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BYO Android Head

For $600 and your immortal soul, you can create your own robot head that can roll its eyes, blink, capture video, and speak in prophetic riddles. Do not build the rest of the body, however, because it could become sentient and destroy us all. Robot Maxamilian, R. Max for short, runs on a Java platform.…

Tech News Johnb

Gizmodo Japan: Sony Ericsson W31S for AU

Released earlier this month, the new W31S from Sony Ericsson for AU is looking like a winner. Part of AU’s WIN mobile-broadband series (2.4Mbps of connectivity goodness), it’s a follow-up to last year’s W21S — my current phone, and still a nice piece of hardware. On top of the camera upgrade (from 1.3 megapixels to…

Tech News Jean Snow

Email, PDAs, Cellphones >= Being Stoned

A bit old, but it came up in a nice post on Lawtech about how gadgets are driving us to distraction. Let’s let the pullquote speak for itself: Those distracted by incoming email, phone calls and text messages saw a 10-point fall in their IQ, more than twice that found in studies of the impact…

Tech News Johnb

White House Cockblocks Kerry-Supporting Telecom Execs from Conference

Time is reporting that the Bush Administration blocked representatives from Nokia and Qualcomm, among others, from attending the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meetings because the representatives had donated money to the Kerry presidential campaign. White House spokesman Trent Duffy says: “We wanted people who would represent the Administration positively, and—call us nutty—it seemed like those who…

Tech News Joel

Road Cone Amp

Why create audio devices that are beautiful and sound incredible when you can create audio devices that essentially are horrible looking and sound like someone screaming into a Quaker Oats box? Don’t ask us. Ask some kid named Chay. This musical abortion contains a speaker, a mini-amp, and a battery. He’s offering to sell it,…

Tech News Johnb

Digital Cube PuMP DAP100 MP3 Player

The Digital Cube PuMP DAP100 is what we call a silly little flash player here at Gizmodo Labs. The magic of the DAP100 is that it slides over to expose its glistening USB 1.1 port like some junk demon straight out of Naked Lunch. Rub some of the powder on my lips, indeed. Comes in…

Tech News Johnb

DoCoMo To Kill Pagers in 2007

I had almost entirely forgotten pagers ever existed, until this announcement from NTT DoCoMo comes and says all related services will be canned in March 2007. DoCoMo introduced their “Pocket Bell” service back in July of 1968, and it hit a peak of about 6.5 million subscribers in June of 1996. We all know what…

Tech News Zmcnulty

Green House Card Reader

Green House has this miniSD/Memory Stick Duo card reader coming out called the “GH-CRMD3-U2K.” Fantastic, you say, but the important point is the size; it measures 1.3 x 2.7 x 0.43 inches. Oh, and it’s limited to cards 512MB or below, for some reason. Press Release [Green House]

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Elecom Twin-Beat M-TBUP2R Mice

Elecom’s “Twin-Beat M-TBUP2R” is a line of two-tone mice set to be released within the next few days (in Japan). Available in Green Tea, Black Coffee, Blue Hawaii, Hot Chocolate, Strawberry Freeze, and Ice Milk flavors colors, the Twin-Beats are optical mice with polyurethane bodies. Both PCs and Macs will support the mice, so no…

Tech News Zmcnulty

Hitachi Internet Appliance FLORA-ie 55mi

Hitachi has a new device launching next month in Japan called the “Hitachi Internet Appliance FLORA-ie 55mi.” I thought internet appliances died way back when, but the FLORA-ie comes equipped with a 667MHz Crusoe, SVGA 10.4″ touchscreen, 256MB of memory, and wireless/wired LAN. It comes with Windows XP Embedded, so this could make for the…

Tech News Zmcnulty

Cell Processor Demos MPEG-2 x 48

I had heard plenty about how powerful the Cell processor is, but all those gigaflops and whatnot didn’t mean a whole lot to me. Finally, I’m starting to get a clearer picture of what it can actually do. In a demonstration at the “COOL Chips VIII” show held by Toshiba in Yokohama last week, a…

