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ADS USB Instant TV Review

EverythingUSB reviews the ADS USB Instant TV, an $80 USB 2.0 box that acts as an external TV tuner which can, along with the included software and Windows XP (required), turn your PC into a middling-quality, audio-sputtering PVR. It’s not all awful, they say, but slow performance and strange clicking noises make the ADS USB…

Tech News Joel Jun 1 '04

What’s In Your Gadget Bag, Xeni?

Effervescent Bollywood advertisements, e-voting, and food-as-porn photoshop remixes. I didn’t cherry-pick those three topics from Xeni Jardin’s BoingBoing contributions to achieve some eclectic frisson — those posts just happen to be her last three. They may be indicative, though, of Jardin’s many tentacled exploration into dozens of subjects, not just as one of the four…

Tech News Joel Jun 1 '04

Sony Retreats from US Palm PDA Market

Ill tidings for the Palm world as Sony announces they will be withdrawing the Clie line from the US at least throughout the end of the year. Though Sony intends to honor all warranty and service agreements and to continue selling Clie in Japan, the retreat from market by the only other major PalmOS vendor…

Tech News Joel Jun 1 '04

Nokia’s 3220 Airtexter

Nokia’s new 3220 is a nice enough tri-band phone, with integrated VGA camera and all the standard stuff, but besides looking like the bottom of a shoe, it’s most known for its optional Xpress-on funshell which adds ‘airtexting’ using a persistence of vision LED array (as seen in Phillip Torrone’s POV shoes or any number…

Tech News Joel Jun 1 '04

Flying Jet-Powered Scale Model Concorde

While that scale B-52 might be the biggest, it’s far from the only model airplane taking advantage of those tiny jet engines for modelers. This beautiful Concorde model (with working subsonic nose tilt!) is just one of many models by German modeler Peter Michel, whose work include functional scale replicas of birds from Airbus, Boeing,…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

ADT MobileSafety GPS/Cellular/Mapping Hybrid

ADT Security Services new MobileSafety combines GPS, cell phone, and mapping service features into a least-common denominator device that strips most of the functionality of its inspiration in a trade-off for ease-of-use. One push of the single button on the device puts the user in touch with ADT’s monitoring center via the speakerphone, where emergency…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

ATI to Showcase X300 Card Tomorrow

Not much to chew on at the moment, but DigiTimes is reporting that ATI will be showing their Radeon X300 part at the Computex Taipei show June 1-5. The X300s will be low-end graphics cards with prices below $100 (read: we probably won’t be talking too much more about them here.) The X300s are most…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Rotring Telescopic Esprit Unisex Pen

The rotring Telescopic Esprit is just what you haven’t been waiting for: an “intelligent pen” with an “understated unisex design” that is the “ultimate companion for any personal organizer or palm pilot.” That is, if you want to carry around multiple pens, since the Esprit isn’t intelligent enough to manage to fit different tips into…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

More Photos from the Society for Information Display Show

Speaking of the Society for Information Display show, ExtremeTech has a few pics up from on the floor, including that rollable screen, a DLP projector that doesn’t use any lenses, Sony’s LIBRie eBook reader, as well as this priceless shot of editor Loyd Case sporting a combat helmet-mounted heads-up-display. The future of war has a…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Toto’s Techno Toilet Tomorrow

Apparently toilet technologists Toto have felt the rains down in Africa one too many times, developing a new backdoor spritzer known as the ‘Washlet’ that tries to give a modern-day spin to the bidet. While Science Toilets are nothing new — the Japanese have led this field for decades, for better or worse (see: Tubgirl)…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2 Review

HardwareZone has a review of Konica Minolta’s DiMAGE A2, the 8-megapixel update to the A1 that keeps the 7x optical zoom and Anti-Shake system. Although it’s not new, the Anti-Shake system is interesting, with a CCD sensor that actually moves back and forth according to input from motion sensors, compensating for shaky hands and other…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Tracking 3D Displays, Rollable Screens

