July 2008

TiVo’s next step – letting you buy what’s on TV

TiVo and Amazon are teaming to produce a product that lets you buy stuff you see on TV via your TiVo. Imagine watching a show and wondering if you can buy last season’s DVDs, or perhaps books and CDs being promoted. Well that may become a reality in time to come. Stay tuned.

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Flex Your Tech With USBee Drive

It’s probably fair to say most of use have damaged a USB drive while stuck inside a computer by bumping it, jamming it or stuffing it in via the wrong direction. To reduce the possibility of damage and increase the life of your USB stick, designer Damjan Stankovic has come up with a flexible USB [...]

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Amazing Waterproof Coating for electronics

The picture tells a thousand words, and the video after the jump tells a thousand more. Golden Shellback is the name of the coating that is applied to these electronics that makes them impermeable to water. From their website: “When applied to clean, moisture free surfaces, such as plastic, copper, aluminum, metal, ceramic, steel, tin [...]

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Mercedes aims to get rid of gas-powered cars by 2015

Kudos to Mercedes Benz for setting themselves such a lofty goal. No more petroleum in their automobile lineup. Alternative power sources include technologies like electric batteries, fuel cells and biofuels. They may fail, but having set such a goal, they will in all likelihood make a great deal of progress and probably meet their goal [...]

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Sony Ericsson P1i business smartphone

If you’re in the market for a serious business oriented smartphone that is also stylish and gives you some personal ‘toys’, then look no further than the 3G Sony Ericsson P1i. The P1i is a touchscreen smartphone with a slew of connectivity options like GSM and UMTS, Bluetooth, IR port, modem, and USB. For productivity, [...]

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Sony hopes to make TransferJet fly

TransferJet is Sony’s next shot at taking a leadership role in founding and rallying support behind a new technology standard. TransferJet is a wireless data transfer tech that claims up to 560Mbps speeds. Sony hopes to get this into consumer electronics gadgets next year (2009). TransferJet is only meant to go short distances, much like [...]

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Pioneer shows off 400GB Blu-ray disc

Pioneer has come up with a 16-layer Blu-ray disc that can hold 400GB of data. Apparently, it’s still compatible with current Blu-ray specs, so your current BR player will supposedly be able to read one of these discs. So who’s taking bets on when the 1.2TB version comes out?

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iPhone 3G Launch and Network Problems

The long awaited iPhone 3G was released on Friday, July 11th. But what should have been a happy and joyous day for iPhone fans, ended up being an exercise in frustration for many. AT&T’s insistence on trying to activate the phones in store taxed Apple’s authentication server (more info) and caused lines to move at [...]

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Evo Grill

Summer is here; time to get outside to cook up lots of hot dogs and hamburgers. I came across a cool grill called the “Evo Grill”. I was particularly fascinated by its unique design. It has a round top on it that is used for grilling. Just think about the times that you are typically [...]

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Remote Control Lamborghini Murcielado 1/10 Scale

Love model racing cars? You probably are, and chances are that if you are anything like me, you don’t have the money to go out and buy the ones that you lust after. I came across this awesome little Remote Controlled Lamborghini and fell in love with it. I am actually a child at heart, [...]

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