If you’ve ever tried to retrieve personal e-mail using your phone, you know how excruciating it can be. Cell phones and smartphones alike lack spam filters, so it’s not uncommon to end up with 50 pieces of junk for every legitimate message. Fortunately, solutions exist.
ROBOT magazine have a -great- review and photos of this new/low-cost bi-ped robot, the BRAT - “This pictorial shows the assembly of Lynxmotion’s, www.lynxmotion.com, new BRAT, an entry level bipedal robot that is a milestone robot. With a starting price of less than $300, BRAT offers an affordable yet sophisticated entry into the humanoid robotics
Here it is, the Red One 4K camcorder, tucked away in its crimson booth at NAB. In addition to showing the camcorder, the company also announced a smaller camcorder it will call “Mini Red” shipping at an unspecified date, a line of 4K projectors, and a not-quite-complete digital cinema camera that’s still in Beta, yet “nearly ready.”
Sprint scored a rare rib on CDMA rival Verizon when it went straight past the Verizon-exclusive Treo 700w to launch the 700wx, but as the old saying goes, all good exclusivity agreements come to an end.
And here it is, Helio’s coup de grâce. The QWERTY handset we’d heard Helio was cookin’ up with Korea’s Pantech actually hit the FCC some time ago, but the shots we were able to glean from the test apparatus documentation were teasers at best
“This is an amateur HF 100 watt transceiver that is completely software driven. The software and updates are all free. There are NO controls on the box itself except a power switch. Users are encouraged to write their own software to control the radio as it is open source and in fact many do.”
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a first look review of Elgato’s external h.264 encoder, the Turbo.264. You’ll find out things like, “The accelerator only speeds up exports from QuickTime compatible applications.” Read on for more.
DIY hovercraft and made it a Halloween version, the one is controlled via Bluetooth! The video is fun.
From the dog-powered scooter, to the Doggy Bag pet handbag, dogs are getting a pretty raw deal when it comes to technology and gadgets. Here’s a round-up of 5 we found to be especially disturbing.
Made of rubbery “shape-memorizing” material, the tag will bend and twist at your command. Forget extra armbands — the thing is an armband.
This is by far our favorite Helio phone to date. Enjoy the eye candy in our hands-on gallery.
Hold on, Apache owners, your knight in shining armor is just around the corner! At least we think it is, now that we’ve seen some shots of a Verizon-branded XV6800 doing its thing in the wild. It may not look much different than the XV6700 it replaces.
Innovative device to control your TV, just like the Wii.
At first glance, this looks like a cross between a hearing aid and a Derringer pistol, but it’s actually something that belongs on the desktop. The Sigma SGM2 mouse owes its funky design to the intended use as a presentation device, to control the computer screen pistol-style with thumb and trigger finger.
Researchers at Dartmouth use a solar-powered robot to go snow surfing.
People with disabilities, letter carriers and police services will be supplied with Segways under a provincial government test project.
There are only 10 Frost White Helio Drift in existence, and Gizmodo got 3 of the GPS-enabled sliders straight from the factory today. As it turns out, the frost version of this tricked-out phone is only going to be produced in small numbers—only about 3 percent of all Drifts will be made in this lustrous shade. Here’s a gallery.
Olle Essvik’s Sunclock is a lamp that tracks the sun’s movement in the sky and follows it. When the sun rises in the morning the light bulb starts to omit light, intensifying every second, shining brightest in middle of the day.
A guide to making gadgets that’ll sweep the gadget blogs like wildfire.
Grocery Powered Vehicles are contraptions that you can make with materials that you can find at your local grocery store. In this podcast, I teach you how to make a simple hovercraft, bearingless motor, and dirigible.
Sweet looking Rollerblade setup with 1.5 Horse Power.
Tumi’s solar-powered backpack has a built in solar panel that lets you recharge your gadgets when your far away from an electrical outlet. The price is a little steep, but the full proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.
Radiator launched the new hydro-thermal water wear products using this 4 ad prints for the campaign.
Rosie the Robot, the friendly house-cleaning bot in the Jetsons TV cartoon, is still a wistful dream for those who hate housecleaning. But American consumers may be getting their first glimpse of what a here-and-now household robot can do when they see the Roomba robot vacuum on sale in many stores.
Ultra slim form factor with full keypad and large 320 x 240 screen. 1.3 megapixel camera with 5x zoom. 64MB of memory, EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi.
Artist David Moises created a display made from 35 cigarettes that “burns” simple letters and symbols - Be sure to check more of his work, including the “healed home exercise bike”, house on a swing and a hovercraft powered by a leaf blower!
A tenacious Zune user has recently stumbled across some potentially eyebrow-raising information while dipping into the device’s desktop software files. It seems that embedded in an innocent looking ZuneMarketPlace.dll file is some internal code that suggests a new content partnership with MTV, VH1, and CMT the Zune Marketplace.
Is it a better mousetrap? Probably not. But it’s pretty dang cool, and any hack that calls for a solenoid and a bucket as its main ingredients is alright in our book. The mousetrap is triggered by infrared emitter / detector pairs, with the enclosure holding the electronics standing right over the bait.
Only catch is there’s a Ford attached to it. But with text messaging and the ability to select songs and playlists by voice recognition, the Microsoft/Ford Sync system is still the best in-car MP3 player/cell phone integration system on the market and now here’s the pricing information. It’s actually cheaper than an iPhone at just $395!
Build armor of elastic spheres that will bounce around in a chaotic fashion. Because the balls have different masses, they move erratically, and much of the incoming kinetic energy gets transformed into heat and noise.To get the physics that follows, keep one idea in mind: if you want to punch someone out, you don’t wrap your fist in a beanbag
The new SCH-B600 will only be available to consumers in Korea. A new mobile phone destined for the Korean market will feature a 10-megapixel camera that includes a 3X optical and 5X digital zoom lens. Along with the camera, the Samsung SCH-B600 cell phone has Bluetooth, MP3 player, business card reader, and a TV-output.
Remember that Windows Live Search for Windows Mobile and Java phones we took a look at a while back? Well, it’s gone final. We loved the beta for its local business search, maps, directions, and overall great usability, and this final version builds on that with some bugfixed and new features.
A new mobile phone in Japan takes security pretty seriously: It can recognize its owner, automatically locks when the person gets too far away from it and can be found via satellite navigation if it goes missing. The P903i from NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s top mobile carrier, comes with a small black card about the size of a movie-ticket stub.
Filed under: Tablet PCs HP’s rolling deep with the lappies today, and while most of them apart from that monster they call the HDX are nothing special, they did announce that new ultralight Tablet PC we’d been hearing about, the HP Compaq 2710P. This one
Nokia has launched the first mobile phones to include alerts encouraging people to unplug the charger once the battery is full, a move that could save enough electricity to power 85,000 homes a year. Starting with the new Nokia 1200, Nokia 1208 and the Nokia 1650, the alerts will be rolled out across the Nokia product range.