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DVICE ARCHIVE FOR September 2008
Whether you have a full head of hair or you're an indie sci-fi movie maker who can't afford to build his own set, this Israeli barber shop is definitely a place you should visit. It's got a steamlined interior...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Making things invisible is a pretty neat trick. In 2006, a team of Duke University scientists bent rays of light around a copper ring (which was still visible, thanks to pesky visible light). Now researchers say they are getting...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Piracy has become a major issue these days, and I'm not talking about the type of piracy that involves illegally downloading music and movies, although that's a pretty big issue as well. No, I'm referring to the original pirates: people...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Here's a question for you: is it a bigger problem to wake up from a deep sleep in the middle of the night or to sweat a lot during a deep sleep? If you chose the latter, this strange sweat...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Watermill is an ingenious little device that attaches to the side of your house, sucks in humid air and converts it to water, much like the Max Water we've seen before. It then filters the water until it's drinkable,...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Wonder no more how to hook up your home theater, because Goofy is here to help. Disney dusts off the same animation technique it used to keep soldiers from getting V.D. in WWII, updating it perfectly for life in...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
A lot of our readers like the idea of easing the process of scarfing down beaucoups de hors doeuvres, quaff liquor and socialize at the same time. They reacted favorably to those FingerFood plates that you wear like a...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
What's that red streak zipping across the waves at 110mph? It's the R8,8 Biocat Catamaran, and its Ferrari-like looks are complimented by a super-green biodiesel engine. Don't let its treehugging name fool you, though — it's a fire-breathing 29-footer...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Remember that six-PCs-in-one-sweet-glowing-box setup we showed you? Well, designer Fredrik Perman isn't all about raw processing power. He also has a softer, sweeter-smelling side: flower-shaped USB fragrance oil warmers. The units are designed to burn all kinds of fragrant...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Fans of the Icon A5 personal aircraft will be excited to know that the future of personal flight will likely include vehicles like the Igarashi single-person helicopter. The concept vehicle, designed by Japan's Yutaka Igarashi, looks like a cross between...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Once the Odyssey IV dives below the surface, it's all on its own. Developed by MIT's Sea Grant Program, the Odyssey IV autonomous underwater vehicle (or AUV) is designed to explore deep down below the ocean — as far...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
Hate needles? Well, I have some good news for you: a Japanese inventor has created a needle-free, completely painless injection that'll let you get your vaccinations without the embarrassment of hyperventilating in front of someone with a better education than...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
The HD Gurus are hard workers. The video testing website's writers rounded up 125 HDTVs and hooked up sophisticated testing equipment to see which ones really were delivering the goods. We're constantly hearing lots of marketing bluster about that...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
This awesome sculpture was created by Korean artist Jean Shin. Dubbed the "Sound Wave," it's made from a large number of melted vinyl records. It was created to show "the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
For the privately-developed SpaceX rocket project, apparently the fourth time is the charm. After three dismal failures, the fourth launch attempt resulted in the two-stage Falcon 1 streaking into orbit last night after a flawless liftoff at 7:15pm EDT....
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
Consider for a moment the humble switchplate. It's usually in a location close at hand, so why not enhance its utility with a convenience or two? Designer Justin Porcano did just that, adding a couple of hooks on which...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
If you want to record music, the four track is out. Now, you need to record on your computer, digitally. But to do that, you need a way to plug your guitar into your computer. There are a bunch of...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
Two of our favorite things just got together: TiVo, and using a computer in our home theater. Nero, makers of DVD burning software, finally made good on its year-long promise and released a package of TiVo software you can...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
Japan's desire to completely leapfrog over the need to use traditional PCs in the same manner as Americans got another boost recently with the launch of the au Box from KDDI. Utilizing the set-top box along with a cellular phone,...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
For most people, the name Porsche conjures up images of sophisticated design, exquisite quality, and most importantly, extreme speed. And while their new P'9522 delivers ample doses of those first two qualities, a web connection that relies on WiFi...
POSTED Sunday, September 28, 2008
Rejecting the old notion which says that children should be seen but not heard, British designer Alex Underwood's Speaker Buddies turn your hi-fi into a vision of child like innocence. While they lack the soft feminine curves of Ross...
POSTED Saturday, September 27, 2008
If you think your HDTV's contrast ratio of 10,000:1 is impressive, you ain't seen nothing yet. The Carl Zeiss powerdomeVELVET Planetarium Projector has a whopping 2,500,000:1 contrast ratio. Yes, that's insanely high. Sure, it's a projector designed for planetariums, not...
