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Roc-A-Fella Rocbox

Although the article sort of tromps all over the place, taking the whole ‘gadgets as fashion’ angle, the leader in this NYTimes bit is a new line of MP3 players from Damon Dash, the man behind hip-hop syndicate Roc-A-Fella Records. Called ‘Roc Digital,’ one of these first products will be the ‘Rocbox,’ a black (or…

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Hotels Handing Out iPods

Looks like a new trend in hotels and resorts is to offer up a pre-loaded iPod for guests to use during their stay. Some places, like the Las Ventanas al Paraiso in Los Cabos, Mexico, gives poolside guests loaded iPods for maxing and/or relaxing, while a hotel in Hong Kong hands out iPod minis to…

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Chatterbox XB1

The Chatterbox XB1 looks like a seriously useful audio communications hub for motorcyclists. Not only can you route most any audio device into the XB1, including audio-outs from GPS units and cellular phones, but stereos and Push-to-Talk devices as well. And the best part? You can pair the XB1 with one of the newly-announced Bluetooth…

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i-Station PMP-1000

There’s a new Portable Media Player from PuMP/Digital-Square/Digital Cube (seriously, I have no idea) called the i-Station PMP-1000, a hard disk-based unit that can play back a variety of video and audio formats, including Xvid, OGG Vorbis, and AAC. Not only that, but the 3.5-inch video screen is also touch-sensitive, so that’s nice. I wouldn’t…

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Topobo: Blocks with Memory

Topobo is an experimental building system developed by Hayes Solos Raffle and Amanda J. Parkes at MIT’s Media Lab that adds motion with memory to traditional building blocks. After ‘teaching’ the forms you build how to move, the blocks will memorize the movements and repeat them back, allowing you to create a kinetic sculpture with…

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Best Buy Launches In-House Brand ‘Insignia’

Looks like Best Buy is getting into the rebranding game, with plans to sell an in-store brand of LCD televisions, PCs, DVD players and more detailed in this article on CNet. The new brand will be known as “Insignia,” an inspired name if I’ve ever heard one (BADGE—A Name You Can Trust to Mean Something).…

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SmartJoy FRAG Adapters: PS2 on PS2 (or Xbox)

I’m sort of surprised nobody else has made something like these SmartJoy FRAG adapters to let you use PS2 and USB mice and keyboards on your Xbox or Playstation 2. The thing is, I’m fairly sure that each game will have to have mouse drivers included—I don’t think they’re inherent to the game consoles themselves.…

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JVC Interlink MP-XP741 Sub-Notebook

JVC has announced a new Interlink sub-notebook, the MP-XP741, with a ultra-low voltage Pentium M processor, tri-band Wi-Fi (a/b/g), and a 1,024 by 600 pixel screen. Edit: The Pentium M is at 1.1GHz, not 733MHz as I had stated earlier. Hello, coffee! Should be available in November via your favorite Japanese import shop. Press Release…

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PalmOne Tungsten T5 Announced

Good morning, internet friends. PalmOne announced the Tungsten T5 this morning, and while it’s definitely got some interesting features, it is sort of disappointing on the whole. The new T5 ditches the slider form factor of the T3 for a more traditional tablet, simply because sales of the non-slider Tungsten E have been better—their best-selling…

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Rumor: Sony PSP Pricing Packages

The “Official” UK Playstation Magazine has what they think is the inside scoop on the Sony PSP pricing structure. I’ll say this: it would be very good of them to offer a $200 version. No official word from Sony, though, so salt liberally. A strap with built-in headphones is interesting, though, as is the removable…

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Apple Flash-Based iPod for Christmas?

