Friday, June 22, 2007
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ZegnaSport Jacket Has Solar Ring Around the Collar
11:39PM Seamus Byrne | Now that Italian design fashionista ZegnaSport is getting into the solar charging jacket game, it proves you don’t have to resort to a nerdtastic ScottEVest solar charger coat to keep your cellphone going on sunny days. We like the subtlety of this Zegna Sport Solar JKT with its solar panel that’s smoothly incorporated into its collar. All the electrical juice is conducted through special textile cables, and you can plug your cellphone or mp3 player directly into the jacket, or it can charge up an onboard battery in eight hours that you can use to replenish power to your devices, too. There’s no way of knowing if this self-assured model dude is actually a geek or not, but with this chic cloak, he’ll probably have an easy time laying all our girlfriends. But he’ll have to wait until next summer for that, ’cause it’s going to take those sporty Italian clothiers that long to de-geekify this jacket. – Charlie White ZegnaSport Solar JKT Jacket to power your phone and iPod [Unwired View] More »
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Catapult Watch for Medievalists with No Taste
10:59PM Seamus Byrne | Here’s a simply repulsive antique catapult watch that dates back to 2005. Cost is $49 and it comes with free artillery, having been reduced from $59. I can’t think why. – Ad Dugdale Product Page [Backyard Artillery via UberGizmo] More »
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Apple Patent to Prevent Thieves from Lifting iPhone
10:22PM Seamus Byrne | The brains over in Cupertino seem to have been doing some thinking vis-Ã -vis security for the iPhone, as an application submitted by Apple to the US patent office shows. Given that the iPod’s arrival heralded an epidemic of white-earphone muggings, it is safe to assume that the same thing will happen once people start clamping the shiny loveliness of the iPhone to their ears in public. What are they proposing? Well, they’re not giving away a man-mountain bodyguard free with every iPhone… More »
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Canon EOS-1D Mark III Auto-focus Under Heat
8:52PM Seamus Byrne | We checked out the Canon EOS-1D Mark III at PMA’07 and were blown away by this wonder camera. And rightly so, because the camera is amazing… except for one little problem. More »
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Video Shows HPR-3 Promet Mark II Not Boozeproof
8:12PM Seamus Byrne | Yesterday we showed you HPR-3 Promet Mark II, hailed as the waterproof construction worker of the future. Well, I beg to differ. He’s nothing but a Disco Stormtrooper who got at three bottles of whisky and a case of Olde Fortran the night before his big debut, as you can see in the three videos after the jump. More »
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Gundam Skull Speakers
6:04PM Seamus Byrne | Harvested from the rusted out corpses of Gundam suits that died with valor in suborbital space combat. Powered by 2AA batteries and the drool of thousands of Otaku nerdypants Robot lovers. –Brian Lam galleryPost('gundamskull', 7, 'Gundam Speakers'); Gundam Speakers [via Technabob] More »
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Seagate CEO Talking More Smack
4:43PM Seamus Byrne | The MOUTH on Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate, never stops yapping and I love the guy for it. Last year, it was HDDs and porno, this year he’s talking about the 10% drop in HDD prices industry wide over Q1 2007: Some of my competitors went nuts on pricing… but, you know, we all peed in the pool (Even though the market grew 17%, no one made any extra revenue.) –Brian Lam Disk drive makers are just nuts, complains Seagate CEO [Uberpulse] More »
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John Pac Stole Mossy’s iPhone!?
4:06PM Seamus Byrne | This is getting crazy. I just got a tip that someone spotted Walt Mossberg picking up Ruths Chris takeout while talking on an iPhone. Walt Mossberg Tips! This video from John Junior of All Things D makes it look like he snuck into pappa bear’s cabin to shoot some footage. Maybe while WM was eating some steak. A funny clip. (If you are one of those Apple fans who has a sense of humor.) –Brian Lam Thus Spake iPhoneathustra [Via Kara S. And thanks for the Walt Spotting, tipster. Don't get too close, he's much quicker than he looks!] More »
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Is this the LG… Google Phone?
3:33PM Seamus Byrne | Right. Europe got this Google infused LG KU580 yesterday, loaded with utilities like GMail, Google Maps, and search. Outlets like The Register are calling this The Google Phone, perhaps in jesting reference to the previous rumors. We doubt a phone preloaded with apps you can download free is The One. But the subtext, if there is one, could be that the 3g phone, 2MP camera phone with chocolate stylings is a sign of a budding Google and LG relationship. More »
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