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DirecTV to Release Prosumer, $1,000+ HD DVR Unit

DirecTV is unveiling their new, top-of-the-line DVR unit at CEDIA, able to record 1080p and supporting optical HDMI. Dubbed the HR21 PRO, it’s more than your regular piece of home theater equipment; this thing can be rack mounted and is designed to be professionally installed, which isn’t something most people need or want. We don’t…

Samsung 69 Series Offers Sweet 120Hz Video for Lower Price

Take a look at the new Samsung 69 series (LN-T4069F) of 120Hz LCDs just announced here at CEDIA, taking 40-inch and 46-inch 1080p screens slightly downmarket from the company’s high-end TVs. But these cheaper models thankfully lack one downside we’ve noticed: that glossy screen on the higher-end TVs reflects everything in sight. Sammy calls it…

Star Trek Phaser Remote Control Is A Bribe From Toshiba and the HD DVD Camp

Trekkies, like what you see? The word from CEDIA is that these bad boys will be given out to consumers who buy a Toshiba HD DVD player and the Star Trek box set. No word on what kind of features this thing has. But hey, it’s free and you can relive your childhood dreams of…

Bang and Olufsen Remote Only Looks Like It Can Save The World

No one will be mistaking the Bang and Olufsen Beo5 for another remote anytime soon, thanks to its distinctive form factor and features. The Beo5 sports a touchscreen on top and an array of buttons arranged in a circle below. What makes this thing special, besides the obvious design, is that it is fully programmable…

Life|Ware Shows Quad-Recording Media Center with Four CableCARDs

Life|Ware rolled out what it says is the first media center PC running four CableCARDs at the same time, and it proved to us that the whole thing actually works today at CEDIA 07. Its life|media Media Center PC is the new top of the line for the company, and it’s packing an Intel Quad…

UK Starbucks Lets You Place Orders From Your Laptop

Living on planet Earth, you get used to seeing a Starbucks every 5-10 ft, but what’s truly amazing is the fact that there is always a ridiculously long line to wait in. However, these lines may soon become a thing of the past, that is if you live in the UK and have a laptop…

Klipsch IMAGE Earphones, World’s Smallest Are Almost Too Small

We got a close-up look at those super-tiny Klipsch IMAGE earphones today, and we’re here to tell you, if these aren’t the smallest phones in the world as Klipsch claims, any smaller ones would be invisible. Their earpieces are the size of the smallest kernel of corn you’ve ever seen. We’re hoping to get a…

Are You Ready for a Dyson Airblade/Mitsubishi Jet Towel Battlemodo?

Whether you like it or not, this thing is about to get switched ON: We totally feel like Don King right now. Remember when we interviewed James Dyson about his Airblade, and he said it could put a hurtin’ on Mitsubishi’s Jet Towel? Well, Mitsubishi fired back, saying, “We obviously take issue with his claims…

iDrink Reminds Us That the Weekend Is Here – at Last

iDrink combines the iPod with a beer bottle opener (I only use openers for beer, anyway.) Maybe the designer is trying to con Apple haters into loving the iPod using associative thinking. Or maybe I just needed an excuse to start the weekend right now with a cold Guinness and some dance music (the beer…

The DrumPants, Turning Musicians Into Instruments One Leg at a Time

And you thought ringtones were annoying. The DrumPants, created by Tyler Freeman, are the combination of two great inventions, MIDI instruments and pants. Basically he just gutted a MIDI keyboard and hooked it up to a couple piezo transducers wired into his pants that act as “drum heads”. However, the result is actually pretty impressive.…

Dodecasub Is 6,000 Watts of Music to D&D Freaks

Ever wanted to play Dungeons & Dragons with your subwoofer? Too bad this Dodecasub (12-sided) doesn’t meet the standard 20-sided tournament legal requirements, but you do get 10 separate speakers with 600 watts each—meaning you’ve got 6000 watts total. It’s $2500, which is what your mom’s electric bill is going to be if you use…

Testing the HappyVappy Vaporizer

Click to viewI had a chance to test out the HappyVappy Vaporizer for vaporizing vaporizables, and videographer Alex Goldberg was on hand to capture the magic as it happened. It, uh, well, it works. It’s a healthier way to smoke, as it heats your plant life up to a high enough temperature to release whatever…

Wall Street Less Happy With Apple Than Early iPhone Adopters

Cut iPhone price by a third two months after launch. Eager fanboys bite back with strongly worded letters and man-on-the-street blurbs. Give them $100 store credit, which really goes right back to Apple. Wall Street bites back. Harder. https://gizmodo.com/the-100-iphone-rebate-the-what-and-the-why-297233 Wall Street, which had lopped $5.5 billion off Apple’s market cap the day before on news…

BRio Flying Boat: Flies, Boats

The BRio flying boat may look like a raft glued to a glider, but it’s so much more! Because when the $10,000 kit is assembled with an engine, you and a bikini-clad friend will boast cruising speeds of 44mph for distances over 100 miles. The contraption works because the hydrodynamic boat is naturally aerodynamic. And…

TiVo Confirms TiVoToGo and Multi-Room Viewing Will Hit Series3 and TiVo HD This November

The rumors we posted are true: TiVo is finally getting its balls back. TiVo has confirmed with Gizmodo that TiVoToGo and multi-room viewing have returned to the new Series3 boxes—including the TiVo HD—and will be available in November. We are told that the hold up was DRM—getting the rights stuff figured out with CableCard was…

Airbus 380 Has Bathroom Window, Insert Joke Here

Forget about its cockpit. At last, the most important detail of the giganormous Airbus A380 has been revealed: it has a window in its bathroom. Expect a surge of helium balloon sales for peeping toms. Full gallery of the cabin after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/korean-air-shows-off-its-a380-cockpit-and-interiors-aft-297370 What is it with this fever for lavender all of a…

Now you can draw stuff right onto pictures on your iPhone. Give everyone in your photo album a goatee. Our intern Benny said it’s unstable and crashed his phone so bad a full restore didn’t work, so use as your own risk. [Sketches via Mod My iPhone]

Video: Playing With Floating Orbs of Water in Space

This video shows Astronaut and Horrible Narrator Don Pettit playing with floating orbs of water in the International Space Station. He blasts them with air, sticks bubbles of air inside them, then fills them with bubbles of water and sticks an Alka Seltzer tab inside to see what happens. It’s all in the name of…

Apple’s iPhone Contextual Ad Was Fake

Remember the iPhone contextual ad yesterday that nudged the early adopters? Turns out the ad wasn’t from Apple at all. It was from some guy from didntyouhear.com. https://gizmodo.com/apple-gloats-spits-in-early-adopters-faces-with-iphone-297100 After seeing the Nokia ad—which WAS from Nokia—he decided to make a fake one, which caught Apple’s eye. Long story short, Apple called Commission Junction, who told…

Apple Pushing Networks to Cut iTunes TV Prices to 99 Cents a Show

Apparently, Apple’s feeling pretty generous “aggressive” lately price-wise. Citing “three people familiar with the proposal,” Variety’s reporting that Apple’s “mulling” chopping the price of TV shows down to 99 cents an episode. Naturally, the networks aren’t exactly thrilled with the less-than-modest proposal. So why make it? https://gizmodo.com/breaking-apple-offering-100-store-credit-for-all-ipho-297182 It’s well known that the iTunes video store…