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A 3GB CompactFlash memory card

While one gigabyte might sound like a lot of memory to squeeze onto a CompactFlash card, Pretec’s just announced a three gigabyte card that will be available by the end of this year (there are 1.5GB and 2GB models coming as well). The initial price of the 3GB card? A staggering $2,499, so you’d better…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 21

Giving gadgets

Great article in the Circuits section of the New York Times today about the perils of giving and receiving gadgets as gifts. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 21

Motorola’s new cameraphone

Motorola’s new T720i cellphone comes with a cool looking digital camera attachment that swivels around. It’d make a little more sense if the camera attached to the top of the phone rather than the bottom. Read Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 21

Segway’s on sale

Amazon is taking pre-orders on the ultimate gadget: Segway’s Human Transporter. At $4,950, they aren’t cheap, and they’re not available for delivery for until after March 1st of next year, so don’t expect to find one waiting for you beside the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. Unless of course you enter Amazon’s Segway HT Early…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 21

120GB hard drive shoot-out

GamersDepot.com puts two huge 120GB hard drives to the test, Seagate’s Barracuda ATAV and Western Digital’s Caviar SE. Read [Via Envy News

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 21

Buy a Treo, get a free DVD player

There are rumors floating about of Handspring’s demise – apparently the Treo just isn’t selling as well as expected. In what one might take as a sign of desperation, Handspring is now offering free DVD players along with the purchase of a Treo 90. 270, or 300, even though they’ve dropped the prices of those…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 20

Gateway’s Tablet PC

Rather than develop its own line of Tablet PCs, Gateway has decided to rebrand the M1200 from Motion Computing, which has a 12.1-inch screen and is less than one inch thick. Gateway’s rebranded Tablet PC will be unveiled on December 9th, and have retail price of around $2,500. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 20

Custom car stereo

A new car stereo from Blaupunkt that automatically adjusts its output to best suit the particular acoustics of whatever car it is installed in. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 20

Another digital entertainment hub

HP’s Media Center PC may have been the first computer to come loaded with Windows XP Media Center Edition, but the Navigator Pro is the first PC running the new OS that actually looks like it belongs with the rest of your audio/visual equipment. It’s much smaller than HP’s Media Center PC (just 7.4″x7.88″x11.82″), but…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 20

17″ LCD monitor on sale at Amazon

Envision’s EN-7100s 17″ LCD monitor , which received an Editors’ Choice Award from CNET, is on sale at Amazon for just $449.99 after rebate. Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 20

SciAm on the Simputer

Scientific American reviews the Simputer, a handheld that is aimed at the world’s poor rather than at corporate executives: “We envisage that a village might club together to buy one,” notes Shashank Garg, vice president for product development at Encore. A farmer in India, for example, could use the Simputer to find out the latest…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 20

Philips converges on convergence

Digeo isn’t the only company going after the “convergence” market. Philips has just announced its own convergence device, the Wireless Home AV Platform, a box that wirelessly connects your PC to your TV and stereo, so you can watch or listen to video or music files stored on PC. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 19

Nokia takes it to the EDGE

The Nokia 6200, the first phone from Nokia to run on the GSM/EDGE network, which can in theory support data speeds of up to 384 kbps (which is practically DSL), though apparently 118 kbps is more realistic for everyday use. That’s still pretty fast, and more than twice dial-up. No word on when the 6200…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 19

James Bond: Gadgets Freak

The latest Bond film is about to come out, and MSNBC has a great article on the fact and the fiction behind the gadgets that have appeared in the films over the past forty years. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 19

Moxi’s digital entertainment hub

Any article about digital home entertainment hubs and the convergence of PCs and TVs and stereos that’s supposed to be just around the corner is bound to mention Moxi. It’s a personal video recorder with a 100GB hard drive that can also play MP3s, MPEGs, DVDs, and function as server and a router for your…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 19

Field Report from Akihabara

Gizmodo friend Gabriel Meister has a field report from Akihabara, Tokyo’s famed consumer electronics. Here’s some pictures and notes he took on some of the cutting-edge gadgets he found there: “An NTT DoCoMo wireless handset, presumably part of this. So strange, I picked it up and couldn’t figure out what it was for the life…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 19

It’s all in the wrist

There was a lot of speculation last week about who would be the latest licensee of the Palm operating system, and it turned out to be Fossil, a name that almost no one was expecting to hear. Fossil introduced a Wrist PDA earlier this year that was really just a companion to a Pocket PC,…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 18

The ever-expanding laptop

HP’s the latest PC manufacturer to come out with a supersized laptop. The Compaq Presario 3005US has a 16-inch screen, weighs over 8 pounds, and has a 2GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and CD-RW/DVD combo drive. It’s designed to compete with other 16″ models from Toshiba and Sony, but…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 18

The big day

Dell’s two new Axim 5 Pocket PCs officially come out today, just in time for the holidays. It’s going to be very interesting to see how these shake things up,, since with their pricing ($299 for the “advanced” model, and $199 for the “basic”) it looks like Dell isn’t just going after the rest of…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 18

Sony’s new five-megapixel camera

Digit-Life.com review of Sony’s new 5.2-megapixel digital camera that’s coming out this Friday, the Cyber-shot DSC F717. It’s basically an upgrade of the F707, with a few improvements like an increase in megapixels (from 4.9) and the use of USB 2.0 for file-transfer to a PC rather than USB 1.1. Read Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 18

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A 3GB CompactFlash memory card

Giving gadgets

Motorola’s new cameraphone

Segway’s on sale

120GB hard drive shoot-out

Buy a Treo, get a free DVD player

Gateway’s Tablet PC

Custom car stereo

Another digital entertainment hub

17″ LCD monitor on sale at Amazon

SciAm on the Simputer

Philips converges on convergence

Nokia takes it to the EDGE

James Bond: Gadgets Freak

Moxi’s digital entertainment hub

Field Report from Akihabara

It’s all in the wrist

The ever-expanding laptop

The big day

Sony’s new five-megapixel camera

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