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PalmSource Trots Out Cobalt 6.1

PalmSource has unveiled its latest operating system, Cobalt 6.1, designed with a specific focus on wireless functionality. What does that mean to you, consumer? Not much at the moment, but baseline wireless feature sets mean that it will be a lot easier for handset manufacturers to offer powerful multi-network phones and PDAs without jumping through…

Tech News Joel

Flickr: An Introduction

Guest Editor Matthew C. Smith tries out Flickr (disclaimer: I think cupcakes are delicious), the photosharing app and shares his impressions below. Looking for a quick, simple and systematic way of uploading photos to my blog, I stumbled from one site to another. Once again, as a card-carrying member of the Mac cult, my search…

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Sony’s Sort of New NW-HD2 Network Walkman

At first glance, it appears Sony was quick to follow up its NW-HD1 hard disk-based music ATRAC player with a new model, the NW-HD2. And technically that’s true, I guess; it is new. Really, though, it just looks like the same NW-HD1 but in pastel colors, and there’s still no mention of MP3 support, so…

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Mamiya ZD Camera and Back

Mamiya sent me some details about their new ZD camera and ZD Back, both of which have at heart a stunning 22-megapixel sensor. While both offer a lot of the same features, like dual memory card slots and simultaneous RAW and JPEG recording, the Back is obviously meant to be used with other existing Mamiya…

Tech News Joel

The Smell of Punk, Pity or Photoshop

Someone sent us this pic yesterday and I called shenanigans, albeit quietly and to myself. Today I call shenanigans out loud and to you all. I think we all can appreciate a little fervent fangirlism, but getting a tattoo with a version of an operating system would just be madness. OS/2 WARP 4 LYFE, DAWG.…

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Trade Highly Personal Information for Slim Chance to Win Speakers

Ecoustics is running one of those contests where you give them all sorts of personal demographic information and in turn you get a chance to win a $2,500 set of Axiom Epic 80 Home Theater Speakers. It’s sort of creepy, but I figure everybody else has all my personal information, and I’m sort of a…

Tech News Joel

BenQ DC E43 and DC E53

BenQ announced two new cameras today, the four-megapixel DC E43 and the five-megapixel DC E53 [pictured]. Both share 3x optical zoom and aluminum frames, but the E53 has a relatively massive 2.5-inch LTPS-LCD screen that they claim uses 50% less power than a standard TFT-LCD. If that’s really true and not just marketing flim flam…

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Plug and Play: Starter Home Theater

We’re going to try out a new feature here on Gizmodo that I think could potentially be very useful, and maybe even – this is crazy – enjoyable. We’ll call it “Plug and Play,” because the idea is to pick five things that – together – you can buy to set up a complete package.…

Tech News Joel

600GB DVD Recorder from Toshiba, Visions of 2010

I’m hoping you really dig Toshiba, because they had quite a range of announcements for the public on the 28th. First, they introduced two new DVD recorders – one of which contains a 600GB hard drive for an unknown reason. Also introduced was the “Face” line of TVs. As in, “Face” the truth that you’re…

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Eridol R-1 Digital Recorder

It ain’t much to look at, but the Edirol R-1 Digital Recorder is probably going to make quite a few audio geeks pretty happy. One of the major shortcomings of all these modern players is that they aren’t exactly good recording devices (for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the desire…

Tech News Joel

Kenwood Fineline VRS-N8100 Ships

As of today, Kenwood s new top-tier Fineline VRS-N8100 combo A/V receiver and digital media streamer is supposed to be shipping, and she looks like a beaut. Not only is there the obligatory Ethernet port and the ability to play back almost anything you can imagine (though, notably, not DiVX, at least according to the…

Tech News Joel

Voltaic Solar Backpack

So I want this Voltaic Backpack badly. Josh Rubin pinged me to point it out and I haven’t stopped barking questions at him since, despite the fact that he’s not, you know, the guy that makes it. Three aluminum-panel solar cells sit the back along with enough wires and in-seam connections to charge most small…

Tech News Joel

Cyclops R/C Car with Wireless Camera

I can t tell you how many times the pimply-faced teenage me wished I had something like this Cyclops Camera Car for covert ops like investigating the girls locker room. If nothing else, I could have been a more popular guy with my more athletic gym terrorpuppets classmates, as we huddled around the controller and…

Tech News Joel

Tokyo Game Show TV

I have a feeling you aren’t quite sick of looking at videos from the Tokyo Game Show, especially if they include more footage of the new Playstation, PSP, and neverending lines of bouncing, beret-bearing booth babes. Sony has that same feeling, it would seem, with a whole mess of streaming videos for your perusal. Seriously,…

Tech News Joel

Samsung Yepp YP-T6

The YP-T6, unveiled in Korea this week, follows Samsung s YP-ST5 as yet another “world’s smallest” tiny form-factor flash player with USB 2.0 support. It comes in similar capacities (128 MB, 256 MB, 1 GB) and supports MP3, OGG, WMA, and ASF. Bored yet? The snazziest feature, aside from its teeny-tiny size, is its ability…

Tech News Joel

iPod Mini Promotions

Free iPods for everybody! Or at least discounted! We’ve gotten heads up from readers about a couple of new ways to get your hand on an iPod mini; one for free, one for $150. J&R (and maybe other retailers) is running a promotion where a one-year subscription to audiobooks vendor Audible.com ($15 a month) gets…

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Life Imitates Star Trek: SonoPrep Needle-less Injection

It isn t called HypoSpray, but the SonoPrep is a similar means to an identical end: painless injections. After 20 years of research and development, Prof. Joseph Krost of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel (there is a beer-by-injection joke in there somewhere) has developed the device which applies ultrasonic waves to a small area of…

Tech News Joel

Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Brother QL-550/QL-500 label printers [BIOS] • Fujifilm Printpix CX-550 photo printer [BIOS] • Plush FM Radio [GlobalSources] • Designer Sex Toys [CoolHunting] Business • Adobe proposes new format for images [TheStar] • Microsoft Prepared to Strip Media Player [InternetNews] Reviews • A Close Look at Sony’s E-Book [Poynter] • Acer AL1721hm –…

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Smoke Screens for Tanks

You know when you pick up a toad and it sort of wets itself all over you? I can’t help but thinking that’s sort of like what a smoke screen for tanks would be like – a pointless last-ditch attempt that would only serve to sort of embarrass everyone involved. No matter what these people…

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Diesel Powered Boeing 737 Limousine

A Mexican limo company has converted a Boeing 727 airliner into an 18-meter, 50-person limousine powered by a 6-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine. They’ve thrown out the cramped quarters to include a bar, a dancefloor, a lounge, and even a “romantic space” in the back (romance is near the engines, it seems). For just $1,500, the…

Tech News Joel

PalmSource Trots Out Cobalt 6.1

Flickr: An Introduction

Sony’s Sort of New NW-HD2 Network Walkman

Mamiya ZD Camera and Back

The Smell of Punk, Pity or Photoshop

Trade Highly Personal Information for Slim Chance to Win Speakers

BenQ DC E43 and DC E53

Plug and Play: Starter Home Theater

600GB DVD Recorder from Toshiba, Visions of 2010

Eridol R-1 Digital Recorder

Kenwood Fineline VRS-N8100 Ships

Voltaic Solar Backpack

Cyclops R/C Car with Wireless Camera

Tokyo Game Show TV

Samsung Yepp YP-T6

iPod Mini Promotions

Life Imitates Star Trek: SonoPrep Needle-less Injection

Morning Bits

Smoke Screens for Tanks

Diesel Powered Boeing 737 Limousine

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