Simple in design, perfect in execution, we bring you Santiago Cantera's Escape Clock. No tiny snooze buttons to fumble with here dozy Joe, just one big key that shuts off the alarm when meeting the business end of a morning beef hammer. Set it on edge and you've switched from alarm clock mode to an in-room stereo. The worst part? It's just a concept... for now.[Via Design Launches]Escape Clock...

The update to the Google Mobile iPhone app with voice-driven search is now available, and while I think it’s more gimmicky than useful overall, it’s certainly interesting. If you don’t have an iPhone, at least watch the demo video — my favorite part of the app are the sound effects it makes when it’s ready for you to dictate a voice query and finished processing your query. These sounds are jus...

High speed photography used to be the domain of the super geeky or nuclear scientists but with the rise of cheap and very good digital SLRs, anyone can give it a go. To assist you there is the Universal Timer, a 3-in-1 high speed photography timer with a bevy of [...]

OK, so it's not really called SpongeBob Speaker Pants, but it should be. The SpongeBob Speakers and Sponge Dock, from Npower, is a fun way to play any of your digital audio players or computer. SpongeBob comes with two eyeball speakers, which can sit inside the foam dock or taken out to sit on a flat surface. The eyeballs don't just sit though: They can roll around with your music. You have...

The updated Google Mobile app which features voice recognition is now finally available. You can download it through the App Store and it’s compatible with both the iPhone and iPod Touch though the voice-recognition feature only works on the iPhone. The video above shows you how easy it is to use the voice-based search of the Google Mobile app and the other new features this latest iteration c...

Apple on Tuesday began taking orders for its new $900, 24-inch LED cinema display, which will begin shipping later this month. Marketed as a companion for your Mac notebook, the display includes a universal MagSafe power adapter for the MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. The screen connects to the notebooks through a Mini Display Port. When Apple announced the LED cinema display in Octob...

Open source database vendor Ingres unveiled Ingres Database 9.2 on Tuesday, the first major release of the venerable software in more than a year.A number of improvements center on improving availability and easing system recovery, providing additional tools for developers and better multi-language support, for companies using the software to deploy applications across the globe.[ Track the lat...

This lightweight speaker connects to MP3 players, PDAs and other digital products using a 3.5mm stereo audio plug, and it can be folded to easily fit in your pocket. Features: Pocket Size, easy storage Suitable for any MP3/MP4, PMP, iPod device with 3.5mm stereo plug With Power On/Off Switch With Power indicator Using 2 x AAA Batteries (Battery not included) Can use external power supply 5V...

This ball jointed bendy man juxtaposed against a yellow triangular caution sign is certainly worth the $12 bucks, just to put him in some of the poses seen above. To the left, a perennial Haight Street favorite, the "Keep On Truckin'" caution sign. To the right, a stern warning concerning the dangers of marauding breakdancers. Stickman Action Figure [Think Geek via OhGizmo!]

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) incentive was a success last year in spite of lacking a major outlet for getting the orders in.  This program produces and sells the cheap ($199) laptops and combined with the Buy 1 Get 1 for yourself promotion distributed 160,000 laptops to developing countries in 6 months.  The program this year is kicking off now and the OLPC group has partnered wit...

Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 netbook has been the recipient of a storage upgrade in Japan, together with a few new splashes of color.  As of Tuesday November 18th, the 8.9-inch netbook will be available with red and pink lids, as well as the original white and black options.  The storage change, meanwhile, is in the shape of the “Platinum Package” which throws out the standard flash memory in favor o...

A Sony Ericsson fanboy, Razec, has created his concept about mid-end Xperia version. The concept is first posted in Esato. Mid-end here means smaller screen size and smaller number of features. Still the concept phone will be powered by Windows Mobile. Codenamed as Sora, the idea is due to dissapointment of new Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 price tag. Xperia X1 may be charged as high as US$ 800. Def...

Mobile phone chip firm Arm signs up with Canonical to put Ubuntu software on smartphones and low cost laptops.

The Korean manufacturer announced last month, the M1 EDU, a news PMP (Dual Core CPU) running on WinCe 5.0 with a 3.5” touchscreen LCD, Digital TV (DMB), FM Radio, as well as being compatible with different Video Codec (Mpeg 1 to 4, WMV, AVI…) as well as MP3 or WMA files. Available in either 8 or 16GB our PMP receive a SD slot which will let you access to your photo ...

AOL Video will stop supporting user uploads next month, showing once again that hosting video is a thankless, expensive, and undifferentiated task. According to an upcoming letter to users published by TechCrunch, AOL is telling video uploaders to transfer their clips to Motionbox, the startup that’s stayed focused on the personal video market even as others have high-tailed it out or diversifi...

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is launching their second annual Give 1, Get 1 campaign. Starting today, Americans and Europeans can buy an XO for themselves for $399 on Amazon.com, while at the same time giving a child of the developing world an XO of their own. Those who just want to give a laptop [...]

