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Gizmondo Europe Folds

Gizmodo is hardly the type to gloat, but with regard to the news that handheld game maker Gizmondo Europe has gone into liquidation, we’d just thought we’d say this one thing: One-and-a-half years ago, we so called it. https://gizmodo.com/im-not-saying-im-just-saying-9186 Granted, anyone with the slightest ability to speculate the future of a company that threw itself…

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The Week in Comments

• Motorola H5 Headset Reviewed (Verdict: Super Tiny) “Why the hell would you put internal battery in quotations? What a douche.” https://gizmodo.com/motorola-h5-headset-reviewed-verdict-super-tiny-152553 • Palm Treo 800p Confirmed? “If the 800 can bring the Treo more into line with current tech and still maintain that magic blend of usability and functionality, I’ll be there.” https://gizmodo.com/palm-treo-800p-confirmed-152390 •…

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Gizmodo Analytics: January ’06’s Most Popular Stories

• Live From AVN: This Ain t No Willie Wonka The people have spoken. Hand-made chocolate dongs are clearly our most important work. https://gizmodo.com/live-from-avn-this-aint-no-willie-wonka-147169 • Best.Switch.Video.Ever Star Wars and Steve Jobs. What’s not to like? Besides Star Wars? https://gizmodo.com/best-switch-video-ever-147837 • Transparent OLED On the Way Minority Report-style interfaces coming to a reality near you. https://gizmodo.com/transparent-oled-on-the-way-151145…

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A Moment of Perspective: iNeed

From Mantis, UK-based stencil artist.

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Meanwhile, at Deadspin: Live at Super Bowl XL

Our brawny brethren at Gawker Media’s sports blog Deadspin are going to the Super Bowl—without tickets. We’re as unsure as Deadspin’s A.J. Daulerio as to how he’ll manage to finagle a way into the big game, but that’s half the adventure. (The other half is making it out of Detroit without the desire to burn…

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Takara’s Secret Base Station: USB Desk Toys of Destruction

It is the sometime dream of every trodden-upon desk jockey to turn their desk into the nexus of killing that will finally show them all. Takara, a favorite inventor of throw-away plastic gadgetry, has finally announced the first part of their series “Secret Base Station”, which will be launched on June 24th—including, somehow, its own…

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Live from CES: Premier PD-S682 Mini DLP Projector

I’m a sucker for projectors of all sizes, but this tiny DLP-based projector from Premier was very appealling. The PD-S682 has a native 800 by 600 pixel resolution, accepts VGA, S-video, and composite input, and can be run from an optional lithium-ion battery for over two hours. Even better is its built-in SD slot, from…

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Live from CES: Forward Versatile Disc

I felt especially embarassed for the booth promoting the FVD red-laser video disc, a Taiwanese “alternative to DVD.” Unlike HD-DVD and Blu-ray, which increase the storage of standard-sized optical media by three to five times, FVD increases the capacity over DVD a whopping 15 percent to 5.4GB per layer. Don’t worry, though! FVD can support…

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Live from CES: Dumb Companies Who Lie

Joel Johnson—Not once, but multiple times this year at CES I have been told by exhibitors that photographing items on the show floor is off limits. The first time, at the Monster Cable booth, I was told by a booth jockey that there were no photos allowed unless I had a press badge (I did),…

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Live from CES: Microroyal Healthy Fan Heater

What’s more hazardous to one’s health than negative ion generators? Superheating those ions and blasting them horizontally into your lungs! We are unsure if Microroyal is really making us any more healthy with their “Healthy Fan Heater,” but we appreciate that they’ve been able to repurpose random parts found in our uncle’s fishing cabin. A…

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Live from CES: Hands-On with the Sony Reader

Sony’s new Reader is fantastic and we want one immediately. The price point is going to be painfully high, with guesstimates in between $300 and $400, but it’s everything the Librié—Sony’s first-generation, Japan-only ePaper-based eBook reader (whew)—should have been. Not only is the display amazing (and amazingly readable), but Sony promised us that there would…

