Charlie White, Author at Gizmodo

Thanko Noiseless Keyboard

Thanko first offered its silent mouse, and now its tiptoeing companion, the Thanko Noiseless Keyboard has made its debut. Well, it’s not exactly noiseless, but the company says it’s so quiet that it only makes 30.2dB worth of racket, even when you’re banging away at it with reckless abandon. https://gizmodo.com/thanko-silent-mouse-brings-on-the-quietude-160645 We realize this is a…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 13 '06

HD DVD-Packing Notebook, the LG S1-P555K

We may never see this stateside, but we thought you might want to take a look at the S1-P555K HD-DVD notebook from LG. Running an Intel Core Duo processor, it has a 15.1-inch LCD at 1680×1050 pixels. It has an ATI X1600 256MB graphics card on board, and it has component video-out with an HD…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 13 '06

HDMI Cable: Price Gouging?

Yesterday we mentioned Best Buy selling Monster HDMI cables for upwards of $80, and reader Todd pointed us to a website offering no-name 6-foot HDMI cables for $6.37. Taking a quick glance at the Best Buy website, there’s an HDMI Cable that’s 2 feet shorter, a 4-foot length from Monster Cable for $149.99. The lowest-priced…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 13 '06

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Tech News Charlie White Jun 13 '06

By the Numbers: 2006 FIFA World Cup

It takes a lot of broadcasting gear to put together the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and we like to count it all up for your extreme gadget-porn entertainment. We gave you the 2006 Super Bowl by the numbers, and many of our dearest readers outside the United States didn’t give a rat’s ass. So in…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12 '06

CompUSA Clueless about InterWebs

Further evidence that bricks-and-mortar stores are out of touch: our esteemed brothers at The Consumerist got a note from reader Rick, showing a letter he wrote to CompUSA after the company refused to budge on a $100 price for a Linksys network storage drive he found on the Internets for $84. CompUSA’s salesperson said the…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12 '06

USB Hub, Artistic Twist

USB hubs have gotten to be commodity items, where now they’re being fashioned into artwork. One company that’s injecting creativity and design sense into these incidental items is Taiwanese company Goodman Corporation, which has a variety of doodads like this on its website. This one looks like the yen and yang interpreted by Mondrian. It…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12 '06

Epson Creates Flexible Electronic Paper

It looks like Epson is on a roll, where the company recently introduced the first PC with the Vista-capable badge, and now it’s saying it has developed a groundbreaking roll-up digital ink display. This design concept is different from Sony’s upcoming Reader, where the Epson A6 QXGA Electronic Paper display is flexible, using a manufacturing…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12 '06

“T” is for TV: Sony Vaio T Series

Sony is releasing a PVR in a box with its Vaio T, a 2.7-lb. notebook that can record 222 hours of TV programs with its digital TV tuner. Processor choices are an Intel Core Solo U1400, U1300 or a Celeron 1.06GHz, and the notebook’s batteries are said to let you watch TV for four hours…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12 '06

Seeing Machine Sheds a Little Light

Star Trek’s Geordi still has the advantage over this “seeing machine” designed by a legally-blind poet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but for $4000, this represents the current state of the art. It’s housed in a box that’s rather small, but it’s not small enough to fit inside a pair of Star Trek glasses…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12 '06

Samsung Digimax A503 Reviewed (Verdict: Solid BeginnerCam)

Reviewers at Lets Go Digital took a look at the Samsung Digimax A503, an attractive and low cost ($125) digital camera for the entry-level enthusiast. This 5-megapixel shooter has a 2-inch LCD viewscreen, but at these prices you’ll have to sacrifice an optical viewfinder. Overall, the reviewers were impressed with the quality of this low-cost…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12 '06

Dual Booting Vista and XP Explained

Our trusted first cousins at Lifehacker were able to download a copy of the publicly available Beta 2 of Windows Vista last weekend, and in a fine how-to article show you how to dual boot it with Windows XP. How they were ever able to download the file from the zoo that is the Vista…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12 '06

