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Okonomiyaki is a type of fast food popular in Japan, which sort of resembles a pancake filled with ingredients like meat, vegetables, and shrimp. While preparation is fairly straightforward, the custom fillings mean that they are usually cooked to...
POSTED Sunday, November 30, 2008
Lighting is key when it comes to setting the mood for a romantic dining experience, and while candles bring an air of sophistication that no regular lamp can match, this luminous table runner adds a new twist to the...
POSTED Saturday, November 29, 2008
Most people would agree that saving electricity in the home is a good thing. Even if you aren't a treehugger, cutting back on wasted power can save plenty of money on the electric bill. Still, most of us could...
POSTED Friday, November 28, 2008
A skilled portrait photographer can capture the inner soul of their subject via the camera lens, but nothing can show your true inner workings quite like an actual image of your own DNA. A small company called DNA11 will...
POSTED Friday, November 28, 2008
I suspect that most people who buy a swanky new BMW, find that it can be a useful way to impress friends and co-workers, but one that doesn't work too well if it's parked deep in some garage. Now...
POSTED Friday, November 28, 2008
Sometimes, you just need to travel with a whole lot of booze. But how can you easily carry 5 bottles of wine without the risk of dropping and breaking your precious bounty? That's where the WineCruzer comes in, the only...
POSTED Friday, November 28, 2008
It looks like there's some new innards coming to the Xbox 360 in the form of a new motherboard. Not that exciting, you may think, until you find out that the motherboard has 256MB of flash memory built into it....
POSTED Friday, November 28, 2008
As you probably know, once you open a bottle of soda, it's only a matter of time before it goes flat. And nobody likes flat soda. So what are you to do if you have a large bottle of soda...
POSTED Friday, November 28, 2008
Securing the loyalty and gratitude of friends this holiday season won't be easy on a budget, but with a little clever gift picking anything is possible. Along those lines we present you with the Kinnikuman Warriors. These state-of-the-art USB devices...
POSTED Friday, November 28, 2008
Always wanted to do a do-it-yourself tech project? This holiday weekend is the perfect time. Besides, 60 Minutes recently weighed in on e-waste, so now it's official: where and how we recycle our used and useless gadgets has hit...
POSTED Thursday, November 27, 2008
Today is a special day for DVICE. Not only are we celebrating a gadget-filled Thanksgiving, and wish everyone reading a happy one as well, but it was exactly one year ago today that the SCI FI Tech Blog became...
POSTED Thursday, November 27, 2008
As belt tightening continues around the globe the task of being a geek obsessed with shiny gadgets becomes more challenging. Thankfully, Gakken has introduced the Co-Robot, a tiny, extremely affordable ($29.95) walking robot singularly devoted to getting up when it...
POSTED Thursday, November 27, 2008
Looking for bargains? The best sale day of the year (but not the busiest shopping day — that's usually the Saturday before Christmas) is Black Friday and it's coming up fast. If you don't mind getting up early on...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
If, like me, you grew up reading comic books, you may have been suckered in by those ads in the back selling X-Ray Specs, which promised a way to satisfy your pubescent curiosity about the girl next door. Unfortunately,...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
We like the idea of fancy light switches, the cheapest, easiest way to modernize a room with eye-catching tech. Now here's a design concept that takes light switches into the next dimension, giving you trackpad-like control in a touch-sensitive...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Honda is turning its 2009 Insight hybrid cars into acceleration nannies. This new Ecological Drive Assist System (EDAS) features a chameleon-like speedometer, turning from green to blue if you're driving too rambunctiously. It's all in the name of saving...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Planning to get one of those fancy T-Mobile Google phones this weekend? If you are, don't ask a friend who has one to use the phone's barcode reader to find the best deal. Every G1 can use ShopSavvy, an...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thanksgiving dinner is the most labor-intensive meal of the year for many people. If there's ever a time the kitchen needs a technological assist, this is it. We're not quite at the point where we can just program a...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
We like to carry around our little point-and-shoot digital camera in a case, but frequently forget to take along a tripod. That's not going to happen again with this Wrap-Up Tripod, a good-looking camera case with a lightweight tabletop...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Have you ever had a crowd coming over for Thanksgiving, but you forgot to start cooking the turkey? Here's another Thanksgiving gadget that can help, the NuWave Oven Pro. Its makers claim it can roast up a 10-pound turkey...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