Tech News Zmcnulty

Intel’s In-Car PC

In the future, computers will be stuck into the headrests of my parents’ old Ford Aerostar. This prototype looks like it was torn from the pages of Omni magazine circa 1984 and the headline, below, is a dead lump of coddling prose. If in-car PCs will ever come to fruition, they will be completely wireless,…

Tech News Johnb

Nerd Alert: List of Cellular Routers

A reader who would like to remain anonymous sent in a laundry list of cellular routers, both those currently offered via OEM and those not yet released. We don’t have hyperlinks for them, but it’s still a good place to start if you’d rather purchase something rather than build your own. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/wifi/index.php#stompbox-homebrew-evdowifi-router-100297 He writes: There…

Tech News Joel

TAK Pushpins

We support any smart, simple invention that could put an eye out, and these TAK Pushpins meet the base requirements. Not only do they have two pins to prevent corner rotation and tearing (a scourge that has terrorized the blacklight unicorn posters of our country for far too long), they also have an arch inside…

Tech News Joel

Microbial Fuel Cells

Read between the lines on this one and you kind of get the feeling that this is a battery run entirely on farts. This thing uses human or animal waste water to produce electricty and also purifies the energy source in the process, killing two turds with one stone. No word yet on when this…

Tech News Johnb

FujiFilm FinePix Z1 Reviewed (Verdict: Black is Beautiful)

Let’s Go Digital reviews a pre-production model of the FujiFilm FinePix Z1, the upcoming black and silver 5.1-megapixel camera that is set to be released in July. Their write-up is a bit gushy, but there’s a lot to like: fast start up times, a huge LCD screen, and a black matte finish that actually manages…

Tech News Joel

MPC Transport X3100 Notebook Released

In a previous life I played with quite a few of these MPC laptops. They come in at around $1,200 and are pretty fully-featured. Plus, the new X3100 is blue as the deepest ocean. Aimed mainly at the gov/edu markets, this Centrino machine has a biometric lock and smart card reader. Press Release [MPC]

Tech News Johnb

Ebay Cheesecake of the Day

This Akai MPC=3000 drum machine is factory refurbished, featuring an external Zip drive and all the manuals, as well as a dozen or so shots of this model wearing nothing but a swimsuit and stilettos. As always, feel free to send us any Ebay models you run across. Akai MPC3000 mpc-3000 overhauled,like new fully loaded…

Tech News Joel

iPod Rules, You Suck

Finally, a cool voice of reason in the iPod controversy of 2005. The Tech Zone has hired a 13-year-old editor to write a detailed, nuanced review of the Cupertino’s Little White—or Pastel or even Sans-a-Screen—Miracle. An excerpt: You can put the iPod to repeat or shuffle or just regular play ! You just keep listening and…

Tech News Johnb

Sony VAIO VGN-T140P/L Reviewed (Verdict: Small and Solid)

The Sony VGN-T140P/L is a wee 10-inch Pentium M laptop with an optical drive and what some believe is a passing resemblance to the Gateway M210. We, however, were not fooled. In terms of laptops, we haven’t seen a whole lot coming out of Sony in the past few months so it’s refreshing to see…

Tech News Johnb

BYO Android Head

Gizmodo Japan: Sony Ericsson W31S for AU

Email, PDAs, Cellphones >= Being Stoned

White House Cockblocks Kerry-Supporting Telecom Execs from Conference

Road Cone Amp

Digital Cube PuMP DAP100 MP3 Player

DoCoMo To Kill Pagers in 2007

Green House Card Reader

Elecom Twin-Beat M-TBUP2R Mice

Hitachi Internet Appliance FLORA-ie 55mi

Cell Processor Demos MPEG-2 x 48

Intel’s In-Car PC

Nerd Alert: List of Cellular Routers

TAK Pushpins

Microbial Fuel Cells

FujiFilm FinePix Z1 Reviewed (Verdict: Black is Beautiful)

MPC Transport X3100 Notebook Released

Ebay Cheesecake of the Day

iPod Rules, You Suck

Sony VAIO VGN-T140P/L Reviewed (Verdict: Small and Solid)

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