Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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iPhoneDrive Gives JesusPhone a Disk Mode, Sort of
11:51PM Seamus Byrne | iPhoneDrive will let you use your iPhone as a flash drive from a file transfer window. No, it won’t give you access to the entire file system and it’s not as transparent as the iPod’s Disk Mode. But for $9.95, it will be good to move your data around until Apple fixes this. [Product page] More »
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Sleek Steel Puhlmann Nixie Wall Clock
11:35PM Seamus Byrne | The Puhlmann Nixie. Or as I like to call it, Dr. Zarkov’s Timing Countdown Thingamabob. You install its 12.7 x 6.2- inch brushed-steel frame on your kitchen wall and you will be able to time your roast or wait for Flash Gordon to save the Earth. All thanks to its always fascinating nixie tubes, as you can see in the demo video. More »
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First Spy Pics of Upcoming TiVo Series 3 Lite?
11:09PM Seamus Byrne | A tipster sent us these spy pics of what he says is the upcoming cheap version of the TiVo Series 3 personal video recorder, which is rumored to be a sub-$300 HDTV digital recorder to be available this fall. The spy tells us this is a prototype of the forthcoming box, and if you squint, you can see two CableCARD slots, with one slot labeled “Multi- or Single-stream CableCARD”. Take the jump for commentary from our mysterious tattler. galleryPost('tivocheapo', 4, 'Cheap TiVo Spy Pics'); More »
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DJ Mix 2000 USB Console Will Turn Your Cubicle Into a Groovicle
11:03PM Seamus Byrne | The DJ Mix 2000 Audio Console from NTI Comodo is a neat little gadget for anyone who fancies themselves as a record changer DJ. Aimed at anyone with more than a passing interest in internet broadcast, audio dubbing – even Karaoke Queens (yes, loverboy, I mean YOU) – can just plug it in to a computer via USB and go-go-go-go-go (you can even add a bit of echo to your voice.) Software is included, and there’s a palm-size LED so you can check that your sound levels aren’t making everyone’s ears bleed. Two downsides, though – no eleven on the volume, and no built-in cowbell. The DJ Mix 2000 costs around $140 and it’s the best USB thingy evah, IMHO. More »
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iPhone vs. Blender Ends in Grisly Tangle of Metal and Plastic
10:38PM Seamus Byrne | It seems like just yesterday we showed you the Transformers meeting their maker in the Blendtec blender, and now it’s the iPhone’s turn. Behold, fanboys and haters alike: The iPhone is not immortal. Just don’t breathe its dust when it’s all over. [Blendtec YouTube Channel] More »
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BoomBucket Sound System for iPod Looks Like Ice Bucket
9:51PM Seamus Byrne | The BoomBucket is a weatherproof, portable speaker system with remote control for your iPod. Once charged, its two speakers will run for eight hours, meaning that you can bug your fellow beach monkeys by playing Chacarron on a loop. More »
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Radio-controlled Jousting Knights Don’t Say Ni but Are Cool Anyway
9:01PM Seamus Byrne | [singing*] We’re radio-controlled knights, we fight around in tights. / We ruin your floor and table, but our joust is impec-cable. We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and Spam a lot. / We’re knights of the Round Table, our fights are for-mi-dable. But many times we’re given rhymes that are quite un-sing-able / It’s a busy life in Camelot, but people who buy us don’t hump a lot. / For thirty-nine and ninety-nine, we give you five minutes of funny time. We piss off dogs and cats and we’re groovy, now go and jump and see the movie. More »
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Japanese Turd Flashlight Is Thankfully Not a Medical Gadget
7:54PM Seamus Byrne | If what’s missing from your life is a light-up poop, then fear not, because your happiness is sitting in a japanese vending machine. Epoch, purveyor of the USB darts board, has come up with the weirdness that is a flashlight shaped like a turd, or Unchi, as they are known over in Japan. Available in either pepto-bismol or jaundice, there are three styles of Unchi to choose from:Futsuu Unchi, or normal turd; Tochuu Unchi, a turd passing through – that’s the one above that looks like it’s in a hurry; and Omori Unchi, the jumbo-sized one. The purpose? I think it’s a cell phone charm meant to bring you luck, but at two inches in length, it seems a bit big to have dangling from your mobile. Perhaps the makers believe it should go somewhere else? [Digital World Tokyo] More »
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The Best Watergun is Buzzbee’s Water Warriors Tarantula
6:33PM Seamus Byrne | Slate’s Chad Lorenz does an entertaining and technically sound review of modern water guns, choosing the Water Warriors Tarantula as his top choice for best-in-class accuracy, a 33 foot range, and 47 ounce payload good for 112 rounds per reload. This is all despite what I perceive as it’s major shortcoming: It’s electric. Let me explain. More »
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