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New Cameras from Pentax, Sanyo

Living Room has information about a bunch of new cameras from Pentax (and one from Sanyo), including this 5.36-megapixel Pentax Optio SV [pictured right], a slim-profile camera with a 5x optical zoom; and the Sanyo Xacti VPC A5, another 5-megapixel camera, although this one has only a 2.8x optical zoom. In addition, Pentax has a…

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Toshiba e830 Launches in Japan, Europe

Toshiba is releasing the e830 in Europe and Japan today, an update to the popular e800 series Pocket PC. There’s not one particular thing that makes it better than its previous version, so much as incremental upgrades all around, including a faster processor, an updated Bluetooth stack, more built-in RAM, and Windows Mobile 2003 Second…

Tech News Joel

DiscHub Contest Day Two, Plus Half-Price for Gizmodo Readers

I love it when a contest gets crazy, and if all the emails I got from you people yesterday were any indication, some of you are getting downright OCD over the DiscHub giveaway. And speaking of, I have a couple of bits of cool news. First of all, as of right now, I’ve put up…

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AeroGrow

The AeroGrow is a new aeroponic garden designed for growing herbs and even larger fruits and vegetables right in your kitchen or smoky dorm room, all without soil. Instead, the AeroGrow uses water and nutrients inside a clear planter, where you can see all of the roots as they grow. Three different growing areas are…

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Momo and Moto’s Fighter Helmet with Bluetooth

Momodesign, maker of all sorts of middle-to-high-end automotive and cycling parts has revealed their new Bluetooth Motorcycle Helmet, the result of a collaboration with Motorola. And while the technology itself isn’t especially notable – it is just a Bluetooth headset, after all – I think the helmet design is just lovely. I’m a huge fan…

Tech News Joel

AT&T Wireless’s Ogo Appears

Engadget snagged pics of the new AT&T Wireless OGO messenger from the FCC and it looks a lot like what we’ve been expecting – sort of a cut-rate Sidekick 2, minus all the cellphone parts of the phone. They’re reporting that the Instant Messaging clamshell will be available to AT&T Wireless customers for only $15…

Tech News Joel

Afternoon Bits

Product Highlights • Two New VAIO Laptops [SorobanGeeks] • Atari Slot Machines! [Atari] • More on Anti-Hurricane Gel [Newsday] • Cell Phones, GPS and Wi-Fi Take Center Stage at DemoMobile [eWeek] • Bandai Wonderswan II [Bandai] (This is fake!) • Gaia and its Billion-Pixel Camera [Piquepaille] Business • Video game pioneer shoots for next level…

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Siemens Scale by Porsche

Is it just me, or does it seem like F.A. Porche is designing everything these days, like laptops, and hard drives, and – oh hey – a kitchen scale. This Siemens-built scale looks nice enough, but nothing special, so it sort of dilutes the brand cachet, doesn’t it? It’s like that damn Ferrari laptop that…

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Navistar to Sell Giant CXT Truck

As my buddy Ryan put it, the new CXT truck is “not just Muppets silly, it’s like ‘I can’t believe he killed the whole human race,'” kind of silly. The new 21.5-foot truck weighs seven tons and gets about 6 to 10 miles to the gallon. It’s essentially a semi-truck scaled back to be a…

Tech News Joel

Dell Axim X50 Delayed, Asus A730 Reviewed

Brighthand is reporting that the Axim X50 – the first VGA Pocket PC from Dell, at least in its top-end model – is being pushed back to November, at least if the request for an extension with the FCC is any indictor (it is). Now that the FCC will keep information silent on their web…

Tech News Joel

Sharp’s Kitchen Composters

Sharp has announced a pair of kitchen composters, the NP-40CX-S and the NP-20CX-S, both of which use a special microbe blend to reduce the volume of organic waste by up to 92% in just 24 hours. There’s not much difference between the two units beyond capacity (and wheels, I guess), and Sharp claims that the…

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Twenty Free DiscHubs

Hey, want a free DiscHub? The boys who make the desktop storage caddy are giving away 20 free to Gizmodo readers. I’ll be hiding codes inside of posts over the next day or two, and all you have to do is be the first to enter it into their form and you’ll get a free…

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Lazer Tag Team Ops Review

Reader Greg Gaub is a Lazer Tag aficionado – who knew, right? The new system sounds cooler than I expected, and he was even kind enough to offer a bunch of community links and project pages after his great review. Remember Lazer Tag, from Worlds of Wonder back in the 80’s? Well, the inventors of…

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Sony VAIO T-Series Laptops

I think I misjudged when I saw the product release about the new Sony VAIO T Series laptops, because I didn’t figure people would be that excited about them, but boy was I wrong, so let me fix that oversight. The best thing about the new Centrino sub-notebooks that I can see is that the…

Tech News Joel

QuickTransit Emulator Might Allow Xbox 2 Backwards Compatibility

Leander from Cult of Mac/Wired has a story about a new Silicon Valley startup – wow, been a while since I’ve typed that – that is claiming to have developed a sort of super-emulator that will allow code written for one platform to work seamless on a variety of other platforms. One of Transitive’s (the…

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Opera’s TVR Browser for Televsions

Opera has developed a new tech for their webbrowser they’re calling “TVR,” an optimized output designed to render web pages more legible on TVs and other lower resolution devices. And while that sounds really useful, in the press release they mention their intentions to promote the technology to vendors of set-top technology. That’s too bad…

Tech News Joel

Fujitsu KioskBot

Fujitsu has been showing off its new robot with a computer display embedded in its chest, designed to act as a sort of mobile kiosk for museums, shopping malls, and office buildings (or wherever you need a friendly robot, I’m sure). And it runs Windows XP Embedded, so if you want to install your favorite…

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Sony VAIO M

Sony has a new one of those desktop VAIOs designed to replace a TV, this time called the VAIO M. It’s not that spectacular, features-wise, with the notable stand-out of a “Multidrive” super-burner that can handle not only DL (dual-layer) DVDs but DVD-RAM as well (if you don’t know what that is, you probably don’t…

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Editor Cock Up of the Day

So it’s my fault, for sure, but I just ordered the Panasonic SC-HT820V Home Theater System, got it all unpacked, setup, and mounted, and was pretty happy with it – the onscreen controls are great, and it’s nice having everything pre-balanced and tuned in a single, turn-key system. There are definitely better options, but for…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Slew of New Products Unveiled at CEDIA [BuyingHDTV] • CEDIA Photo Gallery (Apache Dir) [Schalliol] • Fujitsu T70J LOOX T Laptop [FMWorld] • Sony VGF-AP1L VAIO Pocket Available for US Purchase [Sony] • Talking Donald Trump Action Figure [KBToys] • Neonode N1 Gallery [Glocalnet] • Dallab DP900 PDA (PocketPC) Phone [Dallab] Business…

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New Cameras from Pentax, Sanyo

Toshiba e830 Launches in Japan, Europe

DiscHub Contest Day Two, Plus Half-Price for Gizmodo Readers

AeroGrow

Momo and Moto’s Fighter Helmet with Bluetooth

AT&T Wireless’s Ogo Appears

Afternoon Bits

Siemens Scale by Porsche

Navistar to Sell Giant CXT Truck

Dell Axim X50 Delayed, Asus A730 Reviewed

Sharp’s Kitchen Composters

Twenty Free DiscHubs

Lazer Tag Team Ops Review

Sony VAIO T-Series Laptops

QuickTransit Emulator Might Allow Xbox 2 Backwards Compatibility

Opera’s TVR Browser for Televsions

Fujitsu KioskBot

Sony VAIO M

Editor Cock Up of the Day

Morning Bits

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