In the still overtime-obsessed offices of recession-plagued Japan, living at your desk just got a little easier courtesy of Thanko's new Hot LunchBox Pouch. The USB pouch easily connects to your desktop PC and warms anything up to the size...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Putting your money in a bank isn't looking like the best idea these days, at least not a real one. What other kinds are there? Well, there's the pig-shaped variety, though that's probably a little too obvious. This Bunker...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Everyone knows that food eaten over the sink has less calories. Now you can bring that slimming phenomenon to the table with this Sink Plate. Its depth and shape is just like a plate, but what's that? There's a...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sure, getting to live in space has to be pretty cool. I mean, not too many people get the chance to experience it, so those who do have got to consider themselves lucky. But it's not without its downsides. For...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The crazy idea of selling billions of gallons of water in everlasting plastic bottles to people who already have access to clean water sources is turning our planet into a gigantic garbage heap. Finally, somebody is doing something about...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Getting your laptop stolen sucks, obviously. You have it loaded up with your personal information and data, and beyond losing a valuable piece of property, there's security and identity theft to worry about as well. With the new Lenovo ThinkPads...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Not one to sit idly by while Netflix eats its lunch, Blockbuster entered the online movie rental hardware market today with OnDemand. Using a smart-looking 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player for its internet movie downloads, its entry price is...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Two tiny trains orbit a clock perched atop a mountain in this timepiece that teeters on the edge of hokeyness. But not quite. It's borderline cool. Made by Mr. Christmas, the mini-trains do their revolving thing around that clock...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
I'm always impressed with the level of dedication some people bring to tailgating. I mean, essentially tailgating is just cooking burgers and getting drunk in a parking lot. You wouldn't think you'd need too much to get that done successfully,...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
With some time on my hands recently, I finally had the chance to try out a Full Body Sensor that a company called Omron sent me. The product is essentially a tricked-out bathroom scale: Not only does it tell...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Why do kids get to have all the fun? When you peruse the most techno-advanced gifts of today, you'll discover there's something in this for you, too. In fact, some gifts you give the young 'uns are just as...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sega, ever committed to furthering the fine art of off-key karaoke performances, has unveiled the Hitokara Home Karaoke system in Japan. The device is deceptively cheesy in that it comes with a spinning disco mirror ball for the real hams...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Plug your iPod into this DLO HomeDock HD Pro, and it upscales your video to 720p/1080i quality. Notice the HDMI and optical digital audio ports on the back, giving you a digital connection between your music player and home...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
The buzz about 2.5-inch 256GB solid-state drives (SSD) is building, and now Micron tells us more about its entry, the C200. At first, the company said its 256GB SSD would ship this Fall, but now it's been delayed until...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
An NFL football game, broadcast in 3D? Believe it. Sunday Thursday, December 4th, the game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders will be produced in 3D, and shown in three specially-equipped theaters in New York, Los...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
It's not every day that someone gets an exclusive tour of the tricked-out Boeing 747 that's designated Air Force One whenever the president is aboard. That's what Fox News propagandist Chris Wallace did last week, airing his special peek...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
These days, we've got our fair share of futuristic and slickly-designed gadgets. The problem? The furniture we sit in while we use said gadgets has yet to catch up. This day bed by Mauelsaez aims to change that. Designed to...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas has just set up the world's highest resolution toiled display, linking together a whopping 75 30-inch Dell monitors to make one insane display setup. I mean, sure, it might be...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
Check out these kooky replicas of HAL 9000, that malevolent computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Can't you just seem him dancing in slow motion to his rousing rendition of "Daisy"? The little critter is so intricately detailed, his...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
Unless you're a piercing fanatic, you're probably not crazy about the idea of getting stabbed when you go to the doctor's office. California company nanoBioSciences figured out a way to stop the violence with AdminPatch, a drug delivery system...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
There's really no reason for a coffee machine to be overly complicated. I mean, it has a pretty simple job to do: brew good coffee. But this insane contraption aims to do much more than that, seeing as it's loaded...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
Why are traffic lights round? Because they're products of their time — when they were invented a spherical bulb was the only thing that would light the glass evenly. Now that there are a host of lighting technologies (like...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
With venerable print journals like PC Magazine folding into online-only operations, many old school media titans are looking for an escape hatch and Samsung may have the key. At Japan's recent FPD International 2008 tech conference, the Korean cell phone...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
While all kinds of ocean going vessels have been adding some sort of renewable energy source recently, who would have figured that you might soon add submarines to the list? A Swiss company called BKW has revealed plans for...
POSTED Sunday, November 23, 2008
Everyone has their favorite way to minimize the effect of jet lag, but this one's new to us. The Sleep Partner is a wrist band that according to its makers, "stimulates the acupuncture points of the wrist associated with...
POSTED Saturday, November 22, 2008
This week, DVICE was all green. We took a look at 7 promising new green-power technologies and also the 10 best ideas for greening your home that you've never heard of. We also did a bit of reverse fortune-telling...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
Back in May, two thrillseekers sneaked into the Burj Dubai — currently the tallest building in the world even though it's not finished yet — and set the world base jumping record (illegally). The footage of the jump from...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
Gone is the dark and sultry seduction of the catwalk, and in its place are bright pastels, clouds, and clothes fashioned after LEGO playsets. Fashion designer Jean Charles de Castelbajac tossed hats made from LEGO bricks onto models who...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
As the world converts to high-def TV, we're now hearing rumblings of YouTube jumping into the act. The notoriously bad quality of YouTube videos could soon improve — in fact, some clips on the explosively popular video streaming site...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
We've mentioned Project Better Place before, the company that plans to create a network of charging stations and battery exchange locations for electric cars in Denmark, Israel and Australia. Backed by super-rich investors, now it's planning an ambitious expansion...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
If you like thumping bass, you know you need a pretty heavy-duty subwoofer to get your kicks. But what if you're using headphones? There's no room for subwoofers in those, so you've got to just deal with the lack of...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
We all have a lot of stuff cluttering our homes. You know, stuff that serves a purpose but doesn't look too nice doing so. Like your router. It's essentially a little plastic box with blinking lights. Sure, it's very useful...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
Now here's a modification that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Someone went and crammed a Nintendo 64 into their Wii. I don't get this for a couple of reasons. For one, you can download most of...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
Apparently, there's a whole field of alternative medicine called magnotherapy, which claims that exposing the body to permanent magnets will help you heal. While you take a moment to recover from falling off your chair while cracking up, allow...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
We've seen so many innovative radiator designs lately, there must be a space heater renaissance underway. This Radiafleur starts out shaped like a piece of pie, and as you spread its seven ceramic petals, you get more heat. There's...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
The ROMP, or Remotely Operated Mobile Platform, is a remote-controlled unit designed to be cheap and versatile. Designer Chris Rogers built it to be able to carry out reconnaissance, bomb investigation and remote detonation, and combat missions — and...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
You had to know that it was coming and now it's finally here: The Hello Kitty Laptop! Just in time for the holidays to chase the economic blues away, the Hello Kitty C1 is equipped with Windows XP Home Edition...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama's team sent out an e-mail earlier this week to people on his campaign's giant e-mail list, inviting them to send in their own ideas about energy and the environment. They want to harness the change Americans...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
A big head-scratcher when building a suspension bridge is how to get those suspension cables from one end of the divide to the other. In the past, helicopters and boats have been employed for this purpose — even kites...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
OK, I don't believe in magic, but I'm not quite sure what I'm seeing here. This new device from Scotsman Beverage Systems fills glasses from the bottom up. How? I have no idea! It drops the ice in from...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
Everybody knows about solar and wind power, and using renewable energy was a big issue in the recent election. But a lot of amazing green technologies have been developed since solar panels and wind turbines captured the nation's attention....
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
Here's an unusual accessory for the guy who has everything: an alligator belt with a mechanical buckle. Look closely at that buckle and you notice just a few of its 108 movable parts, a precision-built group of levers, plates...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
The Swedish company myFC (My Fuel Cell) wants to free you up from power cables with advanced fuel cell technology. Its latest prototype is a charger that uses a compact, flat alternative to the usual fuel cell stack —...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
Samsung is now cranking out the 256GB solid state drives (SSD). When the company ambitiously proclaimed in late May of this year it would deliver such a beast in quantity by the end of this year, most of us...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
For the disabled or the infirm, there are a large number of expensive pieces of equipment to help you get around and live your day to day life. There's the wheelchair, the stair climber and the sick bed, all of...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
We've had a couple of days to play with the BlackBerry Storm, Research in Motion's answer to the iPhone. It's the first all-touchscreen, no-keyboard BlackBerry. And let's be clear: It's no iPhone. Its web browser is slow, and you...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
The next phase of personal cinema has arrived with the debut of the Optoma pocket projector PK 101. The compact device connects to a wide range of digital video sources (including iPods) and allows you to instantly project videos or...
POSTED Thursday, November 20, 2008
A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council titled "Lowering the Cost of Play: Improving Energy Efficiency of Video Game Consoles" reveals that video game consoles across America collectively suck up "an estimated 16 billion kilowatt-hours per year —...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
UbiGreen, a cell phone application that's been developed jointly by the University of Washington and Intel, will keep track of how you travel and let you know how green you're being. It uses built-in accelerometers like the iPhone has to...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
With today's release of the New Xbox Experience for Xbox Live, it's time to make sure your system is in tip-top shape. And that might mean more than just blowing the dust off the top. An upgrade might even...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Do you have a crippling fear of getting stuck in a car that's, say, sinking or on fire? It sure would be a terrible situation, but it's rare enough that I don't think you should develop a complex about it....
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
"Breathtaking," says BMW. "I shall call him... Mini-E." With that, BMW jumps into the electric car derby, unveiling its electric version of the Mini Cooper. The high-profile test program/publicity stunt will involve a limited run of 500 of the...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Still on the fence about Blu-ray? The upcoming holiday season might be the perfect time to jump. Wal-Mart plans to offer a Magnavox NB500MG9 Blu-ray player for the rock-bottom price of $128, the cheapest we've seen yet. That's a...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Are you looking for that perfect gift for the smoker in your life? Something that says, "hey, your shortsightedness is going to come to a point sooner or later." Or, "hey, in the future, you'll die slowly thanks to your...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
One look at the HP TouchSmart tx2 notebook, and you'll want to get your hands on one, literally. Its 12.1" widescreen display swivels into a tablet, and lets you use two fingers to expand and pinch graphics, rotate and...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Now that we're moving on from traditional lightbulbs to more eco-friendly designs, designers have much more freedom with what they do with light. Design house Hulger is tackling light bulbs as their next big object, using the twisting tubes as...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Only available outside the U.S., Cyber Clean is the gooey mess that cleans up other gooey messes. At least in theory.
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Because watching cool models perform robot dances in giant Japanese vending machines while giving away free underwear never gets old, we revisit the Uniqlo promotion we told you about last week. This time we have actual images of the fashion...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
40 years ago, science fiction writer James R. Berry predicted what the future would look like on November 18th, 2008 — today. His piece for a 1968 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, "40 Years in the Future," made some impressive...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Aching to go green but don't know where to start? Making your home more power-efficient and Earth-friendly has moved beyond obvious upgrades like swapping out incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescents or installing a couple of solar panels. A lot...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A buildup of snow can be dangerous for large, flat-roofed structures like super markets and office buildings. All of that snow is usually removed by freezing hands and snow shovels, but, if designer Michal Glogowski's dreams ever come true,...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Why fumble around in the dark when you can use solar power to light the way? This Key Hole Light from Comfort House charges up during the day, and illuminates your door in the dark of night. A quick...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
We're stoked about that wave farm off the coast of Portugal, and now along comes another innovation that could top that: Searaser, a buoy-like device attached to the sea floor that uses wave power to pump water 650 feet...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Carbon fiber is showing up in some unlikely places, like in the body of a specially designed guitar. Blackbird has had a steel-string guitar on the market for about a year, and now adds this nylon-string version to the...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
This is what the future looked like in the '60s. Sit through a short ad for faltering phone service Sprint, and suddenly you're thrust into widget land. The Now page shows you a huge dashboard displaying data of all...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Looks like Vudu might survive after all. The Internet streaming box that we've grown to love just got a big brother, the Vudu XL2. It's wide enough to mount on a professional rack, but its innards are similar to...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Japan's Fujitsu Labs has unveiled a new development in auto technology that provides a three-dimensional-style wrap around view for drivers. Using four vehicle-based cameras to process what the company calls "3-D virtual projection/point of view conversion technology," the driver is...
POSTED Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The I-Dog by Tiger is undeniably adorable, but if you try to give it a squeeze you're likely to end up with a broken I-Dog or a bruised rib. Luckily the LED-faced, ear-wigglin' speaker now comes with a cuddly...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
Cars are getting better at telling you more about your driving, with heads-up displays showing your speed and direction, and GPS units letting you know where there's construction or congestion. So what if your car started telling you more...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
The next Star Trek movie is on the way, depicting Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), McCoy (Karl Urban) and all the others in their youth, and leading up to the first voyages of the Starship Enterprise. You'll have...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
When you're sick, getting blood work done can be a long, expensive process. The current method involves a doctor or nurse drawing 10 to 15 milliliters of blood into several vials, multiple technicians analyzing that blood for many hours, and...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
We've always wanted to take some of those remarkable photos captured at an exact split second. Now we can emulate the accomplishments of the great high-speed photography pioneer Harold Edgerton with the Universal Photo Timer, bringing laboratory photo tech...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
Barack Obama has received more assassination threats than any president-elect in U.S. history. While Obama's Secret Service protection has obviously been flawless thus far, according to some speculative reports, any would-be assailants might be in for some major pain...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
Remember how the touch of a caring hand to your forehead made you feel a little better? The Lunar Baby Thermometer is a concept by designer Duck Young Kong, aiming to combine that healing touch and its crude temperature...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
Besides the time, what's the first thing you want to know when you wake up in the morning? It might be the weather, giving you a clue about how to dress for the day. This Oregon Scientific Atomic Clock...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
Finally, there's an iPhone auxiliary battery pack that isn't clunky. This Incase iPhone 3G Power Slider battery pack solves the iPhone's greatest weakness by doubling its battery life to 5 hours of talk time/330 hours standby, and doesn't spoil...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
Everyone's bashing GM these days. But the company has a few bright spots. Case in point: see what happens when you pit the company's fastest car, the 638-hp Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 against three of the fastest fancy-schmancy chariots from...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
We compare a lot of things to Minority Report around here — since it's so damn cool and all — but most of the technology we come across simply approximates the almost ridiculous amount of gesture controls presented by...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
So you've upgraded to the iPod Touch and you're wondering what to do with all those unused gigabytes on your pre-Touch iPod? A perfect second life for your old-Pod comes via the ProTrack handheld recorder for iPod from Alesis. The...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
There are times when we could all use a little peace and quiet. Whether it's screaming kids, loud TVs, ringing phones, or a fire truck going down the street, sometimes I wish I could just shut out the world...
