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Aliph Jawbone Headset Reviewed
I gave the Aliph Jawbone headset a pretty hard time the first time I saw it, but to its credit, every single person I know who has used the corded hands-free units has been pleasantly surprised. This review on PocketNow is no exception, so if you're expecting to discover some fatal flaw, don't bother clicking through. I think I'll wait for the Bluetooth version, myself, but it's a well-performing unit with looks that won't embarrass you in public—good enough. More »
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Camper's Dream Ice Cream Maker
If you happen to be unskilled in the art of yo-yo, you may have your cream with the Camper's Dream, a reasonably priced human-powered ice cream mixer. Basically, you roll the ball (which looks suspiciously like a repurposed hamster ball) around for 20 minutes, and you have a pint of ice cream. As far as non-electrical ice cream makers go, this would appear to represent minimum effort for maximum pleasure, a virtue anyone can appreciate. (Flavors include strawberry hamster and vanilla hamster). (Thanks, Joseph!) More »
Laptops / PCs
Breaking News: Liebermann Still Sucks
Yo, Liebermann Computers! Fucking die, already!Liebermann Inc. has strict news release policies stipulating having any published article to be internally reviewed and approved for content and veracity before distribution. MaximumPC chose to completely disregard, bypass and not comply to such obligations and publish an article falsifying the true status of this corporation and its products without the knowledge, consent or formal verification of information from a Liebermann Inc. legal representative.It's called writing a story about your company—nobody has to ask your permission. In fact, here's a story I'm starting to write now: If Go-L secures the funding for a retail storefront in Manhattan, I will burn it down. More »
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No Xbox 2 at CES?
Sister site Kotaku is speculating that the speculation about the Xbox 2's unveiling at this year's CES might actually be bogus—not because Microsoft didn't plan to do so, but because the platform won't be ready to rumble. Hard to say—a Bill Gates keynote without the Xbox 2 will sort of be ho-hum—but Kotaku has a call into Microsoft, so we'll be sure to let you know when they get their juicy 'No comment.' More »
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Telus LG 6190: First Fastap Handset
Congratulations to Fastap for actually getting a product to market using their hybrid keyboard/keypad input method. The LG 6190 is an otherwise uninteresting clamshell and will be shipping on Canadian carrier Telus . I'm all for alternate input schemes, though, so I can't wait to hear what people have to say about Fastap's practicality in the real world. More »
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iRiver's Milky Mystery Mini
iRiver dropped this teaser image on their website yesterday, mostly to draw attention to a new redesign. As you might have inferred, it's working, as everyone speculates what exactly the new product might be. Most are thinking it is a new 'mini class' hard disk player, since currently iRiver is missing a 5GB (or more, possible) player like those from Apple or Creative. Whatever it ends up being, it's going to have a color screen—or the most misleading sticker ever. More »
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Blacklist Numbers to Prevent Drunken Dialing
Virgin Mobile is aiming to prevent drunken dialing in Australia by providing a way to blacklist numbers so that they can't be called until 6AM. According to a survey by the company, over 95 percent of drinkers make phone calls after imbibing, with 30 percent of calls going to the most dreaded of recipients: ex-partners. More »
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Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 2.0 Portable Speakers
Klipsch has a good name in audio—well earned, I'd say—so the announcement of a pair of cheap portable speakers is getting a fair amount of buzz. The ProMedia Ultra 2.0 aren't tiny, but they look to be of a size that can be crammed into the bottom of a decently-sized laptop bag, and the short review on PC World says they produce good quality, crisp sound, albeit one that lacks in the low-end compared to similarly-priced 2.1 systems. For a 100 bucks, something like these are probably a lot nicer-sounding than many of the more expensive (and better integrated) iPod systems, for instance. More »
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Gadget Gift Guide Round Up 2004
So I've barely started shopping for Christmas yet, except for my baby brother, who is easy—robots, robots, guns, robots. But fortunately all those shopping guides from we hack writers are starting to hit the web, and rather than do our own Gizmodo recommendation list—which honestly would just be more of the same, although we'll definitely be pointing out a few things here and there—I thought it would be especially useful for us to round up some of the more comprehensive and more interesting Gift Guides on the informowebs. More »
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Unison Soriya MF100
Unison continues to make oddly-shaped flash memory MP3 players—and I'm just fine with that. The new Soriya MF100 isn't anything special from a technical standpoint, but it does have a nifty slide-out bit that hides the controls—effectively a giant hold switch. More »
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Nokia 9500 Communicator Reviewed Some More
Ewan over at All About Symbian has put up the second (of four, likely) piece in his in-depth Nokia 9500 Communicator review, focussing mainly on Wi-Fi and browsing the web with the 9500's Opera hybrid browser. The screen captures from the browser seem strangely readable, as the extra-wide screen renders web pages in such as way as to appear like you're viewing them through a slit—that sounds weird, but look at the pic here. Not so bad, right? More »
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Mobile-Fi: Not New, But New to Me
The Inquirer has a bit of a story about a competing standard to Intel's WiMAX long-range wireless networking protocol that could just eat Intel's lunch (but, you know, probably not). The Wi-Fi standard called 802.20, or 'Mobile-Fi,' (WiMAX is 802.16e, if you care) and has a lot to recommend it over WiMAX, including the ability to operate at faster traveling speeds (up to 250km/h) such as when traveling by car or train. It isn't quite as fast or as long-ranging as WiMAX, though, and it doesn't have a huge corporate juggernaut backing it, so its hopes for widespread adoption are probably thin. But it's an interesting alternative to WiMAX—and more importantly, 3G cellular services—and I thought it bore mentioning. More »
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PalmOne Releases Wi-Fi Drivers for Tunsten T3, T5
PalmOne has finally released drivers to enable the Tungsten T3 and T5 to use the official PalmOne SD Wi-Fi Card (which previously only worked with the Zire 72, if I'm not mistaken). Now where are those drivers for the Treo, huh? Huh? More »
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GloThong
Keep Burning Man with you wherever you go (without the need for antibiotics) with these $50 electro luminescent wire bikinis and thongs from GloThong. Sure, the two-hour rechargeable battery will have to go somewhere, most likely in between inconspicuous folds of flesh, leaving only a tantalizing mound of mystery behind. Is it a woman with a battery? A pre-op transsexual in need of an organ origami lesson? Prolapse? Half the fun of GloThong (and Burning Man, come to mention it) is never knowing for sure. (Thanks, CW!) More »
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Microwave Ceramic Kiln Connects To Your PC
Panasonic will be releasing what very well could be the world's first ceramic kiln that connects to a PC. I say "could be" because I don't exactly keep up with the latest trends in the cut-throat kiln industry. More »
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