Brian Lam, Author at Gizmodo

LCDs Vs Plasmas: Brightness Ain’t a Thing

Gizmodo friend and Yoda of Electronics, Sean Captain, wrote an article in the NY Times about how goddamn confusing it is for your mom to figure out what flat TV tech to buy. It’s because LCDs are on a rocketship trajectory moving past their shortcomings, like size and contrast. And Plasmas don’t burn in, and…

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Holger PIP: Exotic Special Edition VOIP Phones

At London’s Fashion Week, Hulger teamed up with Bill Amberg to dress up their phone line in exotic animal hides like watersnake skin and the leather ripped from a still live baby cow. Exquisite luxury takes pain, people. https://gizmodo.com/pokia-launches-new-brand-product-hulger-p-phone-105465 The phones being remixed include the rotary-type handset Penelope, and the PIP skype-compatible phones, available in…

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Sony Vaio LA-Series: Name Stands for Ooh La La

This pretty little Media Center dresses itself up like an old iMac, putting a transparent glass frame around its 19-inch screen. (It could be plastic, or crystal—we can’t tell from our stalking-distance photo.) I’ve always thought all monitors deserved a beautiful border like that. Just so I could muddle it up with post it notes,…

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Red Bull London HQ Has Slides Instead of Stairs

I wouldn’t mind having a 9-5 job if my office had a type slide instead of boring old stairs. Red Bull London’s HQ, designed by Jump Studios, is just this EXTREME. Q: How much $3, sugarized caffeine water does one have to sell to afford something like this? They’ve even got a conference table that…

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Picco-Z R/C Helicopter is Palm-Sized and Blinky

Another week, another palm-sized, remote controlled helicopter. This one’s special for two reasons: It’s rare to have a 6-inch coptor with an independant rotor, and this one’s blue LED makes it look like a UFO while you do fly-bys in the dark. Click through to watch the copter fly, complete with Airwolf Bg Music. https://gizmodo.com/picoflyer-teensy-rc-helicopter-163156…

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The Surest Sign of Zune Success: Oriphe MPF2110

Here’s a Zune knockoff from some no-name source in China. Imitation? No longer is it the most sincere form of flattery. I think I’ll make up a new rule: The more fakes a gadget inspires, the better its chances of flying off the shelves. Oriphe MPF2110 [via Engadgy]

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CEDIA 2006: Pioneer BDP-HD1 Elite Blu-ray Player Also Streams

Pioneer’s first Blue-ray player is late to the game, but adds in movie, picture, and music playback from a USB stick, PC, or DLNA compatible device (by ethernet.) That’s to the usual DVD upscaling, and of course, 1080p Blu-ray disc love. Since it’s their Elite line, we can be sure of three things: Top line…

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Conspiracy Unveiled: TiVo, Apple, Microsoft, CEDIA, CTIA, Nintendo, Photokina Out to Kill Bloggers

I finally pieced it together. You set embargoes to lift in the middle of the night. Your information “leaks” right before I’m supposed to take the girlfriend out to dinner. You gang up, and throw down CEDIA, CTIA, and Photokina in different time zones. You launch blockbuster gadgets like TiVo Series 3, Zune, and Nintendo…

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Nodus Psyclone PSP Speaker Dock Has T-Amp Inside

Here’s a PSP speaker accessory that might be able to keep up with its gorgeous screen. Inside, it’s got a T-Amp, that little $30 dollar set of digital circuitry that can keep up with audiophile level equipment. Nodus almost sells us on the idea of better sound while gaming, but duh, you can’t play a…

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Klipsch Wall Subwoofer RW-5802 Drives Rats Insane

Here’s an idea—build a subwoofer into a wall to save some space, and turn the deadspace behind your drywall into a resonating chamber. Actually, I’m not certain these subs aren’t sealed around the back. It would make more sense if they were, because any serious thumping could start pushing fiberglass out your wallsockets. Two 8-inch…

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Valleywag Gadget Curmudgeon Bludgeon: Apple iTV vs Piece of Sh1t Cable

Valleywag’s Nick Douglas has no love for stupid gadgets. Hell, he doesn’t even have love for the shit that gets Giz editors woody. While we were drooling, clapping, and giving up our souls (again) to Apple on tuesday, Nicky turned his low tech eye to finding a gadget better than Apple’s $300 iTV: A lowly,…

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Idolator Is Gawker’s New Music Blog

The Giz likes more than just gadgets. We get games. We even get cars, sometimes. But Gizmodo does not compute music. No. Music, to our cyborgorian brains, is just more data to be jacked from CD, put on MP3 player. Gawker’s new blog Idolator? They understand music. Idolator is all about music, and how the…

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1-Minute Update: Solid Q & A After Nintendo’s Wii Event

We knew about the pricing for the Wii, and the release date, late last night. So Nintendo’s press event today had a lot of the wind taken outta its sails. But the event just ended, and Kotaku just finished typing up the post powerpoint Q&A. Then homeboy, Joel “JJ” Johnson diggs deeper in a Wired…

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Giz Interview: J Allard Calls iPod the Pong of Digital Audio (Snap!)

