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ZegnaSport Jacket Has Solar Ring Around the Collar
Posted by Seamus Byrne at 11:39 PM on June 22, 2007
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.
ZegnaSport Solar JKT Jacket to power your phone and iPod [Unwired View]
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. 
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...
We checked out 
Yesterday we showed you 
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. 
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.
Idolator, our sister site that likes music (on iPods or not), had a visit in the comments from none other than Zune Tattoo Fan #1, who explained: 
We thought the BW900 Bluetooth headset from headphone company Sennheiser was available last year, but apparently it took another year for it to actually make it to maker. Reader Jonathan got one and unboxed it.
Jon says the unit has a 100 meter range (it's Class 1, Class 2 is only 10 meter) that can connect to multiple devices simultaneously. This means your desktop phone, your cellphone, and your PC can be toggled between. Lots of ports, and has "24 hour operation".
Sure, it's almost $300, but if you need a heavy duty Bluetooth headset this seems like the way to go. 
It was called the iPod effect, but maybe now it should be dubbed the iPhone effect. The force compelling people to switch from PCs to Macs was doing something this past May, though it's not exactly easy to spot on a pie chart.
You knew the 
Fair use? What's that? It's something you'll someday be telling your kids once existed at the rate things are going. That's because there's a proposed amendment to current copy protection licenses that would ban any and all DVD copying, including for fair use.
Want to rip your DVDs to a Media Center PC so you can watch movies without putting a disc in? Too bad. Anything other than watching a movie right off the disc would be against the rules, much to the chagrin of companies such as Kaleidoscope, who make media centers loaded to the gills with (perfectly legal) movies. Well, at least this has been put up to a vote twice before only to fail, so there's hope that a third strike is imminent. 
If you asked us what DC superhero we'd love to be and said we couldn't be Batman, Superman, the Martian Manhunter, Robin, Nightwing, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Power Girl, or the Flash, we'd probably choose Green Lantern. Instructables has a step by step guide on how to make your own glowing ring.
The only downside is you'll have to actually carve your own ring out of resin, something that's pretty tough for us nerds to do. But the good news is that when you're done, the fingers to ring ratio will probably be closer to 1:1 than when you started. Still, beats the old guide of Step 1: Find the Lantern Corps. 
CTI Miami got their hands on HTC's latest roadmap for their upcoming phones. Among them are the Kaiser, which is along the same lines as the Sprint Mogul (GSM), and the Vogue, which is like the HTC Touch. Some of the more interesting ones are the Nike, which is a WM6 Professional (that's the touchscreen one) that slides up to reveal a regular keypad; the Iris, which is a CDMA EV-DO Rev. A phone that looks like the T-Mobile Dash; the Polaris, which looks like an update to the GPS-enabled Artemis, and the Sedna, which actually has a fingerprint reader and both CDMA and GSM.
The Shangri-La, which is the HTC Shift, is also listed, and sports both CDMA and EDGE and has a 800MHz processor, 30/40 GB hard drive, VGA camera for video calls, and fingerprint recognition. We're looking forward to all of these.
Sky Dayton, who has been quoted several times in the last week in 
Are you paranoid about this unobtrusive-looking wall plug? Maybe you should be. British company Spycatcher is your ticket to easy surveillance, as long as you're cool dropping a thousand or two on the equipment.
They've got everything from drug tests to bullet-proof executive waistcoats, but what's really crazy is their globally communicative listening devices. Take the plug for example. With a SIM card inside of it, all you have to do is give it a ring from anywhere in the world and voila, it'll let you listen in. Sound crazy? You're not thinking like a spy. Yet.
Screw touchscreens. When Superman makes a call, he wants to rearrange crystals and have his father come out in non-corporeal form and tell him that he's doing everything wrong, and if he doesn't hurry and finish dialing, all mankind is doomed.
But if you're not Superman, this designer phone by Tao Ma works like a regular phone, except you push down on the crystals. Makes things tough since they're arranged at odd angles. 
If you're tired of getting pre-made digital photo frames that kinda works but kinda doesn't, then give this RedPost Linux photo frame a shot. Sure, it costs $549, but comes with a 19-inch LCD monitor, a 200MHz CPU, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and is custom-built running Damn Small Linux.
