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Personal Panic Button

Here’s a great way to keep tabs on Gramps or that little one. It’s called the SKeeper by Tadiran LifeCare, and it’s a wearable personal communicator with distress alarm. With its easy-to-use controls, it lets its wearer immediately contact predefined telephone numbers, such as a relative or emergency services. When the alarm is triggered, the…

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Netgear’s Networking Storage Solution

Netgear is teaming up with Zetera to develop a toaster Storage over IP (SoIP) system. The system, Netgear’s Storage Central SC101, will allow for two IDE-based hard drives to be connected to an entire network for some smart file-sharing and storage. A controller card within the toaster uses DHCP to set up individual network partitions,…

Tech News Travis Hudson

NVIDIA GoForce 5500 Launched

NVIDIA announced the GoForce 5500, a new mobility GPU that may what’s in store from cellphone and mobile multimedia device makers. NVIDIA said its GoForce 5500 can display a resolution of 1024×768 on a cellphone, and it s also able to handle 10-megapixel still images. A 1024×768 cellphone? A 10-megapixel camera on a cellphone? Well,…

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Gorgeous Flat Panel Alchemy

Here’s a guy who took a four-year-old 15-inch flat panel display and turned it into a work of art he calls “TransTFT.” Antti Hakala s idea was to expose the workings of the monitor, bringing all of its technology out into the open for all to see. He started by removing the LED panel from…

Gadgets Charlie White

Puppies Taking Advantage of Mass Transit

Get out of the way, everybody, here come the puppies! On a monorail! They even look like they’re enjoying it, too. Built by their handy master, James Horecka, a couple of them are apparently wondering how easy it would be to jump off. What started out as a joke turned into a weekend project for…

Gadgets Charlie White

Last Week in Comments

Apple Touchscreen Patent Documentation https://gizmodo.com/apple-touchscreen-patent-documentation-154248 Yeah because that’s going to be great to watch video on when your slimy, oily fingers and smudged up the screen! Unless they figure out a way to make the screen self-cleaning, I remain skeptical.” HBO Wants No Recording of Shows Ever https://gizmodo.com/hbo-wants-no-recording-of-shows-ever-154042 Oh my god! HBO has lost their…

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Ray Gun Headed for Iraq Battlefield

The United States Army is testing lasers on the battlefield. Ionatron, Inc. of Tucson has developed a weapon called a femtosecond laser, which creates light pulses that last less than 10 trillionths of a second. These pulses carve a channel of ionized oxygen in the air which can conduct electricity. Then, the weapon blasts lightning…

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Wood You Believe?

We knew things were getting bad in Serbia, but this is ridiculous. Our beloved blogging brothers-in-arms from Jalopnik tell us about a Serbian Yugo with a rather unusual fuel source. Instead of pulling the car along with horses, somebody tapped into a different kind of 125-year-old technology and ended up with a car that’s faster…

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Epson Chip Makes MP3 Phones a Bit Easier

It’s a bit esoteric, but Epson has just unveiled a new music-playing chip for cellular phones that could make anything—from the gimpiest clamshell to the “FREE WITH SIGN-UP” candybar—a music phone. The S1V30220 plays back MP3 and AAC files and has an MMC/SD card interface and FAT filesystem support, meaning that all of the hardware…

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Two New Tag Heuers: Drool Worthy

The Tag Heuer SLR and Carrera are two watches inspired by the lines of two well-known sports cars that we’ll never own. Like those selfsame sports cars, these pricey timepieces are fast, expensive, and uber-sexy. The SLR, shown here, is completely automatic and has an internal rotating chronograph. It comes in a limited run of…

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Nokia Rolls Out Two Midrange Cellphones

Nokia introduced two camera phones, the 6131 and the 6070. The 6131 is a folding design with a 1.3-megapixel camera. Unique features include its one-handed easy-open, and its dual-screen viewfinder, where you can use either the main screen and the outside screen as a viewfinder for the camera. It also has a digital music player…

