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Logic3 GamesPower50

Who needs a PSP or a DS? This wee bugger contains 50 8-bit games and even has a TV-out for playing on the big screen. A 2.5″ TFT screen makes it portable and it runs on 3 AAA batteries. Priced at about $80, I could see rocking out to some 8-bit action on the train…

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Viiv Off to a Slow Start

One wag at the Mercury News makes some interesting points on Intel’s new Viiv initiative and AMD’s AMD Live, two iffy home entertainment standards that appear, even after close scrutiny, to the be product of kicking and flailing by two major chip companies trying to compete with a) game consoles b) set-top digital cable boxes…

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Iris Scanners Keep out Unwanted In New Jersey School

It’s only going to get worse before it gets better. An elementary school in Freehold, New Jersey has dumped $370,000 on an iris scanner designed to allow children to enter and leave the building. The system can track kids while they’re in school, thereby reducing the the school’s liability. If they never scanned in, it’s…

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DirectFlix Coming Soon

A little bird sent us some Direct TV info. Overall, the document we received was pretty boring, but a few slides stood out. Most importantly, we saw the fall in price for set-up DVRs—from $500+ to about $200 or so—and a little thing they’re calling DirectFlix. This video-on-demand service will include hundreds of movies and…

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PMA Highlights: German Beer, Panasonic

Although most of the major camera companies pre-empted PMA and released their latest imaging products in the weeks leading up to the annual photo marketing trade show, there was still some flash on Day 1 of the show in Orlando yesterday. For starters, Olympus and Panasonic announced they had joined forces to release a new…

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The Anatomy of a Fake: The Video iPod

Found this video by the maker of the fake video iPod image. Amazing work. So slick. Via Digg UPDATE – Is everyone seeing this? YouTube is acting funky.

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Pinnacle PVR USB Key

This very cute little terrestrial TV tuner with included PVR software is only available in the UK but records television in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX formats and sells for about $100. While the PVR software isn’t actually on the key itself, it’s certainly a compelling idea. Pinnacle Announces USB Stick with Built-in PVR [DigitalMediaThoughts]

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Tuning Fork

I am an HDTV curmudgeon. It s not that I don t want one. I even know where I d put it. Rather, it s that I don t want to pay for one. In fact, the very idea of spending upwards of $3,000 for a big-screen flat panel TV kind of pisses me off.…

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Treehugger’s “Waste of Packaging” Contest Finalist

Treehugger’s “Waste of Packaging” contest finalist Kathleen Robinson has given peanut butter lovers a whole new world of variety. Kathleen’s entry consisted of individually packaged peanut butter slices for the whole family to enjoy. Kathleen, however, does provide an optimistic view on the whole idea saying that the inventor should have just sold the “unsticky”…

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Woz Harshes Apple Buzz

Steve Wozniak announced that Apple was consorting with the enemy and ignoring its core business by partnering with Intel and focusing on the iPod. Harsh words until you consider that he was taking part in a four-on-four Segway polo tournament in New Zealand at the time. Say what you want, but Woz knows what’s up…

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Tea Forté Tea Bags

Tea Forte has created an interesting twist on the old tea bag concept. These “silken tea infusers” contain herbs and flowers and have a cute little wiggly thing hanging off the end, making them look like pixie laundry. At 15 for $24, they’re expensive, but should be easy to emulate by other tea makers should…

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Acer MP-500 PMP/PDA

Acer is planning a PMP with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, and interesting departure from the usual “dump and watch” PMPs we’ve been seeing. The MP-500 will come in 20GB and 40GB flavors and offer four hours of video playback on one charge. No info on Wi-Fi et al, but this would be a nice competitor to…

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Stik and Store: Sticks and Stores

Transflash or microSD or whatever you want to call it is quite tiny. Enter Stik and Store, a sticky memory key with a thin tape lead that ends in a T-Flash card. You can add up to 8GB to your phone by installing this thing just like an internal flash card and then threading the…

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Gizmodo Japan: Moe Shirt

If you could encapsulate Japan’s otaku culture into a single kanji character, it would likely be the word mo , a term that has hit the big time in the past year, helped along by the maid cafe boom in Tokyo and Densha Otoko (“Train Man”), a popular drama about an anime fanboy who wins…

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B-Day

Well, we’re down to the final few hours before the RIM vs. NTP cat fight gets crucial. With 81 percent of businesses reporting that their Blackberries are invaluable to making their thumb-typing employees look like total assholes everywhere they go, this is big news. The issue now is whether the judge forces an injunction on…

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Laser Light TV?

Normal projection TVs are powered by reflective or transmissive technologies that use special high-powered light bulbs to “paint” the picture on the screen. Mitsubishi Electronics steps it up a notch and say that they have developed a rear projection TV that uses laser light to light up the screen. Mitsubishi says that the new technology…

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Sponsors Make Us Feel Complete

Who’s a wiggly little sponsor? Yes you are! Yes you are! Thanks to: Nike, Volkswagen, American Apparel, Sonos, MSN Films, TeleNav, Microsoft MEDC and New Line Wanna sponsorate? Sure you do. https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027

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Asus Leather Laptop

Inclosia has been cladding all kinds of things in all kinds of things lately, from Disney phones clad in sexy Mickey cloth to this Asus laptop wrapped in leather. I’ve seen these in real life and they’re very cool and very fashionable, and you know how important fashion is in terms of hardware performance. It’ll…

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Estiluz Tovier Table Lamp: Boxy But Good

Not much high-tech about this, but it looks a sight better than some ripped up Ikea lamp. Dikas of Spain created this lamp out of one piece of bent steel and a box of milky glass. Very this season, friends. Estiluz Tovier Table Lamp [Apartment Therapy]

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Lenovo 3000 Series Notebooks

Big news from Lenovo/IBM. They just launched the C100 Available and expect the V100 Ultraportable and N100 Widescreen to be available later this year. C100 will sell for a surprising $599 and weighs about 6 pounds. The N100 is a widescreen model and the V100 has a 12-inch screen and is the baby of the…

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Logic3 GamesPower50

Viiv Off to a Slow Start

Iris Scanners Keep out Unwanted In New Jersey School

DirectFlix Coming Soon

PMA Highlights: German Beer, Panasonic

The Anatomy of a Fake: The Video iPod

Pinnacle PVR USB Key

Tuning Fork

Treehugger’s “Waste of Packaging” Contest Finalist

Woz Harshes Apple Buzz

Tea Forté Tea Bags

Acer MP-500 PMP/PDA

Stik and Store: Sticks and Stores

Gizmodo Japan: Moe Shirt

B-Day

Laser Light TV?

Sponsors Make Us Feel Complete

Asus Leather Laptop

Estiluz Tovier Table Lamp: Boxy But Good

Lenovo 3000 Series Notebooks

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