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Regular stethoscopes are all well and good if you’re working in a quiet country hospital where the only sounds audible are the quiet churning of some old Amish woman making butter on the front porch, but if you’re out in the field and you need to hear someone’s heartbeat it’s a different story. Have you ever tried to use a stethoscope on a helicopter or perhaps in the pit at a Cannibal Corpse concert? No? Well it’s no cakewalk, doc.

A new stethoscope for doctors in the field has been developed by Active Signal Technologies and the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory that basically uses ultrasound technology to see and hear right into the human body, no matter what crazy crap is going on around them. It was created for use in Iraq in Apache helicopters, but I like to think some death metal bands might pick one up for their tour physician as well. –Adam Frucci

Noise-Immune Stethoscope [American Institute of Physics]

For those of you without any sense of time, or easily gets distracted—this is the parking timer keychain. Program this $10 doodad with exactly how much you dropped into the parking meter and will warn you when time is getting close. It is also great for you frugal bastards that would rather underpay a parking meter and keep going out to feed it rather than overpaying and possibly wasting money. It also includes a voice memo feature for remembering where you parked your car: “Parked caddy corner from Starbucks.” Just hope that Starbucks doesn’t asexually reproduce like they are known to do. – Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via Outblush]

If you’re looking for a pair of 2.1 USB speakers without the .1, the Logitech Z10 Interactive Speakers should do fine. Thanks to the woofers mounted on the back of the satellites, the pair replicate bass well enough for people who don’t want to get cardiac arrhythmia every time they listen to a Snoop track.

The sound was a bit flat, but the reviewers preferred it that way. The main draw, however, is the 160×43 LCD display on the right speaker.

The same LCD that’s on the Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard gives you “current track information, your latest POP3 emails, the time and date, your current CPU and RAM utilization, a countdown timer, and a stopwatch.” There are also a bunch of mods for the G15 LCD, where you can find on the mod websites below.

There’s also support for all the major media players—probably not the Zune—and you can even set radio favorites on the thing. You’ll most likely be using the touch-sensitive buttons that control standard playback, volume, and power controls more, and they’re definitely slick looking. They’re $149 on Amazon, which isn’t bad but a bit more than the older Logitech Z-2300s that come with a sub. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Amazon]

Logitech Z10 Interactive Speaker System Review [Everything USB]

G15 Mods
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Really, what the hell is the point of a coffee cup warmer? Isn’t coffee supposed to be served warm enough to heat any mug regardless? The Jura-Capresso Coffee Cup Warmer can hold 16 coffee cups or 24 espresso cups. It will warm the cups up to optimal serving temperatures for you prissy assholes who can’t have a room temperature mug like the rest of us. The Jura-Capresso warmer retails for the absurd amount of $1,000. I’ll take my coffee in a room temperature mug and go spend the $1,000 I saved at a strip club, thank you very much. – Travis Hudson

Jura-Capresso Coffee Cup Warmer [Born Rich]

This week at TreeHugger: Microsoft has been touting Vista’s new power saving features, saying that upgrading to Vista could easily save consumers and corporations $50 to $75 per computer per year in energy costs. The question, though, is what marvelous new code makes this miracle possible? Check out the Girandole light, which eschews the traditional switch and is turned on and off by blowing on the small propeller fitted on the light’s globe. If you don’t turn your computer off, who will? The answer, of course, is the penguins. Lastly, food is a complex issue; we need to tell where it came from, what it contains, the labor conditions of it’s harvest, how it’s going to taste, if it’s good for us, and whether we’re getting a good deal; we predict a future where our cell phones can scan a barcode, and tell us everything we’d ever want to know about a product.

Microsoft has been touting Vista’s new power saving features, saying that upgrading to Vista could easily save consumers and corporations $50 to $75 per computer per year in energy costs. The question, though, is what marvelous new code makes this miracle possible? The answer? They fixed three silly mistakes that have cost the world billions of dollars in the past five years. Bells & whistles, sleep mode and power-saving confusion have been racking up energy consumption on machines running the OS for the past five years.

The clever Girandole light is turned on and off by blowing on the small propeller fitted on the light’s globe. Instead of a mindless flip of a switch, a concerted and altogether unusual effort is called for: one which will certainly give pause for deliberation, for thankfulness for the pleasure of electrical lighting and a thought for the power source which takes over after your own wind-power activates the lamp. The lamp comes supplied with a 7W megaman energy saving lamp, a purple LED and Elica offers a selection between Coolwhite, Daylight and Warmwhite light…smooth.

If you don’t turn off your computer, who will? The answer, of course, is the penguins. This is part of an excellent advertising campaign by Électricité de France (EDF), showing various animals assisting us in being more energy efficient. They’re funny, and maybe, just maybe, they’ll get the point across. Plus, there’s something cool about penguins as a desktop background (no pun intended).

