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Time Warner Cable Not Supporting TiVo Series3 Units With CableCard?

This bit of strange news came in via PVRBlog today. Apparently a user at Consumer Fury emailed Time Warner to see whether they will be providing Cablecard support for the upcoming TiVo Series 3 boxes. TW’s answer? https://gizmodo.com/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon-188226 Time Warner Cable of Raleigh does not provide support for or allow TIVO devices on our cable…

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I-OData USB2-C9RWG SDHC 16-In-1 Card Reader

If you didn’t pick up the SanDisk 4GB SDHC card with card reader, I-O Data has another way for you to get your SDHC goodness onto your computer. Their USB2-C9RWG sixteen-in-one card reader is SDHC compatible, as well as fitting memory stocks, compact flash and SD cards. A couple other shapes are there on the…

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Handheld Semi-Portable Gamecube

Ben the Geamecube fan spent a month of lonely nights modding his Gamecube controller, Gamecube, and LCD screen into a portable franken-console of Nintendo delights. This thing cost him around 200 ($370) to build, and weighs 2 kg (4 lbs). He could have made this completely portable by adding a battery pack, but he decided…

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Virtual Reality Used To Help Treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The Virtual Reality Medical center in San Diego just got $4 million from Naval Research to improve their VR systems to help treat soldiers who are returning from battle with PTSD. How does VR work to treat PTSD? Doctors and psychologists set up a situation where the soldier is back in battle, in this case,…

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TenGO Free For Pocket PC/PDA

This Pocket PC/PDA software uses predictive text input and six “buttons” arranged in the standard QWERTY layout to let you input text much faster with a stylus than you would with a traditional software keyboard. In fact, the demo shows a nice looking lady with a teddy bear, in bed, entering in text at 72…

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Kyocera Oystr Mobile Launched on Virgin Mobile

The pearl-white finish of the Kyocera Oystr looks similar to the Helio handset, but this Oystr unfortunately doesn’t have a jewel on the inside. The phone is a pretty low-end specimen, with only access to Virgin Mobile content such as wallpapers and screensavers, two way speakerphone, text messaging, TTY/TDD and a color screen to differentiate…

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HTC Star Trek On Cingular Around August 8th?

A tipster writes in that the HTC Star Trek, which was FCC Approved on Monday, will be available as the Cingular 3125 around August 8th. https://gizmodo.com/trekkers-rejoice-htc-strtrk-fcc-approved-189435 He says the retail price will be $299.99, but has a $100 rebate to get to $199.99. This, most likely, after you’ve signed over two years of your soul…

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Peekaboo Isolation Chamber Chair

Showing shades of the Cone of Silence, the Isolation Chamber Chair is a design concept that lets you shut out the world so you can concentrate on your game of Tetris or your incoming text message from your sweetie. In a time when we are pulling down existing barriers to promote encounters and a sense…

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BenQ IMS-100 Portable Bluetooth Speakers

Here’s an interesting product from BenQ. Instead of tying speakers to your Bluetooth-enabled portable music device or phone, these speakers are Bluetooth A2DP enabled so you can stream music to it from a distance. This means you can control your music player/phone while sitting on your couch while placing the speakers on the bookshelf—no more…

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Other Bits and Bytes

•Interesting Sound Bites From Vodafone’s Annual Shareholder Meeting [Cellular News] •Space Walks Now Available [Sybarites] •Hello Kitty Tooth (A little disgusting) [Seihin World] •Lubricated Discs May Get Laptop Drives Up To 1 TB [Information Week] •Toast Enables Blu-ray On A Mac Soon [Ars Technica]

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HTC Wiki Site

T-Mobile MDA and Verizon XV6700 owners know that although their phone is powerful, it may be pretty daunting to set up. Hooking up the mobile internet connection, setting up email and syncing the phone with your Outlook or OS X contacts takes a while, especially if you’re not familiar with the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating…

