Facial reconstruction technology is great for solving homicides and whatnot but it may have also found a weird, creepy niche in the personalized urn category. That’s right, just $2600 plus a couple good photographs and you, too, can keep your own ashes in your head.
If $2600 is too much for a full-sized reconstruction of your noggin, there’s also a smaller “keepsake” size available for just $600, designed “for holding just a portion of the ashes.” Please note that hair isn’t normally added to the reconstruction although it can be added digitally or you can use a wig. Wow.
Quick note to my family: I’m all for you doing this, should I meet my untimely demise. I’d just ask that you find a picture of me laughing or smiling, not a photo like the one above where the guy looks like he’s watching TV or peering creepily through a neighbor’s window.
Dude. Sweet. I don’t have kids, let alone anyone who really ever rides in the back seat of the car but if I did, I could easily justify a $130 outlay for not one, but two (two!) replacement headrests with built-in 7-inch LCD screens. Maybe I should just get these and then always ride in the back myself while the little lady handles the driving.
You get the following: two-pack of black leather headrests with built-in 7-inch LCDs (480×234 resolution), PAL and NTSC compatibility, two-channel input for watching two separate videos, and power consumption of just five watts. I’d have no idea how to install these things but I’m willing to bet there are a few of you who’d have no problem with such a project.
Available at Geeks.com — you can get free shipping by using promo code FREESHIP at checkout.
Hot on the heels of Belkin’s iPod shuffle adapter announcement yesterday, iLuv has announced a similar adapter of its own. It looks almost identical, albeit a bit more corner-y than Belkin’s round-ish offering and it’ll cost five bucks less — $14.99 versus $19.99.
It’ll be available in August (that’s almost here!). Now we wait for everyone and their mother to put out decreasingly-expensive knockoffs until eventually they all cost $2.99 like they should.
Full press release:
iLuv Debuts iEA15 iPod Remote Adapter for Any Third Party Earphones and Headphones
iEA15 Allows You to Listen and Control Your iPod
From Your Earphones & Headphones
PORT WASHINGTON, NY – (July 28, 2009) – iLuv, the leader in innovative audio solutions, debuts the iEA15 Headphone iPod Remote Adapter. The EA15 is a perfect solution for iPod music lovers looking for a way to control their iPod music playing functions without having to take it out of their pocket. The iEA15 headphone iPod remote adapter will be available in August for MSRP $14.99 at www.i-luv.com.
iPod users can attach the iEA15 remote adapter to any standard pair of earphones or headphones without sacrificing sound quality. The in-line remote allows complete control of your iPod without having to take it out of your pocket. This lightweight and ultra portable solution also supports the VoiceOver feature on the iPod shuffle 3rd generation and is easy to install, simply plug and play. The iEA15 is compatible with the iPod touch 2nd generation, iPod nano 4th generation, iPod classic 120GB and iPod shuffle 3rd generation.
“Our new headphone iPod remote adapter is the perfect solution for owners looking to have remote function capabilities” says Howard Kim for iLuv. “We are proud to add an iPod remote function to our wide array of audio solutions for iPod users.”
For more information on product specifications as well as pricing and availability please visit www.i-luv.com.
If you’ve been holding out for an affordably-price big box of thump for your humble abode, Amazon has a pretty good deal going on the Velodyne VRP1000 subwoofer for just over a hundred bucks and featuring free shipping.
It’s a 115-watt rear-port sub with a frequency response of between 35 and 140 Hz packed into a somewhat manageable 16.9″ by 15″ by 11.8″ and weighing just over 35 pounds. Might make a good addition to your home theater if you’re looking for a little more oomph.
Wow, this is impressive. An enterprising young man from a faraway land (the Czech Republic!) took an ordinary battery from an MSI Wind netbook and added a USB charging port to it. He can charge his iPhone twice over and the battery still works like normal in his MSI Wind. They should add USB charging ports to all batteries!
You’d have to be relatively comfortable with mod-trickery to attempt this one but if you’ve got the brass ones, here’s the how-to video that’s found over on the guy’s site.
Just a word of warning, the video’s underscored by four and a half minutes of European techno-funk break beats, as the guy who put this together is apparently a DJ.
My, my, what do we have here? Noise-canceling headphones for $8? That’s insanity in a box!
It’s true, though. Woot! is selling the Philips SHN2500 Active Noise Canceling Headphones for $7.99 plus $5 for shipping. They’re brand new, too — not refurbished.
