Gizmodo
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Gizmodo Year in Review: November
In November we learned that the Sonos streaming audio system would be delayed until '05. Despite this, it was on many magazine's 'Best of 2004' lists. More »
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Gizmodo Year in Review: October
October has the SeaGrand RaveMetal, an flash-based MP3 player that's built like a cassette tape. I still think that's brilliant, if not very useful. We also got our first inkling of a flash-based iPod, although it obviously won't be out before Christmas. More »
Gizmodo Year in Review: August
August brought us the Archos Gmini 400, one of the only portable video players worth a damn.
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August brought us the Archos Gmini 400, one of the only portable video players worth a damn.
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Gizmodo Year in Review: July
July was when we knew we had really come into our own, as a story about titanium breast implants temporarily put us in the top spot for Google's results for the term 'titties.' Mom could not have been more proud. I also write our most cringe-worthy story about the SmartKlamp circumcision tool—and that's just from the puns. More »
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Gizmodo Year in Review: June
June brought the first cellphone worm for Nokia Series 60 phones, a minor threat but a story that will likely be huge in 2005, as more malicious variants appear. We also learned about the $6,700 power cord, and I had to prevent myself from commiting suicide at the news. More »
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Gizmodo Year in Review: May
May found us looking across the pond for at least twenty or thirty seconds as a dead woman's SMS messages helped in the conviction of her murderous husband. More »
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Gizmodo Year in Review: April
In April, Sony announced its intentions to produce a hard disk-based music player. At the time, we didn't know it would be awful. More »
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Gizmodo Year in Review: March
What a year it's been in gadgetry! Just 12 short months ago, I was blissfully sleeping in, rising only to attend state-mandated skill focus classes. Yet your unwavering appetite for plastic-clad consumer gear pressed me into service, like a fireman who ignores his high score in Bubble Bobble to rescue a burning baby, or the food engineer who developed Wendy's Wild Mountain Spicy Chicken sandwich to address America's flavor cravings. As we prepare ourselves for next week's electronics orgy of CES, let us take a moment to reflect on the highs and lows of our shiny love affair together, month by month, as we pull out notable and favorite posts from the last 3,500 some-odd articles from this year's Gizmodo. More »
Laptops / PCs
TI's More Accurate Laptop Battery Sensor
Texas Instruments have developed a new sensor for lithium-ion batteries in laptops that should more accurately gauge the amount of power remaining, preventing the always delightful mid-save loss of work. The custom two chip solution is done, but won't make it into actual shipping products until sometime in the middle of next year. More »
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Bluespoon AX First Impressions
I've held off from buying a Bluetooth headset for my own because they mostly all look like my ear is crapping a Transformer. The Bluespoon AX is small enough, though, that I'm going to pick one up—I've used too many to know how handy they are and I think I can handle the $100 price of the AX. X-Gadget got a hold of the first batch of headsets (there are only a handful in the US at the moment) and have their initial impressions online. The first batch had a weird ringing that appears to be fixed in the production models. More »
Laptops / PCs
A-Tech 5000 HP TEATRO Clone Case
The OnCinema TEATRO D1 has been much talked about since we first noticed it (or I first started other people talking about it, more likely). It's a beautiful bit of Media Center PC—it's also like six large. Fortunately, A-Tech Fabrication (who makes a lot of nice home theater PC cases anyway), has come up with a TEATRO clone, with a cut out space for your own LCD flat panel. The panel that A-Tech is recommending isn't nearly as nice as the 1,280 by 768 pixel screen in the TEATRO, but if you're going cut rate to begin with, it'll get the job done. More »
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MDI Air Powered Vehicles
Duck-tailed, rumble-beseated sister site Jalopnik has some more hinkfo and pics about the MDI Air-Powered Car platform, which uses compressed air to drive the car in an emissions-free manner over short distances, yet can kick on a small four-banger to keep feeding it air for longer journeys. More »
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Tivoli Audio Model Three Reviewed
Tivoli Audio makes classy, monophonic radios that win nothing but acclaim for their rich, full sound. And with their small footprint, they would make a perfect clock radio, you'd think. When it comes to sound quality, the $200 Tivoli Model Three seems to live up to typical Tivoli quality, but some silly decisions in the way the clock and snooze work make this alarm worth a first glance, but maybe not a second. Fortunately, this review on Spiffle has lots of pictures, which makes shallow glancing easy. More »
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Tsunami Relief
The amount of generosity I've seen from my friends and family towards the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami has been inspiring. If you haven't had a chance to donate to the international aid programs, there are literally dozens of options to do so, including Amazon's one-click donation to the Red Cross, which is pretty handy if you're an Amazon customer. Sendstation is donating $5 of each purchase toward disaster relief when you pick up one of their iPod PocketDocks. My suggestion would be to maybe do both. More »
2004 Google (Froogle) Zeitgeist
Damn it. I knew we should have been covering more electric scooters.
Top 2004 Froogle Zeitgeist [Google]
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Damn it. I knew we should have been covering more electric scooters.
Top 2004 Froogle Zeitgeist [Google]
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Cingular LG F9100
I really wanted the Motorola A630 to rock, but almost everyone who finally has gotten their hands on one has been less than impressed. This new LG phone for Cingular looks promising, though, if only because it's got a similar form factor and has a focus on IM. The LG F9100 doesn't even have Bluetooth or a camera, which is sort of a bummer, I guess, but I could deal with it if the IM client was well crafted. We'll see soon, I guess, as it's gotten FCC approval. More »
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