Tech News Charlie White

3GSM Mobile-Phone Roundup

3GSM, deemed the world’s premier mobile event, is going on right now in Barcelona. Now while we don’t happen to be there, we will still bring you all of the hot news information via some blogosphere cohorts who happened to be attending. Nokia Let’s see, we have the 6070, 6131 and 6136. Also there is…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Sony Ericsson W950 Sighted

We’ve been watching the W950 for a while now and it appears that it’s going to be finally available. 4GB of storage space let’s it out-Nano the Nano and the styling is a massive improvement over the sherbet accident that was the original Walkman phone. The W950 also has push email, improved graphics, and is…

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Aibo Reborn in Software

Aibo, your candle burned out long before your legend ever did, and Tea Vui Huang is keeping you alive through the magic of warez. Aibo Memories is a controllable Aibo simulator for Symbian Series 60 phones. While the value of this software is very dubious, I suspect Aibo lovers will be wiping a tear from…

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Breast Shaper

Listen up ladies and those who abuse steroids: get those breasts in shape with the Bust Doctor. It is an aid for misshapen breasts and includes the following instructions. How to use. Firstly, spray special healthful liguid on bust. After put on bust doctor, plug in and turn on switch button. You can adjust vibration…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Fujifilm Finepix V10 Now Shipping

Even though we thought it wouldn’t be available until March, whaddaya know—it’s shipping now, the Fujifilm Finepix V10. It’s a 5.1-megapixel camera that s just 3 1/4 wide by 2 1/2 inches tall, yet still manages to shoe-horn a 3-inch viewfinder onto the back. Just .9 inches thick, the little camera weighs 5 1/2 ounces.…

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frog Design Mind

The Brand Boutique Completes the (Entertainment) Experience By Mahin Samadani I must have walked by hundreds of mall kiosks this past holiday season. You know, those carts set up in the aisle-ways, designed to maximize rental revenues. Although I generally walk right by, this year my wife stopped in her tracks and exclaimed, “Look at…

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iPod to 7/11

Apple has stooped to the lowest of lows by targeting the Big Gulp drinking demographic. They have begun selling iPods at 7/11’s. For those unfamiliar, 7/11 is a chain small-grocery/gas station in North America and Asia. They are most famous for their Big Gulp drinks and the classic crappy gas-station stereotype. Good luck, Apple. iPod…

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Joby Gorillapod: Part Deux

After a good response from people about the Gorillapod, we have secured a deal with the manufacturers to offer a coupon code for the Gizmodo readers. We apologize to those who have already purchased one, but maybe this is an excuse to buy another? Enter special code GIZMODO at checkout for $3 off. https://gizmodo.com/joby-gorillapod-versatile-tripod-153575 Product…

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Gizmodo Readers, Help Joel Help You

Dear Gizmodo Readers, I’ve had the good fortune to step into a new position here at Gawker Media—something we’re calling ‘Executive Editor, Technology.’ That means I’ll be helping the editors of Gizmodo, Lifehacker, The Consumerist, and Kotaku continue to provide you daily injections of news and (occasionally, inadvertently) perspective on all the latest and greatest…

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Personal Panic Button

Netgear’s Networking Storage Solution

NVIDIA GoForce 5500 Launched

Gorgeous Flat Panel Alchemy

Puppies Taking Advantage of Mass Transit

Last Week in Comments

Ray Gun Headed for Iraq Battlefield

Wood You Believe?

Epson Chip Makes MP3 Phones a Bit Easier

Two New Tag Heuers: Drool Worthy

Nokia Rolls Out Two Midrange Cellphones

3GSM Mobile-Phone Roundup

Sony Ericsson W950 Sighted

Aibo Reborn in Software

Breast Shaper

Fujifilm Finepix V10 Now Shipping

frog Design Mind

iPod to 7/11

Joby Gorillapod: Part Deux

Gizmodo Readers, Help Joel Help You

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