POSTED Saturday, September 27, 2008
T-Mobile commanded an Apple level of gadget attention this week when it introduced the G1, the world's first phone to feature Google Android. That being, of course, Google's cellphone operating system that anyone can design applications for, making it...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
If you're new to skateboarding, you might not think it's all that hard. You know, once you get the balancing down it's all cake, right? Well, until you start going down a hill. At that point, you realize it's not...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
These indoor flying machines are getting more sophisticated every day. If that tiny Tomy QFO we showed you is just not radical enough, take a gander at this Micro R/C 4-Channel Flying Saucer, equipped with a remarkably advanced solid-state...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
You won't have your grandparents over to your posh, colorful apartment in Tokyo while living at the Reversible Destiny Lofts. Designed by NY-based architects Arakawa & Gins (who, between you and me, need to pick some different colors for...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
It's about time the whole restaurant menu/payment ritual was streamlined. To the rescue comes EPOS-lite, a design concept for a tablet that serves as both a menu and wireless payment device. It even wirelessly recharges itself as you place...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
Jet Man has done it. This morning, Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy made a giant leap for personal flight as he crossed the English Channel with a jet-propelled wing strapped to his back. This Iron Man-like stunt started with a...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
Although this chair looks like it's made from LEGO, designer Matthew Plummer Fernandez actually used a much more geeky material in building it: sound waves. The Sound/Chair has contours that precisely match sound waves mapped on a 3D graph...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Honcho Craig Mundie spoke at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference and prophetized up a techno-storm. Evidently he sees technology taking us toward a world where virtual presences inhabit a 3D space and use that...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
The first thing I did when I saw this setup was look at my own wall and see where I could fit one, too. Then I grabbed a napkin to clean up all the drool. Up above is exactly...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
Archos, known for its multi-talented portable video players, has just busted out a new one: the Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet. The shiny player can be equipped with attachments that turn it into a digital video recorder, TV set,...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
Nixie clocks! They're the nerdiest way to tell time ever! And that's why we love them. But this nixie clock takes it to the next level, embedding the vacuum tubes not on some boring stand, but on what looks like...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
As the country with one of the fastest rising elderly populations on the planet (a whopping 22 percent of the population is over 65) Japan's innovators have begun planning for life in a mostly grey society. The latest invention geared...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
The next year is going to be fun. A month from now, the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 will go on sale, along with all the Android apps in the online Android Market store. Having played with the G1 for a...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
The man to the right may look like he's just leisurely waiting around (with an umbrella attached to his back), but he's actually taking advantage of artist Jamie O'Shea's Vertical Bed to have himself a power nap in the middle...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
If your computer or laptop is the centerpiece of your media center then here's something to get excited about: The new Slingbox PRO-HD can send a 1080i HD signal to both. (Yeah, it's no 1080p — hopefully that comes...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
Well, if you've got any sense in your head whatsoever you don't need little old me to tell you that there's absolutely nothing that could make a simple power cord worth $1,800. But let's face it: the Furutech Powerflux power...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
We're big fans of the designers at Art.Lebedev studios. For their next trick, the creators of that hyper-ambitious keyboard with a video screen behind every key are trying their hands at a touchscreen cell phone. Its simple yet functional...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
Take one look at this idea and you know it's a good one. You've been there: you're at a cocktail party, hungry enough to eat a horse, but you don't have enough hands to hold your drink, a heaping...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
If you're kept up at night in fear of a robotic uprising destroying humanity, you probably can sleep easy for a bit longer. After all, robots are still relatively stupid, not able to do much more than move around slowly...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Dodge Boys are getting frustrated. While GM basks in all the accolades (and brickbats) for its Chevy Volt, Chrysler races to catch up, and now rolls out three prototypes of its own electric vehicles (EV) — a conventional-looking...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
Having a few Smart Coasters to jazz up your tabletop is sure to get the conversation going when you have folks over. That's because the coaster can sense whether the drink on top of it is hot or cold,...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
Three Japanese engineering giants, Nissan, NTT Docomo and Sharp, have joined forces to introduce the world's first cellphone with the ability to act as an Intelligent Key for your car. Nissan's Intelligent Key technology already comes standard in most of...
POSTED Thursday, September 25, 2008
We've all heard the litany of complaints about Microsoft Windows Vista. The blogosphere reverberates with Vista schadenfreude (DVICE occasionally included), perpetuating assertions that the flagship Windows operating system is expensive, unwieldy and generally a disaster. It's time for a...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Readers of DVICE are no stranger to Wakamaru, the robotic receptionist made by Mitsubishi and installed at Uniqlo's Manhattan location. The 'bot acts as a greeter, replying in English on all kinds of topics from the weather to what...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Party time, dude! Oh, awesome, I see you brought a cooler. That's just what this party needs, cause we're running a little dry, bro! I'm sure that's stacked to the hilt with frosty brews. This is why I invite you...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Harmonix web director Jeff Chausse posted some of the community features in store for RockBand.com. The web site will be getting a complete overhaul. Among the new features is an online photo creator that lets you do photo shoots...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
USB drives are pretty ubiquitous these days, but why would you want to add yet another item to your list of things that you carry around with you every day? Aren't your pockets and bags full enough? What we need...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Okay, we were just kidding around yesterday with that (actually legitimate) idea for a lie-detecting headband, but now we've found another device that takes a similar concept way, way too far. Here's FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technologies), a system...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
If you're going to make a pinhole camera for taking pictures with, there are probably more practical cases for it than a 150-year-old human skull. But then again, it's tough to find a more unique camera than the Third Eye,...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
If you've seen a cat chasing a laser pointer dot all over the room, you're already familiar with the concept of this $50 Infrared Tracker Remote Control Car. Point its infrared dot wherever you want to car to go,...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Take a golf cart, put a smiling face on the front and four seats inside, wrap it in a body that might have once been seen in an animated Disney feature, and what do you get? Peapod, Chrysler's answer...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The folks over at MIT have put together a robotic wheelchair that can pull off a neat trick: Just tell it where you want to go, and it'll take you there. The wheelchair will map out whatever building it's in...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Yet another fictional invention from the late sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke appears to be one step closer to reality. The Japan Space Elevator Association hopes to be instrumental in getting the first real working space elevator built, a device...