Lastly, food is a complex issue; we need to tell where it came from, what it contains, the labor conditions of it’s harvest, how it’s going to taste, if it’s good for us, and whether we’re getting a good deal. TreeHugger predicts a future where our cell phones can scan a barcode, and tell us everything we’d ever want to know about a product. How are we so sure? They’re already doing it in Japan. After a breakout of Mad Cow in 2001, Japan’s Food Safety Commission began to tag more and more foods with radio frequency or QR tags that contain information on the origin of foods. Almost all cell phones sold in Japan today contain QR code readers, and the Japanese Food Safety commission has already begun to notice preferential purchase of locally grown foods due to the QR tags. It turns out that knowing more about food actually results in buyers making better decisions…who’d have guessed!?

TreeHugger’s EcoModo column appears every Tuesday on Gizmodo.

Maybe it should be the other way around? Regardless the iSymphony M1 is a gem in a sea of crap iPod docks. This jobber stands out because it includes docking for all iPod models, including the Shuffle. Not down wit’ da’ ‘pod? No problem. The iSymphony M3 also has a card reader along with a standard CD/MP3-CD player. Add in a remote, some pretty decent speakers with 4-inch woofers and 1-inch tweeters and blue lights for an all around awesome boombox/cd player/card reader/iPod player. All for $199.

iSymphony also makes an M2 player that is the same as the M1 but includes more memory card support and a progressive scan DVD player for $100 more. Stick with the M1. – Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via CG]

We wouldn’t try this at home—since our 360s are working just fine—but if you’ve got one that’s throwing up the 3 red lights, this may be a solution.

We don’t want to spoil the ending, so just watch. And if this doesn’t work for you, well, you got some s’plainin to do to Microsoft. – Jason Chen

YouTube [via Digg]

Samsung’s line of ultra edition cellphones is about to expand with the release of the SCH-B630. A slider, the cellphone has a few features that make it stand out from the pack, specifically its 3.0-megapixel built-in camera and ability to pull down DMB digital TV broadcasts all within a 12.9mm (0.5 in.) thin body. Even more advanced is the fact that it has a TV-out port so you can watch DMB broadcasts on your TV should your TV not have the proper antenna. All this talk of DMB probably means that the cellphone will be exclusive to Korea for a little while. More lovely pics can be found inside.

Truthfully, it’s not a terribly exciting-looking cellphone and appears to be a basic slider, albeit one with a 2.12-inch display. Incidentally, the already-here Samsung M610 has a slightly larger display (2.22-inch) and is also a little thinner at 11.9mm (0.47 in.). Expect to see standard Bluetooth support and microSD card slots aplenty. No word when or if the cellphone will make it stateside but by the looks of it, it’s really not all that “ultra.” – Nicholas Deleon

Samsung SCH-B630 DMB Phone [SlashPhone.com]

The last time we looked at the Helios H4000, we thought the combination of multiple format support, 1080p upscaling, and low, low price made this an incredible buy. Now that i4u got their hands on one, we can definitely say this is worth your money.

The H4000 is solidly constructed, with a metric asston of outputs. HDMI, component, composite, S-Video, VGA, 5.1 surround audio, optical audio and coax audio makes the back more holey than Jesus’ beer mug.

Upscaling DVDs to 720p (they didn’t have 1080p) looked fantastic, and was dramatically better than just a standard DVD player. In addition to great image quality, the fact that you can play back all of your BitTorrented movies, TV shows and British Comedies on a $169 player makes this a great deal for HDTV owners. – Jason Chen

neodigits Helios H4000 1080p Upscaling DVD Player Review [i4u]

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Best Buy’s Black Friday Ad, one of the crown jewels for Black Friday season, has just been posted online. Some of the pretty decent deals are a Kodak 5-megapixel camera for $79, a Celeron E-Machines PC with 15-inch LCD for $189, a HP Core Solo Notebook for $379, a Toshiba 50-inch Plasma for $1699, and a 32-inch and 42-inch WestingHouse for $479 and $999 respectively. Some pretty decent stuff here, but they’ll probably have two or three per store and be sold out unless you show up at 10 PM the night before. – Jason Chen

Black Friday Ad [Black Friday Info]

•NTP Sues Palm for Patent Violation [Mobile Tech Today]
•Piracy figures are inflated say criminologists [The Inquirer]
•Wii Gets eZiText [Kotaku]
•Sprint is first CDMA provider with SLVR [MobileMag]
•Web 2.0: Adobe and Mozilla Join Forces [PCWorld]
•YouTube coming to a V CAST phone near you [MobileMag]

Good news to Las Vegas, Milwaukee and Seattle residents. The elderly residents of San Diego aren’t the only ones with fast mobile internet, as Sprint’s just activated EV-DO Rev. A in your cities, allowing you to watch YouTube videos of monkeys urinating in their own mouths at 800-1000kbps instead of the old 153kbps you were puttering along with. I mean, c’mon, having the video pause half-stream in order for the rest to load really killed the mood.

Get in on the action by picking up the Sierra Aircard 595 (left), and hit here for a full list of cities about to be activated soon. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Sprint]

Sprint Turns On Three More Rev. A Cities [Gearlog]

Microsoft brought its bigs guns to New York last night (including Peter Moore himself) as they taunted a crowd of energetic gamers, overweight journos, and greasy hipsters with visions of sweet HD downloads. The show had a few celebrities in the mix and our agile videographer Richard Blakeley caught some of the night’s prettier faces (we’re talking about the games of course) in case you weren’t there. – Louis Ramirez