Charlie White

Sony LF-V30 LocationFree Video Streamer Reviewed (Verdict: Not Bad)

Ever since Sony introduced us to the LF-V30 LocationFree Base Station last summer, we were wondering if this place-shifting Slingbox precursor could deliver the goods. Now our buddies at Maximum PC have taken the VAIO-branded video streamer for a test drive, calling the image quality from its new HD-source-handling component inputs “excellent” even though it’s…

Solid Gold 2008 Calendar for Clueless Rich Fucks

If you’re going to put a 2008 calendar on your wall, might as well spend $257,000 on one made of solid gold, right? An opportunistic Tokyo jeweler hops on the soak-the-rich bandwagon for the second year in a row with this 26.3-inch-tall calendar that consists of 13.23 pounds of 24k gold. How ostentatious can you…

Marantz VP-15S1 Projector Brings on the High-End 1080p

Marantz rolled out another one of its higher-end 1080p DLP projectors for home theater today, wrapping up this VP-15S1 in the same package as last year’s model but significantly enhancing the specs. The contrast ratio is punched up, from 6500:1 in the old model to 10,000:1 on this one, and it’s significantly brighter, up to…

Fentix Cube: Play Games with Light and Multi-Touch

Behold the Fentix Cube, where each of its intensely colorful sides gives you multi-touch control of a variety of games and electric light shows. The fun starts at a Rubik’s Cube-like diversion, and then goes far beyond into all sorts of puzzles and enough multidimensional shenanigans to give you dementia. It’s invented by designer and…

Buy a Zune, Fight Breast Cancer

Since we’re such breast fans here at the Giz, we wouldn’t think of letting Breast Cancer Awareness Month pass by without a mention. The best news is you can celebrate boobies, get yourself a 30GB limited edition pink Zune, and fight breast cancer at the same time. Unlike some other charitable music-player-selling schemes that only…

AU Optronics unveils 0.69mm ultra-thin mobile device panel and multi-touch coolness [AU Optronics]

Robot Cannon Goes Berserk, Kills 9

A robot cannon began wildly and autonomously firing its huge gun in South Africa last Friday, killing 9 soldiers and wounding 14. The Oerlikon GDF-005 antiaircraft gun suddenly began uncontrollably shooting as it swung back and forth, spraying hundreds of high-explosive 35mm cannon shells all over the place. The crazed robot’s handlers are still trying…

Sony VAIO VGN-UX490N mini notebook PC with 4.5″ screen raises solid-state hard drive capacity to 48GB, ships October 21 for $2500 [Amazon]

Strida 5.0 Folding Bicycle Sheds Weight, Improves Overall

The folding bike continues to evolve, and here’s one of the best, the Strida 5.0. Its folding mechanism is about as simple as you can get, collapsing in seconds into a size that fits easily into a car trunk or under your desk. It’s a significant improvement over version 4, with disc brakes instead of…

Edge Tech shipping 32GB DiskGO thumb drive for record low price of $399.95 [Business Wire]

3D Mailbox Level 2 Now Includes Airport Sim

What if you could have all your email delivered to you by Boeing 747s, simulated as if they’re pulling into LAX? That’s what the free $29.95 3D Mailbox Level 2 software can do, giving you a 3D animation—complete with air traffic control tower chatter—for each sent and received email. Your emails will arrive and depart…

Art of Shaving Fusion Chrome Collection Power Razor Has a Tiny Headlight

If you can’t stand the thought of a buzzing, whining electric contraption grinding away at your face every morning, maybe this new Art of Shaving Fusion Chrome Collection Power Razor with a tiny spotlight is just the face-scraping utensil you’ve been looking for. The luxury razor company teamed up with blademaker Gillette for this handle…

Polly Want a Wireless Doorbell?

What, is this International Doorbell Week? The techno-doorbell scene continues its explosive growth and innovation, and following those two more-sophisticated MP3 doorbells we showed you earlier this week, this Chinese Recordable Parrot Wireless Doorbell approaches the realm of the absurd. This cheapshit $22 plastic bird is not like those doorbells, such as the ReBell and…

Focus-Broken Canon EOS-1D Mark III to be Fixed Soon

Although we were highly impressed with the $4500 Canon EOS-1D Mark III digital SLR camera when we first saw it last winter (check out our video of it snapping off 10 frames per second like a house afire), the high-end super camera turned out to have a goofy problem: Its autofocus didn’t work in bright…

Eizo SX3031W-H Display Joins the 30-Inch Club

The 30-inch ultra-high-rez (2560×1600) monitor derby heats up even more now with Eizo jumping in with its SX3031W-H display, to be released first in Japan December 19th and maybe even making its way to US shores before too long. If so, it’ll have to compete against 30-inchers at that same resolution from Apple ($1,799), Dell…

Cigarette Extinguisher Has a Big Mouth (NSFW)

Oh, for crying out loud. What are those kooky Japanese people going to think of next? Inserting a butt into this innocent gal’s mouth? It even sounds wrong. There are so many things here that we don’t approve of, we’ll just have to make a bulleted list: • Smoking • Harlotry • Improper fantasies •…

You Are There: Olympus Rolls Out Long-Awaited E-3 DSLR at Swank NYC Event

You read the press release and saw all the product pics, and now we take you to the stylin’ camera event Olympus held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, laying on the fancyness and even carving some ice for the benefit of us ink-stained (pixel-stained?) wretches. Check out the star of…

XtremeMac Tango Studio, a Dock for the Latest iPods

Xtreme Mac must’ve thought its old Tango iPod dock was getting a little long in the tooth and also bit too expensive, so now there’s Tango Studio, a more-compact room audio system and FM radio that works with just about any iPod, even the new ones. It has a retractable iPod dock that’s ambidextrous, able…

YourBell USB Doorbell Lets You Choose Your Chime

Doorbell technology is in growth mode, as evidenced by YourBell, yet another USB-connected doorbell that stores and plays MP3 and WAV files and uses your existing doorbell button. It’s similar to that ReBell we showed you yesterday. This one has a 4-inch speaker for so-called “CD-quality sound,” and it’s made out of your choice of…

Nokia N810 Internet Tablet Officially Announced

As we foreshadowed earlier, the Linux-based Nokia N810 internet tablet is now official. The little PC that’s scarcely larger than the palm of your hand hooks up to the internet via Wi-Fi, and also can snag a Bluetooth connection with your cellphone. With its highly desirable slide-out keyboard, looks like some tough competition for the…