If you're wondering why you'd pay nearly $600 for a photo frame, well, you'll have to remember that this runs Linux. Which means you can pretty much (as long as you have some programming knowledge) extend it to do anything. Streaming pictures off your PC, showing stuff off of Flickr, or anything else you can come up with. 
Can't be bothered to learn guitar? Get Guitar Hero. Even lazier than that? Get this Air Guitar Pro. The gadget consists of the upper neck of the guitar, and have seven buttons to create chords and modify them (major, minor, augmented, diminished).
In addition to making your own music, there's pre-recorded tracks like Are You Gonna Be My Girl and Walk This Way. Air guitar has never been cooler. It's also never been lamer. 
DLO's TuneStik FM transmitter and remote makes sure you can still control your iPod even while passing up the LeBaron going 60 in the left lane. It's similar to the 
Who comes out to a Sidekick 3 launch? A-listers like Eva Longoria and Jessica Simpson. Who comes to an LG VX9400 launch? C-listers like Gary Coleman, Christopher Knight, and dragon lady Bai Ling. 
Here's an idea: Instead of just dropping your spare change into a gigantic bottle and putting off all that tedious counting for another day, why not just screw the Life Bank One coin counter on top of that bottle, and you'll know how much money is in there all along? It gives you a running total in its little odometer-like readout.
Only trouble is, it counts Japanese yen at this point, but it's a cool enough gadget that we're hoping someone will convert it to US currency. Then you'll be able to go ahead and manually count out $8 in change and plunk it down for this helpful little doo-dad, saving you the trouble and keeping you informed of your vast riches at the same time. 
The taunting continues at the iRiver website, and being the media whores that we are, we couldn't help but snag today's crop of pictures of this gorgeous little W10 personal media player with a touchscreen, FM radio, eBook reading and VoIP calling over its creamy Wi-Fi goodness. All other details are being made deliberately mysterious, apparently iRiver's idea of a joke.
How many more days of this? Will we fall prey to each and every one of these tawdry teases? We feel so, so dirty. Now that we have all that genuflecting overwith, salivate along with us as you rifle through the gallery below. 
Before you start smashing holes through drywall and turning your home theater upside down, you might want to take a look at this Gefen wireless HDMI extender, sending 720p or 1080i video up to 33 feet away and perhaps saving your marriage. This box looks a little different from the one 
If you're still waffling back and forth trying to decide which digital camera to buy, HP's nine-camera announcement is here to help confuse things. The highlight of the bunch is the 8-megapixel R937 for $300, which features a 3.6-inch touchscreen interface—the largest on any camera so far. The screen gives the user the ability to edit photos on the fly, so if you're one to nitpick over that weird looking blotch or Bobby's red-eye, this might be for you. The R937 also features digital anti-blur technology, but only an unfortunate 3X optical zoom. Stand close! Luckily the next camera up, the Mz67, will let you take a few steps back.
Hey Sling fans. If you're the lucky owner of both a Slingbox and a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone, Sling's just released an udpate for their SlingPlayer Mobile that supports your handset. Among the updates and improvements are better Vista support, new remote skin, and a localized UK client.
It's free if you've already purchased a copy before, but it'll cost you $29 otherwise. 
Market Circle, the company that makes the really cool and useful Daylite 3, has released iPhoney, "a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone." But does it really do a good job?
We hadn't heard much about Yoto before—all we'd seen from the Chinese company was a $13 bare-bones MP3 player—but now it's busting out a beautiful little personal media player that's just 9mm thin. The Yoto MVP-800 has a 2.8-inch 320x240 screen, and it can even play XviD files. It's available in 2GB or 4GB capacities, and you can also put up to 2GB of TransFlash memory in there, too.
But here's the real stunner:
O Lord, bless this thy Angel Sword Guitar, that with it thou mayst blow Christina Aguilera and A-HA and Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias to tiny bits, in thy mercy. If you want it, follow these steps: first shalt thou get to eBay. Then shalt thou pay $4,500, no