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Tritare: Guitar 2.0

Even though we think the guitar is near-perfect the way it is, inventor Sophie Léger is trying to improve upon it with the Tritare, a guitar with triple-ended strings. The Y-shaped instrument has one normally-fretted neck, and two others that don’t have any frets and resonate the sound. You can see the two fretless necks…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Deal on Extended Battery for Motorola Q

Motorola Q smartphones from Verizon Wireless are spreading far and wide across the USA, in fact, we got ours via FedEx today. If you’re looking for a great deal on an extended battery, Verizon Wireless is offering the higher-capacity lithium-ion battery and the larger door required to house it in the Q for $19.99, not…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Sony Vaio UMPC Available for Pre-Order

Yesterday, we were thoroughly disappointed with the Samsung Q1 UMPC and the Sony Vaio VGN-UX180P will likely suffer the same fate. But if you really want to spend $1,799 on a glorified portable media player then so be it, just don’t say that we didn’t tell you. At least check out the sweet deal that…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 7 '06

Body Modification Goes High-Tech: Magnet Implants

What happens when you place a body modification artist and a neuroscientist in a room? Well besides a match made in heaven, you would get a unique body mod that give somewhat of a true sixth sense. Steve Haworth, a body-mod artist, originally wanted a magnet implant to hold metal jewelry. That idea was unsuccessful…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jun 7 '06

Seagate Rolls Out Hybrid Drive, Nine More

Seagate announced a boatload of hard drives today, with 10 rolled out in all. The highlight of the wave of announcements was the Momentus 5400 PSD, a 160GB hybrid drive that’s set to ship in the first quarter of 2007 and is destined for Microsoft Vista-running notebooks. The 2.5 inch drive will spin at 5400RPM,…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Fivefingers, For That “Big Foot” Look

Here’s a pair of shoes that will no doubt draw stares. Fivefingers from Vibram USA are supposed to give you some sort of a thrill, as if your feet are naked but they’re still protected. The Vibram website lists all kinds of pseudo-therapeutical horseshit about why the shoes are oh-so-much better, but we’re thinking the…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Hurry Up and Wait: Quad SLI Driver for NVIDIA 7950 GX2

As we reported to you yesterday, just about the only thing wrong with NVIDIA’s hot graphics card released yesterday, the GeForce 7950 GX2, is that the high-powered yet relatively low-cost 1GB graphics board is not yet capable of Quad SLI. That’s because the driver hasn’t been written yet. Now NVIDIA says we won’t be seeing…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Philips TripleWriter: Blu-ray Burner and More

Philips announced a Blu-ray burner that can also handle CDs and DVDs, and it’s called—wait for it—the TripleWriter. It handles BR-ROM, BD-R and BR-RE media at 2x, but its downfall is the price: $1045. It includes that loathsome Nero 7, which is capable of Blu-ray activities but we found it to be as insinuating and…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Kitty vs Frontrow, Round 1

Featured over at Youtube, check out this clip of an adorable kitty battling a MacBook loaded up with FrontRow. Kitties, MacBooks, FrontRow, how could this video get any better? Maybe if the kitty had some stuff on it. – Travis Hudson

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 7 '06

Sony Ericsson GC86 EDGE Card

Sony Ericsson has announced the quad band GC86 EDGE card. This is the upgrade to their previous model, GC85 EDGE card. The GC86 features an integrated antenna with the optional external antenna. This card can connect to GSM/EDGE networks and will support speeds up to 247kbps. Sounds like a great card, but where is the…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 7 '06

Chimpy McChimphead and Roboreptile

Wow Wee showed us their latest and greatest last night, including a fellow we’ve seen before and who I call Chimpy McChimphead—he’s an absolute freak: just imagine some crazy chimp head screaming at you from a table—and the very cool Roboreptile. https://gizmodo.com/animitronic-monkey-head-from-wowwee-132580 Roboreptile has a new remote control and is very fleet. He can rear…

