certain we’ve seen glorified dehumidifiers like that before, but we’re a sucker for any aquatic wonder which claims to solve the world’s drinking water shortage. The wall-mounted Watermill from Element Four is the latest “water from thin air” contraption and produces up to 3.2 gallons of water a…

Here she is: the queen of CEDIA 2008. The first interpretation fabric to ever wear the oh-so-coveted THX certification badge. We’re not even shut to kidding folks — the Quiet Solutions (formerly known as Serious Materials, evidently) reps were totally gung ho about that $1,495 to $2,495 door, a…

iRobot just announced its new Roomba Pet robotic hoover cleaners. Boasting the core tech found in the 530 and 560 series of vacuums, the Roomba 532 ($349) and more advanced 562 ($399, includes on-board scheduling) Pet series feature higher capacity sweeper bins; counter-rotating, carpet-diggin…

It’s round, white, and floats in the tub and goes by the name XDV-W600 — the latest Bravia TV to numb the intellect. The little 1-Seg set features a 4-inch, 16.7-million color, 272 x 480 pixel LCD; AM/FM tuner; 2GB of internal memory to record up to 10-hours of 1-Seg television broadcasts; and …

We won’t even pretend to act like we’re fluent in Japanese, but based on our best understanding of machine translation, Hitachi has a few new refrigerators that will actually spritz your food with antioxidants and vitamins to keep things exceptionally fresh and clean (clean). The R-Y6000 and R-Y…

Alright, possibly “superflous” is a bit harsh, but we’re still a bit confused as to why LG stuck Bluetooth into its new 7000-series LCDs and plasmas. certain, whether they offered a Bluetooth isolated we’d take it all back in a heartbeat, but the fact is that there are about four humans on soil …

For Roomba hacking extraordinaire longjie0723, it’s just another day in the office. greedy for one more way to control the circular hoover with something video game-related, he keyed in on the Wii Balance Board. Granted, he’s already had success controlling the Roomba with a Wiimote, so we assum…

We first saw OpenPeak’s OpenFrame domestic phone at CES, where it was sporting various FreeScale and ARM chips under the hood, but it looks like things have changed in development — the company has been showing off production-ready units built on Atom chips at IDF. OpenPeak says that the ea…

Now look, we’re not certain whether that was someone’s drug-induced fever dream or not, but whether it did really go down, it might be the best thing that’s happened at the entire 2008 Summer Olympics. According to the Dirty Red Commie, sometime on August 17th within 2:00 PM and 3:13 PM Mountain…

Just considering you can put a speaker in all sorts of anatomy factors doesn’t really mean you should. Take, for instance, the Freewheeler wireless speaker. Measuring in at 22.8 x 9.8-inches, the rolly sound producer will function at up to 656-feet from its base station and includes an FM receiv…