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DVICE ARCHIVE FOR June 2006
There's a long holiday weekend coming up, and this week we gave you some ways to get the most out of it. Of course knowing what the weather is going to be will help you organize the whole weekend,...
POSTED Friday, June 30, 2006
According to a new study by researchers at the University of Utah, people who drive while talking on their cell phones are just as dangerous as drunk drivers, even when they're using a hands-free headset. Don't take it from me,...
POSTED Friday, June 30, 2006
In the same way Voice Over IP phone services such as Skype have turned the telephone industry upside-down, this Matrixstream MX1020HD receiver could do the same for the cable and satellite industries. Currently in the testing phase, the set...
POSTED Friday, June 30, 2006
Good news for those of you on the Snickers and Pepsi diet: researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada are developing a low-intensity pulsed ultrasound that can actually regrow damaged or missing teeth. A tiny pea sized device...
POSTED Friday, June 30, 2006
At this point, it almost takes more energy to find a cell phone that can't play video than one that can. However, the puny screens that come on oh-so-tiny devices make watching portable video for any period of time...
POSTED Friday, June 30, 2006
When I shop for fancy cheeses online, I always feel like I'm missing out on something by not being able to take a deep, hearty whiff of that cave-aged sheep's milk blue I'm considering. Fortunately for me, engineers at...
POSTED Thursday, June 29, 2006
It takes a little bit of creativity to make us sit up and notice a new flat-panel monitor, and Samsung's new SyncMaster CX913P is certainly creative. Practical, well, that's another story. The 19-inch LCD screen offers a 6-millisecond pixel-response...
POSTED Thursday, June 29, 2006
Stressed out? Who isn't, what with everyone trying to get a ton of stuff done before the holiday. Wouldn't it be great if you could get your hands on a gadget designed to drain your tension away? Well, the emWave...
POSTED Thursday, June 29, 2006
The problem with most iPod docks that hook up to your home stereo is that it's a huge pain to control it from afar. Even when it comes with a remote, the remote is generally clunky and it's tough...
POSTED Thursday, June 29, 2006
While traditional speakers don't do so well when used underwater, these headphones use a well-known waterproof material to function in the murky depths: the human skull. By sending vibrations right into your jaw, the EZ-80WP uses "bone-conduction technology" to...
POSTED Thursday, June 29, 2006
Japanese cell-phone makers have combined GPS, compasses, and cell phones to give people the power to get information about any location simply by pointing their phone at it. Because emergency regulations in Japan require cell phones to have GPS on...
POSTED Wednesday, June 28, 2006
NEC has just announced a credit card-size phone for the Asian market, the N908, coming into existence this fall. Despite the fact that it probably won't see the light of day on American shores, the touchscreen features give a...
POSTED Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Food just tastes better when you make it yourself, and if that food happens to be ice cream and you made it by bouncing a ball around for 20 minutes, well damn, that's going to be the best ice...
POSTED Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Golf isn't a silly enough game, in my opinion. Where are the pranks, the hilarious pranks? Right here, inside this unassuming golf ball. Featuring some sort of propulsion system inside, the R/C Golf Ball can be remotely controlled to...
POSTED Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Remember when the Sony Walkman was the be-all, end-all of portable audio? Those were halcyon days for Sony, before the iPod and widespread digital copying screwed up its market dominance. Now Sony's looking to reclaim some of its lost...
POSTED Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Judging from the number of dogs that try to take a chunk out of me on my morning run, not enough people are watching The Dog Whisperer on the National Geographic channel. So to you folks who can't be bothered...
POSTED Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Image by Matt Krueger On Sunday, the war between the new high-definition-disc formats officially began. Sure, HD DVD has been available since May, but as of June 25th, Samsung's BD-P1000 Blu-ray player is now available in stores for anyone who...
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Engineers at Ohio State University have developed a radar system that's both more accurate than traditional radar and completely undetectable, allowing one to see objects through solid material such as walls and floors. By using random noise rather than a...
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
If you really want to creep out any visitors that you happen to ensnare into your home, installing the "Tension Thing" would do the trick just fine. Some kind of combination of Cousin It from The Addams Family and...
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Headlining Toshiba's new line of Satellite laptops is an impressive gaming notebook, the P105-S9321, an upgrade based on the S921. Specs of the new model are respectable: a 2-GHz Intel Core Duo processor (up from 1.83 GHz), 2 GB...
