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EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: NEC has developed a bioplastic made from kenaf for notebook computers that has better heat conductivity than stainless steel; that means you can not only compute with cooler hardware, but you can fry eggs on your computer. Laptops, printers, iPods, cell phones and other electronics are an integral part of the…

Tech News Travis Hudson Apr 17 '07

Trade Your Old Xbox for a 360 Elite

Looking for a cheap way to get your hands on a new Xbox 360 Elite system? The guys at Gamestop are giving out some pretty good discounts if you’re willing to part with your old Xbox (and I don’t see why you wouldn’t). http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/100-official-xbox-360-elite-moves-from-fanboy-wet-dreams-to-reality-[updated-photos]-247636.php They’ll give you $50 for an old-school Xbox, $200 for a…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Apr 17 '07

Gizmodo PSA Contest: Win a Canon HV20 HD Camcorder

Hey gadget fiends, want a Canon HV20 HD Camcorder? We are giving away one of these $1,100 high-definition camcorders to a lucky winner. To win we want you to create a gadget-related public service announcement. Remember those “This is your brain on drugs” commercials from the ’90s? Pretty much like that, but anything gadget related.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Apr 17 '07

NAB07: Holophone Surround Mics Look Exotic, Other-Worldly

Holophone was displaying a pair of new surround sound mics that looked more like alien spacecraft than microphones. The H3-D pictured here is the follow-up to the $6K H2. But dang, these things aren’t cheap. The company’s managed to get the price point down to a more palatable $1600 by using its own microphones inside…

Gadgets Charlie White and Curtis Joe Walker Apr 17 '07

HD Format War Limps On: HD DVD Up in Europe [UPDATED]

[UPDATE: Amazingly, this writer at Game World Network used the US data, not the European data. The EU data actually shows Blu Ray kicking the piss out of HD-DVD in terms of title sales] Hot news in the Battle of Who Could Care Less: HD DVD is back on top in Europe! Yes, while Sony…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 17 '07

NAB07: Badass Vintage-Style Mics With Modern Innards

NAB’s North Hall was home to all of the microphone manufacturers, and a few of them had vintage-looking mics with modern dynamic internals, standard XLR connectors and no phantom power required. Check out that Heil Deco Series Heritage Mic pictured here, a PR20 dynamic mic housed in an “Elvis Style” body. Neat stuff. Combine one…

Gadgets Charlie White and Curtis Joe Walker Apr 17 '07

NAB07: Gefen’s Wireless HDMI is a Work in Progress

At NAB Gefen displayed a couple of long-overdue technologies for transmitting HDMI over longer distances, one wireless and one using coaxial cable. The first method is wireless using a frequency band between 3.3ghz to 3.5ghz, transmitting HDMI video over a distance of about 60 feet. We actually saw it transmitting over a distance of about…

Tech News Charlie White and Curtis Joe Walker Apr 17 '07

What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years (Ladies Home Journal, 1900)

On Monday we looked at the German translation of a piece by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. for the December 1900 issue of Ladies Home Journal. Today we have the English version which highlights the coming advances of the twentieth century. Below the full text is provided but we’ll be examining it further over the next…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 17 '07

Tip of the BlackBerry 9900 Iceberg Emerges

The Boy Genius, everyone’s favorite clandestine phone informant, just tossed out a few crumbs of info on the upcoming BlackBerry 9900. The new model, due either at the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008, will come loaded with a larger screen than previous models. Its 384×288 resolution is the same aspect ratio as…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 17 '07

Aluratek Photo Frame Plays Photos, Music, and Video

Aluratek’s new photo frame may not transfer images wirelessly nor does it sport a honkin’ big screen, but what it does have (that most of its competition doesn’t) is the ability to play all kinds of media, like MP3s, MPEGs and AVI files (in addition to displaying your photos of course). https://gizmodo.com/samsung-sph-72x-photo-frames-up-to-12-inch-with-wi-fi-245163 The 10.5-inch frame…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Apr 17 '07

Update: Apple’s WWDC Keynote Not 3 Hours Long

Seeing how 2006’s WWDC Keynote was only 1.5 hours, the announcement that Apple’s blocking off 3 hours makes us smell what the Rock is cooking (a.k.a., lift our eyebrows in a comical yet masculine way). What do we think’s going to happen? Well, we think Apple will formally unveil the iPhone features we didn’t see…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 17 '07

