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Recently we've seen some pretty amazing and innovative gadgets from Samsung. Remember those incredibly skinny phones, the 10-megapixel phone, and the i70 camera with HSPDA? Well the gadget flow doesn't stop there. The i7 is Samsung's new digital camera...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Sick of using a mouse? No? Well, uh… maybe you should be? I dunno guys, I got nuthin'. This here contraption is all about ditching the mouse for some reason, but I personally enjoy using a mouse. But hey,...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Does the idea of having a full-blown PC in your car — letting you watch ripped movies as you zoom down the freeway — excite you? Short of sticking a PC tower in your trunk, options are somewhat limited....
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
If you have lousy posture and your mom isn't around to hound you about it anymore, perhaps you need a little help being reminded to sit up straight like a big boy. The Visomate is designed to act like...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
To help celebrate our one-year anniversary last week, we asked you fine readers to write haikus about your favorite gadgets. You certainly didn't disappoint — we got dozens of entries, praising everything from TiVo (clearly a favorite) to the...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Now that you know how much better high-definition video is than your DVDs, you must be thinking your home movies are starting to look pretty low-res, too. This spring might be a good time to upgrade to an HD...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
This sweet battery lamp is like the 9Vo(l)tive lights that we found a while back, but better. Better in that this looks like a mini lamp, complete with pull chain, which is sweet, and also better because this one is...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Remember Polaroid? They make those cool cameras that give you a printout of your photo immediately. Yeah, they haven't done too much since digital cameras have become all the rage, but that doesn't mean they haven't been working on...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
This alarm clock is designed to make the most miserable part of the day … waking up … a bit more motivating. Combining annoying motivational posters with annoying alarm clocks, the Motiwake (really?) Motivational Alarm Clock sasses you out of...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
What, is this a magic trick? Although these glass wheels may be difficult to keep clean, they certainly do give this futuristic motorcycle an eerie and almost magically floating look. The Radurra (Italian for "clear") wheels are made by...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
This little Peugeot Dauphin might look like a harmless toy tricycle, but it's a sophisticated concept for a full-fledged electric vehicle by Portuguese designer Ricardo Baiao. It doesn't make those horsey sound effects like that Girasole electric car we...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Steve Jobs didn't need to get into his black turtleneck to get us excited about the latest development from Apple: brightly colored iPod shuffles. Today the company rolled out new versions of its tiniest MP3 player in pink, green,...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Are you brave? Do you love danger? Are you a complete idiot? Have I got a ride for you. Some brave, stupid man strapped himself into a seat hanging on the end of an angry, unpredictable robot arm. Smile...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Okay, the music-playing watch. Before you dismiss the idea as this decade's version of the calculator watch, have a look at this prototype version from iriver. The design has a number of things going for it: first, the MP3...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Does this phone look familiar? It looks like something else, but I just can't put my finger on it — oh! Now I see! It looks almost exactly like the overhyped Apple iPhone coming later this year! Well, what's...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
This is perhaps the most annoying backpack ever. That might not sound like much, as there aren't many backpacks out there that anyone would classify as annoying, but just take my word for it. The Skullcandy LINK has built-in speakers,...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Good news for people who hate white gadgets: the Wii is getting' a facelift. Yes, later this year you'll be able to choose what flavor you want your Wii to be (note: don't actually taste your Wii; it's a...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
UCLA researcher Chang-Jin Kim has developed a seriously tiny robotic hand. It's a mere 1mm in width, so it's way too small to help you get that stuffed animal for your girlfriend at the arcade. It is, however, also small...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Budding celebrity paparazzi on the cheap, I'd like you to meet the Olympus SP-550 UZ. While it's certainly not the most covert camera we've looked at, stealth is no longer an issue, as the 7-megapixel model has built-in 18x...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
The Moppels are a family you might want to get to know. Shaped like strange little animals or anthropomorphic figures, they're small and flexible lighting fixtures that attach to almost anything with their suction cups or little magnetic feet....
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
This Girasole electric car juices up at a regular wall outlet for about $1 worth of energy, has a top speed of 45MPH, and can travel 75 miles before needing a recharge. OK, I'm with you so far. What...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
Gawd, making a shopping list is just so hard. It's like, first you need to go find a pad of paper, right? Then you are all like, "yo, where my pen at?" And once you finally get your pen and...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
Searching around in the dark can be scary. You never know what's going to jump out at you, and when the vampire werewolves finally show themselves, what are you going to do — hit them with your flashlight? If you're...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
If you really want to get beat up for your sneakers, these will pretty much guarantee that will happen. Yes, these "Hi-tech" shoes feature such 21st century innovations as a CD player. Yeah, that won't skip or anything as...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
Remember all the cool stuff you assumed you'd be able to do with the Zune's WiFi when it was first announced? Then remember how you didn't buy one because Microsoft crippled the WiFi so much that it was pretty...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
Made up of millions of photodetectors, the sensors in today's digital cameras don't come cheap, and they don't go easy on the juice either. At Rice University in Houston, Texas, developers are determined to make a single-pixel camera that...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
For those of us who remember the '80s, there's nothing quite so fun as reminiscing with really old video games. Now the same people who brought us tiny Atari keychain joysticks have come up with Nintendo Mini Classics. These...
