Feet Archive

  • GM to offer in-car wi-fi access starting next year

    GM to offer in-car wi-fi access starting next year

    Taking wi-fi hotspots to the extreme, GM has announced that certain models of their vehicles will feature Autonet, a mobile wi-fi solution built into your car and designed to provide you internet access no matter where you are. It's only going in certain models, but you can probably get one for that old Monte Carlo if you really want to.

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  • T-Mobile goes unlimited + no contract with ‘Even More Plus’ plans

    T-Mobile goes unlimited + no contract with ‘Even More Plus’ plans

    T-Mobile jumps feet first into the no-contract, unlimited everything arena with its new “Even More Plus” plans, ranging from $30 per month for 500 voice minutes to $80 per month for unlimited voice minutes, text messages, and internet access. Family plans are also available for between $50 and $140 per month.

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  • Bose hops on the wireless streaming bandwagon

    Bose hops on the wireless streaming bandwagon

    Wireless has always been the new exciting thing in consumer electronics. Remote controls, game console controllers, Sony's <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/05/sony-develops-cord-free-power-transfer-system-for-home-electronics/"wireless power transfer, and now Bose is getting in on the action. The latest in their Wave System series, SoundLink allows you to stream audio to the unit from your computer.

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  • Breaking: A six-year-old is trapped in a homemade helium balloon over Denver [UPDATE]

    Breaking: A six-year-old is trapped in a homemade helium balloon over Denver [UPDATE]

    Father-son projects are quite the American tradition. Everything from pine-box derby racers, to bike repairs, to experimental aircraft it seems. Wait what? The Denver Channel reports that 12:35 pm MDT today, authorities were tracking a 6-year-old boy at about 8,000 feet over Fort Collins, Colorado. Apparently the boy and his father had been building a “flying [...]

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  • Your “weight” for an internet-connected scale is over! Get it?

    Your “weight” for an internet-connected scale is over! Get it?

    The “WiFi Body Scale” from French company Withings records your weight and BMI and automatically uploads it to a secure website, which would be a lot easier to make fun of if it weren’t for Wii Fit, which does that stuff but doesn’t upload it anywhere.

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  • GorillaTorch: the magnetic flexible flashlight

    GorillaTorch: the magnetic flexible flashlight

    gorillatorch-01The crazy kids at Joby are at it again. Not content with the GorillaPod they made the GorillaMobile. But even that wasn't enough bendable fun for them! Now they've release the GorillaTorch - a super bright LED flashlight mounted atop the iconic Joby bendy legs. But this one adds magnets to the feet, making it even more useful!

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  • Tony Hawk: Ride to launch in three territories this year, everyone else will have to wait

    Tony Hawk: Ride to launch in three territories this year, everyone else will have to wait

    Waiting for Activision to drop launch details on Tony Hawk: Ride? I hope you live in the US, UK or Germany because if you don’t then you’re going to have to wait until 2010 to get your feet-on this game. Sucks to be outside those three countries if you’re waiting on Ride. Still no word [...]

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  • Review: BT-1 Bluetooth Webcam

    Review: BT-1 Bluetooth Webcam

    If there is one gadget that really caught my attention this year, besides the Palm Pre, was the BT-1 Bluetooth Webcam from Ecamm Network. The BT-1, which won Macworld Best of Show, has received much praise since its announcement at Macworld and I was quite excited to open it up and give it a try.

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  • Agfa Rises From the Depths with Cheap Underwater Camera

    Agfa Rises From the Depths with Cheap Underwater Camera

    Agfa, the troubled Belgian film and photo company, isn’t quite dead yet, and somebody, somewhere, has slapped the company’s logo onto a new waterproof camera and is offering it under the tagline “sporting submersion”. You may remember Agfa-Gavaert as a heavyweight imaging company. The medical and industrial side doesn’t concern us here, but Agfa made some [...]

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