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Japanese innovation. The Human Vending Machine is an oddity among a world engulfed with technological insight at every corner. This lo-fi vending machine, when compared to the Cmode vending machines of today which mix mobile phone technology with money transfer, might seems laughable, but we think it’s a strong statement. It might take you a few more minutes to get ...

  iRiver Japan announced the X20  multimedia player this afternoon. The X20 is reasonably small and light (98.5×49.0x14.8mm 71g), it spots a 2.2″ QVGA screen, stereo speaker and  micoSD slot.  The model will come in 2GB and 4GB, and to our excitement the company is also releasing a 8GB version that was not reported at CES.

We’ve all seen Bluetooth headsets for cellphones, we’ve also seen in-car speaker phone, a lot of us may also own an iTrip, now imagine putting all 3 together; you’ll end up listening to your own voice over the FM radio. Princeton Japan has announced this new in-car hands-free that borrows your car’s HiFi system as speaker for speaker phone, it ...

Shoes are a underrated importance of our everyday life. With the amount of time people are on their feet, us not included of course, peoples feet ache a lot more often then they admit too. The Good Vibrations Vibrating Shoes massage your feet and grant some relief to your constant erect position (sounds dirtier then meant). For $60, the rechargeable ...

Yamaha has been working on an interesting sound delivery technology with their sound systems, they call this the “Sound Beam”, which essentially is a more focused chain of sound wave adjusted to give the loudest intensity to the listener and the listener only. With that, you will still be able to listen to your music at a house party with ...

Some of the entertainment systems we’ve seen are a pure mess. The tangle of wires is not only an eyesore, but a safety and quality hazard. If you hate those balls of wires as much as we do, the NewSoft WMS100 Wireless Projector Adaptor could help you in taking care of that problem. The WMS100 links wirelessly to any projector ...

If you see someone on the street wearing headphones in front of the ears but not over the ears, that person is probably not crazy but probably the smartest dude around here, because he’s using Thanko’s Vonia bone conduction headphones. Instead of pumping sound into your ear canal, it relies on the part of temporal bone in front of your ...

The Olympus SP-550UZ, which we posted about in January, is a camera for the shy. You don’t have to be all that near to people to take some intimate looking photos. The SP-550UZ has a 18x optical zoom, a ridiculous amount. To put it in perspective, many mid-range point and shoots have a optical zoom of 3x. At the high ...

In our modern times of identity theft, phreaking, phone tapping, and lord knows what else, its good to feel secure with the people we talk too. The GSMK CryptoPhone is the secure answer for the PDA. The Tri-band phone runs Windows Mobile 5.0, has a 2.8 inch TFT LCD touchscreen, a 1.3 MP CMOS camera, and multimedia support for audio ...

We usually have our ladies do all the cleaning for us, since we seem so incapable of doing so ourselves. Those damn people at Brookstone are trying to ruin all of our fun.   They had to go and create this Ceiling Fan Duster to make the job easier. It makes those high places a snap to dust when you ...