That gadget was an n97!!!

that was ridiculous.

Out of curiosity, i'd like to see gizmodo do a poll. Does NSFW really stop anyone from looking at this stuff at work? Or does it just make them peak over their shoulders a little more often?

I love taco bell.

Its all about fire sauce. poor that fire sauce on and you wont be able to taste anything else.

No offense to this guy, but he should have taken a hint from the MIT kids on this one.
Youtube (MIT party mode):

Waay cooler. And they aren't just dancing in there alone. (And the music is much better. I mean if you're gonna do haddaway at least throw in like a sweet disco ball or something [even better have it in the microwave so at the end you could flip the microwave on for a fireworks spectacular finale!!])

I'd rather have an att phone with built in walkie talkie like that built in. Smaller antenna ok, bring the range in some, but who cares. It would give the same functionality as 'chirp' but not cost the provider anything since once it's in the phone they don't have to have anything to do with it. THAT my friends, is a good idea.

Maybe with some sort of CDMA protocol... eh no don't think so

For one, the thin client model will not work for gaming consoles. Think of the extra costs to the company. If they are doing all of the computations for the game, their server farm will be huge, increasing their power usage drastically. Why would they do this when the customer is used to plugging something in that takes up power (over heating sometimes eh?). Distributing digital content is extremely convenient, but why use so much bandwidth to transmit video like is being suggested when games can transmit very little bandwidth between specialized client/server apps?

I don't see the gaming consoles ever going to just thin client or just fat client, it's always going to be some compromise. The companies like to have recurring charges, but they want to make money off of it. High price, less demand, so if they have to charge more to do all the computing the demand for the product will go down.

Standardized hardware for developers? Only going to happen if someone creates a "java" for gaming.

I think that it is much more likely to see the next gen xbox or whatever come with a cable or video input jacks and become all in one DVR / gaming console. I too would love to see internet browsers, office tools, etc on my gaming console. I don't often need a specialized pc to do anything. This boils down to many of our desires to see one-stop do-it-all gadgets. That's why I bought the n95, it did everything. Love it best gadget I ever bought. When consoles start allowing open source apps on them, if that ever happens, we'll see a huge boom in functionality. Maybe not the next xbox but the one after that will hopefully have a cable plug in and have its own built in media center (w/o needing an extender), itll let you do DVR stuff, make it easier to keep photos music and video on it, MUCH bigger harddrives.

Gaming consoles aren't going anywhere. They will merge with other devices and become more than gaming consoles. I think they will actually replace the existing 'desktops' or pcs in most situations, especially rural areas. keep them plug n play mentality so avg joe can use it, allow some customisation so nerds will like it, and you'll see the home pc functionalities absorbed into the consoles.

over the air is free, cable costs. digital over the air gives me more channels than only over the air. (woo hoo cw!).

Actually got an HDTV like last week as a gift. The rest of my tvs dont have tuners in em.

But yea if it says it supports UPnP then I'd be really surprised if it didn't stream straight to 360. Granted, you still need to have the video files in the correct format (using the right codecs [avi vs wmv doesn't really matter, its what codec is used to encode the video {there's a program called encode360 that re-encodes video using a codec that the 360 is cool with }]).

So if your vids are in the right format and you set it up to share the media via upnp from the vault, you'd be golden!

I don't see that happening on this, but it would be a sweet option. If they add that then they are essentially turning it into a media center set top box. Which is still cool, given all the other gorgeous features, but would detract from the "purist" server type functionality, which is obviously what they're going for.

Highly doubt any DVR functionality, but if you have a windows media center pc you wanted to back up with WHS, you could set up the DVR on it and have the saved video files from your scheduled DVRing auto backed up to this box instead of a WHS, and then still stream it to your 360 or whatever (UPnP style).

They HAVE to put UPnP on this by default or whatever. Out of box UPnP is a serious must. Waaaaay too easy and cheap and adds great functionality for so many devices to NOT implement it.

the 360 has essentially two ways to stream media to it from networked files. Media center extender (which you get to by going down to the "media center" button on the media tab on the 360) requires a windows media center pc running the extender. The only great thing here, that I can see, is that you can supposedly do television tivo stuff as well as listen to am/fm radio (assuming you have the right cards plugged into your media center pc). The other way is by going to pictures/video/music on the media screen where you select the location. It uses UPnP for this. Most WMP11 installations make it extremely easy to share your media with the UPnP, and I use this much more than the "media center" extender thing cause it is faster (much bulkier program to do all that than just UPnP).

So essentially, if the Giz or sites like it have ANY pull in the market (which they certainly do) than the big honchos over at HP would be well advised to put UPnP in here. It'd be something easy to set up for users (you could fashion it after the WMP11 library sharing setups). Then my phone, my pda, other pcs of any OS, and the 360 (and i'm 90% sure the play stations as well, oh and the wii) could access the media with zero config / set up on the client side.

HP: Put UPnP on this. Add some USB ports or firewire ports so that the capacity can be upgraded further (or build in 4 bays (or do both)). I would certainly purchase this item, in an instant. Hands down for sure would buy this.

I don't see the point in getting this though, with less than a TB of storage. Not a big deal since they want to market half the price, and maybe some people don't need that much, but now that video is becoming so much more prevelent (and taking up so much more space than mp3s), it would be useless w/o min 1TB. Maybe have that as an option?

GET UPNP PLEASE

I may not have the right take on the whole thing though...

This is stupid because a) if using point to point, regular consumer products won't be (or shouldn't be for security reasons) able to connect direct within the point to point link. Because of that, why use the wifi protocols at all and why not go with something more stable with higher bandwidth? higher bandwidth = greater throughput come on... 6Mbps is not that hot.

b) Um actually I forgot what this was... oh well

Having the second wireless card would be awesome so I could do multiple connections, maybe bunnyhop wireless connections in my house, or do analization on multiple networks, or connect to one network normally so I can surf whilst doing airodump or something with the other card while its in monitor mode.

only thing though, i mean for god's sake come on guys,

if only they had had it stop for 20 seconds near the tree to mark its' territory

Seems like all it really does is detect the pitch they're singing at, find a chord that would hug that pitch nicely (thats where the happy factor comes in, minor for unhappy major for happy, augs for jazzy?? wtf...)

If you're going to have a jazz slider, CHANGE THE DAMN RHYTHMS MAN. That's what I thought was going to happen, but no it just adds aug chords?? wtf.

That being said, a manufacturing based company like toshiba might not do so well in the designing of large scale projects like power plants. Usually when someone wants a power plant, they consult a constructing company that will then consult a design firm to come up with the design, then the constructing company will come up with estimates and build it, when they are building it they'll use stuff like Toshiba's turbines etc.

It'll be interesting to see toshiba take over the design efforts. Wonder how they'll fare.

As long as I didn't have to pay for anything, the ship had a great HUD and a huge personal harddrive so I could watch any movie / listen to any music I wanted, and loads of sweet files on secret government projects so I could read up on all the cool shit the general public doesn't know.

Basically, if I could be entertained, that would be great. Oh internet, however slow and delayed from the giant distance, would be wonderful.