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Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth Headset reviewed

James Allan Brady, Apr 4th 2008 Discuss [3]

So while Vincent was at CTIA he managed to pick up one Plantronics’ latest headsets, the fashionable Discovery 925 that we wrote about earlier this week. Not only did we get his review of the product, some more shots, and even a video review, but we got some more info too. Read The Full Story

Daisy Art Sculpture – hint: its not a flower

James Allan Brady, Apr 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

No, instead it’s a giant manufacturing grade one-armed robot with a plastic version of a Titanic-sized propeller on the front of it that spins like a fan. As if that wasn’t creepy enough, it moves, and using the cameras on its base it can follow you round, like as if its aiming at you. Read The Full Story

Olive Media OPUS No4 Home Music Server – an interior decorator’s dream

James Allan Brady, Apr 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

I can only imagine how many times someone has been designing the interior of a high end house, ran across the list of requirements, saw music server, and immediately started thinking of ways/places to hide it away in. Well, with this unit you won’t have to or want to hide it away as it’s actually quite attractive and is more functional when out in the open where you can use the touchscreen which appears to feature some sort of CoverFlow-like browsing system. Read The Full Story

Toshiba Sleep-and-Charge USB ports – a true stroke of innovative genius!

James Allan Brady, Apr 2nd 2008 Discuss [3]

So, more and more gadgets that people acquire are either USB powered, coming with USB chargers or have USB chargers available for them. So why is it that up until now another common portable device that could charge these items is constantly put to waste when it’s off? That’s right, Toshiba has had a true stroke of genius and because of it your Notebook will soon be able to act as a USB charging station regardless of whether it’s on, off, or in sleep/hibernation modes. Read The Full Story

ClarityLife Mobile Phones – simple enough your grandma can use it

James Allan Brady, Apr 1st 2008 Discuss [1]

This phone is specifically designed for older people serving two purposes. First it literally is easy enough your grandma can use it as that’s who it’s for, second it also acts as an emergency response device phoning for help from emergency services when its needed. Read The Full Story

ROKR EQ3 speakers – Motorola enters speakers market

James Allan Brady, Apr 1st 2008 Discuss [1]

The ROKR EQ3 speakers aren’t Bluetooth enabled and don’t use a 2.5mm headphone jack, instead opt for the 3.5mm standard jack making them about as basic as a pair of mobile speakers get. Read The Full Story

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Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset – for the fashion conscious talkers

James Allan Brady, Apr 1st 2008 Discuss [1]

News Flash! Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset: Video Review – PHONE Magazine

Featuring Plantronics’ AudioIQ technology for clear calls, their VFrame structure, and an overall design more reminiscent of a piece of jewelry than that of a Bluetooth headset, this thing looks amazing. Even better yet, the little case that comes with it, isn’t just a case.

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Humax TV – coming straight from London’s ChauhanStudio

James Allan Brady, Mar 28th 2008 Discuss [0]

This beautiful and elegant TV coming from Humax is a thing of retro art. It even manages to pack in multiple functions including the ability to just play the radio when you need it. Read The Full Story

Apple has supposedly ordered another 10 million iPhones – I want mine delivered now

James Allan Brady, Mar 27th 2008 Discuss [5]

According to an analyst at Gartner, Apple has ordered a second batch of 10 million 3G iPhones to be delivered. That’s a total of 10 million regular iPhones and 10 million 3G iPhones that Apple is apparently hoping to sell by the end of this year. Read The Full Story

MIU HDPC – tries for James Bond, hits somewhere around The Tick

James Allan Brady, Mar 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

Hardware wise this thing is amazing featuring a VIA C7M ULV CPU running at 1GHz, 4GB of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, and your choice of a 60GB HDD or a 4GB SSD. Where it starts to fail is in respect to design, I guess what I’m trying to say here is that it’s ugly. Read The Full Story

Halo Soda Vending Machine up for Auction for Charity

James Allan Brady, Mar 21st 2008 Discuss [1]

This one off pop machine was designed for Bungie to help them celebrate the milestone that was Halo 2, but it never got used. Well, now they’ve had the whole team sign it and are selling it for charity with all of the proceeds going to the Make a Wish foundation. Like I said, the team never used it, so it’s more or less brand new, save for the small amount of dust that might have built up on the machine. The current bid is $15,000 if you want this literally one of a kind machine. Shipping is free if you can pick it up in Kirkland, Washington, otherwise it ranges from $200 to $2000 depending on where you live in the continental US, and if it has to leave that are either to hit Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico, or worse yet, internationally, I’m sure those shipping costs spike up quite quickly. They did use it a few times to test it and make sure it worked, and it does, but that’s it, so, fire up your bank accounts. I wonder if it comes with a case or two of Mountain Dew’s Halo Game Fuel drink? [via Kotaku]

Lichtinfusion IV Light design – looks sick

James Allan Brady, Mar 19th 2008 Discuss [0]

This light design is essentially an IV hanger filled with 4 IV bottles with hoses hanging from them. The big difference is instead of Saline in the bottles, there are lights. Read The Full Story