POSTED Wednesday, September 24, 2008
If Rick Deckard had a versatile 18-wheeler to hunt down replicants with, his life probably would have been a lot easier. At least, that's what the Blade Runner, a bus concept by British firm Silvertip Design, promises to be....
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
It's that time again: yes, more ludicrous, overpriced speakers aimed at audiophiles with more money than they know what to do with. Today's ludicrously-named entrant is the Grande Utopia EM. What do you get for your $180,000? Well, you get...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
A failure within the Large Hadron Collider facility caused around a hundred magnets to overheat. As if that wasn't bad enough, a leak caused by a faulty electrical connection saw its 27-kilometer-long ring to be flooded with a ton...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
It's impossible not to compare the first Google Android phone, the HTC-made G1 unveiled this morning by T-Mobile, to the iPhone. Like all iPhone clones, the Samsung Instinct, the LG Voyager, and varying HTC Touch models, the G1 includes...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Soon after we finished gushing about Samsung's gorgeous new Mac Air-beating laptop, Sony comes along with one that's even more impressive. While the just-announced Sony TT laptop isn't as slim as that Samsung number, the 2.87 pounder is sure...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Rock Band is one of the most fun video games to come out in some time now, offering mere mortals to get in on the fun of being a rock star. The only problem is that it requires a whole...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Just what we need right about now: a new lie detector. Scott Bunce of the Drexel University's College of Medicine in Philadelphia has applied for a patent for a lie-detecting headband, using a near-infrared light that shines through the...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Behold the new T-Mobile G1 phone in motion here, showing it from every angle in all its glory. We're nuts about its push Gmail, Google Maps integration, MP3 store, the first few apps and the $179 phone's slide-out keyboard,...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
T-Mobile and Google just unveiled the G1, a rebranded HTC Dream that's the first phone to come out that comes loaded with Android, Google's open-source software, meaning anyone in the world will be able to design applications for this...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Got some friends over who dig the picture you have displayed on your digital photo frame? Print out a copy for them. HP has a whole slew of digital frames that are PictBridge enabled so you can hook them...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
For metropolitan train otaku and those not currently in Japan and just a bit nostalgic for the sights and sounds of the world's most crowded train system, the Yamanote Line Watch is the perfect accessory. Created by Japan's odd watch...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
If your knowledge of America's medical training technology is comprised only of that disembodied torso of a dummy you practiced CPR on back in high school, you might think that we're a little behind other nations, such as Japan...
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
Knowing how to time stoplights is a key element to driving. You don't want to stop completely at a stoplight when it's just going to turn green immediately. That's a waste of gas! You want to slow down just enough...
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
Never mind that people all over the world have repeatedly shown that they don't want 3D-anything — filmmakers, HDTV set purveyors, and now camera manufacturers apparently have yet to hear the news. Fujifilm is the next techno-fashion victim, rolling...
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
In a world gone electric-car crazy, Mitsubishi wants to show its mettle by taking over Iceland. The company's i MIEV (Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle) apparently passed its tests in Japan, and starting next year, Mitsubishi plans to roll out...
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
The first day of autumn reared its lovely head this morning, and that makes us even more interested in keeping an eye on the weather. Oregon Scientific, the king of weather stations, just made it easier with this basic station...
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
I'm no expert, but as I understand it most jewelry such as necklaces are designed to be pretty, sparkling things, usually made from fancy, expensive materials like gold and diamonds. That's why they're so expensive. But I guess that's not...
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
You might hate your alarm clock, waking you up as it does every morning, but think about it from your alarm clock's perspective. You sleep through its alarms, and when you do deign to wake up when it goes off,...
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
How does Esquire's E Ink cover work exactly? We had to know, so we got the same team that smacked around Pleo and turned them loose to methodically dissect it. See all the magazine gore you can handle.
