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Philips Wants to Bring Cellphone TV to USA

Bringing the idea of watching TV on your cellphone one step closer to these shores, Philips Electronics is working on a TV-on-cellular chipset which it plans to have available to us by sometime next year. Partnering up with Crown Castle Mobile Media, the company has acquired terrestrial rights to 5Mhz of L-band spectrum and plans…

Television Tgrumet

Crime Prevention, Japanese Style

Forget mace and weapons, the Japanese are too hardcore for those types of crime prevention. Instead, they are rolling this out. It’s a handheld device that can do multiple things to ensure your Swap Meet Louis will stay safe. It can dial out two preset numbers and also be able to receive calls. On top…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Nokia 3220 RFID Phone

Nokia is rolling with the big dogs now by pushing out a phone with a technology that hasn t been done much before in cell phones. The company is including read/write RFID capabilities into a mobile phone. The phone seen here is the 3220 NFC prototype that is capable of reading any RFID tags and…

Tech News Travis Hudson

frog Design Mind

Question (is) Everything: Design that answers unimagined questions by Michele Tepper It s a key truth about design: the questions you ask limit the answers you can come up with. If I m working on an MP3 player, the question can it help me find a good slice of pizza? isn t likely to be…

Gadgets Noah R

USB Drive Gets Credit Card of its Own

Wow. Now this is interesting. A company called Walletex has finally come up with a real “credit-card sized” USB drive, that really, truly looks and feels like a credit card. Meaning, it’s not just rectangular and kinda thin. The Wallet Flash 1.1 is being touted as the thinnest USB drive on the market and as…

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Cyclops: Brain-Frying Killer Robot?

“Cyclops” was just one of the new and fantastical prototypes from a group of young designers being showcased as part of the Leading Edge Design exhibition in Tokyo last weekend. Taking the form of a towering pillar of metal, Cyclops — now having been in development for a few years — is a robot that…

Tech News Noah R

13.3 inch Intel iBook Rumored

What’s this? Not only is there a possibility of an Intel-based Mac in the near future, but it’s also a laptop!? I’m so giddy I can hardly contain myself. This 13.3-inch model will allegedly replace the 14.1-inch iBook. Think Secret’s highly reliable source, the same one responsible for the first reports on the Mac mini…

Tech News Travis Hudson

BET Ringtones Marketed Through Video Pop-Ups

Pretty sneaky, BET. In order to sell more ringtones, the TV network is now embedding text-messaging codes into music videos, giving you an easy way to download that song’s ringtone into your cellphone quickly and easily. Powered by Motricity, it seems about half of BET’s videos now have a 10-to 30-second pop-up that encourages viewers…

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Microsoft Office Suite Band 2.0

Generally the only time I manage to make music with Office is when I am bashing my head into the keyboard trying to work with Word and formatting. But Thomas has been thinking along the lines of real Microsoft Office music and has designed a drum sampler within Excel. The sampler is controlled via a…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Radio Changes Color, Moods

The last time I used anything to alter my mood I ended up naked on the roof of KDR screaming the words to MacArthur Park. Therefore, I’m kind of incredulous as to the potential mood-altering capabilities of a radio with a big light on it. This radio uses one of the new multi-colored LEDs and…

Gadgets Johnb

Mario Knows You Smell

The Japanese know we’re suckers for anything Mario-related. So when a guy on eBay puts up some official Mario “Bath Bombs” for sale, people in the states love it for two reasons: it’s Mario and it makes you smell like fresh flowers. Drop Mario into your hot bath and he’ll fizz you with his water-jet…

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PSP Homebrew Through GTA Game Saves

The PSP has been hacked for homebrews yet again — and this time it involves carjacking and indiscriminate gunfire. Using Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for the PSP, you can use a game save to load a “Hello World” application onto the PSP through the memory stick. Basically you’ll be swapping some files using…

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Euro HP 17-inch Laptop

Here’s a Euro-only HP laptop with a wicked 17-inch screen, powered by AMD’s Turion 64 processor and slanted towards home entertainment. The dv8000 is a desktop replacement, as you might expect, and includes ATI s Radeon Xpress 200M integrated graphics processor with just 128MB of dedicated RAM, though its dual hard disk drive storage system…

Tech News Tgrumet

Download Movies From Sprint

No more of this clip shiznit, says Sprint. The company finally realized that most people don’t care about getting a 3-minute preview of an upcoming movie or clip of an old David Letterman show, so it’s announced a service that will allow the users of Sprint mobile video phones to watch full-length films, television shows,…

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Viewsonic ViewPoP P10 and P20

Viewsonic has released two new MP3 players into the Japanese DAP market: The ViewPoP P10 and P20, each available with either 512MB and 1GB, sport an FM tuner, WMA playback, USB 2.0, etc., but the difference between the P10 and P20 mainly is the battery and display. The P10 has a blue monochrome OLED display…

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Strange-Looking Surveillance Camera

Looking more like a children’s trashcan than a camera, the Pupillo is designed to shoot surveillance that can be transferred straight to your 3G phone (which nobody here in the US has yet, of course). Offered by Three Telecom in the UK, this gadget is battery-powered and being marketed as a sort of nanny-cam to…

Tech News Tgrumet

Mobile Chic = Old Handsets

The other day as I headed out of the Versace store at the mall, I felt like I was missing something to go with my sequin-beaded, pre-torn shirt-and-jeans ensemble. I needed an accessory that screams chic, but is retro and old school. Then I found these DIY mobile handsets that I could customize yourself with…

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Panasonic Says Forget You To GSM

As you can see, Panasonic group president Yoshiaki Kushiki had a lot of vim and verve on Friday when he announced that the company will stop making plain-jane GSM handsets and focus solely on 3G phones from now on. Of course, the 1,400 (mainly Filipino) workers he had to lay off to do so weren’t…

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SMS Self-Destruction

If you’ve sent top secret txt msgs over your cellphone (Nicole has gr8 @ss don’t u think?) and worried that it will fall into the wrong hands, StealthText by Staellium UK is for you. Basically, when you delete a message with StealthText, the log will stay on a secure server for a certain amount of…

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Pac-Lan: Jackassery Made Easy

Seems like everyone is trying to scale up the game of Pac-Man lately. Enter Pac-Lan, a game where players keep tabs on each other with their cellphones while physically playing Pac-Man in costumes and all. Created by researchers at Lancaster University’s Department of Communication Systems, each phone has a pre-programmed map based on the university’s…

Tech News Gizmodo.com

Philips Wants to Bring Cellphone TV to USA

Crime Prevention, Japanese Style

Nokia 3220 RFID Phone

frog Design Mind

USB Drive Gets Credit Card of its Own

Cyclops: Brain-Frying Killer Robot?

13.3 inch Intel iBook Rumored

BET Ringtones Marketed Through Video Pop-Ups

Microsoft Office Suite Band 2.0

Radio Changes Color, Moods

Mario Knows You Smell

PSP Homebrew Through GTA Game Saves

Euro HP 17-inch Laptop

Download Movies From Sprint

Viewsonic ViewPoP P10 and P20

Strange-Looking Surveillance Camera

Mobile Chic = Old Handsets

Panasonic Says Forget You To GSM

SMS Self-Destruction

Pac-Lan: Jackassery Made Easy

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