POSTED Sunday, November 16, 2008
Most of us have a pretty boring daily routine, so designer Andy Kurovets decided to make fun of that fact with a watch that leads us through the six stages of an average person's day. Starting with Wake Up!,...
POSTED Saturday, November 15, 2008
This week we took a look at the 10 best useless iPhone apps for less than a dollar, the 8 ridiculous James Bond gadgets that should be forgotten forever and 14 examples of cutting-edge lighting design. Our sister site,...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
The Institute for the Future and the Art Center College of Design in California has designed a reality game that simulates all of the going-ons during a massive earthquake short of shaking your house down. Called Aftershock, it's the...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
The National Ignition Facility out at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is the size of a football stadium and equipped with the largest laser in the world. With said massive laser nearing completion — it'll be done...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
Wondering what Montreal-based Matrox has been doing since it conceded the graphics card wars to NVIDIA and ATI a few years ago? Besides building lots of great video editing equipment, the company has been working on Iris GT, a...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
When Barack Obama hops into his presidential limousine after his inauguration on January 20, it might be this brand new rolling fortress that's part car, part truck. General Motors might be about to financially tank, but it's still putting...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
This XPod active speaker is so small, you could carry it around in your pocket and hardly know it's there. Just a third of an inch thick, the three-inch wide enclosure contains a couple of speakers and a minuscule...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
We've been hearing about it for years, and now it's finally happening: There's a new version of USB on the way, and it's going to be ten times faster than its predecessor. Launching next Monday is USB 3.0, and...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
The latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, debuts today. For fans of gadgetry, the Daniel Craig "reboot" of the Bond series hasn't given them much to chew on, since the new films leave behind the far-fetched tech toys...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
Commuter Cars's Tango T600, the world's quickest and "most luxurious" two-seater electric car, has hit the streets and may soon be scooting between lanes of backed-up traffic near you. Shorter than an average motorcycle, the Tango is about five...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
Most digital picture frames just sit there and show you pictures, but not iGala. This one hits all the right features, and at the top of the list is its Wi-Fi connectivity. Yes, this wireless magic is available in...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
Halo will be seven years old tomorrow (the original game was released Nov. 15, 2001). It started as an experiment. Could Bungie, a company that made shooters for the Macintosh, make a shooter for Microsoft's new console system? It...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
Two different teams of scientists have been able to directly observe distant planets — something that's never been done before. Christian Marois, the leader of a team at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia tracked three...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
The next time the little kid in your life misbehaves you might want to show them a picture of Nitto Kagaku's Kami Kami sensor and watch them straighten right up. Looking like something out of the torture chambers of the...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
Ever since I first saw the original Sony Reader — wow, almost three years ago now — the product line has impressed me, technologically. From the E Ink screen that resembles paper to the extremely lightweight design, Sony had...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
Say hello to the Meggy Jr RGB, a handheld, open source gaming unit that boasts plenty of color. "Wait," you cry, "LEDs? Where are my fancy graphics?" Nowhere to be found here, sir. Meggy isn't looking to replace your...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
We already know that there are new killing machines on the way from Terminator Salvation's trailers, and it looks like one has just surfaced: the Moto-Terminator. Red eyes? Check. Guns? Check — and they're mini-guns at that. Fan-boyish excitement?...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
We marveled at that R/C hovercraft that was massive enough to nearly break a toe while it zoomed around at 50mph, but this Hover Q is a more manageable size. With a little practice, you could race a pair...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
Flying cars? We love 'em. As they get to be more real with Terrafugia and others gearing up their upcoming craft, the Pentagon and its research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), wants to get in on...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
Awww. How cute does it get? This sextet of Shiba Inu puppies just turned 5 weeks old, and you can watch them in action (or inaction), live. The three males and three females can't seem to get enough of...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
Heard of Bang and Olufsen? The company specializes in exquisite, expensive electronics design, and this BeoSound 5 is no exception. You're looking at the controller for the system, a 10.4-inch screen with an aluminum scroll wheel that commands a...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
Oakley sunglasses founder Jim Jannard's RED Digital Cinema Camera Company is at it again. This is the next episode of the endless hype about its Scarlet camera system that started last April, and now the company has finally released...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
It takes a golf swing speed of 110 mph to correctly compress the face of a golf club to maximize the smash factor (energy transfer from the swing to the ball). The fact is most golfers swing much slower...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
Those who don't have the patience to wait for Softbank's iPhone battery/TV tuner can pick the far more practical Pocket Power phone charger from Panasonic. The device features two Evolta rechargeable batteries that only take a few hours to retain...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
