Forget all those silly iPod carriers, you know you’d be the only hipster toting your iPod in this baby. The Rock Steady Stereo Beat bag comes in 7 color combinations and includes a 2.1 XPA stereo system and bass boost subwoofer—all powered by 4 AA batteries. And yes, it works with any MP3 player, but … Continued

You may feel a little squeamish about going through this body scanner, but that’s the way things are going these days. And though it may dig into the whole privacy thing, you’ll find this piece of test equipment up and running at London’s Paddington station. Now it’s not just bags that will pass through it, … Continued

So if you didn t already know, Nintendo is planning to make the Revolution almost universally backward compatible. They are doing this by offering a downloading service. IGN has some glimpses of one of the possible GUI mockups and some information how this downloading service will work. Right now there are three consoles being proposed: … Continued

Still Waiting for that Precious Beep By Brendan I. Koerner To my tremendous chagrin, these friends of my mom bought me a Christmas gift—a hopelessly ugly porcelain plate rimmed with shells and starfish and other nautical tidbits. As if lugging the blasted thing across three time zones weren’t pain enough, I also felt compelled to … Continued

Remember Total Recall, with good old Arnold—when he was still a moviestar? The first scene showed this real cool digital wall/mega-TV thingy I will never forget. Visiting the future zone at the ground floor of the Panasonic Center Tokyo was a flashback to that scene. In the special presentation room is a wall-size, huge screen … Continued

Macworld Senior Editor Chris Breen hosted “MacBrainiac Challenge V: A New Beginning,” where two teams competed to see how much Mac info they had stored in their highly specialized brains—or Googled on the team Macs and ganked an answer from Wikipedia. Team Smart Folders, headed by Jason Snell, vied with Team Force Quit, led by … Continued

Here’s a tight piece of Lego machinery, a machine that knits stuff. It’ll knit you a scarf, some knickers, or anything it damn well pleases. Made by Tom Johnson, the knitting machine is based on the Lego Technic sets. It works a bit slowly, but that adds an even creepier robotic, Matrix-esque feel to it. … Continued

Ok, maybe this isn’t for those of you sporting a $17,000 Rolex, but if you’ve been toting around some shitty watch for years in order to tell time, you may be happy to hear that watches seem to be going the way of the sundial. And all because of the cellphone, believe it or not. … Continued

There are two ways of looking at fat in America: either we are too obsessed with it, or not nearly obsessed enough. This lovely HM7000 scale from Citizen fits in the latter category. It not only measures fat, but the fat levels of your internal organs, basal metabolic rate, inner body age (say what?), amount … Continued

Yeah, next-generation DVD was all the rage at CES, but let us not forget the other cool DVD stuff we may have overlooked. Like the Panasonic DVD-LS91, DVD-LX97 and the DVD-LX110—three widescreen portable DVD players with SD Memory Card slots, a wicked adjustable arm to change the angle of the screen, as well as the … Continued

JVC-Victor has announced the wireless headphone system HP-ALW600. This has got to be one of the lightest infrared headsets made, weighing only 2.8 oz. The company is playing up some newfangled ear hook that makes these cans more comfortable for long listening stretches. The second set of phones are the HP-W120. These are slightly heavier … Continued

It’s the same deal every May: I visit Ceiva hoping that they have finally improved on their digital picture frames enough that I can buy one for mom. And every year I’m disappointed, because the Ceiva still has an internal modem that gets jacked into the phone line. Plus, you have to use the “Ceiva … Continued

Yesterday everyone doggy-piled on the iTab, an iBook hardware hack that was put to auction on eBay. Naturally, this limited edition series of 100 iTabs did not meet with eBay’s standards. Did this surprise anyone? Today there is a new auction, starting bid $1,500 (zero bidders so far). The folks behind the iTab, ThePlaceforitAll, have … Continued

Google here, Google there, let’s face it, Google’s pretty much everywhere. And now, we can expect to see it on our Blackberrys as well. Looks like Blackberry devices will soon be equipped with local search and maps from Google as well as Google Talk, according to Research in Motion. Right now, Blackberry users can get … Continued

Small Dog Electronics has come out with the Hippod iPod case, a damn ugly pouch you wear on your hip. It’s a basic case designed to keep your iPod protected from drops and the elements, so nothing new there. But it does come with an external speaker for broadcasting your Best of Dire Straits album … Continued

This is a hell of an idea, especially for dorms or small spaces (like my first apartment, where I could actually cook right from my bed). The all-in-one cooking sink by Kohler actually has a stovetop built into the sink, spacious enough to put a large pot on, but not big enough to make it … Continued

You probably haven’t heard too much about Pantech, unless you follow phones from Asia, but at CES, the company finally showed some phones it will be producing just for the US. There’ won’t be a Pantech logo on these entry level phones, but they’ll be available from Verizon. The PN-215 is a very basic camera … Continued

How ’bout that. After years of the same players in the cellular service business, it looks like someone else is joining the fray. Boeing, of all companies, has ordered over $500 million worth of satellites to build what will eventually become a new satellite-cellular communications network. The order came from Mobile Satellite Ventures, and under … Continued

While many—say, for example, a Northeastern bachelor farmer from the 1880s sending away to the Sears Catalog for a wife—may not know the difference between anime and hentai, I’m sure many of you do. However, Amazon, like that bachelor farmer, is unaware of this distinction and, most importantly, children looking for a copy of Akira … Continued

Rain Design, makers of the iLap and iWoofer, are selling an iLevel, “a new laptop stand that will will ‘raise’ laptop use comfort to another ‘level’.” https://gizmodo.com/bass-in-your-face-iwoofer-145632 The sales copy hurts me as much as it does you, but its adjustable slant adds a dynamic twist to the usual line of desktop laptop elevators. The … Continued