Although there isn’t a whole lot in this AP article about new displays at he Society for Information Display trade show that regular Gizmodo readers probably haven’t seen before, this picture of Polymer Vision’s Rollable Display is pretty great, not because of its picture quality, but because of the promise of rollable displays in the…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Another Nokia 6820 Review

The Register has a belated review of the Nokia 6820, the non-traditional Series 40 flip-phone with the built-in QWERTY keyboard, but it’s worth linking to as El Reg always has interesting things to say. And interesting things to link, I might add, like this Series 40 SSH client (SSH clients are pretty much a platform…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

iPod Market Numbers Questioned

Although Apple’s (unofficially) calling hooey on the numbers, BusinessWeek’s Alex Salkever has taken a deeper look at Apple’s claim that the iPod holds “40% to 50% of the market share of all MP3 players” in the biggest markets. According to Salkever’s numbers, around 17 million flash and hard drive music players were sold last year,…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Olympus Stylus 410 Review

Mark Goldstein is collecting himself a nice set of reviews over at PhotographyBlog, and his review of the Olympus 410 Digital camera stays true to form. The 4-megapixel camera that tops Olympus’s “Stylish” category has a 3x optical zoom, uses xD Picture Card format, and looks not unlike the sort of camera I would expect…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Three EPoX Bluetooth Accessories Reviewed

PC hardware review site EnvyNews reviews three low-end Bluetooth products from EPoX, the BT-HS01 wireless Bluetooth headset, the BT-DG03 Bluetooth USB Dongle, and probably most interesting, the BT-PA01 Bluetooth parallel printer port. While the dongle and headset come across only so-so, the BT-PA01 acts as a wireless parallel cable, allowing wireless connectivity to most older…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

L-Cube Design Concept Winner

The L-Cube is the winning concept from Japanese magazine DOS/V’s “CUBE Concept” design competition. It looks unwieldy to me, but I am intrigued by the ‘off the table’ hanging mode. Sorobangeeks has a couple more pictures of the runners up. Read [Sorobangeeks]

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Consumable Wireless Camera Capsule

The latest craze among sky’s-the-limit antisocial teens? Washing down handfuls of Given Imaging’s new human-consumable camera capsule with dangerous amounts of malt liquor. And freebasing sodium pentathol before Sunday School. Well, maybe not, so much, but the camera capsules are on the real, powered by silver oxide batteries that will power RF transmitters that send…

Tech News Joel May 31 '04

Sony’s PSP: Available in Black, Black, and Black

Looks like all those pastel PSPs Sony was showing at E3 were just a tease. According to an interview in Japanese game magazine Famitsu, Sony claims the various color PSPs were “just for reference. We plan to make the system black.” I wouldn’t worry too much, though. I’m sure if the PSP does well at…

Tech News Joel May 29 '04

Love in the Time of CallerID

They say Memorial Day weekend is the weekend for lovers. Lonely widows and widowers crying over the tombs of their dead lovers, mostly, but still, love is in the air. As such, a special Memorial Day for Lovers themed post, starting with this Times story about Capitol Hill staffers using RIM BlackBerries to sneak a…

Tech News Joel May 29 '04

ADS USB Instant TV Review

What’s In Your Gadget Bag, Xeni?

Sony Retreats from US Palm PDA Market

Nokia’s 3220 Airtexter

Flying Jet-Powered Scale Model Concorde

ADT MobileSafety GPS/Cellular/Mapping Hybrid

ATI to Showcase X300 Card Tomorrow

Rotring Telescopic Esprit Unisex Pen

More Photos from the Society for Information Display Show

Toto’s Techno Toilet Tomorrow

Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2 Review

Tracking 3D Displays, Rollable Screens

Another Nokia 6820 Review

iPod Market Numbers Questioned

Olympus Stylus 410 Review

Three EPoX Bluetooth Accessories Reviewed

L-Cube Design Concept Winner

Consumable Wireless Camera Capsule

Sony’s PSP: Available in Black, Black, and Black

Love in the Time of CallerID

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