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Fantasy Gadget: The Ultimate Next Generation Connected TiVo Box

TiVo has been setting the bar for timeshifting television (what you want, when you want it) for the better part of a decade. Its latest models, the TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD, further refine and extend functionality to high definition TV and downloadable movies. But the future might not be so bright for TiVo, as other players such as Microsoft' Vista Media Center, Apple's Apple TV, Netflix's Roku player, and upstarts like the Vudu aim to drink their milkshake. What's a company to do? Innovate. Use the internet. Connect users together. Go beyond broadcast TV. Here's what we think TiVo needs to prioritize in their next box in order to dominate the living room for the next decade. More »

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12:00 PM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Jason Chen
13,359 views, 29 comments

Latest by btrotta: I'll second the vote for ReplayTV, it did everything Tivo does, much of what's on your wishlist for FUTURE Tivos, more »

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All Giz Wants: Laptops With a Tiny Battery Backup For Hot Swapping

A lot of pros who use their laptops in the field have to power down or plug in between swapping batteries. Often, this happens multiple times a day. It's time consuming, and well, I'd love it if a professional grade laptop had a small battery, maybe 100ma or so, that could keep your laptop powered up during live battery swaps. More »

5:43 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Brian Lam
3,455 views, 53 comments

Latest by The Monarch: @WoodleyCeto: "My old Dell Latitude D810 did this. I could drop the battery out and put in a new one, more »

all giz wants: compact flying solutions

All Giz Wants: A Jetpack That Costs $200

We don't ask for much here at Gizmodo, but what we really, really want is a jetpack that costs $200. Sure, we have brought you the deal with jetpacks before, but we want something that lasts longer than two minutes, (so do our girlfriends). Also, we would not mind a Jetsons-type transportation mode that costs less than $200,000; to be exact, a $200 price point would be ideal. So, what would we do with our stratosphere explorers? More »

9:00 PM on Tue Dec 25 2007
By Haroon Malik
4,184 views, 25 comments

Latest by Jetlev1: I would agree with DCARTIST. Malfunctions, running out of fuel, and collisions will be inevitable. No company can commercialize a more »

all giz wants: gadgets that work

All Giz Wants: Consumer Electronics That Don't Act Like PCs

I know "All Giz Wants" are supposed to be fantasies involving shiny objects, but this really is my fantasy: I'd like high-def disc players that don't flash "unreadable" error messages, receivers that can pull music from a network without headaches—in general, home electronics that aren't shacked by Ethernet plugs, firmware-update discs, slow boot times and mandatory periodic hard restarts. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Dec 25 2007
By Wilson Rothman
7,258 views, 33 comments

Latest by Kered: @djdare: Sounds to me like your roommate is just an idiot. I've never had problems getting a PC or a more »

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All Giz Wants: A Gaming PC With the Soul of a Console

As grown-up and burly as this generation of consoles has become, we still like doing some of our gaming on the PC, especially when it comes to first-person shooters. But our ultimate gaming PC isn't what's come to typify the phrase "gaming PC." We don't want some tricked out, neon Barad-dûr bullshit dominating our desktop. More »

4:40 PM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By matt buchanan
16,125 views, 73 comments

Latest by bryctucker: Wi-Fi isn't bad i have a crapy rosewill wifi chip that doesn't go far but with my psp i can more »

all giz wants: one plug fits all

All Giz Wants: One Plug For Everything

Come with us into the world of fantasy, where there's just one kind of plug and its associated cable that will work for every electronic device. What we would like to see is one cable that carries audio, video and power to or from whatever device you need to use. It needs to be small, it needs to have tremendous bandwidth (perhaps using fiber optics), and it needs to be smart enough not to ruin anything you plug it into. It sure would beat the alphabet soup we have to deal with now. More »

10:15 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Charlie White
8,158 views, 91 comments

Latest by Wwhat: @Erwos: True but support is all optional, DVI also supports HDCP. And they are talking about a HDCP-DRM-like scheme for USB more »

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Addy's Best Christmas Gadget Ever


A couple of weeks back, our Dear Leader Blam sent round an email asking the team what we wanted for Christmas. So I thought. And I thought. And all I could come up with was this:

• A new sofa cover
• A cute, copper-colored snakeskin clutch—that's a handbag, not something found on a car—by Luella
• A pile of new books (or just an Amazon gift certificate, actually)
• Some fabulously sexy piece of art to hang on the wall
ZOMG—no gadgets!?!!?? came Blam's astonished reply. Feckity feck, I muttered, my secret is out. So I backpedalled: More »

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9:30 AM on Sun Dec 16 2007
By AddyDugdale
23,422 views, 55 comments

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All Giz Wants: A Real Universal Remote

All Giz Wants isn't about wanting what we have now. It's about wanting what we should have now, what's technically possible but practically improbable. Here's an item I've been (wet) dreaming about for some time—a universal remote that's really universal. I don't mean to control both a Blu-ray player and an HD DVD player. I mean to control my TV, computer and the air popper. More »

4:00 PM on Sun Dec 9 2007
By Mark Wilson
7,185 views, 21 comments

Latest by jspec1594: i have tehe!!1! more »

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All Giz Wants: An All-In-One Set Top Box

If you've been around long enough, you'll remember All Giz Wants—our series of fanciful and unlikely wishlist items that would totally make this the Best Holidays Ever if we got them. Here's one I've been wishing for for the better part of a decade: an all-in-one set top box that does everything. More »

5:20 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Jason Chen
14,803 views, 24 comments

Latest by EMoShunz: @EMoShunz: i know this is late...let me correct myself, you said kubuntu, not ubuntu...i should have said LinuxMCE. more »

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YouTube On a Mobile Browser, Please

That new iPhone commercial brags about it having a great browser. Mactards have even speculating that the iPhone has Flash support, because the NY Times website's video player appears to load up fine. But the commercial also skips over the agonizing four-minute load time it would take to cache all those ads, images, flash movies, and did they not notice there is weird baby music playing while some disembodied voice narrates? Dropping in a fake placeholder for the video just isn't out of the question. It doesn't matter, though. More »

6:46 AM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By Brian Lam
7,707 views, 29 comments

Latest by Brian Lam: You need 3g for youtube to be anything decent. Youtube in a browser, folks, not an app. more »