The iPhone has spawned thousands of useful applications, and if you're looking for one of those, look elsewhere. This isn't about them. It's about the exact opposite: totally useless but totally fun (or at least interestingly unusual) apps that...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Octospider in Bangkok is, of all things, a cafeteria. We have no idea how the food is, but the view is amazing. It's raised over the water on steel stilts, and the long, narrow, window-lined arms of the...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
I always heard it from my dad growing up: your kids will get to play with way cooler toys than you. Well, I don't have any kids yet, but I'm already getting jealous looking at this space station kid's...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
As a special thanks to loyal fans, five favorite Gears of War maps have been updated and made available to download and play in Gears of War 2 through this exclusive offer. That's the text on a card you'll...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Hey football fans: You have your giant screen, there's plenty of yelling — make the stadium effect complete with the Football Stadium Desktop Floodlight. Its six 25-watt E14 bulbs will ensure a minimum of fumbles, and if your playing...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Now you can boldly go where no Star Trek: The Next Generation fan has gone before, decorating your place with such 24th-century accuracy that you'll never get laid again. While the uninitiated might be unfazed by such realism, our...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Building on the runaway success of its ultra-cheap ($90) Flip camcorder, Pure Digital took a giant leap into the HD landscape with Flip Mino HD, shooting in 720p. They're calling the 3.3-ounce pocketcam the world's smallest HD camcorder, and...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Now here's a system I can get behind: turning trash into energy via the magic of plasma. Yep, it kills two birds with one stone, and it's coming soon. The first plasma plant in the country is being planned for...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
It's no secret that we love Eye-Fi's wireless SD cards. Since they debuted about a year ago, they've been the perfect way for lazy people (read: us) to share their photos online. Instead of digging out a USB cable,...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
You think your expensive, custom-built gaming PC is powerful? You think you've got the hottest computer on the block because you can run Crysis at full specs? I'm not impressed. You want to see an impressive computer? Say hello...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Look, Japan, I know you have a thing for robots. It's awesome, really. Robots are very cool. But sometimes it seems like you're just trying too hard. Like with this ticket kiosk that's supposedly a "robot." Clearly, it's just a...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Parrot's Specchio, a wi-fi enabled digital picture frame designed by Parisian Martin Szekely, sure is shiny — it could double as a mirror. We dig how slick and modern it is, and that it doesn't slack off despite being...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Sony and Honda may have the most advanced robots in terms of features, but when it comes to working, human-sized robots that truly match the wild images of Japanese anime it's hard to beat the independently created ALCNON robot. Around...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Telo, Internet phone service provider Ooma's latest unit, features a great new look and a dedicated cordless handset, something Ooma's previous foray into the calling world lacked. Ooma's gimmick is simple: buy one of the sets and you...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Lutron, the company that developed the dimmer switch in the '60s, now offers a lighting system that can be controlled by your iPhone or iPod Touch. That lamp you see above is screwed into one of Lutron's wireless modules...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
S1 Audio's BudBud MP3 headphones make sharing one iPod a lot easier — or any MP3 player. That's because each set of ear buds comes with a second pair of piggy-backed buds built right in. No need to uncomfortably...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
From holes in rooftops to flickering torches to glowing light bulbs — the world of household lighting has come a long way. Nowadays artists and designers alike are stretching the boundaries of form and function when it comes to...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
When I was younger, I always thought that one of the coolest future technologies I had to look forward to was video phones. You'd be able to see people when you talked to them! How awesome! Well, the tech...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I think that, despite the fancy graphics and online capabilities of the current generation of consoles, my favorite console ever is still the trusty old Super Nintendo. The SNES had an absolutely amazing lineup of games that are still some...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Down in the Boulby Mine in England, 3,300 feet underground, scientists are looking for wimps (or weakly interacting massive particles). Not to beat up, but to help unravel the mysteries of the universe in the search for ever-elusive dark...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
We've been hearing talk of mini-sized nuclear reactors for a year or longer, but now it looks like Hyperion is actually starting to build them. The hot tub-sized fission nukes, each capable of cranking out 25 megawatts of clean...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sometimes, you just don't want people to see your personal photos. And if you're really, really paranoid about them being found, well, you need to take some drastic measures. Like by hiding them on a MicroSD card inside a hollow...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Forget that cheap space heater that falls over and burns the house down. It's the 21st century now, my friends. That's why Vornado, maker of super-quiet fans and heaters of all shapes and sizes, decided to modernize the lowly...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
You may not mind buying a clock from a place called "Suck UK" — we don't, especially when it's as well-designed as this $39 Solar Clock. Save your batteries, because this baby's internal battery is charged by the sun,...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Japanese fashion company Uniqlo has decided to go big with its new Heat Tech campaign. The company is holding a global contest in which consumers are asked to upload videos showing how Uniqlo's Heat Tech warms them up. The grand...
