The smartest way to produce cool-looking electronics is to hire someone who already knows how, someone from frog design, for instance. Disney’s electronics team is helmed by two former froggers, Chris Heatherly and John Guerra, and they’ve started turning some wild designs into hardware realities. The High School Musical Clock Radio above probably won’t outblast other iPod docks on the market, but has a totally original look, and only costs $60. It should be hitting ToysRUs stores in October, in case you want to go in and buy one—I mean you know, for your kid sister. There’s a matching LCD TV that may actually be even cooler than the iPod dock. Take a look… More »
Late last week, the new Harry Potter book leaked onto the the torrents in painstaking, photographic form. But instead of the uploader’s identity remaining anonymous, the pictures actually left a trail in their metadata [read: those meddling wizards were gossiping again] . More »
This shiny black-and-chrome globe will hover above its black stand without any visible help – unless you want to spin it, in which case a gentle hand will help it on its way. Measuring 4 inches across, its base plugs into the mains and will cost you $137. [FunIce via Sci-Fi Tech] More »
They showed mock-ups at CES this year, and now Hitachi is claiming that its Blu-ray camcorders will be on sale by the end of the year. The company has developed an 8-cm Blu-ray DVD drive with 7GB capacity and 5.3 Megapixel CMOS sensor to go in their Wooo range of video recorders. Let’s hope the shape of the camcorder body doesn’t change too much, as its curves are deliciously reminiscent of old-school movie-making. [Impress through Google Translate] More »
The ultimate geek tattoo could only be a transferable one. It’s painless – although beware when peeling off the paper, as you might trap a couple of hairs which for most geeks can be a painful experience. This $7.95 pack from Archie McPhee has missed a trick, though. How about a massive line drawing of Jobs’ or Gates’ face for your back? Then you can strip off your black software tee-shirt and really show your fellow tech fiends how you’ve suffered in the name of tech. {McPhee via Popgadget] More »
In case you were wondering what Chen wears to guard his own gear when he shoves gadgets down his pants. [Product Page via Nerd Approved] More »
Giz Japan shares our love of Lego and Neon Genesis Evangelion, so they sent us some shots of this grey Unit 01 built by mumu-san. Like Giz Japan’s editors, we’d like to see some purple blocks in the interest of being faithful (and probably more attractive), but overall it looks pretty good. Really though, what we’d like to see is a giant Lego Pen-Pen. Like two stories. At least. More »
Another Free iPhone checkpoint has been reached. It has been reported but unconfirmed that the first 3rd party, non-safari iPhone app was run today in the wild. Developer “Nightwatch” did the compilation and execution of the program using his ARM/Mach-O Toolchain. Check their progress report after the jump. More »
The Lacie Bigger Disk Extreme+ is here, with Firewire 400/800 and USB 2.0 interfaces. It comes in RAID/0 config. And in 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2.0TB sizes at $350, $600 and $850, respectively, making the 2.0TB a money-saving proposition when you think about it in bytes/dollar. Right? Wait…No. The 2TB version will be here in August, but honestly, we’d be more pleased with the 2TB gigabit-ethernet Lacie Big Disk we told you about in May. [Lacie via Macworld] More »
I’m not part of the hunt, but I can’t stop thinking about who Fake Steve is, even if I don’t really want to know.
Despite being in love with other gadget sites, and hating fellow-Gawker blog Valleywag, Fake Steve Jobs has always been very decent to me. He returns my emails, and is timely and cordial about it. I bought some T-Shirts, and a mug. I like his work, like we all do. This week, after some site sent him an email with a image that would log its downloader’s IP, Fake Steve is kind of on the run, and lashing out against Valleywag (who didn’t pull the nasty email trick, BTW) and others who are seeking his identity. He seems, to me, scared and offended. I don’t blame him, I’d want to remain anonymous after saying all those things about so many people, even in character. More »
