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TDK Boombox

An ode to the ghetto blasters that dominated stoops, bboy circles, and street corner gatherings TDK introduces a new line of boomboxes in a 3 and 2 speak model. While retaining subtle characteristics and analog feel of the original models in shape and oversized speakers the new variations offer touch sensitive controls, digital display panels, [...]

Djay App

The iPad’s 9.7 inch display offers one of the more unique user interfaces around for app designers. German software developers Algoriddim have taken full advantage of that functionality turning your iPad screen into a virtual turntable set. Complete with two decks, crossfader, individual channel mixers, volume controls, pitch blend sliders, and automix capability the Djay [...]

Samsung Omnia – Samsung’s iPhone?

Samsung’s new smartphone is inspired by iPhone, and starts off by pummelling its Apple rival with a cracking, five-meg camera with autofocus, flash and face detection. Just like the iPhone, you can customize the homepage icons and the touchscreen is very responsive, scrolling through the photos is very enjoyable. The only problem is that the [...]

Behold, the Future Wallet – Dosh

Ansley Berrones – Women have their purses and men have their wallets – so the stereotype goes. However in this day and age, we are seeing more and more unisex items made available that touch both the feminine and masculine side of all of us. I have to be honest here, my man’s wallets, they [...]

Why BlackBerry users will love Storm and iPhone users won’t

We’ve had a couple of days to play with the BlackBerry Storm, Research in Motion’s answer to the iPhone. It’s the first all-touchscreen, no-keyboard BlackBerry. And let’s be clear: It’s no iPhone. Its web browser is slow, and you can’t pinch to zoom (as with the T-Mobile G1, the Storm doesn’t have multi-touch). It doesn’t [...]

Sony Rolly

The Sony Rolly is perhaps best described as a break-dancing MP3-player. Simply fill the egg-shaped curio’s 2GB of storage with MP3s or AACs (ideally with something upbeat for maximal effect), turn it on and watch how it proceeds to roll, pitch and spin on the spot in time to the rhythm.

A Hippy’s Dreamcar – Verdier’s Solar Powered Camper

What with gas prices being as high as they were this summer, we didn’t go on as many road trips as we would have liked to. If we had a camper like the Verdier Solar Powered Camper, we definitely would have embarked upon more road trips to beautiful National Parks and done it in eco-style. [...]