Stuff Your Subwoofer, Speakers Into Your TV Cabinet

This huge entertainment center from Tank Audio has a DVD player, speakers and a subwoofer loaded inside of it, allowing you to keep your home theater setup consolidated and clutter-free. It also has a card reader and USB port, presumably to load up music on the speakers. It looks pretty great, but to be honest…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 17 '07

Dealzmodo: Free Ice Cream at Ben & Jerry’s

No gadgets involved in this deal, but you can roll your rotund buttocks down to Ben & Jerry’s today and get a free ice cream cone from noon to 8 p.m. All you have to do is put in your zip code and find a participating store near you. We’re getting our moustache disguises ready…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 17 '07

USB Food Hub is the Best Thing We’ve Seen All Week

Weirdo Japanese company Solid Alliance is no stranger to weird USB gadgets, but this USB FoodHub is the best thing they’ve ever done. By far. https://gizmodo.com/the-japanese-invent-squid-usb-stick-221940 If you take a close look, you’ll see that the rice is a 4-port USB 2.0 hub, and the four other things (pudding, chicken, and two bits of seafood)…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 17 '07

Samsung Brings PiP to Mobile Phones

Samsung is bringing a new phone equipped with Mobile TV to South Korea, the SCH-B710. While Mobile TV is just taking its first baby steps here in the States, in South Korea it’s been going strong for some time now, so they’re already on to a second generation of phones capable of streaming DMB signals.…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 17 '07

Nokia 6120 Makes HSDPA Thin

Nokia’s newest candybar Series 60 phone brings combines two things that people enjoy: HSDPA and thinness. At only 15mm (0.59 inches) thick, it’s not quite the thinnest HSDPA (that’s the Samsung Z720 at 13.8mm) but it’s pretty darn close. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-z720-ships-ultra-slim-slider-with-ultra-fast-d-224785 Other features are the front video camera for calling, a 2-megapixel camera on the back,…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 17 '07

Asus to Sell $199 Flash-based Laptops

Those flash-based laptops we’re all dreaming about may be a lot cheaper than we expected. Asus just announced their plans to make five budget, solid state laptops this year priced from $199 to $549. Each machine will have a 7-inch display, and depending on the model it’ll have a flash drive ranging from 1GB to…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Apr 17 '07

Dell Getting Into Smartphone Business

Remember when Dell dropped the Axim PDA and the world yawned like a slutty hippopotamus? Well, it looks like it was because even Dell knew that PDAs were out and smartphones (PDAs with calling capabilities) are in. They’ve contracted Quanta Computer—which incidentally supplies Dell’s laptops as well—to build them a smartphone for launch in Q4…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 17 '07

SlickrFrame Photo Contest: Time to Cast Your Ballot!

The 20 finalists have been chosen for Richard Felix’s SlickrFrame contest, and now it’s time for you to vote for the best. Just click the little button at the top left of your favorite, and then click on Vote at the bottom of the list of pictures, and the top vote-getters will win tons of…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 17 '07

Official: Sony Mulling PS3s With Even Larger Hard Drives

Seeing as the 20GB PS3 is all but killed off, Sony’s plan of confusing customers with multiple price points (see Microsoft’s 360) is quickly coming to an end. That’s probably why Sony’s just announced that they’re considering re-launching the PS3 with bigger hard disks. This confirms what Bloomberg said yesterday about Sony’s big disk dreams.…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 17 '07

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Trade Your Old Xbox for a 360 Elite

Gizmodo PSA Contest: Win a Canon HV20 HD Camcorder

NAB07: Holophone Surround Mics Look Exotic, Other-Worldly

HD Format War Limps On: HD DVD Up in Europe [UPDATED]

NAB07: Badass Vintage-Style Mics With Modern Innards

NAB07: Gefen’s Wireless HDMI is a Work in Progress

What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years (Ladies Home Journal, 1900)

Tip of the BlackBerry 9900 Iceberg Emerges

Aluratek Photo Frame Plays Photos, Music, and Video

Update: Apple’s WWDC Keynote Not 3 Hours Long

Stuff Your Subwoofer, Speakers Into Your TV Cabinet

Dealzmodo: Free Ice Cream at Ben & Jerry’s

USB Food Hub is the Best Thing We’ve Seen All Week

Samsung Brings PiP to Mobile Phones

Nokia 6120 Makes HSDPA Thin

Asus to Sell $199 Flash-based Laptops

Dell Getting Into Smartphone Business

SlickrFrame Photo Contest: Time to Cast Your Ballot!

Official: Sony Mulling PS3s With Even Larger Hard Drives

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