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Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger. That’s the title of an amazing Daft Punk song, but they should have included lighter in there. That’s the way trends are leaning right now. If your device weighs any more than your competitor’s, just forget about it. Transcend doesn’t have to worry about this right now. Their new line of JetFlash T2K USB keys only ...

Buffalo has just released a new wireless router using the IEEE 802.11n standard. They are claiming up to 144Mbps, but who the hell has a connection over 100? So apart from the fact that its speeds aren’t   to useful right now, the Nfiniti does have an increased range radius. Now you CAN browse the internet while in the bathroom! ...

How many times have you wished that those notes you took could be transfered into your computer for editing? Not too many… Well, that might explain why not too many people have caught onto the digital pen idea. Not only is it awkward to hold something of this size and write with it, it is just dumb to spend $150 ...

With 3GSM coming up all major phone manufacturers have great products under their sleeves, earlier we wrote about Samsung’s super thin phones, now we have Nokia’s next swivel-music phone. Supposedly this phone will be on the 5000 series, some claimed that it’s going to be a combination of 5500 and 3250, with a swivel design. It is also rumored that ...

So…You wanna be a DJ? Check out these Kuka robotic DJs. The two robots are encased in a circle of LPs. Both robots working independently, grab a LP and place it on the turntable, where it proceeds to consume you in scratching and mixing madness. The DJ’s are actually two Kuka industrial robots which have been modded to be master ...

Scientists at Purdue University have created a portable power generator. Trash is its main source of fuel. Many of you might remember that the flux capacitor on the De Lorean in Back to The Future II was also powered by trash after being pimped up in the future. We might be approaching the time of this being reality. Without the ...

Hong Kong based iDo launched its new line of P890 smartphones which run the Windows Mobile 5.0 PPC Phone Edition OS with Push Mail. It might look kind of clunky, but it’s one of those phones that packs in enough meat to make it worth it. With a Freescale iMX21 350 MHz processor doing the powering deed along with a ...

The days of Minority Report-like technology seem closer and closer everyday. With the popularity increasing on touch screens and touch based interfaces, the Ukraine made 3D Touchpad is a step ahead of the crowd. It’s not even really a touchpad at all technically. You don’t have to touch the thing to make it work. The touchpad can sense movements above ...

This week’s Retro Rewind delves into the original poor-mans virtual reality, the ViewMaster. The good old days of paper reels and plastic mechanical eyeware might be behind us, but we shall never forget the ViewMaster. I remember quite vividly. The joy of looking through the different reels at my local Kmart. Filled with the anticipation that only a child can ...

We’ve all seen what 3D render artists go through designing a graphic on the computer. With all of the wire framing and pixel by pixel intricacy, it seems like a job that’s heavily focused on a close eye. Most of us don’t have an eye for such detail, but at least we can look like we do. These amazingly designed ...