Phaser Boasts 300mW Laser

Since you can’t walk into to your favorite weapons store and pick up a phaser just yet, hacker Luke decided to build his own. He picked up a toy phaser from Amazon for about $20 ripped out the internals only choosing to reuse the trigger, top switch and battery pack. The phaser contains two laser [...]

ReelDirector: Video Editing For Your iPhone

If you own an iPhone 3GS then you know how nice it is to be able to trim video clips right on your phone. At the very least that should get you a somewhat semi-professional video that doesn’t have a lot of fluff at the beginning or end of your clip. What if you wanted [...]

B&N Nook Officially Released

Barnes and Noble today officially revealed today their e-book reader, the Nook. So what does it have to offer? It measures 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches and it weighs only 11.2 ounces. It comes with two screens, a 6-inch grayscale e-in display and a 3.5-inch colour touchscreen that sits just under the main screen. [...]

Black Wii For The Brits

Those lucky kids across the pond in the UK will be getting the limited edition black Wii on November 6th, bundled with Wii Sports Resort no-less. Nada for us Wii loving fans here in North America. Just more proof that Nintendo does not love you. The limited edition bundle will include a Wii-mote, nunchuk, MotionPlus [...]

Unlock Your Car With Your iPhone

Car alarm company Viper (which is owned by Directed Electronics) is unveiling a new app for iPhone users that will let customers control certain aspects of their Viper SmartStart-enabled vehicle from their iPhone or iPod Touch. The app, which is called Viper SmartStart, acts as a virtual keychain which can do things like lock/unlock your [...]

DIY Image Stabilizer

A crafty Instructables users has figured out that by using a pair of spining hard drives you can create the same gyroscopic effect that the pros use to keep their cameras nice and steady. A camera stabilizer is perfect for taking those steady shots when your conditions might be less than favorable for doing so, [...]

Linux Distros That Don’t Suck

I, much like every other hardcore geek on the face of the earth, have multiple linux based distro iso’s laying around. Some of them are for testing and some of them contain tools that I use on a daily basis. I have had many people email me about the best distro out there. The only [...]

UPDATE – Beatles Make It Into Rock Band

At the time of this post, further details were yet to be announced, but it appears official, Viacom and MTV Networks (owners of “Rock Band”) have licensed Beatle songs for their Rock Band game. This is a pretty big deal, since even major players like iTunes don’t even have Beatle songs yet. In fact, no [...]

WoW Now 11 Million Strong (and still growing)…

For all you under-rock-dwellers out there, a brief explanation of the phenomenon that is World Of Warcraft. It’s made by Blizzard. It’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s been parodied on SouthPark. It’s a big deal, if for nothing else than the cash-cow it’s created for Activision Blizzard. Well, World Of Warcraft has now [...]

Netflix and Samsung Blu-Ray Team Up

Netflix and Samsung recently announced that two of Samsung’s Blu-Ray players (the BD-P2550 and BD-P2500) now have the ability to stream the Netflix service. Samsung and Netflix also plan to bring the movie/tv subscription service to more of Samsung’s consumer electronics in the future. To make it happen, the Samsung Blu-ray player communicates with Netflix [...]

Margarator – Make Margaritas In Your Car

How many times you been cruising down the road when the craving for a nice tasty cold Margarita? I know I never have, but if I ever did the Margarator MSB-585 would come to save the day. The blender was clearly created for on-the-go drinkers. IMHO, drinking and driving is a really bad idea. Making [...]

RockBand For Those Over 40

Over 40 and wonder what the whole RockBand or Guitar Hero crazy is all about? Want to jump in but don’t know how to? Maybe you would be better off with Dan’s mish-mash of sound and electronics. This guitar has been stripped of all it’s internals and has a CPU and all sorts of cool [...]

US Court Temporarily Stops RealDVD Sales

Remember the “Legal DVD copying software” that RealNetworks released last week? Yeah, well, a US court judge has ordered RealNetworks to suspend sales of RealDVD until Tuesday so that he can sort the whole mess out. RealNetworks sued a bunch of movie studios to demonstrate in court that the software doesn’t infringe on copyrights, and [...]

StumbleUpon Goes Bar-less

I have to give a plug to StumbleUpon which brings this site so much traffic. One of the major stumbling (no pun intended) with StumbleUpon is that you need to install a toolbar to enjoy all of the great social like experiences it offers. Well, you can now enjoy all of the great websites that [...]

Apple Drops NDA

After much pressure from the community, Apple has finally decided to drop the NDA from released iPhone software. According to the company the NDA was an unnecessary obstacle for developers. To our developers We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software. We put the NDA in place because the iPhone [...]

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