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Motorola E398 Stereo Speaker Phone Reviewed

Pocket-Lint’s Gizmo Girl reviews the Motorola E398, a mobile phone whose main claim to fame is its built-in stereo speakers. The short answer? Ms. Davies found the E398’s sonic capabilities more than ample, with extremely loud volume and decent tone (considering), but a wonky control stick and an iffy battery life make it less than…

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Vitra Zip Rug

Who says rugs can’t be gadgets? Certainly not Parisian designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Their approach to floor-covering is decidedly low-tech, but the zipper-fused wool panels on their new Zip Rug hand creative control over to the user, allowing one to configure a rug of any size and color configuration. Now if only they could…

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SanDisk Ups Ultra II Line, Including 8GB CF Card

SanDisk makes the future all futurey with the announcement of capacity upgrades across its entire Ultra II flash memory product line. Top end SD cards now will now max out at 2GB of storage, Memory Stick PRO at 4GB, and new CompactFlash cards at a whopping 8GB. Granted, they’re a little on the pricey side,…

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History of Moog

Watch out for flashbacks, hippies; According to the NY Times, the Moog is back. Originally made famous by such infamously acid-eating acts as the Doors and the Grateful Dead, the Moog today is utilized by everyone from Dr. Dre to Wilco. Of course, most of the analog synths of the 60s have replaced by (some…

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Someday, We’ll Be Cool; Oh, It’s Today

I’d like to speak for my cranky brother blog Defamer when I say, “Thanks, Yahoo!” They selected we two (among others) as showcase “Cool Blogs” in their new ‘My Yahoo!’ RSS page. That’s awesome. Also, what’s that “Slashdot” thing next to us? Is that a website? Oh, I guess I don’t have to speak for…

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Qool Labs PDA-700: First Megapixel Palm Phone

A company called Qool Labs has announced its first Palm OS smartphone, which just happens to be the first Palm-powered phone with a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera. The QDA-700 runs Palm OS Garnet, comes with a software package that includes MP3 and MPEG4 players, and has 240 x 320 pixel screen. Oh, and an SDIO slot,…

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Sharpie Retractable Marker

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t keep at least a couple of Sharpie permanent markers handy. They’re perfect for labelling CD-Rs and DVDs, impromptu X-TreaM tribal tattoos, and fluffing up my Liza Minelli eyebrows. But if you’re anything like me, you end losing the stupid caps or marking all over hands in the process of…

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MayTag SkyBox Rookie Fridge

Maytag’s refrigerator blog (no joke) has word about a new product in their SkyBox line, the SkyBox Rookie Fridge, a compact fridge with customizable front inserts and a top bin for ice or snacks or whatever that actually lifts off so you can haul it around (it would have been cooler, if you’ll pardon the…

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Griffin radioSHARK Available

Griffin Technologies is finally shipping their radioSHARK, a USB-powered fin-shaped AM/FM radio with time-shifting for both Mac and PC. Of course, a unit like this lives and dies by the quality of its software, so unless you’re just dying to record FM-quality audio into AIFF files over USB, I would probably wait for someone to…

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PalmSource Trots Out Cobalt 6.1

PalmSource has unveiled its latest operating system, Cobalt 6.1, designed with a specific focus on wireless functionality. What does that mean to you, consumer? Not much at the moment, but baseline wireless feature sets mean that it will be a lot easier for handset manufacturers to offer powerful multi-network phones and PDAs without jumping through…

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Flickr: An Introduction

Guest Editor Matthew C. Smith tries out Flickr (disclaimer: I think cupcakes are delicious), the photosharing app and shares his impressions below. Looking for a quick, simple and systematic way of uploading photos to my blog, I stumbled from one site to another. Once again, as a card-carrying member of the Mac cult, my search…

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Sony’s Sort of New NW-HD2 Network Walkman

At first glance, it appears Sony was quick to follow up its NW-HD1 hard disk-based music ATRAC player with a new model, the NW-HD2. And technically that’s true, I guess; it is new. Really, though, it just looks like the same NW-HD1 but in pastel colors, and there’s still no mention of MP3 support, so…

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Mamiya ZD Camera and Back

Mamiya sent me some details about their new ZD camera and ZD Back, both of which have at heart a stunning 22-megapixel sensor. While both offer a lot of the same features, like dual memory card slots and simultaneous RAW and JPEG recording, the Back is obviously meant to be used with other existing Mamiya…

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The Smell of Punk, Pity or Photoshop

Someone sent us this pic yesterday and I called shenanigans, albeit quietly and to myself. Today I call shenanigans out loud and to you all. I think we all can appreciate a little fervent fangirlism, but getting a tattoo with a version of an operating system would just be madness. OS/2 WARP 4 LYFE, DAWG.…

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Trade Highly Personal Information for Slim Chance to Win Speakers

Ecoustics is running one of those contests where you give them all sorts of personal demographic information and in turn you get a chance to win a $2,500 set of Axiom Epic 80 Home Theater Speakers. It’s sort of creepy, but I figure everybody else has all my personal information, and I’m sort of a…

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BenQ DC E43 and DC E53

BenQ announced two new cameras today, the four-megapixel DC E43 and the five-megapixel DC E53 [pictured]. Both share 3x optical zoom and aluminum frames, but the E53 has a relatively massive 2.5-inch LTPS-LCD screen that they claim uses 50% less power than a standard TFT-LCD. If that’s really true and not just marketing flim flam…

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Plug and Play: Starter Home Theater

We’re going to try out a new feature here on Gizmodo that I think could potentially be very useful, and maybe even – this is crazy – enjoyable. We’ll call it “Plug and Play,” because the idea is to pick five things that – together – you can buy to set up a complete package.…

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Eridol R-1 Digital Recorder

It ain’t much to look at, but the Edirol R-1 Digital Recorder is probably going to make quite a few audio geeks pretty happy. One of the major shortcomings of all these modern players is that they aren’t exactly good recording devices (for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the desire…

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Kenwood Fineline VRS-N8100 Ships

As of today, Kenwood s new top-tier Fineline VRS-N8100 combo A/V receiver and digital media streamer is supposed to be shipping, and she looks like a beaut. Not only is there the obligatory Ethernet port and the ability to play back almost anything you can imagine (though, notably, not DiVX, at least according to the…

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Voltaic Solar Backpack

So I want this Voltaic Backpack badly. Josh Rubin pinged me to point it out and I haven’t stopped barking questions at him since, despite the fact that he’s not, you know, the guy that makes it. Three aluminum-panel solar cells sit the back along with enough wires and in-seam connections to charge most small…

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Motorola E398 Stereo Speaker Phone Reviewed

Vitra Zip Rug

SanDisk Ups Ultra II Line, Including 8GB CF Card

History of Moog

Someday, We’ll Be Cool; Oh, It’s Today

Qool Labs PDA-700: First Megapixel Palm Phone

Sharpie Retractable Marker

MayTag SkyBox Rookie Fridge

Griffin radioSHARK Available

PalmSource Trots Out Cobalt 6.1

Flickr: An Introduction

Sony’s Sort of New NW-HD2 Network Walkman

Mamiya ZD Camera and Back

The Smell of Punk, Pity or Photoshop

Trade Highly Personal Information for Slim Chance to Win Speakers

BenQ DC E43 and DC E53

Plug and Play: Starter Home Theater

Eridol R-1 Digital Recorder

Kenwood Fineline VRS-N8100 Ships

Voltaic Solar Backpack

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