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So you went ahead and bought every annoying office projectile you could get your hands on, and now you’ve come close enough to getting fired that you have no one to use your toys on. Boy, being the office manchild sure is tough, isn’t it?
Well, you don’t need to harass your poor co-workers to enjoy your goodies. Just take aim at this Automatic Cube Weapon Target instead. It’s built to withstand foam bullets, and it won’t complain to the boss that you never get any work done and you creep everyone out, which is a big plus. –Adam Frucci
Product Page [ThinkGeek]
Anzac Day today, so we’re on reduced activity on the local front. We’ll keep an eye on the US feed, though, so you’re not missing out.
Spare a thought for those who have fought the good fight.
This project is the latest of designer Susanna Hertrich. It is a traditional 365 day calendar but it will shred the day. It unfortunately isn’t a real product, but rather it is a product in a series of “fictional products designed to be useful for human hibernation.” Any makers out there want to tackle this project? I’ll pay for it (as long as I get to keep it). –Travis Hudson
Chrono_Shredder [Josh Spear]
LG-Nortel seems to be a bit early on this one, but they’ve made what looks to be the first WiMax-enabled phone. It’s a standard phone with a videophone built in, which is where the WiMax fits in. With a camera and a screen for seeing your caller, it doesn’t look to be anything all that revolutionary. I don’t think WiMax is going to do anything to help videophones catch on, as the speeds aren’t anything faster than current broadband that videophones can plug into now, but I guess we’ll see.
There’s no release date for this, but I wouldn’t expect to see it for a while, as there isn’t going to be WiMax coverage in the States until next year, and even then it’ll only be in a handful of crappy cities. Yeah, I’m still bitter about that. –Adam Frucci
I guess designer portable, tabletop vacuums are an area yet to be tapped, until now. This is a miniature vacuum (think Dustbuster), but it is shaped like a cheeseburger. If you didn’t feel like enough of a pig before, try cleaning all of those crumbs off your gut with an actual cheeseburger. $20.–Travis Hudson
Product Page [Via Nerd approved]
Here’s a few treats that popped up while you were all tucked up in bed.
Fridge thinks it’s a toolbox. Sadly, this will probably never land here. But it would be PERFECT out in the proverbial garden shed! “No, honey, I’m working out here!”
Westinghouse 52-inch LCD 1080p TV just $2,499USD. No idea yet on local possibilities, but this is promising whatever happens.
Solar panelled swimwear Practical? Hardly. But is that the point?
Dell sneaks up on the solid state scene. Boom! All solid state, all the time. Bring it on.
Amiga announcing new PCs! I probably wouldn’t replace my Macs with it, but damn I want to buy one out of principle. Long Live Amiga!
Sonic Screwdriver pen (sans actual sonic screwdriver) Yeah, it won’t fix anything, but it is still a damn cool Dr Who pen with UV light.
New robot overlords on the way. Boeing and iRobot work together to bring about humanity’s demise. It’s only a recon bot for now, but you just know what’s next on the agenda…
Meanwhile, pigeons get their robotic comeupance. Where can I buy a fake robot falcon? That’d be sweet.
It’s not the first home theater in a box to pack HDMI outputs, but Onkyo’s top-of-the-line HT-SR800 is still an impressive system for anyone looking for an all-in-one package. Announced alongside today’s other surprises, the SR800 cranks out 110 watts per channel and can process Dolby Digital EX, DTS-ES, and DTS 96/24.
Price-wise, the $599 package is pretty solid and thanks to the extra audio (format) support, offers a better HTiB experience than Sony’s alternative, which is about $100 cheaper, but lacking in the features dept. If you’re really tight on cash, the SR800 will have two younger siblings:
When we first received an Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 projector earlier this week, we were eager to take it into our test theater for a look-see, wondering just how much projector you can get for your $3000 these days. Surely there must be a catch to a 1080p projector that costs so comparatively little. It didn’t look like it was missing anything when we looked at the spec list: Packed with three LCDs, this puppy has the latest HDMI 1.3 input in the back, a quoted 12,000:1 contrast ratio, that Blu-ray and HD DVD-friendly resolution of 1080p, and it doesn’t look half bad, either.
The first thing we wanted to try was an HD DVD using its HDMI 1.3 port. Loading our newly acquired HQV benchmark test HD DVD disk, it was hard to find anything wrong with the picture we were looking at. The blacks were some of the blackest we’ve seen with an LCD projector at any price, and blacks are a weakness of LCDs. There were hardly any visible jaggies in the diagonal lines test, and that “screen door effect” of visible gridwork that plagues LCD projectors was nowhere to be found here, unless you stuck your nose right up next to the screen.
But how does it look blown up to projectus giganticus size?
(* Pretty sure this is the same unit as the TW1000, so you know what we’re seeing here. Local RRP $6999 last we heard, which seems a nasty premium over this US pricing. -giz.au*)
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Our friends over at TechEBlog are kings of the top 5 list and YouTube embed. They post an entertaining top 5 list nearly every day, which is a hell of a lot harder than it looks. But we fear that they may hitting a wall. After months and months of top 5 list after top 5 list, they present to us “Feature: 5 Strange Gadgets.”
5 Strange Gadgets? 5 Strange Gadgets?! We love you guys, but come on. There’s got to be at least one category of gadgets out there left untapped that you haven’t done a top 5 list on. We refuse to believe that you’ve drained the well of all your lists. I can’t imagine living in a blogosphere without your many lists. Don’t do this to me. –Adam Frucci
(We thought this list was silly, but fun… -giz.au)
We could definitely see the need for a text input attachment for the 360, especially with the upcoming Windows Live Messenger update, but for the Wii? Not so much. That’s probably why Nintendo‘s only just now thinking about adding a Wii keyboard peripheral to make Web surfing easier—as if anyone really used their Wiis for Web surfing anyway.
What kinda peripherals would we like to see for the Wii? How about more games. Does that count as a peripheral? – Jason Chen
Nintendo looking into keyboard peripheral [Nintendo Wii Fanboy]