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Live from CES: Modded Lasonic TRC-931

What you’re seeing here is a bit of a tragedy: A vintage Lasonic TRC-931 (v2), vivisected to include a built-in DVD player and screen where once lived a tape deck. There were other TRC-931 on display in Lasonic’s booth, some with audio minijack inputs, built-in MP3 players with SD slots; that sort of thing. Taking…

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Live from CES: Thomson Mobile Gyration Remotes Pt. 2

Thomson was also featuring the very first Windows-licensed universal remote to be used with Windows Media Center. This remote features Thomson’s Gyration hardware to control the Windows operating system and the remote also supports IR for universal control of the rest of your home theater devices. This has a range of up to 100 feet…

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Live from CES: Tivoli Audio Knock Offs

Congratulations, Tivoli Audio! Your products have been knocked off by one of the dozens of Chinese product cloners showing off in the dark corners of CES’s backwater halls. That is a high honor.

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Live from CES: Thomson Mobile Gyration Remotes Pt. 1

Thomson has debuted two new remotes that support its Gyration hardware. Yesterday we reported on these devices as we heard about them from the Thomson Press Conference, but today we got the chance to talk with a Thomson rep and get a little more hands-on action with these Gyration controls. https://gizmodo.com/live-from-ces-thomson-press-conference-pt-ii-146465 The gyration ultra-small remote…

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Live from CES: Cowon iAudio 6

Cowon is debuting a hard-drive-based MP3 player at its CES booth. The iAudio 6 has a .85-inch 4GB hard drive. This player also features a 1.3-inch OLED screen that allows for video viewing. They have a control system called “Swing Touch,” basically a touch-sensitive controlling scheme. This MP3 player is slated for a February, 2006…

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Live from CES: Hannspree Batman LCD TV

For some reason an executive in the Hannspree booth was under the impression that Gizmodo hated his company’s products. Uh, hello? They make a TV that lives inside Batman. They pretty much win CES.

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Live from CES: Innovative Marketing Techniques

Joel Johnson—I’m all about companies trying unique methods to capture the attention of conference walkers, but I’m not entirely sure this pool of bubbling sewage is going to draw in as many passers-by as Intel might want. I do have to admit their new, sleeker logo does look picturesque shimmering atop the puddle of murky…

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Live from CES: Pioneer inno Portable XM

A ha! Stuff we want. inno is the first portable XM2go radio with 1GB memory (says Pioneer). You can listen live, record live, and store and play MP3 and WMA files. It’s a very nice-looking unit, but it seems there’s not enough built-in storage for that $400 purchase price. When it shows up in March,…

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Live from CES: Pioneer Press Conference

Pioneer kicked off its press conference talking directly about its ambitions into the vehicle navigation market (a la GPS and mapping units). Pioneer “wants to put the fun back into driving,” yet it doesn’t seem to be providing faster cars. Instead, they are introducing a new family of navigation, the ‘AVIC’ family, with three different…

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Gizmondo Europe Folds

The Week in Comments

Gizmodo Analytics: January ’06’s Most Popular Stories

A Moment of Perspective: iNeed

Meanwhile, at Deadspin: Live at Super Bowl XL

Takara’s Secret Base Station: USB Desk Toys of Destruction

Live from CES: Premier PD-S682 Mini DLP Projector

Live from CES: Forward Versatile Disc

Live from CES: Dumb Companies Who Lie

Live from CES: Microroyal Healthy Fan Heater

Live from CES: Hands-On with the Sony Reader

Live from CES: Modded Lasonic TRC-931

Live from CES: Thomson Mobile Gyration Remotes Pt. 2

Live from CES: Tivoli Audio Knock Offs

Live from CES: Thomson Mobile Gyration Remotes Pt. 1

Live from CES: Cowon iAudio 6

Live from CES: Hannspree Batman LCD TV

Live from CES: Innovative Marketing Techniques

Live from CES: Pioneer inno Portable XM

Live from CES: Pioneer Press Conference

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