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Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd Slim and Colorful 7MP Fashion Cam

This is the most colorful and cheesy of Fuji’s camera blitz today. It’s a slim fashion phone that the press release claims, to “flirt with youth.” Never mind the generation Z target demographic, the Z10fd has 3x optical zoom, 2.5-inch lcd, slideshow mode, face detection tech with auto red eye removal, IR beaming, a blogging…

Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd has 8MP, 18x Zoom and 6400 ISO (Kinda)

I’ve never wanted a Fujifilm camera quite so badly as this S8000fd, the successor to the S6500fd, one of the original face recognition cams. First off, its been bumped from 6 to 8MP, still lower than the competition, but for the sake of better light sensitivity. Running in 4MP mode, more than enough for most…

Fujifilm FinePix F480 Cheapie and the Even Cheaper A920

Fuji has two new entry-level digicams coming down the line. First is the Finepix A920, sporting a 9-mp CCD, 4x zoom and a 2.7-inch screen all for $199.95. But if you need your camera to be a little more on the trim side than you’ll want to take a look at the F480. This guy…

Mtron’s Latest Solid State Drives the Fastest Ever Tested

Flash-based SSDs have come a long way since their 1995 introduction by msystems (now SanDisk). The problem constantly plaguing the motionless, rough-and-tumble drives has always been speed; even though reading data from any point on a flash drive should theoretically be faster than a conventional HDD, real-world performance just hasn’t lived up to the hype…until…

Joost to launch by years end with an initial user base of 1 million. [APC Magazine]

MoGo Mouse X54 Fits Media Functions, Scroll Pad Into Small Package

Newton Peripherals is back with its second iteration of the MoGo laptop mouse, this time adding dual lasers, media browsing capabilities and the scroll function we longed for. https://gizmodo.com/mogo-mouse-reviewed-verdict-portability-a-gogo-189107 The card-sized Mogo X54 connects to your laptop via Bluetooth, and uses the ExpressCard/54 slot to charge. The X54’s media function allows you to play, pause,…

Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to halt production of IDE drives. Seagate will be SATA only in 2008 and beyond. [Ars ]

Mio Nomad System: Create a Wall Anytime, Anywhere

The Nomad is a modular system for creating partitions designed by Mio. What sets them apart from other partitioning setups? Well they’re made up of tons of little recycled-cardboard pieces that fit into one another in order to create your desired wall shape. You can even create openings that you can walk through, ala a…

Toshiba to Release 32GB “Limited Edition” ReadyBoost-enabled Flash Drive by December

Diving further into the Windows ReadyBoost market, Toshiba is planning a new line of its TransMemory USB flash drives. The line, called U2K, will consist of 1GB-8GB models due out in October and a massive limited edition (which probably means producing them is so expensive that they need to test the market with a small…

Martin’s “History of Flight” Guitar Costs $150,000, Ranks Among World’s Ugliest

As the owner of a Martin guitar (one that cost substantially less than $150,000), I know this one-of-a-kind piece here probably has beautiful tone and resonance, made as it is from the finest Adirondack spruce and Brazilian rosewood. But we seriously have to talk about this “History of Flight” theme… Do you really want Cliff’s…

Samsung HT-AS720 Blu-ray Receiver Packs 5.1 Speaker System to Boot

Designed to be paired with Samsung’s own line of Blu-ray players (like the Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo drive we told you about earlier), the HT-AS720 is a mid-range receiver for HD lovers. 650 watts of power will fill your room with sound and a variety of connection options will satisfy your home theater needs. Play with the…

HP’s ginormous HDX 20-inch laptop is available for purchase, and the quickplay has a built in Sling Client, the first of its kind. (image)[HP] https://gizmodo.com/hps-20-inch-hdx-dragon-laptop-walked-through-and-revi-258864

Intel Silicon Optical Modulator Hits 40Gbps (In Bed)

In case you didn’t know, electrons are total crap. The future is in light beams; that is, photons. Chipmakers love their silicon, cheap and easy to manufacture at volume, so they are furiously researching ways to put photonic integrated circuits on silicon chips. The speed component of the integrated circuit is the optical modulator. Today’s…

Hands-On Samsung’s BD-UP5000 Hybrid HD DVD and Blu-ray player (Verdict: So Far, the Best)

I just had some hands-on time with Samsung’s BD-UP5000 Duo HD, their first hybrid Blu-ray and HD DVD disc player. It’s so good, it might as well be called BD-UP-Yours-Format-War. (Get it? Yeah, sorry, that wasn’t too funny.) It’s not the industry’s first hybrid disc player—the LG BH100 has that honor. But it is the…

How to Make Your Own $100 Million Diamond-Encrusted Skull

If you haven’t heard, British artist Damien Hirst’s latest work of art is a platinum skull covered in diamonds that’s titled, appropriately, “For The Love of God.” The pricetag? $100 million. What goes into making such an insane item? Supertouch has a breakdown of the process that went into creating it. The best part? Hirst…

The Cutest Compact Flash Cards Ever

Are these not the cutest goddamn Compact Flash cards ever? Those Japanese really know what they’re doing. [Rakuten via Gizmodo Japan]

Paw Jacuzzi

We enjoy dogs as much as the next person, but giving them a little paw jacuzzi to warm and wash their mitts is a bit far. Sure, 5800 yen ($48) isn’t that much to pay for a good soak, but c’mon. This is a dog. He won’t know the difference between a paw jacuzzi and…

Customizable Analog Clocks Show What Time it is Anywhere

Got a lot of family all over the world? Need to stalk and track every single Giz editor? This customizable analog clock is for you. It shows the time on a 24 hour scale, divided up into night and day, and gives you five hands that point to various time zones throughout the world. This…

Toshiba Portege R500 1.73 Pound Ultra-Portable Notebook Goes Solid State

The 2.4-pound Toshiba Portege R500 may have cleared the FCC, but its younger, slimmer brother just weighed in at 1.73 pounds. How did Toshiba do it? By swapping out a standard hard drive and putting in a 64GB solid-state flash drive. The R500-S5003 has no moving parts (there’s no DVD drive), and will cost $2,699.…

Second Rotation Buys Your Old Gadgets

If you want to dump off your old cellphone, camera or MP3 player but don’t want to deal with the hassle of not getting robbed off Craigslist, check out Second Rotation. These guys have a gigantic “bluebook”-like list of what gadgets are worth and will pay you cash money within ten days of receiving the…