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My parents' place used to have a bar in the basement. It was glorious, topped with orange and beige tiles and sided with faux-wood paneling. In the mid '90s my dad got into computers and decided that the bar...
POSTED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Living in a small space forces many people to go for smaller TVs, but this is ridiculous. Headplay's personal Cinema System is a video headset and media center for both games and movies. I checked out Headplay in person...
POSTED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Can the moon heal you of whatever ailments you're afflicted with? And even if somehow I could, would a replica of the moon share the original's healing properties? I highly doubt it. But hey, who am I to judge?...
POSTED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
This Lexus looks like the car of the future, but it's very real, here today and for sale to the highest bidder. It's a custom-designed Lexus from the 2002 movie Minority Report, depicting the world in the year 2052...
POSTED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
You can purchase all sorts of things from vending machines these days, from soda and candy to iPods and cell phones. But freshly made pizza? That just doesn't seem to make any sense. How can you make pizza in a...
POSTED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
We've seen some cool products come out of the idea of using sea creatures as a basis for design, so kudos to Richard Rogers Partnership for looking at dwellers on the bottom of the ocean for inspiration in creating...
POSTED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
It's tough for people to gather lots of good data about the deep sea, as it's really hard for humans to get down there. You know, the pressure and distance and temperature and all that stuff. But hey, robotic...
POSTED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Always misplacing the remote control? Well, this is a solution, albeit one that creates a whole slew of problems of its own. The Multimedia Remote Control Wrangler is a headband and chin strap covered in Velcro, allowing you to...
POSTED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Wouldn't you love to be able to walk into your living room and wirelessly transfer photos from your cell phone or digital camera right to your TV? If certain people (Dad!) are impatient about showing off those family vacation photos...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
This Olympus VJ-10 is the spiritual successor to taping songs off the radio, one of those rites of passage that no longer exist now that, well, no one really listens to the radio anymore. But never mind that! This...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Is your home décor lacking something? Maybe some practicality? A dynamic quality? Some pixels, perhaps? Have we got the wallpaper for you: Pixelnotes is a brilliantly cool concept for shaking up the world of wallpaper. The idea is to...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
News flash: you can't buy a sense of humor. I know, it sucks that you were born with a complete inability to make people laugh, but there's nothing you can do about it. You can't read books to make you...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
It's always been tough to make submarines go all that fast due to the drag they get when trying to plow through water. It's a lot heavier than air, don't cha know! But the smarties at the Pentagon might...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
If someone gave you this stylish table lamp, you'd probably set it down on an end table and then forget about it except when you need a little light. Big mistake. But then how could you know that the lamp...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
This might look like the Batboat from the amazing 1966 movie, and you know what, it's not that different than that patroller of the oceans. The MRVI Interceptor is a robotically controlled boat that can maneuver around via remote...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Microsoft's Next PC Design competition is in full swing, bringing us all sorts of wacky, out-of-the-box PC concepts. One of the strangest and our favorites is the Pussy Cat PC concept. Yeah, it looks like a cat. It also...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Witness the power of the Control Glove from U.K.-based Engineered Fiber Structures. This spinoff from the University of Manchester looks to have designed a topnotch wireless-gaming gadget which is much cooler looking than a homebrewed Wii gaming glove. The Control...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
If you're looking for an extremely compact digital camera that can still pack a punch, look no farther than the CoolPix P5000 from Nikon. With a 10-megapixel CCD sensor, a high ISO of 3200, and 3.5x optical zoom, this...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
Hey, you Joe Montana wannabes. You think you've got some arm, don't you? You talk the talk about being able to throw the long ball, but can you put your money where your mouth is? This virtual distance football has...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
Nothing goes together quite like functional alcoholism and crippling laziness, and that's why this beer-tossing fridge is such a wonderful invention. It loads up 10 frosty brews in its magazine, then launches them to wherever you'd like at the...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
Yummy Kitchen Connect is a concept gadget that aims to make your cooking easier by providing you with a vague set of features. What is Yummy? Well, it's sort of like a computer, I guess. It goes on the...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
Those evildoers who create spyware have apparently found legitimate employment at Solid Oak Software, making the SnoopStick, a USB flash drive that lets you spy on unsuspecting PC users by planting undetectable software that reports everything back to you, either...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
Getting your electronics stolen really sucks. You spend all this money on a new iPod or laptop only to have some sleazebag swipe it from your backpack on the subway — it just hurts. Until now, there wasn't much...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
Cavities are no fun, which is a good reason to welcome with open arms any technology that claims to make tooth brushing more efficient. The Ultreo ultrasonic toothbrush promises to use fancy-pants stuff such as "ultrasound waveguide technology" and...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
While the AquaVista 500 won't be able to hold any animated stress turtles, this wall-mountable aquarium will still be able to serve triple duty as stress relief, wall art, and conversation starter as your goldfish laze away. This "fish...
