I have to say, woman are interested in some of the tackiest gadgets of all time, most of which carry the Hello Kitty branding. The Mickey Mouse shaped M Player just got shoved down a notch in my book of classiness (which I keep handy at all times.) With the “ears” decked in fruity Swarovski crystals, and brandishing a revolting ...
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Chocolate Bar-like Portable HDD Concept
Hershey chocoholics might want to steer clear of this concept device, as it might make them crave the lusciousness of sweet milk chocolate even more. Each piece of this portable HDD is a modular flash drive, which allows users to chunk their info together to produce one large mega-drive. The central display is a touchscreen that helps you manage your ...
Read More »Ben Heck Returns: Atari 2600 Portable
The King of Gamer Mods, Ben Heck, has returned to his triumphant days of Atari hacking. Known in the past for this Atari portables and other gaming mods, such as this one-handed Xbox controller, Ben Heck is back with a brand new Atari portable, this time for the 2600. Running off of 6 batteries, the new Atari portable now has ...
Read More »Mount a 21″ TV on your sunglasses
The problem with traditional head-mounted display is that they’re usually too big, it’s either the battery that’s too heavy to carry, or the eye piece that prevents you from seeing what’s going on around. This is even more frustrating for those who wear specs, because you cannot put on both at the same time. A small Japanese company Arisawa seemed ...
Read More »Gain super eye power with Nintendo DS
After all those brain and IQ training games on DS, Nintendo thinks that the next thing to train would be our eyes! So they announced this all new Eye Power Training game in Japan that works your eyes in 5 ways: 1. Motion vision: the ability of picking up and seeing moving objects clearly 2. Powerful glances: the ability to ...
Read More »Swim with your iPod Shuffle and bone-conduction headphones
When we want music, we want music everywhere, some of us even want it underwater, so somebody created the underwater MP3 player. The problem of listening to music underwater is that the earphone lines are going to tangle, let alone the fact that your ears would feel uncomfortable because of the super tight earbuds; another danger would actually be not ...
Read More »First detailed review of Sony video Walkman NW-A800
It was only a while ago when we first saw Sony’s new re-designed video plus MP3 Walkman, our friends in Japan have already gotten their hands on one of them, and gave us a really detailed review. Instead of leaving you to struggle with online translators, we’re biometric over here.
Read More »Earphone lines that flash with your music
So you think phones with lights that dance with your music is cool? Wait till you see these earphones released by Evergreen Japan, because they have lights on the CABLE that dances with the rhythm of the music you are listening to. If you happen to wear one of these at night, there’s no way you can get hit by ...
Read More »Pick up your bone conduction headphones and start looking like a dork today
If you see someone on the street wearing headphones in front of the ears but not over the ears, that person is probably not crazy but probably the smartest dude around here, because he’s using Thanko’s Vonia bone conduction headphones. Instead of pumping sound into your ear canal, it relies on the part of temporal bone in front of your ...
Read More »Preview: carry your own OS around with the Wizpy media player
Japanese company TurboLinux will start selling their Wizpy Portable Media Player (PMP) in 2 weeks, ITmedia took it for a review and answered a lot of our questions. What’s so special about this not-too-attractive PMP is that apart from the usual 4GB FM radio, voice recorder, music, video, picture, text viewer that we see in the market, it has a ...
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