James Dyson seems to have made the his life’s mission, and his most recent product, the , has apparently enjoyed enough success to merit an expanded range. You’ll soon be able to splash a cool $450 on either of the elongated Tower (above left) or Pedestal Air Multipliers. They function along the same principles as the original: air is stirred up (by blades!) in the base and then thrust through the circumference of the device to deliver cool, calming, and buffet-free chills to your overworked self. Read more…

The crew at iFixit were jonesing for something to disassemble recently, and Sony Ericsson’s seems to have been the nearest thing they could lay hand and screwdriver upon. We’ll admit HTC has us kind of spoiled with the of its phones, so we were a little underwhelmed by the demureness of the X10 Mini. Everything is packed into the utilitarian logic board, and although you get to decouple the screen and antenna assembly, it’s still mostly a thick slab of highly integrated technology. Read more…

This is news to us, but apparently there have been “few noteworthy advancements” in since the iPhone and BlackBerry came out. Out to fix this stale, plateaued industry is Innpu, with its revolutionarily new “wired phone” (it’s bad news when even the manufacturer puts the product name in quotation marks, right?). Setting the new high watermark in cellphone engineering, it comes with built-in headphones and mic, which retract automatically when you complete your call. And hey, we’ve seen earphones like that selling by themselves for $2, maybe $4 a pop — luxurious stuff. Lest you think Innpu unambitious, the company’s also promising to bring this life-saving functionality to the iPad and netbooks, while noting that its sophisticated technology “can hardly be copied.” Probably because no one will ever care to try.

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Check out that sweet, sweet box. Yes folks, we seem to have received our very first in-the-cardboard picture of the retail out in the wild. We don’t work at Walmart, so we can’t verify this one for ourselves, but our tipster says Apple’s latest phone has just landed in the big box retailer’s storehouses. Read more…

Yes, it’s just a hard drive that plays 1080p content, but this one can connect to your ; according to some machine translated Japanese, Marshal’s new “Media Joker” can also act as an external hard drive for your Sony game console or a Toshiba . While you won’t be able to install games on the up-to-2TB hard drive that you’ll provide yourself, the black box can notably play — though that, the company carefully cautions, will surely void your warranty. The case admirably provides most all ports you could want, including component, composite, both flavors of S/PDIF, HDMI 1. Read more…

Douglas Coupland may be best known as the author that popularized the term “Generation X,” but he’s also an artist, a designer, and a Canadian, so it makes a bit of sense that he would team up with that most iconically Canadian clothing retailer, Roots, for a new clothing line. The result of that collaboration is “Roots x Douglas Coupland,” which is apparently inspired in part by Canada’s history in telecommunications, and by Coupland’s idea that “what really links Canadians together is that we’re all far apart.” Of course, that hardly means the collection is just for Canadians. Read more…

Microsoft still hasn’t gotten any more specific than “holiday 2010″ for a launch date, but it looks like we may now have a bit more specificity courtesy of Australian carrier Telstra. According to a leaked snippet from a purportedly authentic Telstra roadmap, the hereto unheard of Windows Phone 7-based HTC Mozart will be launching sometime in October — presumably coinciding with the launch of Windows Phone 7 itself. As you may be able to tell, however, the phone pictured is actually a poor mockup (grey copy and paste border around the phone, Sense UI behind the WP7 UI, etc. Read more…

Violight has been in the business of since way back in 2004, but now it’s bringing its wares closer to our geeky hearts. Its new Cell Phone Sanitizer will nuke 99 percent of all germs and bacteria slithering around your phone or MP3 player, and it’ll do it in under 5 minutes too. Or such is the claim, anyhow. Read more…

Whether they’re slated to power or , graphene sheets have garnered tremendous excitement, but the scientific community has had great trouble making the single-atom-thick pencil lead lattices large enough for industrial use. Thankfully, the same South Korean scientists never abandoned their post, and now Sungkyunkwan University has composited 30-inch sheets of the stuff and prototyped a working touchscreen panel as well. Using a modified version of the popular chemical vapor disposition (CVD) technique that grows the graphene on top of copper foil, they were able to produce a four-ply graphene stack with 90 percent transparency, plus resistance and durability reportedly superior to the currently used in displays. Read more…

Well, here’s an interesting turn of events. Apple has apparently sent out emails notifying at least some of those who ordered that it’ll be arriving June 23rd. (Well over three dozen people have tipped us to this in the last 30 minutes — thanks, by the way. Read more…