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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time Back in April we warned you about the M500 phone-wristwatch. Well, now you can see it in action with this cheese-mungous video. The M500 was given the thumbs-up by the FCC at the end of May and it’s on sale for around $820. Pretending you are Secret Squirrel doesn’t come cheap, it seems. [Mobile Mentalism]
It’s official: You should keep your PS2 around for Guitar Hero III since it picks up the most badass guitar of the bunch, a black Kramer. The PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 all get boring white Gibson Les Pauls. But at least now you can swap the faceplate out for something that shreds a bit harder, like My Little Pony (of Doom). galleryPost('GHIII', 4, 'GHIII Controllers');[Gaming-Age via Kotaku]
Taser just introduced this multiple projectile taser cannon as part of its 2007 Tactical Conference, appropriately named the Shockwave. Each one of those little green boxes can light up an assailant’s ass like any particular day happens to be the fourth of July. galleryPost('TASERShockwave', 4, 'TASER Shockwave');
The official website for OpenMoko, the open source Linux-based phone dubbed the “hacker’s dream,” went live today. We groped an early base model back in February and had a righteously detailed breakdown of the latest details last week. Now that the site is live, you can order a developer preview phone kit from their store for the expected price of $300 for the base model or $450 for the advanced kit. Product Page [OpenMoko]
Thanks to Stephen for pointing out the dud site link…
When a cooler full of ice can’t handle your mobile refrigeration needs, reach for the CarryCool refrigerated tote. The bag’s adapter plugs into a standard car lighter and draws enough power to keep everything inside nice and cool. When would you actually use this thing? Perhaps you’re in the business of smuggling dinosaur DNA samples across secluded islands in your Jeep. You can improve upon one of the world’s oldest (and cheapest) cooling methods for a mere $155. [CarryCool via Red Ferret]
Fresh from the design room comes Musipen, a cylindrical MP3 concept with a curved glowing screen, twisty-knob controls, and a pretty power button. If that doesn’t have you excited, glance to the left and feast your eyes on that lithe form factor. There’s a play/pause/off button up top, knobs to control everything else, and a screen with plenty of space to display song info. galleryPost('MusipenConcept', 4, 'Musipen Concept');
Who but the greatest public-restroom aficionados knew that the “final touchless restroom frontier” was the electronic toilet-paper dispenser? I for one am surprised that no one has tried to market this already. But sure enough, I just heard from public-restroom mainstay Kimberly-Clark, who announced the JRT* Electronic Coreless, the world’s first touchless electronic bath-tissue dispenser. As Richard Thorne, director of Kimberly-Clark’s North American washroom business put it: “The electronic revolution has entered the bathroom stall.” The following is all true.
Did you ever wonder who covered the damage when Optimus and Megatron face off? McSweeney’s intercepted this letter from Optimus Prime’s insurance agent notifying him of his policy increase to $235,567.50.
Since becoming a GEICO customer in January of this year, you have reported 131 accidents, requesting reimbursement for repairs necessitated by each one. You have claimed not to be responsible in any of them, usually listing the cause of the accident as either “Sneak attack by Decepticons” or “Unavoidable damage caused by protecting freedom for all sentient beings.”
[McSweeney's via Danny D.]
Today, ATI announced the 600 USB and 650 PCIe cards, one for USB one for PCIe. The USB is a single tuner HDTV device for laptops, like the Pinnacle. The 650 PCIe is a desktop card with two tuners (that’s new) that records and plays an analog and digital source simultaneously. Both cards have Orb DVR software which allows other PCs on the network to stream shows from the host PC.
What do you get when you combine a Taser with a shotgun shell? Something you really, really don’t want to get hit with. The new Taser XREP is a tiny wireless Taser that can be fired from a standard issue 12 gauge, taking down perps from up to 100 feet away. And hey, if you’re worried that there’s just no way that they can cram all the pants-pooping power of a full Taser into a bullet, don’t sweat it!galleryPost('taserxrep', 4, 'Taser XREP');The video puts things in perspective, too.
