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1109. New iPod Nano (with gold)
It is not the first time I talk about gadgets covered in gold, and I guess this won’t be the last. GoldStriker International recently added another iPod golden model to their big catalog of expensive items, this time the second generation iPod Nano comes covered on 24ct of gold and costs £300 which is close [...]
1667. Keep an eye on things with the RC Surveillance Cam
Do lots of people really want to set up their own home surveillance systems? Normal people, I mean, who don't live in expensive houses that could be robbed at any minute by a passing burglar.
The makers of the RC Surveillance Cam hope there's a market. Costing £119.95, it consists of a camera, and a handset which you use both to control the cam's pan'n'tilt, but also to watch the live streaming footage on a 2.5-inch screen, and listen through the speakers.
1642. Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti Type 370 Watch
By Andrew Liszewski Let’s officially declare it “Ridiculously Expensive Watch Day” here on OhGizmo! If the $50,000 Aston Martin DBS watch we brought you earlier still doesn’t seem elite enough for your tastes then we’ve got a great alternative. The Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti Type 370 was honored by the Japanese press as the ‘2006 Watch of [...]
1824. The $2 Million Car
Incorporating cutting-edge technology inside and out, the DiMora Natalia will be the world's fastest, most expensive production sedan
2448. Floppy disk shaped CDs
If you miss floppy disks so much and the recycled toys that come from them aren’t enough, give this new and improved version a whirl. It’s actually a CDR in descise, giving the illusion that you haven’t kept up with current technology. When in reality, you just enjoy all of the quirky gadgets and toys that come with new technology.
Unfortunately although it does look cool, it doesn’t quite hold as much. It holds 200MB whereas a normal CDR holds 700MB. I’d say that’s a bit of a jump in storage size.
They are sold with four colored floppy disk labels, each disk sells for $14 and $32 for four of them. Even if it is for a novelty factor the price is still a bit steep for how little storage you receive.
Recordable CDs – shaped like floppy disks [via retrotogo]
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2564. Dell reveals the XPS M1730 Warcraft edition laptop
It's the PC game that saved PC gaming, now World of Warcraft is adding quite a significant money to Dell's 'bottom line'.
Two new ludicrously expensive WoW-badged XPS laptops have been announced by the PC flogger, coming in either Horde or Alliance designs...
2619. Poll: Extended warranties, necessity or shakedown?
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
As former tech retail geeks in another life, we know better than anyone the kind of pressure salespeople at the big box retailers put on adding extended (often 3rd party) warranties on gadget purchases. Oh sure, it preys on uninformed customers' fears that their expensive new toys will break down a exactly 91 days after purchase and they'll be left in the lurch -- but sometimes those warranties can actually come in handy. That is, if you can convince the warranty people to pony up, which is just a step below the frustration of dealing with most HMOs. So, what's your take on extended warranties?
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2871. Researchers create printed solar cells
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We've seen a lot of attempts to cut the costs of solar cells, but a team in Japan has managed to create an inexpensive flexible cell that's as thin as a sheet of paper using what they describe as traditional printing techniques. The team, composed of researchers from Toin University in Yokohama and private firm Fujimori Kogyo, managed to eliminate the expensive silicon component of regular solar cells, reducing thickness to just .4mm (.015 inches), and allowing a factory to pump out reams of the material every month -- enough to generate 10 megawatts of juice. That's actually a fairly low estimate, as the cells are only at 6% efficiency right now, but we can imagine that number shooting upwards after they start shipping in February. Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
2937. Switched On: Vudu starts on its to-dos
Filed under: Features, Home EntertainmentEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
Imagine a history in which broadcast television programming was not sent directly to television sets. Rather, it was sent to another, more expensive device in the home with a smaller screen. If you paid $40 per month, you could access at best only about 10 percent of the shows you really wanted. These shows were available on demand, but under ideal conditions needed a few minutes before you can start watching them. Furthermore, to watch them in the comfort of your living room, you had to rely on a slow, unreliable connection between the box and the TV set.
This bleak situation characterized the state of much broadband video at the debut of Vudu earlier this year. Vudu's $400 glossy black box sports a curvy perimeter that is a bit taller than an Apple TV. It delivers instant access to about 5,000 movies (with capacity for double that amount) using a slick and sophisticated combination of local caching and distributed computing. Rent or buy the movie and it starts playing. Vudu just introduced its first high-definition movies -- the Bourne movie trilogy, offering the high-definition media-free version of The Bourne Ultimatum for sale for the first time.
The physical version of that movie is available exclusively on HD-DVD, but with Vudu you don't have to worry about the alliances of studios or video rental chains. The company has struck deals with all major studios and the Vudu device is hundreds of dollars less than dual-format high-definition disc players from Samsung and LG Electronics. On the other hand, nearly all of its content is more of a quality match for the dirt-cheap and universally-supported standard DVD player today.
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3062. NYPD to trial all-electric scooters next month
Filed under: Transportation
New York's finest will also be some of New York's greenest next month, when the NYPD begins field testing four all-electric scooters from Rhode Island-based Vectrix USA. Although twice as expensive as the gas-powered Piaggio scooters that the department currently uses -- and with a fraction of their range -- the Vectrix offers police three attractive benefits: reduced fuel costs, lowered vehicle emissions, and, more practically, the element of surprise -- the scooters' nearly-silent engines should allow two-wheeled cops to approach suspects with more discretion. Sounds like a winner to us, as long as officers don't try pulling some eminent domain crap on our outlet at Starbucks when they need to juice up.
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