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
This new Viliv P2 portable media player (no relation to the Intel Viiv processor) is a monster of video and audio portability. A monster, we tell you. It sports a generous 4.3-inch touchscreen, GPS navigation, a 20- or 30-GB...
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
GPS navigation company TomTom wants you to get directions from a voice you'll recognize — specifically, Mr. T, Burt Reynolds, and Dennis Hopper. That's right, soon TomTom will be offering celebrity voices for their GPS navigations systems for a...
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
We find it a little ironic that Skullcandy would name a pair of headphones with gold-colored earcups the "Proletariat," but with those cool little skulls on the frame, we're guessing not too many bourgeois stuck-ups would wear them anyway....
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Sure, this tornado demonstration model is meant for classroom use, but do we ever really stop learning? We're on a neverending quest for knowledge, enrichment, and neat toys — call it the classroom of life. Whether you're a kid or...
POSTED Monday, June 26, 2006
Lonely? Want a friend who will dance and do cartwheels for you to cheer you up, but won't bore you by talking about themselves the whole time? Meet the Advanced Acrobatic Robot. Running you a cool $1,200, your new...
POSTED Monday, June 26, 2006
Do you ever find yourself standing outside yet still somehow wondering what the weather is like? No? Well, apparently you aren't the target audience for the Kestrel 4000 Weather Meter, the modern update to licking your finger and holding...
POSTED Monday, June 26, 2006
Desk clutter is a pain, especially if you're a fan of gadgetry. You know what we're talking about: you've got the iPod, the cell phone, the PDA, some USB drives, a bunch of loose batteries, some pens, et cetera,...
POSTED Monday, June 26, 2006
With mobile phones these days sporting all kinds of features that have nothing to do with calls, the simplicity of this T-1 home telephone from Jacob Jensen sends a refreshingly clear signal. Besides the dial pad, the only other...
POSTED Monday, June 26, 2006
The wait is finally over: the first waterproof fingerprint reader is now available. We aren't exactly sure what the purpose of this is, but if you've ever really needed secure access to your data and just couldn't keep your fingers...
POSTED Monday, June 26, 2006
TV and movie junkies had a lot to talk about this week with new products and services being announced or released that have the potential to totally change the way they veg out. There's DirecTV's Titanium service, which gives...
POSTED Friday, June 23, 2006
It seems like only yesterday home theater aficionados were marveling if a receiver could power more than five speakers at once, and now even the cheapest rig in JVC's new line can pump out 110 watts to seven channels...
POSTED Friday, June 23, 2006
As any good creepy shop teacher can demonstrate, if you spend enough time around table saws the chances of you losing a finger or three gets pretty high. Fortunately, technology is here to protect you from your misplaced handyman...
POSTED Friday, June 23, 2006
Here comes gadget trouble: The SMS Guerrilla Projector is a one-off device made by Troika Art and Design in London. Operating under the bat-signal principle, the projector shoots a text message onto whatever surface you point it at, letting...
POSTED Friday, June 23, 2006
Finally, a device that can warm or cool your beverage that doesn't require a USB connection. Chrysler has announced that it will include cup holders that can warm or cool off drinks in the 2007 Sebring, keeping your coffee hot...
POSTED Friday, June 23, 2006
If you live in a city, biking to where you need to go is a cheaper, healthier, and more often than not faster way to get around than driving. But worrying about where to lock your bike up and...
POSTED Friday, June 23, 2006
If you're a regular reader of SCI FI Tech, you know that we loves us some geeky watches. There's just something about carrying some fancy tech around on your wrist that we can't get enough of, which is why...
POSTED Friday, June 23, 2006
Whenever people ask me what are the downsides of traveling faster than the speed of sound, I always say drag. I tell them, "Drag is such a drag, man," then I start laughing. Then people leave. It's quite awkward,...
POSTED Thursday, June 22, 2006
Got some wall space that needs a little spicing up but can't quite afford a plasma TV? How about dressing it up with some cool shadows? Those are much cheaper than a TV. Bringing to mind campfire shadow puppets,...
POSTED Thursday, June 22, 2006
Usually there are no ways of letting other drivers know what you think of them other than the one-fingered salute or slamming on the brakes, but the brilliantly named Driv-e-mocion aims to allow you to be a bit more...
