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Jasper S20 Cellphone Rocks The Java OS, People Flee in Fear

Lots of people hate Java for being both slow and a memory hog, so what better place to put it than on a cellphone? The Jasper S20 is the first guinea pig cellphone to meet the JSR-209 specifications on the Java Platform Micro Edition. Translated into English, all it means is that the Jasper S20…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Oct 27 '06

Instant FM Music: TiVo for Radio

If you’re lucky enough to have a good FM radio station nearby, you might want to check out Instant FM Music from ADS Tech, a $49 USB key that lets you record FM radio or web radio on your PC and transfer that to MP3 files or onto a CD. It works like a TiVo,…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 27 '06

Sonnettech Volta: Watch iPod Movies for 16 Hours Straight

If that 3.5-hour playback time of the 30GB iPod or 6.5 hour playback of the 80GB model isn’t going to be enough for you, here’s the Sonnettech Volta Rechargeable Battery Pack, claiming “up to” (we’re always wary of those two weasel words) 16 hours of video playback on a single 5.5 hour charge. In addition…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 27 '06

Delphi SkyFi3 Review, A Capable Ugly Duckling

We’ve had our eye on the SkyFi3 for some time now and the folks over at CNET have put it through the ringer noting that other than the MicroSD expansion slot it carries, the SkyFi3 doesn’t bring anything new to the market (especially not with its budget feel and monochrome display). You’ll have to splurge…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Oct 27 '06

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•WID101 Makes Monitors Wireless •Sony HDR-SR1, Hottest HD Cam on the Market •Gorenje Table Keeps Those Frosty Beverages Frostier •Sonic Bed Makes You Deaf While You Sleep •Vulocity Mileage Logger Keeps Track of You for Good or Ill https://gizmodo.com/wid101-makes-monitors-wireless-210503 Comment of the Day: PowerMonkey https://gizmodo.com/powermonkey-keeps-the-organ-grinder-happy-210386 “it’s bad enough I will soon need a man-bag to…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 26 '06

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Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 26 '06

WID101 Makes Monitors Wireless

You’ve got a wireless keyboard, wireless mouse and wireless speakers, so why are you still connecting to your monitor with a cable? What are you, some kind of luddite? You need a wireless monitor connector, like the new WID101 from Teq Gear. This device connects the DVI port on your PC to the one on…

Tech News Richard Baguley Oct 26 '06

Neeerds In Spppaccee!

It must be the dream of every nerd to get into orbit, but one lucky bastiche is going to fly: Former Microsoftie Charles Simonyi is now training to be the next space tourist to the International Space Station. The self-described nerd (who lead the teams that developed Word and Excel, and is thus richer than…

Space & Spaceflight Richard Baguley Oct 26 '06

Sony HDR-SR1, Hottest HD Cam on the Market

The folks at Camcorder Info have finished their lengthy thesis on Sony’s HDR-SR1. For those who don’t remember, the SR1 is Sony’s hard drive-packing (30GB) HD camcorder. It has the same CMOS sensor found in Sony’s HDR-UX1, so it suffered from the same noise problems users complained about on the UX1. It also couldn’t top…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Oct 26 '06

CNET Writer Gets Nabaztag, Fails to Fall In Love

CNET writer Daniel Terdiman is a cruel, heartless sort of dude: he got a Nabaztag (one of those electronic bunnies that reads you the news and wiggles its ears), but completely failed to fall in love with the floppy eared technological marvel: I wasn’t as impressed as I expected to be… Spoken messages from fellow…

Tech News Richard Baguley Oct 26 '06

MacBook Update Slaps Your Mac Back to Life

Well, if you’re MacBook ain’t mooing chances are it could be shutting down on you. Apple fessed up today saying that a small number of lazy ass MacBooks have been intermittently shutting down on their owners. A new firmware update should keep your sleepy Mac from quitting on you. Or you could give it the…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Oct 26 '06

DIY: Magnetic Power Adapter for Thinkpads

MagSafe, schmagsafe. You don’t have to have a next-gen Apple laptop to have a magnetic power adapter, just do it yourself like the folks at Instructables. It may not look like the prettiest do-it-yourself job on the planet, but by golly it gets the job done. Good job putting Apple in their place, and making…

Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 26 '06

Geek Squad: Hot or Not?