POSTED Tuesday, November 11, 2008
What? You're still waking up to a buzzer? Plug your iPhone, or just about any iPod into this Cygnett GrooveNeo Alarm Clock Radio/Dock and wake up to the music of your choice. Sure, it's not the first iPod clock...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
LA-based artisan Giancarlo De Astis turns all kinds of aircraft parts from retired planes into industrial, retro-chic furniture. He gets the aeronautical leftovers from junkyards and plane graveyards in Arizona, and fashions tables, chairs, lamps and other furnishings out...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Biking is becoming more and more popular in cities due to people looking for alternate modes of transportation that are eco-friendly. And with cities looking to reduce congestion, they're making it easier for people to get around by bike. But...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Too often, folks seem pleased enough with simply blasting all of the fallen leaves off of their property and into someone else's, into gutters, or just wherever they won't be seen. Well, if a cheap rake just isn't industrial...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
With all this talk about electric cars, solar power, and wind energy being bandied about, we haven't heard much about how to power those gas-guzzling tin cans of the sky. That's why NASA tapped the smarty-pants engineers at MIT...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Take a peek into the future of GPS navigation with these two new units introduced today. On the left is the Navigon 8100T, whose claim to fame is its 3D view of upcoming terrain thanks to special on-board data...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Check out this wind-powered battery charger. Febot is a design concept for charging up a single AA battery, where you attach its suction cup outside a window of your house or car, and the tiny generator uses the power...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
It looked like the streaming set-top box Vudu was struggling for a while there. But now the company has added scads of HD movies. Bragging that there are 1100 HD choices now available, the Vudu service is really starting...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
You know what? I don't think there are enough advancements in the world of utensils. Sure, there was the spork, but that just wasn't useful enough to be something you use on a regular basis. I want something that...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
We always had a feeling that Daylight Saving Time (DST) was logically flawed, not really saving energy. Just like that old adage that you're supposed to drink eight glasses of water a day, the notion of DST saving anything...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
You've got to love the sheer simplicity of this LED watch, designed by Hiranao Tsuboi. It looks like a watch band all the way around with no face to speak of, but in fact the watch is built right into...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Wanna-be cutting-edge art photographers got a cool new toy to play with recently from Takara Tomy called the XIAO. The XIAO is a digital camera that takes the place of the old school Polaroid Instamatic by allowing users immediately print...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Few things are more frustrating than grabbing your flashlight in an emergency, and getting little more than a dim glow because the batteries are dead. Even modern rechargeable LED flashlights need hours to take a full charge, and lose...
POSTED Sunday, November 9, 2008
Some of the stuff we buy from China is so cheap, that I wonder how they manage to cover even the shipping costs for the selling price. Now China's biggest shipping company COSCO is giving us a clue. They...
POSTED Saturday, November 8, 2008
This week we took a look at six memorable technologies from Michael Crichton's work, who died far too young at 66. Oddly enough the week also brought news of ground-breaking cloning research and experiments with holograms on CNN —...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
Think you got some moves? So do these hexapodal 'bots, but they've got six legs to work with. And work they do — it's surprising just how dexterous they can be. There are all manner of hexapods — from...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
How's this for a double-edged sword? Microsoft is providing free bus transportation to work for some of its employees in China. Hey, that's great! It saves money as well as the environment. The downside? The bus is full of workstations,...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
Instead of dipping a dainty toe into your bath to see if it's too hot or too cold like some kind of bathwater Goldilocks, just check out what color it is. At least, that's what we'd all be doing...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
We're fans of JLab Audio's products, and we're not alone. The company's $16 JBuds have been the best-selling earphones on Amazon for two years running. Now the Tucson-based audio company improves those venerable phones with the J2 Premium Hi-Fi...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
It gets harder to get around when you get old, which is why things like walkers and mart carts exist. But Honda wants to make getting around easier with some fancy new technology, which is why it's introduced some new...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
There's something civilized about tea time, but that shrill shriek of the tea kettle as the water begins to boil spoils the reverie of it all. Instead of that earsplitting racket of the boatswain's call, this one takes on...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
If you've ever wandered around a parking lot on a freezing night, begging strangers for jumper cables and a jump start, you'll see the value in this Duracell Powerpack 450 with Voice. It can talk you through the whole...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
For most food items, sealing them up in a Tupperware container is fine and will preserve them for a decent amount of time. But what if you're just crazy about food preservation? What if you're looking to eat your leftovers...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
Our friends over at SCI FI Wire have a rundown of the six most kick-ass guns from sci-fi movies. Hellboy's Big Baby features prominently, and the machine pistol from RoboCop is there, too. Funny how you typically have to...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
Someone at Virginia-based Catch the Wind went to the Doctor Evil School of Making Things Better — just put a frikkin' laser beam on it. Catch the Wind has a fiber-optic, laser-based LIDAR system that can give wind turbines a...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
Despite Disney's recent economic woes, Japan's SegaToy has decided to partner with the company to unveil the Mickey Mouse Digi-Pod. Besides offering you yet another cute curio from the land of fantasy, the 1.5 LCD photo frame can store 43...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
My cellphone just died, catastrophically. My first clue: The display on the LCD was upside-down and backwards. I didn't even think that was even possible, but, yup, that's what it was doing. A quick trip to the AT&T store,...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
Whale song and the odd noises other underwater creatures make are alluring and interesting, but how about a fish-controlled MP3 player? Submerged Songs is a sound installation by Vivian Caccuri, with the help of Alex Tyson and André Perrotta....
