Matt Buchanan, Author at Gizmodo

iPhone Reactions From CES: The Joy of Competition

The iPhone: We love it. You love it. Everyone loves it. Except for maybe the phone makers that now have to stack up to it. We decided to hit the CES show floor to see what some reps from other makers had to say about the Jesus phone and how they plan on dealing with…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Wrapping Up: Gizmodo’s “IP” Address During CES

From the 16th floor of the Imperial Pit Palace in Las Vegas, which was Gizmodo’s base of operations for CES when not in press-room hell. Or swank-ass parties. Which means when we fell into comas at the end of each day, running nonstop from 8 am to 10 pm (or later). It was intense, tiring,…

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Creative Xdock Wireless: An iPod Dock Worth Your $$$?

But another in a sea of iPod docks, the Creative Xdock Wireless looks to make them obsolete with the “X factor.” What the hell is the X factor? Find out after the jump… It takes stereo audio from the docked iPod or Zen and upconverts it through “Xtreme Fidelity” to quality that they claim is…

Tech News Matt Buchanan, Photo gallery by Teru Kawayama

The Real Deal On Xbox 360 IPTV With Pics and Video

It seems that there’s been a lot of confusion over what exactly IPTV on the Xbox 360 is bringing to the table, and moreover, what it’ll take to bring it to your table. So I sat down with Microsoft to get a demo and clear up a lot of the confusion that’s been going on…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Videos from the (Near) Future: Next Gen House

We snagged a couple of video clips inside of the Next Gen House that’s been transported here to CES. Up top is a video of the touchscreen you got a look at yesterday and some of its functions in action, such as controlling a security camera outside while watching a live video feed. After the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Dell Home Media Suite Up Close: There Are Worse Ways to Blow $11K

While slightly lost in the shuffle among the uproar over its Black Ice-chilled XPS 710 H2C and sexy, aluminum-housed 27-inch 2707WFP, Dell’s Home Media Suite packs a decent bit of top-notch hardware into the $11,000 bundle they showed off at CES, including the 2707WFP. The package gets you a Core 2 Duo-based XPS 410 outfitted…

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SanDisk Cruzer Contour: Trying to Bring the Bling

Sandisk brought out its new Cruzer Contour USB flash drive, which aims for the “elegant look and feel of a fine fountain pen.” Right. While I wouldn’t go that far, it is definitely packing in the looks department. The outer casing is metallic with a nice, solid feel, which houses a shiny black case (not…

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Texas Instruments Joins 100K:1 Contrast Ratio Competition

Texas Instruments, not traditionally known for their TV sets but rather for developing backend tech for them, particularly in the DLP category, showed off some of their Slim DLP TVs. The most striking set was a prototype using one of their .65-inch 1080p chipsets, which they claimed to have a 100,000:1 contrast ratio. It wasn’t…

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Next Gen House: Lifeware Touchscreen Up Close

In pretty much every room of the Next Gen House is a wall-mounted touchscreen running off of the main server in the back using Vista (which is pimped pretty thoroughly in the house). As you can see in the galleries, the touchscreens can be used to control pretty much every aspect of the house, from…

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TV Everywhere: On Your Phone, In Your Pants

If anything’s shaping up to be the theme of the show, it’s TV and we don’t just mean monster 108-inch LCD sets. It’s all about time and place-shifting television content… https://gizmodo.com/sharp-rolls-out-gigantic-108-inch-lcd-226761 Apple delivered on iTV, er, AppleTV, as promised. Microsoft confirmed IPTV on the Xbox 360, bringing HD broadcasts and most likely DVR capabilities to…

Television Matt Buchanan

Philips Tablet DVD Players: Details, Details, Details

Turns out the promise they showed back in November mostly holds up, as we were fairly impressed with the PET line of tablet DVD players Philips showed us. Besides looking great, they have DVD+/-RW, VCD, MP3/WMA-CD, CD and CD-RW music playback, as well as a USB port for uploading and displaying images. Best of all…

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Video Goodness: Slide Inside the Ambisound

While we showed you a video of the Ambisound HTS8100 and its announcement yesterday, today we’re coming back with a video of the slide-open CD/DVD panel in the front. Slick stuff, as you can see. – Matt Buchanan