(Credit: ADD) Things may be getting a little more stylish up on the DMZ (the Korean Demilitarized Zone) when Republic of Korea troops don their new high-tech battle uniforms. Accessories could include bulletproof helmets and a new assault rifle. The Agency for Defense Development will begin the two-phase development on ... Originally posted at...

Andy Baio is trying to reverse-engineer how the Google Mobile app’s voice search works. (That the audio files being sent from the iPhone to Google’s servers are only 100-300 bytes helps explain why it’s so much faster than I expected it to be.)  ★ 

What if you took the REDFLY -- you know, that Foleo-like thing for Windows Mobile phones -- and cheapened it up a bit? Maybe knock the luxurious 8.3-inch display down to a more reasonable 7 inches, lose three hours of battery life, and add $30 to the asking price, for starters? That's the indecent proposal Celio has put together with its new C7 model, trading endurance and screen size for an e...

Last month, Plantronics held a contest called TeleWho?, "to coin a new, more accurate and relevant term for professionals who work beyond the office." The winner: Cloudworker, sent in by Venkatesh Rao of Ribbonfarm.com. Even though it sounds like Lobot's job on Bespin (he worked for Lando... c'mon, that's not that obscure a reference...), I can get behind the name far more than I could supp...

If our 'How to...' post on a Web site that makes your digital photos look vintage wasn't authentic enough for you, you'll be happy to see this DIY project. A rudimentary pinhole camera-like structure built out of foam board and placed right on top of a flatbed scanner makes for some great Daguerreotype-style vintage snaps... This brilliant little DIY comes from Make magazine. The results ...

You know the drill: for $399 you buy one OLPC XO laptop and a second is sent to a child somewhere in the developing world. Same deal as last year only now with the help of Amazon's powerful retail reach. Devices begin shipping in about 30 days -- a bit longer outside the US. Naturally you can also just gift the $199 laptop direct to a kid of OLPC's choosing. About the quickest way to become a ...

A trick that exploits the difference in temperature between seawater near the surface and deep down could supply the world with cheap green power

Despite problems with NASA's Phoenix lander, the Sun's rays could match nuclear power for powering a human base on Mars, say energy specialists

Time no longer stands still with a new kind of photo display that lets dark and light in a photograph vary realistically as the Sun moves

If you thought your photos could not be traced back to you, think again - digital cameras leave a telltale "fingerprint" every shot

The garage, also known as "car hole" in some circles, has traditionally been a somewhat wasted space. Aside from holding vehicles for a few hours of the day, it's often a crap collector, the place for rusty saws and tangled Christmas lights. Electronic House has assembled a list of five garages that have transcended the status quo to home theater status. This particular theater was converted fr...

We already know most of what there is to know about USB 3.0—officially dubbed SuperSpeed USB—but today it's officially set in stone. To recap, with transfer speeds of 4.8Gbps, it'll dump a 25GB HD file in about 70 seconds, and the architecture has been beefed up with extra data lanes to make for more sustained, rather than bursty transfer speeds, making it better for camcorders and ...

Risking a spacetime paradox that could destroy the entire Universe, a Japanese guy has devised a way to naturally grow Fuji apples with the Apple logo on them. His technique is very simple: Apply an Apple sticker (or iPod or Appleish Heart) a month before harvesting. I knew girls who apply stickers while tanning to get temporal sun tattoos, but I never heard of this technique to do the same th...

This one's more for the IT dudes, but is interesting as an indication of how we may see more speed squeezed out of the 802.11n wi-fi spec: a new enterprise access point from Proxim uses two 802.11n radios simultaneously, effectively doubling throughput to 320 Mbps (a single wireless N radio maxes out at around 170 Mbps). But it can't just be that simple, right? No. The bottleneck in a setup lik...

It's like a geek soap opera. Just last week, Cray bragged that their updated Jaguar XT supercomputer was the world's fastest. Now this week, IBM responds to the trash talk with a number one ranking of their Roadrunner system on the newly published Top500 supercomputing list. Both the IBM and Cray systems break the petaflop processing barrier according to Top500 measurements (1.45 petaflops vs 1...

With all of the communication technology we have at our disposal today, good old fashioned Morse code is all but forgotten. However, I can see it making a comeback in a big way if these "Sector Compass Torch" watches take off. A small flashlight is embedded into the side of the watch and can be used to deliver messages along with the complete chart of international Morse code that is printed on...

Instructables user noahw used an Epilog etcher to lase an imprint of his hands and forearms, eternally vigilant in home row position, onto the top case of his PowerBook G4. Noah says that typing on top of his own hands is "a little freaky" (as is the brownish mildewy patina on the etched keys, ahem) but if you are looking for something to bring your Mavis Beacon score up the extra five points y...