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
Things are changing in Kazakhstan, and they're changing drastically. No, I'm not talking about social upheaval or a government coup, I'm talking about architecture in the Republic Square. Going away are the boring, cold Soviet-era buildings. Replacing them? Completely insane...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
Do those modern plasma TVs look too clinical and sterile for your old-fashioned taste? Check out the M21 flat TV console from Wilkerson Furniture. The company's craftsmen have built an elegant and retro cabinet around a 42-inch plasma HDTV...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
Typing on the iPhone's touchscreen is just downright awkward. That's why we're excited about this BTKeyMini, a Bluetooth keyboard for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The diminutive device has a cover that doubles as a holder for your iPhone,...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
Sometimes there's nothing quite like an extremely low-angle shot. Most camcorders and some digital cameras make it easy with displays that move around to odd angles, but if yours doesn't have such niceties, the Flipbac angle viewfinder is here...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
Prolific author Michael Crichton died this week. He practically invented the techno-thriller genre — scientifically complex stories tempered with strongly human characters (his last novel will be posthumously published next year). Our sister site SCI FI Wire has a...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
I'm all for getting really into playing video games, but I'm not sure if I'd want to be put into a dark box with a TV and a video game system. I mean, sure, that's immersive, but perhaps it takes...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
So you've got some hair you'd like to get rid of. Understandable! Nobody likes a unibrow, after all, so you might as well take matters into your own hands if you got a bad roll of the dice in the...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
IGN, the site that notes squids aren't animals, announced the following data point from its "Are You Game?" survey of 2,000 gamers: Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is also king when it comes to videogame sales. To prove it,...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
Called the Leopard, Japan's Oki Electric Industry Company and Okamura Corporation have developed a robotic chair that will rise up to meet you as you sit. It's based off of a robotic set of legs the duo developed that...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
While some cutting-edge fanatics are already waiting for the successor to Blu-ray technology, many old school gadget purists refuse to let go of the past. For that crowd of old schoolers Japan's Teac has released the LP-R500, a device that...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Mazda "KAAN" is an electric race car for the futuristic tracks of 2025, and part of the LA Auto Show's Motorsports 2025 Design Challenge. Like all of the crazy submissions, the KAAN has its own little back story:...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Bike theft in major cities is a big problem, with people afraid to leave their bikes locked up anywhere for fear of some thief coming along with wire cutters and whisking it away. And with biking a great, environmentally-friendly alternative...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
We feel sad for the Phoenix Mars Lander now that its batteries have run out and it'll soon die of neglect. It's still got some time left, though, and before it goes for good, the Lander will be working a...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Gadzooks! A steampunk keyboard with modern sensibility? That's a whole fistful of Splenda in my Darjeeling tea. Dubbed as the Ergo, a mysterious fellow known as Datamancer cobbled this clacking wonder together from an old IBM M-15 ergonomic split...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
iZ3D has been making 3D gaming monitors for a while, but now they want to enhance your gaming experience even more by replacing your boring dark gray monitor case, with something that looks like it came straight out of...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Global warming got you down? Missing the snow-covered holidays of your youth? It seems like White Christmases are fewer and farther between these days. And while you can't control the weather (yet), you can make yourself some snow to feel...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
So you have a Hummer, but it's not quite ridiculous enough. You're looking to go so far over the top you come out on the other side. You're an above and beyond kind of guy. I hear you. Well, what...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Embedded video from CNN Video Show of hands: How many of you had your minds blown when Anderson Cooper interviewed will.i.am via "hologram" on CNN last night? I've been pretty hard on CNN about its technical foul-ups in the past,...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
One of the biggest things keeping people from getting on board with the iPhone is its lack of a physical keyboard. If you're not used to typing on a touchscreen, it can be a difficult thing to get used...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Mintpad is a curious little device. A tiny little screen that you carry around, it takes the age-old practice of passing notes into the digital realm. How is that different from texting or IMs? Simple — the Mintpad's...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The realignment of our bio-tech reality has hit a new milestone courtesy a group of cloning scientists from Japan. For the first time in human history the group managed to clone an animal from 16 year-old frozen animal tissue. The...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
In 2002, a measure called the Help America Vote Act mandated that voting across the country needs to be easier and more handicap friendly, leaving the clunky lever voting machines out. However, the venerable LVMs are still used in...
POSTED Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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