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
Considering Japan's reputation for odd erotic animation/manga and advanced robotics, many are waiting to see what kind humanoid robots the country will produce in the not-too-distant future. If commercials are a barometer of local culture, then it looks like we...
POSTED Monday, September 22, 2008
There's no shortage of gadgets for giving your devices a much needed energy boost when the batteries run low, but most of them really aren't much fun. The iYo from Swedish designer Peter Thuvander turns charging up your devices...
POSTED Sunday, September 21, 2008
Just because you're heading out into the wilderness, or to a party at the local teetotaller's house, doesn't mean you have to limit your adult beverage selection to sucking down a six-pack of Bud. The Evolution Mobile Bar looks...
POSTED Saturday, September 20, 2008
This week we found out there's actually nine wonders in the world, and they're all at the Electrolux Design Labs '08 competition. As if that discovery isn't enough to herald in a new era, what if you lived in...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
Laser tag is one of those sweet activities that, while fun, isn't enjoyed all too often due to the necessary equipment often being a bit too expensive. Well, you're an industrious and handy individual. What's stopping you from just making...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
The TechX Challenge, Singapore's first government-sponsored robotics competition, will run 'bots through some unique trials, such as stair climbing, being able to navigate building interiors, and, the hardest of all, being able to autonomously operate an elevator. The last...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
In the market for a new HDTV or Blu-ray player? You might want to wait a couple months, as all indications point towards huge drops in prices for the holiday season. Thanks to a combo of slowed consumer spending, the...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
LED wizard Moritz Waldemeyer has snapped some lights onto a bike that illuminates the spokes with a smiling face, the universal sign for happiness. Each wheel only uses one LED that's set to strobe, with a microchip built into...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
The Navy has a new boat in its arsenal, and it's not afraid of drug runners or pirates. The new boat, called the Stiletto and dubbed the Batman Boat by enthusiasts, is an 80-foot, 60-ton, $6 million experimental ship that...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
Here's one swanky mouse. This fancy stainless steel number by Grands of Dalvey takes you back to the old days of Apple iMac puckitude, but this one's so fine it's suitable for engraving. It's more than just a pretty...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
We've seen speakers built into furniture before, of course — even lamps — though we like the AmpLamp best. The table lamp design is practical and posh, letting you add sound to a room without detracting from the décor....
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
Some industrial designers create products that people must adapt to, but we think they have it all wrong. These two entries in the 100% Design show in London, billed as the UK's leading contemporary interiors event, are onto something....
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
Unmanned aerial vehicles just got another superpower — now they can see through walls. Those Predator drones were scary enough with hellfire missiles on board, but they get an extra punch when they can place a figurative red dot...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
You might wonder why we don't see more fashion-meets-tech devices considering the advances we've made in recent years. The new Sound Lives Magnetic Earphones from Thanko might provide some explanation. Offered in a variety of styles including soccer ball, skull...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
RCA has expanded its popular Small Wonder line with new EZ300HD. For only $160, you get a pocket-sized cam that's capable of shooting 720p HD video and crisp pictures, with the same 2.4-inch screen and easy controls as previous...
POSTED Friday, September 19, 2008
Someday soon, you may not even notice which operating system your computer is using. That broadband-connected machine may not have an operating system on board at all, at least not like Windows and Mac OS X are today. That's...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider has only been online for a short period of time, but it's already hit a few snags. Due to an electrical fault that struck a cooling system for the mega-magnets that keep the beam on track,...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Yesterday, Valleywag wrote that Microsoft was canning its $300 million ad campaign featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld after only two commercials. Today, it turns out the ads won't be pulled, just reformulated. Microsoft's campaign drew a mix of...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
You may recall SRS Labs, maker of sound-processing software. No? Well, SRS Labs makes sound-processing software, which is supposed to beef up your audio. Their processing is built into a lot of devices — from TVs to sound cards...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Well, it's about time somebody redesigned the lowly coat hanger. This Swan coat hanger prototype was dreamed up by industrial design student Asaf Yogev, who created a deceptively simple pattern that's a whole lot more versatile than those old-fashioned...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Here's something you don't see every day: a desktop PC with a built-in touchscreen. Usually, desktop PCs are designed to sit tucked under your desk and away from view, allowing an external monitor to display what it's got to show....
