Jason Chen, Author at Gizmodo

Format War Non-News and Rumor Smash: Wal-Mart Didn’t Order 2M HD DVD Players

Remember those rumors that Wal-Mart was going big in HD DVD and ordering 2 million cheapo Chinese HD DVD players? Yeah, that’s not so true. Fuh Yuan, the company supposedly taking the orders, just posted a correction regarding the orders, saying they “had not received yet.” Wal-Mart just asked them for a cost analysis and…

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Man Reviews 105 Power Supplies, Goes Insane, Recommends a Few

If you’re hardcore enough to review 105 power supplies, you’d better have some kind of spectacular testing regimen in place. The guys at matbe do, and they’ve come out the other side with a handful of recommendations on which one you should buy. For the nonmodular units, they recommend Akasa Power80, Antec Trio 650, Seasonic…

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Bush Office Countdown Keyring

We’ll leave the political debate for our concerned citizen cousins over at Wonkette, but here’s a Backwards Bush keychain that counts down the days he has left in office. So if you’re the kind of person who really needs to know exactly how much time is left until we need a new president, here ya…

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MadCatz PS3 Wireless Thumbpad Makes Typing Less of a Chore

Everyone who’s had to enter in their name, email, and address when signing up for a PS3 account knows how baby-drowningly-awful their on-screen keyboard is. Now with this $29.99 wireless thumbpad, you can at least get some kind of stopgap measure that doesn’t require you to have a full-sized wireless keyboard in your living room…

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Sony’s Blue Laser Diodes Down to $8 – PS3 and BD Player Price Cuts Soon?

Good news for Blu-ray fans. Sony’s just announced that they’re ramping up blue laser diode production yet again, which will lower the price to just around $8 each by June. What will this mean to you? Well, seeing as the diodes were the reason for the PS3 shortages this fall (and contributed to both the…

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Bullshit Button

Although this bullshit button is quite similar to Staple’s Easy Button, and both are actually available for purchase, the bullshit button actually does something useful. See, whenever your buddies make some outlandish claim, just slam on this button and it’ll pop out one of five “clever” sayings. • “(Beep) That was bullshit” • “(Siren) Bullshit…

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Dealzmodo: Woot-off!

We’re not sure why we still get excited about Woot-offs. Nostalgia, maybe. But if you’re at all interested in not doing any work and refreshing woot a bunch, head on over. Or just use one of those Woot-off checkers like you usually do. C’moooon bag ‘o crap! Woot

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PS3 Folding Update Coming Mañana, Adds More Speed

Just a quick note about the PlayStation 3 Folding @ Home app that’s been all the rage lately—you know, because there aren’t very many actual games to play on the system. Tomorrow Sony’s releasing an update that both increases folding performance (nice) and improves the user location display map so you can see where you…

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Battery Adaptor Turns AAs into Cs

Do you have any C batteries lying around? Does anybody? Now you can turn any regular AA battery—which you’re bound to have loads of—into a C battery with this Battery Adaptor II. Each adaptor costs only $5.50, which means for $11, you can have a lifetime’s worth of C batteries without actually buying C batteries.…

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S1Digital Joins CableCard Media Center Bonanza in Early May

Now that ATI’s CableCARD problems are fixed and CableLab’s five-week certification process is almost done, more companies are jumping in on offering CableCARD-compatible media centers. The latest is S1Digital, which just announced that they will offer Media Centers and Servers with HD DVD and Blu-ray playback, 1080p HDMI output, 7.1 channel surround, multi-terabyte storage, quad-processor…

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Sprint’s PPC-6800 Gets Officially Spec’d

It’s good news day for Sprint users! Not only do you get the BlackBerry 8830, your corporate overlords have just released a data sheet detailing what you’ll get with the upcoming PPC-6800, or HTC Titan, as it’s better known as. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-8830-yeah-sprints-getting-one-too-and-its-255235 The phone itself will have WM5 (darn, no WM6), a Qualcomm MSM7500 400MHz processor,…

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AT&T Gets Expresscard and USB 3G Cards

Great news for AT&T data users today, as the Option GT MAx 3.6 ExpressCard and the Sierra Wireless AirCard 875U USB card have just been made available. The 875U USB version is Mac compatible when you download the client from Sierra’s Web page, and the Expresscard Mac drivers can be downloaded here as well. Pricing?…

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Brando’s Flexible Wireless Keyboard

