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Philips 100-inch LCD TV Glows With Ambilight

Philips is showing off this magnificent 100-inch LCD TV at IFA in Berlin, making it the third over-100-inch TV that we’ve seen, behind the 100-inch LG LCD, and the Panasonic Plasma. (That’s not counting the jumbotron-type stadium sets.) We loved the most recent Ambilight LCD we looked at, and this 100-inch version, based on all…

Television Brian Lam Sep 1 '06

Samsung R7 10-inch DMB LCD TV Is The Largest DMB TV Yet

At what’s surely the largest “mobile” DMB TV yet, the Samsung R7 comes in at a whopping 10-inches of real estate. Terrestrial DMB, or T-DMB, is a system they have in Korea for watching TV on mobile devices like cellphones and laptops. The R7 has a 16:9 aspect ratio, controls on the right, and is…

Gadgets Jason Chen Sep 1 '06

Starfish Bath Sensor Notifies You When Your Tub Overflows With Boiling Water

Personally I’ve always been a shower guy, but this Starfish Bath Sensor may make me switch it up once in a while, if I could get past the “soaking in my own filth” aspect. The Starfish has a water sensor so you can let your bath water go while you’re getting your bubbles, music, and…

Gadgets Jason Chen Sep 1 '06

SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway Deadline Extension

Just a heads up, our SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway was supposed to end today, but I decided to be a kind fellar and extend the deadline until Tuesday to give you folks all of Labor Day weekend to destroy some shizzle. If you have no clue what we are talking about, listen up. SanDisk has supplied…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

Sony Launches 2 GPS Navigation Devices, Hopefully They Don’t Explode

Sony has launched the NV-U81T and NV-U80 navigation units. Both of which comes loaded up with Sony’s Position Plus—I’ll show them a position plus…—technology for more accurate positioning and routing even when the signal is weak. The unit itself has a 4.3-inch touchscreen display with voice commands and Bluetooth for hands-free calling via a cellphone.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

Creative TravelDock Z500 Unveiled

Hey Zen fanboys out there, I know there has to be a least a couple of you. Here is a dock just for you! No girls iPods allowed! This is the TravelDock Z500. Pardon the crappy image, but it is a scan from the COMEX Convention brochure. It will support the 30GB and 60GB Zen…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS: Officially Announced at $1076.91

Quick update: Garmin woke up this morning and officially unveiled the Nuvi 660 GPS. We love our Garmins and this would be the perfect one, with its widescreen, slim form, traffic receiver, and ability to read street names, useful for when the turns come up thick and fast. Nothing to add to what we’ve covered…

Gadgets Brian Lam Sep 1 '06

Samsung SDC-MS61: Slim, Sexy, 6-megapixel

Samsung unveiled this tiny camera at IFA. It is small as hell, looks pretty hot and includes a six-megapixel sensor that will create some very sexy voyeur shots. It has a 3-inch LCD screen, video recording—in widescreen (!!)—and even includes an MP3 recorder and player. Hopefully it will include some kind of image stabilization, small…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

Dealzmodo: Indoor Electric Grill, $35

It is time for the first ever Dealzmodo Labor Day special. Don’t let that bitch of a tropical storm, Ernesto, get you down. Just pick up an indoor grill like this one from Sanyo and commence the grilling. This is marked down 50-percent to $35. Even better, when the warm weather fades away and the…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

Dells Explode In the UK As Well – This Time Thanks To A Third Party Battery

A family in Leicestershire almost got a face full of battery as their Dell Latitude C600 shot batteries across the room in a dramatic, but luckily not deadly, display. The notebook, a Dell Latitude C600, was left alone in the family home to load a game. When the Allens came in to see how it…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 1 '06

Mad Hatter’s Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

This one goes out to all my IT homies. A Gizmodo reader just sent this screen shot in of task manager running on a server he built for work. It runs 4 processors, that have 2 cores each, with each of those cores hyperthreaded. So…That shows up in Windows as 16 procs. I’ll stand back…

Gadgets Brian Lam Sep 1 '06

Klingon Killer’s Gaming Network Card Gets The 10,000-Word Review (Verdict: Pricy, Effective)

If you read just one more sentence in this post, read the next one: This $300 network interface card is powered by a huge fucking “K” that lowers ping, so gamers can track their quarry across the ‘net more effectively. Gerry Block, the mohawked playboy of the IGN crew, whose blog has headlines like ”…

