LG L1900 19” Monitor May 17, 2006
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LG's making some inroads into being a "cool" manufacturer. Sleek black frame, curved base, 4ms response time, 2000:1 contrast ratio, and a glossy finish all for around £320. Comes in 3 versions, L1900J, L1900E and L1900R, all with different lighting systems.
Then again, what do we know about being cool? If we got back all the lunch money that was stolen from us in school, we'd have enough to be an disease-ridden heiress socialite. Now, we just have crabs and nothing to show for it.
LG's latest LCD monitor [Akihabara News]
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Lenovo Waterproof Keyboard May 17, 2006
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Intern Travis just hates it when he spills the water from his smoking paraphernalia on his keyboard, and honestly, so do we. Lenovo demonstrated that their new keyboard technology can take a whole cup-full of water and keep on clacking.
After reading all those lame comments on Fark—lol omgz you owe me a keyboard!!11eleven!!111—we think there's a huge market for this.
Lenovo water-proof keyboard [AVing]
£5 MP3 Player May 17, 2006
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How cheap can they go with mp3 players? Single digits? You got it. Evergreen makes a screenless mp3 player for £5. USB2.0 and 1 gig SD card support are both included. Who needs an iPod shuffle when you can get this for less than the price of a movie ticket.
Evergreen [via Trusted Reviews]
Classic Microphone May 17, 2006
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Put on a suit and pretend to be Elvis with this classic looking microphone from Brando. Nine dollars will buy you a touch of class no longer seen in the extravagant womanizing lifestyle of podcasters. Compatible with all PCs and Notebooks with mic in.
Classic Microphone [via Red Ferret]
Magicbox IMP May 17, 2006
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Priced at about £150, this Wi-Fi radio streams Internet music as well as MP3s and BBC broadcasts. You basically plug this thing in and connect to any of 2,500 free Internet streams. Listen, switch channels, repeat. Straightforward and quite sexy-looking.
MAGICBOX Imp [TechDigest]
Ferrari Art.Engine Speaker Tower May 17, 2006
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Art.Engine is a limited edition speaker system from Ferrari. This mammoth of a speaker tower includes Wi-Fi and digital amplification. It stands 47 inches high and 16 inches wide. It is available in a wide variety of colors that would perfectly match that Ferrari you happen to own. The frequency range is 40Hz...
...Wait, it doesn't matter what the frequency range is because this speaker costs a blistering $10,700. Hell, this is more of an ass-reaming than the Apple Hi-Fi boombox that was released a while ago. I'm sure this speaker sounds nice, but will you honestly be able to live with yourself if you drop $10k on a single speaker-tower?
Ferrari Art.Engine Speaker Under the Microscope [SonicFlare]
Flatulence Filter May 17, 2006
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Back when we worked in an office, trying to pass gas discretely when there were people around was the highlight of our day. Alas, more often than not, the keen nose of our coworkers would alert them to our rear-corridor escapades.
But, with the Flat-D odor absorbing pad under your buttocks, you'll be free to fart and fart 'til you get a chunker. The activated charcoal cloth pad sucks in all the smells that would normally contaminate the rest of the air.
Your Safe Chair [Flat-D]
MSI Digi Player 600 - iPod Shuffle Clone May 17, 2006
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Ever think the screen on your iPod Video was too large, and maybe a nice shuffle sized screen would make your optometrist happier? We didn't think so, but MSI's on the wrong side of the tracks riding in the opposite direction.
The MSI Digi Player 600 has 1 Gigabyte of flash memory with an OLED 65k color display to play back video. The innards: FM tuner, voice recorder and USB support. So if you really want video on your shuffle, grab this knockoff instead.
MSI Digi Player 600 [Mobile Whack]
Manicure Necklace May 17, 2006
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When it just doesn't feel appropriate to whip out your 40-piece hand, foot, and butt-crack cleaning kit, we offer this charming piece of functional jewelry. This dog-tag-shaped thing allows you to file down and then clean the feces, blood, and hair from under your coke nail. I'm saying WTF on this one, but you do what you need to do to keep clean.
Product Page [Goe-Design]
Ahora Table Lamp: Si! May 17, 2006
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We're looking to spruce up our world headquarters, and the Ahora Table Lamp might be just the right touch. Designed by Ron Zinn, there are six layers of different-colored planes, reflecting light among its undulating waves. Available in a cool- or warm-colored version, it's £160 for the large 23-inch lamp, £130 for the 16-inch smaller one. We want one, ahora. Gracias.
Product Page [Urban Peel]
World’s Most Expensive Earplugs May 17, 2006
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Ready to spend £420 on earplug headphones? Then step up to the plate, ladies and gentlemen, and witness the Shure E500s, guaranteed to grace your ears with some stunning noise cancellation while smashing your piggy bank into a thousand pieces. The company calls them a new paradigm etc, etc, but the reviews have generally been good for previous Shure earplugs. Referred to as Sound Isolating Earphones, they do just that, fitting right inside your ear to create a seal and isolating a large amount of outside noise – up to 37dB. The earphones also boast some cute audio trickery, housing three miniature speakers - one tweeter and two woofers – to present a robust sound stage. They come a new Push-To-Hear facility which activates an external speaker and mutes the sound so that you can explain to puzzled cops just why you look so damned happy on a crowded commuter train at 7am in the morning. Via Stuff
music audio earphones mp3 gadget
Gamers: We Want You! May 17, 2006
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Can you name all the King’s Quest games? When Galaxian arrived? Or what kind of deviant came up with the impossibly addictive and difficult Defender? Then your skills are being sought by the Game Innovation Database (GIDb), which has been set up by Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), to track 35-or so years of videogames. Aiming to be the Wikipedia of games, gamers with some functioning brain cells are asked to visit, peruse and update entries.
"Videogames have been, and continue to be, an area where innovation is flourishing," says project advisor Jesse Schell, an instructor of Entertainment Technology who specializes in game design at the ETC. "So many videogame innovations have occurred so fast that there is a danger that many fascinating and important innovations will be forgotten. We have created the Game Innovation Database in order to create a historical record of which innovations appeared when, and why they are important.”
The database has a few hundred entries at the moment but expect this to skyrocket in the coming months as videogame boffins hear about it. Sadly, site down at the moment - let me know when it's back. Via Dr. Dobbs
Tree Houses Grow Up May 17, 2006
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My first tree consisted of about eight pieces of different-sized wood, not all capable of taking the weight of a 9-year old. It seems things have moved on a little since, especially if your are looking at the new modular tree house from UK design studio, Sybarite. The Project Tree House is designed to be built in rural areas of England where planning authorities frown upon bog standard dwellings that could impact on all that greenery. That said, some ‘flexibility’ of planning regulations would be required to pull this one off. According to the company:
“The ‘belly’ of the tree house accommodates undulating kinetic baffles that utilise wind power to generate electricity. The plan form also meanders to the extent that modular sections can be prefabricated so that the overall size can vary from a single bedroom house up to a five bedroom model. The prefabricated design can be installed on site within two weeks, is extremely lightweight, uses many recycled products, is part self-sustainable and low on maintenance.”
As a concept, this may never actually happen and as a reality there’s little chance of ever affording it. Still, beats eight pieces of dodgy wood any day. Via Land Living
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