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Harman Kardon HS500: Theater Sound for Around a Grand

Harman Kardon may not a name to say quickly or people will think you are talking about having sex in your car, but it is a name associated with high-end AV products for the home. These home theater systems, the HS300 and HS500 should be available to ship any day now. Both have a 5.1-channel…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Mar 9

PMA 07: Canon EOS-1D Mark III Snapping Off Frames Like a House Afire

As promised, here’s the Canon EOS-1D Mark III digital SLR firing off 10 frames per second. It’s able to shoot a string of 110 frames at a time in its default large jpeg frame size at level 8 compression. Canon’s Chuck Westfall, Director of Media and Customer Relationship of the Consumer Imaging Group, shows us…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 8

Intarwebs Invading American DSes via Opera on June 4

That’s right, months after being available in both Europe and Japan, Opera for the DS finally arrives stateside June 4th. Woohoo? It’s not exactly an optimal way to go online, but in a pinch, it sort of gets the job done. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/opera/opera-ds-cant-render-kotaku-otherwise-okay-189306.php Granted, there are only about a million other ways to go online on…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 8

Tricorder Invented, For Realz

“Mr. Spock, what is that substance?” “Hmm…it appears to be a naked photo of the alien from Zentir 16. The one that you promised to show to no one else.” “Not that! The OTHER substance.” “Oh, that’s just the STD you left on the picture…and my heart” Purdue researchers have invented a real-world “tricorder”. It…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 8

LEDs for Outside: Light the Earth, Spite the Sun

Iwasaki Electric just announced their new LED Bouhantou, an LED bulb made for outdoor use. The idea has some hidden advantages, like not emitting UV light and thereby not attracting bugs (all while keeping the light quality more pleasant than the current alien death pee alternatives.) And of course, the units are major power savers.…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 8

Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Development Ramping Down After ’07

At the end of the GDC blogger’s breakfast yesterday morning, Chris Satchell dropped this bomb that not many people seem to have picked up on. He said, regarding Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility: At some point we’re going to focus less on it. When you get to the end of this year there will be a…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 8

LG Cranks Out World’s Thinnest CRT

Up close, you might mistake LG’s 21FU1R for a flat-panel TV. Afterall, it has the same stylish design as most of the TVs in their line up. But take a look behind and you’ll see this boob tube has some junk in its trunk, though with a deflection angle of 120 degrees, LG is claiming…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 8

Upcoming Mii Channel Silently Announced

During the Nintendo Keynote, Nintendo’s Miyamoto quietly slipped in a tidbit about an upcoming Wii channel. He said this new channel—as yet unnamed—is going to be a popularity channel where you can compare your Miis to other users and hold popularity contests and vote on the best Mii. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-kiinote-the-liveblog-242668 No release date, but this does…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 8

D-Flector: Photography Studio in a Suitcase

Having a decent background makes all the difference when you’re doing still photography, like product shots for eBay. Everyone knows that your crappy “vintage” shirt looks better in a studio setting rather than just on your bedspread. This D-Flector Photography Studio in a Suitcase makes taking pro snaps easy and cheap without having to own…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 8

First Look: Asus Ecobook Bamboo Laptop

Holy crapola! It is double bamboo Thursday! If that bamboo LCD didn’t fit your fancy, maybe this laptop will. The Asus EcoBook is a laptop set for release in 2008. It supposedly communicates Asus’ eco-friendly message by being covered in beautiful bamboo. Man, I bet those koala pandas are getting pumped today! https://gizmodo.com/widescreen-bamboo-lcd-tv-242696 Photos: The…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 8

Shock Ball Takes Hot Potato to a New Level

Unless you are playing hot potato with a flaming tennis ball, then you aren’t playing hard enough. And if that flaming tennis ball is a bit too much, then the Shock Ball may be more of your liking. Charge up the ball and begin tossing it around. The Shock Ball has contact points all over…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Mar 8