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Encircled in the picture above is the first planet from an alien solar system ever seen by humans. Located 500 light years from Earth, it's a planet eight times bigger than Jupiter. While it looks close to this sun-sized...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Hey ladies! Have you been waiting for a phone designed just for you? One without all the confusing buttons and features found on phones designed for men? Well, the wait is over! Say hello to the pink high heels phone!...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
GM's Chevy Volt electric car is said to be on track for its late 2010 delivery date, but there might be a problem or two with the batteries. The nearly 300 lithium ion batteries will be strapped together in...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
If you've ever watched someone have a video chat on his PC and thought, "I'll never figure out how to do that," Asus has something you should see. The AiGuru videophone makes video calls super-simple by getting rid of...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Despite being named after an amazingly lethal fish, industrial designer Matt Bassett's H1 "Fugu" rescue helicopter is designed to save lives, and do it better than the 'copters that came before. He's worked it out so that the Fugu...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
We can't say we've ever wanted to carry digital pics on a keychain, but no one ever said a gadget had to have a demand before it was made. This Pocket Album keychain from Digital Foci has a 1.5-inch...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
The task of being Big Brother has become increasingly difficult, what with all those huddled masses peering up at your ever watchful CCTV eyes. To lighten the load and offer the overseers a bit more cover a Japanese firm called...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Do you know someone who is constantly worrying about what other people are doing? Someone whose main purpose in life seems to be trying to be as normal and mainstream as possible? The Average Day Watch was made for...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Watching HDTV on your computer isn't an easy thing to get setup, despite the obvious benefits as computer screens get larger and convergence becomes more of a reality. That might change, however, as soon as the DirecTV HDPC-20 hits store...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The "Growing Jewelry" collection by Icelandic designer Hafsteinn Júlíusson features beds of real Icelandic moss fixed to rings. There's also a pair of knuckle dusters in case you want to add some lettuce to your knuckle sandwich. Be forewarned,...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Japan, a country at the forefront of train technology, crisscrossed with a crazy number of rail lines and bullet trains, has done it again. Kawasaki Heavy Industries is developing the country's fastest train. How fast is that? A speedy 217mph,...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
It's easier to curse the darkness than light a candle. Actually, I might have butchered the saying, but that's the appropriate way to put it when it comes to the copy protection issues with Spore, Electronic Arts' amoeba-to-universe sim...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
If you feel like you're being spied upon now, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Designer Benjamin Males presents Target Project, part performance art and part tech demo that shows how easy it is to automatically gather and record racial...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Most of the time, if you're looking to buy a station wagon to tote the kids around to soccer practice in, you'll look at reasonable, sensible choices from regular old auto makers. If you're the Sultanate of Brunei, however, you'll...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid has done it again. Look at her Symbiotic Villa, a house that's more like an exotic, angular beehive than a mansion. She designed this dwelling for the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan, where twenty...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Canon just rolled out a monster DSLR camera. The Canon EOS 5D Mark II is not going to be cheap when it's available in November ($2700 for the body, lenses extra), but for that wad of cash it brings...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
While you won't find any delicious beer in this Heineken mini keg, I don't think you'll be too disappointed when you look at it a bit closer. Yep, this is a 20-watt guitar amp, completely contained within a beer keg....
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
When the dust of the presidential election settles, whoever claims the throne big chair in the White House will get briefed on all kinds of stuff. Said stuff includes a report titled Global Trends 2025 — put together by...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Hello Kitty fan alert: you officially have your first full functioning Hello Kitty robot ready to hit the market. The purveyor of cute has teamed with iRobot to introduce a special Hello Kitty branded iRobot Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. The...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
That digital picture frame on your desk is looking a little bulkier this morning. Kodak just announced a new kind of frame that uses an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen instead of an LCD. OLEDs, as anyone knows, are...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Famed vacuum-cleaner maker Electrolux shows it doesn't suck as much as you think by putting on a design competition every year. This year's nine Design Lab '08 finalists have outdone those from the past, with students inventing and designing...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Stocking up on gold bullion to get you through the impending financial apocalypse? Don't forget your electricity needs, easily satisfied by the $5000 Solar Stik portable wind and solar power generator. The 80-pound twin solar array and wind turbine...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
You've seen (and maybe yawned at) the exterior of the upcoming 2011 Chevy Volt, now take a close-up video look at the interior of the GM electric car. Two 7-inch displays, touch screen and capacitive touch controls, a gear...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Want the world to know that you have a deep and sustained love for both professional photography as well as coffee? Do you want to do so in a way that doesn't just involve taking pretty pictures of coffee? Just...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Tardigrades, also known as "water bears," are hardy little creatures ranging from under below 0.1 mm to 1.5 mm. Seemingly against all logic, they can survive temperatures as cold as near absolute zero to over a scorching 300 °F,...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Back in the old days, a 16-track mixing board took up the space of a ping pong table, but not anymore. The 20 faders of this Yamaha digital mixer fit handily onto the screen of this Nokia N810 Internet...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The genius of these iPhone cupcakes cannot be overestimated. Nor can their tastiness, I suspect. The set of 12 cupcakes, each decorated to look like a familiar iPhone app, is so geekilicious that we're torn between admiring the artwork...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
We've shown you shots of the upcoming Chevy Volt before, but now the electric vehicle is officially… official. Due in the latter half of 2010, it's the first official plug-in hybrid from a major manufacturer, promising costs of a...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Saving money is cool, but puzzle solving — hey, that's where the real fun begins. If only there were some way to combine the two… oh, hold on, what's this? The Kässeli Piggy Bank is sold disassembled, so you...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Casio's EX-FH20 high-speed digital camera certainly fits the bill. It can shoot bursts up to 40 frames per second (fps) — faster than the eye can see. There are seven burst-mode settings, and to make sure you never miss...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Badass as they are, military snipers are sometimes humbled by heat haze, which can make a clear target look like murky soup. If the boys at DARPA have their way, though, a new kind of sniper scope could turn...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
So, what's the next step in video games? Graphics are already pretty incredible, and it won't be too much longer before we hit a point after which graphics can't get much better. Then what? What will we advance? It will...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The original Lite-Brite, introduced way back in 1967, has been one-upped by a successor to the three-dimensional pixel image creation throne called Luminodot. What the Luminodot brings to the table is a denser 3500 light pixel grid for obsessive...