POSTED Thursday, June 22, 2006
By the look of the Wearable Gaze Detector — with its many protruding wires and Cyberman-esqe design — it would have to do something pretty amazing to be worth committing the fashion felony of actually putting it on your...
POSTED Thursday, June 22, 2006
Buying an HD DVD player is all well and good, but you can't help getting the feeling something bigger and way better is just around the corner when you plunk your five hundy down for one of the new...
POSTED Thursday, June 22, 2006
Just when you thought it was safe to go out in public with your Sidekick II, T-Mobile is pushing your old model toward obsolescence by debuting the new version, the Sidekick 3 (made by Sharp). Slated for release to...
POSTED Wednesday, June 21, 2006
With the first Blu-ray player set to be released on Sunday, Sony has made available some select cinema classics for early adopters itching to check out the capabilities their new high-definition disc player. The Fifth Element, House of Flying Daggers,...
POSTED Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Scuttlebutt around the Internet has it that Microsoft has plans to lob $100 off the price of the Xbox 360 by the holiday season, putting the popular game console at about $300, or half of the cost of the PlayStation...
POSTED Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Tivoli Audio, designer of specialty radios, has thrown its hat into the crowded ring of makers of iPod speaker docks with the sassily named iYiYi. Poking fun at the plethora of products out there that tack a lowercase "i"...
POSTED Wednesday, June 21, 2006
This summer, Creative's releasing its latest weapon in the war on the iPod's ubiquity: the nano-sized Zen V Plus, and CNet was lucky enough to get one early and write up a detailed review of it. And would you...
POSTED Wednesday, June 21, 2006
People who stare longingly across the Atlantic at the bevy of feature-rich European phones that we don't have here in the States may have less reason to be jealous when Verizon releases the Samsung SGH-A990. A swivel-display flip phone...
POSTED Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Um, Dell? Could you explain exactly what's going on inside your laptops that could cause them to suddenly blow up, just like the one that exploded earlier today at a conference in Japan? I've always assumed the tiny magic...
POSTED Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Ready to impress your guests? Show them your new CL Sound Machine: a record player, iPod dock, CD player, and wine rack (yes, wine rack) all in one beautiful machine. Striking in its white or black finish and featuring...
POSTED Tuesday, June 20, 2006
If you want a cell phone with every bell and whistle available, look no further than the Qtek 9000. A monster of a phone, it has not one but two 1.3-megapixel cameras for some reason, MP3 and video playback,...
POSTED Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Following in the rich traditions of products created for parents to spy on and track their kids comes KidQuery, a service for keeping tabs on your little angel's online life. You simply register your child with them and they check...
POSTED Tuesday, June 20, 2006
In what will probably be really bad news for companies such as Blockbuster and Vongo but great news for the rest of us, Netflix is reportedly hard at work on a set-top box for movie downloads deep in the company's...
POSTED Tuesday, June 20, 2006
There's been a lot of speculation about exactly what Stonehenge was — a religious altar, an alien monument, a boring pile of rocks. But consensus seems to be it's just a big calendar, so we find it entirely appropriate...
POSTED Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Toshiba wants to take down the iPod in a bad way, and they hope the one-two punch of the new gigabeat S and its partnership with movie-downloading service Vongo will help them do it. Coming in both 30-GB and...
POSTED Tuesday, June 20, 2006
My favorite part of any family gathering is when, after dinner, Dad has polished off the last of the wine and someone busts out the DinoLite Digital Microscope. Once we start seeing close up video of Dad's scalp on...
POSTED Monday, June 19, 2006
We love fun, implausible concept designs as much as the next guy, but this one in particular seems kind of far-fetched. The "Nokia Open" is/would be a cell phone that opens like a fan with a "scrollable touch screen,"...
POSTED Monday, June 19, 2006
If you love TV, and I mean really love TV, then the DirecTV Titanium package was created with you in mind. It hooks you up with absolutely everything you could possibly get from DirecTV: every channel, every pay-per-view movie (adult...
POSTED Monday, June 19, 2006
Are you like me? Do you lock up your house every morning with a hint of nervous trepidation that today could be the day some thief decides to break in? You can allay some of those fears by setting...
POSTED Monday, June 19, 2006
Bluetooth headseats have a way of making you look pretty crazy when you're walking down the street, as you look like you're talking to yourself until someone is close enough to notice the earpiece. You might as well make...