POSTED Sunday, February 25, 2007
Hey buddy, in case you were somehow unaware, you're pretty annoying when you're drunk. You get all loud, you think your jokes are hilarious, and, worst of all, you get it in your head that you're God's gift to...
POSTED Saturday, February 24, 2007
Whoever thought data storage could be innovative and exciting? Okay, maybe this thumb drive with a speaker isn't as groundbreaking an invention as the telephone, but this 160-GB flash drive is pretty awesome. After all, who wouldn't want lighter,...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
What happens to astronauts if there's a problem at launch? Right now, the answer is that they blow up inside the shuttle if something horrendous happens, but NASA is working on changing that. Their Emergency Egress System concept would let...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
The Force is with you, young SCI FI Tech reader, as you wander down the urban, rainy streets with your Light Saber Umbrella open and aglow for muggers to more easily spot you. You can always fend them off...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
Adtron accelerates the race to change the way all data is stored, rolling out 160-GB solid-state flash disks in both IDE and Serial ATA (SATA) configurations. They're the highest-capacity solid-state disks (SSD) yet, besting those small UMPCs' 32-GB drives, and...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
Seemingly inspired by the ring faucet, the Bola faucet takes the whole circular concept and runs with it. Imagine keeping that grody cup you put your toothbrushes in inside your faucet. Or keeping a small vase with flowers perched...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
GSM technology is found almost exclusively in cell phones, so why would you ever find it in a doorbell? So your front door can call you when someone rings it, obviously. That way you can open the door, via...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
This Bathroom Egg Scale exists to make you feel better about your weight. Sure, the digital readout might tell you that it's high time to start cutting down your daily Big Mac and whole-milk intake, but look! You're standing...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
Standing about a foot tall, this remote-control robot won't intimidate any intruders while you're not home. But it will provide a live webcam feed to wherever you are in the world so you can see just what those thieves...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
Top Gear, the totally sweet U.K. show about cars and blowing stuff up, just pulled perhaps their greatest stunt ever. Wait, no perhaps: this is the greatest. They built a space shuttle with a Reliant Robin strapped to its...
POSTED Friday, February 23, 2007
Just the other week my cousin turned 11 and, feeling obligated, I decided to go to his party. My companion: Nikon's D40 digital SLR (DSLR) camera, ready to capture the festivities in captured 6.1-megapixel moments. Slinging the Nikon over...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
The Verbarius clock is the perfect item for your postmodern, ultrapretentious apartment. Look, it tells you the time in your native tongue, rather than having to decipher some arcane set of numbers. Numbers, pah! It mixes things up for...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
Someday robots will be doing a lot more than just shoveling snow or defusing bombs. Our future robot overlords continue to evolve, and the latest iteration is this SuperBot modular robotic system, created by the Information Sciences Institute at...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
Those black MacBooks are pretty sexy, but not everybody wants to spend that kind of money for an Apple computer. Generally speaking, PC laptops are cheaper but somehow less desirable than their Mac counterparts, what with PC laptops generally...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
Nothing says "I have a problem" like a portable bar stowed in the trunk of your car. But hey, everybody loves a party animal, right? That party animal might as well be you. The appropriately named BevRAGE is your...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
Hot on the heels of the company's HV20 high-def camcorder comes Canon's PowerShot TX1, a mini cam that captures HD footage to SD cards, doing away with that tape nonsense (and about time, too). Your video gets the HD...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
Take a look at this table. No, you're not in some bad '60s sci-fi serial about shrinking to the size of a bug so that digital watches appear huge. You're looking at the Time Table (oh-ho!), the entire top...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
Russians love their vodka, but unfortunately there's a big social taboo on drinking alone. Well, I guess it's not that unfortunate, as drinking alone tends to be kind of pathetic. Unless you're in the shower. Drinking beer in the...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
How'd you like to never pay for batteries again? And I'm not talking about plain old rechargeable batteries here. You still need to pay for the electricity that charges those. No, I'm talking totally, completely free from here on...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
If you've longed to have some type of fighter-jet technology in your car you'll be happy to know GlobalTop Technology is showing off the GPS HUD Speed Meter at a trade show this week. What's cool about this gadget...
