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This gag is disgusting, cool, and very funny all at the same time. A guy has cobbled together a remote control after being inspired by a chair that Tweets when you fart and an Arduino remote control to play a gag on his dad. The guy rigged up a remote control for the TV using [...]

If you are a computer enthusiast, you know that keeping your hardware cool inside your computer chassis can be a difficult thing if you have lots of high-end stuff inside your rig. You need lots of fans and typically that means a bunch of black plastic fans that make a lot of noise. Sharkoon has [...]

There are already a number of notebooks on the market that support 3D gaming and films. Many of those notebooks use the NVIDIA 3D Vision system, which uses active glasses. There are some systems on the market that use cheaper passive glasses though. MSI is said to be getting a 3D notebook ready for launch [...]

Reports are coming in that the Droid X’s popularity may be causing more than shortages of the device on the Verizon Wireless network. Verizon has reportedly stated that the average Droid X user consumes five times more data than other smartphone users. AT&T announced similar stats for iPhone users and then moved into lamenting how [...]

Keeping your data backed up constantly on your computer doesn’t mean you have to have a big external storage drive beside your computer or on your desk taking up space. You can back your computer up to a small flash drive if you get the right device. Lexar has unveiled a new flash drive that [...]

You might recall that back in January we mentioned the MiniPak HydroFill hydrogen fuel cell cartridge that uses a small tank called the HydroStik filled with hydrogen to charge your gadgets. A new component to the system is going to ship next month called the HydroFill for $499.99. The HydroFill will ship on August 9 [...]

You may not be familiar with the Ceiva brand, but if you take lots of digital pictures, you should be. Ceiva makes some of the nicest digital photo frames on the market and has been for years. One of the coolest things about the more recent frames from the company is that they are web-connected. [...]

Back in April, we talked about the BDXL format specifications going official. BDXL specs allow for Blu-ray discs with much higher storage capacity than traditional Blu-ray discs we get movies on. The BDXL specification allows for discs of 100GB and 128GB capacity. Sharp has announced that it will be offering the first BDXL discs in [...]

One of the coolest things about Star Wars and the Jedi Knights was that they could control people with the Jedi mind trick, well except for Jaba the Hut and that flying thing in the new films. A company called Jedi Mind makes some different software and hardware that allows gamers to control games with [...]

There are a huge amount of Symbian S60 devices on the market globally today. The smartphone OS has been pushed by Nokia for a long time and is still one of the top smartphone platforms even though we hear more about Android and iOS4 today. Opera announced today that a new beta version of the [...]

If you are a big time gamer on the Xbox 360 or the PS3, you may have had problems with grip on the analog sticks at one point or another. I’ve played games for hours on end before and never had hands so sweaty that I couldn’t grip the analog stick on the PS3 controller [...]

If you are anything like me, you have fought with a USB port on more than one occasion when your flash drive or other device just didn’t want to plug in. I end up flipping it over several times in an attempt to plug the thing in and end up wondering why the port won’t [...]