FreeHand Gives Your Hand a Pocket April 4, 2007
READ MORE Gadgets , Mobile phones , Portable Media
Spring is here, it's warming up everywhere—well, almost—and you know what that means? There's great running weather, and you'll have fewer pockets. That's where FreeHand can give you a hand. It's a pocket for the back of your hand. Of course using such a convenience would mean actually leaving your house. Indeed, there is a whole world out there.
Store your credit cards, money, your cellphone or your iPod in there, always at the ready and right at your fingertips. Might be perfect for that pesky Motorola Q, whose buttons keep getting accidentally pressed while riding in a pocket, calling that same poor soul over and over again. Solving that problem alone would make it worth the $22 purchase price. – Charlie White
Update: Or I could just press and hold the Home button on the Q. That would lock it. Still, it's a pain in the arse doing that all day.
Product Page [Venture Design Works]
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Sony Ericsson to Make Future Mobiles Like the PSP? April 4, 2007
READ MORE Consoles , Gadgets , Mobile phones , Portable Media
File this under "Rumor" for now, but the folks at Clipset are reporting that Sony is looking for some cellphone gaming action via their Sony Ericsson line of mobiles.
Like the high-end Cybershot and Walkman phones, Sony Ericsson's new "gaming" phones would pack a lot of media muscle and have an interface like the PSP's. The idea sounds feasible, but considering Nokia's success (or lack thereof) with the N-Gage and Sony's own success with the PSP, we're not quite sold on this just yet. – Louis Ramirez
Sony Mobile Games? [Clipset]
Samsung's New HDDs are Fast, Silent April 4, 2007
READ MORE PC , Storage , Technology
No one likes noisy electronics. That's why Samsung's new SpinPoint S Series of HDDs is great; they're fast and quiet. Perfect for devices that are better seen and not heard, such as DVRs and, ahem, Xbox 360s. They're rated at 2.4 bel in idle mode and 2.75 bel in seek mode, with 1 bel being equal to 10 decibels. That's pretty quiet, I guess.
The drives come in 80GB and 160GB models and both sport 7,200-rpm speeds. No word on pricing as of yet, but they should be arriving later this month. –Adam Frucci
Samsung [via The Raw Feed]
KEF Muon: Six Feet Of Shiny Audio Sex April 4, 2007
READ MORE Digital Audio , Entertainment , Gizmodo UK , Music
When a speaker looks this sexy and downright weird, does it matter what it sounds like? Of course it does and, knowing that the audio guts come from KEF, is a good sign that they'll be belters.
Designed for KEF by iconic designer, Ross Lovegrove (iMac, Sony Walkman), the Muon speakers are over 6ft tall, curvy and made out of shiny aluminium. There's a lot of talk about “aesthetic this meets audio perfection that” in the press invite to the Milan launch in a few weeks but, the upshot is this: these look stunning. And, they'll probably cost you the Earth. For instance:
“A UK based company that has strong links with the aeronautics and automotive industries milled a prototype from an enormous billet of solid aluminium. Using state-of-the–art computer-aided manufacture software the machine precisely cut away the excess material from the six foot long block of solid metal to reveal the final form – in total the milling took about a week.”
Will these ever be available to buy? Maybe. I'll let you know. More pics after the jump. -Martin Lynch
iPod Fireplace – Can You Say ‘Huh’? April 4, 2007
READ MORE Apple , Gizmodo UK , Home Entertainment , Music , iPod
We all know that an iPod dock can be jammed into just about anything but that doesn’t mean that they should be. Take the iCarta iPod Dock and Toilet paper dispenser or the ball-shaped, wheeling robot, Miuro.
Now, we have the iPod fireplace, the FRP-4300. This butt-ugly slab of stone boasts a iPod dock on the side and a couple of flat 4 x 9in speakers – possibly NXT – which just look right at home, don’t they? You can have this majestic ‘focal point’ in 9 different finishes. I’ll take the Fireplace TV, thanks.-Martin Lynch
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Apple Stylish - But Not Green April 4, 2007
READ MORE Apple , Gadgets , iPhone , iPod
Greenpeace has ranked Apple last – again – in its quarterly ranking of those companies that love our little blue and green spinning ball, and those that don’t.
A little harsh, perhaps, but the Greenpeace ratings – which Apple disagrees with – has to do with companies’ policies on recycling and the use of toxic content in their products.
Lenovo toppled Nokia from the number one spot but Apple stayed firmly rooted to the bottom of the barrel. Greenpeace even has a ‘Green My Apple’ campaign going for those of you that love Apple kit but would like them to be greener. The report said:
“For a company that claims to lead on product design, it is perhaps surprising to find Apple languishing at the bottom of the scorecard. While other laggards have moved upwards in the Guide, Apple has made no changes to its policies or practices since the launch of the Guide in August 2006. The company scores badly on almost all criteria.”
Unsurprisingly, Apple has denied the report's findings. You can read the full report here and make up your own mind.-Martin Lynch
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