Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
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If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: Timepieces
Miami-based watch company Krieger was kind enough to send me a press kit to check out their latest watches. The company is most famous for their simple and large Gigantum watch and their floating [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Journeys, Spas
The latest resort in Cabo San Lucas will be the Villa del Arco Beach Resort and Desert Spa which will open next week. The resort is part of the Villa Group which also owns Villa La Estancia and Villa del Palmar in the same area around El Médano [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
>You may remember these two gentlemen, as we recently covered them in the run-up to the Transformers movie debut. Optimus Prime changed his name to honor his childhood hero, while Jason Burrows took the less drastic step of altering his middle name to Megatron. Now it seems that Optimus has had enough tomfoolery and wants [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
The Nixon Lodown has 15 years worth of preprogrammed tidal info for 200 beaches all the world over. Right at your wrist you can monitor the height of the waves, and don’t be afraid to jump right in when the surf looks good—the Lodown has a water resistance rating of 100m. The Lodown’s simple presentation [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
In their quest to save our dying planet, ecologically concerned people are often forced to make sacrifices. If you’re compelled to join them, you can start by getting rid of that fancy superstore toothbrush and replace it with the Source Toothbrush, an environmentally friendly hygienic tool constructed from wood fiber and a special plastic [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
The problem with massive online games is that they’re full of other people. In order to bypass the need for interaction and reliance on outsiders, one gamer (and, get this, his girlfriend) decided to take on the responsibilities of an entire World of Warcraft guild himself. Gaze upon the 47 PC setup that allows [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
Samsung commissioned a boring cellphone survey for single women that asked them whether they had “text shame”, which is sending a message and realizing that they shouldn’t have sent it, whether women use it as an address book, whether they pretended to have reception trouble, and whether they had their friends call them on a [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
Found in the depths of some German forum, a DPreview member says these pictures are for the yet-to-be-announced Canon EOS 5D Mark II. No real details to this camera other than the fact that it’s going to replace the 5D (obviously). See the back after the jump, but don’t expect a “make me a professional [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
It’s Friday, so why shouldn’t you enjoy 70 seconds of flying, crashing robotic calamity?
For the curious, this is what some have called a true-to-life transformer, an iRobot PackBot outfitted with a gas-powered propeller engine and a steerable parafoil. The concept, dubbed the Griffon man-portable hybrid, was conceived and built by iRobot’s Brian Yamauchi and Pavlo [...]
Jul 6th, 2007
by hueland.
Plug Beatmix Bumblebee into your MP3 player and he’ll dance to his own mix of your music library, adding beats and sound clips from the movie, for as long as his four AA batteries last. Since he plugs into portables, you’ll be able to take him everywhere. Transformers get-togethers. Work. Put an upside down hat [...]