Tech News Brian Lam Sep 1 '06

Radar Golf Ball Finder

Isn’t Labor Day weekend fantastic? Well it is great until you hit the links and lose your first ball. This little gadget might be the perfect companion on the golf course. This $250 kit includes 12 golf balls that have embedded microchips that capable of being located with the handheld radar golf ball finder. This…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

Danger Mouse Now in Black, Still Better than Mighty Mouse

Remember how much that damn Mighty Mouse sucks feet? MacMice have released a Mighty Mouse competitor that will indeed match your Apple computer, work better and even be cheaper than the POS Mighty Mouse. The Danger Mouse has been available for a couple weeks in white, but it just recently got announced in black, so…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

DRM Smackdown Day is October 3. You In?

It’s time for us to rise up against that devil, digital rights management (DRM), which is crippling content from sea to shining sea in the name of anti-piracy. Anti-DRM crusaders Defective by Design have designated Tuesday, October 3 to be the Day Against DRM. They’re asking everyone to submit ideas about how to raise awareness…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 1 '06

Belt Lighter, Like a Cancer Inducing Batman Utility Belt

Sometimes the simplest ideas end up being the most convenient. The buckle on this belt is actually a removable lighter. I highly doubt this one will get through airport security, but if you aren’t trying to fly, then there is no worry about misplacing that lighter ever again. We don’t need no water, let the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

Belkin Releases Accessory Line for Samsung Players

Well I’ll be a monkey’s blue-assed uncle. It was just a little while ago that we presented our first, exclusive look at the Samsung YP-K5 MP3 player and Belkin already has a line of accessories out for this player. The other Samsung players Belkin will be accessorizing are the T9 and Z5. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-yp-k5-mp3-mini-boombox-first-unboxing-review-198099 For a…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Sep 1 '06

Thermador Liberty Shelf: Motorized Refrigerator Shelves Are Way Cool

As appliance manufacturers grope for techno-ideas with little success, Thermador creates an innovative design that could actually be useful: the Liberty Shelf, motorized refrigerator shelves that move up and down to accommodate items of various heights. Sure, you can do this manually, but have you tried it when the shelf is full of 40-ounce Colt…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 1 '06

Pioneer BDR-103: HD DVD/Blu-ray Combo Burner to Ship Next Year

Pioneer announced it will release a dual-format HD DVD and Blu-ray writer sometime next year. The BDR-103 will integrate both formats into one drive, and it will support recordable and rewritable discs on both formats as well as play back prerecorded content. Other manufacturers such as Toshiba, Samsung and LG have dabbled with the idea…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 1 '06

Special Apple Media Event Planned For September 12: New iPods?

Reports have surface on the Web today saying that Apple is inviting certain members of the media (read: not us, probably) to a “special event for new products.” What products will be shown are completely unknown, naturally, but anyone with a pulse might hazard a guess that the event could be used to launch the…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Sep 1 '06

Philips 100-inch LCD TV Glows With Ambilight

Samsung R7 10-inch DMB LCD TV Is The Largest DMB TV Yet

Starfish Bath Sensor Notifies You When Your Tub Overflows With Boiling Water

SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway Deadline Extension

Sony Launches 2 GPS Navigation Devices, Hopefully They Don’t Explode

Creative TravelDock Z500 Unveiled

Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS: Officially Announced at $1076.91

Samsung SDC-MS61: Slim, Sexy, 6-megapixel

Dealzmodo: Indoor Electric Grill, $35

Dells Explode In the UK As Well – This Time Thanks To A Third Party Battery

Mad Hatter’s Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

Klingon Killer’s Gaming Network Card Gets The 10,000-Word Review (Verdict: Pricy, Effective)

Radar Golf Ball Finder

Danger Mouse Now in Black, Still Better than Mighty Mouse

DRM Smackdown Day is October 3. You In?

Belt Lighter, Like a Cancer Inducing Batman Utility Belt

Belkin Releases Accessory Line for Samsung Players

Thermador Liberty Shelf: Motorized Refrigerator Shelves Are Way Cool

Pioneer BDR-103: HD DVD/Blu-ray Combo Burner to Ship Next Year

Special Apple Media Event Planned For September 12: New iPods?

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