As we mentioned earlier today, Geek Squad is opening a new facility to help redress customer grievances. So Gizmodo wants to know, what has your experience been like with the Geek Squad? Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser. Feel…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Oct 26 '06

Nexx NF-810 Nano Clone

The NF-810 is the latest digital audio player from Nexx that is trying to one-up the iPod Nano. How is it going to do this? Simple. By doing what the iPod Nano can’t: video. The NF-810 can play SMV video files along with MP3, WMA and ADPCM audio files. It has a 1.6-inch color screen…

Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 26 '06

Geek Squad Tries To Suck Less With New Facility, Fabio Helps Too

You know the Geek Squad, right? Those admittedly nerdy guys and dolls in Best Buys ’round the country that try to fix your computer? Well, they’ve heard many of the complaints lobbied against them like slow turn around time and not-as-high-quality-as-it-could-be service. (Brian Lam, our fine leader, had a few friends screwed by the Geek…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Oct 26 '06

Cuboglass Hides that Old, Crappy TV

The Cuboglass is a black box that will hide the TV and give people the impression that you have a taste for lame contemporary artwork. Turn the TV on and it works like normal, displaying your favorite cartoons and reality shows, therefore proving to the world that you aren’t a hipster doofus and really just…

Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 26 '06

Fabio on Technology: A Brief Interview

As promised earlier today, I interviewed Fabio at the Geek Squad event yesterday. Here’s some highlights. •Fabio likes his Macs. He uses Final Cut Pro to edit video he does for TV, but is using a G4. WTF? He’ll spring for a MacPro soon, though, he assured me. •The dude is an old school gadget…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Oct 26 '06

Gorenje Table Keeps Those Frosty Beverages Frostier

Convergence is the name of the game with this table from Gorenje. The table, which already looks futuristic as it is, has an automated refrigerator built in that will rise to the top with the push of a button. No longer will you have to make the painstaking trip from the dining room to the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 26 '06

PowerMonkey Keeps the Organ Grinder Happy

Here’s the next generation of convenience charging technology, the PowerMonkey, a good companion to have if you run out of juice. Charge it up first and its variety of compatible tips will give you 40 hours of fun on an iPod, six hours on a Sony PSP and even keep that digital camera going until…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 26 '06

DIY: Upgrade the Series3 TiVo Hard Drive

Our pals over at EngadgetHD took on one hell of a project and came out successful. As much as we love the TiVo Series3, for $800 we would like a bigger hard drive than 250GB. Sure it’s still almost 100GB more than most Cable Company DVRs, but we need more than 35 hours of HD…

Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 26 '06

Jasper S20 Cellphone Rocks The Java OS, People Flee in Fear

Instant FM Music: TiVo for Radio

Sonnettech Volta: Watch iPod Movies for 16 Hours Straight

Delphi SkyFi3 Review, A Capable Ugly Duckling

Best of Gizmodo

Other Bits & Bytes

WID101 Makes Monitors Wireless

Neeerds In Spppaccee!

Sony HDR-SR1, Hottest HD Cam on the Market

CNET Writer Gets Nabaztag, Fails to Fall In Love

MacBook Update Slaps Your Mac Back to Life

DIY: Magnetic Power Adapter for Thinkpads

Geek Squad: Hot or Not?

Nexx NF-810 Nano Clone

Geek Squad Tries To Suck Less With New Facility, Fabio Helps Too

Cuboglass Hides that Old, Crappy TV

Fabio on Technology: A Brief Interview

Gorenje Table Keeps Those Frosty Beverages Frostier

PowerMonkey Keeps the Organ Grinder Happy

DIY: Upgrade the Series3 TiVo Hard Drive

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