Monthly Archives: August 2006

Poseidon Resorts

This one’s not fully tech, but it employs undersea technology that’s so cool, we figured it deserved a spot here. For Asians who can’t wait to get away from urban city life to the great beyond, here’s a resort with a difference. Rather than enjoy some R&R by the seaside, why not spend your vacation [...]

SanDisk Sansa e280 MP3 Player

The world’s highest-capacity flash-memory MP3 player — for now Original post by TIME.com Gadget of the Week

DTech 52-in-1 Card Reader

We’ve heard of 9-in-1 card readers. But 52?! Any suspicion that it’s a prank was dispelled when it checked out fine at online Hong Kong store Brando. It’s not only a card reader, it also doubles as a Bluetooth dongle. For all 52 supported memory cards, take a deep breath…. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com (Juniper [...]

A Robot That Walks Like a Gorilla

Our three-part series on cheap, plastic robots concludes with the Robotikits Jungle Robot, a stump of voice-activated plastic and metal that resembles an encephalitic R2-D2. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com (Juniper Foo)

Tetrius Magnet Set

Love the game. Now love the magnet set which Moscovite Art Lebedev has adapted from the classic computer puzzle game that had us so addicted to conquering the never-ending stream of falling blocks back in the 1990s. Here’s a little trivia: Tetris in Greek translates roughly to “four”, which translates to the four segments that [...]