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
3DLabs gives us a sneak peek at future GPS navigation systems, making GPS maps even easier to follow by showing rendered 3D environments on the screens of smartphones and GPS devices. At a recent trade show in Barcelona, the...
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The Internet is a scary place, and you need to be protected from all the goons and shady folks that call it home. Sure, you might think that you're safe when you're at the keyboard and therefore guarding the gates,...
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Gimmicky iPod cases are a dime a dozen, so it's hard for one to stand out. Especially for me, as I use that crappy pouch that it came with to keep my iPod from getting scratched in my pocket and...
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Although we normally don't write about screensavers, this one by Primelabs has a cool factor mammoth enough to qualify as an exception. Twingly, as it's somewhat perplexingly called, shows blogging activity all across the world. Judging from the video...
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
This fancy Japanese smoke detector is designed to call your cell phone whenever it detects a whiff of smoke. That way you'll be able to tell that your freeloading brother who's been staying with you has either burned a...
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
If you enjoy traveling to exotic and dangerous places like the Amazon, the Himalayas, or Camden, you know that one of the hardest things to find when far from civilization is potable water. And if you get lazy and just...
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
If you're one of those "forgetful" people that always loses your wallet, keys, phone, glasses, or anything else of value that can fit in your pocket, you know the frustration that comes with misplacing something for the umpteenth time....
POSTED Wednesday, February 21, 2007
We love cool toasters around here, but most of our favorites have been just concepts. While our favorite, the toaster printer, is still just a fancy idea, we've found a toaster that really does what that one merely promises:...
POSTED Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Solar panels that will be more efficient and a whole lot cheaper are on their way, ready to match the cost of old-fashioned fossil fuels within five years. The secret? Researchers are moving away from heavy silicon solar panels...
POSTED Tuesday, February 20, 2007
This might look like some sort of strange egg holder, but it's actually an office chair. It looks pretty uncomfortable, but supposedly it was designed by doctors to promote correct posture. I guess that explains the name: Doctor Riter's ErgoChair....
POSTED Tuesday, February 20, 2007
These crazy-looking speakers have a crazy name to go along with them: O'hEocha Audiophile Speakers. Created by former BMW designer Aonghus O'hEocha (now that's a name), these bad boys are lovingly hand crafted. Featuring 200-watt isobaric speakers, they provide...
POSTED Tuesday, February 20, 2007
If you ever thought car security wasn't dramatic enough, this Tesla-coil automobile protector should satisfy your desire for spectacle. Attaching a 4-inch coil to a boom on the roof of his car, Australian Peter Terren created what is no...
POSTED Tuesday, February 20, 2007
If you have a lot of valuables you need locked away safe and sound but just can't stand the horrible process of inputting a combination or password, here is a safe for you. The trustworthy-sounding Lock N' Safe is opened...
POSTED Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Summer is coming! Yes, eventually, summer is coming! Get ready, suckers. You've been getting used to having earphones permanently affixed to your head in these winter months, so you should start looking for a similar solution for the hot...
POSTED Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Seriously, just how important is your data? What are you carrying around on flash drives that you're so paranoid about losing that you go to extreme measures like this to protect? The IronDrive has been "tested for high temperature, shock,...
POSTED Tuesday, February 20, 2007
GPS navigation systems are spreading far and wide, and some are so reasonably priced, almost anyone can afford one. But designers Tan Yong Kai and Priscilla Lui Sik Peng think the whole process of finding your way from one...
POSTED Monday, February 19, 2007
Unfortunately for you, your Porsche isn't as much of a status symbol as it used to be. Sure, it's still a pretty hot car, but what with the number of super-rich getting higher every day, the size of the...
POSTED Monday, February 19, 2007
This terrible cold weather makes me long for the summer days that are warm enough for me to hang out outside all day long. When those months finally hit, you're gonna want something to keep you occupied in the...
POSTED Monday, February 19, 2007
If you like having lots of screen space to play with when you're working, I've got your new monitor right here. It's called the CineMassive MasterPlex 21T, and it's comprised of a half-dozen screens stacks all on top of...
POSTED Monday, February 19, 2007
USB flash drives are becoming the freebie of choice for companies who want to get on the good side of their customers. After all, they're cheap and you can load them up with marketing material to try to catch...
POSTED Monday, February 19, 2007
GE has decided to get into the digital camera game, by living vicariously through its partner, General Imaging. I'm sure Sony, HP, Canon, Casio, and the other boys are waiting with baited breath to say hello. Actually, there's probably...