We heard noise about this earlier this morning and couldn’t confirm anything, but rumors abound that Apple has inked a deal with chipset vendor SigmaTel to provide a flash-based music player to launch this Christmas. I have serious doubts about this one for two reasons: Apple already has a low-capacity player in the mini and…

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Afternoon Bits

Product Highlights • Monday Night Football Remote [JohnsonSmith] • Panasonic Develops Industry’s First SD Memory Card With Contactless Smart Card Capabilities [JapanCorp] • 4 New Brother Printers [LivingRoom] • DVD+RW 8X Disc Specification Ready [DesignTechnica] • $10,000 Shark Pen from Pilot [Namiki] • KTF Provides the First Caption Service for MP3 Phones [TechnologyFuturist] • Neiman…

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Comedy Calculator

From Excalibur, the same people who bring you the Coffee Master we mentioned earlier today, comes the sure-to-be-bestselling wisecracking comedy calculator. But the jokes are not just any old jokes, no! This calculator features the world-class schtick of none other than Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling, known for his roles in such comedy classics as…

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More Nokia 7710 Pictures

Alright, I really want Nokia to tell us whether this is a leftover prototype from their 7700 days or if we should start expecting this Series 90 Nokia 7710 soon. This one is clearly a prototype, but it sort of has that swoopy line styling of the newer Nokias—a style newer than the 7700 of…

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BenQ’s LCD Monitor Doubles as a Handbag

It is unknown why anyone would ever have need to transform their 17-inch LCD monitor into a stylish, if overly large handbag, but BenQ decided to showcase a concept at the Milan Fashion week. Could impromptu supermodel LAN parties be the next “doing cocaine?” LCD Monitor that turns into a handbag [ShinyShiny]

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September’s Top 10 Phones

Top ten best-selling mobile phones according to accessories manufacturer Krusell: 1. (1) Sony Ericsson T630/628/610/637 2. (3) Sony Ericsson K700i 3. (4) Nokia 6230 4. (-) Nokia 5140 5. (8) Nokia 7610 6. (7) PalmOne Treo 600 7. (10) Siemens M65 8. (9) Nokia 6610i/7250/7250i 9. (5) Nokia 3510 10. (-) Nokia 6620/6600 ( )=…

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California Passes Mobile Phone Recycling Bill

I don’t have much to add to this except to say that of all the legislation that Arnold has put into effect in California, like banning sex with corpses and making it illegal to smoke unless you smoke expensive cigars, this law that requires cell phone companies to recycle all returned handsets is a step…

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Sponsor Attack!

I love our sponsors. Without them I’d have to screw around on the internet all day and not get paid for it. If you’d like to contribute to my Coppertone fund by sponsoring us, here’s how to do it. https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027 This week’s sponsors include: • Grokker 2 by Groxis: Search Redefined — Special Offer for…

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Afreey ADR-605R: Record DAB Direct to CD

Won’t do us much good here in the States, but this CD Player/Recorder from Taiwanese vendor Afreey Inc. has a built-in DAB radio, as well as an S/PDIF optical out. And to answer the question you really want to know: yes, the ADR-605R can record directly from DAB to CD. Pretty hot—if I could get…

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GoVideo VR2940: VHS to DVD in One Unit

If you’ve ever tried to take your old VHS home movies and get them on DVD, you probably know what a pain in the ass it can be to hook up that ancient, possibly-functioning VCR to a PC-based video capture device. Once you get it capturing correctly, the fun begins: press play and wait. And…

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Roc-A-Fella Rocbox

Hotels Handing Out iPods

Chatterbox XB1

i-Station PMP-1000

Topobo: Blocks with Memory

Best Buy Launches In-House Brand ‘Insignia’

SmartJoy FRAG Adapters: PS2 on PS2 (or Xbox)

JVC Interlink MP-XP741 Sub-Notebook

PalmOne Tungsten T5 Announced

Rumor: Sony PSP Pricing Packages

Apple Flash-Based iPod for Christmas?

Afternoon Bits

Comedy Calculator

More Nokia 7710 Pictures

BenQ’s LCD Monitor Doubles as a Handbag

September’s Top 10 Phones

California Passes Mobile Phone Recycling Bill

Sponsor Attack!

Afreey ADR-605R: Record DAB Direct to CD

GoVideo VR2940: VHS to DVD in One Unit

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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