If you have the need to smuggle sensitive data from one place to another and need to hide your usb drive, this is the watch for you. It features a hidden 4GB USB Flash Drive thanks to a secret compartment at the base.
Plus, it’s fairly plain so it won’t draw attention like say, a Tokyoflash watch. With this baby, before you know it, you’ll be stealing all kinds of company secrets. Unless of course your boss is reading the ‘Brick and notices how much your watch looks like this one.
P.S. If you happen to work for Dunkin Donuts and you steal the recipe with this watch, I’d really like it.
[Thinkgeek]
Written by Conner Flynn on July 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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The Samsung Omnia pocket PC phone will be available in Europe later this month. Samsung will release this handset in Italy on July 22nd, 2008. The 8GB edition (along with an Xbox 360 Arcade) will be priced at €499 ($789) without a subsidy. [SlashPhone]
Written by Joe Gadget on July 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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The HTC Touch Diamond has generated a ton of interest. Partly because the device features TouchFlo 3D technology and a cool new design and also because the device was mysteriously missing the 850mhz GSM frequency instead relying on the tri-band GSM networks such as T-Mobile but thanks to a new recently released hack that has all changed.
According to XDA Developers a new hack is now available that unlocks the 850mhz frequency. As you may or may not know the circuit board used
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It’s tradition to gift a watch to employees who have served you well and are retiring. So it’s easy to see Professor X commissioning this watch and presenting it to Wolverine one day. Of course that would make the Professor how old? Well, maybe in an alternate timeline anyway.
This is actually called the X-Watch and it’s a concept watch that should have been in the movie. It has numbers all along the length, and when they’re lit up it gives you the time. It also sports Braille so that the blind can use it. Or in case cyclops doesn’t have his visor handy and has to feel for the time.
[Yanko]
Written by Conner Flynn on July 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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Landline phones have taken a pounding from cellphones these past few years; people expect their handsets to come packed with features, and beyond DECT digital cordless and a built-in answerphone the humble landline couldn’t really compete. Now it’s either aim budget or add tech to justify your price-tag: VTech want $99.95 for their IS6110 cordless phone, and to make it worth your while they’ve thrown in instant messaging, a color screen and a QWERTY keyboard. SlashGear has been doing more than the usual amount of online chatting to see whether it’s enough.
First impressions are reasonable. The IS6110 comes in two sections, the handset itself complete with charging cradle, and the base-station which plugs into your phoneline and, via USB, into your computer. Here, then, is the first flaw for VTech: you need to have your PC turned on if you want to use the IM functionality, but we’ll come to that later. The handset looks a little like an older Treo, albeit with a smaller display, and feels pretty plasticky. Made from hard plastic, the keys are quiet and relatively tactile, and the spacing is fair; they’re backlit for messaging in the dark.
Sadly while VTech looked to Palm for the case design, they seem to have picked Motorola for their GUI. Navigation is via the D-pad and two soft-keys under the screen, but fonts are blocky and the whole thing feels cramped. For voice calls there’s a directory with space for a mere 50 numbers, Caller ID/Call Waiting and a log that records the last 50 calls. There’s a voicemail indicator too, if your carrier supports it, and should you be lazy or have your hands full there’s a standard 2.5mm socket for a wired headset.
Before you can log into any IM service - and the IS6110 supports MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger - you’ll need to install the VTech phone software. The company provides a CD with all three of the IM clients and its own app; our install went without a hitch, and from then on the program started up whenever Windows loaded. Still, it’s a pain having to have the PC switched on, plus it assumes your computer is next to a phone socket since the base station requires both. We’d much prefer to see it plug directly into a spare ethernet port on your router, although we suspect that would push the IS6110’s price up significantly.
Once everything is connected and the software running, three homescreen icons on the handset indicate whether you’re logged into MSN, Windows Live or AOL. You can store up to three IM accounts as different “profiles”, switching between them from the handset; one frustration is that you can only change the account details on the PC, not from the handset itself. That’s fine if you’re the only one using the IS6110, you can have your three different IM accounts under three different profiles, but if there are multiple people in the house wanting to have their own settings you’ll have to constantly be changing them on the PC. Once you start chatting on the IS6110 you can no longer access that messenger on the PC.
