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.
Motorola is notorious for their craptacularly sluggish software, and the Z6 comes loaded with a new, faster, crisper operating system. The other surprising thing is the interesting backside behind the slider, and the fact you have to hold the camphone like a digicam (landscape) to shoot. Cool.
Here is an overview of the coolest/sexiest/most useful VoIP gadgets for 2007, in the following categories: handsets, wireless, mice, headsets, keyboards, mp3 players, adapters, and ‘other fun stuff’.
The images pumped out from the HD-XA2 and displayed on the Mitsubishi 1080p DLP set were so vivid and like-like that they looked like top-quality, true 35/70mm feature films shown at your local multiplex. All selections had a true film-like quality with superlative HD imagery. That’s how good the image quality was from the HD-XA2.
You saw the first photos right here on Engadget. Now, Nokia brings the official specs on their S60-series E90 Communicator…
It’s quite possible to use Skype and the video calling feature for this — see the discussion in the forum.
What’s all this, then? Nokia’s new Video Center offers RSS video feeds along with content directly from YouTube, no browser needed.
There’s also the DIGIC III Image processor, and ISO as high as 1600, but everybody comes for the basics: 3x zoom, 7.1 megapixel CCD and a 2.5-inch LCD in each shooter. The $300 SD750 gets a bit fancy on form factor, but manages to be a mere 0.75-inches thick, while the 4.5 ounce SD1000 keeps the the classic ELPH look and also retails for $300.
Sony reveals it has bought PSP handhelds from a firm it has taken legal action against.
Apparently, if the person was correct and our ears didn’t fail us, the next-gen Zune will be available in August. Unfortunately for the first-gen Zune team, the next version will feature gaming, which is supposedly making them feel dejected over working on a product (1st gen) that will be “abandoned”.
Former execs from iriver, Musicmatch and Diamond Multimedia work in stealth mode on a new MP3 player that could be the first major advance in years.
A computer that looks like a Roomba? A combo DVD/HD camcorder? CrunchGears senior spy lets us know what’s up for CES.
These ad prints were made for BMW 1 series. Great illustrations from TBWAIstanbul defining the concept of what BMW 1 series wanted to be.
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We all know that we’re supposed to talk to our plants to make them healthier, but now the plants are talking back. Using this system, your plants will call you on the phone when they need to be watered, and will even call you afterwards to thank you. They plan to have output to cell phone and email soon; you’ll even be able to call and check in!
This kit weighs about 2 lbs, costs $180, and will power my Macbook for 1.75 hours (1.83ghz, browsing the web and checking email via Airport Extreme, bluetooth off, screen brightness about 70%) with a little more than 5 hours of good sun.
“The subscription service was a solid move on our part. We’ve seen 65% growth in our subscription base, although the number is still small. It could be better and it could become different [… ]We’ve been looking at the subscription model where you pay a certain amount and you essentially get the cell phone for free.”
Here is a quick and dirty hack to perform mobile GPS-referenced Google Map searches on your laptop (e.g., where’s the next coffee shop around here?). 42 lines, about half of them comments. I put this small demo together for last weekend’s Silicon Valley Code Camp to show how easy it is to get up and running with GPS for your own projects.
The Motorola Razr V3 is considered the most popular cell phone and most of us are familar with it. Have you ever wondered how good is the built in VGA Camera? I decided to test it and put it to its limits to see how sharp are the Razr’s pictures.
“Trust me when I say it’s easier to nod and say “Sure, I get it” than it is to blast into those perfect semicircles at full speed. Especially when you’re only the second civilian in the world to drive the next-generation Honda FCX prototype, a one-of-a-kind, multimillion-dollar, zero-emission fuel-cell car” (gallery included).