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The Ambient Orb

Speaking of gadgets that change color, Alan Reiter has an excellent entry on the Ambient Orb, which first surfaced last year. The Ambient Orb is a handblown glass bulb that changes colors to reflect different kinds of information, like green if the stock market is up, red if it’s down, and yellow if it’s unchanged.…

Tech News Gizmodo May 22 '03

CNET on the world’s first high-definition consumer camcorder

A first look over at CNET at the GR-HD1 from JVC, the world’s first and only high-defintion camcorder for consumers. Only worthwhile if you also happen to own a high-defintion television as well, and that while it’s resolution is great, since the GR-HD1 uses a one-chip imaging sensor it isn’t as good at capturing color…

Tech News Gizmodo May 22 '03

Upgrade to USB 2.0 for Under $20

Amazon sale on IOGEAR’s 5-port USB 2.0 PCI card for desktop PCs. $17.54 after rebate. Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo May 22 '03

Light show MP3 player

TechTV on a new MP3 player from Bantam Interactive that also has an LCD screen that doubles as a digital photo viewer for creating slide shows with accompanying music. But the real appeal of the BA800 apparently is that its semi-translucent casing acts like a built-in light show, changing in time with the music when…

Tech News Gizmodo May 22 '03

The V@mp MPM-101

Another weird all-in-one gadget from Japan. The V@mp MPM-101 has a 2.5-inch color LCD screen and combines an MP3 player with a digital camera, a television (it even has a pull-out antenna), and an MPEG-4 video player. Comes out in Japan next month. Read

Tech News Gizmodo May 22 '03

Sprial bound

Prototype of a crazy new virtual keyboard that consists of coils that wrap around your fingers that use, “electrical contacts on thumbs and fingertips and/or alongside each finger to generate all the characters found on a traditional keyboard using traditional touch-typing skills.” Read [Via BoingBoing]

Tech News Gizmodo May 22 '03

GPS on an SD card

Matsushita is working on a GPS receiver for Pocket PCs that will fit onto a postage stamp-sized SD card. No word on when this might actually be released though. Read

Tech News Gizmodo May 21 '03

Segways in Paris; plus, the case of the missing Segway

A couple of Segway HT-related stories: Gothamist notes that Tad Friend and Amanda Hesser are riding around on a pair of Segways for Slate for some reason, possibly to further alienate us from the French. And The Smoking Gun has a copy of the police report filed in the first reported case of a stolen…

Tech News Gizmodo May 21 '03

The “indoor/outdoor” Tablet PC

Fujitsu is calling the latest version of its Stylistic ST series of Tablet PCs “indoor/outdoor,” but that doesn’t mean they’re ruggedized Tablet PCs you can use in the rain. It just means that they have a special 10.4-inch display that works well in direct sunlight. The rest of the new Stylistic ST sounds good though…

Tech News Gizmodo May 21 '03

Lego gadgets

Forget that Mac made from Lego bricks that Slashdot was all over the other day. Some guy has used Legos to build all sorts of crazy stuff, like a six-legged robot and some bizarre contraption that can solve a Rubik’s cube (pictured at right). Read

Tech News Gizmodo May 21 '03

IMFree review

Ross Rubin reviews the Motorola’s IMFree, making a few of the same criticisms about the wireless instant messaging device as we did when we first posted about the IMFree a few weeks ago: that it only does one thing (AOL Instant Messenger, thought it could conceivably do more) and has a remarkably limited range (it…

Tech News Gizmodo May 21 '03

I’MASPEAKER

From TDK, the world’s first CD case with built-in speakers. The I’MASPEAKER has two flat-panel speakerscan, space for up to 24 hour CDs, and a ludicrously stupid name. Read

Tech News Gizmodo May 21 '03

Amazon Sale on Digital Elph batteries

Pickup a spare Canon NB-1LH battery for their Digital Elph series for $39.94. No rebate necessary. Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo May 21 '03

Nokia’s new pen-based phone

This is brilliant: a new phone from Nokia which flips open to reveal a small pad where you can write out text with a stylus, sorta like the Grafitti area of a Palm PDA. Looks like the 6108 will be aimed at the Chinese market, where entering text with a pen is sure to prove…

Tech News Gizmodo May 20 '03

The Matrix Phone sells out

I4U reports that the new Matrix-themed phone from Samsung, the SPH-N270, has already sold out on the Samsung Matrix Online Store just five days after its release. Read

Tech News Gizmodo May 20 '03

New external DVD burner from Plextor

A new external DVD burner from Plextor. The PX-504UF can connect to a PC using either FireWire or USB 2.0 (a nice option to have), and burns DVDs in the DVD+R/RW format. Read

Tech News Gizmodo May 20 '03

AIBO EYES

It’s the fourth anniversary of the AIBO robotic dog, and to mark the occasion Sony’s releasing some new software for it called “AIBO EYES” and a introducing a new cobalt blue-colored AIBO. AIBO EYES will let you send your little robot an email and then automatically receive back a JPEG of what it’s looking at…

Tech News Gizmodo May 20 '03

The Neonode N1: just vaporware?

MSMobiles thinks it’s time to concede that the Neonode N1, a tiny new cellphone that runs on Windows CE, is just vaporware. The company behind the Neonode keeps pushing back the release, and recently had to cancel a planned Internet-only pre-sale of the phone due to “software issues.” Read

Tech News Gizmodo May 20 '03

Samsung SGH-T400

MobileBurn review of Samsung’s new color flip phone, the SGH-T400. The T400 is essentially an updated version of Samsung’s T100 phone, just lighter and with a 16-bit, rather than a 4-bit, display. Read UPDATE: Rich Brome of PhoneScoop writes in that the T400 won’t work in North America.

Tech News Gizmodo May 20 '03

How Shazam works

This isn’t exactly new, but Scientific American has a good piece on Shazam, a new service in the UK which identifies songs, and how it works. Anyone with a cellphone can call up Shazam, point the phone at the music they want identified for at least fifteen seconds, and then a few minutes later the…

Tech News Gizmodo May 20 '03

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The Ambient Orb

CNET on the world’s first high-definition consumer camcorder

Upgrade to USB 2.0 for Under $20

Light show MP3 player

The V@mp MPM-101

Sprial bound

GPS on an SD card

Segways in Paris; plus, the case of the missing Segway

The “indoor/outdoor” Tablet PC

Lego gadgets

IMFree review

I’MASPEAKER

Amazon Sale on Digital Elph batteries

Nokia’s new pen-based phone

The Matrix Phone sells out

New external DVD burner from Plextor

AIBO EYES

The Neonode N1: just vaporware?

Samsung SGH-T400

How Shazam works

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