September 2006
If you’re always entering in data or typing out txt messages to your cell phone, you know how janky those non-qwerty keys can be. Try this $56 portable bluetooth keyboard…
This angle finder attaches to your DSLR’s eyepiece, allowing you to see what your camera sees without actually having it in your face. The angle finder extends up to 30…
FAW, an automaker in China, has begun showing off its new top-of-the-line model. It’s big, sexy, expensive, and–wait, what’s that? No driver is required?! According to the manufacturer, the vehicle…
Why would anyone sane pay $19,999.99 for an MP3 player that doesn’t hold, say, 100TB of music? Because this player is cast in 18 karat gold and encrusted with jewels,…
The Sony Cyber-shot T10 has been released in pink, which means persons of the female persuasion should be running down to their local Sony Style stores to pick one up,…
Adidas has teamed up with Polar to produce a new line of clothes called Project Fusion that will both monitor your ECG stats and, possibly, look cool. The system has…
Because a study said that 19 out of 20 kids under the age of 16 can sleep through a fire alarm at 120 decibels – yeah right, my kids wake…
pictures? Good news, the 10 megapixel point-and-shoot has just been released officially. The camera has a 3x optical zoom, 3-inch LCD that’s also touch-screen, and a 1/1.8-inch CCD sensor. It…
This is a couple of days old, but it’s still a big deal. What you see before you is Ubisoft’s Wii driving game accessory. It’s made by Thrustmaster, and is…
It looks like I might have found my next phone. Cingular will be offering the Samsung SGH i607 in Q3. This UMTS/HSDPA equipped handset runs Windows Mobile 5 OS and…
Another day, another seemingly useless iPod accessory. This thing serves 2 functions, FM transmitter and, more interestingly, breathalyser. The guys selling the iBreath are saying you should use it before…
Samsung has developed a new form of NAND memory with greatly improved capacity and performance. It’s dubbed Phase-change Random Access Memory (PRAM) and it currently only exists in prototype form,…
So you bought a Nintendo DS, and now you’re wishing you had a PSP. The DS just doesn’t have the storage capacity to watch those illegally downloaded midget porns, or…
Ben Heckendorn is not your average case modder. This guy is “El Numero Uno,” as they say in the small Latin village I was raised in. Somebody with a lot…
This could be a big, big advantage for HD DVD. Toshiba announced that it has developed a three layer DVD that contains two HD DVD layers and one standard DVD…
Apple Rumor Roundup
Apple is hosting a special press event in San Francisco tomorrow with the tagline “It’s Showtime”. Press has been segmented into those invited and those not invited. For some reason…
A week ago, we would joke around the CrunchGear lunch mess, “What’s 16:9, touchscreen, and probably not going to be announced September 12th by Apple?” The answer was, of course,…
Sybase buys Mobile365 in an all cash transaction
Sybase recently signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobile 365, a mobile messaging and content delivery service provider, in an all cash transaction worth $425m. Following the closing of the transaction,…
Highlights from the past week: Teclast TL-T29 Video MP3 Player BenQ DC C1000 10-Megapixel Point and Shoot Plug and Play Atari Keychains Sonicare e9500 Hands-On Seeing Red: Ultra High-Def CrunchGear…
Ramblings on ThisNext
A handful of startups are groping around in the “social shopping” area, talking about making money from the 80% of online shopping time that is spent researching products rather than…
Terapad goes beyond blogging
I first started blogging in November 2002, using Dave’ Winer’s Radio Userland. The blog was called Second Thoughts and it covered topics such as web services, DRM, open source, start-ups,…
Top social media users getting paid; is the balance shifting?
Jason Calacanis says in an AOL memo he’s posted that his model for Netscape has been vindicated by the recent conflagration at Digg and rapid growth of page views at…
Motorola hasn’t announced it yet, but it looks like they’re working on a new RAZR-esque touchscreen PDA phone that will notably feature Linux. This thing has a big, bright 262K…
I’m goint to say this is basically a way for Lik-sang to drive some traffic, but it looks like they’re letting you pre-order the Wii. Feel free to send me…
Microsoft Launches Desktop Feed Reader
Microsoft has added a desktop feed reader to its Max photo viewing and sharing software. To use Max you must be on a Windows machine running the new Windows .NET…
Check out Blogmusik Before It's Pulled off the Internet
Blogmusik.net is a site that lets users search for songs and play them (streaming) immediately via a Flash player that looks like an iPod. Use does not require registration. However,…
Microsoft YouTube Clone Coming
Microsoft’s new YouTube competitor will be all about user generated videos if its name, Soapbox, is any indication (Hunterstrat calls it “personal whine”). There aren’t many details yet, but LiveSide…
Feast on Friday’s fearsome fivesome. CrunchGear and the Race to 2000 Seeing Red: Ultra High-Def General Dynamics Gets Rugged Ant’s Life Studio, the Ant Farm for the Desk Monkey CS…
Metaverse breached: Second Life customer database hacked
High profile virtual reality game Second Life reported today that one of its databases containing unencrypted user information was breached two days ago. The company confirmed that this is the…
oDesk Provides On-demand Skills
My startup Omnidrive first found oDesk when we needed to find contract C++ development skills to work on a project. At first look, it appears just like one of many…