POSTED Monday, February 19, 2007
In the spring, we told you about an extremely promising technology that restored some limited sight to the blind. Still in the experimental stage, the artificial eye, developed by the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California (USC),...
POSTED Sunday, February 18, 2007
Though it may seem a little too much like a one of those calculator watches for some, SMS Technology Australia's upcoming M300 watch promises to be a mobile phone on your wrist. I4U News reports it'll see the light of...
POSTED Saturday, February 17, 2007
Man, I hope I never work anywhere that would have me thinking wearing one of these is a good idea. Straight from Japan comes the USB-powered mask, allowing you to filter out all the SARS and avian flu germs...
POSTED Saturday, February 17, 2007
Getting from one place to another never looked so good or sounded so sweet — certainly not if you had yourself one of these VentureOne hybrid vehicles tricked out with an iPod slot in the dash. And if the...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
Footwear is a surprisingly lively growth area in the high-tech arena, where you can get GPS shoes, shoes with a CD player inside, and even vacuum shoes that will do all your house cleaning while you just walk around....
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
Change is in the air, and I'm not talking about the still far-off season of spring. I'm talking about improvements in cameraphone optics, which have been fast and furious recently. Varioptic, a Chinese technology firm, has engineered a cameraphone lens...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
It's the best technology of the 1970s married to the best technology of the early 1990s: the lava lamp speakers. They're technically called the I-Light speakers, because everyone knows that when you stick that vowel in front of a...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
Kohler's DTV shower takes bathing to an entirely new level. Adding in the kinds of features you're used to seeing only on massage chairs at the mall, the DTV allows you to program your shower to spray you from different...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
We awarded the HairMax LaserComb the coveted top spot in our Top 10 Wildest, Wackiest Gadgets from the Back of Magazines list, and now the FDA has gone and awarded it approval for the masses. Shockingly enough, in the official...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
Okay, it may be hard to fathom given the season, but picture this: you're all set for your day at the beach, just about to head out the door when you suddenly realize you have no D-cell batteries for...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
Are we seeing the end of the SUV era and the start of the tiny, hyper-efficient vehicle era? I'm not sure, but there sure are a lot of people out there trying to get strange-looking yet efficient vehicles onto...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
If you like inciting road rage and getting punched in the face by infuriated drivers, I've got something special for you. Horntones hooks into your car's horn system and allows you to play 8 different audio files of your...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
Image by Matt Krueger At a time where a story announcing that the iTunes store might carry Beatles music warrants coverage in The New York Times and new iPod shuffle colors creates a flurry of fuss across the blogosphere, the...
POSTED Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Locca Access keyless entry system could be the best method of entering your house yet, short of yelling "open sesame" and having your door open automagically. Perhaps it's not as easy as opening a fingerprint-scanning entry system, but...
POSTED Thursday, February 15, 2007
See that picture? Those are some of the ballsiest construction workers around, sticking out 70 feet over the edge of the Grand Canyon to install a glass walkway that'll allow visitors to have great views and confront their crippling...
POSTED Thursday, February 15, 2007
If you're looking for a security system that sounds high tech but is actually almost completely ineffectual, step right up and give the Lazer [sic] Trip Wire a try. Set it up across the threshold of a room you...
POSTED Thursday, February 15, 2007
Wow… if bone conduction headphones were ever thought of as cool, that misconception ends today. These crappy looking headphones are basically circa-1982 headphones that sit in front of your ears rather than on them. They then pump tunes right...
POSTED Thursday, February 15, 2007
Shark attacks aren't exactly common occurrences, at least not outside of the sea lion community, so this anti-shark surf board gadget seems like it prays a bit on the frightened and the stupid. This thing sticks to the back...
POSTED Thursday, February 15, 2007
I always wanted one of those sweet lightning balls whenever I went to the science museum either with my folks or on a school trip. Those tour guides knew what they were doing dumping us in that huge gift shop...