POSTED Monday, June 19, 2006
With the summer blockbuster season upon us, what better time to skip the crowds and stay home for a little quality time with your own home theater. We cued up some big-screen dreams with Optoma's 100-inch in-wall DLP HDTV...
POSTED Friday, June 16, 2006
Technology may one day eliminate blindness altogether, but cybernetic eyes are likely decades away. Until the cyborg age begins, the blind may still be able to get a view of their surroundings with a new system called vOICe (as in...
POSTED Friday, June 16, 2006
Mark your calendars, Blu-ray fans: June 25th is the day Samsung will release the first Blu-ray player into the wild, and there are reports that a few are even on store shelves now. Blu-ray, of course, is one of...
POSTED Friday, June 16, 2006
Ah, Europeans — always doing right by their disabled people. A Hungarian company has made a car called the Kenguru (as in "kangaroo") that a wheelchair-bound person can just slide right into, doing away with the inconvenience of using...
POSTED Friday, June 16, 2006
We searched far and wide for reviews and comments about the Motorola Q, the hottest new entry into the smartphone market that's been labeled by some as a "BlackBerry killer." Since you don't have time to read them all,...
POSTED Friday, June 16, 2006
We know we can sometimes get pretty snarky about the lame gadgets out there that pass themselves off as "innovations," but we really do love technology here at SCI FI Tech (it's in the name), and it's products like...
POSTED Friday, June 16, 2006
Amazon is already one of the first places people look online for everything from Tolstoy novels to Canon Elph digital cameras to Seven jeans, but could it soon also be your store for — mac 'n' cheese? That's right, Amazon...
POSTED Thursday, June 15, 2006
Speaker junkies like showing off their high-end loudspeakers as much as listening to them, and chic design with form over function is certainly a factor in why Bose sells so well. But plenty of folks would rather hide their bookshelf...
POSTED Thursday, June 15, 2006
Either gadgets are getting as disposable as a bag of Sun Chips or consumers really hate dealing with those idiot salespeople at Best Buy, because Sony is betting people will prefer to do their tech shopping through a snack...
POSTED Thursday, June 15, 2006
Subway crime is down in New York City, with one startling exception: theft of personal electronics like cell phones and iPods. And though we don't have stats on hand, we're betting the trend is similar throughout the country. To...
POSTED Thursday, June 15, 2006
One of the big things holding back your favorite gadget makers from slimming down your cell phone, PDA, or MP3 player to the extreme is the battery. No matter what your gadget poison is, it needs power, and if...
POSTED Thursday, June 15, 2006
While everybody loves the space-saving designs of slim LCD screens, videophiles have always known LCD image quality just doesn't stand up to the pictures on traditional TVs based on cathode-ray tubes (CRTs). Featuring faster refresh rates and deeper blacks,...
POSTED Thursday, June 15, 2006
Rear-projection TVs are still around, even if all the HDTV news lately has been about plasma. They don't get much love because of all the room they take up, but their picture quality is still great, and the cost...
POSTED Wednesday, June 14, 2006
If, when you wake up in the morning, you're unsure how well you slept, you have two options: you could stop and think for a second about how you feel, or drop $390 on a Japanese pillow that counts how...
POSTED Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Bang & Olufsen, known more for its speaker and phone designs than its forays into the medical field, now brings us the E3000 electronic stethoscope. A state-of-the-art piece of equipment, the E3000 improves on the standard stethoscope by utilizing...
POSTED Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Nokia loves expensive, limited-edition phones, and the company's L'Amour Collection certainly keeps the flame alive. The Nokia 7370 and 7380 (shown) are pretty slick phones, featuring Bluetooth, USB, respective 1.3- and 2-megapixel cameras, Internet connectivity, and other such goodies,...
POSTED Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Over the past couple of years we've seen more and more mobile phones with built-in music players, so it was probably inevitable that music players would start picking up communications abilities. Case in point: MusicGremlin's MG-1000 "Gremlin" MP3 player,...
POSTED Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The Motorola Q has been available for only two weeks now, and already Samsung is leveling its guns at it. The SGH-i320 looks eerily similar to the Q, featuring a 2.2-inch color screen, a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth wireless capabilities,...
