Well, the co-branding fairies are at it again, this time blessing a deal between Samsung and Adidas. The F110 is actually not that great of a phone if you are a geek, although if you are a more physically fit type of person, it’s great, with and included heartbeat monitor, step counter, and other sports applications.
It’s a 2.5G phone with GPRS/EDGE; there is also a 2” screen, a 2MP cam, and a FM radio tuner. It also has and MP3 player function and I assume a card slot of some sort.
It doesn’t use the radio, the TV, or the Internet to get you your football scores, nope, it connects directly to a satellite. It runs on batteries too, so if you lose power and can’t check the radio, TV, or your computer for the scores, this thing has your back.
You are going to have to be pretty addicted to football to buy one of these though. First the display is really bland, it manages to relay all the pertinent information, but its pretty boring.
Kangaroo TV is one of those gadgets I’m unusually curious about but will likely never experience myself, so I’m pleased to see Automated Home’s hands-on report of the event-side review unit from a trip to the Monaco Grand Prix. A handheld wireless terminal allowing for instant replays, in-car footage, timing data and other information usually you’d have to be in front of the TV to get.
I have a friend that is always coming up with crazy new ideas on how he can get himself, or someone else seriously injured. Granted, he’s never “trying” to hurt anyone, but he usually does end up at least catching himself on fire. Needless to say, I won’t be showing this to him any time soon.
Tis the season to head to the wintery slopes and attempt to kill oneself. As if regular skiis and snowboards weren’t enough a danger to mankind, new weapons of self-destruction during the winter months are popping up all over the place. I just detected two such relatively new contraptions, the Railz Snowskate (pictured below) for the snowbound skateboarder and the Skateslider for the snow queen ice skater.
I always thought the snowboard was the slopes version of the skateboard, but boy was I wrong. You can’t possibly injure yourself quite as badly with the snowboard since its sheer size deters many dangerous manuevers such as jumping on and sliding off metal bar handrails. Priced at $89.95. You can check out the video after the jump.
And for the more elegant, there is the Skateslider, a pair of mini skiis that attach to any pair of inline skates. Supposedly, the movements used with the Skateslider are the same as in regular skating, making it very easy to learn for the experienced inline skater. Priced at $70.
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