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November 20, 2006 |
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Netoy Tries to Kick Nabaztag to the Curb November 20, 2006Read more Gadgets
Netoy WiFI robot flails the news [Slashgear]
Wrist PDA Gives You the Magic Touch November 20, 2006Read more PDA
Click though for some close up shots. Put Blockbuster Out of Business with Flic Scanner, Software November 20, 2006Read more Gadgets
Product Page [Via SCI FI] Pressure Drop JukeDock: Blinkin' Lights, No Schlock November 20, 2006Read more Portable Media
Compatible with most iPods, its LED lights have three brightness levels that can bounce along with the music, cycle among various colors, give you a steady color or can even go into a psychedelic rainbow mode for those nights you feel like pulling out that Pink Floyd album. This looks like a fun little device to which you can attach your iPod, give yourself some retro-deco lighting, and easily control with your existing stereo's remote. Jump for more pics. The PS3 Grill [For Reals} November 20, 2006Read more Consoles
Cemetery 2.0 Connects Real Life Grave to Web 2.0 Fun November 20, 2006Read more Gadgets
Cemetery 2.0 works by keeping an active satellite Internet connection that keeps ol' bag of bones in constant communication with the Web services. Couldn't make it for Agnes' birthday? Just post a message on her Facebook wall, she'll understand. The current prototype uses this guy here, who is the great-grandfather of Cemetery 2.0's inventor, Elliott Malkin. What kind of Web sites would you like to be perpetually linked to? I hope one of them starts with a "Giz" and ends with a "modo." Cemetery 2.0 [Dziga.com via we make money not art] iPod Video a Flop? Plus, Our Field Test on Tiny Video Watching November 20, 2006Read more Portable Media
Worst-case scenario: The panel is an early indication that TV and movies have limited appeal on iPods. Best-case scenario: While adoption of video may be proceeding more slowly than the hype suggests, there is tremendous upside ahead.We're thinking that people are using iPods so much, 2.2% of the huge amount of time spent with the things is still a significant number. But then, isn't watching video on such a tiny screen a huge pain in the ass? I just spent over 50 hours in various airplanes watching all kinds of video on tiny screens, so let me tell you what I think, after the jump. Paintball Minigun Guarantees Pain and Victory November 20, 2006Read more Gadgets
Hit the jump for a close up of the gun's triggers and check out the minigun homepage for a quick video. CNN's Guide To Innovative Tech: DVRs, Cellphones, the Wheel and Movable Type November 20, 2006Read more Press
ADS InstantVideo To-Go Accelerates iPod and PSP Video Encoding November 20, 2006Read more Portable Media
So what this means is you can take a DVD's worth of video and crunch it down for 320x240 playback on your iPod or PSP in 20 minutes, something that can take five hours to do with software encoding. And this baby can do that with a slew of media formats, too, including MP4, MP3, AVI, WMV, MOV, RM, JPG, and TIFF. Yeah, ADS. This we gotta try. Products Page [ADS Tech] Toshiba 8GB SDHC Memory Card: More Bits, Less Campatibility November 20, 2006Read more Storage
Just what we needed, a new standard. But those eight gigs might just come in handy, and there's talk of these cards eventually being able to hold a 32GB of stuff, and they're faster, too. Neat. Hope this one's cheap. Product Page (rook out, it's in Japanese) [Toshiba] NEC Wants a Big Schlong, Too, Announces 25.5-Inch LCD Monitor November 20, 2006Read more Peripherals
This is one nice-looking monitor; it looks lot like this exquisite Dell 24-inch 2407WFP widescreen flat panel (see my review) right here in front of me. You gotta love this NEC's thin bezel and those controls on the bottom corner. NEC was coy about pricing, but if they want to compete with Dell's 24-inch monitor, this one'll have to cost not much more than $750. NEC MultiSync LCD2690WUXi, the 25.5" Wide LCD [Akhihabara News] Neko Stone Mouse: Flintstones Peripheral November 20, 2006Read more Peripherals
Against the creamish background the mouse doesn't appear very attractive. But on a nice desk in a corporate setting, I think it could be pretty classy. Retro classy. – Mark Wilson Mouse Made of Stone [via MAKE] Amazon UK Opens Wii Pre-Orders November 20, 2006Read more Consoles , Gadgets , Games , Home Entertainment , Peripherals , Portable Media
