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Canon EOS-1D Mark III Shoots 10 Frames Per Second

Click to viewCanon announced its high-end 10.1-megapixel digital SLR, the EOS-1D Mark III, capable of slamming down 10 motor driven frames per second using the next generation of its image processing engine, the Dual Digic III. Canon says the APS H-size CMOS sensor inside is its most light-sensitive yet, capable of an ISO range of…

Tech News Charlie White

Pentax Optio A30 Boots Up, Shoots and Focuses Quicker

Pentax goosed its Optio A series with the A30, a 10-megapixel point-and-shoot camera with a 3x optical lens and a 2.5-inch LCD. Besides a newfangled gyro system to reduce shakiness, the big update on this one is speed, where it’s ready to use in 1.8 seconds and has a quick .02-second shutter delay. If you…

Tech News Charlie White

iPhoneyGate Finale: Cisco and Apple Hug it Out and Share the iPhone Name

It was just announced that Apple and Cisco will share the usage of iPhone. The companies said they reached an agreement that will allow Apple to use the name for its sleek new multimedia device in exchange for exploring wide-ranging “interoperability” between the companies’ products in the areas of security, consumer and business communications. No…

Tech News Brian Lam

Software Update to Quiet Old Xbox 360 DVD Drives?

File this under completely unfounded rumor, but a German site has noticed that journalists with debug Xbox 360s have gotten an update that quiets down Xbox 360 DVD drives. We’re not sure how a drive could get physically quieter, so they the firmware update probably just updates the console to load more data into cache…

Tech News Jason Chen

Jet Pack Video (1966)

A friend of mine contends that jet packs were the Segways of the 20th century. They promised to change the way that people traveled but were really just a novelty. I must confess that I find Segways fun, (no matter how nerdy I might look), and would love to try a jet pack if given…

Tech News Matt Novak

Art Lebedev’s Verbarius Clock Tells Time Pretentiously

Art Lebedev’s apparently as bored of the Optimus keyboard as we are, which is why they’re releasing so many weird products lately. Their latest, a clock, is a timepiece that shows you the time in “writing”. Yes, instead of digits or a bunch of hands, it says “midnight”, or “two sixteen a.m.”, or whatever time…

Gadgets Jason Chen

The WSJ on the Blackberry 8800’s Swoopy, Difficult Keyboard

Katie Boehret, trained by Godfather of Gadgets Walt himself, reviews the Blackberry 8800 in this week’s edition of The Mossberg Solution. The whale of a PDA picks up some styling cues from its hipper sibling, the Pearl, including its namesake white trackball, and the swoopy keyboard design, transposed to its QWERTY. She likes the trackball,…

Tech News Brian Lam

Rumor: Niveus CableCARD Media Center Shipping Next Week

We often send our intern blongo to sift through various companies’ dumpsters—he gets to keep whatever food he finds—but most of the time all he comes back with is a handful of useless press releases, some pens, and garlic breath. This time, however, he’s discovered that Niveus may be planning to unleash their CableCARD-capable Vista…

Tech News Jason Chen

Will Vista’s Media Center Bring DVRs to the Masses?

For as long as we can remember, the only real contender in the DVR game was TiVo. After all, if your parents were to get a machine, what would they pick besides TiVo? A linux solution? Yeah, right. Even Windows XP Media Center 2005 was a stretch for most people, since they had to ask…

Tech News Jason Chen

Wanky, the Freaky Turn Signal Cat

In the days before secondary brake lights were mandatory, Winky The White Cat was the thing to get to indicated to cars behind you that if they don’t slow down, they’d get really intimate with the back of your vehicle. Unfortunately, Winky went out of sale nearly two decades ago. So what did Jalopnik do?…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Pentax Optio W30 Waterproof Shooter Dives Deeper Than Ever

Pentax has been dabbling in waterproof point-and-shoot digital cameras for a while, and now its Optio W30 is even more waterproof than its W20 predecessor. This one can be submerged to 9 feet for two hours (besting the 5 feet and 30 minutes for the W20) and still keep on clicking away. https://gizmodo.com/pentax-optio-w20-underwater-but-not-too-deep-192740 In the…

Tech News Charlie White

Belkin TunerPower Juices Zunes on the Go

We got a chance to play with the Belkin TunePower portable Zune battery, and found it’s actually pretty handy for people who travel. The TunePower is essentially a large battery that latches on Yoda-style to the back of your Zune—except Yoda didn’t stick his charger into Luke’s dock connector hole. The battery provides about 6…