POSTED Sunday, January 28, 2007
HP has a new touchscreen computer in the works called the TouchSmart IQ770. Designed to sit in your kitchen or another common space and act as kind of a central hub for your family, it's a unique type of PC...
POSTED Saturday, January 27, 2007
Thursday brought this week's top story, when we celebrated our first anniversary! You can still join the party and win a DVD set of the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica by clicking on our birthday post and composing...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
Oh first glance this MediaStream eMotion (how clever!) is a neat little gadget, what with it's portable DVD playing abilities. I mean, watching DVDs on the go is pretty sweet, especially if you're eight years old and riding in the...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
What do you do when you have more than one video playback machine, say, a Blu-ray and HD DVD player, and only one HDMI input on your HDTV? Or what if you want to run two players through a...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
Here's a clever solution for bicyclists who don't feel like carrying around a bulky lock with them. This Bicycle Security system has a lock built into the back of the seat, so when you roll up to a bike...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
Hey, folks — just a reminder that we're giving away some seriously sweet DVDs, the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica, to one lucky reader. All you gotta do is click on over to yesterday's fine post celebrating our anniversary...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
Soon you'll be able to buy more than just an overpriced Venti Half-Caf Fat-Free Soy Mochachino at Starbucks. They're planning on setting up downloading stations in the ubiquitous coffee giant's stores, allowing you to pop your iPod in and soak...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
JVC has announced the CU-VD20, a new DVD writer for use with the company's Everio line of hard-disk camcorders. Easy to use, the burner simply needs to be hooked up to the camcorder via USB cable. Now you're ready...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
Who hasn't had this happen to them: You've got tons of incriminating documents lying around, and the Feds are pounding at the door. Just as you fire up the shredder, the power goes out. Damn, that's standard FBI procedure,...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
What is it about European soccer fans? It seems to me like they're all nice people until they get into a stadium, at which point they turn into violent animals hellbent on smashing the face of anyone who isn't...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
When you're taking big pictures with a decent camera, even large SD cards can fill up quick. What if you're on vacation for a week and don't have access to your computer to dump your shots on? You don't...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
Each week Adam Frucci takes a closer look at the latest gadget buzz in his column, Shift. Image by Falon The iPhone looks pretty sweet. Yep, it's got that fancy touchscreen that you can use two fingers on, it changes...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
Windows Vista's SideShow is starting to gain lots of traction, and buzz is building about its ability to drive an extra display of various sizes. Heck, we even saw one little SideShow screen nestled inside a handbag the other...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
According to today's New York Times, scientists have built a memory chip the size of a white blood cell with wires as thin as proteins. It holds 160,000 bits and is 40 times as dense as today's memory chips...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
While everyone's been waiting for Apple to get around to adding Blu-ray players to their computers, MCE Technologies went ahead and did it themselves. Now you can add a Blu-ray burner to your already-expensive Mac Pro for another $700. Oh...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
Yes, it was exactly one year ago today that SCI FI Tech made its first splash into the vast digital ocean that is the Internet. Since then we've aimed to bring you a nonstop cavalcade of juicy technology news,...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
Domtar has just launched some paper that'll be a boon to those of you stuck in cubicle farms. While the tightly-packed office is second only to a kindergarten classroom when it comes to places that germs love to incubate, Domtar...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
I'd like to introduce the Samsung VLUU i70, a sexy 7.2-megapixel camera with a lot going on inside the slick casing. As point-and-shoots go, this camera has fairly familiar features, with 3x optical zoom, a 3-inch LCD screen, face...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
If you live in a giant loft full of postmodern art and futuristic furniture, I've found your new couch. If you live in, well, a normal apartment, I found a weird couch for you to look at and not purchase....
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
Many towers, especially those with really beefed-up specs, sound like a jet engine while running. All those fans crammed in there to keep your computer from catching on fire are far from quiet, and they can really become annoying....
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
The Bacterial Orchestra is a really amazing looking art installation that creates a dynamic, "living" musical composition. Comprised of a series of "cells" that have both a microphone and a loudspeaker, it's programmed to have every cell try to...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
This $8.95 Mark-My-Time Digital Bookmark encourages young readers to hit the books by tracking their progress every day. Slim enough to fit between the pages of any book, it works in either countdown mode or as a cumulative timer...
POSTED Wednesday, January 24, 2007
GPS devices are easily a dime a dozen (or two or three dozen for that matter) these days. So it's no surprise to see audio-equipment maker Harman Kardon throw its hat into the ring with the $500 Guide + Play...
POSTED Wednesday, January 24, 2007
These three hybrid motorcycle concepts were designed by Machineart with the idea of bringing environmentally friendly bikes to the two-wheel set. Much like hybrid cars that are all the rage these days, the bikes use a combo of gas...
POSTED Wednesday, January 24, 2007
This here is the Cellubike, a new gimmicky way to shed those unsightly pounds and smooth up the parts of your thighs that look like garbage bags full of tartar sauce. It tricks you into thinking you won't have...
