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Category Archives: gadgetry

Small, Pretty, Hybrid, Cars

Hybridcars has a post up detailing more information on some cars we’ll be seeing from Honda in next two years:
The first new dedicated hybrid vehicle, due in 2009, will be offered as a 5-door hatchback with seating for five passengers and will employ an exterior design concept that evokes the FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle. With [...]

Metal Gear iPod? (Updated)

Shacknews has screenshots depicting Metal Gear Solid 4’s newly-revealed in-game product placement campaign.
Update: Shacknews now has news that MGS4 is gold, and the clarification that the iPod feature allows players to play music found within the game.

Ikea Pax wardrobe-cum entertainment center

Like much of the first worlds’ over-fed population, last year I went out and indulged in a flat-screen television. Consequently, like the rest of flat-screen T.V. buyers I found out that my old C.R.T.–based entertainment center was inadequate for the new wideness of L.C.D.
The temporary (over a year) solution was to simply put the [...]

Sony MDR-NC6 Noise-Cancelling Headphones

I bought these just before getting on an 11-hour plane ride to California from Seoul. Unfortunately, they don’t include the AAA battery needed for the noise canceling functionality, but they were handy for the plane ride none-the-less.
Why were they useful on the plane still? Well, the NC6 headphones retained some noise-blocking functionality even though they [...]