Filed under: Portable Audio
We’re not sure that a giant, shiny ring with a 1/8-inch mic cable running out of it is the world’s most discreet recording option, but those of you looking to get all Maxwell Smart on it are now just $105 away from living the dream.
[Via GadgetDNA]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Robots
Tomy’s i-SOBOT usually requires users to punch in one of 147 different keycodes on its monster handheld controller to get things moving, but a couple enterprising hackers have developed a control system that lets you get it on mo-cap style using a Wiimote and the nunchuk attachment. The secret is the upcoming Robodance 4 software, which maps the i-SOBOTs commands to the Wiimote and a GUI for complex scripted macros — which means it’ll be even easier to pretend that the bot is actually your real friend. Check a vid of the system in action, apparently shot in someone’s underground bunker, after the break.
[Thanks, Daanish]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Peripherals
At this point we’re pretty certain Phantom‘s shady, vaporous history is warning enough to anyone thinking about giving cash to the company, but the risk-takers out there might want to take note: Phantom’s oft-delayed Lapboard is now available for purchase. Of course, there’s no ship date listed and — true to Phantom form — the site’s SSL certificate is a little shady, but come on, you know you want to pony up your credit card number and let us know what happens.
[Thanks, Ray Z.]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: GPS, Transportation
Nissan has really upped the ante when it comes to driver-assisting luxury amenities. While everybody else is busy with souped-up cruise control based on radars (those old things), Nissan has tapped into onboard GPS to allow the car slow down for upcoming turns, and then resume a cruising speed once the turn is done. It’s called Intelligent Cruise Control, and will most likely be seen as a happy upgrade to some drivers and a curse upon the road to others. We just want a fully-automated car, so do what it takes, Nissan.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Peripherals
USB 3.0 really threw down this September with a theoretical max throughput of 4Gbps, but it looks like FireWire isn’t going down without a fight. The latest and greatest FireWire version, dubbed “S3200″ by those creatives up in marketing, uses the same ports and cables as FireWire 800, but boosts speeds to 3.2Gbps, which should make it pretty competitive with USB in the real world — though actual real-life speeds will probably depend on who’s adding up the bits. According to the 1394 Trade Association: “The S3200 standard will sustain the position of IEEE 1394 as the absolute performance leader,” but we hear they’re biased. They are claiming that where current FireWire 800 hard drives can move 90MB per second, S3200 should be able to do 400MB. Speed concerns aside, the power delivery, peer to peer architecture, and handy networking capabilities of 1394 mean that FireWire should hopefully be around for a long time to come.
[Via Slashdot]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
