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Barbie USB Drive

It’s opportunities like this that make me wish I still worked in an office. (Thanks, Adam!) Message 4577623 [B3TA]

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Boblbe.e, makers of the hard-shell, chitinous backpacks so popular with dred-locked ravers a few years back (you know who you are) are now offering a line of amphibious backpacks that float and are water resistant. Designed mainly for snowboarders and skiers who don’t want thier stashes to get totally soaked—the Amphib could also be conceivably…

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

Rhapsody To Go Reviewed (Verdict: Wait)

PCWorld tried our Real’s updated Rhapsody service, including the new ‘Rhapsody To Go,’ Real’s implementation of the Windows Media Player 10 DRM that lets you rent downloaded tracks and even listen to them on your portable music player. I’m a fan of these services, for what they are, but it seems that Rhapsody To Go…

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Paris Hilton Mobile Strip Poker

In what I’m sure is a completely valid and highly legal partnership, Pimento Mobile is offering Paris Hilton wallpapers, moantones, and even a jolly Strip Poker game that allows you to cheat by purchasing secret codes via WAP. Now fellas, the strip poker works only one way, so no matter how much you dance, nude…

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

TiVo ‘Now Playing’ Widget for OS X Tiger

The Tivo Now Playing widget will require: A TiVo running the 7.1 OS and TiVo Desktop; OS X Tiger; a Mac. Since I have only two of those three things, I cannot vouch for its radiskalness. Now who’s going to make me some Gizmodo widgets? While we’re on the subject of TV, a hearty congratulations…

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Slappa ShockShell Cases for iPod mini

While the designs of the Slappa ShockShell cases for the iPod mini are definitely hit or miss (more miss, actually, with the tribal designs, but I totally dig the ’60s swirly patterns [pictured]), they will likely be tough—Slappa is known for making hard-side cases that don’t feel bad in the hand. However, the Slappa logo…

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Vonage Gets Cash, Testicles

We like Voice-over-IP, because we’re cheap. Om likes it, too, but questions whether the recent shipment of hats made of money to Vonage is really a wise investment. But first, an out-of-context pullquote: SiliconBeat is impressed and sum it up succinctly in one word: balls. Vonage s Bain,VoIP s Pain [GigaOm]

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Google Web Accelerator Needs More Work

Even though software really isn’t our bag (categories for it, not withstanding), a few of you have asked us for our opinion on Google’s new Web Accellerator. In light of an imperfect world of web standards, here you go: Don’t use it. It’s broken. [37Signals via BoingBoing]

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Possible Motorola iTunes Phone Screenshots

Mobile Music Blog has purported shots of the Motorola iTunes phone software interface. They are, in a word, sort of totally not all that interesting at all. Moto iTunes Screenshots… Sort Of [MobileMusicBlog]

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Duct Tape Shuffle Case

Today is iPod Shuffle’s lucky day! Everyone wants to dress it up and call it Martha. Here’s one man’s DIY Shuffle case made of a number of materials, including, finally, duct tape. how to make a duct tape ipod shuffle case that doesn’t suck [things i have made to pass the time]

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

Real ID Act Almost Passed

There’s not a lot of discussion about the Real ID Act on the geek boards so it might be nice to drop a round-up of stories and offer our take on the surprisingly low-profile treatment. The act, which passed the house last Thursday and is likely to make it through Senate, is intended to prevent…

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

Polyphonic MIDI from Old Recordings

Since we’re talking a bit about older things today, here’s an interesting discovery—a few VoIP millionaires have figured out a way to transcribe old piano recordings into MIDI. Transcribing someone playing Mary Had a Little Lamb with one hand is pretty easy. It’s just a series of single notes. But imagine trying transcribe recordings of…

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

If You Can’t See This, Click Here

We started using Feedburner to handle our RSS links, which seems to redirect the old links fine with some news readers, but not others. If you’re having problems reading the feed or it doesn’t look like it’s updated, you might try linking directly to the Feedburner URLs. Gizmodo RSS, etc. Feeds [FeedBurner]

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Intel Blows News On the Next-Gen Centrino Chipset

In a strange turn of events Intel has accidentally (?) pre-announced the codenames of a number of their next-gen chips, including the Merom portable chip/chipset which may/may not be dual-core. Why do we care? We don’t actually, but in general it now offers us a unified method for communicating Intel’s comings and goings. Instead of…

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

Lightsaber FAQ

We know that in your head the Star Wars universe is horribly real. We know that your time spent in that darkened theatre waiting for The Empire Strikes Back to start gave you a brief, sweaty respite from thinking about that girl who sat next to you in homeroom. It’s OK. We were there once,…

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

Bio-Motors

I was sitting on this story for a while because it was kind of weird, but I just can’t stand it any more. From what I gather, the folks at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft have created artificial nano sperm. Now this is on a nano scale, so it’s not like these fellas have visible wiggly tails, but they’re…

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

iPod shuffle Clones Strike Back: LuxPro EZ Tangent, Top Tangent

I won an iPod shuffle from Dealnews when we won the Bloggie, and I actually use it quite a bit, because it’s light and easy and I can carry it around without any weight penalty. The form factor—the long and flat thing—is actually a bit better than the chunky styles of many of flash players.…

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

ATI MVP: Dual-Card Graphics Solution Details

The first details are beginning to emerage about ATI’s ‘Multi Video Processing’ (MVP) system, designed to harness the power of two video cards to render 3D graphics, much like Nvidia’s existing SLI system. Nvidia’s system splits the rendering duties (roughly) across the middle, giving the top half to one card and the bottom half to…

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Beautiful WW2 German Radio Collection

This guy has an awesome collection of German, WWII-era radios and other communications equipment. Apparently much of the equipment used precision megnesium alloy die casings which allowed them to provide a stable tuning without crystals, which I will pretend to know is cool. Also, see if you can pronounce his domain name without wanting to…

Tech News Joel May 6 '05

Action Jacket Shuffle Sheath

Starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Jackson and Sharon Stone as Patrice Dellaplane… oh, wait. That was Action Jackson. The Action Jacket is a neoprene Shuffle case with armband that fits everyone from from toothpick to python —their words, not ours. If you don’t want to wear the Shuffle around your neck like a Flava Flav…

Tech News Johnb May 6 '05

Barbie USB Drive

Boblbe.e Amphib Backpack

Rhapsody To Go Reviewed (Verdict: Wait)

Paris Hilton Mobile Strip Poker

TiVo ‘Now Playing’ Widget for OS X Tiger

Slappa ShockShell Cases for iPod mini

Vonage Gets Cash, Testicles

Google Web Accelerator Needs More Work

Possible Motorola iTunes Phone Screenshots

Duct Tape Shuffle Case

Real ID Act Almost Passed

Polyphonic MIDI from Old Recordings

If You Can’t See This, Click Here

Intel Blows News On the Next-Gen Centrino Chipset

Lightsaber FAQ

Bio-Motors

iPod shuffle Clones Strike Back: LuxPro EZ Tangent, Top Tangent

ATI MVP: Dual-Card Graphics Solution Details

Beautiful WW2 German Radio Collection

Action Jacket Shuffle Sheath

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