Ninjas Archive

  • Quick Look: Kempler & Strauss W Phone Watch

    Quick Look: Kempler & Strauss W Phone Watch

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Do you dream of jet boots and ninjas from space? Sure, we all do. Well, the future just arrived in my mailbox, friends, and it's the Kempler & Strauss W Phone Watch, an unlocked GSM phone inside a watch. Is it amazing, you ask? Does it come with a jet pack, you ask? The answers are "Yes" and "No." The phone is about as big as a Garmin GPS watch and has a touchscreen and small camera. I'm going to wear this thing for a few days and report back on how it feels to wear the entire world on your wrist but this far it seems to work fine. The screen is amazingly hard to type on without a little stylus, but it's fun to try. Interestingly, you can even make and take calls without a headset. How much does it cost? $199, friends, and it's available for pre-order now. While it will never replace the standard phone, it's nice to be able to tell people to talk to the hand. Or talk to the wrist. Or whatever. Click through for video Quick Look.

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  • Ninjas unbox the Nexus One

    Ninjas unbox the Nexus One

    Posted on January 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Yes, ninjas. What’s next? The Predator unboxing the Moto CLIQ?

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  • Rumor: T-Mobile working on secret ‘Project Dark’ strategy

    Rumor: T-Mobile working on secret ‘Project Dark’ strategy

    Posted on October 13, 2009 | No Comments
    If you love irony, you’ve come to the right post. In one corner, we have Microsoft working on / killing off a secret scheme known as Project Pink. Now, in another corner, there is rumor of T-Mobile, the defenders of all things pink (well, magenta to be exact), working on its own secret strategy known [...]

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  • WinMo 6.5 powered HTC Imagio coming to Verizon Oct. 6?

    WinMo 6.5 powered HTC Imagio coming to Verizon Oct. 6?

    Posted on September 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Nothing like a hot rumor to get your Friday going. Word on the street is that a new WinMo 6.5 packin’, HTC smartie named Imagio is coming to Verizon on October 6. As this is the very same day WinMo 6.5 is officially hitting the mobilesphere, the speculation seems all that much more legitimate. According to [...]

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  • Sort of live at the Panasonic press conference at IFA

    Sort of live at the Panasonic press conference at IFA

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    I was sitting quietly in the Panasonic Press conference when I discovered that Sprint was releasing the Hero so I ran back to the press room. I’m glad I did. The other ninjas I’m here with Gartenberg and Rubin, are Twittering from the conference and I think this slide shows exactly what you can expect [...]

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  • Ninja Star Coat Hook strikes a death blow to clutter

    Ninja Star Coat Hook strikes a death blow to clutter

    Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
    ninjaThe path of the Ninja is a deadly one, my friends. It's also relatively clean. They don't like clutter. Very fastidious -- almost like cats. So it should come as no surprise that all your Ninja friends probably use these Ninja Star Coat Hooks.

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  • Video: Damien Walters flails about in Ninja-like wonderment

    Video: Damien Walters flails about in Ninja-like wonderment

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Yow. When I first saw the above video I was like, “Who the hell’s been following me around on the weekends and filming me?” Then I was like, “Oh, that’s not me. It’s a guy named Damien Walters. Also, I tend to sit quite still most weekends.” At any rate, this is Parkour meets Ninjitsu, [...]

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  • iRobot’s new Roomba patent could clean those hard to reach areas, get stuck there

    iRobot’s new Roomba patent could clean those hard to reach areas, get stuck there

    Posted on May 26, 2009 | No Comments

    When most kids our age were cutting class to play Mike Tyson's Punch Out, the latch key kids over at Robot Stock News were taking apart their step father's vacuum. And as we grew up, all the while developing relationships with cellphone tipsters and eventually becoming successful tech bloggers in our own right, the Robot Stock News kids were also able to take their obsessive geek tendencies and make a name for themselves -- combing the interwebs, paying off high priced vacuum ninjas, and scouring the US Patent database for any and all news featuring many of our country's leading autonomous vacuum cleaners. They must have been really stoked to stumble upon a patent filed in November 2008, entitled "Compact Autonomous Coverage Robot." As far as we can tell, this document (filed by iRobot) details a Roomba with a squared off front, designed to hit those hard to reach corners that the traditional circular device cannot. This design change, while it seems minor, actually lends a level of complexity to the device: a square robot requires more complex programming, lest it get stuck in a niche that its round faced predecessor could never reach in the first place. Of course, there's no telling when (or if) this one will see the light of day, but you'll know as soon as we do. Promise.

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