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Feet-On with the Shoe Pure 100 (Verdict: It Works Great)

Fulfilling a lifelong dream, we tried the eggciting Shoe Pure 100 at IFA 2007, where a gazillion Germans with smelly shoes passed by —sadly without using it. We didn’t have enough time to try the full power of this ozone-generating germ and smell destroyer from Japan, but we definitely noticed the difference in barely five…

Revived HP iPAQ 900, 600, 200, 100 Line (Some With 3D Maps, Mountains and Buildings)

Those leaked pics and specs for a new line of HP iPAQs turned out to be spot on, U.S. model numbers aside. Led by the formidably spec’d iPAQ 900 Business Messenger smartphone, the lineup consists of another smartphone (600 Business Navigator, the 900’s QWERTY-less little bro), two “classic handhelds,” (the 100 and 200, “classic” meaning…

Topping off the refreshed platform for Extenders for Windows Media Center, the new software will support up to four CableCARDs in a single configuration, up from a pair. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-media-extender-platform-relaunched-with-802-1-296902

Optimus Prime Returns to the Drive Thru, Lil’ Vader in Tow

Optimus Prime has tried to order food from McDonalds with little success before, but this time he brought his friend Darth Vader along to help him get his way. And a very gay man with a dirty mouth. Yeah, I don’t know, I’m as confused as you are. The entire Transformers and Star Wars mythologies…

Microsoft Media Extender Platform Relaunched With 802.11n, DivX and Xvid Support

Probably the only Media Extender hardware most people are aware of is the Xbox 360, and with everyone and their mom getting into the set-top box game, it’s time Microsoft re-juiced the stagnating platform. Renamed “Extenders for Window Media Center” (okay?) the new platform will debut on hardware from Linksys, D-Link and Niveus Media later…

Sharp Jumps Into the Blu-ray Player Derby With its Aquos BD-HP20U

Sharp made a bit of news today when it rolled out its brand-new BD-HP20U Blu-ray player at CEDIA, the first one to bear the Aquos name. Sharp calls this pretty little temptress a “slim profile model,” and rightfully so. It’s tiny-slim. Sharp is proud of the fact that it builds most of the components inside…

HP’s Voodoo-Powered Blackbird 002 Unveiled By Creator (Video)

Click to viewTonight in New York, VoodooPC cofounder (and HP employee) Rahul Sood shows off his newest miracle of PC science, the Blackbird 002. It’s a little long (7min, 30sec or so) so you might want to grab a beverage. –Video by Richard Blakeley https://gizmodo.com/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-p-296409

Apple’s Stock Drops 5.15%, Low Boom Count to Blame?

Wall Street can be such a fickle beast sometimes. Today, Apple revealed what could only be referred to as a monstrous unveiling of iPod-related material, and how do the investors repay them? With a 5.15% drop in the stock price. (Although we’ve done a few of our own calculations and have come to a striking…

‘Matrix GooglesGoggles’ Probably Sounded Like a Good Idea at the Time

A bunch of Russian artists have created these “Matrix Goggles,” which allow you to stagger around with everything looking like you’re trapped in a mediocre sci-fi movie. It’s the most useful invention to come out of Mother Russia since vodka. Insert your own tired “In Soviet Russia, _____ ______s you!” joke here. [English Russia]

Apple Event: Yay, We Didn’t Crash

If there’s been a sore spot on Gizmodo’s track record, it’s been that every time there’s an Apple event, our site slowed or plain died. Not today. We got help from friends at Automattic (who both hosted and did the coding for the liveblog), and despite all the clicking you refresh-happy readers did, the liveblog…

iBrate App Turns iPhone Into Vibrator

Click to viewLadies (and gentlemen), your iPhone app has come, and it’s called iBrate. It has one function: turn your iPhone into a vibrator. To control it, all you have to do is hit the one button. To stop, hit stop. Simple. Here’s our wish list for version 2. • Bigger start/stop button • Variable…

HP Elite m9000 Desktop Is an Incredible Entertainment Hulk

HP’s new Elite m9000 Series Desktop PC is as hardcore as a non-gaming desktop PC can get these days: It sports an Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 and a DX10-happy NVidia GeForce 8400 GS card. You can order it with a dual-format blue-laser combo drive that will play back both Blu-ray and HD DVD…

The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions

When HP acquired Voodoo PC, the boutique gaming maker, I could think of only one thing: What would a creative PC maker like Rahul Sood do with the resources of a small platoon of HP engineers? The Blackbird 002 is the first collaboration, built with lots of HP workstation and server innovations, and a few…

The iPhoney Award

Judging by the fact that the new Nano looks a bit like an iPod knockoff itself, we thought it would only be fitting to show off the iPhoneys, a contest for those who create the most blatant iPod/iPhone ripoffs of all. Current front runners include the Meizu m8, Microsoft Zune and Teclast t59. They always…

WHOA 200-Disc Blu-ray Changer (Sony HES-V1000)

I like that! I like that a lot! The HES (Home Entertainment Starship) V1000 has a 200 disc changer for Blu-ray, DVD and CDs, and it can write to those formats, too. What can it write? I’d assume stuff from a PC, but I’m thinking that it probably can write home movies, music and photos…

Sony’s BDP-S2000es Flagship Blu-ray Player

Sony announced its BDP-S500 at IFA, but they were holding out on us until today. Their BDP-S2000es flagship bears the ES designation, which longtime Sony fans will recognize as their Elevated Standards gear. What do you get over the BDP-S500? Cleaner circuitry in the form of separate boards for audio and video, along with a…

Sony BDP-S500 Blu-ray Player and VPL-VW60 Projector Come Stateside

Just FYI, the BDP-S500 Blu-ray Player and VPL-VW60 projector, both nice but not quite flagship gear from Sony we saw at IFA, are official. $700 and $5k respectively. Info after jump, but more photos in the backlinks. https://gizmodo.com/sony-bdp-s500-blu-ray-player-displaces-the-s1-295142 BRAVIA VPL-VW60 · Combines the advanced features and technology associated with the legendary QUALIA 004 with the…

Sony’s VPL-VW200 Flagship 1080p Projector

Sony’s VPL-VW200 is being announced and it keeps the 1080p, Xenon bulb, and shape of its predecessor, the VPL-VW100. It also almost doubles in price, going for $15k. (The VPL-VW100 is $8k.) It also has new SXRD panels that can hit 120FPS, and a panel adjustment allows for fine tuning of RGB for perfect overlap.…

Rating Gizmodo’s iPod Announcement Predictions

We made a lot of predictions about what we’d see today at Apple’s keynote over the past few weeks, and we were right some of the time and wrong some of the time. Mostly, however, we were right. I know, I know; I’m as surprised as you are. Let’s take a look and see just…

5 Things We Love, 5 Things We Hate About the New iPod Lineup

Click to viewIt’s easy to say what we love about the new iPods—like Gizmodo commenters, they are each special in their own unique way. But there are some gnawing issues that we would like to bring up. First, five things we love: • iPhone price drop – $200 discounts come to those who wait, and…