Our friends at Boy Genius Report has a source that found out that the Samsung Smooth phone will be hitting Verizon Wireless on April 1st. This is according to an internal memo sent to staff members. The picture above is of the Samsung Smooth U-350 which is the successor to the U-340. This phone will have 128×160 65K color TFT display, 1xRTT support, Bluetooth, and GPS. The phone has arrived in several stores already and it will cost about $30 with a 2 year contract and $50 mail in rebate. The phonebook can store a hefty 1,000 contacts.
Banpresto, a subsidiary company of Bandai has created a mini shaking hip device that is powered by USB. Even though this device is the exact opposite of sexy, it is being offered in four different colors in Japan starting in June. I guess that it was entertaining enough for people to want variety. They cost about $15.
Several companies are now starting to prefer employees to work from home in order to save money and time. The problem with working at home are all the distractions such as pets, calls made on your landline, and personal chores. This is where the OfficePOD concept comes in. The OfficePOD has a small space in the form of a cubicle with a large window and it is placed outside.
The OfficePOD has just enough space to fit your computer, a desk, desk chair, phone, printer, shelves etc. in it. OfficePOD will start leasing the units in the United Kingdom for about $7,100 per year.
Rotundo, a reader at Kotaku has used about $40 in spare parts and two shoeboxes to build a couple of Nike shoe boxes into video game controllers. Rotundo bought a couple Happy joysticks and 14 buttons for $35. Then he took apart some Xbox controllers to wire the device together. The blue box above is actually wireless too.
Ulysse Nardin recently announced the Chairman hybrid smart phone and left it for display at BASELWORLD. The Chairman has a 2.8″ multitouch screen, a finger print reader to unlock the phone, 5 megapixel camera, WiFi, e-mail application, and a web browser. There is also a kinetic rotor system to charge the phone. The phone is available in colors Rose Gold, Rose Gold & Blue, Rose Gold & Steel, Stealth Black and Steel & Blue.
No word on price and availability yet. However there is a preorder page available for the phones.
The Helms’ SoundBuddy II K999B Mini 2.1 Digital Audio System looks very sleek. Its painted a glossy black and it really makes your iPod look stylish standing up. But the sound quality has not been getting good reviews. The device costs $140, requires four AA batteries, and can play for about 10 hours. iLounge reported “the highs and mids sound flattened and radio-like, with some treble sibilance and seeming distortion at normal listening levels. Somewhat amazingly, even the bass turns out to be anemic at its maximum level.”
Before you cough up the money for this just based on looks, make sure that you know what you are getting yourself into when it comes to sound quality.
Over the weekend, The Huffington Post (HuffPo) reported that they will be hiring a group of investigative journalists to report about the economy exclusively. HuffPo is working with The Atlantic Philanthropies and several other donors to launch the Huffington Post Investigative Fund with a budget of about $1.75 million.
That is enough for Huffington to hire about 10 staff journalists to focus on the economy. The work provided by these journalists will also be available for any publication that wants to syndicate it. “All of us increasingly have to look at different ways to save investigative journalism,” stated Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the website.
Even though HuffPo skews to be more liberal, they said that the newly formed economy-focused aspect of the website will be nonpartisan.
Don’t you hate it when guests stink up your bathroom right before leaving. Well actually that problem never really happens to me often, but I’m sure that it happens to a lot of folks out there. With this prank, Tinkles the Toilet Cat pops out of the toilet when someone opens the lids.
Tinkles latches on the underside of the toilet seat rim and it uses suction cups. Cleaning the cat after playing the prank on guests is probably the only part of this whole affair not being fun.
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