POSTED Wednesday, January 24, 2007
If there's anything Sony is really good at, it's devising new ways to take your money. The new PS3 firmware that was released this morning, version 1.5, includes support for swiping your credit card right into your console. Yes,...
POSTED Wednesday, January 24, 2007
We've seen no end of USB-powered heating gadgets — from mousepads to cushions to drink warmers — so why has it taken until now for someone to put forward the USB heated mouse? I mean, you're plugging that sucker...
POSTED Wednesday, January 24, 2007
You never know when it might come in handy to have a conversation on video. I mean, how can you predict when your boss will sexually harass you when you're at the water cooler (I'm looking at you, Peter)? It's...
POSTED Wednesday, January 24, 2007
LG announced a new media player today, the FM37. It's a diminutive little guy, measuring a mere 10.4mm thick, but that's not to say it doesn't perform like the big boys. It's got a nice 2.4-inch TFT touch screen...
POSTED Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Disappointed that we won't all have our own personal helicopters by 2010? Never mind that — if you live in the U.K. you might be able to take a ride in this driverless electric and biofuel hybrid bus by...
POSTED Tuesday, January 23, 2007
There are plenty of USB MP3 players that are super cheap and super simple, but they generally lack some pretty basic functionality that makes using an MP3 player worthwhile. For example, do you feel like trying to sort through a...
POSTED Tuesday, January 23, 2007
It's the year 2007, don't you think it's about time we start living a bit more like The Jetsons? I mean, I don't need a robot maid or anything, but some of those little details would really make me...
POSTED Tuesday, January 23, 2007
We welcome any and all ideas to combat repetitive-stress injuries, and this vertical mouse promises to do just that. The Evoluent Vertical Mouse 2 said to keep your hand in a more relaxed position than a regular mouse, since...
POSTED Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Here's a riddle for you: is an electric vehicle really electric if it generates electricity via an onboard diesel engine? Truck manufacturer Oshkosh seems to think so, as that's exactly how their new HEMTT A3 runs. I'm not so sure....
POSTED Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Robots may not yet be sophisticated enough to take over the world, but they're getting there. They've already learned how to get a beer from the fridge and creepily stare at you from across the room, and now our...
POSTED Tuesday, January 23, 2007
If you've been holding off on getting an all-in-one media center until a gigantic, all-encompassing model hit the market, it may be time to bust out those credit cards. This new behemoth from VidaBox has a Blu-ray drive, an...
POSTED Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Until Draft N wireless gear is more universally implemented and the standards are finalized, most people are stuck with boring old G standard gear. It's all well and good, but the range leaves a bit to be desired. That...
POSTED Tuesday, January 23, 2007
As much as I appreciate wanting to stay bundled up in the winter months, any warming accessories need to balance their benefit with the potential dork factor. Scarves? Fine. Hats and tuques? As long as they leave out any...
POSTED Monday, January 22, 2007
If you're one of those tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists worried about black helicopters spying you on the night, I have good news and I have bad news. The good news? There probably aren't black helicopters spying on you....
POSTED Monday, January 22, 2007
The Nintendo Wii is a lot of fun and all, but don't you wish it was, well, a bit more portable? Sure, the motion-sensing Wiimote is best used in a decent sized room rather than in the back of a...
POSTED Monday, January 22, 2007
As assuredly as the universe will continue to expand, shiny gadgets will keep doing the opposite, as this superflat cell phone from Samsung shows us. The Ultra Edition 5.9, part of Samsung's line of Ultra phones, is only 5.9 millimeters...
POSTED Monday, January 22, 2007
This crazy looking boat is the WAM-V, which stands for Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel. It's a tricked-out catamaran that can be configured in a number of ways depending on what it's being used for. It holds the crew up...
POSTED Monday, January 22, 2007
Oh man, do I need one of these. The Ergopod 500 is designed with the lazy blogger in mind, allowing us to shorten our commute from 20 feet to no feet. To be fair, the trek from bed to...
POSTED Monday, January 22, 2007
Where else but Japan would you be able to find a scented cell phone? Nowhere, that's where. Coming soon to the land of the rising sun is the Sony Ericsson S0703i , a phone designed with a slot for one...
POSTED Monday, January 22, 2007
Do people still use mousepads? With optical, wireless, and gliding mice out there, the pad seems to be more of a unnecessary limitation for the modern mouse than a valued accessory. I mean, I still use my Brandenburg Gate...
POSTED Sunday, January 21, 2007
Is a toaster a piece of personal electronics? Only if you squint. But who cares? We can't get enough of them. This week brings us two new concept toaster designs forecasting how we might brown our bread in the...
POSTED Saturday, January 20, 2007
The skies are about to get a whole lot friendlier if Virgin Atlantic has any say about the matter. They're trying to get the Department of Transportation to allow them to fly domestic US routes with their tricked-out planes....
POSTED Saturday, January 20, 2007
The massive gadgetfest that is the annual Consumer Electronics Show may be over, but that hasn't stopped the unending stream of tech toys coming our way. We spotted some way-cool concept gadgets like the Rubik's Cube MP3 player, the...
POSTED Friday, January 19, 2007
One of the greatest benefits of those handy self-checkout systems at the grocery store is that you usually don't get stuck behind someone who's overly chatty with the cashier. Now technology promises to free you from even having to...