POSTED Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Now this is an arcade cabinet. The C-MACC arcade cabinet can play any emulated game on it thanks to the computer buried inside. Available online, emulated games will let you play thousands of arcade classics on this machine. But that's...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Notice you don't see many "unboxing" videos on DVICE. There's a good reason for that. They're stupid. Check out this one, the most realistic one yet, which serves as a lampoon of the futility of the whole worshipful unboxing...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
We've been hearing a lot of talk and seeing a handful of demos of pocket-sized projectors, but now there's one going on sale September 30th. The first one out of the gate is from 3M, hawking its MPro110 model...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
The line between the grown up and kiddie tables blur with Netherlands-based designer Tineke Beunders' Marbelous. It has grooves cut into the tabletop, legs and supports that'll have marbles rolling all the way down to the floor. The best...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Filmmakers rejoice! Now you can abandon those rolls of expensive film for digital video, recorded uncompressed on this odd-looking Ikonoskop A-cam dII camera. Using the array of lenses available for super-16 film cameras, this baby slams 1080p video onto...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Can you imagine solo rowing all the way across the Pacific Ocean? Take a look at Roz Savage, not exactly rowing her boat gently down the stream — she's on her way across the world's largest ocean as you...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Folks, it's finally here. As the bad boys from Prison Break, the hotties of 90210, and all those ultra-violent cyborgs on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are testament to, the new TV season has begun. What better time to...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Living on the frozen tundra isn't easy in the wintertime, especially when you're a gadget freak. Like the chipmunks and squirrels scurrying around on these late summer days, we're already preparing for winter with these special Dots Gloves, making...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
56 Leonard Street is a new skyscraper going up in New York City designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. Situated in posh Tribeca, the tower cuts an odd silhouette with its jagged edges and apartments that...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
So you want to use your phone without using your hands. No problem! There are all sorts of Bluetooth headsets available to allow you to do just that. Oh, you want to use your actual phone with no hands? Uh,...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Recent history has shown us that high fashion designers teaming with hardware companies won't necessarily yield you a home run with consumers, but the trend continues nevertheless. With echoes of New York Fashion Week still reverberating, Hewlett Packard has unveiled...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Call me a pack rat, but in the 20 years between 1984 and 2004, I probably filled about 200 VHS tapes with stuff. No, not really important stuff like weddings or graduations, but just things I recorded off the...
POSTED Sunday, September 14, 2008
I have little tolerance for hippie dippy new age crap, and even less for useless USB gadgets. So when the two come together in some kind of USB hippie amalgam, the result is hard to resist. This device is...
POSTED Saturday, September 13, 2008
The tech world was rocked by two major stories this week, each from opposites sides of the size spectrum. First there was the debut of Apple's latest iPod Nano, which was all about getting it as small and thin...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Our Air Force has a couple different sources of fuel for its jets, one of them being a blend derived from coal. Problem is, both the process used to turn coal into fuel and burning said fuel in flight...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
"Why are we doing this again?" Asks Bill Gates to his comedic companion, who rests upon a pink-blanketed bed in a room with purple walls. Jerry Seinfeld replies: "Why, Bill? Because, as we discussed, you and I are a...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Sure, you could buy a boring coffee table that doesn't do anything other than hold your magazines and coasters. That's an option. Or, if you're feeling a bit more adventurous, you could get yourself SparkFun's LED coffee table, which took...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Scientists have developed nanometer-sized "cargo-ships" that seek out tumors like little viking warships and then dump anti-cancer drugs all over them. The joint team of researchers from UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT say that the hunter-killers...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Since we have plenty of solid, watch-wearing Republicans trolling DVICE, we figured we'd make them scratch their heads, nonplussed by this phantasmagoric Crystal Clear watch created by obviously left-wing designer Philippe Starck. Since everyone's for change, this watch should...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Now you can buy one of those kooky monowheel cycles you saw in the Olympics closing ceremony. Plunk down your $1700 and you'll have a collector's item on your hands, reminding you of how techno-hip and far ahead of...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Fancy headphone makers Skullcandy have just unveiled a new set of headphones that come with an embedded portable media player, removing the need for wires of any kind. The portable media player slides into one side of the headphones, and...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
