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Spectec has released a connector that fits into the SD slot of your Pocket PC and allows you to display video from your Pocket PC onto larger screens, including computer screens and projectors.
It can be connected to the screens via S-Video and VGA using an adapter that is included. The specifications can be found on [...]
Want the iPod playback capabilities of the iPod Hi-Fi but you already have a fully functional stereo? The iHiFi breaks this gap, allowing you to stream audio from your iPod to any set of stereos.
Being sold by Zoom is a wireless transmitter and receiver. The transmitter attaches to the top of the iPod in the [...]
Olympus’s M:Robe digital video player has accomplished a feat that only a few well-known digital video players have accomplished; Getting it hacked to run Linux. This was accomplished by a firmware crack artist named Shirour.
Kernel version 2.6.15 of Linux was run on the M:Robe by Shirour. “Wasted job hours” went into creating drivers for features [...]
Bungie (the company behind the Halo series), has shown off Halo 3 to American troops who are in Iraq fighting the war. A whole slew of pics and videos were leaked out from the Middle East, with Halo 3 being played on big Samsung HDTV sets.
Gameplay looks fantastic, and the detail put into the maps [...]
SlashGear will be heading down to Las Vegas for CES, which starts next Saturday on January 6th. We have three teams going to CES, with 3 cameras, for triple the excitement, and triple the gadget news. During CES, we will provide high quality pictures and videos for all to see.
SlashGear will also be covering the [...]
Hammacher Schlemmer is a company that specializes in zapping germs using various products. In addition, they sell a hands-free dispenser for hand soap, and a nightlight that kills bedbugs. This website would probably be Howie Mandel’s one-stop shop for germ-killing!
One of their products is the Handheld Germ-Eliminating Light, that get rids of more than 99% [...]
Recently, Head and Shoulders set up an innocent looking photo-booth, disguised as a regular mall photobooth that is supposed to take snapshots of your face. What the person does not know is that there is actually a camera above their head, supposedly taking pics of their dandruff.
“Happy to be looked down on,” says the photo [...]
A company based in the UK called GIGB is selling LED units that are meant to be placed in rooms as an alternative to regular light sources in homes. The LEDs come in different shades and can instantly change the colour of the room. Although some colours aren’t too vibrant, LED lights are seen as [...]
Bonnie Meltzer is an artist who has crossed borders, using computer parts in her artwork. In some of her jewelry peices, a circuit board dangles off of a person’s neck as a pendent necklace. Computer connectors are used to connect the necklace.
In another peice of art, networking jacks hang off on a ball-and-chain necklace. These [...]
A pair of fake flowers that are currently being sold in Japan can also act as fire extenquishers. The pair of flowers are magnetic and are meant to attach to a fridge; Oh and they also extenquish fires!
The flowers look quite fake, with two noticeable magnets on the stems of the flowers. The pictures that [...]
