December 20
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How many nights have you tossed and turned because you’re hot one minute and cold the next? Perhaps the ChiliPad can help you get your beauty rest. Designed by T2 International, the ChiliPad lets you adjust the temperature of your mattress for complete comfort through the night. It’s based on a technology “that uses water [...]
December 19
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Wisdom’s Infinite Grande speakers will fill your space with sweet-loving music and enthrall you with crisp, clear sounds. These magnificent speakers employ three stacked planar-magnetic arrays and eight-foot tall subwoofers. Weighing 3,800 pounds, the system stands thirteen feet tall. For those who have the inclination and the bucks to enjoy lavish pleasures, the Infinite [...]
December 19
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By Andrew Liszewski
While headphones allow you to listen to your music without disturbing other people, they’re also more likely to damage your ears due to the concentrated sounds, and can prevent you from hearing anything else. So as an alternative you might want to try these OUTI headphones from Zelco which actually clip to the [...]
December 19
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I’ve been enjoying my Asus EEE PC for the past few weeks now, but filling up its 4GB drive that was already over half full with the OS wasn’t difficult. So I’ve been on the hunt for a considerably larger external USB drive that’s compact and won’t drain my battery.
The good news is that this [...]
December 19
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Since simply having a USB-fed monitor would not be bleeding edge enough for you, DisplayLink has updated its Virtual Graphics Card software to support the Windows Vista Aero 3D interface. The update, version 4.3, is available to all DisplayLink-based systems, including USB graphics adapters, docking stations and monitors. DisplayLink claims it’s the first implementation of [...]
December 19
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Hot on the heels of NVIDIA’s 3-way SLI system hitting all sorts of test benches comes word that the outfit is cranking out its brand new nForce 780i SLI MCP (media and communications processor). That’s right kids, the self-proclaimed “must-have gaming platform for Intel Yorkfield CPUs” is finally out in the open, and aside from [...]
December 19
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If you ever find yourself out in Graz, Austria, you may want to pay a visit to Aiola Island, a man-made structure that bridges the banks of the Mur River. Opened in 2003, Aiola Island not only has a cool, conch-shell design, but houses a bar, a sunbathing area and a coffee house. It was [...]
December 19
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Tired of tripping over an unsightly bulge every time you walk to your couch because you ran your surround-speaker wires under the living room carpet? Or worse, because you’re like us and just left the wires sitting on top of it? Yeah, you could hire a carpenter to hide the wires in the wall, or [...]
December 19
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The Peak Bath helps you conserve water in the most simple way: by using less of it. It’s still a full tub, but has a section in the middle cut out of the bottom that is supposed to allow your legs to rest comfortably as they normally would. So the total volume of water in [...]
December 19
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Sooner or later someone was going to figure out if you want to make people feel good about saving the environment, you need to make something that can be used for everyday activities. The Solar Table seems to fit the bill by allowing you to get actual work done without needing an electrical outlet.
Made of [...]
December 18
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We’ve told you before that SSD flash memory drives are the future, but we’ve been waiting for them to catch up with our expectations. While laptop and mp3-player-sized drives are still pretty prohibitively expensive, they’re dropping in price rapidly. And we’re seeing some pretty amazing innovations in the field.
Check this new Intel SSD out, for [...]
December 18
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The Barcode Clock is pretty much exactly what you think it is — a clock that looks like a barcode. You can tell the time by looking at the little LEDs above the numbers along the bottom, which are just 1 to 12 listed in order and semicleverly disguised through spacing. The minutes read out [...]
December 18
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The Sony Little TV manages to exude quite a bit of character despite being small enough to comfortably fit in your hand. The set has a silicone body covered by highly elastic “super-knit” fabric. The television is able to display three different images: old-school color bars, a simple black and white face and a rather [...]
December 18
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For those of you lusting after a UMPC or tablet solution, you may want to pause and take a look at the new Amtek iTablet T221. The stylish, thin slate looks like a dream come true for Gatesian types who are after something a little more natural for their day to day computing. The system [...]
December 18
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Dell almost ran out of 2007 to fulfill its promise, but fulfill it did and the Latitude XT is now available on Dell’s site. Well, sort of. Even with a completely default configuration, the XT has a “preliminary ship date” of January 15th, 2008. Oh well, at least that’ll give you some time to hit [...]
December 18
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Here’s a neat digital alarm clock for all the movie freaks out there. It’s shaped like a clapperboard, the synchronization device used when shooting films.
Looking and acting exactly like a director digital slate, this cool looking desktop accessory displays the date, and the time all the way down to deci-seconds. Set the alarm to [...]
December 18
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Little LED screens will be the next big thing in cosmetic gadget frippery: the slowly-lowering price of the Optimus Maximus over the next few years will chart this inconsequential revolution. In the meantime: concept art! How do you like de groene banaan’s “visualized” hard drive, which shows you the contents in abstract, arty form on [...]
December 17
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Cast iron tubs have a lasting appeal, and this eye-catching Limited Edition Stripes Design is a Kohler Royal freestanding tub that brings the traditional design right up-to-date. The arresting multi-coloured stripes make the bathtub intriguing and modern – not to mention easy to coordinate. The stripes, applied so boldly to this classic item, give it [...]
December 17
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How to turn a 10$ microscope and a 5$ USB camera into a cool digital microscope in 60 minuets.
December 17
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Those looking to take advantage of some of the benefits of LED lighting while also adding a bit of eye-catching decor to their living room may do well to try to get their hands on designer Nick Foley’s so-called “Pear Light,” which appears to be as versatile as it is unnerving. Giving those pears their [...]