Sony Air Board
Sony’s Air Board is a WiFi (801.11a/b/g) blasting, 800×600 LCD touch-panel display that can stream television and other data wirelessly from a Sony base station. In addition, it can receive pre-recorded content for the base station anywhere it can establish an internet connection. As a remote screen for your Sony PVR, though, its relatively short…
T3 Magazine Nintendo DS Mockup
Alert reader James Honey sends us a scan from the latest T3 magazine which includes another mockup of Nintendo’s upcoming DS (DoubleScreen) handheld (click image for large, 144K scan.) Gizmodo has offered a bounty for the first legitimate pre-release pictures of the Nintendo DS. Read
Sharp Actius MM20: First U.S. Efficeon Notebook
Sharp announces the first U.S. notebook to use Transmeta’s new Efficeon processor today in its Actius MM20 computer. Transmeta’s older chip, the Crusoe, was fairly popular with manufacturers (especially among the Japanese extra-small PC set,) but lacked enough horsepower to be considered for most U.S. business-class laptops. With a claimed 1.4 times the performance of…
Gadget Weblog Spotlight: Panbo.com
Yme Bosma’s Panbo.com, the marine electronics and communications weblog, has quickly become a favorite here at Gizmodo, with its sharp focus and incisive writing. We’re happy that Yme took the time to participate in the first in a series of ‘Gadget Weblog Spotlights’ that we’ll be running throughout the next few weeks. Our hope is…
One Hand Player
Uniting hip-hop technology with post-pubescent man’s natural inclination, the One Hand Player from Compact-Impact makes “bringin’ scratch fun to the streets” a simple up-and-down motion, leaving your other hand completely free to pour forties or wave in the air (caring optional.) I played with one of these $99 oddities at TKNY the other night. I…
Bang-Olufsen BeoCenter 2
Bang-Olufsen is pushing its new audio/video wunderkind, the BeoCenter 2, which combines CD, DVD, and digital music integration into a scarab-like, brushed metal shell. iPod-esque controls are screened onto in a single plate of anodized aluminum, which splits to reveal the disc drive beneath. Available with an optional BeoCenter television, the BeoCenter 2 can be…
Asus ‘MyPal’ A620BT PocketPC Review
Bill Landon reviews the Asus ‘MyPal’ A620BT PocketPC for PDAToday and comes away satisfied that the A620BT is “one PocketPC that everyone should consider.” With quite a few high-end features (the 400-MHz XScale PXA255 processor, for example, is one of the fastest now available for PocketPCs,) the A620BT also happens to be the thinnest PocketPC…
Bluetooth FrogPad
FrogPad has announced a Bluetooth-enabled version of their one-handed portable keyboard, for use with Macs and other Bluetooth devices. The FrogPad works though a set of function-key combinations, and crams the full 101-key standard keyboard set into a twenty-key pad. FrogPad has plans to produce a wearable version for PDA-specific use after the first 1000…
eBay: Titan Missile Complex
A measly four million American dollars will get you into this former US Air force underground Titan missile base, perfect for parties, bar mitzvahs, weddings, or nervously chewing one’s nails whilst plotting the destruction of the human race. Read [Thanks, Matt!]
Xoxide X-UFO Ultimate Aluminum Cube Case
PC Magazine has a short review of the Xoxide X-UFO Ultimate Aluminum Cube Case, which they call ‘the Humvee of computer cases.’ The 18-inch cube is built of industrial-grade aluminum and unlike many smaller ‘cube’ cases, has a spacious layout with room for five internal 5.25-inch and nine 3.5-inch drive bays. All this eye sex…
‘I, Robot’ Trailer Online
The trailer for the new Will Smith vehicle I, Robot — based very loosely on the work of Isaac Asimov — has hit the web, via Apple’s Quicktime-only site. The robots’ facial movement design is intriguing; I can’t say if I like it yet or not. Also disturbing is the amount of action and violence…
Apple Newton Survey
Thinksecret has a tantalizing tidbit: A company called Stone Multimedia Solutions is emailing some fans of Apple’s long-discontinued Newton PDA with a survey. “We need to determine why the Apple Newton was not a commercial success and whether there is an interest in re-launching a new version of the Newton,” the survey says. “Your comments…
Personal Sewage Power Plant
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed a method to generate electricity from household wastewater by routing the organics-rich chowder through a type of ‘bacterial fuel cell,’ where naturally occurring bacteria convert the organic matter to its base parts, generating electrons in the process. These stripped-off electrons can then be harvesting via the fuel cell…
Farm Gadgets
Wired Magazine has a short write-up on some of the gadgetry used in the farming industry. If you’ve never been to a modern farm, the degree to which automation has taken over might surprise you. Units like the Trimble AgGPS Autopilot RTK allow half-million dollar tractors and combines to be piloted with a minimum of…
First Automotive Cheat Code
Lucky owners of BMW M3 with the sequential manual gearbox (BMW, we still haven’t gotten that test unit you sent over) are driving the first car with a built-in cheat code. The M3’s SMG transmission is electronic, preventing differential-blasting maneuvers like neutral drops (hold down the brake, rev up the car, release brake. You’ve never…
DARPATech Military Gadgets
Slate has an article covering some of the fun toys shown at this year’s DARPATech conference, where military-funded companies show their work and try to explain exactly what they’ve been doing with all that government grant money. Some of these we’ve covered on Gizmodo before, like the Star Trekian language translator the ‘Phraselator’ and the…