Willy Grooming Kit October 14, 2006
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How seriously do you take your appearance? I bet some of you wash your hair everyday, fork out £50 a month on hair care products and check it out all day in every possible reflective surface. Yeah, you know who you are.
But how often do you groom your main man, your little friend, your ace in the hole? Ha!! Never. Despite his vital role and – if you’re lucky – hectic social life, don’t you think he deserves a little bit of care and attention that doesn’t involved anything with the word ‘job’ in it? Well, here’s your chance with the Gentleman’s Willy Care Kit.
For around £10, you can turn your 1970s trouser mullet into a Noughties hair sensation. For your small outlay you get a styling shears, a fluffing brush, a sprucing mirror and some bling for evening wear.
Yeah, I’m definitely going to Hell now.-Martin Lynch
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Wake Up To A V8 Engine October 14, 2006
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Like cars? Like the deep throaty growl of a V8? Would it be enough to get you out of bed every morning?
The makers of this beautiful, retro-styled Revolution clock think so and I’d have to agree. With a face like a speedometer and some nicely placed chrome buttons (I have no idea what they do), this clock eases you from your slumber with the soothing roar of a V8. Picture falling asleep with your head taped to the engine block of a Ferrari F40 and you're there.
So much more appealing than the current, 7am ‘Shock and Awe’ pain of a three-year old child jumping on your bollocks. Yours for around £30.-Martin Lynch
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MacMice Danger Phone: Featureless Design Plays It Safe October 14, 2006
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If you're looking for the best, the greatest, the ace, the amazing, strongest, quickest, and the greatest secret agent in the world, this is not it. You need that cartoon superhero, DangerMouse. But if you're feeling like Thoreau and want to simplify, check out the $30 Danger Phone, a VoIP handset from MacMice, the same company that brought you the Danger Mouse.
The Danger Phone's claim to superiority is its simplicity, where the company says it's distinguished by what it doesn't have as much as what it has. There is no display, no flashing lights—just easy-to-press buttons and a minimalist design. So goes the marketing concept.
But we like flashing lights and displays. Maybe this is a bit too simple. It looks like a call button in a hospital.
Product Page [MacMice]
iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Shipping: Buy a nano, Fight AIDS in Africa October 14, 2006
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Here's the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED, and It has the same specs and price as Apple's other 4GB nanos, except $10 of its $199 purchase price will go toward fighting AIDS in Africa. That money will be contributed directly into the Global Fund, according to Apple.
Let's all buy one. Good cause. Or, you could just contribute $10 to the Global Fund and accomplish the same thing without lining Apple's pockets at the same time.
Update: Apple Marketing tells us that the company will also offer Red iTunes gift cards, 10% of which will go to the campaign. Nice touch.
Product Page [Apple]
Build Your Own Mario Shrine, One Pixel at a Time October 14, 2006
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whippy turds or video games. In the latter category comes a brand new range of build-it-yourself mosaics from TomyTec, all of which depict classic Nintendo characters.
The ¥483 (US$4) dot-s packages consist of 250 colored pegs, a perforated board to plug them into and a plastic base to make it all stand up. Each box is unmarked, so fevered collectors have no way of knowing which Mario, Zelda or Donkey Kong character they're going to spend the next three minutes slapping together.
dot-s Nintendo edition [Game Watch]
Fujitsu Joins the "Look, No Hard Drive" Club October 14, 2006
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Later this month, hardcore gadget nerds in Asia will have a choice of three HDD-free laptops and one UMPC when Fujitsu joins Samsung and Sony in pimping portables with sturdy flash memory in place of feeble little spinny platters.
Although pricing and specs haven't been finalized yet, plumping for the chunks of Samsung-produced flash in the B- or Q-series laptop PCs will add ¥80,000 (US$669) or ¥160,000 ($1,338), for either 16GB or 32GB slabs, to the already-hefty ticket.
