walkie-talkies
Toys
Lego Now Making Gadgets, Including A Stop Motion Video Camera
2:00PM Adrian Covert | No longer content to just have their notorious bricks serve as props, Lego are using their bricks for actual gadgets, including a digital camera, MP3 player, boombox, walkie-talkie and—my personal favourite-a stop motion video camera. More »
Toys
Lego Camera, MP3 Player, Walkie-Talkie Sadly Not Made From Actual Legos
7:03PM John Herrman | Kids love gadgets almost as much as they love Lego, so for the company to release a line of brick-infused cameras, MP3 players and walkie-talkies is just good business sense. But wait! There’s a catch. More »
Networks
A Skyscraper So Tall Builders Can’t Use Walkie-Talkies
3:10AM Jesus Diaz | If you want to build a skyscraper 2,275 feet (693 metres) tall, you will face engineering challenges comparable to those of the Space Shuttle just because its sheer size. One of them is communications. When the unbelievable Burj Dubai started to get really high, the construction workers discovered one problem that seems obvious now: their walkie-talkies stopped working as they climbed the structure. More »
Phones
Zeki Phone Is Walkie-Talkie with SMS and MP3 for Kids
3:40AM Gizmodo US Edition | A company called YoungToys is bringing out a phone aimed at kids and toddlers in Korea. The Zeki is a digital walkie-talkie, enabling conversations and short messages exchange between two handsets up to 80 metres apart, as well as MP3 playback and audio/video recording (presumably useful if you’re the snooping parent type.) More »
Motorola TLKR, No Vowels for Walkie-Talkies
12:29AM Mark Wilson | You know Motorola is stepping up their game when they begin ripping the grammar-strained vowels from a product line. Take the TLKR, it’s Motorola’s new line of walkie-talkies meant to convey a sense of style while you are calling in for airstrikes on the cootie patrol. The first version will be the T3, offering eight channels, 20 hours of battery life and up to a three-mile range. Where was this technology 15 years ago? The luxury T5 will offer 121 channels, 16 hours of battery life and 3.7 mile range. Plus the T5 will feature hands-free functionality (which, though funny, could be useful in certain survival situations). Though no prices have been announced at the moment, the T3 and T5 will be released in October when the walkie-talkie army is set to overthrow cellphones and the internet for global communications domination. [pocketlint] More »
Spider-Man Walkie-Talkies to Confuse Your Children
5:00AM Adam Frucci | If you’re too cheap to buy your kid action figures and walkie-talkies, these Spider-Man III walkie-talkies will allow you to feel like you’re still a decent parent. Shaped like Spider-Man and Venom, they’ll allow Junior to pretend he’s part of the movie, if the characters in the movie caused horrible feedback squawks whenever they got close to each other. [Product Page] More »
