Author Archives for Tyler Cooper
Newlite Portable, Solar LED Lights
This solar light is pretty neat. I’m always a sucker for solar powered anything. I guess it still amazes me that we can harness the power of the sun.
From Cool Tools:
I’ve used these solar LED lights for reading at night for over a year. There are three models and I have one of each — [...]
Casio EX-V7 Review
Dpreview takes a look at the new Casio EX-V7 in their latest review.
As well as being the first ultra-slim Exilim to sport a large (7x) zoom it is the first with mechanical (CCD-shift) image stabilization. It’s also got a wealth of unique features and a fair degree of photographic control. But is the EX-V7 as [...]
Wii graphics worse than first Xbox says Microsoft
Once again Microsoft doesn’t get the point of the Wii. They are trying to disregard it’s graphics capabilities:
“The video graphics on it aren’t very strong; the box itself is kind of underpowered; it doesn’t play DVDs; there are a lot of down-line components [that] aren’t actually that interesting,” Bach said in an eWeek interview. [...]
Yelp.com – any good?
I’m not usually a big fan of local city sites other than craigslist. I rarely even use craigslist. Maybe I’ll find yelp a littl more useful? I doubt it.
Local city sites are increasingly popular, but sometimes you have to wonder how much of it is paid advertising, you know? Not with Yelp. It’s all user [...]
N81 and N82 from Nokia
Nokia has announced some slick new phones, the N81, and the N82 (pretty boring names…). I really like the look. I’m usually not a fan of Nokia too.
The slider-style N81 looks it’ll be the successor to their N91 musicphone (except less, uh, busted-looking) and sport a full 8GB of memory, a 2.4-inch QVGA [...]
Happy Monkey FM Radio…hmm….
If I had children…I don’t think I would give them one of these. They look terrifying in a Flying Monkey sort of way. I think it’s the big dark eyes that do it.
Contrary to their names, these 5.7-inch Happy Monkey radios do not make me happy. I mean, look at them. They’ve got rubber posable [...]
Sock Pro for those who lose socks…
This is one of those things that make you say…”Why didn’t I think of that!?!?”. It’s such a simple idea, yet such a good one. Too bad I would never remember to throw the little disc on them…
From Cool Tools:
The Sock Pro is a little rubber disc perforated in the center to allow [...]
Bell Labs project made into Documentary
I am definitely going to check this out. What a cool idea for a documentary.
From Cool Tools:
This documentary is a wonderful testament to what can happen when bright folks from different disciplines get together to make stuff. In 1966, 30 engineers from Bell Labs collaborated with a number of modern artists in New York to [...]
Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard
ExtremeTech has a review of the Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard. I personally don’t think it’s the most fantastic keyboard ever, but it is pretty cool.
 As a gaming keyboard, the Reclusa comes up a bit short compared with gaming keyboards that preceded it. There’s no rearrangement of keys to cater to certain types of games, as [...]
Samsung YP-U3
Samsung has a very neat offering to compete with the iPod shuffle called the YP-U3. I’ll admit, the name is not quite as catchy (seems like the marketing department could use some help).
Capacity: 1, 2, and 4GB
1″ OLED display
Audio: MP3, WMA, and Ogg
RDS Tuner
15 hours of battery life
Dimensions: 25.4 x 80 x 11mm
I’m realling [...]


