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Roku Adds Wi-Fi to SoundBridge Line, Free Upgrades

Roku Labs, maker of the Roku SoundBridge streaming media gadgets, wrote to let us know that not only will all their future SoundBridge products include bundled Wi-Fi, but customers who purchased a M1000 or M2000 model before 8/26/2004 can receive an “Early Customer Appreciation Offer.” Basically, you can either get a free Wi-Fi upgrade card,…

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Grand Central Transmitter Theories

Reader Morgan writes: After reading about the Grand Central setups on Gizmodo I decided to take a look around when I passed through Grand Central on my way home tonight. First off, they’re scattered all over the main concourse (one over track 27 and several along the departure boards were the most visible). Risking a…

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LED Music Box

Music Box is an art project by Jin-Yo Mok in collaboration with Gicheol Lee that works a lot like music boxes of old, with the addition of a digital interface and indicator LEDs. Using a computer to select which lights are activated, the wheel is then turned with a hand crank. Where normally pins would…

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Apple iMac G5

And it lives! Apple has fully unveiled the new iMac G5, and it’s basically a Pizza box PC that looks a lot like the new Cinema displays, except white. Available in 17- and 20-inch form, the machines will come with 1.6 and 1.8GHz G5 processors, respectively. I’ll go ahead and throw up this post with…

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Funky Pyramid Dual Arm iMac G5 Patent

If the new G5 iMac has a goofy pyramid base, I’m going to flip out and assault Cupertino with my own army of samurai industrial designers. This image was included in a patent application filed on the 24th, which means it came out in the public eye today. My guess is that we’ll see the…

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Gizmodo Not An Exclusive: P-Diddy’s Diamond hPod

Apparently HP made a special diamond-encrusted hPod for Sean “Puffy/Puff Daddy/P-Diddy/Actor” Combs for the MTV Video Music Awards. I can understand the diamonds – who couldn’t? – by what’s up with the massive dock? What’s P-Diddles trying to tell us? Update: Apparently that’s not a huge dock, but actually a chromed out Altec Lansing InMotion…

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Jet-Powered Wheelchair

Yessssss! This is the beautiful. “I had a jet engine … so I put it on the mother-in-law’s wheelchair.” Humanity does have purpose! (Thanks, Art!) Read – Jet-powered wheelchair surprise [BBC]

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NEC’s Versapro PC98-NX Two Pound Tablet PC

Oh, I saw this new Versapro PC98-NX Tablet PC from NEC last night and I meant to put it up here, and completely spaced it. It’s pretty slick, as far as these things go, with a Pentium M 1.1GHz, 10.4-inch screen, 20GB hard drive, and fairly decent battery life, depending on the battery. But the…

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Pantech & Curitel PH-S3500 Game Phone

This new “game phone” from Pantech & Curitel looks pretty interesting – I’m a sucker for round phones. The PH-S3500 supposedly has a “prominent keypad” that makes it easier to play 3D games on the unit. If anybody has a better picture, though, I’d love to see it. The Curitel website is sort of hard…

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More Drones: Organic Aerial Vehicles

The autonomous drones are back – and this time it’s personal! These new OAVs – short for Organic Aerial Vehicles, although ‘organic’ doesn’t mean what you think it means – come in three sizes, can travel up to 30 knots in light rain and moderate winds, and will even be able to avoid obstacles like…

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Mystery Wireless Transmitter in Grand Central Station

Reader Rob Cherry sent this interesting tidbit: Just walked through Grand Central station and saw some guys working on a transmitter just above the sign for track (23 I think). The first track you come to passing Olivier’s Italian shop as you come into the main concourse from Lex entrance heading towards Vanderbilt. It looked…

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Toyota to Unveil Faster, More Powerful Prius Hybrid

Toyota is prepping a new “Sport” version of its gasoline/electric hybrid Prius that ups the available power of the combustion engine from 77 hp to a whopping 99 hp by increasing the displacement of the engine to 1.5 liters, and bolsters the electrical system for a new total rating of 145 HP. Toyota plans to…

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Potentially Painful Siemens Tone Affects All Series 65 Phones

Oh, quick heads up. That Siemens ear-blasting phone from last week? It’s not just the M65, I’ve learned, but the entire 65 series line. If you’ve got one of those phones, you might want to turn off the low-battery tone. Pocket-Lint has instructions. Read – Siemens issue warning over 65 series handsets [PocketLintUK] Related Siemens…

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New Sony Cybershots, HP Photosmarts, Including Sony T3 (Rawr!)

Gott im Himmel, ze cameras! There have been like two dozen new cameras announced in the last few weeks as various manufacturers start ramping up for Christmas, and Sony and HP are no exception. Among the new Sonys announced today are two pocket-sized beauties that I want right now: the T3, an update to the…

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Wi-Fi to Cellular Roaming Stalled

eWeek has an interesting article talking about the hurdles the new VoIP Wi-Fi and cellular-switching phones may have penetrating the market. Even though companies like Motorola are developing systems that allow cellphones to switch seamlessly to Wi-Fi, the thought is that the savings provided to corporate infrastructure might be moot as cellular rates continue to…

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USB Christmas Tree

If any of you actually buy these USB-Powered Christmas Trees, you’ll have to promise me that everything you put under your tree will also be a USB device. You could even wrap up little flash drives as presents and give them away to your office mates, or maybe put a USB-powered vibrator under there and…

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Sega’s Near Me Robot Cat

At first Sega’s “Near Me” robot cat looks cute. “A $300 robot pet that plays and cuddles with me?” you might ask, rhetorically, “Awesome!” That is, until you see the little bastard move in the videos at the bottom of the page. If you aren’t ready to bash the Near Me into bits of robot…

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Chrome Robosapien

Could it be that Sharper Image actually has something marginally cool? Incomprehensible as that may be, it appears that the technoshlock vendor is selling special edition “Signature Series” RoboSapiens, available in both Chrome and Blue, with designer Mark Tilden’s autograph. I realized as I started to write this that I had missed my little brother’s…

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Powerbook: 1, God: 0

It’s a sad fact of life that God hates Mac users. If you needed any more proof, check out these pictures of this burnt and charred 12-inch Powerbook, caught in an apartment fire, which despite the damage and encrustations is reported to still work. What can we learn from this? In a kickboxing match between…

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Hush Technologies Announces ATX MCE Home Theater PC

Hush Technologies has announced a new version of their fanless home entertainment computer, this time called the ATX MCE (for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005). Besides the addition of the new OS, it doesn’t look as if it’s terribly different from any of the older ATX versions, all of which were pretty nice…

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Roku Adds Wi-Fi to SoundBridge Line, Free Upgrades

Grand Central Transmitter Theories

LED Music Box

Apple iMac G5

Funky Pyramid Dual Arm iMac G5 Patent

Gizmodo Not An Exclusive: P-Diddy’s Diamond hPod

Jet-Powered Wheelchair

NEC’s Versapro PC98-NX Two Pound Tablet PC

Pantech & Curitel PH-S3500 Game Phone

More Drones: Organic Aerial Vehicles

Mystery Wireless Transmitter in Grand Central Station

Toyota to Unveil Faster, More Powerful Prius Hybrid

Potentially Painful Siemens Tone Affects All Series 65 Phones

New Sony Cybershots, HP Photosmarts, Including Sony T3 (Rawr!)

Wi-Fi to Cellular Roaming Stalled

USB Christmas Tree

Sega’s Near Me Robot Cat

Chrome Robosapien

Powerbook: 1, God: 0

Hush Technologies Announces ATX MCE Home Theater PC

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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

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