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3 New Olympus Consumer Cameras: D-545, D-595, D-630 Zooms

What’s the point of the PMA 2005 show if everyone’s roling out the big guns now? Olympus chime in with their pre-show announcement of three new cameras: the D-545 Zoom, the D-595 Zoom, and the D-630 Zoom. Details after the jump. Pictures in order of appearance in words. The D-545 is an entry-level four megapixel…

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Archos AV4100: 100GB Video Player

I knew if I believed hard enough and clapped my hands fast enough, this would happen. Archos’s AV4100 takes their AV400 video player line into that mythical land of 100 GB storage space. And best of all? It’s hardly any bigger than its predecessors. The AV4100 plays MPEG4, AVI, XviD and DivX files over a…

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Hot: Microsoft Xbox 360°: First Details Revealed!

Sister site Kotaku has major, major news about Microsoft’s next Xbox, the 360°. Among other details from our source is that there will be two models, one with a hard drive and one without, that the Xbox name is being deprecated and might be dropped entirely, as well as news that backwards compatibility still isn’t…

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Concords New EasyShot Cameras

Concord’s new Easyshot series continues a trend that I think you’ll see a lot of this year: powerful, low-cost tech with features easy enough for beginners to learn but tempting enough to lure jaded professionals. That is, of course, if you like overhyped pablum—Concord is the interpolation king (that’s bad). On the upside, they tend…

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From the Barbie Mekong Delta Playset

In a perfect world, every little girl would be issued one at birth. (Thanks, Tenuki! WTF is up with aquilaba?)

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Floating Homes

German company Forster Trabitzch want to build you a floating home. At two stories tall with lots of sexy curves and parking space for the family yacht (seriously), the models certainly look good, but do any of these things actually exist? The sample photos on the company site all show the illustration from different angles…

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Sony Net Juke NAS-A10: Half-Hearted MP3 Support

Sony’s Net Juke shelf-top audio system is the latest product line to feel the MP3 flow, as the NAS-A10 has been announced with limited support for the format. While you can fill up the NAS-A10’s 40GB hard drive with MP3s just fine, ripping audio tracks using the new “One Button HD Record” feature only gives…

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HP hx6500 Mobile Messenger Gets FCC Nod

HP’s big-boned but appealing hx6500 Mobile Messenger has gotten the nod from the FCC, making it likely we’ll see the Windows Mobile device on a carrier before terribly long (rumors have it slated for Cingular). There’s not much that we didn’t know if the FCC brief, but they have tested the expected series of accessories,…

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Alaskan Town OKs Mini Nuke

Toshiba offered their new miniature nuclear reactor to the small Alaskan village of Galena back in 2003, and after much deliberation it looks like the project is finally moving forward. The city council has voted unanimously to allow construction of the reactor, which Toshiba calls the 4S (“Super-Safe, Small, and Simple”—see how reassuring that is?),…

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Xbox Power Cord Recall

While my first thought was “Man, these guys are really serious about disabling modded Xboxes,” this is actually the real deal: Microsoft is recalling 14.1 million power cords for their occasional tendency to set the carpet on fire. While the company claims that fewer than one in ten thousand consoles is at risk, reports have…

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Chi Mei UCP-100: The Next MPx220?

Chi Mei is showing off their new UCP-100. Why do you care? Well, Chi Mei is the company that manufactured the Motorola MPx220, and it looks like this might be its successor. Nearly identical at first glance, but with EDGE and Wi-Fi. Stuffing Wi-Fi into a clamshell form-factor running Windows Mobile makes my heart nearly…

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LISA Panic Button for Elderly (aka iPod shuffleboard)

Lusora hopes you have fallen, and you can’t get up. Their new LISA pendant offers “security to elderly people who want to live at home, and their family,” who obviously want nothing to do with them. The pendant itself contains accelerometers that can detect rapid acceleration (falling over, breakdancing) and use its integrated radio to…

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Wind Cheetah Tricycle

Nevermind that it’s a tricycle. Just glaze over that word entirely and look at this thing. It’s still a tricycle. But it’s the most advanced recumbent tricycle in the world, as well as the only one to set six (count ’em!) speed and endurance records. Even the Guggenheim Museum recognizes it’s awesome (although they let…

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Samsung SGH-i270

Microsoft’s new clamshell from Samsung got the OK from the FCC today, and now the first picture and specs are up for the internet’s consumption and dissection. What the i270 lacks in fancy looks it promises to make up in fancy features: current plans call for internal and external TFT displays and a one megapixel…

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Motorola ROKR to be iTunes Phone (Maybe)

So first we hear that the new Motorola E1060 is the new iTunes phone, and then we hear that it isn’t. Now the rumors are churning that the new iTunes phone may be more iPodesque than we had first imagined. Mobiledia is even saying they expect the new ROKR phone from Motorola to include a…

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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT

Some folks got a bit of excitement last night when someone accidentally leaked information about Canon’s new Rebel XT, an 8-megapixel DSLR. The new sibling model to the original Digital Rebel is now smaller and faster than its cousin, able to shoot 3 frames per second in 14 frame bursts. The XT will be known…

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IMterview: Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE Magazine

I talked to Mark Frauenfelder, Editor-in-Chief of the new MAKE Magazine from O’Reilly, about some of the stuff to expect from this new quarterly ‘mook.’ I’ve been amped about the project since the beginning, so I’m glad to see them off and running. In its honor, I made a hyperlink, and put the imterview inside.…

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Gizmodo Chat: irc.gizmodo.com

IRC: it’s not just for BDSM cyber and warez kiddies anymore! It’s my pleasure to announce our support of that archaic, text-only communication protocol, Internet Relay Chat, via Gizmodo’s new irc.gizmodo.com server. I’m not quite sure what will come of this experiment, but something tells me a group of portable technology fans heavily into communication…

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2×4 Lamp

There’s something about clever, pretty things that always makes me feel dumb for not thinking of it first. Bruce Engle is making wall lamps by hollowing out 2×4’s a shoving a light in them. The thin wood turns the light a soft rosy color, not unlike when you were six and put body parts over…

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3 New Olympus Consumer Cameras: D-545, D-595, D-630 Zooms

Archos AV4100: 100GB Video Player

Hot: Microsoft Xbox 360°: First Details Revealed!

Concords New EasyShot Cameras

From the Barbie Mekong Delta Playset

Floating Homes

Sony Net Juke NAS-A10: Half-Hearted MP3 Support

HP hx6500 Mobile Messenger Gets FCC Nod

Alaskan Town OKs Mini Nuke

Xbox Power Cord Recall

Chi Mei UCP-100: The Next MPx220?

LISA Panic Button for Elderly (aka iPod shuffleboard)

Wind Cheetah Tricycle

Samsung SGH-i270

Motorola ROKR to be iTunes Phone (Maybe)

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT

More Good From Gawker

IMterview: Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE Magazine

Gizmodo Chat: irc.gizmodo.com

2×4 Lamp

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