POSTED Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Jazzed about your new keyboard sneakers, but bummed that they just don't go with anything? Stop kicking yourself (you'll lose your NumLock key, anyway), and rejoice that designer João Sabino has bestowed upon you total keyboard accessorizing with the...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Apparently the RIAA has been reading different news and talking to different people than we have, as CEO Mitch Bainwol has declared music piracy officially "contained." That's right, contained. Much like an infectious disease or an oil spill, a barrier...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Simulating surround sound from a pair of front speakers — or even a single speaker — is nothing new, but the just-released Sharp SD-SP10 system ($350) uses Dolby's latest audio technology to get as close as possible to the...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
So you've invested a few hundred bucks in an HD DVD player, plunked down another $30 for Rumor Has It in high-def, and got some overpriced Monster Cable HDMI cables to hook it up to your $10,000 1080p TV. Well...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Feng shui, the art of room arrangement that's meant to benefit your chi, or life energy, may soon be made easier by a new Motorola patent. A feng shui helper could be used in a cell phone or PDA, using...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Sometimes it seems like companies create products just as joke fodder for jaded, snarky bloggers. Exhibit A: this toilet-paper dispenser/iPod dock, the iCarta. Seriously, guys? Have consumers been clamoring for this, or do you just think there haven't been...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Let's admit it: the big thing holding back acupuncture from really catching on is that it's not portable enough. Who hasn't had a craving for some skin-penetrating Chinese medicine while trapped at a red light on the way to...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
If you're of the style-over-substance mentality of gadgetry, this little Arko MP3 player might look pretty sweet to you. If you enjoy powerful features… well, is looking nice a feature? It's got a backlit color display, supports such eclectic...
POSTED Tuesday, June 13, 2006
The mosquito: ruiner of barbecues, destroyer of pleasant evenings, scourge of the summer skies. Must we turn to foul-smelling chemicals to stop these vile, bloodsucking invaders? Why, who is that yonder on the horizon? Could it be Hong Kong-based...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
Epson has developed new 7.1-inch piece of electronic paper that's bendable and has a very respectable resolution of 1,536 x 2,048 pixels. Electronic paper is a thin material that acts as an electronic display, allowing for text and graphics to...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
After that dorkwad Bluetooth watch from last week, we felt the need to cleanse ourselves with a more stylin' timepiece, so we're glad that reader Robert pointed us to the 2006 Abacus Smart Watch, designed by Fossil. The Abacus...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
It's 10pm — do you know where your kids are? If you're giving Verizon $20 a month to turn your kids' cell phones into child-tracking devices, yes you do. Using the same technology that pinpoints one's location through 911, Verizon...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
Passwords, no matter how clever, can be found out and used to get through to your most precious data. One thing people can't steal, however, is your face, which makes this "Snappy Face Recognizer" a more secure option for keeping...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
Getting fresh air in your car is as easy as rolling down the window. But what if it's super hot out and you don't want to lose all that air-conditioning goodness? The IAP-806 car air purifier can help. Killing any...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
All-in-one monitor and PC units are convenient because of the space they save, but if either the monitor burns out or your computer dies, you end up tossing out a perfectly good component with the busted one. Japan's Quixun...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
Summer's here (well, almost…), so maybe that will explain our disproportional amount of water-based posts this week. Can you blame us? We kept it varied, at least, with topics ranging from the automatic shower monitor to the outdoor misting...
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
If you see a few more goals than usual at this year's FIFA World Cup, which starts today, you may want to send a thank-you note to Adidas. The company's Teamgeist soccer ball, a new design that closer approximates...
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
You know, UV rays aren't just damaging to you, they can harm poor Fido, too. If you really love your pooch, you'll make sure his eyes stay safe for all the years he's around to loyally fetch your newspaper...
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
Media Center PCs are all well and good for acting like a beefed-up TiVo, but as a gaming rig they're generally underpowered. They're built to sit under your cable box and store videos, maybe go online, and not much else....
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
This tiny little number is the Samsung X830. It's pretty small. So small, in fact, that it can only fit two buttons per row on its keypad. It also doesn't have a camera, which is a rarity with cell...
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
CBS has become the last of the major networks to offer its prime-time programming for download from the iTunes Music Store, joining the other three major networks as well as a number of cable channels (including SCI FI). So far...
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
Mornings are a painful time already, although some masochists like to make it worse by purchasing alarm clocks bent on torturing you. These self-loathing morning people can now add another tool to their wake-up-with-a-grimace arsenal: the Waitek Shower Monitor....
