LED lamp powered by the telephone jack |
Here’s something you don’t see everyday. This eco-friendly LED lamp gets it’s power directly from the socket that usually connects to your land line phone. The lamp has 8 LEDs bright enough to serve your needs, whatever they may be.
The best part is that it won’t increase your electricity bill. Yes it looks like a piece of cheap plastic crap and it is, costing only $4.70, but hey it’s powered by your phone jack. That’s good enough for us.


So you drive around in an Gremlin, but what you really want is a Porsche or a Ferrari. Unfortunately you can’t afford one. Which is why you are in your little bucket of rust. Well, the Soundracer can help. It won’t convert your heap into a sportier car, but it will plug into your car’s cigarette lighter port, and use an FM transmitter to play real V8 or V10 engine sound effects to the stereo.
All you want for Christmas is an iPhone for yourself right? But it’s too expensive, what with all of the other gifts you need to buy. How does an 8GB iPhone 3GS for $99 sound?
The Motorola Droid is one of the hottest phones we’ve seen in quite some time, so we aren’t surprised to see all kinds of deal-hunters scouring the Internet for better pricing on the phone. Who wants to go through the hassle of waiting for a mail-in rebate anyway?
We knew that
Myka is bringing Hulu, Boxee and NVIDIA ION graphics to the table with the Myka ION. Apparently, Myka goes beyond Hulu and Boxee allowing you to run other full PC applications like XBMC and “browse to any web site and play video content directly onto your TV.”
It’s the perfect weekend to build your very own Bluetooth Star Trek communicator, so you can stay in touch with the folks on the Enterprise. You don’t want to get stranded on a foreign planet do you? This project will take a little skill, so just be aware that you’ll have to cut a circuit-board, drill some holes, add a serial port, a Bluetooth module, and a microcontroller.
It’s time for the weekly robot roundup. So what have we been doing this week over at
Panasonic has unveiled their latest iPod docks from their D-Dock series. Dubbed the Panasonic SC-HC4 and HC3, these slim iPod docking stations pack in a digital amplifier delivering 20Watts × 2 channels output, an AM/ FM tuner, CD player and a SD card slot.
Verizon Wireless has unveiled the LG Chocolate Touch that packs a touchscreen LCD display, a 3.2-megapixel camera with built in digital zoom and a bunch of software editing features.
Samsung’s Jack smartphone will be getting a Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade. That means an upgraded Internet Explorer, with Flash support along with Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
idox has a new range of cases for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPod Nano, dubbed the idox Traveler series. This range of cases is designed to be used as a case for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPod Nano, while acting as a stand so you can watch your favorite movies while on the go.
The Alcatel One Touch Mini is rolling out in Spain, aimed at Spanish youth. And so the phones are affordable and feature packed and bright.








