Adam Frucci, Author at Gizmodo

110-inch “World’s Largest” HDTV Now For Sale

JVC’s monster 110-inch hybrid-tech HDTV is now available for sale. Yep, get your credit card ready and sit the kids down, as they’re not getting help paying for college anymore. This $53,000 behemoth is a whopping 8 feet wide and 3 feet deep, featuring a 1080p picture (for that much it’d better be 1080p), and…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 8 '07

Controller Lock Keeps Your Paused FFXII Game Safe From Evildoers

Of all the things that you need to keep locked up and secure, how far down the list is your console gaming controller? Is it even on the list? Yeah, it’s not on mine either. But hey, apparently some people are really concerned about their controllers getting used when they aren’t around, and that necessitated…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jun 8 '07

Sony’s Secret R&D Open House

Once a year in Tokyo, Sony invites some lucky people to check out the super-secret stuff their Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) have been cooking up. What’s the CSL? It’s the R&D division that explores future technologies with no specific product or division in mind, so they aren’t forced to only work on Blu-ray products or…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jun 8 '07

Parallels 3 Goes Live

Remember when we gave you deets on the new Parallels 3.0 last week? Good news: it’s done and released already. So if you’ve been waiting for it with sweaty anticipation, clean yourself up and go grab a copy. Tally ho, dual OS cowboys! https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-more-details-on-parallels-desktop-3-0-265326 Product Page [via Gizmodo Australia]

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 7 '07

Three-Screened Laptop is Pretty Sweet

Laptops are much more convenient than desktops in most cases, but there are still some things you can do with a desktop that make laptop users such as myself jealous. Like having three monitors, for example. It’s tough to make a portable version of that. Or is it? This Acme portable computer has two screens…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 7 '07

Prepaid iPhone Plans Possible? Please.

Is it possible that you might be able to get your paws on an iPhone without signing your life away to AT&T for two years? Well, I kind of doubt it, but curiously enough the recent iPhone ads have been edited since their original airing to remove the “Use requires minimum new two-year activation plan”…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 7 '07

Car with Wooden Wheels is Confusing

Holy crap, this car takes being eco-friendly to the next level. It’s got wheels that are merely slices of a tree trunk, sure to provide a horribly bumpy ride and what I can only imagine would be pure pain to the shocks and struts. Is this car actually drivable? Who knows. Why would anyone do…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jun 7 '07

Dual-Access Bag Keeps Your Laptop at Hand

This is actually a pretty brilliant design. The Dual-Access Rolling Bag features a laptop-sized pocket on its top, so when you have your bag stored under the seat in front of you on an airplane, you can just slide you computer out without pulling out and opening your whole bag up. It makes getting to…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 7 '07

Hummer HT1 Phone Gets 9 Miles Per Gallon

Oh, look, a regular phone that’s very expensive because it’s got some car company’s logo on it. This time it’s a Hummer, one of the more deplorable car brands out there, and it’s got the great “feature” of having a camo finish on it. If you’re in a jungle, it’ll make you look like you…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 6 '07

OMG There’s a Curtain at an Apple Store!!!

Gumshoe Richard Blakeley heard through the grapevine that something was afoot at the Cube Apple Store in Midtown Manhattan, so he headed up there to see what was going on. What he found was a big black shroud covering something he couldn’t get access to. When he tried, he was accosted by jackbooted Apple Store…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 6 '07

First Location-Based DS Game Hits, and We Want It

Plundr is the first Nintendo DS game that uses your location to affect how the game plays. Figuring out where you are using Wi-Fi positioning, the game gives you different “islands” to go to based on your location, and “depending on where you are in the physical world, you’ll find different islands, different market prices…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jun 6 '07

X-Keys Give You Shortcut Buttons on Your Monitor

X-Keys are a strip of shortcut buttons that you stick on your monitor and assign macros to using software, allowing you to quickly do tasks you do frequently with the push of a single button. It’s pretty neat for people who use programs like Photoshop all day and do macroable things, but my repetitive tasks…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 6 '07

Xbox Controller Makes Iraq Like a Video Game with No Respawns

Apparently, being really good at gaming on your Xbox 360 might prepare you for more than a lonely life in your basement yelling at 13-year-olds while wearing a headset. According to this photo, soldiers in Iraq are using Xbox controllers to control SUGVs (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles) that go out on patrol and keep soldiers…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 6 '07

