Gadgets
UMID's Mini Netbook Makes Eees Look Massive [Umpc]
Yes, the netbook market is tired and pretty jam-packed, but check out this shiny beast: it's a mini-netbook from Korean manufacturer UMID. And it's tiny. There's no official size info, but it looks sm ....... read more
9 days ago
Super-Speed USB 3.0 Formal Unveiling Next Week, Windows 7 Won't Support Natively [Usb 3.0]
We've learned about some of its specifications, and had a first look, but it looks like USB 3.0 is going to get a proper unveiling next monday with an announcement of its final protocol specifications ....... read more
9 days ago
Samsung A867 Eternity Touchscreen Phone Leaks Out, $99 On AT&T [Cellphones]
We learned about the Eternity, or A867 as it's also known only last week, and now over at BGR they've got hold of more leaked info. It's a slender full-touchscreen 3G cellphone, with GPS, AT&T mobile ....... read more
9 days ago
Nokia's E63 BlackBerry-Alike Arrives In His'n'Hers Colors [Nokia]
Nokia's just dropped the E63 onto the scene, based on the E71, and aimed at bringing "the QWERTY keyboard form factor to a broader audience at a great price" according to Nokia itself. The skinny Blac ....... read more
9 days ago
Japanese School Girl Wristcutters: So Wrong It Really, Really Hurts [Japan, Oh Japan]
Wowowow. I have no idea what the context of this clip is. I don't want to believe that these kawaii! schoolgirl wristcutters are real, peddled by schoolgirls winking and smiling as they lick the blood ....... read more
9 days ago
T-Mobile G1's Build Price Is Just $143.89 Says iSuppli [G1]
T-mobile's G1 has been given the teardown treatment again by the guys at iSuppli, and their official estimate of its materials price is $143.89. The most costly part inside is the dual-ARM processor b ....... read more
10 days ago
23 Personal HUDs That Would Make All of Our Lives Easier [Photoshop Contest]
This week's Photoshop Contest asked you to design your own personal Heads-Up Display, and we got some really awesome results. Unlike many contests, nearly every single entry was unique and there aren' ....... read more
10 days ago
Toshiba Advances Bullet-Time to Next Level In Ad Filmed By 200 Camcorders [Bullet Time]
Toshiba's new "timesculpture" advert takes The Matrix's Bullet Time film technique one bizarrely cool step forward by animating within the freeze-frame. It was filmed with 200 Gigashot camcorders arra ....... read more
10 days ago
Homemade Wasp Sucking Machine Creates a Wasp Holocaust [Bugs]
If you spot a hole in the side of your house that a bunch of wasps are constantly going in and out of, obviously building a nest, what do you do? Do you get a can of Raid and spray it in there and hop ....... read more
10 days ago
Fuel Cells To Go Bendy, Fit Inside Gadget Corners [Fuel Cells]
Fuel cell tech is literally just around the corner from being inside many of our gadgets, and with this new design it could allow for some unusually-shaped gizmos. A company called MyFC is showing the ....... read more
10 days ago
Handmade Scythe Car Looks Like a Toy, is KITT-like Computerized [Cars]
It may look like one of the wilder fantasy toy cars you used to play with all those years ago, but Scythe is nothing like a toy when you look at its stats. Two steering wheels, twin-supercharged 1,005 ....... read more
10 days ago
Grooveneo iPhone Clock Dock Good For Wake-Ups, Myopia [Clock Dock]
We've seen iPhone/iPod alarm-clock docks before, but something about the simplicity of the Cygnett Grooveneo's design struck me. Could be that massive LED display like the best of 1980's radio-alarms, ....... read more
10 days ago
Japanese Apple Stores to Sell Optoma Picoprojector in December For $500 [PicoProjector]
Way back in June Optoma promised to release its picoprojector this year, and now there's news that indeed it will. Still reportedly the world's smallest and lightest, it'll go on sale December 1st in ....... read more
10 days ago
BlackBerry Storm Tattoo Wins Guy a Storm For Real [Blackberry Tattoo]
Hands up who thought Zune guy was crazy, even after his recent tattoo makeover? Right...brace yourselves: The guys at Crackberry were running a "What would you do for a BlackBerry Storm?" contest, ....... read more
11 days ago
Sony To Bring DRM-Free Music to iTunes, Says Rumor [Drm]
Word is that Sony is going to be joining EMI in Apple's iTunes Plus. That's the extra-cost, higher-MP3-quality DRM-free option in iTunes. EMI's currently the only major label in iTunes Plus, so the ad ....... read more
11 days ago
First Full Trailer for New Pixar Movie is… Interesting [Pixar]
The geniuses at Pixar have a new movie due out next summer called Up, and the first full trailer for it just hit the web. It's about a 78-year-old man named Carl Fredricksen who travels the world v ....... read more
11 days ago
Etch-A-Sketch Mod Adds Memory, Ability to Reproduce Your Art [Etch-A-Sketch]
Rakesh Reddy's Remember-it-All mod brings Etch-a-Sketch nearly up to the 21st Century, by adding a memory and stepper motors to the toy. It ends up being a tad like the Etch-a-Sketch clock, but niftil ....... read more
11 days ago
Navigon's 8100T GPS Has 3D Terrain-View Maps [GPS]
Navigon's just announced a new high-end GPS unit, the 8100T, that actually displays the right terrain in its map representations. Dubbed Panorama View 3D, the system uses NASA-derived height data to a ....... read more
11 days ago
Kindle Goes All Old-Fashioned, With Periscope Booklight Case [Kindle]
Maybe I'm wrong, but a big part of the goodness of the Kindle e-reader is it's easy-to-carryness, and its whizzy digital modernity: That's where this Periscope Lighted Folio for Kindle gizmo has me co ....... read more
11 days ago
Full-Length MGM Movies To Come to YouTube [YouTube]
MGM's apparently due to announce it'll be putting full-length movies from its impressive archive on to YouTube, essentially making them free of charge. Full-length TV shows will be kicking off the new ....... read more
11 days ago