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This ridiculous cell phone from China is capable of blasting out ringtones and media files at an earsplitting 120dB.
For those of you not familiar with the Decibel Scale, that’s somewhere between “Front Rows at Rock Concert” and “Threshold of Pain.” Unfortunately, this video of the phone in action doesn’t…
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July 6th, 2007 by: Technabob
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This new digital watch out of China features a fully-functional mobile phone under the hood.
The M300 Watch Phone offers an unlocked quad-band GSM phone, which should work in most parts of the world. The watch has a built in speaker and microphone so you can talk directly into it.…
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June 15th, 2007 by: Technabob
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Leave it to the folks in China to bring us a single portable gadget that crams so much into such a little package.
The TX-0088 Portable DVD Player not only features movie playback from DVDs, it can also play MP4 format videos burned to disc or a USB flash drive.…
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June 2nd, 2007 by: Technabob
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While it’s certainly not as slick as Ben Heck’s Wii laptop casemod, this new accessory from Pega HK makes your Nintendo Wii a little more mobile.
The device adds a perfectly matched 7-inch LCD screen to the top of your Wii, making it easy to play the console anywhere you’ve…
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June 1st, 2007 by: Technabob
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These piggy banks from i-Kiddo are not only goofy looking, but they’re actually quite tech savvy.
The i-Panda and i-Piggy digiBanks automatically identify each coin placed in the bank, then calculate the total and display them on the bank’s LCD screen. The banks can also be programmed with savings goals…
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May 31st, 2007 by: Technabob
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Here’s an interesting phone out of China that steals a page out of the Samsung F520 book with an interesting dual-slider design that conceals both phone and gaming controls.
When oriented in portrait mode, the slider reveals a dialing and menu navigation buttons, but when turned to landscape mode, out…
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May 17th, 2007 by: Technabob
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Remember those giant, clunky mobile phones back in the eighties? Now you can revisit those youthful memories, while enjoying all of today’s conveniences.
The Retro Brick Mobile Phone may look like one of those old behemoths, but actually is packed with the features you’d expect in modern mobile devices. The…
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May 16th, 2007 by: Technabob
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According to a recent post over on AVS Forum, Wal-Mart is reportedly working with Taiwanese manufacturer Fuh Yuan to crank out HD DVD players for a wholesale cost of just $50 per unit, based on an initial commitment of 2 million players. For those of you who flunked math, that’s…
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April 20th, 2007 by: Technabob
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A while back, we featured the first ever MP4 video player watch. Now you can pick up a wrist-worn player with a full 16:9 ratio widescreen.
The wrist player features a 1.8-inch widescreen color display (isn’t that an oxymoron like “jumbo shrimp?”) It’s got 2GB of flash memory on board,…
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April 15th, 2007 by: Technabob
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With all the recent buzz about how Blu-ray is leading HD DVD in the high definition “format war,” there’s a new wildcard that could shake things up.
While Sony certainly has a leg up on the race with millions of PlayStation 3 consoles out there, one big road block to…
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March 25th, 2007 by: Technabob