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Vodafone 3G Sony Ericsson V800 Reviewed

So congratulations, our UKian friends: it sounds like Vodafone’s new 3G network is actually pretty awesome, at least according to Stu over at Pocket Lint. He’s been testing it out with a new Sony Ericsson V800 and is sort of in love. By all rights it sounds like he should be, as the phone and…

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iPod Socks Available; New Foofpods

Apple’s hottest new product of the season (I’m only sort of kidding) is finally available for pre-order on their website. A six-pack of iPod Socks are $30 and will ship in early December. If you want to kick it small busy, though, you can get a hand-stitched Foofpod from Foof in one of a variety…

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iRiver AFT-100 FM Transmitter

iRiver is now selling a co-branded FM transmitter for its products (or anything with a headphone-out, really) called the AFT-100. It’s meant for in-car use, obviously, with front-mounted controls to change through the entire FM band—you can even save three presets, which is very cool. I’m sort of down on FM transmitters for my own…

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Slappa Hardbody Case for iPod Redux

Slappa sent out a press release this morning that was sort of calling do-over on their new Hardbody iPod cases. https://gizmodo.com/slappa-hardbody-case-for-ipod-25250 After some consideration we have decided that the pictures included with the release do not do our case justice. I can get with that sort of regret—I was in a yearbook once, too. Here…

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Primera Signature Z1 CD/DVD Printer Reviewed

Remember when you got your first CD burner and blank discs cost like $5 apiece? Every burn was a special, delicate event, too fragile to even move the mouse for the 45 minutes or so it took to write that massive 650MB disc. And when you were done, you gave it a special label, usually…

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Motorola V3 Razr Back on Cingular

Okay, so Cingular put the Razr back on their site for order/preorder, which certainly signifies something. From everything I’ve heard lately, it’s going to be in stores by the 15th (next Monday). At this point, though, it’s anybody’s guess. Good luck! Home Page [Cingular] Related Motorola Razr V3 In Cingular Stores? [Gizmodo] Cingular Selling V3…

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Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator

Wow, I sort of want this really badly, but I know it’s going to bid up beyond what I can afford in the next 3 days. This Star Trek Communicator uses Bluetooth to connect to your cell phone as a hands free device, meaning you can keep your actual phone in your inside pocket (or…

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Entempo Spirit 20

A Californian company called Entempo is marketing a new hard disk-based player called the ‘Spirit,’ that sort of looks goofy (and probably a bit big, if it uses a 2.5-inch drive), but offers quite a bit of bang for the buck. For just $200—and as low as $140 at some places online—you can get a…

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Real Thumb Drive

It finally happened. Someone with a prosthetics lab has made a real ‘Thumb Drive.’ It’s a 128MB version that is going for $30 right now on eBay, but they promise larger sizes are to come. I’m going to go whimper softly in a corner for a bit if you don’t mind. (Thanks, William!) REAL THUMB…

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Afternoon Bits

Product Highlights • PAC-MAN, Ms. PAC-MAN, Galaxian, and MAPPY for Palm OS [NamcoGames] (Site goes up later today.) • New Flash Players from Samsung [ChaitGear] • Wireless chips embedded in paper [TheInquirer] • DivX Portable Media Devices [I4U] • eCoustics Gift Guide [eCoustics] • Samsung SCH-A815 Slider Phone [PhoneArena] Reviews • Club 3D OmniChrome [TrustedReviews]…

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Simpson Strong-Ties

I need to build a loft over the bed in our apartment, because we have a big open space with no closets and need a way to pack stuff away that doesn’t involve fire. Unfortunately, my technique with lumber is the same barely-successful one I use when programming or babysitting: just keep hitting it with…

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SMS Guerilla Projector

The SMS Guerilla Projector takes messages sent to it via SMS and projects them onto any surface. Built from a cellphone, a camera, and slide projector by the London-based collective ‘Troika,’ the idea is to shoot messages onto surfaces that might engender a reaction from surprised drivers, causing them to take wrong turns, veer off…

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Google Adding More SMS Features

Speaking of Google rumors, check out this bit from reader Mark Consuegra: I’ve been using the google SMS feature since I heard about it on Gizmodo and it’s definitely behavior changing. I’ve saved at least $5-10/month on directory assistance calls I would have begrudingly had to make, and I like not dealing with an operator.…

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Gmail Enables POP (For Some)

Looks like Gmail is about to officially offer POP access, according to this message in their support database. This function has already been enabled by lots of third party tools, but has been expected from Google themselves for quite a while. It doesn’t appear to be actually be enabled yet—not for me, anyway; a few…

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DefenseTech Sells Out

My buddy Noah Shachtman runs a blog called DefenseTech—if you’ve been reading Gizmodo for long at all you’ve probably seen a few links from here (what can I say, he buys me bourbon). After a long, sordid dance he’s finally enlisted with Military.com to sponsor DefenseTech, which I presume means he can now devote more…

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Vodafone Launches Worldwide 3G Network

Vodafone has lit-up its 3G wireless network in a variety of markets (none of them which are the US, just in case you were a bit confused). To go along with the launch, they’ve introduced 10 new phones, including the Sharp 902, the first 2-megapixel cameraphone in Europe [pictured]. We’ll have more details later if…

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Niveus Media Center PC 2004 -> 2005 Upgrade Plans

Niveus Media has announced its upgrade plans for purchasers of its Niveus AVX Media Center 2004 PCs—something that shouldn’t be so noteworthy, but with all snuffle about Gateway’s lack of an upgrade path for its products is probably worth mentioning. Niveus has two options: pay $10 for an upgrade CD; or pay between $600 and…

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Saudi Ministers Move to Lift Cameraphone Ban

Four Saudi Arabian ministers have suggested the Kingdom-wide ban on cameraphones be repealed, due to the overwhelming influx of phones equipped with cameras —and perhaps as an acknowledgment of the backwards thinking that prompted the ban in the first place. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to have a ban on the…

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WD Passport Rugged Portable Hard Drives

Western Digital is shipping two new USB 2.0 external hard drives called the WD Passport, claiming they are ruggedized for extreme data security. The drives are rated to be able to handle 250 Gs of shock while spun up and 900 Gs when not operating (an unannounced DJ Jazzy Jeff version will be rated to…

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PodLock

It’s a bit expensive at $40, but the new PodLock software from Micromat looks like it could be really handy for people that like to use their iPod as more than just a dumb music storage device (there is a hard drive in there, remember?) It’s namesake feature is the ability to create a hidden…

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Vodafone 3G Sony Ericsson V800 Reviewed

iPod Socks Available; New Foofpods

iRiver AFT-100 FM Transmitter

Slappa Hardbody Case for iPod Redux

Primera Signature Z1 CD/DVD Printer Reviewed

Motorola V3 Razr Back on Cingular

Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator

Entempo Spirit 20

Real Thumb Drive

Afternoon Bits

Simpson Strong-Ties

SMS Guerilla Projector

Google Adding More SMS Features

Gmail Enables POP (For Some)

DefenseTech Sells Out

Vodafone Launches Worldwide 3G Network

Niveus Media Center PC 2004 -> 2005 Upgrade Plans

Saudi Ministers Move to Lift Cameraphone Ban

WD Passport Rugged Portable Hard Drives

PodLock

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