Brian Lam

Pogue Reviews Waterproof Cams, Sanyo Xacti E1 Floats Above the Competition

Pogue takes a a few waterproof cams down to the local waterpark for testing and finds Sanyo’s 6MP Xacti E1 to be of better image and video quality than the rest. I’ve always found the Xacti cam’s nice, but the low light performance to be lacking. That doesn’t matter when you’re talking about beach and…

Gizmodo Hiring an NYC Intern

We’re hiring a New York City based intern. Must have gadget journalism aspirations. The work is extremely fun, but includes some occasional grunt work. Hours are somewhat flexible but must be around working hours. Pay is close to nothing. You’re doing it for the love…and hairline chance to graduate to writer status after a tour…

Our iPhone hands-on is massive, but our verdict is short: Wait a little while. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-review-276116

“Hello World” 3rd-Party iPhone App Compiled, Loaded, Run

Another Free iPhone checkpoint has been reached. It has been reported but unconfirmed that the first 3rd party, non-Safari iPhone app was run today in the wild. Developer “Nightwatch” did the compilation and execution of the program using his ARM/Mach-O Toolchain. Check their progress report after the jump. After many, many hours of intense work…

LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Hits 2TB

The Lacie Bigger Disk Extreme+ is here, with Firewire 400/800 and USB 2.0 interfaces. It comes in RAID/0 config. And in 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2.0TB sizes at $350, $600 and $850, respectively, making the 2TB a money-saving proposition when you think about it in bytes/dollar. Right? Wait…No. The 2TB version will be here in August,…

The Hunt For Fake Steve Jobs

I’m not part of the hunt, but I can’t stop thinking about who Fake Steve is, even if I don’t really want to know. Despite being in love with other gadget sites, and hating fellow-Gawker blog Valleywag, Fake Steve Jobs has always been very decent to me. He returns my emails, and is timely and…

Nothing to worry about. DARPA just planning SKYNET. [Danger Room]

Second Gen LG Hybrid HD Optical Drives (GGW-H20LI and GGC-H20LI)

The Deal: LG’s new Super Multi Blue drives include lightscribe for etching on discs, and HD disc compatibility on both HD DVD and Blu-ray, along with read/write for DVD, CD, and read only for HD-DVD-ROM. The GGW drive is ~$500 and can also do 6x recording on Blu-ray discs, which is about 32 minutes for…

Thinkpad’s 15th Anniversary Today

Today is the 15th anniversary of the Thinkpad, and the first model was the the IBM 2521, a pen operated tablet that shipped on July 19th 1992. Reg Hardware, who researched this history, says it had a 20MHz 386SX proc, 4-8MB of memory, a 10-inch 640 x 480 monochrome screen, and a 2.4Kbps modem. OMG,…

Microsoft Earnings Up 7% Based On Office, Despite XBox Warranty Fuss

Microsoft posted earnings for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year: Up 7%, based on Office products, and a fair PC market. net profit was $3.04 billion, or 31 cents per diluted share, in its fiscal fourth quarter, up from $2.83 billion, or 28 cents per diluted share, a year earlier. Sales rose 13 percent…

Emailing the Father of the Camera Phone as He Sails Across the Great Blue Pacific

“Your uncle Invented the Camera Phone!?” is what I said before a friend introduced me to Philippe Kahn. Back in 1997, Kahn hacked together a camera phone to easily send photos of his newborn daughter to family and friends. That piece of lore is gadget history 101. What many people don’t realize is that Philippe…

iPhone Nano Before Holidays? (Again)

It sounds crazy, so soon after launch, but the iPhone nano could be coming out before Xmas. Kasper at Apple Insider claims: • “The second iteration of the handset is presumed to marry iPod functionality with rudimentary cellular capabilities.” •”More resource-heavy internet browsing and email capabilities are not expected of the device.” •”Pricing of the…

iPhone Applecare $80$69 For an Extra Year, Says Pogue [UPDATED: Confirmed]

[UPDATED: Confirmed at $69.] Applecare is supposed to be available for the iPhone this month, and the price may be $80. Joel Johnson, walker-of-Gizmodo-halls-of-lore, noticed this statement in Pogue’s Missing Manual PDF, on page 277: “The iPhone comes with a one-year warranty. If you buy an Applecare contract ($80) you’re covered for a second year.…

LG BH100 Hybrid Disc Player Plus 10 Free HD DVD or Blu-ray Discs!

I rarely use exclamation points in my headlines, but this deal seems too sweet not to. I’m talking about a LG Super Blu hybrid disc player that can play back HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs for $1200, plus any combination of Ten in stock HD DVD or Blu ray discs, for free. https://gizmodo.com/first-review-lg-bh100-hybrid-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player-ve-231149 Good job,…

Nobody Picks on Pogue But Me

OMG, the internet is beating up Pogue for his iPhone video. We like picking on the guy, even when we’re praising the authoritative, yet mainstream-accessible NYTimes gadget columnist. (See our photoshop contest entitled “Make David Pogue Cool“.) And we’ve had our share of blog fights with the guy. But when I see the Huff Po,…

Rocket Fishing Rod is Both a Cannon and a Reel

Dude, I just saw this infommercial for this fishing rod that doesn’t actually have a rod. It throws out your line, bait, bobber, and hook encapsulated in a little rocket, fired from this pump-action, spring loaded cannon. The range is 30 feet, and in true trailer-trash, QVC fashion, it’s $40, or two easy payments of…

Black Eagle GPS Video Logs Car Crashes

When the Korea-only Black Eagle GPS detects a deceleration of 1.1G or more, it assumes you’ve plowed into a tree or car, and saves an 18-second video clip of the collision. (12 seconds before, pulled from a cache, and 6 seconds after.) It also has sensors for lane changes. I’m not sure I’d want this…

New $300 Wal-Mart PC is Bloatware-Free

She ain’t much to look at, but the Everex IMPACT GC3502 is a basic box, running a 1.5GHz VIA CPU, 1GB of RAM, 80GB of HDD and a DVD burner, and for $300 includes keyboard, mouse and speakers, but no monitor. Best of all it comes with Vista home, OpenOffice 2.2 and is free from…

Sanyo Easy Streetnav NVM-4070 GPS Nav Does Media Play in Traffic

Sanyo, not the first name you think of when you dream of GPS navigators, just came out with the NVM-4070, equipped with a 4-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, a SiRF Star III receiver, traffic, text-to-speech for reading off street names, 1.8 million points of interest, Video/Photo/MP3/WMA playback and an FM transmitter to get the nav and music…

Pioneer’s Not-1080p Project Kuro Plasmas For Sale

As they said they would, Pioneer has made their lower res, 1365 by 768 and 1024 by 768 res, 16,000:1 contrast ratio, Project Kuro Plasmas available for sale before July was up. The 1080p models, with the 20,000:1 ratios, 1080p pixel count, and 50 and 60 inch sizes, are coming in September. Until then, these…