The iPhone 3G 2.1 firmware has now hit the streets, and we've snagged the 237.8MB download. That's a fat bolus of software, even bigger than the monstrous 225MB of the iPhone 2.0 firmware. Here's Apple's list of fixes in the...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Looking to take a break from this workaday world? Feeling stressed out and overwhelmed? Sometimes you just need to get away from it all. Oftentimes that means an expensive vacation to some sandy, tropical location, staying on a resort that's...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
How would you turn a thermometer into a timepiece? For designer Davide Tonizzo, it meant turning the "tube" part into a series of LEDs — 12 of them, in fact — to represent the hour. Then, for the bulb...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Everybody has MacBooks these days, it seems. If you go to your local coffee shop, the chances are good that you'll see a bunch of people typing away on the exact same computers. You're much more unique than all those...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Webstar! Actually, none of those are far from the truth. It's a Superstar. A floating, self-powered, self-regulated, self-contained metropolis. Think that sounds nuts? Even when Beijing-based MAD designs something grounded in...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Anime otaku alert: the coolest Evangelion gadget ever has just been released in the form of Kaga Create's USB storage device. Modeled after the Evangelion movie Entry Plugs, the USB unit holds up to 2 gigabytes of data and is...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Google turned 10 years old on Sunday. It celebrated with a show of power last week when it released Chrome, a new Web browser that may or may not destroy all others. But earlier this summer, with far less...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider didn't kill us all (yet, as far as we can tell), so now we can relax. In fact, we've already been enhanced by the $20 billion machine, because exposure to all this science-y info turned...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
Pleo owners can download updates to their lovable dino-bot that make it act in certain ways — such as giving it a Christmas or Valentine's Day themed action set, or enabling it to play a variant of tag —...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
This tiny wireless helicopter is smart enough to avoid hitting the ceiling. While it's probably not as intelligent as a fruit fly, Taiyo has shoehorned a proximity sensor into it to keep it out of trouble. But look in...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
Those super-sharp 3mm-thin Sony OLED TVs captured our imagination, big time. The real eye-opener is the company's demo of a group of completely wireless versions of the screen that run on battery power. The 11-inch displays include an HDTV...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
Is all the buzz about the freshly activated Large Hadron Collider in Europe making your head spin? I mean, it sounds pretty cool, what with all those impressive statistics on its size, power consumption and cost, but is this...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
Interested in spicing up your home with a piece of quality art? No? How about a piece of insane and sort of creepy art? Yes? Great! Have I got the item for you. This sculpture by Steve Bishop is called...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
Porsche Design apparently wants to get its talented fingers into everything. Next is a line of yachts it's designing for high-end Singaporean yacht builder Royal Falcon Fleet, starting with this model RFF135, for which Porsche will create the exterior...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
If you're a huge fan of retro video games, you probably have a collection of cartridges for various systems that you've spent a couple of decades building. The trouble with having all those cartridges, however, is that you need...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
We attended the opening of Chicago-based artist Dzine's new show at the Deitch gallery in Long Island City New York on Sunday night to see some of sparkliest vehicles in town. Dzine's new sculptures include a bright orange motor...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
As you probably already know, the 24-hour LeMons race is this weekend at the Toledo Speedway. The LeMons, not to be confused with the LeMans, is limited to cars worth $500 and under. No, I'm not missing a zero....