PlayStation Home Beta Signup Site Up

If you were at all intrigued by Sony’s PlayStation Home feature announced yesterday, head on over to homebetatrial.com. This is the official Sony site for the Beta of Home for the PS3, which means you need to keep refreshing this every day until signups are available. Either that, or read Gizmodo and we’ll tell you…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 8

Hack Google Maps to Get Super Zoom

Ever wish you could zoom in ever farther using Google Maps? Well, with a tiny bit of URL tweaking you can, provided the area you’re looking at has big enough images. Check it: Select a location and switch to satellite view. Zoom in as far as you can, and click ‘link to this page’ at…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 8

Adobe to Develop Photo Authentication Tools

With the help of Dartmouth College, Reuters and Canon, Adobe will be developing a tool that will be able to distinguish the authenticity of a photo. It will come in the form of a Photoshop plugin and it can link a picture to a camera and even a specific camera. The plugin will also have…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 8

Boring but Important Stuff

“There, I just deleted all my big brothers saves. That’ll teach him for ripping the arms off my teddy bear.”—Lupison Microsoft, like most giant tech companies, is trying to replace yet another standard with their own. This time JPEG is the target, they want to put HD Photo (HDP) in its place. MS is claiming…

Tech News Ben Longo & Photo by Pete Ark Mar 8

RIAA Boycott: eMusic’s Top 10 Albums

Hey guys. How’s the boycott going? Are you holding out all right? I want to make sure we’re still in it together! If you’re having a hard time not buying any music, don’t worry. There’s plenty of great stuff out there that you can buy without any of your money going to the RIAA! Take…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 8

PMA 07: Jobo photoGPS Brings Easy GPS Photo Tagging to the Masses

Jobo rolled out its photoGPS today, sitting up top your camera as if it were a flash unit, but it’s oh so different: It geo-tags your location and saves that so you’ll know right where you were when you snapped that pic. The cool thing about this is that it works with any camera with…

Gadgets Curtis Joe Walker and Charlie White Mar 8

SoundGate Tablet Lets Musicians Geek Out

Designed by Nicolas Gonzalez Garrido, the SoundGate PC is a tablet/laptop hybrid made especially for musicians. It lets them record sessions, transcribe their music, and write out their next single. The tablet has a 10-inch touchscreen LCD and a flip-style QWERTY keyboard. A volume knob and jog dials are found inside and there’s even a…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 8

Nintendo Kiinote: The Liveblog

Hey folks, we’re here in chilly Moscone South to bring you up-to-the-minute updates from Miyamoto’s Keynote. It should be starting here soon, so get your refresh buttons handy (everything will just be in this one post) and stay tuned! 10:37: Crecente chats up a guy in a robot helmet. 10:46: Still no Miyamoto, but what…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 8

Bose Invades Your Car with Hard Drive-based Media System

Love them or hate them, Bose wants to be your car’s media control center with the just-announced Bose Media System. What’s particularly interesting about their system is the way it’s controlled—via the device’s two knobs (which have built-in proximity sensors). The two-knob set up lets you pick songs or cycle through the unit’s functions, which…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 8

Harman Kardon HS500: Theater Sound for Around a Grand

PMA 07: Canon EOS-1D Mark III Snapping Off Frames Like a House Afire

Intarwebs Invading American DSes via Opera on June 4

Tricorder Invented, For Realz

LEDs for Outside: Light the Earth, Spite the Sun

Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Development Ramping Down After ’07

LG Cranks Out World’s Thinnest CRT

Upcoming Mii Channel Silently Announced

D-Flector: Photography Studio in a Suitcase

First Look: Asus Ecobook Bamboo Laptop

Shock Ball Takes Hot Potato to a New Level

PlayStation Home Beta Signup Site Up

Hack Google Maps to Get Super Zoom

Adobe to Develop Photo Authentication Tools

Boring but Important Stuff

RIAA Boycott: eMusic’s Top 10 Albums

PMA 07: Jobo photoGPS Brings Easy GPS Photo Tagging to the Masses

SoundGate Tablet Lets Musicians Geek Out

Nintendo Kiinote: The Liveblog

Bose Invades Your Car with Hard Drive-based Media System

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