POSTED Thursday, February 15, 2007
Now that Bluetooth earpieces are getting more popular, they're becoming as much of a fashion statement as the cell phones they pair with. After all, if your sleek mobile's hidden in your pocket, wirelessly streaming calls to a headset,...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
From the "why didn't we Americans think of this idea" department comes a space-saving coffee maker which looks quite industrial and cool. The Café Invento, designed by studioMOM and being produced by Inventum, a Dutch manufacturer of electrical domestic...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
We're racking our brains trying to imagine a legitimate scenario where this LukWerks Spy Camera hidden inside a clock might be used. Maybe you want to keep an eye on that questionable — or perhaps comely — babysitter you...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
CPR saves lives, but incorrectly administered CPR does quite the opposite. We can use all the help we can get in the proper CPR department, which is why this CPR glove is awesome. That and the fact that it...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Yes, I know it's the dead of winter and there are blizzards happening all over the country, but that's just all the more reason to think about summer. Warm thoughts make warm people, right? That's what my survival trainer told...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Want a piece of music history to wear around on your finger? I'm not talking about a ring made out of one of ZZ Top's guitar strings, no sir. I'm talking about real music history. A company called Life...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Gaming is a lot of fun. Few people will argue with that. But for people who have been paralyzed, it's not as easy as just sitting down at the computer and playing. That's why the Gravitonus was created — to...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Good news for people interested in taking their short, disposable videos with them on the go: Nokia and YouTube have made an arrangement to get YouTube's content on Nokia's phones. Yes, soon owners of Nokia's N-series handsets will be...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
For anyone who wants to get out of this easy, here's what to get your girlfriend for Valentine's Day: jewelry. Also, flowers and a nice dinner. Get off this site now and go somewhere classy. But you should know...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
A three-wheeled Vespa scooter the new Can-Am Spyder certainly is not. This Knight Rider-looking vehicle is instead described by maker Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) as part motorcycle and part convertible sports car. The Can-Am Spyder rolls on three wheels...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Turtle Beach marketeers are aiming these Ear Force W3 wireless headphones at Nintendo Wii users, but we can spot a PR pitch when we see it. Truth is, this is one futuristic-looking headset, and its behind-the-head design is made for...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Soren Kjaer, the designer of this Milk Desk, calls his creation the "iPod of Desks." And while that's a pretty smooth pitch for a desk, it's actually a pretty apt description. It's got the clean lines, simple design, and...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Rolling down the street in an old VW Minibus would be sweet. Rolling down the street in this modified VW Bus Ball would be much, much more dangerous. Mostly because it doesn't have wheels and you would be physically...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
If you are all about going to clubs, wearing too much hair gel, dressing like a d-bag, and being from either New Jersey or Long Island, have I got the sunglasses for you. Actually, perhaps sunglasses isn't the right description,...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
If you need something to place your TV on other than the wall, you might as well make your new piece of furniture functional in addition to being aesthetically pleasing. That's just what Evesham is trying to convince you to...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Not often do we come across a piece of gear that makes us wish we'd thought of it. But when we saw this in-dash iPod dock (more of a slot, really) adapted from a car cassette deck, we dusted...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Just when you think you're too jaded to get excited by a new cell phone design, someone comes along and slaps you in the face with innovation. This morning, Samsung slapped me hard with the SGH-F520. It's the little(?)...
POSTED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Just look at these sunglasses. Is this a joke? Uber Shades are said to be created by Not-So Bright Sunwear of Germany, and the design concept crams just about everything but the kitchen sink inside their overlarge temples. Even though...
POSTED Monday, February 12, 2007
I can never tell if speakers with a really crazy design will actually sound good or are just designed to be eye-catching. I mean, they're always super-expensive, and they're speakers, so one has to assume that the design will...
POSTED Monday, February 12, 2007
Phones that can do a variety of office-related tasks are popular, as suits on the go want to be able to bring their offices with them. Sure, you could just grab a BlackBerry, but that's what everyone has. Don't...
POSTED Monday, February 12, 2007
They don't come much sleeker than this: Motorola's MOTORIZR Z8 phone has the kind of form factor that we've come to expect from the company that gave us the sexy RAZR and Q. But this hot piece of 3G...
POSTED Monday, February 12, 2007
Crazy fireplaces are all the rage these days, apparently. While some of them are a bit too precious for me to ever want, I have to admit that the Cyclone has captured my imagination a bit. Basically, it's a set...
POSTED Monday, February 12, 2007
Is your apartment a dark, depressing pit? You know, no windows, no natural light, all that good stuff? Sure, it's a studio apartment in a basement in a lousy part of town, but hey, it's only $175 a month!...
POSTED Monday, February 12, 2007
We've heard of speakers made out of everything from Kevlar to paper, but some engineering students at Michigan Technology University have brought a new material into the mix: snow. As part of a statewide snow-sculpture competition, the MTU geers...
POSTED Sunday, February 11, 2007
If you're trying to learn to play guitar so you can pick up girls, every little bit helps. The Tascam MP-GT1 is a portable MP3 player that's also a guitar trainer, helping you learn how to play your favorite...
POSTED Saturday, February 10, 2007
Sometimes you have to take it with you, and that's when the Sahara i400 by TabletKiosk makes its move. Unlike a laptop or even a standard PC, a tablet PC isn't meant for traditional PC applications like Web surfing,...
