January 2007

Sonic Boom Love Clock with Bed Shaker

Ok, we can’t do better than ThinkGeek’s description of this gizmo: A date. You have a date. At 3am, your time, you are going to be meeting the hottest virtual elf you could ever imagine at the tavern near the river down by the flatulent dwarf’s armor shop. But you need at least get a [...]

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myvu Personal Media Viewer for iPod

You upgraded your iPod to one of the video ones, because you had to have video too, right? Now you can stop holding that iPod in the palm of your hand and watching on that small screen. Introducing the myvu Personal Media Viewer. This piece of eyewear lets you view (and hear) your videos (or [...]

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CarMD: DIY Car Diagnostics

Do you ever get that sinking feeling when your car stops working and your check engine light goes on? You know the drill – you don’t know anything about fixing cars and are at the mercy of whatever auto repair shop that happens to be in the area. You hope that they won’t rip you [...]

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Pioneer AVH-P7800DVD In-Dash DVD Multimedia AV Auto Receiver

This Pioneer in-dash auto A/V system plays DivX video files from CDs or DVDs on its 480p 7″ WVGA screen. Yep, so you can burn your own movies and then play them back in your car. [If you're driving, you can't watch!] Naturally, it plays other formats as well, including MP3, WMA, AAC, and even [...]

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The iVDR Consortium: A removable hard drive for everything?

Jeff over at Techlore writes about the emerging efforts of a new consortium of (mostly) Japanese and (some) American companies, looking to make universal their design (currently being built by Maxell) for a 3.2″ by 0.5″ by 4.3″ shock resistant, hard plastic removable hard drive. The group pushing this idea is called iVDR. The goal [...]

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Dazzle Video Creator Platinum

If you’ve got home movies that you shot back in the day on VHS or some other video format, Pinnacle Systems offers the Dazzle Video Creator Platinum, which is a USB 1.1/2.0 device (the doohickey in the image) that takes video from a camcorder, VHS or other analog video source, and converts it using hardware [...]

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Motorola RAZR V3i Dolce & Gabbana Phone

I love gooooooold. Check out Dolce & Gabbana’s and Motorola’s quad-band GSM RAZR v3i tribute to Goldmember. This phone has the standard slim .55 inch thick RAZR shape and an anodized aluminum gold finish that makes this phone toit… Yesh, toit like a toiger. Yesh Yesh Yesh.

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Geekfoolery Ponders if DIY is Back in Style

Mr. Alex on Geekfoolery believes that DIYers and weekend projects are making a comeback: But I am trying now to make up for lost time, and fortunately, I don’t think I am alone, as DIY seems to be making a comeback. Even better, the online projects that are online these days are written with the [...]

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Harmony 1000 Universal Remote w/ Color Touchscreen

If you’re a regular reader of our site, you’ll know we love the Harmony universal remotes from Logitech. This particular one does not disappoint. It’s a bit different from the others that have the standard form-factor of an A/V remote, can be held in one hand and with lots of buttons. It’s more like a [...]

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Picco Z RC Helicopter

One of the hottest toys in 2006 was the mini electric remote control helicopter. Long gone are the days when my brother flew his gas-powered remote control helicopter at a local park. I still remember the last time I went with him to watch. The remote control helicopter had a mind of it’s own and [...]

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