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Eleksen SideShow Bag: Kind of Ugly, Kind of Cool

The Skinny A bag we saw last night at CES Unveiled from “interactive apparel” maker Eleksen that sports a Vista SideShow module designed for “soft-goods peripherals,” so we’ll probably see it in a number of other Eleksen wares. The module has a 2.5-inch LCD screen and pulls data from a notebook using either Bluetooth or…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Samsung Auto Wall Mount: Make Your Flat Panel a Swinger

Samsung showed off a remote-controlled auto wall mount for 42 to 50-inch LCD and 42 or 50-inch PDP sets that swivels 30 degrees in either direction with 20 degrees of tilt with the touch of a button. Support for 63-inch monsters is coming in May. The unit features auto-centering and obstruction detection, which stops the…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Netgear, BitTorrent Box Streams 1080P To Your TV

New developments coming out of the Netgear/BitTorrent partnership: breaking into the universal streaming media market, Netgear’s Digital Entertainer HD tries to make good by packing a cornucopia of features into its rather large box. Using draft-N, it’s able to stream video in 1080p, as well as most any other media content (MP3, WMA, AAC and…

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Oqo 02: It’s Here And We Touched It, Perhaps Inappropriately

We knew it existed about it a month ago, but tonight we saw, and more importantly, felt up the new Oqo model. Vista capable (it also will run XP Pro, Home, and Tablet PC Edition 2005) with an updated 1.5 GHz VIA C7M processor, 1 GB of RAM, a 60 GB hard drive. What is…

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Panasonic Press Conference: It Made Us Sleepy

CENTERPIECE: The Panasonic press conference, despite being one of the most crowded, was a let down. It felt like an infomercial, and you couldn’t change the channel. They showed off three new sizes of their 1080p plasmas: 103-inch, 58-inch, 50-inch and a prototype 42-inch model and emphasized (repeatedly and at great length) plasmas over LCD.…

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Sharp GP1U Gaming LCD TVs: 4TW

While sure to be overshadowed by the 108-inch behemoth they unveiled today (literally), Sharp also introduced a new line of gaming-optimized 1080p Aquos LCD sets, which come in 37-inch and 32-inch flavors. Sporting 8500:1 and 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratios respectively, they both boast “QuickShoot” circuitry for a less than 6 ms response time. The feature…

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Sharp Press Conference: On the Scene

After a near riot and registration hell, we’ve landed at the Sharp press conference. Starts at noon Vegas time, so plan accordingly and get ready to be slammed by an update deluge.

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Asus W5Fe Sports SideShow, Huge Ass

The cover-mounted external display, SideShow, makes its debut in Asus’s 12″ W5Fe notebook, which sports Vista from the get-go to support SideShow. It actually runs off of an independent operating system which can be fired up without turning on the rest of the notebook, and while it’s ostensibly for displaying info on the go, it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Matt Buchanan

iPhone Reactions From CES: The Joy of Competition

Wrapping Up: Gizmodo’s “IP” Address During CES

Creative Xdock Wireless: An iPod Dock Worth Your $$$?

The Real Deal On Xbox 360 IPTV With Pics and Video

Videos from the (Near) Future: Next Gen House

Dell Home Media Suite Up Close: There Are Worse Ways to Blow $11K

SanDisk Cruzer Contour: Trying to Bring the Bling

Texas Instruments Joins 100K:1 Contrast Ratio Competition

Next Gen House: Lifeware Touchscreen Up Close

TV Everywhere: On Your Phone, In Your Pants

Philips Tablet DVD Players: Details, Details, Details

Video Goodness: Slide Inside the Ambisound

Eleksen SideShow Bag: Kind of Ugly, Kind of Cool

Samsung Auto Wall Mount: Make Your Flat Panel a Swinger

Netgear, BitTorrent Box Streams 1080P To Your TV

Oqo 02: It’s Here And We Touched It, Perhaps Inappropriately

Panasonic Press Conference: It Made Us Sleepy

Sharp GP1U Gaming LCD TVs: 4TW

Sharp Press Conference: On the Scene

Asus W5Fe Sports SideShow, Huge Ass

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

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

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

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

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

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?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!