Tech News Jason Chen

Russians Invent TeleAlcoholics With a USB Shot Glass

Not content with teledildonics, the Russians have come up with a design for telealcoholics. Apparently Russians drink a lot. And they link to drink socially and in business situations. In this case, this USB shot glass allows two parties to drink together over the internet, notifying the other person just how much booze is left…

Gadgets Jason Chen

National Geographic Travel Phone: Cheap Phone, Roving Number

National Geographic is getting in to the phone market with their unlocked Quad band GSM cell phone. While the thing looks like it just popped out of 1998, it actually seems pretty useful. What sets this guy apart, aside from only being $199? It lets you use the same UK based number no matter what…

Tech News Ben Longo

Paranoid Home Owners Waging War on City-wide Wi-Fi

If New York got city-wide Wi-Fi, I’d be the happiest cat in town, which is why I don’t get the people behind the Healthy Home Alliance in Naperville, IL. They’re actually trying to shut down the city’s attempts at blanketing the town with Wi-Fi. According to the HHA, “Wi-Fi transmitters function at 2.45 GHz, which…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Griffin Reflect Case: Chrome Without the Scratches, Has a Magic Window

Griffin Reflect is a unique iPod and SanDisk Sansa case that looks like the shiny back of an iPod, but instead of being made of the iPods’ scratch-prone chrome, it’s made of hardened plastic with a mirrored chrome finish. It also has a rubberized back, which we think might have been a better idea for…

Tech News Charlie White

SkyTRX Magnet-Mounted GPS Tracker

We’ve seen mini GPS loggers before, but stalking your girlfriend has never been easier than with this $259 SkyTRX GPS Mini Tracker. It has a magnet mount for easy stickage to the undercarriage of her car, and will record her every move for 100 hours straight. https://gizmodo.com/find-yourself-personal-gps-tracking-126901 Plus, after you upload the data onto your…

Gadgets Jason Chen

More Light on the Yet Unannounced Canon D40 DSLR

Canon’s 40D is coming. We’ve felt it for months, and the latest bit of gasoline on the flames of this burning rumor is a leaked spec sheet, from Darren over at Digital Photography Blog. The upgrades are flat: The sensor moves from 8mp to 10 (the same pixel count as the XTi Rebel) and the…

Tech News Brian Lam

Denon’s Next Gen Receivers: The Stuff Home Theater Dreams Are Made Of

I’ve always been a fan of Denon’s A/V components and their newest line of receivers reinforces my infatuation. The sexy new boxes will include HDMI 1.3 inputs and support for both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. There aren’t that many devices out there that support HDMI 1.3, but we’ve already seen some upcoming Samsung HDTVs that…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Cyclists: Topeak AirFender Keeps Water and Mud Off Your Back

Topeak, further bringing the comforts of home to cyclists everywhere, now whips out AirFender, an inflatable rear fender that slides onto your bike’s seat post. https://gizmodo.com/topeak-bikamper-111259 When rain hits, a few strokes of a pump inflates it, and it sticks up like a turgid schlong, keeping that telltale skidmark of water and mud off your…

Gadgets Charlie White

Canon EOS-1D Mark III Shoots 10 Frames Per Second

Pentax Optio A30 Boots Up, Shoots and Focuses Quicker

iPhoneyGate Finale: Cisco and Apple Hug it Out and Share the iPhone Name

Software Update to Quiet Old Xbox 360 DVD Drives?

Jet Pack Video (1966)

Art Lebedev’s Verbarius Clock Tells Time Pretentiously

The WSJ on the Blackberry 8800’s Swoopy, Difficult Keyboard

Rumor: Niveus CableCARD Media Center Shipping Next Week

Will Vista’s Media Center Bring DVRs to the Masses?

Wanky, the Freaky Turn Signal Cat

Pentax Optio W30 Waterproof Shooter Dives Deeper Than Ever

Belkin TunerPower Juices Zunes on the Go

Russians Invent TeleAlcoholics With a USB Shot Glass

National Geographic Travel Phone: Cheap Phone, Roving Number

Paranoid Home Owners Waging War on City-wide Wi-Fi

Griffin Reflect Case: Chrome Without the Scratches, Has a Magic Window

SkyTRX Magnet-Mounted GPS Tracker

More Light on the Yet Unannounced Canon D40 DSLR

Denon’s Next Gen Receivers: The Stuff Home Theater Dreams Are Made Of

Cyclists: Topeak AirFender Keeps Water and Mud Off Your Back

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