It’s not like Amazon to be slow off the mark - just two and half weeks to launch - but no doubt it will make up for it by having plenty of supply. Right? Maybe not. Read what the site FAQ says: “Order from Tuesday, November 21, 2006, during UK business hours (9am - 5pm GMT). We’re limiting orders to one per customer to ensure that as many of our customers as possible can enjoy a Wii console this Christmas. Order early, because the Wii console will be in very short supply. We'll stop taking pre-orders once we've sold out of our pre-order stock.” You have been warned so set your alarms clocks now. Here’s the link. The US launch at the weekend went a lot smoother than the PS3 launch, thanks to Nintendo having enough consoles to go around. Let’s hope European gamers are for such a hassle-free ride.-Martin Lynch T-Mobile Wants You To Eat Your Bill November 20, 2006Read more Gadgets , Mobile phones , Smartphones , Wireless
We are not talking about creating classroom spitballs here but about prototype, edible bills – at least if you believe the nonsense coming from its Trends Laboratory. In a survey (yet to be confirmed) of T-Mobile customers, a percentage of people, asked about how it could make its bills ‘more digestible’, answered ‘make them edible’. You can see the serious nature of this survey already. Some suggested cartoons or jokes, but what a waste of money. The only way to make mobile users happy is to charge them less. There, end of survey. -Martin Lynch Via Pocket Lint Diesel Motorbike Costs £12,000 – Is The Planet Worth It? November 20, 2006Read more Gadgets
There have been some one-offs and small production run units but Dutch-group E.V.A. Products are claiming to have built the first commercially available diesel-fuelled two-wheeler. The Trackstar T-800CDI – looking like something brutal and industrial from Mad Max 2 (which is a good thing) - uses an 800cc Daimler Chrysler engine used in some military vehicles. Even better, it can also be run on plant oil, like sunflower oil. Just 2.5L will get you 100km. Still, this green machine is going to cost you. According to the Web site you’ll be stumping up almost £12,000 from early next year. Calling all bikers – is it worth it?-Martin Lynch [More] Via Gizmag |
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I've never been a big fan of wearable tech and the mere thought of strapping a PDA this big onto my wrist ain't helping, but fortunately this PDA comes with a twist. It creates a body area network (BAN) that lets you communicate with other peripherals by touching them. So for example, you could print documents from your PDA by touching a compatible printer or transfer files from your PDA by touching a computer. The concept is still in development, but seems promising (as long as they don't make you look like an android in the process).
This could be the perfect gift this holiday season for that person obsessed with DVDs. Flic is a barcode scanner and software inventory logger that allows persons to keep track of DVDs, CDs and books with ease. Best of all, the software includes a logger—kind of like a checkout service— so you can easily keep track of who has your stuff. You should probably charge for rentals and late fees for the first few checkouts to help pay this baby off. It'll set you back two c-notes. 
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Whoever said Web 2.0 is nothing more than a passing phase? With something called Cemetery 2.0, people can connect physical gravestones to online memorials of dead people. Yup. Remember Great Aunt Agnes? Oh what a fighter she was. Now you can link her burial plot to her Facebook account, all her pics on Flickr and other Web 2.0 wholesome fun. Morbid? Certainly, but no one said this bubble was a noble one.
Nielsen Media Research, that company that watches the TV watchers, did a study last month about Apple's iPod and the amount of video that people are actually watching on it. The result? People are listening to a whole lot more music than they are watching videos on the portable players. Less than 1% of content played on iTunes or iPods were videos, and even among those who own a video iPod, only 2.2% of the content consumed was video. What does this all mean? According to the Hollywood Reporter:
Until now we've heard idle talk of 8GB SD memory cards coming by the end of this year, and now Toshiba has actually announced one. The bad news is this SD-HC008GT4 card, like all SDHC cards, isn't compatible with existing devices that use those old-fashioned SD memory cards. That's right, if you want to cram all those angels on head of this pin, you'll have to spring for a shiny new device that supports the SDHC (that HC stands for "high capacity") standard. 
Amazon.co.uk has told customers that Wii pre-orders will start tomorrow – long after other retailers have already pre-sold their allotted quota.
We have to swallow a lot of crap these days but T-Mobile wants to go one step further by getting you to eat your bill.
Considering how little fossil fuel most bikes guzzle compared to even the smallest car, I can understand why there has been little rush to come up with a diesel powered motorbike. 