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
You think Brita is a high-tech way of getting clean water? Faucet filters have got nothing on a new kind of plastic developed by researchers at MIT that both attracts and repels water droplets — at the same time....
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
Ever since we saw Seiko's Bluetooth watch prototype, we've been dying for someone to make a watch that would let us play Dick Tracy and take calls our wrists. Well, it looks like this "i:VRT Bluetooth" watch from Citizen...
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
Coming your way from Pioneer: a new line of high-end receivers that can do some sweet tricks with high-definition video and your iPod's music library. The flagship model, the Pioneer Elite VSX-84TXVi, is a 980-watt beast that features four...
POSTED Thursday, June 8, 2006
China, much like villains in James Bond films, has a weather-modification office whose sole purpose is to, just like the sign on the door says, control the weather. It has already developed methods for bringing rain to drought-stricken areas...
POSTED Thursday, June 8, 2006
If you'd like to be kept cool and fresh in the same manner as produce at your local grocery store, check out this outdoor misting system that claims to be able to lower the surrounding temperature by 20°F. The system...
POSTED Thursday, June 8, 2006
Getting all of those (legally downloaded) movies, shows, and albums from your PC to the home-entertainment system in your living room can be a pain, especially if your computer sits far away enough from your TV to make wiring...
POSTED Thursday, June 8, 2006
If you don't have a car, you're pretty much left with cycling and public transit as your choices for your daily commute. Some people try to do both, riding their bikes to the train station and then taking them...
POSTED Thursday, June 8, 2006
If there's any lesson to be learned from gadgets in the past few years, it's that people love small and sexy. With that in mind, we're predicting the Pantech C300 cell phone, said to be the world's smallest clamshell...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Hydrogen fuel-cell cars may be hitting the streets sooner than everybody thought if Honda lives up to recent promises. Despite predictions that the prohibitively expensive nature of hydrogen fuel-cell technology meant that consumer vehicles would be over a decade...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Noise-canceling headphones are a must for anyone who travels on airplanes frequently, as engine noise can force you to turn up normal headphones to dangerous levels. The problem with most models is that they tend to be bulky or...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Typical Internet and office functions are more than ably handled by relatively cheap computers these days, but a personal supercomputer would still come in handy for scientific applications that need to crunch serious numbers in a reasonable amount of...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
More nimble than its Roboraptor predecessor, WowWee's Roboreptile represents the next step in dinosaur-robot evolution. Although it's a little hazy exactly which dinosaur it's modeled after (looks kind of like an Plesiosaurus-dog hybrid), what the Roboreptile lacks in clear...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Playing racing games is made exponentially better by sitting and using a steering wheel, which is why any arcade racing game worth mentioning comes packaged in a cockpit-like setup. At home, using a standard console controller just won't cut...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
If you've got a budding spy in the family, the perfect gift to nurture his clandestine impulses this holiday season may be the Spy Video Car. Essentially a remote-control car with a camera attached to it, it seems pretty...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Developed by the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan, this robot, named the Hibiscus, was made to help look for survivors in the aftermath of disasters like earthquakes or hurricanes. Six independent tread crawlers and a pair of flipper...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Do you ever get so embarrassed that you just want to crawl into a dark hole somewhere and hide from the world? Do you also have $45,000 lying around? Then put down that shovel, nerdlinger, and check out The...
POSTED Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Considering Bono's been singing in those Apple commercials since the video iPod came out, it's really about time U2 gave the go-ahead on the U2 video iPod. Featuring a red clickwheel and a bunch of preloaded videos from the...
POSTED Tuesday, June 6, 2006
There's a decent chance this is Motorola's upgrade to their ever-popular RAZR phone, codenamed "Canary." A beauty to look at, the Canary features a mirrored surface and wraparound speaker at the bottom of the phone. Inside you'll find a...
POSTED Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Yes, there's a time readout on the front of the TimeSphere's base, but that's not what you'll be looking at. Designer Stefano Giovannoni made the shiny black ball into a projector, shooting out the time to any surface you...
POSTED Tuesday, June 6, 2006
The argument that vinyl records sound better than CDs is made by a lot of audiophiles, and really there's no harm in keeping your records around and leaving that turntable plugged in to get that warm, analog sound now...
POSTED Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Bringing all of the fun of playing the stock market to the bar scene, the "Unstabalizer" is a piece of software that changes drink prices based on the current market. As people buy certain drinks the prices go up,...