POSTED Friday, January 19, 2007
If a sudden emergency happens, what's the first thing you'll grab? If you said your teddy bear, that's adorable and sort of pathetic. Well, in Japan they're working on making that answer adorable and sort of practical, which is...
POSTED Friday, January 19, 2007
For the last couple of decades, game controllers have been sprouting more and more buttons, party because today's games have tons of fancy 3D graphics. For PC games, though, you're relying an awful lot on the mouse, which is...
POSTED Friday, January 19, 2007
Traveling light is the name of the game when you're going for a hike, as the more stuff you have to haul around with you up that mountain the faster you'll get tired and run whining back to your...
POSTED Friday, January 19, 2007
It's not so much the fact that the handle on this knife is made from bone that has me worried… no, it's the artificial-sapphire blade that sets off the alarms. Or rather, it doesn't — since the knife has...
POSTED Friday, January 19, 2007
Apparently people are big fans of Snow White, as magic mirrors seem to be a hot new category of consumer electronics. Not that any of the devices calling themselves magic mirrors do the same thing; they apparently just like...
POSTED Friday, January 19, 2007
Hitachi is releasing their new W51H phone in Japan, and it features a display that puts the iPhone's high-res screen to shame. While Apple's buzz-generator sports a nice 320x480 3.5-inch screen, the W51H has a whopping 480x800 resolution on...
POSTED Friday, January 19, 2007
Peter Parker is a photographer, and Spider-Man shoots webs from his wrist. What if we were to combine their abilities? Could we fashion a tiny camera that attaches to your forearm like a web shooter? Allow me introduce you to...
POSTED Thursday, January 18, 2007
YouTube is super-popular because people can watch videos on there instantly, but let's be honest — the quality kind of sucks. It's fine for short clips that you don't really care about seeing with crystal clarity, but it's far...
POSTED Thursday, January 18, 2007
Watches are generally designed to tell us what time it is in some fashion or another, allowing us to plan our day and figure out when we have to be at appointments and meetings. The Elio watch puts a...
POSTED Thursday, January 18, 2007
It's kind of ironic that webcams, gadgets designed to take pictures from your computer, are generally pretty ugly and unphotogenic themselves. Why wouldn't manufacturers put a bit more effort in so people aren't stuck having to buy a gray eyeball...
POSTED Thursday, January 18, 2007
First we saw the Samsung Turret Robot for the DMZ in Korea, and now there's a sniper-sniping robot that's been created for use in Iraq. Well, this one doesn't have any guns on it, but it can find where...
POSTED Thursday, January 18, 2007
You love your MP3 player, but you love the '80s even more. This doesn't have to be a competition — not if you had an MP3 player shaped like a Rubik's Cube. After all, that Rubik's Cube speaker you...
POSTED Thursday, January 18, 2007
RFID is kind of scary. It's in our passports now, allowing people to skim info from us in airports. Companies are gonna start sticking them in employee badges, allowing them to be tracked throughout a building. And now you can...
POSTED Thursday, January 18, 2007
Do you love getting completely organized while wearing a neck lanyard? If so, the new IntelliScanner mini might be the barcode scanner of your dreams. Unlike other IntelliScanners we've looked at, the mini comes with a software package designed to...
POSTED Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Small items appeared in The New York Times and CNN last week reporting that Google has signed on to help 19 universities and laboratories with an ambitious telescope project in Chile. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will have a 27.5-foot...
POSTED Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Getting TV shows onto your iPod just got a whole lot easier. What, it's already easy if you download them from iTunes? Well, then I meant that getting TV shows onto your iPod just got a whole lot freer. Better?...
POSTED Wednesday, January 17, 2007
It's finally freezing outside, so it seems like as good a time as any to torture ourselves with pool-related gadgets that we can't possibly enjoy for another few months. I personally love gigantic, insanely expensive pool toys, and this one...
POSTED Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Do your pants fit well? I don't mean are the long enough and do they give you enough room in the crotch, I mean do they really fit well? I'm going to go ahead and guess that they don't. There...
POSTED Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Having an automated vacuum robot is great and all, but they all look so darned boring. What you need is a fancy cleaning robot that shows off your personality. If that personality likes fried bologna and watching fast cars make...
POSTED Wednesday, January 17, 2007
There's nothing more satisfying that hearing the shocked yowls of pain that a co-worker lets out when you peg them with hundreds of projectiles in a matter of seconds. They might protest, saying you called them in saying you...
