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Toshiba First to Produce Speedy XDR RAM

XDR RAM is going to be fast. I predict even more unneeded processor cycles in my near future. Toshiba is lining up the world’s fasters memory chips. Testing has begun and they should be on sale in the second half the year, the company said. The 512MB XDR (extreme data rate) DRAM chips run at…

Tech News Joel Mar 30 '05

Hilton Hotels Line-In Alarm Clock

Hilton Hotels are rolling out new radio alarm clocks to their rooms, complete with a line-in jack for plugging in your MP3 player. In addition, the new units are supposed to be a lot easier to set yourself, and can wake you up with the sound of one of four pre-set radio stations instead of…

Tech News Joel Mar 30 '05

Ossur Power Knee

Prosthetic limbs have come a long way lately, but there are still limitations when it comes to things like climbing stairs or other activities where the prosthetic itself needs to replace some muscle power. The new aptly-named Power Knee, developed by Victhom and marketed by Ossur, aims to address that issue by putting not only…

Tech News Joel Mar 30 '05

MSN Video Download for PMC and Pocket PC Launches

One of my biggest criticisms of Microsoft’s Portable Media Center platform has been that there’s really nothing to watch. You could download a few B-list movies from CinemaNow and Major League Baseball games or copy stuff from your Windows Media Center PC, but if you wanted to put anything else on the device, you had…

Tech News Joel Mar 30 '05

HOWTO: Format Web Comics for PSP

Sure, you could just manually copy the images from your favorite web comics to the PSP, but 8 Bit Joystick has some tips to automate the process. Slurp down a whole web comic archive, do some basic conversion (as necessary) and copy it over. Classics like Penny Arcade and Diesel Sweeties are natural choices, of…

Tech News Joel Mar 30 '05

Gizmondo Reviewed (Verdict: Were You Expecting Good?)

I’ll admit to a certain bias when it comes to Gizmondo, since ever since they announced their name change a year or so ago, they’ve made my life a living hell. “They guy who writes Gizmondo is an idiot!” or “I hate Gizmondo!” Okay, obviously sometimes it works out. But still, it causes a lick…

Tech News Joel Mar 30 '05

May Flash GBA A/V Adapter Reviewed (Verdict: Meh)

GadgetMadness reviews May Flash’s simple GameBoy Advance A/V Adapter. Just put the cartridge into your player, plug your nearest video-producing device’s RCA jacks into the cartridge, and have at it. Brightness, contrast and volume are controlled using the GameBoy’s buttons, as well as hue and saturation. A major let down for GadgetMadness was the fact…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 30 '05

Aluminum iPod shuffle Cases Picked Up As Griffin iVault

We first showed you Greg Gutierrez’s Aluminum iPod shuffle cases back in February. For those of you who couldn’t stop dreaming of coating their shuffles in anodized metallics, Griffin Technology has picked up the case and now offers it under the “Griffin iVault” moniker. It just goes to show you that if you have access…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 30 '05

Army Tests Grenade Bot

DefenseTech shows us the newest unmanned ground vehicle from the Army, this one featuring electrically-firing barrels featuring as many as four 40 mm grenades each. This variant of the Talon UGV blasted through a slew of mock opponents and there’s video to prove it, available to you, the taxpayer. I think we can all accept…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 30 '05

Tokyo Tower 2 First Proposal Site Finalized

NHK and five other Japanese broadcast-related companies have finalized on the first proposed site for “Tokyo Tower 2.” Sumida Ward, best known for “that building with the golden piece of crap on top,” is in eastern Tokyo. In case you were wondering why we are reporting on such a thing, Japan is planning on dropping…

Tech News Zmcnulty Mar 30 '05

2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (High-Speed)

Sony is finally getting around to releasing their 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo (High-Speed) cards. They announced these things back in September of 2004, and have kicked the release date back twice. The “(High-Speed)” in the name indicates the cards have a transfer rate of 80Mbps (10MB/sec), which is far more than you’ll ever need…