Tech News John Biggs Jun 7 '06

Pepper Pad 3 Hands On

If Batman used a portable computer, odds are it’d look something like the Pepper Pad 3, which we first reported on yesterday. Pepper Computer was at the Digital Life preview yesterday showing it off and we got a chance to play with it for a little while. https://gizmodo.com/pepper-pad-3-178837 As you can see by John’s beautiful…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jun 7 '06

FunkIt iPod DJ Thing

We’re reposting this for the young ladies who claimed we overtly disparaged the FUNKit DJ ninja-tastic iPod speaker/robo-DJ combo. First, if you read the original article, you’ll see that our own Jason Chen was very kind to this little hunk of dancing plastic and, after closer inspection, we can honestly say that this belongs in…

Tech News John Biggs Jun 7 '06

Pacific Rim Nano Magnesium Shield

The folks at Pacific Rim were quite happy to see us and we’ll be hooking up with them in two weeks to offer a bunch of these in a special magnesium case contest involving the replacement of all of your bones with Adamantium—the first one to survive wins! Anyway, this is a heavy duty metal…

Tech News Johnb Jun 7 '06

iFrogz Mulit-Part iPod Cases

It’s actually written into the Constitution that if you own an iPod you’re obligated to buy a protective case under pain of death. IFrogz showed off their wacky brand of case last night at the Digital Life preview event in New York City. Made of the same silicone that we’re all familiar with by now,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jun 7 '06

I-O Data HDC-UX750 eSATA Drive

I-O Data has rolled out the HDC-UX750, an even bigger eSATA (External Serial ATA) hard drive in its line of 150mbit/second spinners. This one is a 750GB behemoth whose minimalist design doesn’t look half bad. If you’re not familiar with eSATA, its advantage is that it’s over three times faster than USB 2.0, which moves…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Pioneer Delays Blu-ray Player

Strange things are happening at Pioneer, where yesterday we told you about its plan to drop out of the DVD player business altogether and now we hear the company’s Blu-ray player will be seriously delayed. https://gizmodo.com/pioneer-to-go-blu-ray-178683 Pioneer said the North American launch of its next-generation Blu-ray players will be postponed until this Fall, due to…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Design Concept: Paper Cellphone

A group of designers have proposed “Paper Says,” a cellphone whose electronic innards are recyclable and whose outside is made of paper. The idea would be to rent the low-cost phones to busy travelers, and when the rental period is over the phone can be returned and recycled with a brand-new paper exterior. The keypad…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Samsung D900 Gets FCC Approval

Looks like this Samsung D900, billed as the world’s thinnest slider handset, just got an affirmative nod from the FCC, so we might be seeing the svelte cellphone stateside sometime soon. Its main claim to fame is its 13mm thickness and 3-ounce weight. It’s also capable of video recording and messaging using MPEG-4/H.263. This one…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition Does a Three-Way

Western Digital is now shipping its My Book Pro Edition ($350), a 500GB external hard disk that works with Macs and PCs and has a triple play of interfaces including FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. Besides adding that lickety-split FireWire 800 connectivity, it’s a 7200 RPM drive, just like its 500GB brandmates released…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7 '06

Tritare: Guitar 2.0

Deal on Extended Battery for Motorola Q

Sony Vaio UMPC Available for Pre-Order

Body Modification Goes High-Tech: Magnet Implants

Seagate Rolls Out Hybrid Drive, Nine More

Fivefingers, For That “Big Foot” Look

Hurry Up and Wait: Quad SLI Driver for NVIDIA 7950 GX2

Philips TripleWriter: Blu-ray Burner and More

Kitty vs Frontrow, Round 1

Sony Ericsson GC86 EDGE Card

Chimpy McChimphead and Roboreptile

Pepper Pad 3 Hands On

FunkIt iPod DJ Thing

Pacific Rim Nano Magnesium Shield

iFrogz Mulit-Part iPod Cases

I-O Data HDC-UX750 eSATA Drive

Pioneer Delays Blu-ray Player

Design Concept: Paper Cellphone

Samsung D900 Gets FCC Approval

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition Does a Three-Way

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