Thursday, May 3, 2007
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BlackBerry 8300 Curve: The Media CrackBerry You Really Want
11:30PM Seamus Byrne | If you’ve been waiting for the right BlackBerry before making the jump into CrackBerry land, your time has come. The BlackBerry 8300 Curve is the e-mail checking, media-heavy smartphone we’ve been waiting for. Design-wise, the 8300 is a looker with its thin Pearl-like profile, full QWERTY keyboard, and silvery finish. But the real reason you’ll want it is ’cause of its media features. Both the guys at Laptop and Wired agree, this is RIM’s best handheld easily blending in at the office during the day and doubling as a cool smartphone at night. So what do we get? galleryPost('BlackBerry8300Curve', 4, 'BlackBerry8300Curve'); More »
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Samsung MV65 HD Media Center is Envy-Enducing
10:45PM Seamus Byrne | First it’s taking Korea then we hope it will hit our shores – and soon. Samsung’s latest HD media center, the MV65, is a rather gorgeous-looking beast. Bright white, it boasts an integrated, hybrid analog/HDTV tuner with EPG and HD PVR functions. There’s an electronic program guide, 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, and a 512MB GeForce 7650 GS video card. Add to that a wireless keyboard and mouse and remote control, it looks pretty snazzerama. $1,505 are the magic numbers. – Ad Dugdale Samsung MV65 HD Media Center PC is stylish [New Launches] More »
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Hercules Wireless MP3 Mixer will Rock the BBQ
10:01PM Seamus Byrne | Yo Yo Yo! DJ Chicken Wings here, and this is my buddy MC Spare Ribs (although we also answer to Marvin and Ernesto). Bringing you the sounds of the BBQ, flickin’ the switch while we flip the burgers. Yes Ma’am, be with you RIGHT IN AN INSTANT. Ernesto! Go serve the lady while I talk about this new wireless mixing controller from Hercules. It’s got two channels so you can mix Pussycat Dolls with Linkin Park (Chicken Wings is Fi-eerrce, comprenday?) and even do some basic scratching with the two jog wheels. When I scratch, that’s when Mr Lightbody, our Manager, gets down on the Dickeys lino and, like, throws some crazy moves. And if he hasn’t ruptured something, I press one of the FX buttons to, like, give him A to the P to the LAWS. Is that how you spell it, Mr Lightbody? I’m not sure how the thing works as I didn’t bother with Computer Studies at school, I was more into Home Economics, see, but Mr Lightbody knows EVERYTHING. He’s gonna hit you after the jump with all the tech stuff. Okay, gotta run, Ernesto’s doing something with his boogers and that lady’s ribs. More »
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Topcon GR3 GPS Receiver: The Mr T of Navigation?
9:02PM Seamus Byrne | The Topcon GR3 looks more like a heavy-duty flashlight than a GPS receiver. It looks like the kind of tool that Bruce Willis would use in one of the Die Hard movies to bop the bad guy over the head – or Ashton Kutcher if he’s being a cheeky beggar. Really a tool for surveyors who need pinpoint accuracy – it uses 36 satellites to give you results down to the last milimeter – the GR3 is built to withstand the most extreme weather conditions. It has just won a prestigious award in Germany (making it more like David Hasselhoff than Mr T, perhaps) for design. But it’s expensive: you won’t get any change out of $22,000. – Ad Dugdale Topcon GR3 GPS receiver gets design award [Navigadget] More »
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Creative Introduces Teeny Tiny Zen Stone
9:00PM Seamus Byrne | Over the weekend, we teased you with a rumor that had been floating around, that Creative would introduce a tiny, flash-based audio player for under $50. Well, it happened, and it’s actually under $40. (I mean “under” in the TV-announcer sense of the word.) Creative’s $39.99 1GB Zen Stone will be out this month, in six colors: black, white, red, blue, pink and green. Follow the jump for details, plus some very sweet photos you may not see anywhere else. More »
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Lap Track Keeps you in the Swim
8:34PM Seamus Byrne | This is the swimmer’s equivalent to the pedometer, a length counter that makes me think of those old Walkman Sports. Stick the Lap Track on one end of the pool wall and it will show you all sorts of useful information as you power up and down the pool lane – best lap time, average lap time, average speed, total distance and calories burned. It only goes up to 50 lengths, but couch potato that I am, 50 lengths seems a lot of strokes to me. It runs on two AAA batteries and costs $60. – Ad Dugdale Product Page [Waterproof Music via UberGizmo] More »
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ModYFire iWear Turns All Clothes Into iPod nano Covers
7:29PM Seamus Byrne | One day, hungarian designer Peter Zaolt Koren was at home thinking about how he could defeat a merciless alien invader called Ming or Zoltan. Or something like that. Suddenly, he had a strange revelation: why would anyone buy and wear horrible clothing especially designed for iPods when you can actually turn any clothing into wearable iPod nano covers? “As soon as it could hold your nano through one millimeter fabrics” he thought, “I would be as cool as freeware.” So the ModYFire iWear clip-thingy was born. At last, a whole two generations of iPod nano users will be free to turn their entire wardrobe into silly looking pinched t-shirts, skirts, trousers and boxer pants. And wear them adopting awkward poses like the people in the gallery for just $25. All thanks to Zaolt’s invention and his plan to build a rocket to protect us against alien invaders. –Jesus Diaz galleryPost('modyfireiwear', 8, 'modyfireiwear'); Product page [ModYFire] More »
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Maker Faire Coming Up: May 19 + 20
12:20PM Seamus Byrne | Just a quick reminder from our buddy Phil that the Maker Faire is coming up on May 19 and 20 at the San Mateo fairgrounds. We’ll be there—as will Phil and thousands of other do-it-yourselfers—hanging out with a bunch of guys with way too much time on their hands and all the awesome stuff they make. – Jason Chen [via Gadget Lab] More »
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The DeLorean Watch: It’s Retro Time
12:00PM Seamus Byrne | As famous as the DeLorean car is, you’ve probably never heard of the DeLorean Time watch—and for good reason. John DeLorean made this garish silver DeLorean-esque monstrosity for the sole purpose of raising funds for him to build a new sports car, the DMC2. Each watch was to be $3,495, and by buying it, you were placed on a list for an exclusive early chance to buy a DMC2 when it was available. John unfortunately passed in 2005, so neither watch nor car made it to stores. However, you can still see what the planned watch design was going to look like, except that the dial was hidden in the picture on the left. – Jason Chen DELOREAN TIME – The DMC2 Wristwatch [Watchismo] More »
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