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Upskirt 3000 BabeLift® Debuts at CEDIA 07

Actually, it’s really a TV stand. But the up-and-down ogling goes on non-stop. Okay, okay, the TV lift system this filly is riding is the DL-39 by a company called Nexus 21. [Nexus 21]

Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 1080 UB, Cheapest 1080p Projector in the World

We got a close-up look at the Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 1080 UB projector we scooped for you the other day, the cheapest 1080p projector in the world at an unofficial $2699 (but that might not be the exact number, according to Epson). Epson added a new chipset that raised its native (not dynamic) contrast…

Toshiba’s New Regza LCD TV’s Bezel Touted as World’s Thinnest

Toshiba’s been shipping its Cinema Series Regza LCD 1080p displays for a while now, but we just wanted to show you the newest member of that club, with the thinnest bezel we’ve seen yet. Check out this 46-incher, with a .9-inch border around the outside that Toshiba is calling SNB, or Super Narrow Bezel. Looks…

Panasonic Rolls Out 720 AX200 Projector Designed for Gaming, Also Updates 1080p AE2000

Panasonic announced an update to its AX line of 720p projectors today, and this one’s the AX200, specially designed for gamers with significantly increased response time. Panasonic says it has improved the projector’s signal processing, so the time between pressing a button on a gaming controller and the results showing up on the screen is…

Sharp Jumps Into the Blu-ray Player Derby With its Aquos BD-HP20U

Sharp made a bit of news today when it rolled out its brand-new BD-HP20U Blu-ray player at CEDIA, the first one to bear the Aquos name. Sharp calls this pretty little temptress a “slim profile model,” and rightfully so. It’s tiny-slim. Sharp is proud of the fact that it builds most of the components inside…

8GB iPhone Price Cut by $200, 4GB iPhone Gone

The price of an 8GB iPhone just got lower, and the 4GB iPhone is on its way out, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He announced the 8GB iPhone’s new price will be $399, down $200 from its original $599 price. Well now, how does that make those of us early adopters who dropped $600…

iTunes Store Coming to iPhone

Steve Jobs said the iTunes Store is coming to the iPhone. It’ll be included in an update to the iPhone software this month. Take a look at the pic above for an idea of how this will look.

iPod nano Shape-Shifts Into Next Generation

Click to viewThe next iPod nano made its debut appearance at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this morning, bringing along video playback features and a slimmer, wider form factor that was surprisingly close to the obligatory mockups that heralded its arrival. [UPDATE: more pics, specs and prices after the jump] Slimmed down, its wide…

Epson to Ship Lowest-Priced 1080p Projector Yet

We just got the scoop from Epson: the company says it will indeed deliver that new-and-improved 1080p projector that we told you about earlier today to the United States this December. It will be called the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 UB, and most startling of all is its price: $2699, a full $300 less…

Germans Plan Colossal New Great Pyramid

Giving new meaning to the phrase “we will bury you,” a group of Germans has decided to build a new Great Pyramid that’s ten times the size and more than twice the height of the original at nearly 2000 feet tall. A group of German builders has gotten together with Dutch architect Rem Koolhaus for…

Coolness Roundup: Say Goodbye to HDMI Cables for Good?

This week on the 102nd edition of Coolness Roundup, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher talk wireless HDMI, how it will work and what it means to you and me. The Gurus of Cool also notice a few 3D television sets and monitors and wonder if they will be a big flop,…

Epson Shows Off Even Better EMP-TW2000 1080p Projector, Should be Cheap, Too

Just when we were thinking that Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 1080p projector was a great deal at $3000, the company comes along and stomps that down with an even better model, the EMP-TW2000. Set for a November ship date in Japan and probably later in the United States, this one trumps its predecessor with a…

Dell Speeds Up Precision Laptop Line with its M6300, Packing Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Processor

Look out for the high-end Dell Precision laptops, with the new goosed-up M6300 flagship rolling out today. This one slam-dunks Dell’s previous-best Precision M4300’s 2.4GHz processor with Intel’s latest 64-bit Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X7900, the 2.8GHz processor that Dell says is an exclusive with its mobile M6300 workstations. With its 17-inch 1920×1200 screen,…

Sony Trying to Tease Us With Upcoming Egg-Shaped Rolly Music Player

When we heard the rumor mill cranking out murky info about the Sony “Rolly” music player, all we knew was that it’s egg shaped, might have built-in speakers and it has motion-activated features on board. Now Sony has opened up a teasing Rolly website with too many lame-ass and evasive videos on board, further hinting…

Starbucks Makes the Leap to Single-Serve Coffee in Upcoming Maker by Bosch

Stop the presses for the coffee addicts, because Starbucks, the 800-pound gorilla of the java trade, has decided to blast into the single-serving coffee market this December, serving up four of its hyper-expensive blends to go into special coffee makers that will now be made by Bosch, as you see in the picture here. Until…

USB RC Car, Controlled From Your PC Screen, Turns Desk Paradise Into Parking Lot

Look out everybody, it’s finally available today. No one will suspect a thing when your tiny USB RC car is parked inside its charging garage next to your PC. But then the minuscule Mini Cooper comes busting out the door, and you’re controlling it right there on your PC screen, beeping its noisy horn, parallel…

Sleek Audio SA6 Earphones Let You Change the EQ With Interchangeable Parts

Here’s a unique idea: Sleek Audio just rolled out its SA6 earphones with interchangeable parts that can either accentuate the highs or lows according to your whim. Called the VQ System, you’re offered a choice of three small attachments to the earbuds that regulate the amount of treble you’ll hear. On the other side of…

Musicians’ reps in UK to license 10 million songs to YouTube, the online video giant to pay up big, deal worth “tens of millions of pounds.” [Physorg]

FunKix Merges High Tech With Hacky Sacks

Here’s a cross between a Hacky Sack and a football, and it’s called FunKix, billed as a techno-filled sports sack for your kicking and gadget-lusting enjoyment. Each one of these little kicksters does its own digital trick. The FunKix Digi has a digital counter, recording your time and number of kicks on its LCD display.…

Steve Jobs and VW Chairman Talk iCar

A Volkswagen spokesperson told German magazine Capital that an iCar may be on the way. Steve Jobs and VW Chairman Martin Winterkorn got together in California a few days ago to “plan an intensive co-operation with the building of vehicles.” It might even be called an iCar. This is against a background of chatter we…