POSTED Wednesday, January 17, 2007
As gadget shows go, the annual Consumer Electronics Show is… what's the word? Freakin' huge. Over 140,000 people attended CES this year, all of them pushing, buying, or covering supercool new tech toys. Among the thousands of devices shown...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
We love concept gadgets and we love cell phones, so it goes without saying that we love this super-sexy concept cell phone. All the stats provided are that it comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, 2 GB of memory,...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
It's a funny thing, reporting on a show about electronics, because the gadgets you're covering are often the same things as (or very similar to) the products you're using to cover them. Personal electronics are more than just a...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Video games enthusiasts are seen as having pretty much the antithesis of an active lifestyle, which is what this strange "dream machine" is trying to change. It forces you to be active, move your body around, and work up...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
This "magic mirror" isn't all that magic and really isn't a mirror, but we'll give them points for trying. It's basically a LCD TV with a camera at the top that will "reflect" whatever it sees, making it a...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
It's not quite a set-top box, but it's certainly a step in the right direction. Netflix is starting a movie streaming service this year, rolling it out to customers over the next six months. Initially only 1,000 movies and...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
How many times have you sent an email and immediately wished you could change something in it or take it back entirely? Sure, at 3 am after a bottle of whisky it might have seemed like a great idea...
POSTED Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Bluetooth is becoming more and more ubiquitous, as various mobile devices use the wireless protocol to transmit data quickly and easily. If you have a computer that didn't come equipped with Bluetooth, it's now easier than ever to give it...
POSTED Monday, January 15, 2007
If you have fallen into a pattern of repelling members of the opposite sex when you get close to them, don't despair. Sure, it might be because of your troll-like looks or ingratiating personality, but it might just be...
POSTED Monday, January 15, 2007
DSLRs are amazing cameras and provide photographers with great quality shots, especially when compared to standard point-and-shoots. However, with the increase in quality there's a decrease in convenient features. DSLRs are rather bulky and don't let you use the LCD...
POSTED Monday, January 15, 2007
Who says video games separate kids from reality? The way I see it, video games give kids a more interesting reality to aim for. Take Halo, for example. Would you sign up for military service if you knew you would...
POSTED Monday, January 15, 2007
Ever stop to think that the aroma of your car's tires could be more pleasant? No? Well, the boys (and, probably, girls) at Kumho Tires did, creating the world's first scented car tire. The Ecsta DX replaces the rubber...
POSTED Sunday, January 14, 2007
Mattel knew it needed to get Barbie on board with that newfangled digital music trend, but how? Enter Chat Diva Barbie and her brunette friend Teresa. Barbie can answer her cell phone with a few catch phrases — that's nothing...
POSTED Saturday, January 13, 2007
We had a grand time covering the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, though we have to admit that the biggest gadget news of the week came out of San Francisco when the iPhone hit. Not to take...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
If thin TVs are hot, then these OLED sets Sony was showing off at CES are supermodels. The body of each display is a superslim 10 mm or 0.39 inches in depth. That's for 27-inch screen — for an...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
Most times when you get a surge in voltage you don't even know it, so what's the problem? Each time that happens your equipment suffers slight damage and it shortens its life. Ok, got that… but don't surge protectors...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
If there's a normal, unpretentious home theater projector out there in the universe, this is the projector it's farthest from. Star Wars fans will be knocking each other over to get to Nikko's R2-D2 home theater projector, which shoots...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
As we've just seen, wireless speakers are getting more popular, since they let you do away with stringing cables across your room, but how about that other big complaint from decorators: the speakers themselves? A company called Soundolier (think...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
You might not be the most colorful character, but that doesn't mean your camera needs to be boring. Kodak's EasyShare V803 (8 megapixels, $200) and V1000 (10 megapixels, $250) come in a variety of hues designed to make the...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
The Oyster Wi-Fi speaker system from Avega Systems can accept wireless music streams from your PC or media server, game consoles, or anything equipped with Wi-Fi, really. Now when you want to play PC music over your stereo or...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
Music players, digital cameras, video games — these extras we're used to finding in a cell phone. But the Pharos GPS Phone 600 (coming February for about $650) has something not even the Apple iPhone has: full-blown GPS navigation with...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
In a move straight out of Home Improvement, a plumbing company has designed a totally "pimped out" toilet. It comes complete with PlayStation, DVD player, and even a beer tap. It looks like there's a laptop stand there as...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
Sometimes the most simple ideas and designs turn out to be the best ones. Case in point: these Memory Infinite USB thumb drives. By sticking a female connector on one end and a male connector on the other, designer...
POSTED Thursday, January 11, 2007
Verizon unveiled their new VCast Mobile TV service here at CES this week, delivering streaming, live television to cell phones in the U.S. for the first time. The service, launching sometime in the next couple of months, will offer...
POSTED Thursday, January 11, 2007
XM Satellite Radio been around for quite a while, but ways to access and efficiently use it are continually improving. Terk has taken the lead with several innovative approaches. The XM Mini-Tuner (Model CNP2000, $29.99) is a tiny receiver...
POSTED Thursday, January 11, 2007
What good is a hard-drive based system if it limits you to just one room? Panasonic just unveiled a very cool all-in-one system that combines a whopping 80-GB HDD with music server capabilities, so you can listen to that...
POSTED Thursday, January 11, 2007
Okay, we all know about GPS, but here's a new twist: Internet GPS. That's right, all of Dash's GPSes are connected to the Net, so if a car with a Dash GPS 5 miles ahead of you slows down,...
