September 2006
, a hands-free Bluetooth in-car or desktop speaker set. The MINIKIT has stereo speakers, voice recognition, and is about as big as a pack of cards, which means you can…
Here’s an idea that I would probably use a lot. A group of German students have developed a new Java program that will automatically update to your cell phone every…
A portable USB 2.0 hard drive capable of keeping your “tunes”, “vids”, and “hardcore pornography” with you on your treks through Seattle’s finest cafes, the HP Pocket Media Drive is…
If you’re too cheap to buy a Sony eReader and too lazy to flip a real book by yourself, there’s the Japanese automatic book reader. All you have to do…
Sony Announces Global Battery Recall: 7 to 10 Million Batteries
recall this morning, Sony just announced that it’s going to recall batteries that use its Sony-manufacturered lithium ion cells. This spans various companies, including Sony itself, and is the largest…
<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/WMA playback, FM radio, and USB recharging? It's only $187, and doesn't look like a gigantic squid attached itself to your arm. Best of all, it tells time. Like,…
I don’t consider myself a GPS expert, but this seems like a pretty bad thing. According to Cornell researchers, all GPS units will be serverely affected in the year 2011…
Looks like BenQ’s attempt at hitting the Euro-America cellphone market is a dud. BenQ Mobile is closing its doors and laying off 3,000 employees. Apparently the company made no money,…
Dell announced this morning that it would recall an additional 100,000 faulty laptop batteries. This latest announcement will move the total number of recalled batteries to 4.2 million. Toshiba also…
We’ll be closing the voting at 3pm EST today, so vote early and often. Read more about the contest here, but the submitter of the best name will win a…
Japanese scientists have developed a new “wearable power suit” that makes you look a lot like a Terminator. The suit is built for nursing homes, where employees would wear them…
and little else. That said, it appears they’re going to create an Ajax-ified .mac mail with, get this, multiple mailboxes. This is immensely useful and essentially a network-based version of…
So far UMPCs have been fairly silly — they’re small, cute, and useless — but the next generation should be much better. They promise. Intel, for example, is showing off…
Explore the cold, dusty surface of these recent news items: Verizon Quietly Launches the Moto KRZR Cambridge Geniuses Invent Practical Digital Scroll Rover Opportunity Nearing Victoria Crater Universal Sonic Toothbrush…
Why The New .Mac Webmail Is Important
Earlier this week Apple announced that a new version of webmail for Mac users is “coming soon.” There was a bit of chatter about this around the blogosphere, with most…
that’s been popping up on the back of several new T-Mobile phones? It’s the first salvo in the coming all-you-can-eat talk time wars between cellular carriers. Ok, that’s maybe a…
Besides the next big thing in media players featuring WiFi, your Zune, if you decide to purchase one at the slightly-higher-than-rumored $249.99 on November 14th, will also, naturally, come with…
Google Reader steps it up with new version
The Google Reader team unveiled a revamped version of their online feed reader today and no one can say it’s not a real RSS reader anymore. They even took Robert…
This is sort of out of nowhere for HP, but it just picked up Canadian boutique computer vendor Voodoo PC. HP made an attempt at building gaming desktops a couple…
I’ve been wanting to see the Xbox 360 Live Vision out in the open, but until now I haven’t gotten a chance to check it out. From all the product…
If you want a Zune bad, and don’t want the pressure of walking over to Best Buy in November, Wal-Mart has got the answer. As of today, you can pre-order…
Philips is doing something it’s not normally known for – being innovative in the digital media space. Their new PMP, the PMC7230, plays back MPEGs, MP3s, and PlaysForSure Windows Media…
Viral Video Chart
London-based, Unruly Media recently launched Viral Video Chart “the first chart to independently monitor the popularity of videos” from the world’s most influential video-sharing sites i.e YouTube, MySpace and Google…
From the Why Didn’t Someone Think Of This Sooner Department comes Solutions’ Universal Sonic Toothbrush. Now you don’t have to give up your favorite Colgate or Reach or whatever conventional…
Facebook to put viral ads in your news feeds?
MediaWeek is reporting (but see updates below) that Facebook will soon add “sponsored stories” or banner ads to the news feed on users’ front pages. The addition of those feeds…
KOYONO makes some nice, tech-friendly coats that lean more towards high fashion than most others. So it’s not really surprising they hooked up with the high-end leather goods craftspeople at…
Ever have experience that problem of having six iPods at your house and you want to be able to control them all at the same time? I know, me too,…
An aggregate review of aggregate review services
Product review search engine Retrevo was selected to launch at DEMO yesterday and it’s pretty cool. We’ve written about competitor ViewScore here before and also launched this month is yet…
Marshall Kirkpatrick, our weird cousin from TechCrunch who beats us up when we see him at Easter has written up a nice article detailing the selection different group SMS services…
Remember when NASA landed those two rovers on Mars a few years ago? The plan was to have them look around for a month or so to find signs of…