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Believe It or Not, Sony Bravia Theater Systems are Walking On S-AIR

Sony’s latest venture into wireless home-theater-in-a-box 5.1 systems includes options for wireless rear speakers and a new system called S-AIR that can transmit audio from your home theater to smaller clock-radio receivers in other rooms, up to a precise-sounding 164 feet away. They all have five-disc 1080p-upconverting HDMI DVD players and an included TDM-iP10 iPod…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

USB Turntables Don’t Seem Sony, But Here’s the PS-LX300USB

Either Sony’s trying to tell us that vinyl will never die, or that vinyl is finally dead. After years of quietly selling regular old turntables, Sony is now offering what some niche brands already sell: a USB-connected turntable for converting records to MP3s. We don’t have a lot of detail on the PS-LX300USB, except for…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Sony HT-7200HD, HT-SS2300, HT-CT100 and HT-DDWG700 Home-Theaters-in-a-Box Are Built for Blu-ray

If Sony exists for anything, it’s synergy, so its latest quickie home theaters are made to match its Blu-ray players—you’ll notice only one of this fourfer has an upscaling DVD player—you’ve gotta bring the vid (Blu-ray) goods (Blu-ray) yourself. The $400 5.1 HT-SS2300 is the top audio-only, which pumps out 1000W and as three HDMI…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Sony DRC-BT815 Dongle Adds Bluetoothiness to Your Headphones

The DRC-BT815 (love them truly unique product names) is a little $130 stereo Bluetooth receiver that you plug your headphones into—bam, instant Bluetooth headset. The mic’s onboard the dongle, which has a clippy to attach it to your shirt (or earlobe). The sucky part is that battery life is only six hours, and it’s, you…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Syd Mead Art for U.S. Steel (1960s)

Professor Michael Stoll has posted an amazing collection of promotional art Syd Mead did for U.S. Steel. Prof. Stoll posted the Syd Mead images to the (Boing Boing Gadgets/Paleo-Future Blog) Flickr Group, In the Year 2000. The entire set of images can be found in the Portfolio of Probabilities photoset. One thing that is interestingly…

Tech News Matt Novak

How Hot Is Your Laptop?

Hookay. So I was talking with Jason about buying a new MacBook Air to replace my aging PowerBook 17″. He suggested a new MacBook Pro or even a MacBook. “I love the Air. It is hot,” I said. “It you want hot, the MacBook Pro will scorch your balls groin,” he replied. So I told…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Goldmund’s Eidos 20 BD: The World’s Most Overpriced Blu-Ray Player at $16,900

Goldmund has just announced the Eidos 20 BD, a device that they claim is the first Blu-ray player from a high-end AV manufacturer. So, naturally, that makes it all right to slap a $16,000 price tag on it. Apparently, that premium price will score you an AC-Curator power supply circuit for improved picture and sound,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Interview With Mike Rea Featuring Wooden Mechs, Guns and Tanks

If you have ever had the privilege of viewing a work by artist Mike Rea, chances are you were instantly captivated by his amazing geek-inspired wood sculptures. The folks at Fecal Face managed to catch up with him and ask a few questions—and the brief peek inside his mind that resulted is interesting to say…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Dealzmodo: Amazon HD DVD Firesale, 50% Off Most Titles

Not surprisingly, Amazon is looking to dump a whole mess of HD DVD titles to clear out more space for Blu-ray. Rather than dump the whole lot in the desert, they are passing the savings on to you in the form of a 50% discount on most titles. Get em’ before they are gone for…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Proof of New Macbooks?

Remember those rumors that AppleInsider was claiming a few hours ago? It came from an unfamiliar source, but while we’re wildly guessing, here’s an image of those updated model numbers with prices in the sub-$2000 range, far more appropriate for the Macbook standard than the pro: https://gizmodo.com/macbook-pro-new-model-tomorrow-allegedly-360464 According to this source, these are not the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Soda Can MP4 is Not All That Refreshing

As you might have guessed, the NXMP324 from Neux Corp is not what I would call a “serious” product, but those looking for something a little different may find its support for MP3, WMA, WMV, WAV and ASF file formats, built-in USB 2.0 port, FM radio, and 128MB to 4GB capacities mildly interesting. Not me…

Tech News Sean Fallon

What’s Causing the “Earth Without Us” Craze in New Scifi Movies?