Navigating the buddy list is straightforward, and incoming messages from other people are indicated by a flashing face ion. Hitting the ‘Buddies’ softkey takes you back to the list and lets you switch between conversations, but that’s about it: you can’t add, modify or remove contacts or groups, respond to new buddy invitations nor block unwanted contacts, and emoticons aren’t sent or displayed. Offline messages don’t work either. The IS6110 does support voice chat through each of the IM networks, though; we found voice quality about the same as when using a headset on the PC.
VTech suggest you’ll get either 7hrs use of the IS6110 as a phone or 3hrs messaging; standby is up to 96hrs. In our tests we never reached those figures, and they’ll be impacted by walls being in-between the handset and the base station. Only you know whether you can successfully carry out multiple long-term IM conversations on such a compact device; we gave up long before the 3hrs VTech said a full battery would last for, but we’ve a feeling that teenagers would be more dedicated.
In fact, that’s the obvious market for the IS6110: letting your kids chat on IM while you use the computer yourself. With most young people glued to their cellphones, they’d probably find the VTech system pretty straightforward, albeit basic. For instance, it supports custom ringtones - in fact you can record your own, either with the handset’s microphone or by plugging in the supplied audio cable - but you can’t assign them to individual contacts, only to incoming ‘voice’ or ‘VoIP’ calls. If they’re not already using an IM app on their cellphone, kids would probably be better served with something like Sony’s Mylo communicator, first-gen examples of which have gone for as little as $66 on eBay recently.
As a phone, the VTech IS6110 does what you’d expect. Call quality is typical for a DECT handset and range is the usual 50m or so, assuming walls. As a messenger, the IS6110 is inevitably let down by its need to be plugged into a computer. If you’ve a single kid who usually ties up the PC chatting to their friends then you might be able to placate them with the VTech, but a house with more people (or simply a person with more IM accounts) will find it all too limiting. With free IM apps for cellphones freely available, or dedicated messengers such as the Mylo that use WiFi, the IS6110 begins to look, like many landline phones, too little too late.
The VTech IS6110 is available now, priced at $99.95.
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Most of us think that our 4,8 or 16GB SD card for our digital camera is large. How would you like to have 160GB of storage space for your camera? That’s huge! Well, today Digital Foci announced Photo Safe II, which is a portable photo storage device that takes some of the burden from your laptop, Mac or PC.
It’s basically a battery operated HD. It also has a built-in card reader and automated copy function which could really come in handy. The device supports all of the popular card formats, including CF (Extreme III, IV, UDMA), MMC, SD/HC Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo, MS PRO Duo, and xD-Picture card. Just insert a card and hit the copy button, the entire card will be copied at a speed 3.5 minutes per GB. I comes in 80GB and 160GB versions, which cost $139 and $189.
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Written by Conner Flynn on July 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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Brooklyn artist D. Billy makes impermanent onomatopoeia interventions to his surroundings, helping to bring comic book joy to our surroundings. He writes:
Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up. For me, this process encourages a reexamination of surroundings and objects that are usually taken for granted, and injects a hint of the fantastical surreality that I have established in my other work.
Or, at the very least, I hope someone thinks these things are kind of funny.
Via Laughing Squid. (Thanks, Matt!)
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Just how do they keep the Mushroom kingdom clean anyway? Looks like all the mushrooms in the land are actually vacuum cleaners. Makes sense. I mean, you need something to suck up left behind star power, coins, Yoshi poo…
These are also perfect for the messy gamer. I’m sure they can suck up that mound of potato chip droppings that have collected in your game spot. Well, maybe they aren’t that strong, but they make your home look more like a Mario game and I happen to know that’s a personal goal of yours. The Mushroom vacuum runs on 2 AA batteries and is available in red, orange, green or purple for $12.
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Written by Conner Flynn on July 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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