Tech News Zmcnulty Mar 30 '05

HP New Media Center and Desktop PCs

HP’s new Media Center PC has more than a passing resemblance to the Mac mini, which might be on purpose, considering the new units include optional box-top docking stations for the iPod (much like the Mac mini was rumored to have had in development). Whether you see it or not, the silver and white is…

Tech News Joel Mar 29 '05

Toshiba’s 60-Second Charge Battery

So if we can’t have longer-lived batteries, Toshiba’s new Super Charge cells may be the next best thing. The company claims the new cell charge to 80 percent of its capacity in just 60 seconds and can top out in just “a few minutes more.” Not only that, but after 1000 charge cycles, the lithium-ion…

Tech News Joel Mar 29 '05

Chinese Cops Crack Down on Mobile Porn

If you’re a connoisseur of mobile porn and happen to be traveling in China, a word of advice: they don’t take kindly to your smut around those parts. The China Press is reporting that pornographic or even just ‘lewd’ images on mobiles are an infraction, and Chinese police reserve the right to conduct surprise checks…

Tech News Joel Mar 29 '05

Man RFID Implants Self

This chap placed an RFID sensor in his hand (or had a doctor do it, rather) and plans on wiring up his house and car with sensors that will allow all sorts of wireless magic to happy when he waves it around. He has a nice FAQ up explaining why he won’t be burning in…

Tech News Joel Mar 29 '05

X-Wing in Times Square

We don’t know why, exactly (an M&M’s promotion, we heard), but there’s an X-Wing in Times Square. I might dork out and try to take a picture with me in the frame, but I’m not sure the train is running to Hatchi Toshi Station. Something about some power converters. I mean ‘do.’ There is no…

Tech News Joel Mar 29 '05

GIzmodo Japan: AU by KDDI Sweets

I’ve gone on and on about the great work that KDDI’s AU is doing in the design department (see the AU Design Project), but you know, they’ve also become quite good at going after certain key demographics, and it’s not hard to see what they’re trying to do with their new Sweets line, featuring their…

Tech News Jean Snow Mar 29 '05

Manga and eBooks on Your PSP

1UP has a write-up about reading manga and eBooks on your PSP, which is a pleasant enough read, but for fears of legal retribution doesn’t actually link to a lot of content. That means there’s no one-stop download, but they can at least point you in the right direction. The main problem I see for…

Tech News Joel Mar 29 '05

Tix LED Clock

The Tix LED Clock is a somewhat classy (if you live in an adobe hut on an alien world), LED-based clock that shows you the time in one of more than a million different patterns. Each panel represents a digit of the time, wherein the number of lighted squares is the respective value for that…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 29 '05

3D Animated Ads

The Imagepro3D from Barcelona-based “TheSpecialThing” delivers 3D animated advertising right before your child’s own eyes, giving them their first experience with the empty promises that their doomed life holds. No glasses are necessary and the black box contains an optical system and patented software to project the images in front of you. Similar technology could…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 29 '05

Toshiba First to Produce Speedy XDR RAM

Hilton Hotels Line-In Alarm Clock

Ossur Power Knee

MSN Video Download for PMC and Pocket PC Launches

HOWTO: Format Web Comics for PSP

Gizmondo Reviewed (Verdict: Were You Expecting Good?)

May Flash GBA A/V Adapter Reviewed (Verdict: Meh)

Aluminum iPod shuffle Cases Picked Up As Griffin iVault

Army Tests Grenade Bot

Tokyo Tower 2 First Proposal Site Finalized

2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (High-Speed)

HP New Media Center and Desktop PCs

Toshiba’s 60-Second Charge Battery

Chinese Cops Crack Down on Mobile Porn

Man RFID Implants Self

X-Wing in Times Square

GIzmodo Japan: AU by KDDI Sweets

Manga and eBooks on Your PSP

Tix LED Clock

3D Animated Ads

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