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Interestingly enough, if you pop open certain 6 volt battery brands you will find 32AA batteries inside (a Heavy Duty Powercell was used in this example). That could mean some serious savings for anyone accustomed to buying expensive AA batteries. Then again, we have no way of knowing how these AAs compare to those brands, so it might still make ...

Whether you are throwing a house party for friends or trying to make contact with extraterrestrials, this Ferguson Hill FH001 Horn Loudspeaker will get the job done. The recommended amp power is 3-50 watts, but the product page explains that you can “go loud” with only 5 watts – which makes the level of clarity higher because they can be ...

According to Canadian researchers Dr. Neil Skjodt and Bill Hodgetss MP3 players with built in microphones make for a better stethoscope. Why? Because the plastic shell that they are encased in makes capturing low resonance notes easier. They can also record the sounds – which allows for file archiving and the the ability for far away experts to analyze a ...

Outside of that whole nude pic thing with Vanessa Hudgens, I don’t have a lot of knowledge about the current High School Musical phenomenon. Sufficed to say that the word “musical” is usually a turn-off for me – and so is this HSM themed carry bag. You can plug the bag into any portable music source and play your tunes ...

London based design firm Conran and Partners has taken an old acoustic guitar and repurposed it as a unique iPod dock / stereo combo in preparation for this week’s Deptford Design Market Challenge (London: September 15-27th). The goal is to redesign discarded thrift store objects into something new and exciting – and by the looks of things this hack manages ...

Picture this. You and your significant other really want to produce some amateur porn, but having friends and family accidentally see it on the internet is holding you back. Since you might not be the most literate person in the ways of Photoshop, there must be a way to censor your faces without having to deal with all of that ...

British scientists have claimed that they have done the impossible. They say they have created a compact device that can create energy out of nothing. This thermal energy cell could one day soon be placed into homes, and could significantly decrease power consumption. The hard part is actually explaining how it works. The scientists who created the device even have ...

We have all heard the stories about childhood obesity and how parents often blame the problem on distractions like television and video games. However, Denver-based iTech Fitness aims to turn those distractions into solutions with their new line of XRKade gyms for kids. XRKades mix physical activity and video games to make exercising more fun and engaging. In order to ...

As you can see from the image above, this keyboard from A1Pro features a built in touch pad with stylus. Naturally you think – “handwriting recognition eh? That could be pretty fuckin’ awesome.” Unfortunately, we are not sure what the exact functionality of the pad is outside of a listing on the product site that refers to a “handwritten identity ...

A phonewatch certainly sounds cool, but just how practical is that? Sticking your head to the wrist to listen and shouting like a dork to reply? That just doesn’t work. Oh, and how can you live without a keypad, dial with the buttons on the side? The C1000 a-la-China is probably the first device that seems to have solved all ...