Fujitsu laptops also ditching hard drives for flash [Digital World Tokyo]
Lonely Walkman Bluetooth Transmitter Spotted Skulking Around Sony Press Event October 14, 2006
Speaking of Sony, amid all the hoo-hah yesterday about the new Walkman lineup, did anyone even notice the Bluetooth transmitter that was also slipped out between those candy-colored confections? That's it hugging the end of the player in the pic for dear life (it can also be seen lurking at the foot of yesterday's post).
The WLA-NWB1 is due out in Japan on Nov. 18 for around ¥6,000 (US$50) and is guaranteed to play nicely with the over-ear DR-BT30Q headphones, the pendant-style DR-BT20NX cans or the SRS-BTM30 Bluetooth Speakers announced at the same time yesterday.
Press release [Sony Japan]
Update: Tons more pictures over at AV Watch.
Sony's Super-Sweet HDD NetJukes Rock Japan, But You Ain't Gettin' None October 14, 2006
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They may be destined only for Japan (i.e. you'll never get your hands on one) but Sony's latest trio of HDD-toting NetJuke stereos are more than a little tasty.
Features common to each are the hard drive, an onboard Gracenote snapshot for labeling ripped songs (MP3 or ATRAC), a CD player, and a 4.3-inch color display. There's also an optional Wi-Fi dongle for downloading extortionately priced J-pop from the AnyMusic store.
The differences lie in the capacity and price: ¥100,000 (US$836) gets you the 250GB NAS-M90HD, ¥80,000 ($669) for the 80GB M70HD and ¥65,000 ($544) for the D50HD. Additionally, there's a slightly sweeter audio setup in the pricier units in the form of digital amps and better speakers. If you feel like a peek, you can spot the M90HD et al on video over here.
Oh, and the two high-end models also accommodate MiniDiscs, whatever those are.
Press release [Sony Japan]
Limited Edition Sidekick 3 by LRG and Diane von Furstenberg October 14, 2006
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The Special Edition Sidekick 3 by LRG that we saw a few weeks ago, is finally official, and available for preorder on the 30th of October. There isn't any special added functionality, just the same old browser, trackball, 1.3MP camera, instant messaging and killer QWERTY. You're paying, of course, for the camo paintjob. Perfect for hiding and texting in the park, or on hunting trips, or during...war. Or if you're a rapper, since yea, its an LRG design. Tupac and Biggie never would have gotten shot if they'd traded in their chromed out Motorola Startacs for one of these.
But there's a surprise in the form of a black Sidekick 3 LE model by working girl designer Diane Von Furstenberg. This isn't like the other black ones we saw on ebay awhile back, though. This one is jet black with kisses all over the screen. Jump to get the first look at Diane's special kissy face phone.
Lumenlabs Projector: 144-Inch Picture for $500 October 14, 2006
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Those Lumenlabs guys are smart. First, they gave us DIY instructions for making projectors that looked like baby carriages made out of LCDs and cheap lightbulbs. Of course, who the hell has time to muss around in their basement like that? And baby carriages are for babies, like CRT TVs.
That's why they've come out with a $500, premade projector based on a 7-inch lcd panel, and 150 watt high intensity discharge light source. That bulb only costs $30, and will last 6,000 hours—that's far cheaper and longer lasting than professional projector bulbs. It has standard video inputs, but surprisingly, it has component and VGA connections. Then there's the 15-degrees of keystone correction for projecting at an angle. There's even a TV tuner and speakers inside.
Of course, for $500, you can't have everything. It's not...
Working Steampunk Laptop October 14, 2006
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As steampunk-ish as this sculpture/project looks, it actually works. There's a working display, working keyboard, and working morse code input (wtf?). The creator was inspired by both the Apple Mac (he wanted to make something completely different) and Terry Gilliam. If you look at the back, there are working USB, serial, and a VGA port for the monitor.
Crazy? Definitely. Awesome? For sure! Ergonomic? No way in hell.
Project Page [Ironwork via Boing Boing via Kotaku]
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