Archive for January, 2009

The Piranha Dynamo Wind-Up Shaver

Several wind-up flashlights have made the rounds, usually they are kind of a pain to charge up, but they make a good spare flashlight.  Plus, you can rely on them more since their batteries aren’t exactly going to die off.  Well now you can pick up a shaver that is powered only by you winding […]

Electric Drum Kit Shirt allows you to beat your chest to the music

For those of you who want to play the drums, and can’t take a huge drum set with you, you have two options: One, you could do the beat box thing with your mouth and smack your chest and essentially annoy everyone around you. Two, you could get the Electric Drum Kit Shirt […]

Hello Kitty themed laptop from NEC Japan

The evil little kitty has wormed her way onto yet another gadget, she seems to be slowly achieving her goal of world domination.  She does kind of resemble the Brain of Pinky and the Brain.  I’m really not seeing that as a coincidence.  Beneath her giant skull lies a brain ready to take over the […]

IOGEAR releases new 3-port USB 2.0 hub

Just like handbags and shoes are to a fashionista, you can never have enough USB ports for a geek. After all, aren’t tons of devices these days maintain connectivity to your computer via USB? Hence the ever increasing need for more USB ports on a computer, but sometimes design constraints and technical limitations do not […]

AT&T to offer Sony Ericsson W760a Walkman phone

If you are in the US and thinking of getting a new cell phone, then maybe you could consider the Sony Ericsson W760a from AT&T. This will also be the first 3G Walkman handset to hit the US over AT&T’s network, offering a mature platform for on-the-go entertainment along with a host of other features […]

Toyota is definitely maybe developing solar-powered car

Around half a year ago, we heard that Toyota was engineering a Prius that would get part of its energy from the sun; now, we’re seeing an eerily similar story from Japan suggesting that the plan is still on. In a rather odd report, it’s noted that the automaker is “secretly (oh, is it now?) […]

Portable Google Chrome Browser for USB Sticks

It maybe the best interest for most of us to trial run Google Chrome first release test platform before putting it on a mission critical system. Carsten Knobloch from Germany has a created a solution just for this purpose - to fire up the browser directly from a USB stick. You simply unzip […]

French Train Tickets Get USB Treatment

All sorts of stuff is going to USB, even things we might not ever think would end up with USB connections built-in. Among the things that I never expected to see go USB are train tickets. Yet in some regions of France, that is exactly what it happening. The French National Railway Company (SNCF) […]

Creative Throws in a Little X-Fi into USB Speakers

When shopping for a portable speakers for on the go presentations for work or solitary entertainment in a hotel room, Creative N400 USB notebook speakers will have you covered. Compact bus-powered speakers give you the much needed convenience during transport while boosting enough power for most tasks. Granted, there’s a bewildering array of […]

PNY Team up with GhostBusters on Flash Drives

The 80’s was a golden time for music (in some opinions) and for movies. One of my favorite 80’s films from my childhood was Ghostbusters. The film was one of the last funny Bill Murray performances in my book. PNY announced a new Ghostbusters flash drive today with 2GB of storage that includes a full […]