POSTED Thursday, January 11, 2007
Eleksen, maker of the technology in Kenpo's iPod jackets and that flexible keyboard, is opening new doors for its fabric-interface technology. Or rather, new Windows. The company's Wearable Display Module, which can be sewn into a sack or handbag,...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Picture by Peter Suciu Just look at this Kenwood guy keeping a straight face while trying to convince a captive audience that the company's new entertainment is "seamless" with a diagram that's anything but. Kenwood, can you hear yourself?...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Allow me to introduce the JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7 camcorder. With not one, but three CCD image sensors (one for each red, green, and blue), the GZ-HD7 is primed to take in all it can swallow. These 16:9 progressive-scan...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Admit it: when was the last time you actually listened to a CD in your car? Like most of us, you probably listen to either FM, satellite radio, or most likely, your portable MP3 player. A few manufacturers are...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Remember those Ultra-Mobile PCs that had the gadget world all abuzz a while back? Anyone? Okay, they were those reasonably sexy handheld PCs that were sort of in between a portable media player and a laptop. The most notable...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
It's tough to impress me, but iriver did it with its Unit 2. The company calls this slick stereo minisystem the Unit 2 because it hasn't thought of a name for it yet. The front LCD pops off to...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
It's not quite a pebble or a PEBL, but at less than 4 cubic inches overall, UTStarcom's clamshell CDM8935 may be the smallest cameraphone extant. At 3.3 x 1.7 x 0.07 inches and weighing a slight 2.8 ounces with...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Ever see a fat surfer? I didn't think so. Brookstone's doing its part to keep surfers slim and trim with an exercise platform called uSurf ($500). It works on the body's core muscles and improves balance and strength, since...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Everybody wants a sexy flatscreen TV on every wall in their house, though when you get one and are actually faced with hanging the sucker, you have to either face your handyman limitations and hire a custom installer or...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
On the heels of Apple's iPhone bombshell, Motorola is quietly taking the wraps off its own new music phone, the MOTORIZR Z6. Although the phone is optimized to operate in conjunction with MTV's Urge music store, the Z6 can play...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
HD Radio is a great way to upgrade your car's radio, since you get better-quality FM broadcasts and your favorite AM talk show sounds likes it's on the FM band. The only catch is that you need a head...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Steve Jobs didn't announce a new version of OS X during his keynote. He didn't really talk about iLife, or new computers, or upgraded iPods. But he did introduce the iTV, or rather, Apple TV, as it's called now....
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
While Bushnell might not be a name many of us know, XM Satellite Radio is. This Onix400 combines many of the mapping and GPS features that Bushnell specializes in, and adds in all the benefits of XM Radio. The...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Another portable GPS device. So what? Well, the Mio DigiWalker H610 is different. Smaller than a deck of cards — and tons more fun — the H610 ($499) is not just a portable GPS, it's a personal GPS. This...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The Consumer Electronics Show has always been the premier event for seeing the latest technology, and this often includes tech that was developed for commercial, industrial, and even military purpose, then converted to suit consumer needs. So it comes...
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
The rumors are true. Yes, there will be an iPhone this year. And, yes, it will be called iPhone, despite reports to the contrary. It comes in 4-GB ($499) and 8-GB ($599) models. The iPod interface looks pretty great....
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Picture by Peter Suciu So this is the largest 100-inch LCD TV… as opposed to the largest 108-inch LCD TV, which Sharp was showing a few booths down. I wonder who has the smallest 100-inch TV?...
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Sony announced four new HD camcorders at CES, although two have a counterintuitive twist: they record HD footage on DVD. The catch is that the discs are playable only on Blu-ray players and PCs. Both cams — the HDR-UX7...
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
On the heels of 15.5 million Walkman phones old (according to Sony Ericsson), two new Walkman models are coming this spring, the high-end W880 (left) and the more entry-level W200 (right). Both are GSM phones and will come in...
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Starting yesterday, you can get the latest Palm Treo, the 750 ($400 with a two-year contract plus rebate). Aesthetically similar to the Treo 680, the Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC-powered 750 can access Cingular's faster UMTS data network; unfortunately,...
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
How many times has this happened to you? You're in the west wing of your mansion, and your DVD system is way back in the east wing — over a quarter mile away. Klipsch to the rescue with "KlipschCasting."...
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Samsung's industrial designers have stepped way outside the aesthetic box with its two new Ultra phones, the Ultra Music (pic after the jump) and the Ultra Video (shown). The former is a 100-mm-thin two-sided candybar; one side is the...
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Motorola is expanding its Q and RAZR empires with a Q for Sprint (shown) and an HSDPA-enabled RAZR, the RAZR XX, for Cingular. Basically a physical and features twin to its Verizon sibling (QWERTY keyboard, Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone,...
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
You probably know SanDisk as the manufacturer of that removable flash-memory card in your digital camera. You might not know that SanDisk is moving powerfully into other markets and is already the No. 2 seller of flash MP3 players....
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
Feel torn between the emerging formats for camcorders? Let's see… you've got DVD, flash, and hard-disk models to choose from, so there's really no need to deal with silly tapes. Still, it's hard to decide. With Hitachi's DZH500A cam,...
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
What this computer doesn't have is part of the news! The new Malata PC-68001 Personal Computer lacks a hard-disk drive, nor does it have a CD-ROM. What it will have is an affordable price: around $300 when it arrives...