POSTED Saturday, February 10, 2007
Watch you back, Big Oil! We spotted no fewer than two environmentally friendly energy systems out in the wild this week — one that runs on garbage, the other on oil from fast food — and each has the...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
Oh, Microsoft — why are you always late to the game against Apple? First the iPod beat the snot out of the Zune in the retail world. Now, on the heels of the Apple iPhone announcement, comes word of...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
Batman cometh to water boat design in the form of the SeaPhantom five-passenger prototype high-speed boat designed by Maritime Flight Dynamics out of Fort Myers Beach, Florida. The SeaPhantom is designed to actually fly just above the wave crests,...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
At first we thought this autonomous snowplow robot was similar to a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner or its worthy competitor, the ROMI. Digging deeper, we realized that Yuki-taro is much more. The 800-pound robot is guided by GPS along...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
It's certainly a good idea to be prepared in case of emergency, but there's no need to be insanely over-prepared. If you'd like to be prepared to a reasonable degree without spending $15,000 on a bomb shelter or keeping hundreds...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
Let me know if this reminds you of another gadget: this remote control has a 2.2-inch LCD screen with an icon menu and a pair of buttons right below that change function depending on what exactly what you're doing. Yep,...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
If you're really, really worried about getting your iPod stolen, you might feel more comfortable if you knew you were protected with somewhat extreme measures. Sure, this iPod locking case is big, bulky, and awkward, but no one will...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
iRobot, the company that makes cleaning robots Roomba and Scooba, have also designed robots that don't care how many Dorito crumbs are on your kitchen floor. No, the PackBot has more important things to worry about than how disgusting...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
The blimps that we see flying over televised sporting events might be going the way of the Dodo. Since advertisers are always looking to find new, flashier, and more obnoxious ways to get attention, they're sure to love Tom...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
If you still haven't bought an Xbox 360 and are waiting for the right time, that right time might be coming up pretty soon. Rumor has it that there's a new version of Microsoft's clunky player on the way,...
POSTED Friday, February 9, 2007
They're not coming to the States anytime soon, but some new toys out of Japan from Ratoc are a meaningful step forward in wireless audio streaming. Slated for release this March are the REX-Link2 receiver (with USB transmitter) and...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
Getting your iris scanned is a pretty surefire way to get identified, but the problem is that you need to stand still and submit to the scanning. If you were a terrorist or some other n'er-do-well, the chances of you...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
Oh, but how computers can get overheated so easily. What is an overclock jockey to do? One solution might exist in the ChillTec Thermo Electric Cooler (TEC). This CPU-chilling unit from Ultra has a look quite like no other...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
This NightCove light is designed to make your sleep cycles healthier and to make you feel more refreshed in the morning. By using space-age "LED" light technology, the light sends light of various intensities washing over you as you...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
The Intellinav One portable GPS navigation unit costs just $350 but packs in features that might give even top-rated GPS devices from Garmin a run for their money. In this price range, it's unusual to see text-to-speech capabilities, where...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
This tiny handheld camcorder actually shoots in HD, surprisingly enough. How well it shoots HD… well, that's another story entirely. It shoots at 720p HD, storing the video on a SDHC memory card. It also takes 7-megapixel still pictures,...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
Unless you're stranded in the middle of the desert, you probably don't think of water as a precious elemental substance — something not just to be drunk, but admired, treasured, and savored. The ring faucet, designed by Lim Sun...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
Sometime in the next decade, you may be able to say you're helping save the world by ordering some Szechuan beef from the Chinese place on the corner. BiOil, a biodiesel company in California, has plans to buy waste oil...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
Sure, this might look eerily similar to the Apple iPhone, but it's got a couple of tricks up its sleeve to differentiate itself from that upcoming 300-pound gorilla. Namely, it's got a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. This should please people...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
If you really, really want to fly, but the damned FAA won't let you anywhere near a cockpit due to your serious unreliability and the whole not being a licensed pilot thing, don't despair. There are other options. Just...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
Why should you buy a Zune? Because Bill Gates is strapped for cash. No, actually because Microsoft, to sustain its World Domination, must never allow the enemy to get too strong, in any market, including handheld media players. After...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Ricoh just came out with its first GPS-ready digital camera, the 8-megapixel 500SE. Overall, the camera's features match those of last year's 500G, with a 2.5-inch LCD and waterproof/shockproof body. The 500SE comes with a detachable GPS module, but...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Global warming is the hot button topic of the day, thanks to the spark and charisma of Al Gore and his sassy documentary. Due to all the extra attention the imminent end of the world is getting these days, scientists...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
