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A startup company, aptly named Powercast, seems to think it’s possible. This technology, sure to give you brain cancer will allow users to charge cell phones and other devices by broadcasting electricity through the ultimate high-tech pipeline: Air. It’s based around the conversion of radio waves to DC electricity, which is broadcasted at a distance of up [...]

Hot off their partnership with Dynamism, retailer Best Buy has acquired ISP Speakeasy. Purchased for $97 million, Speakeasy is one of the country’s largest providers of DSL service. Best Buy intends to continue to offer most of Speakeasy’s current services, with an increased emphasis on the companies Small Business internet connectivity program, which will be [...]

Amazon’s Canadian site has leaked prices for Adobe’s upcoming CS3 creative suite. There is, as always, a wide range of prices depending on the exact version of the program you’re looking to acquire. They range from $95 for a basic upgrade to $2,969 for the Master Collection, which includes a plethora of plugins and video [...]

Luxury is relative. In a country full of tiny 2 seaters, this "massive" four-door compact S.U.V. apparently qualifies as a Limo. The unique part, however, is under the hood. This Nissan X-Trail sports a Hydrogen Fuel cell, creating a clean, low-emmision vehicle that expels water in place of harmful Carbon. These babies are used to [...]

In a move that is sure to spark the legal wrath of Apple Inc., Chinese manufacturer AOpen has launched this little Window’s box that more than slightly resembles Apple’s pint-sized workhorse. Specs are pretty unimpressive, featuring an Intel Celeron 1.4 GHz processor, 40 GB drive, and 512 MB of RAM. We’ll see if this one [...]

If the announcement of new automated parking systems wet your appetite, consider this tidbit to be another appetizer. Recently announced, startup venture Spot Scout Inc., is planning on revolutionizing the way we locate and pay for municipal parking spots. Currently in the venture capitol stages, the service aims to unite car owners and lot managers [...]

You all know the feeling while watching the latest episode of Lost on ABC.com.  You feel a burning desire, deep inside (no, not that burning feeling) to rip the episode to your hardrive and watch it a bit later. Applian Technologies knows your pain, and has decided to do something about it. Their new Replay [...]

Tracking chip manufacturer RFID Ltd. is set to begin marketing upscale luggage tags with embedded RFID chips. Designed to match suitcases from designers including Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada, and more, these tags would give airlines a more efficient means of tracking lost baggage. The end result being fewer cases of lost luggage, and shorter wait [...]

There’s luxury, and then there’s Luxury. Raymarine’s new HDTV antenna system is firmly aiming for the latter. Trying to bring Hi-Def television to your yacht, this system employs DMB (Dynamic Beam Tilting) and WRS (Wide Range Search) to ensure that you’ll receive this week’s episode of Desperate Housewives, in even the most bleak and choppy [...]

It’s not every day that the Chinese New Year comes around. It happens, as it turns out, to show up only once every 365 days! In commemoration of this rare event, PQI has released a couple of limited edition storage cards. These gold plated marvels of modern technology come in 1GB and 2GB flavors and [...]

Do you have a nagging feeling that someone is listening to your phone conversations? Do you have something to hide? Fear no more my paranoid friends. The Tele-Safe II, made by P3 International performs automatic frequency scanning of your landline telephone connection. Trolling frequencies between 5 MHz and 2 GHz, the Tele-Safe II is able [...]

iRiver doesn’t exactly have an impeccable track record, consistently churning out mediocre devices with equally mediocre feature sets. While the new X20 is not revolutionary by any means, it does signal a bright spot in the company’s quest for greater market dominance. Clearly aimed at the Nano-carrying set, the X20 comes in 2, 4, and [...]

This may be a moot point, but the NBA is currently broadcasting the All-Star game in 3D. While not available to the general public, the league is hosting an invitation-only event at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas. 600 lucky, wealthy, or well-connected fans are currently enjoying the game in all of it’s three-dimensional [...]