Jason Chen

Samsung OLED Product Roadmap Shows 40-inch TVs in 2010

OLED fans will have to be patient, as Samsung’s roadmap for the technology shows them only in small handheld devices for this year and next, ramping up to laptop and desktop displays in ’09 and finally 40-inch TVs in 2010. After these TVs invade your home and take all your money in the process, Samsung…

Seagate 2.5-inch Hard Drive Flaw Affecting MacBooks?

Retrodata, a data-recovery company, has just issued a warning for Apple MacBook owners with Seagate hard drives that were manufactured in China and have a firmware version of 7.01. Apparently these have a fatal flow that cause their read/write heads to fail mechanically, scratching up the hard drive surface as pictured and making data unrecoverable…

How to Comment: Leopard

We’re definitely enjoying the upgrades that a new OS brings, from increased productivity to new features we didn’t even know we needed. We’ve got a Question of the Day today on Leopard and how you’re faring with the install. Like it? Dislike it? Can’t even get it installed? Let us know. Here’s how to comment:…

Gamepark GP2X F-200 DivX/Xvid-Playing Handheld With Emulator Now Available

The crazy GP2X F-200 Gamepark handheld is available today for $169 on Play-Asia. What’s so special about this handheld? For one, it’s running Linux and can play back DivX, XVid and MPEG4 at 30FPS, or TV-Out your movies that are encoded at 720×480. For two, it supports emulation, which means you can load your old…

Lenovo Y410 Notebook Has Facial Recognition, Special Media Playback

Lenovo’s previously Asia-only Y-series notebooks just crossed the Bering Strait and landed in the US, bringing both facial recognition, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, and a special Shuttle Center control that lets you play back music and movies without booting the main system. Underneath these special features are pretty standard-issue equipment for a laptop around $735: 1.46GHz…

3’s Skype/Cellphone Phone Launches in UK

The Skype/Cellphone we’ve been keeping our eye on has just launched under provider 3 in the UK. It looks quite similar to Netgear’s old Skype phones, but of course has standard cellphone calling as well as Skyping capabilities. It’s cool because Skype to Skype is free, but SkypeOut and SkypeIn—which uses the Skype network for…

Dealzmodo: Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player For $197 + 5 Free Movies

You don’t have to wait for Wal-Mart’s $198 HD DVD player to be in stock, you can pick up the same deal at Circuit City online for the same price. All you need is $197.99 and you’ll get a Toshiba HD-A2, which still qualifies for that five free HD DVD giveaway Toshiba’s holding from now…

Comedian Stephen Fry Gets Guardian Column on Gadgets

Hoping to put us out of a job, The Guardian gave British comedian Stephen Fry his own column about gadgets. You’ll remember that we wrote about Fry’s huge rant on smartphones (the same rant that got him this job), taking to task just about every manufacturer (including Apple) for sub-par work. In his new column,…

iPhone Nano or Cheap Chinese Knockoff?

These shots originated over at Gadgetzone.nl, where they wonder aloud whether this is or isn’t an upcoming iPhone Nano. Their source “implores” them that it really is the iPhone Nano and it originates inside Apple, but unless Apple’s security broke down horribly between when the regular iPhone was in development and now, it’s pretty unlikely.…

Leopard Lines are Ridiculous

If the video this morning didn’t give you a good idea of how excited New Yorkers were about Leopard, check out this one. Richard Blakeley caught enough Apple-heads to fill up half of an entire city block. In the rain. Guess they really love iChat video effects. Video by Richard Blakeley https://gizmodo.com/man-on-the-street-are-normal-people-looking-forward-to-315698

Leopard Deliveries Delayed at Apple’s Request?

Update: Wait, what’s going on? Is Apple actually the one responsible for FedEx shipment delays? This is what we just got in our tipbox: This is absolutely astonishing. I’m on the phone right now with [redacted], Customer Advocate for FedEx. She, and [redacted], employee #[redacted], Operations Manager at the San Jose Express delivery station, are…

Fry’s has $10 off Leopard today for anybody who’s not keen on getting their $10 from Amazon. Pick it up at 6PM and you get to bypass the lines at Apple stores. [Fry’s]

Apple’s actually giving out free T-Shirts to people who get to stores first to get in on Leopard-mania. Supplies are limited, but if you really want to look like an Apple employee, get down to your local store before 6PM to get yours. Hurry hurry! [MacRumors]

iChat Video is Awesome, But Not Always 100% Clean (Video NSFW)

Click to viewWe’ve been playing with iChat Video chat and screen sharing and it’s pretty fantastic—when we can get it to work. So far, it’s failed to connect half the time, and the other half of the time it works perfectly. (Keep in mind this is day one, so we’ll update as we find out…

Bathmat Slippers Prevent Wet Bathroom Tiles

We don’t know about you, but bathmats are a necessity for us to not drench the whole floor of the bathroom when we get out of the shower. This MatWalk bathmat, on the other hand, takes things to an entirely new level by allowing you to wear your bathmat as slippers, essentially protecting the whole…

Man on the Street: Are Normal People Looking Forward to Leopard?

Our man Richard Blakeley went down to the Apple store and interrogated New Yorkers about the new OS (huh? Apple’s got a new OS?). It seems that people actually know about Leopard, even though they’re not exactly sure what it does. We just hope the new FEEENDER improvements help that poor man with his FEEENDER.…

Ziova Streaming DVD/DivX Player Gets Firmware Update

The Ziova CS505 we reviewed earlier this year just got a firmware update, adding features like a GUI redesign, commercial skip and some other minor details you can find in the changelog. It’s not a major update in terms of functionality, but as you can see from the gallery, it looks totally different. Much more…

Xbox 360 and HD DVD Contest Winner!

Congratulations to Kevin Griffin for winning our Xbox 360 and HD DVD contest. Sorry for the delay in picking the winner. For everyone who didn’t win, we’ll have many other contests soon for which Kevin is not eligible to win. Sucks for you Kevin!

Ten Things You Should Know Before You Upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard

Click to viewThose of you who haven’t been poring over all of Mac OS X Leopard’s feature list (because you actually have lives) probably only know a few things about it. There’s this new backup software…and…some iChat stuff? That’s where we come in. We distill all the features down to ten points to help you…

Tributaries Flexible Power Strip Bends 90 Degrees

We’ve seen our share of interesting power strips, but Tributaries’ PWRS-T10 has five standard outlets and five twistable outlets that give you a good way to plug in multiple large AC adapters at once. Because each one of the five slots can be twisted at up to 90 degrees, you can position them at say,…