We called up J Allard today to get him to spill the rest of the Zune enchillada. Like our obsession with Steve Jobs, cousin gaming site Kotaku can’t stop thinking about Allard. Brian Ashcraft wanted us to ask him questions like, “If Microsoft was a World of Warcraft guild, what class would you be? ”…

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Nintendo Wii Coming To America November 19th for $250

Expect to play Nintendo Wii in time for Turkey Day. The Date? November 19th. The price? $250. To come with Wii Sports, which includes golf, bowling, baseball and tennis games controlled by swinging the wii-mote. 25 titles available by end of year. 30 classic games, including Zelda, Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong. The info…

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Pentax 10.2 Megapixel K10D Digital SLR With Built-in Image Stabilization

Pentax just announced a few cameras, but we’ll start with the big boy. The K10D, has a generous 10.2 Megapixel sensor, 2.5-inch LCD, and vibrating CCD dust removal system. If that sounds like a familiar set of stats to you, well, you’re being reminded of Canon’s brilliant, affordable, Digital Rebel XTi that comes out later…

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Vaio N Series Laptops In Grown-Up Colors: Black, Brown, White

Black, grey, blue are office colors. Red, green, yellow are fun time Crayola colors. Sony’s thinking that white, black, and brown are the colors of a home decorated by Ikea whores. Reach, young urbanites, reach! The new N line of laptops comes in black, white, which we’ve all seen before. (I won’t use the @pp1e…

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Safe Protected by Laser Beams

OK, that’s enough M$FT posting. This little laser beam safe won’t let anyone near your stash unless they punch in a secret code and slice off a fingertip to unlock the biometric security system. If the laser beams break, it cries like when you take candy from a baby. (Even if it’s not as fun.)…

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Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 Zooms Nose Hairs With 2 Megapixel Video

More microsoft news to counter balance our Apple jerk-off fest yesterday. Microsoft’s NX-6000 is a high resolution webcam meant for laptops. We’re talking about a 2 megapixel resolution video stream, which amounts to a 1600 by 1200 image. Yowser. It’ll also take interpolated 7 megapixel stills. (Fakey, since it just blows up the lower res…

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Two New Sprint EVDO Rev. A Cards: Pantech PX-500 and Sierra Wireless Aircard 595

Sprint looks to be on track to launch their faster Revision A EVDO network in the fourth quarter of this year. They’ve already announced one card, here are two more. The Pantech PX-500 will go for $200 or free with a 2 year commitment. The somehow higher-end Sierra Wireless Aircard 595 will go for $250,…

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LCDs Vs Plasmas: Brightness Ain’t a Thing

Holger PIP: Exotic Special Edition VOIP Phones

Sony Vaio LA-Series: Name Stands for Ooh La La

Red Bull London HQ Has Slides Instead of Stairs

Picco-Z R/C Helicopter is Palm-Sized and Blinky

The Surest Sign of Zune Success: Oriphe MPF2110

CEDIA 2006: Pioneer BDP-HD1 Elite Blu-ray Player Also Streams

Conspiracy Unveiled: TiVo, Apple, Microsoft, CEDIA, CTIA, Nintendo, Photokina Out to Kill Bloggers

Nodus Psyclone PSP Speaker Dock Has T-Amp Inside

Klipsch Wall Subwoofer RW-5802 Drives Rats Insane

Valleywag Gadget Curmudgeon Bludgeon: Apple iTV vs Piece of Sh1t Cable

Idolator Is Gawker’s New Music Blog

1-Minute Update: Solid Q & A After Nintendo’s Wii Event

Giz Interview: J Allard Calls iPod the Pong of Digital Audio (Snap!)

Nintendo Wii Coming To America November 19th for $250

Pentax 10.2 Megapixel K10D Digital SLR With Built-in Image Stabilization

Vaio N Series Laptops In Grown-Up Colors: Black, Brown, White

Safe Protected by Laser Beams

Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 Zooms Nose Hairs With 2 Megapixel Video

Two New Sprint EVDO Rev. A Cards: Pantech PX-500 and Sierra Wireless Aircard 595

Here’s the Perfect Excuse to See ‘Project Hail Mary’ Again

US Airlines Are Hiking Bag Fees Amid Iran War Oil Crisis

This Ridiculously Simple Trick Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch

‘Starfleet Academy’ Season 3 Could Have Done the ‘Voyager’ Sequel Episode of Robert Picardo’s Dreams

Judge Kills Lawsuit Against Infamous Study That Might Have Increased Teen Suicides

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Researchers Discover How to Add Psilocybin, DMT, and Other Psychedelics to Tobacco

Fake Videos Are Already Spreading After Two US Air Force Planes Go Down Near Iran

We’re Obsessed With the Meta Fits on These New Star Wars Toys

Behold These Breathtaking Views of Earth Captured by the Artemis 2 Astronauts

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