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iPod Shrine Winner: Robots Rule
Congrats to zZz and his motorized robot with an iPod heart, your android is the proud owner of a new Apple iPod 30GB video player—send an e-mail to let me know whether he/she wants it in black or white (to match the spooky mask). More »
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Fake Beer Belly Gets You Tanked
I can't tell if this is too stupid for words or stupendously ingenious. Guess you'll have to make your own call. It's called the Beerbelly and it's actually a fake gut that you can fill up with beer (or your favorite alcoholic beverage) and hide under your clothes. Made up of a sling and a polyurethane "bladder" with a dispensing tube, the thing was created to let you slip booze into places where such substances may not be allowed. Like your kids dance recital, maybe? Or school? Oh, it looks like they were thinking more along the lines of the movies or a sporting event to avoid the $10 beer. And that's not all, folks—you can also fill it with hot beverages as well, and of course, silly things like water. The Beerbelly Deluxe Kit is $49.95 and that includes the Beerbelly Sling and Bladder, The Pleasure Extender, One Step Beerbelly Cleanser and three specially-made brushes. Run, don't walk! More »
Home Entertainment
Beetle Mania
I admit, it's not exactly high-tech, but this little media player was too cute to pass up. Yes, it's built to look like a VW Beetle (the new model, of course) but it's actually a CD/DVD player with FM radio under the hood. The DVD tray is in the front bumper and the connectors are all shoved in the trunk, as would be expected. Though just a mock-up now, expect the full-scale version to also sport a remote, lithium battery and AV cable. Goes for about $216. More »
Home Entertainment
Snowboarding in the Living Room
Haven't had the time to hit the slopes this year and fear you may not be at the top of your snowboarding game? Check out Hammacher Schlemmer's all-in-one snowboard simulator game, a nifty little package that includes a snowboard simulator with four games, all for $59.95. The game modes include time challenge, pipedream and Tokyo megaplex and you'll find a wide range of terrain and weird things to look at as you digitally board. Be on the lookout for half-pipes, forests, mountain ranges and of course, other snowboarders. More »
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Butter on Demand
We've all been there. Trying desperately to spread a cold lump of butter on our beautiful bread, only to find it hard and unfeeling, leaving us with only gashes and holes. Heartbreaking, I know. But lo and behold, someone has felt our collective pain and decided to make it all better. A British company called ButterWizard has launched a temperature-controlled butter dish that will keep your butter (or butter-spread for that matter) at a beautiful 65 degrees for perfect spreading all the time. The dish has a built-in fan and a chip that can control the temperature for different textures of bread products. Yes, your muffin can be buttered differently than your baguette. Of course, you can also manually adjust the temperature if you feel the need, but whatever the case, we thank you, ButterWizard. The pleasure is all ours. More »
Portable Media
Scratchless Disc
Want some serious protection for your discs? Try the oh-so-subtly named Scratchless Disc, being happily touted as "The World's Safest Optical Disc." Using 20 small bumps that are added to the bottom of the disc to raise it off the surface you so sloppily left it on, this crazy technology basically just keeps it from rubbing up against anything while it's lying around. Add to this a layer of polymer and Scratchless-Disc LLC thinks you'll be completely scratch-free. Almost. They hope. Comes in CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW formats. More »
Portable Media
RIM Not Getting Any Favors
More bad news for Research In Motion today as a US District Judge denied the company's request to stop the legal proceedings until the US Patent Office decides whether the patents it holds are valid. In addition, the judge denied the $450 million settlement RIM reached earlier in the year with battling company NTP, which actually fell apart in June. Although we've heard RIM's co-chief executive officer, Jim Balsillie, say the company will absolutely not shut down Blackberry service using what he called a "workaround," we still haven't gotten any info about this technology. The only other way to make sure service keeps on chugging is if RIM does find a way to prevail in court (or just pays NTP to license the patent they've been fighting over). More »
Portable Media
Cheap'o Creative Zen'o PMC
It appears that the Creative Zen Personal Media Center wasn t really flying off the shelves with its hefty $500 price tag, so Creative is hoping to give it a little nudge by offering an enormous $200 rebate on it. This device was never really that bad, it has somewhat of a big design, but that accompanies the high-end specs that this PMP features. $300 for a device of this caliber isn t too bad, and a hell of a lot more effective at video watching than the, ahem, iPod Video. Yeah, we talk down on iPod from time to time. Better bookmark this, it won't happen again for a while. More »
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Loc8tor Finds Stuff
Oh how cute, a company decided to use a number in place of a phonetic sound. That's just dandy. This gadget tags commonly-lost items and then displays where they are on a radar screen, Metal Gear Solid style. Unfortunately, it wouldn t let me tag my sexuality—I guess I'll never find it. More »
Robots
Real Life Pacman (Kind of)
Namco and Bandai showed off this project at IREX 2005 this year. It is a little too farfetched to be a real toy on the market, but nevertheless it's pretty cool. It is a scaled up PacMan map that features a robot PacMan along with Pinky, the pink ghost. The robot is controlled by you, as you play the actual video game on a television screen. Just when you thought Namco had managed to milk every single cent out of the PacMan franchise they pulled out something else that is pretty sweet. More »
Power User
Power User - The Best of Lifehacker
This week at Lifehacker: Drive Firefox with your keyboard. Carry around secure data backups on your iPod. Optimize your Mac's broadband connection. Learn all the right gym moves using exercise videos on your iPod.
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Home Entertainment
Microsoft's Empty Promises
Microsoft always seems to get like this after they celebrate their success with a night of drinking. The promises start to roll in for the millions upon millions of gamer children out there with broken hearts. Microsoft claims they are flying in units from Hong Kong to meet the extremely high U.S. demand for their products. Whatever, Microsoft. You do this every time. Just don't call me when you need another ride home from the bar, you deadbeat. More »
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Tripl3 W0rd Sc0r3, PwN3D!!!1
These are L33T tiles for the board game Scrabble. It's an entire set of 103 tiles that can be used with any Scrabble board to create an entirely new game. The new game is based on leetspeak and the website even includes an online dictionary so you can still challenge absolutely silly words like pwnz0r1z3d. For $14.99 you receive the 103 tiles and a satin pouch to go along with your already-purchased board game. The tiles are designed to look like old-school green-on-black terminal text. Unfortunately a game mod like this would require the leetspeakers to leave their computers for once and actually interact with each other—not via IM—which may be a difficult task to begin with. More »
Cellphones
Sony-Ericsson P990 Offering Small Changes
Sony-Ericsson's P990 is supposed to ship in Q1 of 2006, but not everyone is going to get what they expected. Rather than risk using a whole new design, concept, and formula for a new smartphone, SE decided they'd rather just play it safe and heap on the goods. One unique feature that stands out is the ability to access both 3G and Wi-Fi networks simultaneously, something never done before on a smartphone, SE claims. It boasts 80 MB of internal memory and a 64 MB removable memory stick, which is perfect for all that e-mail building up. As expected, a built-in keypad will be included for easy typing and will even feature a built-in business card scanner. Lots of new goodies, but nothing extremely new or interesting. Damn you, P990. Hopefully before production starts, some interesting additions or changes can be made. More »
12:05 PM on Wed Nov 30 2005
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Contemporary Bathroom Faucets
GS North America has released pictures of its latest and greatest in strange-looking contemporary bathroom faucets. Smooth, Steam and Sweep are the three different bathroom faucets designed by A+Design. I like the shininess, but there are just two things you can improve about a showerhead: more water and more pressure. So making the showerhead look like an effeminate pirate hook is mostly worthless. These faucets should be available early next year, but who are we to judge? More »
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