Ok, so maybe a 52 inch TV doesn’t cost an arm and leg (but its close), but there is more deception than that in the title. Headplay’s Personal Cinema System isn’t actually a 52 inch TV; its actually headgear that has a screen which looks the same size as a 52 inch TV because it is so close to your ...
Read More »Floating iPod Sound System waterproofs your music – CES 2007
Summer might seem far away now, with temperatures well below the comfortable level, but these frigid months will pass quicker then you think. When the temperatures pull a 180 and become uncomfortably hot, you might want to just lie around the pool all day and soak. And if you don’t have a pool, at least in an iced bath tub. ...
Read More »1TB hard drive from Seagate? Now you can pirate more!
Four! That’s how many patters the new Seagate hard drive will have when it comes out in the first half of 2007. Why four? Well, right now there is 250GB of storage per platter (which is why the three platter disks are maxing out at 750GB), and this new hard drive is planned to be an entire terabyte. That’s right, ...
Read More »Wave down taxi with Taxi Hailer
Anyone who lives in a big city, or even has visited one, know how much it sucks to have to look for a taxi. They might be all around you, but not a single one seems to be available, or when every single one seems to pick up everyone on the street but you. Well a cabbie named Tony Brady ...
Read More »Samsung’s new GPS Navigator, the STT-D370, connects to phone via Bluetooth
Samsung just released the STT-D370, a new GPS navigator in Korea that is the first of its kind; it connects to cellphones via Bluetooth. Oh, and it has Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) and terrestrial DMB, but those aren’t as important as hooking up with your cellphone, obviously. This is supposed to be great because it allows someone to make ...
Read More »Tree-inspired concept fridge: More a lemon than an apple
This thing is ugly. And by ugly, we mean that we would never let our kids eat something that came out of something that looks like a bad prop from a Ed Wood movie. But then again, almost every creation spewed by Yanko is a huge, useless piece of ugly. The designs they com up with are so deeply nestled ...
Read More »Homemade Pong wristwatch
We enjoy a DIY project just as much as the next gearhead, but this caught our eye instantly. Nothing catches a geek’s eye like the classic game of Pong. Mix that with a do it yourself mod project and you’ve got yourself an all-star product. The creator managed to fit all of the essential electronics in a 10mm thick wristwatch. ...
Read More »Logitech X-240 speakers have built-in (hickory dickory) dock
Computer stereo systems are an annoyance. They are never as good as you want them to be, they lack the ease of usability that we all strive to find, and most of the models on the open market are rehashed versions of stock speakers with a different skin. The Logitech X-240 might not be audiophile quality (in fact it’s similar ...
Read More »iAlbum lets you transfer photos directly from your camera to your iPod
Apple has done a gorgeous job integrating the iPod to be compatible with both PCs and Macs. But one feature that would be cool to have that PC users might find difficult, is directly transferring photos from a SD card directly to your iPod’s drive. There are ways to do it, whether it be through syncing (which ...
Read More »Logic3 i-Station Traveler takes note out of iPod book
The new i-Station Traveler made by Logic3 is one small boombox; one very small boombox. This new speaker set is perfect travel companion for all those mp3 players out there, especially the Nano. This is because Logic3 was sticking with its iPod love (i-Station?) and are coming out with colors that match the colors of iPod Nanos. These speakers also ...
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