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Samsung Puts Cameraphones on a Diet with New Image Sensor

Samsung is sending cameraphones across the globe to fat camp. They’ve developed a new 3-megapixel CMOS image sensor that’s 30% smaller than the ones being used today. Basically that means next year’s cameraphones will take better pictures and come in slimmer sizes. Anything to minimize that awkward cell phone bulge in my front pocket is…

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Sapphire’s Godfather Makes Quad Crossfire a Reality

Sapphire scored some major bragging points this morning by demoing a dual-GPU Radeon X1950 Pro board it’s calling, the Godfather. The card runs on a single x16 PCI-Express slot and provides the kind of performance you’d get from running two X1950 cards in Crossfire mode. What’s interesting about the Godfather, however, is that it can…

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Meizu Lets Users Design Their Next MP3 Player

It’s not often fanboys get to design their favorite company’s next product, but that’s pretty much what Meizu is doing. They’re holding a contest to see who can design their next dap. We’ve seen their players before, and they’ve been pretty impressive, beating even the mighty iPod, so this contest idea is a great way…

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There’s Still Time to Win a Console

Wanna spend the next two weeks of your life playing non-stop video games? Sign up for one of these contests and you just might be able to. Microsoft and Epic Records have teamed up for an Xbox 360 contest where you can score a console and win a chance at playing Tenacious D, while the…

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Ultraportable MacBook Specs Leaked?

Looks like the rumors surrounding that 12-inch MacBook Pro we spoke of earlier are starting to beef up. The gang at Mac OS Rumors is convinced Apple is working on a MacBook “Thin” and have listed all the specs they got from their “trusted sources in Cupertino and Southeast Asia.” Apple may be working on…

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GQ’s Gear of the Year: Nothing You’d Ever Want to Buy

After months of deliberation, the stylish lads at Men.Style have revealed 2006’s top gear. Their manifest is essentially a laundry list of pretty-boy tech (aka stuff you’d never buy) with price tags high enough to give you vertigo. Case in point, they chose Geneva Lab’s $1,075 XL speakers as best iPod accessory. Anyone who can…

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MojoPlay Monitor Makes Your 360 Mobile

I don’t normally make it a habit of lugging my Xbox 360 around to other people’s houses, but should the desire ever arise (or if you have a car to do the lugging for you), MojoPlay’s MP-920XB is at your service. It’s a 9.2-inch traveling display that connects to your 360 and lets you play…

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Philips BDP9000 Review: You’re Better Off with a PS3

Philips’ first Blu-ray player has finally made its way out the door and the folks at CNET ain’t that impressed. Sure, it’s one of the best-looking high-def players out there and it comes with a kick-ass remote, but feature-wise the BDP9000 lacks HDMI 1.3, doesn’t support any of the new audio formats like Dolby Digital…

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Hypersonic Cruise Missiles Hit Mach 5

Tomahawk Cruise missiles may be known for their pinpoint accuracy, but when it comes to speed, there’s no topping the X-51. As part of the Pentagon’s Prompt Global Strike project, the X-51 is a hypersonic cruise missile that can strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour. The new missile, which is designed…

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12-year Old Gets Pr0n-Filled Zune For the Holidays

Chanell Martin thought she was being a cool mom when she gave her 12-year old daughter a shiny new Zune for the Holidays. But as it turns out, her daughter’s “welcome to the social” was anything but innocent. Apparently the Zune, which Martin purchased at a local Walmart, came with a 1-hour and 44-minute homemade…

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Spion Orbitor Lets You Spy on Your Unsuspecting Neighbors

Want to know what your neighbors think of you? The Spion Oribitor isn’t pretty, but it’s the best way of finding out. This high-tech listening kit was designed to let you hone in on conversations taking place up to 300 feet away from you. The included headphones can filter out ambient noise while a built-in…

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Hotseat Racing Cockpit Puts You in the Driver’s Seat

Most racing cockpits tend to cost ridiculous amounts of money, but Hotseat’s Racer GTX is one of the few that goes for under a grand. The $700 bare bones chassis comes with a 5.1 surround sound speaker set up, while the $849 step-up model throws in an LCD mount. One small catch though. In both…