If your cell phone is practically attached permanently to your ear, here's a holster that integrates with your car's seat belt, freeing both your hands for other things you might be doing on the road, such as driving. In...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
The French Federation of Food Banks looks like one group we'd want to party with if they whipped out this Transportable Kitchenette. This ingenious, somewhat portable kitchen unit was designed by Aurelien Banerjee & Olivier Picard and is also...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
This might look like some sort of loom for making rugs, but in actuality someday it might be knitting new cartilage for the knee you mangled on your ski trip out to Breckenridge. By loading up with stem cells,...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
While we wait for that stylish bone-conducting Bluetooth headset from Europe to come out, other manufacturers like BlueAnt are picking up the slack. The Australian company's V12 headset has an impressive feature set, including ambient noise reduction, a vibrating...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Yesterday Kodak announced their new ink and all-in-one printers. Boring, right? Not so fast, coach. This is no ordinary ink. When you think of ink, what do you think of? Me, I think of feeling like I'm getting raped...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
I've been begging for a decent set-top content downloading service to bring internet video downloads to the TV for some time now, assuming that Netflix would be the one to get the job done. It looks like our friends...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Of all the things to stick a solar panel on, why a keyboard? When was the last time you had a computer keyboard outside, especially a computer keyboard functioning and hooked up to a computer? I certainly can appreciate...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Do your vacation snapshots of the Midwest annoy you because they don't live up to your high photographic standards? Feel like your pictures of the Grand Canyon don't give you enough of the view? Next vacation, you could lock...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Record your favorite obnoxious noise or lovely poetry onto the Soundbomb, arm it, and then leave it lying in wait. Soon some hapless passer-by will trigger its motion detector, and will be taken aback by those rude sounds or iambic...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
The great thing about concept phones, other than the fact that they're almost always much cooler looking than any phones currently on the market, is that they don't need to actually work. I mean, you can Photoshop anything you...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Helio is joining the field of mobile music sales, launching their new music store that'll allow their customers to download music from any of the five major labels directly to their phone. A neat twist on the idea allows...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
We've seen our share of waterproof headphones, but this pair of earbuds from Aquapac could be the alpha dog of underwater headgear. While previous models have been aimed at people who want to shower with their iPods, the Aquapac goes...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
You're a really serious alcoholic — er, excuse me, wine connoisseur — so you've probably got a humungous wine cellar full of all sorts of expensive and delicious vintages. How do you keep track of all that vino? In your...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
If you like your storage receptacles to be conspicuous and dorky, I've got the perfect portable closet for you. Straight from Japan, this electrical outlet closet is handmade by skilled craftsmen that have been making outlet-shaped closets for many...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
I feel like we're living in the golden age of the umbrella, what with them being virtually unchanged for decades before now suddenly becoming the hottest "boring" product to get redesigned behind the alarm clock. While there are plenty of...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Here's a great way to tick off that old fogey teacher: Get one of these Mead binders with built-in speakers when it's released just in time for back-to-school shopping this September. Just plug that iPod or any other music player...
POSTED Monday, February 5, 2007
Soon, people with pacemakers won't need to drive to the hospital to give their doctors an update as to how their tickers are doing. The Latitude system is a new type of defibrillator that monitors a variety of stats, such...
POSTED Monday, February 5, 2007
Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision have joined forces to create a mobile device that features a roll-up e-paper-like display. It's a grayscale and can't be read in the dark, but the 5-inch screen represents a significant step forward in...
POSTED Monday, February 5, 2007
Deep sleepers, rejoice — the Sonic Boom alarm clock is here to shake you out of your slumber. Definitely one of the most aptly named gadgets we've seen, the Boom has an extra-loud buzzer for those who have been...
POSTED Monday, February 5, 2007
Stuck in gridlock again? May as well catch up on Lost while you wait for that tour bus in front of you to start moving, and the Sun Visor Theater can help you out with that. What looks like...
POSTED Monday, February 5, 2007
Solving two problems at once, researchers at Purdue University are working on a generator that creates useful energy by munching up all sorts of garbage. Dubbed the "tactical biorefinery," it's being designed with soldiers' needs in mind. They can...
POSTED Monday, February 5, 2007
Ironing sucks. It's just one of those chores that you need to do every once in a while, but is always the last thing you want to do. Well, I assume some people need to do it every once...