Following on the tail of the hit book The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, and the documentary Life After People, Hollywood seems determined to make scifi movies that explore the same theme. Certainly we’ve had “Earth without most of us” flicks like I Am Legend, but two movies that were on proud display at…

Movies Annalee Newitz

A Phone so Soft and Squeezable, You Will Want to Replace Your Charmin With It

The “Softphone” concept phone from designer Quian Jiang utilizes a series of discs with electronically wired cotton fabric stretched in between. The benefit to a phone like this would be that one could fold up the keyboard to save space while the bulk of the electronics are housed inside a tiny clip made out of…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Multiverse Is Strictly Business, Says DC Comics Czar

If you’ve found DC Comics hard to understand over the past year, chances are it’s because of the multiverse. DC used to have tons of alternate universes, but they collapsed into one nice, tidy universe in 1985. Until last year, when suddenly DC had 52 different realities to play with again. I decided to hound…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

DivX’s Stage 6 Streaming Video Site Shutting Down

You may only be vaguely aware of DivX’s Stage 6 video site (which probably explains why it wasn’t successful) but it’s going to be shut down entirely at the end of February. Stage 6 was DivX’s YouTube-like video site meant to provide a bunch of streamable content for living room and mobile DivX players. The…

Tech News Jason Chen

Panasonic Updates 103-inch Plasma, Still Charging $70,000 For It

Panasonic’s badass 103-inch Plasma TV might have been shown up at CES by an even more retardedly-gigantic set, but that doesn’t mean that Panny has forgotten its roots. https://gizmodo.com/103-inch-hdtv-xbox-360-nerdgasm-293313 What can we expect from this new 103-inch model? Better wall mount configuration, improved video processing technology, anti-Reflective coating, enhanced wireless presentation capabilities, more versatile media…

Tech News Adam Frucci

USB Memo Lamp: Ambient Lighting For the Absent Minded

If you are the kind of person that has Post-it notes strewn all over your desk, this USB-powered lamp may help you cut through the clutter while simultaneously providing some colorful ambient lighting. Using the included pen, users can write notes on the base and simply wipe the message off when needed. Sure, it is…

Tech News Sean Fallon

HD DVD’s Animatronic Secret Weapon Not Enough to Defeat Blu-ray

As if 1080p video, full-resolution audio, net connectivity and multi-tuner signal decoding wasn’t enough, Toshiba’s HD DVD team had even cooked up a system of embedded animatronic control before the format was put out of its misery. In this video left over from CES 2008, this little mechanical jazz band playing the Duke Ellington classic…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Wondercon Confronts The Rise Of The Police State

The biggest cheers at Wondercon weren’t for killer robots, but for allegories about government conspiracies, endless wars and terrorism. Much of the weekend felt like a poli-sci seminar, except with nuclear holocausts and mutated alien bugs instead of textbooks. If you needed proof that the shadow of 9/11 keeps falling over our formerly escapist narratives,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Verizon “Any App, Any Device” Tech Specs Go Up March 19

Seem like it might be obvious, but the technical specs for wild, woolly and wonderful devices to attach to Verizon’s soon-to-be wide open network will be unveiled March 19 at their Open Development Device Conference. Start heating up those soldering irons, boys. [Verizon] https://gizmodo.com/verizon-says-you-can-port-from-sprint-build-your-own-p-326896

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Believe It or Not, Sony Bravia Theater Systems are Walking On S-AIR

USB Turntables Don’t Seem Sony, But Here’s the PS-LX300USB

Sony HT-7200HD, HT-SS2300, HT-CT100 and HT-DDWG700 Home-Theaters-in-a-Box Are Built for Blu-ray

Sony DRC-BT815 Dongle Adds Bluetoothiness to Your Headphones

Syd Mead Art for U.S. Steel (1960s)

How Hot Is Your Laptop?

Goldmund’s Eidos 20 BD: The World’s Most Overpriced Blu-Ray Player at $16,900

Interview With Mike Rea Featuring Wooden Mechs, Guns and Tanks

Dealzmodo: Amazon HD DVD Firesale, 50% Off Most Titles

Proof of New Macbooks?

Soda Can MP4 is Not All That Refreshing

What’s Causing the “Earth Without Us” Craze in New Scifi Movies?

A Phone so Soft and Squeezable, You Will Want to Replace Your Charmin With It

The Multiverse Is Strictly Business, Says DC Comics Czar

DivX’s Stage 6 Streaming Video Site Shutting Down

Panasonic Updates 103-inch Plasma, Still Charging $70,000 For It

USB Memo Lamp: Ambient Lighting For the Absent Minded

HD DVD’s Animatronic Secret Weapon Not Enough to Defeat Blu-ray

Wondercon Confronts The Rise Of The Police State

Verizon “Any App, Any Device” Tech Specs Go Up March 19

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