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One of my recurring nightmares is about the day I end up driving a minivan. Thankfully, that particular dream hasn’t come true, but this new gadget might keep that idea in the back of my mind if I kept it in my pocket.
This minivan mini speaker from Korea’s Newgood is perfect for those times…
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November 16th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: audio gadgets just plain fun media players technology
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We’ve featured several iPhone clones here on Technabob before, but this one is unique in that it not only is a doppelgänger for Apple’s wonder-phone, it runs Android apps.
The Aphone A6 phone does its best to look like an iPhone, featuring a 3.5-inch capacitive multi-touch display, and a “dual-core” CPU of some sort. The…
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November 14th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: media players mobile tech technology
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This interactive work of art uses 20 individual iPod Touches, tied together to produce synchronized visuals across all of the displays.
Created by Japan’s PROTOTYPE design team, iPod Cluster Media is an early proof-of-concept that stitches multiple independent iPod Touches into a hive-mind display wall. Each iPod Touch knows what the other one is up…
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November 7th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: interactive media players technology video
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The rumors were right – Nintendo officially unveiled the DSi LL, which is basically a Nintendo DSi but with much larger 4.2-inch screens, a 93% increase over the 3.2-inch screens on the DSi. The DSi LL also has 2 pens, a relatively jumbo sized 5-inch pen and a smaller pen that’s still slightly larger than…
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October 29th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: media players mobile tech technology video games
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Immortalize your mixtapes with the Ion Tape Express, an easy to use device that converts your favorite songs to mp3 files. Just pop in a tape, connect it to your computer via USB, and let the bundled EZ Tape Converter Software work its magic.
As you may have guessed from its looks, the Tape Express…
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October 27th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio gadgets media players mobile tech retro technology
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HP’s new DreamScreen devices straddle the fine line between computer and digital picture frame. Like other digi-frames, you can view pictures without a computer. But with the DreamScreen, you can also wirelessly stream music, videos and photos from your PC or the Internet.
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October 26th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: audio gadgets home entertainment media players technology video
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Touch DJ is a soon-to-be-released iPhone app that lets you mix music in real time, just like you would with professional DJ equipment.
Created by Amidio – the same folks who brought us the amazing noise.io iphone synth. According to the Amidio guys, Touch DJ is a serious live performance tool, and not just an…
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October 25th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: audio interactive media players mobile tech technology
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Sony Ericcson today announced their new Satio line of mobile phones, loaded up with a ton of promising media features.
The Satio has a gorgeous widescreen (16:9) 3.5-inch touchscreen interface, with a super-sharp, auto-rotating 640×360 display. It also runs on the Symbian OS platform, which means there are tons of applications you can download and…
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October 12th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: digital imaging gadgets media players mobile tech technology
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The first time I saw an NES gaming system built into an NES cartridge, I thought it was pretty sweet. Until I saw this one, which totally outdoes the original.
Inspired by an earlier NESp (Ninendo Entertainment System portable) mod by darkeru, modder airz managed to put a completely playable game system, including a 2.8-inch…
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October 11th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks + mods media players mobile tech retro technology video games
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Sure, headphone splitters are nothing new, but how many toy keychain headphone splitter robots that you decapitate and stab in the eyes to use have you seen? Did you even understand that previous sentence? I didn’t.
Whoever designed Splitterbot has some wicked, Brando-style imagination.
Ouch. You can get your own Splitterbot for only $8 (USD)…
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October 7th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio design gadgets just plain fun media players mobile tech technology
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Nope, this portable gaming system is most definitely not a PSP Go. What you’re looking at here is a cheap Chinese handheld known as the PXP-2000.
While the PXP-2000 won’t play any of your PSP games, it will play classic games from the NES, Famicom, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Super Famicom/SNES, and SEGA Megadrive/Genesis…
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October 6th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets media players mobile tech retro technology video games
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Every day that I use my iPhone, I discover yet another cool trick that I never knew I could do the day before. This time, it comes in the form of a little app called Snatch, which lets you turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a completely programmable remote for interacting with applications on your Mac or PC.
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October 5th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: computing media players mobile tech technology
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