POSTED Monday, February 5, 2007
Think your Wi-Fi range sucks? Well, you could always upgrade to an N router from your measly B or G, but it still won't give you a really insane amount of range. What you need is one of these...
POSTED Monday, February 5, 2007
The era of Blade Runner and I, Robot seems to draw ever closer to reality with new robots like Chaos. This guy, though small, looks mean enough to make me run in the other direction crying like a little girl....
POSTED Sunday, February 4, 2007
Winter isn't over yet, folks, so you need to keep thinking about staying warm out there. That doesn't have to mean you don't get to have convenient portable music. Nike has just announced their unfortunately named Hatphones, which are, you...
POSTED Saturday, February 3, 2007
Pretty much all alarm clocks, no matter how clever they are, look cold and impersonal. There are very few models out there that don't have the same plastic casing and harsh LED lights. I don't need my alarm clock to...
POSTED Saturday, February 3, 2007
More than a few high-tech vehicles drove through our sights this week, including a motorcycle with glass wheels, a futuristic concept car that looks like a UFO, and an electric vehicle that runs so quiet that the designers installed...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
Sony's been trying to kill off the iPod for years, but now it's almost admitting defeat by releasing this CPF-IP001 iPod audio docking station. Except for a low-profile release of an iPod adapter for car radios a year ago,...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
Walteria Living won "Best New Collection" this week at the New York International Gift Fair, and after a quick look at the company's home decorations, it's easy to see why. This adorable Chihuahua (named Carlos) is a nightlight whose...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
Check out this washing machine — do Koreans love their spin cycles or what? Though you need to speak (or read) Korean to understand the in-depth specs of this baby (also known by Samsung/Hauzen as the SEW-HKR149ATA) we can...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
Now that you've run out and bought a new iPod Shuffle in every color, you'll probably want a way to charge your new accessories on the go. After all, one isn't always near an outlet. Just charge up the...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
Manning checkpoints isn't exactly the most coveted job around, especially in places where people are trying to blow you up on a regular basis. With that in mind, SET's CounterBomber should allow those burdened with that unlucky job at least...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
If you're a real literal thinker, this Earth Watch is a good way for you to see what time it is based on what time really means. Rather than seeing some arbitrary number that humans use to split up the...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
Good-sounding multimedia speakers aren't hard to come by these days, nor do they cost a lot of money. But the problem with many systems is that they're designed for games, digital audio files and watching YouTube. As a result,...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
When you want the biggest screen possible, you soon realize that a front projector with a separate screen is the way to go. Problem: you've got to make some compromises, one of them being resigning yourself to watching with...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
Man, I hope you haven't recently purchased a PSP or Nintendo DS. If you did, you might not want to keep reading, cause I'm gonna make you feel pretty stupid. I just discovered the ultimate in handheld gaming, and it...
POSTED Friday, February 2, 2007
Tiny particles are making big news today at the University of Edinburgh, where scientists have created a motor mechanism for a nanomachine. Last year researchers at the University of Georgia developed minuscule nanogenerators to power the nano world, but this...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
I hate when I'm taking my daily bath and my phone rings. I need to dry my hand off and very carefully take the call, trying to not drop it into the tub with me, ruining my phone and...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
Okay, we admit it: we've been keeping something from you. The truth is we spotted our dinosaur-robot pal Pleo at CES last month. He's looking pretty good these days, clearly having been to the dermatologist to pick up some better...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
In the category of gadgets we can't believe were invented only last year comes GE's IntelliCorder, a motion-sensitive peephole camera (disclosure: GE owns SCI FI). It's less like a surveillance system and more like an answering machine for your...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
A fancy new glass has been developed in Japan, one that promises to cut down on the energy usage of buildings everywhere. It looks like a normal window regularly, but at the flip of a switch it turn to...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
This is one smart container: Enter your weight, duration and intensity of exercise, the temperature, and altitude into the HydraCoach Intelligent Water Bottle's hydration calculator, and it'll measure how much water you're drinking and recommends precisely the amount of...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
VoIP phones are neat and all, but not neat enough to take up space in your pocket or bag. I mean, since you need a WiFi hotspot to connect with them, it's not like you can just chat it up...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
Gadgets aren't just about functionality. No, they're about style, too. Just ask Apple. People want their new toys to not only act the way they want but they also want them to look cool while doing it. Zox Japan...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
Yes, this is a stethoscope that attaches to an iPod. No, it isn't for lousy doctors who want to listen to Pink Floyd while also checking on your heart. It actually records heartbeats, allowing doctors to listen later on...
POSTED Thursday, February 1, 2007
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