00 In what surely has to be a perfect collaboration between McDonalds and Nintendo, McDonalds is making it easier then ever to order food that will have you working twice as hard on the Wii-Fit. hmmm. Then you’ll get hungry again. Let’s see, who makes it easiest to get a disc shaped hunk of grease on ... More About: Phone , Order , Mcdonalds
DS Paint app for Nintendo DS
2008-05-25 18:55:00 If you’re looking to use your DS as a sketchbook or drawing pad, here is a DS paint application that turns your system into one. It’s called colors. All you need are a DS-compatible flash cartridge and a microSD card. It’s a pretty basic program, not even having layers or an undo option yet, but ... More About: Nintendo , Paint , Nintendo Ds
Braille concept watch for the blind
2008-05-24 19:14:00 If you’re blind, you don’t have a ton of options…for anything really. Not many companies are making special gear for you. The gear you do have doesn’t get upgraded as much as regular people’s. For instance, how many watches do you see that cater to the blind? I’m sure they are out there, but there ... More About: Watch , Blind , Concept
Guitar amp iPod speaker
2008-05-24 18:49:00 It seems that the guitar mania that has engulfed the geek world with games like Guitar Hero and Rockband is here to stay. So you may as well embrace it and get yourself this iPod speaker amp. You probably already have the Guitar Rocker and the catbox 360 after all. I’m sure this will make ... More About: Speaker , Ipod
Poptherapy: The week in geek news
2008-05-24 02:20:00 Well, it’s Friday. Another week has come and gone. As usual we’ve covered a fair amount of geek related freakiness at Poptherapy. Below you’ll find a small sampling of what we’ve been up to this week, none of it good for society in general, but an awesome way to waste time. How about using a large ... More About: News , Geek , Week
XYZ Computer Desk: True desktop PC
2008-05-23 20:12:00 The XYZ Computer Desk has an awesome sleek design and gives the Sync some competition. It’s beautiful and at the same time easily upgradeable. The best part of course, is that you have the full computer right there, but it’s taking up no extra room. All of the components and cables are inside the desk. ... More About: Desktop , True
Haptic mutant Tribble/Bunny creature
2008-05-23 19:47:00 In his attempt to build a better tribble thing, roboticist Steve Yohanan has come up with a Haptic creature that looks like a tribble with bunny ears attached. One that raises the creep factor, by having no facial features. This robot uses touch feedback as it’s only way to communicate. It’s full of pressure sensors ... More About: Robots , Mutant , Bunny , Creature
Steampunk usb memory is flashy
2008-05-23 19:24:00 If Flash Gordon had a laptop, this would be his preferred USB memory. It’s the creation of a crazy modder over in Russia and it’s full of retro steampunk shininess, hand crafted from polished brass and copper, with a lot of attention to detail. He got all of it just right. Which makes me wonder ... More About: Memory , Storage , Steampunk
TV remote control watch
2008-05-23 18:59:00 What can you really say about a watch that controls your TV? This device would probably come in handy if you wanted to mess with somebody else who is watching TV, and change the channels, otherwise I can’t imagine actually replacing my remote with this cheap wrist-turd. It’s got all the style of an old ... More About: Watch , Remote Control , Control , Remote
Xentex laptop knows when to fold em
2008-05-23 18:30:00 Much like Kenny Rogers, the Xentex laptop knows when to fold em. It knows when to walk away and when to run. It wasn’t satisfied with simply opening and closing. Oh no. It can fold twice for portability. That means that the system has two 13.3″ screens that can independently swivel so you can share ... More About: Laptop , Fold
Creative TravelSound portable speaker, now for the iPod nano
2008-05-23 16:35:00 Creative has launched a new addition to it’s line of portable speakers with the TravelSound for the iPod nano. This one-piece speaker attaches to the docking port of Apple’s nano and pumps out the sound to share with others. This new TravelSound speaker appears very similar to the TravelSound i50 that we saw last fall ... More About: Creative , Speaker , Ipod , Portable , Speakers
$10 anti-iPhone released by Hop-On
2008-05-23 15:27:00 While you and I may not understand it, there is a certain percentage of the population that simply wants nothing to do with cool gadgets. I know these people really have no place in a civilized society, but in the spirit of brotherhood and acceptance I present the $10 anti-iPhone. Hop-On has announced a new disposable ... More About: Iphone , Released , Anti
Pentax Optio W60 goes deeper, wider and colder
2008-05-23 15:07:00 When it comes to cameras typically if you get them wet you will soon be in the market for a new camera. However, there are times when you want to take pictures in and around water like at the beach or the pool. For these times using a normal camera can be ill advised. Pentax ... More About: Cameras
Alienware updates and re-launches Area-51 ALX desktop
More articles from this author:2008-05-23 14:31:00 When it comes to Alienware one of the first things that always jumps to my mind are seriously expensive computers. For the computer gamers out there that just don?t want to bother with building their own gaming rigs, Alienware has been a popular alternative?so long as the budget allows. We took a look at the ALX ... More About: Desktop , Updates , Area , Area 51 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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