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MobiBLU DHH-100-5 Audio Player Reviewed (Verdict: Very Nice)

We looked at the MobiBLU DHH-100-5 last November and someone out there has finally done the hard work of playing music on it for us. https://gizmodo.com/mobiblu-dhh-100-5-finally-stateside-26250 The DHH-100-5 is a 5GB hard drive audio player with a grayscale screen and SD card slot. Oddly enough this player has a built-in speaker for the cracked folks…

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Say It Ain’t So, Flash Drive

Is the Flash Drive the horse and buggy of this Ferrari age? Will the rugged hard drive come by and kick sand into our puny 512MB dongles? Does anyone care? As a user of both flash and HD drives, I can tell you one thing: hard drives hold more. I know you were expecting some…

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Creative Zen Nano Announced

The Creative Zen Nano is alive, likely succeeding the similar muvo N200. Available in 10 colors and featuring most of the features typical to flash memory players (line in recording, FM tuning, etc.), the new models will be launching in May. Sizes start at 256MB for 100€ (although we Americans will most certainly get a…

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ATI Launches PCI Express Notebook Chipset

ATI’s new chipset, the Radeon Xpress 200M, is designed to run with either low-power Pentium M or standard desktop chips and supports PCI Express, a new peripheral standard that offers 200MBps transfer rates. There are few devices that currently support PCI Express, but that’s not stopping anybody. The chipset is one of the first integrated…

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More Pictures of Upcoming HP iPaq hw6500

An anonymous source sent us these nice pictures of the upcoming HP iPaq hw/hx6500, the new Windows Mobile phone with a built-in GPS unit (purportedly using an ‘indoor’ version of a GPS chipset built by Global Locate). There had been some debate as to whether the new iPaq phones would have a backlit keyboard, but…

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Pizza Cutters as Art

I absolutely love Frankie Flood’s pizza cutters. There’s something special about a common household tool that’s been over-designed and over-engineered, yet maintains ease-of-use in its singular purpose. (Can you tell I was an art major for a semester?) His designs range from the Leatherman-like Easy Rider (2001) to the colloquial Phatboy (2003) and tend to…

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A/C Powered By Car Exhaust?

Luke Zoontjens from the University of Adelaide in Australia has announced his intent to transform car exhaust into a viable air conditioning system. Capturing the heat from the mufflers will allow him to create high-amplitude sound waves, The waves resonate inside sealed metal tubes to form cold spots. Blow air over the spots and embrace…

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Shower Podcasts

MAKE points us to a nice little step-by-step piece on creating your own Podcast Shower Radio, so to speak. It’s really just as simple as using an existing shower radio in conjunction with an FM transmitter hooked into your music player, but some people can’t figure this sort of thing out on their own. Its…

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IBM ThinkPad T43 Reviewed (Verdict: Solid)

PC Magazine reviews the IBM ThinkPad T43 and is overall quite pleased, offering it the coveted “4.5 dots” rating. Based on a 1.86 GHz Pentium M and sporting a 60GB hard drive (contrary to PC Magazine’s spec sheet), the T43 also includes an integrated fingerprint reader. The reader is tied into a chip on the…

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Star Wars-branded Alienware PCs

Alienware has created a Star Wars-branded desktop system. The special Aurora models are available in complimentary Dark Side and Rebel Alliance flavors, though I think it would be cool if they combined both onto one system, each side struggling for control over your impressionable, Jediesque computer. The systems come equipped with the AMD Athlon 64…

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Sunbeam 20-in-1 Front Panel Reviewed (Verdict: Excellent)

With absolutely no need for a fan controller, memory card readers, SATA ports or at least 6 of its other features, I’m still tempted to pick up a Sunbeam Superior Panel. This 20-in-1 front panel for your PC or Mac includes readers for nearly every type of memory card, (including active transfer from card to…

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MMS Fortune Telling

Today, Zenitum Entertainment Computing announced they’ll be offering a new entertainment service called “mobile face reading,” available on SK Telecom (in Korea, natch). As such, we request the briefest moment of your time, if you will, to identify the logical fallacy in the following quote: Based on traditional face reading science, the service can read…

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Nintendo PowerPad (and Glove) MIDI Controller

MAKE has a piece on Jeff Hoefs’ fetish for turning Nintendo controllers into musical instruments. “He’s made PowerPad midi keyboards, PowerGlove music controllers and Nintendo Uforce controllers to create music.” He describes his experience hacking the PowerPad as “fairly simple” and touts the Pad’s newfound ability to connect to a synth, drum machine or computer.…

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Biostar iDEQ 210P SFF Reviewed (Verdict: Average and Pretty)

This hot little breadbox PC looks to be pretty basic with some nice design touches. The mobo is bare-bones with only one IDE and one SATA port and the nVidia nForce 3 250Gb chipset is about average in terms of performance. The front power LED pulses different colors, though, which is nice. Biostar iDEQ 210P…

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iSweet FireWire Web Camera

iSweet, they of the multi-colored Dream Mouse, are offering a clean looking FireWire webcam. This wee cam uses a Sony 350,000-pixel 1/4-inch CCD to get a 640 x 480 30fps stream. I don’t suspect it’ll knock the iSight off it’s perch any time soon, but it’s nice to know the world’s industrial designers are still…

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AMD Launching Dual-Core Chips

The Inquirer is reporting a leak about AMD’s new dual-core Athlons which are to be launched tomorrow. We saw a document in which an AMD official states that it will launch those CPUs tomorrow and that it will brand them AMD Athlon 64 X2 with speed variations of 4200+, 4400+, 4600+ and fastest at 4800+.…

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Coleman LXE Grill

Now you don t have to take your roadkill home with you. The Coleman LXE ( The E is for Easy ) grill is a portable cooking system for the discerning roadside chef. The 20,000 BTU burners will roast just about anything and the optional griddle attachment is great for makin bacon. We also liked…

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PSP Charging Cradle

Hong Kong shop Brando is selling this PSP charging cradle for 15 USD, shipped. I don’t know how fast their shipping is, so you might ask before you spend any cash. Also, bear in mind this is just for bringing the battery up to charge, not for syncing. Sony’s decision to put the USB connection…

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The Search for EVDO Wi-Fi Routers

So the people who run this page look shady, at best—”Our EVDO Router was developed by several Computer Science PhD’s holding the original 3G Router Patents.”—but the concept of the router isn’t far off from the StompBox we talked about earlier. The question is: since I don’t think these douches actually developed this box—”Not to…

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MobiBLU DHH-100-5 Audio Player Reviewed (Verdict: Very Nice)

Say It Ain’t So, Flash Drive

Creative Zen Nano Announced

ATI Launches PCI Express Notebook Chipset

More Pictures of Upcoming HP iPaq hw6500

Pizza Cutters as Art

A/C Powered By Car Exhaust?

Shower Podcasts

IBM ThinkPad T43 Reviewed (Verdict: Solid)

Star Wars-branded Alienware PCs

Sunbeam 20-in-1 Front Panel Reviewed (Verdict: Excellent)

More Good From Gawker

MMS Fortune Telling

Nintendo PowerPad (and Glove) MIDI Controller

Biostar iDEQ 210P SFF Reviewed (Verdict: Average and Pretty)

iSweet FireWire Web Camera

AMD Launching Dual-Core Chips

Coleman LXE Grill

PSP Charging Cradle

The Search for EVDO Wi-Fi Routers

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