Ewww, refurbished headphones! Actually, for eight bucks I’d probably look the other way. This deal is good today only, so get while the gettin’ is good.
Here’s a new one: Star Trek cologne. Called Red Shirt, it carries the tagline “Because tomorrow may never come.” I guess if you’re gonna die out in deep space, you might as well smell terrific.
Provided you think “terrific” smells like the following (according to ThinkGeek):
Bright, clean and direct with top notes of green mandarin, bergamot and a hint of lavender (your hope), finishing with base notes of leather and grey musk (your smoldering shoes after you’ve been vaporized).
The cologne costs $30 for a 100ml bottle, which actually isn’t too outrageous by cologne standards. Perhaps someone will make a designer imposters version for less someday, though. “Is that Star Trek you’re wearing?”
Remember the GP2X Wiz I wrote about a couple weeks ago? It’s been reviewed by Rob at Boing Boing Gadgets. The verdict: pricey, but pretty much totally worth it if you’ve got the moolah.
There’s apparently a little bit of framerate slowdown with more recently-released arcade and SNES games, for instance, but most of the old classics run like buttah. The thing is tiny, too — smaller than a Nintendo DS — while the screen remains bright and colorful and “the ambidextrous d-pad stylings of the buttons aren’t a problem.”
The 7-inch 800×480 Mimo monitor is a portable USB-powered display that’s easy to set up and use and ought to fit neatly in most laptop bags. At $130, it’s not outrageously priced, either, considering you’re getting a pretty capable second monitor that weighs just 1.3 pounds and requires only a single cable in order to operate.
Specs (from ThinkGeek’s product page):
Small monitor runs completely off of USB, giving you an extra mini display whenever and wherever you need it.
No extra power needed. The Mimo monitor is powered by USB.
No extra video card. The Mimo has a built in video card that runs over any USB 2.0 connection.
Rotating Portrait or Landscape view. Go vertical for notes and spreadsheets, horizontal to watch a movie.
Great for laptop use. The Mimo stores easily in your bag and is ready to go simply by plugging it in
Mac and Windows driver support (intel Mac only)
Display size – 7″
Display resolution – 800 x 480
Brightness – 350 cd/m2
Contrast ratio – 400:1
Connections – USB 2.0
Pros: I came away impressed, overall. The Mimo is a DisplayPort monitor, and I’ve run into some wonkiness with DisplayPort devices in the past. This time, though, setup was a breeze and the little monitor was easily able to play back video files from Hulu Desktop, which I didn’t think it would have been able to do cleanly.
The fact that there’s just a single USB connector makes the Mimo a truly special device. Notebook and netbook owners who find themselves wishing for a little extra desktop real estate for e-mail or Twitter or whatever it is you kids are into these days will find that the Mimo travels well and offers just enough additional space to help you remain productive without weighing your bag down too much.
The stand and monitor are both built solidly without being too heavy and the ability to position the screen horizontally and vertically is a huge plus.
Cons: Not too many here, folks. Some might be put off by the $130 price tag — you could get an actual big boy monitor for less — but the Mimo’s not meant to compete with traditional displays. The DisplayPort software sometimes doesn’t play nicely with 64-bit operating systems, especially the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (I couldn’t get it to work), but that’s hardly the fault of the product itself, as it doesn’t claim such support.
Overall: In a word: Impressive. I thought the thing would be more gimmicky than anything, but it works well and that extra 800×480 to play around with is perfect for loading up widgets, e-mail, video, music, and anything else that normally takes up space on your regular desktop.
More power to Apple and its legion of accessory makers. Asking people to pay $20 to use your own headphones with an $80 MP3 player is ballsy — brass ballsy. Such is the story of the new iPod shuffle, though, and I’m willing to bet that people will indeed pay for an inline headphone adapter.
If so, Belkin’s now got one for $19.99. Called, very simply, the Headphone Adapter for iPod Shuffle, it’s a 3.5mm plug that sits between your headphones and your iPod shuffle, and features the requisite controls for playing, pausing, skipping forwards and backwards, and invoking VoiceOver to hear the song title and artist read aloud.
Can’t fault Belkin for capitalizing on this gaping void that Apple’s created, although the $20 price tag might be a lot easier to stomach if it were, say, $10. Time will tell, though.
If you’ve been holding out for an affordably-price big box of thump for your humble abode, Amazon has a pretty good deal going on the Velodyne VRP1000 subwoofer for just over a hundred bucks and featuring free shipping.
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