Sony E Series: Post-It Notes Landing Strip

Sony’s E Series LCDs have a blank space at the bottom that the company suggests you fill with Post-it notes. And just below the display is a groove for pens and pencils. The 1280×1024 displays have 17″ (SDM-E76D) and 19″ (SDM-E96D) screens, can be connected with both DVI and D-sub inputs, and actually have a…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12 '06

PC Consumes 8.5 Watts, Has No Moving Parts

Nigerians have been so busy trying to introduce everyone on the Internet to the son of the late president of that war-torn country who needs you to help him move US$21,320,000 million out of the country, they’ve had little time for anything else. But instead of giving it away, someone has taken that boatload of…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 12 '06

Volvo’s Fully Automatic Brakes

Volvo’s Collision Warning System with brake support was launched recently in its S80, where a red light flashes and a buzzer sounds if you’re about to run into something. It even goes a step further and applies more brake pressure if you’re not stopping fast enough. Now, the company is working on the next generation…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12 '06

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Tech News Charlie White Jun 10 '06

Ring Thing: Portal to Nirvana

We’re seeing more bottle openers passing through our news filter lately, and this budding phenomenon started a conversation about the quality of beer you’ll find in bottles that need openers to extract their contents. Word has it that there is life beyond Budweiser, and here’s just the discreet tool that will help you discover that…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 9 '06

Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player Delayed

Sony quietly announced on its Sony Style website that the BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc Player won’t be shipping until “on or about August 15, 2006.” This is not quite the date the company had originally announced for the $1000 player, which was to coincide with the launch of the first disks. Samsung’s first Blu-ray player has…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 9 '06

Casio XJ-S35 Pocket Projector

The quality of projectors gets better and better as they shrink, and the Casio XJ-S35 DLP projector is a prime example of that. This 1024×768 hotshot has 2000 lumens of brightness and a contrast ratio of 1800:1, and although it’s not exactly pocketable, it’s nice and small at just 10 inches wide by 8 inches…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 9 '06

Next-Gen Bluetooth (3.0?) On the Way

A much faster version of Bluetooth is on the way, and officials with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group say products using the wireless protocol may be on the market as early as 2007. The next-generation Bluetooth is said to operate at similar distances (around 30 feet, best case) to today’s Bluetooth 2.0 but is a…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 9 '06

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Thanko Noiseless Keyboard

HD DVD-Packing Notebook, the LG S1-P555K

HDMI Cable: Price Gouging?

Gizmodo Today

By the Numbers: 2006 FIFA World Cup

CompUSA Clueless about InterWebs

USB Hub, Artistic Twist

Epson Creates Flexible Electronic Paper

“T” is for TV: Sony Vaio T Series

Seeing Machine Sheds a Little Light

Samsung Digimax A503 Reviewed (Verdict: Solid BeginnerCam)

Dual Booting Vista and XP Explained

Sony E Series: Post-It Notes Landing Strip

PC Consumes 8.5 Watts, Has No Moving Parts

Volvo’s Fully Automatic Brakes

Gizmodo Today

Ring Thing: Portal to Nirvana

Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player Delayed

Casio XJ-S35 Pocket Projector

Next-Gen Bluetooth (3.0?) On the Way

How to Watch Argentina vs Algeria for Free Live Stream

Katie Dippold Knows You Want More Rosemary and Dale on ‘Widow’s Bay’

Microsoft Mulls China’s DeepSeek for Copilot, Probably to Trump’s Chagrin

OpenAI Is Growing Fast. Its Losses Are Growing Faster

Tesla’s Cybercab May Be Its Most Efficient EV Yet, Despite a Very Slow Rollout of Its Robotaxi Service

This $1.33 VPN is the Cheapest Way to Stream World Cup 2026 Anywhere (All 104 Matches)

‘Hexed’ Teaser Trailer Casts a Charming Spell

How to Watch Iraq vs Norway Live Stream Free From Anywhere

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Lee Sung Jin Promises a ‘Really Exciting New Take’ on the X-Men

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