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Trackable Clothing Keeps an Eye on Outdoorsy Types

We’ve seen all types of tech clothing before, but this is the first that actually serves a purpose. Covert Assest Tracking Systems has developed a new line of threads that can be tracked via GPS and even monitored over the Internet. So should a group of hikers or mountain climbers get lost, they could be…

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All Giz Wants: Virtual Surround Sound Done Right

As much as I love surround sound, I don’t have the space in my living room to wire a 5.1 or 6.1 speaker set. So instead I rely on my Denon S301, a 2.1 system that emulates a 5.1 setup. But as much as I love it, the S301 (and most virtual surround sound systems…

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Apple In-Store Ad: Love it or Hate it?

Usually when I go to the Apple Store in New York I loiter around for awhile, checking out the Mac Pros and imagining what it’d be like to have one of the 30-inch Cinema Displays sitting on my desk. But my last trip to the Apple Store was spoiled by this annoying holiday ad that…

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EdgeFX Lets Console Gamers Frag Away with a Mouse

SplitFish’s new EdgeFX mouse was designed to make your PlayStation 2’s Dual Shock controller obsolete. It has the controller’s four face buttons etched onto it’s side and also comes with a secondary controller that contains the Dual Shock’s analog and directional pads. The $70 combo is out this week, but it only works with the…

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Denon Prepping its New HDMI 1.3-equipped Receivers

Looks like your wait for an HDMI 1.3 receiver is still a few months away. Denon has announced its new line of A/V receivers and although they’ll all have HDMI 1.3, chances are we won’t see them till mid 2007. In addition to 1080p pass-through, most of the models will come with Dolby Digital Plus…

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D-Link DSM-510 Streams HD Content to Your TV

Streaming media files from your PC to your living room isn’t exactly what we’d call new, but D-Link is announcing its DSM-510 Wireless Media Player as being one of the first devices that can tackle high-def content. The player connects to your home network via an Ethernet or wireless (802.11g) connection (it can only do…

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Panasonic Boosts its Ultraportables with Sprint Rev A EV-DO

If last week’s ToughBooks were a little too big for your needs, Panasonic today bestowed its ultraportable W5 and T5 ToughBooks with built-in mobile broadband. The cool thing about these notebooks (aside from their slim waist line) is that they’re the first rugged laptops compatible with Sprint’s EV-DO Rev A network, which delivers download speeds…

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Nintendo Planning to Update DS’ Twins

Our multilingual brothers at Kotaku have discovered some interesting news via a French gaming magazine. Apparently big N is working on yet another DS hardware update, this time upgrading its dual screens from 3 inches to the vicinity of 3.5-or 3.8-inches. I can see why Nintendo released the DS Lite (the original DS was a…

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Samsung Puts Cameraphones on a Diet with New Image Sensor

Sapphire’s Godfather Makes Quad Crossfire a Reality

Meizu Lets Users Design Their Next MP3 Player

There’s Still Time to Win a Console

Ultraportable MacBook Specs Leaked?

GQ’s Gear of the Year: Nothing You’d Ever Want to Buy

MojoPlay Monitor Makes Your 360 Mobile

Philips BDP9000 Review: You’re Better Off with a PS3

Hypersonic Cruise Missiles Hit Mach 5

12-year Old Gets Pr0n-Filled Zune For the Holidays

Spion Orbitor Lets You Spy on Your Unsuspecting Neighbors

Hotseat Racing Cockpit Puts You in the Driver’s Seat

Trackable Clothing Keeps an Eye on Outdoorsy Types

All Giz Wants: Virtual Surround Sound Done Right

Apple In-Store Ad: Love it or Hate it?

EdgeFX Lets Console Gamers Frag Away with a Mouse

Denon Prepping its New HDMI 1.3-equipped Receivers

D-Link DSM-510 Streams HD Content to Your TV

Panasonic Boosts its Ultraportables with Sprint Rev A EV-DO

Nintendo Planning to Update DS’ Twins

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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