New Tuner Allows for Wee HDTVs

A company called Xceive claims that they’ve designed the world’s smalled LCD HDTV, a 7-incher that is powered by their fancy new HDTV tuner (pictured). Unlike other 7-inch “HDTVs” out there, this one will allow for an actual HD display rather than a down-rezzing of over-the-air HD signals. So for those of your out there…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 6 '07

Facial Expression Robot Thinks Every Word Means “Creepy”

This is a robot designed to make facial expressions based on certain words. The word that expression represents? No, not constipation. Nope, it’s not awkwardness either. Creepy? No, not creepy. If you guessed love, congrats! You can read the big word next to the robot’s head. Either that or you have some pretty horrible associations…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 5 '07

Say-A-Blessing Makes a Better Jew Out of You

Hey, Jews! Isn’t it hard remembering all the different blessings there are to say before eating different things? Don’t you wish there was some shortcut through them to get to the food when you’re hungry? Boy, your mother should be ashamed of you. But I’m not your mother, so here’s something to help. The Say-a-Blessing…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jun 5 '07

Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit

What do you get when you combine a robot and a chair? The Hubo FX-1 chairbot, of course. In what is perhaps my favorite robot design yet, this giant chair with legs looks like it came out of some ridiculous ’80s sci-fi movie or something, but it’s very, very real. It looks good so far,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 5 '07

YouTube to Deliver the Excitement that is Local News

Sometimes, after a long stint of watching dudes hump ottomans on YouTube, I get in the mood for some local news. Luckily, YouTube has got my back. They’ve just entered a deal with Hearst-Argyle Television to deliver local content from some markets in the Northeast, including weather, news and entertainment programming. The markets will get…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jun 5 '07

PNY and SanDisk Boost SSD Offerings; SSD Lappies Imminent

PNY and SanDisk have some pretty slick new offerings on the solid state drives front, inching us ever closer to the time when all new laptops will come with flash hard drives for faster, quieter and more efficient access. First, SanDisk announced their 1.8-inch 64GB UATA 5000 and 2.5-inch 64GB SATA 5000 SSDs. Not too…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 5 '07

X-Bike Kit Attaches Your PSP to Your Exercise Bike

The X-Bike Sony PSP Kit is basically a stand for your PSP that attaches to an exercise bike, allowing you to watch stuff on your PSP while you sweat away the pounds. Finally! It’s taken them long enough to figure out a way to allow people to watch stuff while they exercise. Oh, wait, what…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jun 5 '07

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110-inch “World’s Largest” HDTV Now For Sale

Controller Lock Keeps Your Paused FFXII Game Safe From Evildoers

Sony’s Secret R&D Open House

Parallels 3 Goes Live

Three-Screened Laptop is Pretty Sweet

Prepaid iPhone Plans Possible? Please.

Car with Wooden Wheels is Confusing

Dual-Access Bag Keeps Your Laptop at Hand

Hummer HT1 Phone Gets 9 Miles Per Gallon

OMG There’s a Curtain at an Apple Store!!!

First Location-Based DS Game Hits, and We Want It

X-Keys Give You Shortcut Buttons on Your Monitor

Xbox Controller Makes Iraq Like a Video Game with No Respawns

New Tuner Allows for Wee HDTVs

Facial Expression Robot Thinks Every Word Means “Creepy”

Say-A-Blessing Makes a Better Jew Out of You

Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit

YouTube to Deliver the Excitement that is Local News

PNY and SanDisk Boost SSD Offerings; SSD Lappies Imminent

X-Bike Kit Attaches Your PSP to Your Exercise Bike

The Best GLP-1 Drug on the Market Is Even Better Than We Knew

Anker Clears Out Soundcore Sport X20 Earbuds at an All-Time Low, Now Over 3x Cheaper Than AirPods Pro 3

People Just Keep Watching ‘The Acolyte’

The Foldable iPhone Is Basically an iPad Mini That Folds in Half

Lenovo’s 2026 IdeaPad Gets Another Price Drop to 43% Off, Pre-installed With Windows 11 Laptop Priced Like Budget Tablet

‘Jumping Worms’ Are Spreading Across the US—and Could Wreck Ecosystems

Beats Pill Is Now Apple’s Most Affordable Portable Bluetooth Speaker After Quiet Price Drops

‘Spider-Noir’ Teases a Deep Cut Marvel Villain

Fruits and Vegetables Might Be Linked to Lung Cancer Risk in Non-Smokers. Cool, Cool, Cool

Forget AirPods Pro 3, Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) Quietly Return at a Record Low in Another Clearance Round

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real