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Motorola’s MOTOFONE

The Motorola PR guys are working overtime today announcing yet another phone. The MOTOFONE is a slim, 9mm-thick phone that looks like the SLVR but thinner. Its display uses Electrophoretic Display (EPD) technology to make the screen more visible in sunlight. Motorola also says there’s a redesigned UI that’s based more on icons than text,…

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Bathroom LED Tiles

My bladder isn’t exactly huge, but I’ve been blessed with never having to wake up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night (give me another 30 years). But for those who potty in the dark to not wake up their wives, there’s Steuler Fleiesen Tiles that embed LED lights into each…

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Nintendo DS Browser Review

Josh goes over the Nintendo DS Opera Browser for his DS Lite in a 7 minute review. If you’re interested in how this looks on a real-life system, reading sites like Slashdot, Digg, and Gizmodo—Which looks and runs perfectly fine, says Josh, except for the Youtube videos, because Flash isn’t supported. Loading is kind of…

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Biometric Microdrive/CF Reader

This microdrive/compact flash reader has biometric fingerprint protection so your tasteful self-nudes will never be leaked out to the public—without your permission. The V117 lets you stick in your CF card and access it like a normal reader. Using the PC software, you encrypt all data stored on the card so that it can only…

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Nextel Getting Two-Megapixel Cameraphones From Motorola

At the company analyst event in Chicago, Motorola showed off their i880 and i885 cross-platform phones that work on both Sprint’s CDMA and Nextel’s iDEN network. You can interpolate from that that they’ll both support the push-to-talk sound everyone loves to hear. These two phones are the first “fashion” phones for Nextel, but if you…

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Motorola H601 and H800 Bluetooth Headsets

In all the hubbub over the new Motorola handsets, these poor Bluetooth headsets have been pushed to the sidelines. They deserve better, since they’re meant to match the design style of the three new phones. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-moto-k1-krzr-officially-released-189538 The H800 is Bluetooth 2.0 compliant, has 6 hours of talk time and an on-off slider. It’s capable of…

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Asus PG191 19-inch LCD Reviewed (Verdict: Great Features, Except For The Display)

The Asus PG191 is aimed at gamers, and thus, has loads of extras like an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam, stereo speakers with a sub, USB ports and mic/headphone jacks. The only feature that was lacking, unfortunately, was the display. Trusted Reviews says: I found colours to be over-saturated and unnatural and severe banding was also…

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Disney Mobile Gets Pantech Curitel PN-320

Up until now, the MVNO that Mickey Mouse built had only one lonely phone, the Pantech DM-P100, for kids and tweenies to lug around. Thanks to FCC docs, we know that the Pantech Curitel PN-320 is heading to Disney Mobile, giving all good little boys and girls Bluetooth and a basic VGA camera with flash.…

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Oono Transmita 2.4GHz Wireless Audio

If you’re looking for an easy way to get audio from your laptop to your sound system, take a look at the Oono Transmita. The unit comes with two pieces, one to plug into a headphone/line-out jack on your laptop or digital audio player, the other to plug into your line in on your stereo.…

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Time Warner Cable Not Supporting TiVo Series3 Units With CableCard?

I-OData USB2-C9RWG SDHC 16-In-1 Card Reader

Handheld Semi-Portable Gamecube

Virtual Reality Used To Help Treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

TenGO Free For Pocket PC/PDA

Kyocera Oystr Mobile Launched on Virgin Mobile

HTC Star Trek On Cingular Around August 8th?

Peekaboo Isolation Chamber Chair

BenQ IMS-100 Portable Bluetooth Speakers

Other Bits and Bytes

HTC Wiki Site

Motorola’s MOTOFONE

Bathroom LED Tiles

Nintendo DS Browser Review

Biometric Microdrive/CF Reader

Nextel Getting Two-Megapixel Cameraphones From Motorola

Motorola H601 and H800 Bluetooth Headsets

Asus PG191 19-inch LCD Reviewed (Verdict: Great Features, Except For The Display)

Disney Mobile Gets Pantech Curitel PN-320

Oono Transmita 2.4GHz Wireless Audio

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets