Suspicious Looking Device from Junkfunnel Labs: We Don’t Trust Its Irony
“The only function of the Suspicious Looking device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscrimately in public places.” – Junkfunnel Product Page Using a combination of LEDs, an optical distance sensor, touch sensor, [...]
JVC 110-inch Rear Projection TV: Sorta Big
JVC is joining Panasonic and LG in the elephantitis-of-the-television market, announcing their development of the largest rear projection (yes, rear projection) display in the world: this 110-inch beast. Using their D-ILA technology, the television supports 1080p resolutions while sucking down [...]
Fujifilm S9600 wireless adapter shown at Photokina
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Wireless Not to keep harping on Fujifilm‘s newly-unveiled, fixed-zoom S9600 camera, but the company has apparently busted out a less-than-glamorous wireless attachment for the highly-touted prosumer model. While we knew the 10.7x zoom, 9 megapixel sensor, [...]
Big Wooden Cellphones
Here are some hot new phones fresh off the streets of Pemba, Mozambique. Hopefully we don’t get anyone sued for use of the “Scony” branding. With no interior electronics, the carver could have easily created a clamshell or ultra thin [...]
World’s most expensive Zune accessory
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video, Transportation No word yet on pricing in dollars, but expect this one to set you back about 10,270,000 Microsoft points. Dock, A / V cable, and travel pack not included. Read | Permalink [...]
Classmate PC: Intel’s “Sub-$400″ Laptop
This week Intel announced “Classmate PC” – a budget computer for emerging markets (translation: for the poor and destitute with more discriminating tastes than the MIT OLPC model). The laptop features the Celeron “eduwise” processor with 915GMS chipset, 7-inch WVXGA [...]
Honda to add automated parallel-parking gadgetry
Filed under: Transportation Honda is joining the automated parallel-parking party with the addition of a “parking device” to its latest model of the Life mini-vehicle, which will be released on October 5. Similar to other models by Toyota, Volkwagen and [...]
Confirmed: SED TVs in 2008
A new update in our Where the Hell is SED coverage – Canon and Toshiba reps confirmed plans to construct a 180 billion yen plant in Taishi, with the groundbreaking within the year. Sources also confirmed SED coming out in [...]
Phantom Sentinel, the new invisible, boomerang-like UAV
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Misc. Gadgets This whole “war on terror” thing sometimes reminds us a bit of that comic “Spy vs. Spy” — each time we turn around, another company comes out with a way to ratchet espionage tech [...]
Zentek’s 1Seg SDIO card
Filed under: Handhelds, Peripherals If you’re looking for a little TV-on-the-go action of slightly higher quality than plain-old analog broadcasts, and happen to live in Japan, then Zentek may have just the solution for ya. It’s just announced what looks [...]