Archive for May, 2008

May 18

Samsung’s 82-inch QuadHD LCD: Now with 120Hz

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Samsung’s stream of 82-inch monsters packing the company’s latest technology continues unabated, this time a minor update to the QuadHD behemoth we saw at CES brings so-outdated 120Hz motion processing and LED backlighting to keep blur and judder far, far away. We know what you’re thinking, its 3840×2160 resolution is no good unless you can [...]

May 18

Stylish USB Laptop Speaker

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This cool little USB speaker will allow you to turn the music up to a level that your built-in speakers probably won’t be able to.
USB connection provides battery-free and wireless power for clean and clear sound to go; flexible gooseneck construction allows for customized speaker placement.
The USB Laptop Speaker measures 3.25(W) x 7(H) x 1.25(D) [...]

May 18

8GB Swiss Army Knife USB Drive

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The Swiss army knife with USB drive has been around for a while in a 2GB model. Now you can get a similar multitool with an 8GB storage capacity.
Features:

USB Flash Memory - 8GB
Knife - Blade Length 34mm
Pen
Scissors - Blade Length 15mm
Nail File - Length 28mm
2.5mm Flat Tip Screwdriver
Replaceable Ink Cartridge
Internal Watch Battery for LED light
Cool [...]

May 18

Portable Studebaker Stereo

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A little something for all the fans of pink and retro: the portable Studebaker stereo. It features a CD player, AM/FM radio, cassette player and a design that gives a “hint of that old Studebaker grill”.
There’s a drawer-type CD player with an excellent bass boost. It plays not only commercial CDs but also self-compiled CD-R/RW [...]

May 18

Custom Illuminated Confusion Nikes light up the streets, your life

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Personally, we’d prefer slipping our feet into the WiFi-detecting Nike Dunks if given a choice, but it’s hard to argue with the smooth factor bundled with the highly customized kicks shown above. Dubbed Illuminated Confusion, the shoes feature a pattern print with “neon green light-up lateral sides that either blink or glow.” The lighting on [...]

May 17

Alligator skin Xbox 360 case is a bit too realistic

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Oh yeah, we’ve seen some undeniably bizarre Xbox 360 case mods, but this freakish homegrown covering exemplifies the art of destroying resale value. We don’t quite know what else there is to say about an incredibly detailed alligator skinned console, but if pictures really are worth a thousand or so words, there’s an epic waiting [...]

May 17

Swarovski Encrusted Sony Playstation 3 for $140,000 is so fake

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This one of a kind Playstation 3 - 40GB is showered with Swarovski crystals and the deluxe gaming console can be all yours for a mere £70,000 ($ 140,000), actually that is the Buy now price the Ebay auction starts at £32,000 ($64,000). The auction seems as authentic as a spam mail from Nigeria. [...]

May 17

360 Degree Brain Training Pyramid

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If you take the classic Rubik’s Cube mechanical puzzle and change it into the shape of a pyramid, you might end up with this 360 Brain Twist Puzzle.

May 17

Strawberry USB Flash Drive

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This fun little USB flash drive comes in the shape of a tasty looking strawberry and features a storage capacity of 1 gigabyte.

May 17

Eee PC mod adds keyboard backlight, subwoofer and spinner rims optional

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With its minute keyboard, the Eee PC can be tough to use in the dark. Imagine, then, if yours had a backlit keyboard. The folks at Popsci have come up with — and explained — a way to add one of your own. And get this: you can do it in 3 hours for just [...]

May 17

iKey’s Membrane keyboard is built for the nastiest of environments

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iKey’s done this whole rugged keyboard thing a time or two before, so when it builds one meant to operate like a champ around environments laden with grease, you know it means business. The new line of Membrane keyboards — which arrives in a trio of flavors — boasts a stainless steel enclosure, or customers [...]

May 16

Power Strippin

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Power plugs come in all shapes and sizes. From baseball sized to brick sized, it seems that electronics manufacturers can’t agree on one or even three standard sized power plugs. So why doesn’t your power strip seem to care about this fact? Well now it does. The “Revolve” by Takumi Yoshida is the simple answer [...]

May 16

Samsung shows off sexy OLED laptop, coming in 2009?

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We don’t usually follow what all the other blogs are doing, but in the case of this Samsung OLED laptop prototype, there’s good reason why everyone’s jaws seem to be dropping. First of all, there’s that 12.1-inch 1280×768 OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display — new screen tech that was flaunted by Sony and others [...]

May 16

Fabulous Futuristic Vanities from Il Bagno Bandini - Atmosfera and Onda

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These Bandini vanities are so hip it hurts. The amazing Atmosfera and Onda vanities take you to another dimension – one that is as bright and bold as we could hope the future to be. Formed of bend plywood and finished with a high-shine, touchable surface - the vibrant hues of the vanities highlight their [...]

May 16

Atom-based Eee PC 901 pops June 3rd with Bluetooth for $650

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June’s shaping up to be a pretty special month ’round here. In addition to whatever Apple’s got up its sleeve and all the new gear set to announce at Computex, Asus will be launching its Atom-based Eee PC 901 just like we heard. June 3rd is the date for “a price below” $650. We assume [...]

May 16

Samsumg Shows Off Space Age Screen Design

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Samsung reckons it will soon have the problems of manufacturing large AMOLED screens licked. What you see above is the beautiful result, which we believe is a real prototype, not a mock-up. The 12.1″ screen is a hybrid of OLED and TFT, and in the picture appears to be a little bigger than that keyboard. [...]

May 16

Treo meets iPhone

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There is soon to be a flood of new mobile phones to hit the street using Google’s new open source Android OS platform.

May 15

Old / New Phone

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They are getting older by the second. That massive batch of the baby boomer generation adults is about to become the largest group of elderly the world will ever see in its history. Companies are scrambling to come out with products and services to appeal to this post world war 2 generation of increasingly confused [...]

May 15

High-tech meets high style: Italian designer puts LEDs in furniture

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Outside of cool lamps, the idea of light-up furniture sounds pretty lame on paper. But then we saw Stardust, a product from Italian furniture company Meritalia, and got convinced. The glow of the low-voltage LEDs built into these sofas, pillows, armchairs and footstools is subtle enough so it doesn’t overpower you, yet unusual enough to [...]

May 15

VIA’s new EPIA PX5000EG 500MHz Pico-ITX board loses the fan

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Despite the shortcomings, it’s hard not to get excited about VIA’s Pico-ITX offerings: who cares if the capabilities are limited, they’re just so adorably small we want to pinch their cheeks. Now VIA is making things even more efficient with a 500MHz board that can be cooled solely with the heatsink — no fan required. [...]

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