April 2005

Play your MP3s Wirelessly through your Car Stereo

No mater how you store your MP3 files – MP3 player, memory drive, CD or any audio device, the Virtual Reality Sound Labs new VRFM7 plays them wirelessly through your car stereo using your USB flash memory drive. Simply plug the VRFM7 into your cigarette lighter and then plug your USB stick into the VRFM7. [...]

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Stinkpads to run on methane

By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 12 April 2005, 07:31 FOR ELEVEN YEARS now we have dubbed Big Blue’s notebooks ‘Think Pads’ Stinkpads. As usual, all stories come true in the end because now it seems IBM and Sanyo have decided to run the Stinkpads on a methane fuel system, sans sulphur. The pair have issued a [...]

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35-in-1 Stand-up Arcade Video Game Machine

Take a trip back to the 80s and revisit your favorite arcade games. More than 30 classic games return to life in this full size upright console that recalls nostalgic days spent in an arcade mastering the challenges of video games that were the forerunners of today’s digital imagery. Unlike imitations that are 70% the [...]

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Inventor turns Pez dispenser into MP3 player

By Matt Hines Staff Writer, CNET News.com Rap impresario 50 Cent may be riding atop the Billboard charts on the strength of his hit single “Candy Shop,” but music lovers of all kinds will soon be able to mix their passions for beats and sweets if one gadget maker’s plans come to fruition. That’s right, [...]

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Leviton Acenti Products

The Acenti™ Collection, the broadest new-product launch in Leviton’s history, creates a new class of premium-grade wiring devices for America’s luxury homes. “One of the virtues of the Acenti Collection is that it allows architects and designers to create a consistent design statement down to the last detail,� said James Sherman, Leviton’s marketing director for [...]

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Eyes enjoy front row seats in the shade

Japanese developers have unveiled a hi-tech gadget that allows users to view films, pictures or text messages from the comfort of their own sunglasses. The new Teleglass device can be connected to any audio-visual unit, like a remote DVD player, and enables images to be projected directly onto the left lens of the glasses, while [...]

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Speaker in a FedEx box

One of our readers has taken a medium-sized FedEx box and added a working speaker to it! The speaker is a 3.5″ dual-cone 75W Jensen speaker, and there’s not much to say about the FedEx box. This is really a unique piece of working pop art. In case that wasn’t enough, he has also taken [...]

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Black & Decker Lids Off Jar Opener

From pickles to peaches to peanut butter, all kinds of tasty food is available in jars, but all too often, the jars can be so difficult to open that getting in is almost not worth the effort! Luckily, the Black & Decker Lids Off Jar Opener takes the struggle out of your hands, opening the [...]

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Techies weighed down with gadget burden

by Will Sturgeon Blackberry, iPod, laptop, mobile phone, PDA all crammed into bags and pockets… Techies are struggling under a weight of electronic devices with mobile phones, PDAs, Blackberrys and laptops all adding to the back strain. And although shrinking form factor and more lightweight designs may save the average techie from the grips of [...]

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Swash Toilet Seat Bidet w/Remote-Round

We’re featuring a toilet as the Gizmo of the Day today! Of course if the Geeks are featuring a toilet it must be remote-controlled and even heated! No matter how much toilet paper you use, you never quite feel shower-fresh after visiting the toilet. Now you can have that feeling every day with the Swash [...]

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