VIA THE REMOTE ISLAND: There's a very funny little telephone complication caused by Idol taking Anoop Desai as its 13th finalist... You see, when American Idol asks viewers to vote for finalists, they generally have them call one of twelve numbers, which range from 1-866-436-5701 to 1-866-436-57...

Filed under: Audio/Video, iPod For some reason, whenever gadgetry and smiling cross paths, things tend to get a little creepy. Where the smile trainer was mostly a curiosity, the Orwellian implications of the Okao Catch technology were a bit much -- even for the hardened tech blogger. Sure, the Mimi...

VIA THE REMOTE ISLAND: Like Jenny Schecter, The L Word met its merciful end last night. (Except, Dear Sweet Pregnant Man - there are rumors of a movie.)  There were revelations of just how manipulative and evil Jenny Schecter had been, and the question "Who killed Jenny" got no clear ...

For some reason, whenever gadgetry and smiling cross paths, things tend to get a little creepy. Where the smile trainer was mostly a curiosity, the Orwellian implications of the Okao Catch technology were a bit much -- even for the hardened tech blogger. Sure, the Mimi Switch is quite clever: instea...

VIA THE REMOTE ISLAND: In other news, geeks worldwide have started spontaneously bursting into flames. Connection? Hmm... Click through for the SFW video and see for yourself... IF YOU DARE!!! Read more......

I grew up with old-school email tools in Linux. The primary tool I used was Pine. Pine was simple, elegant, reliable, and insanely fast and lightweight. Of course Pine was a text-based email client only. To view graphics or html you had to invoke an external application. Pine also wasn’t a ...

Behold the MEGAREMOTE! Actually, roll onto it, because you can't hold it: It's made with two flexible Dance Dance Revolution mats for the PlayStation 2, hacked to control Windows Media Center with......

I love the ingenuity of this solution to one of the biggest cancers of modern technology: A/V remotes' complexity. And with "complexity" I mean "stupidity." My mom loves it. [Designing Interactions......

The TV Remote Control with Speaker is a tiny cube that flips open to reveal a sinister-looking set of control buttons with a decidedly retro-looking speaker hovering just above. It's hard to understand why ELPA thought this was a good idea--but it looks cool! You can pick up your master of the unive...

The economy's rough. So the price you want to store is files is free, right? Of course that's the right price in this environment. Anything else would be too much. Well, free it is. At least for storing your personal files. Now mind you, this means electronic files. Warning: don't haul your cardboar...