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
Making a mix is more than just picking which songs you want to rip to your iPod. Belkin is giving you a chance to make your own original music, using the iPod as your master recorder. The TuneStudio, which...
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
Ever been talking to someone on your cell when something so amazing happens that you utter the time-honored phrase, "I wish you could see this"? If both your phones are equipped for Cingular's Video Share, they can. Just press...
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
This is not your father's toothbrush: the HydraBrush Express toothbrush has more than one head. No more up and down for you — the multiheaded power brush brushes the outside, inside, and bite surface of your teeth all at...
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
Ever wonder how much it costs to run your big-screen LCD? Kill-A-Watt EZ tells you how much electricity you're burning. Connect your set (or any appliance, really) and EZ will tell you the burn speed in kilowatt-hours (just like...
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
In the old days, radios were big pieces of furniture, with the family gathering around to have a listen. That was when milk was delivered directly to your door, but in this new millennium there's no reason to be...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
So, you're driving down the road one fine morning in February 2009 when suddenly the FCC officially pulls the plug on analog TV, and just as suddenly, your little tykes are freaking out in the back seat as SpongeBob...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
Imagine a video game so lifelike that you're unable to distinguish it from reality. A virtual reality that totally immerses you in the action. Sorry — that technology doesn't exist, at least not yet. Meanwhile there is the Philips amBX....
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
There have been plenty of options out there for people who want surround sound but not surround speakers, but we have to admit that Philips's SoundBar HTS8100 looks like a pretty slick new entry to the category. Using proprietary...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
Thus far, neither Blu-ray nor HD DVD has made much of an impression on the buying public. That's because old-fashioned DVD is pretty damn good, and because whenever there's a format war, consumers duck and cover, until one side...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
Verizon is due to launch its MediaFLO TV broadcast service, enabling you to watch live TV — not streaming video, but live, like on an actual TV — on a cell phone. MediaFLO is planned to debut in the...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
It's kinda hard to get excited about HD DVD now that LG's gone and announced a player that can do both HD DVD and Blu-ray (more details on that in a bit), but Toshiba gave it the old college...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
Highlight of the new products Netgear touted this morning was the Digital Entertainer HD (Model EVA8000), a media receiver that promises to give you "any content, anywhere, anytime." So what does that really mean? Essentially it's media receiver —...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
Music phones are evolving faster than Mr. Spock in Star Trek III. The latest mutant branch of the cell family tree is the new "Ultra Music" phone from Samsung. Few details were available today (we'll know more tomorrow), but on...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
In case we forgot where we were here at CES, WowWee — maker of the Roboreptile — reminded us with its Elvis Robot that, yep, we're in Vegas. And believe it or not, the Alive Elvis, as it's called,...
POSTED Sunday, January 7, 2007
Demanding PC games and laptops usually don't mix so well (unless price is seriously no object), but Asus developed this sexy external graphics card for just such a situation. After you connect the card to the express card slot...
POSTED Saturday, January 6, 2007
We've seem some feeble attempts at iPod karaoke before, but we're willing to give this new one, from venerable brand Emerson, a fair shot. The gist is you get a microphone that connects via cables to both your iPod...
POSTED Saturday, January 6, 2007
Here it is: hot slick gadget No. 1 from CES Unveiled. Celestron, maker of last year's notable SkyScout, this year brings us the VistaPix IS70, a digital spotting scope with a camera built in. The scope has a powerful...
POSTED Saturday, January 6, 2007
Okay, how's this hotel Wi-Fi doing? Seems to be working… kinda slow, but it does the trick. Right, here we go. Coming to you live from Las Vegas, SCI FI Tech is on the scene of the colossal Consumer Electronics...
POSTED Saturday, January 6, 2007
The research arm of the military is responsible for inventing a pretty sizable chunk of the technology that we enjoy on a daily basis, from the internet to GPS, so it's no surprise that soldiers get the hottest new...
POSTED Saturday, January 6, 2007
Before the massive gadget show and tell at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) begins (this Sunday!), we caught wind of a few advance tidbits in addition to our usual roundup of news and gizmos from the tech world. The...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
Citizens, have no fear — Fujifilm's FinePix IS-1 is on the case! Crime bosses across the globe hiding in the dark will no longer be safe thanks to this digital camera that can capture both normal images and ones...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
This concept cellphone takes some inspiration from the rumored Apple Phone (don't you love how a non-existent gadget can be an inspiration?) but then adds some unique twists that make it stand above the crowd of photoshopped phone designs....