If there’s one thing we wish we could do in our day, it’s type in the bathtub. With this Wireless Multimedia Flexible Keyboard from Brando, we can almost do that. Much better than the Bendi Light-up Keyboard (because that one’s got wires), this wireless one uses the 2.4GHz frequency to give you the freedom to…

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HTC Herald Coming to T-Mobile

The HTC Herald hasn’t really been around since its video debut last year. Reason? It was hiding at the FCC. We secretly read the FCC’s girly diary and found out the slim successor to the Wizard was going to be headed to T-Mobile sometime soon. An exerpt: https://gizmodo.com/htc-herald-reviewed-verdict-thin-and-awesome-211475 “Dear Diary. Oh my god, you wudnt…

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Insight Watch Has Built-in Magnifier

HELLO OLD PEOPLE. THIS WATCH HAS A MAGNIFYING GLASS BUILT IN SO YOU CAN SEE. HAVE YOUR CHILDREN BUY YOU ONE AND YOU WILL NEVER TIP 35% BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THE THREE WAS AN EIGHT. Product Page [Firststreetonline via UberGizmo]

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BlackBerry 8830? Yeah, Sprint’s Getting One Too. And it’s Black

Verizon’s not the only one getting in on the BlackBerry 8830 fun. Sprint’s got one available July, but you can pre-order one tomorrow. https://gizmodo.com/rim-blackberry-8830-to-debut-on-verizon-wireless-may-14-255054 Product Page [Sprint]

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Pharos GPS Phone 600 Hands-On: Rarely Get Lost Again

As much as we’ve enjoyed Windows Mobile phones and GPSes, we haven’t actually had the pleasure of using something that combined both into one device. That’s why Pharos’s GPS Phone 600 is a welcome addition to our gadget arsenal whenever we have to go anywhere and we’re not driving. We’ll skip the Windows Mobile 5…

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LG and VW Team For MP3 Player

Now, this doesn’t make a whole lotta sense. What do you get when you take LG’s Prada-ish design and combine it with VW? Apparently an LG/VW MP3 player. There aren’t very many details here, but all we know is that there’s a 2.4-inch (possibly touch) screen, 2 to 4GB of storage, and comes in red,…

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Dealzmodo: Sam’s Club Xbox 360 HD DVD Drives for $72

If you’re looking for a great deal on HD DVD drives for the Xbox 360, now’s the perfect time to hit up Sam’s Club. Reader Chris tipped us off to this $72 deal, which is coming as a result of “Wal-Mart” not stocking these HD DVD drives anymore. Chris isn’t sure whether they meant only…

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Sony Pro-HG Duo Media is the New King of Memory Sticks

By going to an 8-bit parallel interface from a 4-bit parallel interface, these backwards compatible Memory Stick Pro-HGs give you twice as much transfer rate, which in turn gives you up to 30MB/s (or 240 Mbps). Why is this important? Because the newest top of the line camcorders will be using this soon to take…

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Format War Non-News and Rumor Smash: Wal-Mart Didn’t Order 2M HD DVD Players

Man Reviews 105 Power Supplies, Goes Insane, Recommends a Few

Bush Office Countdown Keyring

MadCatz PS3 Wireless Thumbpad Makes Typing Less of a Chore

Sony’s Blue Laser Diodes Down to $8 – PS3 and BD Player Price Cuts Soon?

Bullshit Button

Dealzmodo: Woot-off!

PS3 Folding Update Coming Mañana, Adds More Speed

Battery Adaptor Turns AAs into Cs

S1Digital Joins CableCard Media Center Bonanza in Early May

Sprint’s PPC-6800 Gets Officially Spec’d

AT&T Gets Expresscard and USB 3G Cards

Brando’s Flexible Wireless Keyboard

HTC Herald Coming to T-Mobile

Insight Watch Has Built-in Magnifier

BlackBerry 8830? Yeah, Sprint’s Getting One Too. And it’s Black

Pharos GPS Phone 600 Hands-On: Rarely Get Lost Again

LG and VW Team For MP3 Player

Dealzmodo: Sam’s Club Xbox 360 HD DVD Drives for $72

Sony Pro-HG Duo Media is the New King of Memory Sticks

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

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Labubus Might Be Labu-Bust After Pop Mart Posts Record Share Loss

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

Marvel Might Have Finally Dealt With One of the Most Hated ‘Spider-Man’ Characters Around

China Is Trying to Grow New Forests in This Notorious Mega-Desert. It’s Working

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