POSTED Monday, June 5, 2006
Because we all are just dying for Apple to hurry up and deliver us a full-fledged iPod/cell-phone hybrid, we can't help but mention this questionable rumor that's been flying around the Net: RIM (makers of the Blackberry) and Apple...
POSTED Monday, June 5, 2006
We've already got TV via broadcast, cable, and satellite, but now the phone companies are elbowing their way into the mix as well. AT&T is planning to expand its Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV, network, which delivers TV signals via...
POSTED Monday, June 5, 2006
Cameras are everywhere these days. I once worked in an office building that had a big red sign at the door that warned all visitors that they would be filmed by up to 38 different audio and video cameras once...
POSTED Monday, June 5, 2006
It's a big day for us here at SCI FI Tech: we went and got ourselves some comments. Or, to put it a bit more accurately, we got ourselves set up with the ability to accept readers' comments, but...
POSTED Monday, June 5, 2006
If you have a modern home theater with a silver TV, flat speakers, and a glass component rack, that wooden CD rack you got at Tower Records is going to stick out like a sore thumb. To better help...
POSTED Monday, June 5, 2006
With all the Skype talk floating around the news lately, it's good to keep in mind that they aren't the only free Internet phone service on the block. In fact, a little startup from the Pacific Northwest called Microsoft...
POSTED Monday, June 5, 2006
Ever dream of flying far above the Earth without some namby-pamby airplane to keep you warm, safe, and comfortable? A short week didn't stop us from finding a couple of ways to achieve your dangerous dream. The Gryphon Flying...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
Any true home theater needs a surround sound system with multiple speakers. But does that mean the flat-panel LCD set you just picked up for your bedroom has to settle for tinny sound from its built-in speakers? "Hell, no!"...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
Sending large files via e-mail is a pain, as most services have limits on how big an attachment you can send, usually less than 10 MB. With multimedia files such as audio and video generally taking up much more space...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
Another summer weekend, another high-tech grill. The Fuego, designed by former Apple industrial design chief Robert Brunner, is an outdoor grill that allows you to cook with gas, charcoal, or even infrared heat to get that steak done just...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
Finally, the government has discovered a way to combine Americans love of peeping with their distrust of immigrants to put freedom-loving citizens to work for Uncle Sam free of charge. Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced a plan to put...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
Brian Walker, mad scientist and all around crazy person, plans to shoot himself 20 miles into the air in a homemade rocket launched from the world's biggest crossbow. The rocket, which has a jet turbine with 1,350 pounds of...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
We remain skeptical whether Media Center PCs can ever really become mainstream products, but if they do, we expect they'll look a lot like Acer's Aspire iDea (oh, dear Lord…) 500. Resembling a sleek home theater component — with...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
That iPod of yours can play video, sure, but that screen is just so small. It's barely big enough for you to watch it, let alone the people sitting next to you on the subway trying to check out...
POSTED Friday, June 2, 2006
Remember the last time you were in the igloo playing Xbox online (through the Xbox Live network) and that kid from Hawaii beat you in Project Gotham Racing? You're better than that punk — you only lost because your...
POSTED Thursday, June 1, 2006
If you thought hedge mazes were hard when you could actually see the walls in front of you, prepare to enter a world of curse-laden frustration if you dare try to make your way through the Invisible Maze. Located in...
POSTED Thursday, June 1, 2006
If you're still stuck in the 20th century playing music on little plastic discs, this speaker/CD case combo could be a useful way for you to make your music portable. Looking like a standard CD book, the case has removable...
POSTED Thursday, June 1, 2006
Apparently the nice folks at Ubisense haven't read 1984 lately, because their new RFID Employee Tracking system shows some serious disregard for the warnings laid forth in Orwell's classic novel. The system involves placing RFID radio transmitter tags like...
POSTED Thursday, June 1, 2006
U.K. firm Jade Integration has unveiled a computer so small, it fits into a wall socket and is powered via Ethernet. The Jack PC, a rival to the smallest PC in the world, can hook up to a standard...
POSTED Thursday, June 1, 2006
The day may soon come that you can replace a severed limb with a cybernetic one, and you'll have Yukiyasu Kamitani to thank. Kamitani, a researcher at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, has just developed a robot...
POSTED Thursday, June 1, 2006
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