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
Love 'em or hate 'em, emoticons — those ubiquitous smiley and frowny faces that have conquered the end of all sentences outside of Harper's magazine — are part of our vocabulary now. Artist/designer Mauricio Melo decided to take them to...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
Controlling your iPod while driving can be dangerous, what with you trying to divide your attention between the road and the little screen in your hand. The man won't let you hold your cell phone while you drive, but your...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
It's tough to receive a text message when you're in the middle of a battlefield. Firstly, it’s hard to feel the RAZR in your bulletproof vest vibrating, and then it's tough to type back with those gloves on. The military...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
We've seen terabyte hard drives before, but they've typically been restricted to posh high-end music servers that your rich uncle Darrell has in his second living room. Hitachi's 1-TB drive, announced yesterday and sure to be touted mightily at...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
The time when friendly robots tend to our every whim is neigh. We already have the Roomba, the vacuuming robot, and now ROMI is coming to kick little Roomba's ass. Standing a bit above knee height, ROMI is a...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
There are USB-powered drink chillers out there and there are USB-powered drink warmers out there, but until now you had to make a tough choice: are you a cold beverage man or a hot beverage man? And who can...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
Adam Frucci takes a closer look at the latest gadget buzz in his column, Shift. Image by Matt Krueger Early adopters — those fine folks who run out to buy the latest technology as soon as it hit the shelves...
POSTED Thursday, January 4, 2007
You could plug your raging speakers into your tinny laptop, but that would involve either a really long cord or keeping your computer in the living room. Siren has attempted to solve this problem with its Screamer, a device...
POSTED Thursday, January 4, 2007
I've written about so many unrealistic fridge concepts I might just be an expert on the subject at this point, and it's my expert opinion that this is on of the least-plausible designs in a field chock-full of implausible...
POSTED Thursday, January 4, 2007
What's better than a flat-panel television? A flat-panel television with a screen on both sides, that's what. Right? I mean, sure, most people have one side up against the wall all the time, but just the idea of being...
POSTED Thursday, January 4, 2007
Can you feel CES in the air yet? If not, this advance announcement from iriver should add to the gadget ambiance. The portable-media-player manufacturer will be showcasing at least a couple of new toys, including a new version of...
POSTED Thursday, January 4, 2007
Drunk drivers beware: your car will soon be smart enough to tell that you've been hitting the Zima and won't let you endanger yourself or others in the near future. Toyota is working on an elaborate system to gauge whether...
POSTED Thursday, January 4, 2007
Image by Matt Krueger We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the HD disc format war, thank the Lord. LG is making the world's first HD DVD/Blu-ray combo player, allowing you to play either of the new...
POSTED Thursday, January 4, 2007
If two is good, three is better, right? See, that's what I said! But try telling that to my girlfriend. Ha, but seriously folks, I'll be here all week. Uh, yeah, so this TriPong table allows three people to...
POSTED Thursday, January 4, 2007
Christmas doesn't really come for gadget lovers until early January. That's when the annual Consumer Electronics Show hits Las Vegas, bringing over 140,000 people for a city-wide show and tell of the latest tech toys. Technology writers from all...
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Charging cables are synonymous with clutter, though the MultiPot can untangle your cord world a bit by keeping those knots out of sight. It acts as both a table lamp and charging station, keeping unsightly AC adapters inside while...
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Oh tiny MP3 players, how rarely you adequately balance size with functionality. MP3 players can be made about as small as you could reasonably expect, yet there's a limit to how small you want something to be. Now that...
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
What do you get these days when you go for a "luxury" phone? You get Mobiado's Luminoso, a phone with a frame that's made of aircraft aluminum, an ultra-hard DiamondShield coating on the screen, and sapphire-crystal buttons. The keypad...
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Bluetooth is awesome and all, but in my experience no one has figured out how to use it in wireless headphones without creating a seriously lousy product. That healthy skepticism doesn't mean I'm without hope or optimism for the future....
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
It's rare that great leaps are made in the field of shower radios, one of the most low-tech gadgets out there. But hey, if it plays audio there's gonna be an iPod-friendly model released eventually… let's call it Jobs' Law....
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Personal tracking gadgets are really gaining footing in the competitive field of devices for creeps and overbearing parents. While some of the earliest devices were shameless in their privacy-invading purposes, newer models give people more socially acceptable and selfless reasons...
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
This slick little computer might look like a mix between the Mac Cube and the Mac Mini, but it's actually, believe it or not, a PC. Yep, and not only is there a tiny, sleek PC out there, but...
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
We've seen dolphin-shaped personal submarines before, but who knew it would turn into a mini-industry? Here I was thinking it was a singular creation of one nutty engineer with too much time and money on his hands, but now...
POSTED Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Plenty of gadgets have borrowed from the iPod's design, so why shouldn't buildings get in on this action, too? The iPad (how original) will be a 23-storey residential tower with a look inspired by the Apple iPod. Crazy as...
POSTED Tuesday, January 2, 2007
There are only a couple of pieces of technology at your door: the doorbell and the security system, if you have one. Why keep them separate? This fancy doorbell has a biometric security system with fingerprint scanner built-in, letting you...
POSTED Tuesday, January 2, 2007
In an online tease, BMW ushered in the New Year by giving us a sneak peek at a gadget that will include such goodies as an MP3 player, a USB port, a DVD player, a 65,000-color LCD screen, and...
POSTED Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Cable and charger clutter is getting to be some sort of pathetic epidemic these days, what with the increasing number of portable gadgets in our pockets needing to get juiced up when we get home from gallivanting about town....
POSTED Tuesday, January 2, 2007
If you are the type of person who obsessively washes their hands, wears gloves when you have to grab a subway pole, and only eat meat cooked to a char, chances are you might have an irrational fear of...
POSTED Tuesday, January 2, 2007
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