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
Hitachi (best known for manufacturing computer parts and electronic products — not, uh, web software) unveiled a new search engine called GazoPa, which finds images based on the shapes and colors they present, rather than tags and text related...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
SanDisk's new 32GB SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash card hopes to draw folks such as serious video professionals, who often have to store and access large, raw files. At 32 GB, it has almost as much storage as plenty of...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
If you don’t have the cash to pony up for one of those sexy new 50-inch flat screen LCD televisions, Thanko now offers a significantly cheaper alternative with the new Video Glass Media Player. The glasses are designed to give...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
The Di-Cycle, by GBO Design, bills itself as an amphibious bike for the city of Helmond in the Netherlands, as the city has as many watery channels as it does roads. Riders would be able to skim over the...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Whoa. Microsoft blasted its mice into the next level yesterday with its BlueTrack laser tech, and one of the first out of the gate is this seven-button SideWinder X8 gaming mouse. Gamers will be skeptical of its wireless nature,...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Just when we were extolling the virtues of highly controllable and cheap remote controlled helicopters, along comes Tomy with a less-controllable alien craft it calls the QFO. Part of Tomy's Q series, this tiny flier give you a choice...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Pipe smokers have thus far missed out on much of the techno-fun, but now designer Hakan Bogazpinar comes to their rescue with Eolos. Never mind that it looks like some kind of sophisticated weapon — it has a built-in...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
When those scientists get together to build a huge gadget, they don't mess around. The Large Hadron Collider — the world's largest machine ever — fired up for the first time at 4:28am EDT this morning (see the first...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
When we all started texting on numerical pads, we needed a system to make it bearable. T9 texting, the system of predictive text that made tying on a number pad doable, revolutionized texting. And now the guy behind it,...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
So, you're an Earth-loving, eco-friendly environmentalist, as it's all the rage these days. Alternative sources of energy, such as wind and solar, are what you're looking to use to get your juice. OK, that's cool. But what about more… unorthodox...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
If you're going to insist on keeping an ancient console like the original NES hooked up to your TV when there are plenty of other ways to play retro games, you might as well be creative about it. Sure, while...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
If you're afraid of robots, finding out that a group from Carnegie Mellon University is teaming up with Caterpillar to make a 700-ton robotic monster probably isn't such a pleasant thought. The monster in question is actually just a...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Since the Large Hadron Collider didn't destroy the world this morning, isn't it high time we forgive and forget? And what better way than with a meaty gallery of industrial goodness from all stages of its development, cataloging the...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Earlier this year we profiled an amazing concept device that would detail real-time data for objects framed within its view screen. Now the incredible pace of accelerating technology has made this device a reality in the form of the...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Ho hum. Another September, another iPod Nano launch. We've seen them again and again, and we're pretty bored with the whole affair. Sure, the new Nano is decked out in nine pretty colors, and we even like its curvy...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Love it or hate it, the iPod has blazed quite the trail in the MP3 player world. Every other player wants to be the iPod, and Apple has managed to stay ahead of the pack by continuing to innovate...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Pretty soon you may have to add one more peripheral to your computer desk: a Tikitag scanner. The scanner would be used to scan Tikitags, which are RFID-enabled stickies that you can program to link someone to a website...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Compare the new tall-boy iPod nano 4g (90.75 x 38.75 x 6.2mm) to its predecessor, the nearly-square nano 3g (69.8 x 52.3 x 6.5mm) of days gone by. And for those of you who aren't iPod/Apple fanatics, here are...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
What just happened? Apple's iPod Classic — the one that looks the most like the original — used to come in two sizes: 80GB and 160GB. Today Apple upgraded the smaller model to 120GB ($249) but discontinued the larger...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The trusty iPod Touch (essentially an iPhone minus the phone) just got updated, bringing its case design in line with the iPhone 3G's (though keeping the steel backside) and adding a couple of bells and whistles of its own....
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Apple announced a new version of iTunes media playing and shopping software today, taking it up from version 7.7.1.11 to version 8. Headlining the new release is a new sidebar Apple calls "Genius," a software routine that's also in...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Apple has just unveiled its new iPod Nano line, as expected, redesigning the venerable portable audio player to make it tall and skinny. It has a large screen, taking up half of the surface of the front of the...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
No longer content to be the only major TV network not on iTunes, NBC returns to Apple's downloading service today. You may remember that NBC Universal (our parent, by the way) stormed out of iTunes last fall when the...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Finally, we get a full-on look at Chevy Volt electric car! You saw a sneak peek at its center console and a few spy shots, but now here's a clear look at (almost) the entire car. Weird, though —...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
We showed you the XR-3 hybrid vehicle back when it was merely a concept, but now it's the real deal, and it's unlike any other eco-friendly vehicle out there. How? Well, when you buy it, you get a DVD. On...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
While everybody is all a-twitter about Apple's announcements of new iPods and other stuff happening in just a couple of hours, the first rollouts we heard about due today were from Microsoft, accidentally leaking word a month ago of a...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The ScanRobot, by German robotics firm Treventus Mechatronics, is able to scan entire books without any help from a human — not even to turn the page. It cradles books so that they remain open at a 60° angle,...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Some of us like our Bluetooth headsets tiny, sleek and unobtrusive, and then there are those of us who unapologetically prefer a honking giant of an ear piece worthy of the Borg. The new Sony PS3 Bluetooth headset (aka the...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
John McCain has a problem. He's just not tech savvy enough, claiming that he "doesn't feel a particular need to email," describing his VP vetting process as "basically, it's a Google," and calling himself a tech "illiterate who has...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
While using the wind to propel your vehicle works great out on the ocean when you're in a sailboat, it's less useful for vehicles on the road. You can't simply stick a sail on top of your Escalade and hope...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
A concept like the Touch-Hear is something we're probably a while off from realizing, but it represents a very attractive technology: putting a world of knowledge at your fingertips. The advent of the Internet, especially in its current form,...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
Now you can really freak out your guests by whipping out this Wine Carafe with Glass. Wait until they've had quite a few drinks and then reveal this work of art by Claudio Colucci, and we'd suggest carefully filling...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
We're kind of weirded out by the whole concept of Printable Offerings — life-size paper facsimiles of everyday objects. It probably has something to do with their inspiration: the traditional practice in Chinese culture of buying paper objects for...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008