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Apacer Wireless Steno MB112 Review

Viperlair reviews the Apacer Wireless Steno MB112, a Yet Another Flash Drive, this time with integrated WiFi of the B variety. There’s really not much to say about it, although kudos to Viperlair for getting a full review out of the device, including benchmarks—which, actually, end up pointing out the most obvious failing of the…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

Biostar iDEQ 200A Review

You can’t go to any neighborhood LAN party to punch some gaming dorks without tripping over a Small Form Factor PC these days, what with their easy luggability and all around cuteness. The Biostar iDEQ 200A is no featherweight in those two departments, and comes with a few surprises of its own, included a smartly-placed…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

Phantom Controller Rebranded Saitek

Reader Ryan Block made a good connection: the new controller for Infinium Labs’ Phantom Receiver is just a rebranded Saitek P220 PC gaming pad. Fortunately, Block says the $10 he spent on his P220 has been money well spent, despite its lack of analog controls or shoulder-buttons (It has shoulder buttons! Who knew?). Related The…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

Alienware DHS-300 Media Center PC

Although the good news of this little black slab of media center was spoken last week, it kept getting pushed back with all the E3 hoohah, but it definitely merits a mention. The DHS-300 is Alienware’s update of their EPC line, tossing away the Shuttle XPC case for this sleek anodized aluminum idol of A/V…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

Sony VAIO Pocket Hands-On Rumor

Here’s a little insider information from an anonymous tipster about the new Sony VAIO Pocket ATRAC player. None of it’s real dirt, but I thought I’d pass it along: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/sonys-ipod-er-attempted-murderer-016051.php I saw and played with the VAIO Pocket yesterday. The navigation is passable at best. Those bumps on the right of the screen rapidly open…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

Spacewriter 72K Pixel Signage

Here’s something to chew on: at what point do these massive LED signage arrays begin to get cheap enough that you could have a whole wall at home dedicated to them? I’ll admit, 8 colors (even at 72k pixels) isn’t a lot, but television gets along fine with only 3. It won’t replace a nice…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

Delphi’s Automotive Satellite Receiver

An automotive aftermarket company called ‘KVH’ Delphi (I misread the article. Thanks, Mark.) has a piece of performance gear for your car that will probably suit even the most unpretentious, performance-disoriented drivers: a roof-top mounted satellite system. While the system now is designed to pick up just television signals, their hope is to provide decent…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

The Bug DAB Radio

Although Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) hasn’t really caught on here in the States, it seems to be off to a solid start in much of the rest of the world, and if new products like The Bug here are any indication, it’ll probably do quite well for itself. Besides all the other benefits inherent to…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

Chunc Designer Wheelchair

If there’s one thing writing Gizmodo has taught me, it’s that nibbling cheese and noodling around websites for an hour doesn’t magically make any stories appear. This is a shortcoming of the internet, and of cheese. Speaking of product shortcomings, when Dominic from IDFuel pointed out the new ‘Chunc’ wheelchair (it seems The Goonies might…

Tech News Joel May 17 '04

Get on DA Mic

Bad sign number one that dorky white people are trying to rock the “urban” style: spellings like “da” for “the”. But anyway, at the post E3 barbecue I heard that the new Eidos rap game looks pretty fun: “Get on da Mic,” in loose association with the hip hop game “Get on da floor.” The…

Tech News JANE PINCKARD May 16 '04

Erotic Robotic

It’s interesting that so many seem to find cold shiny steel arousing. I mean, robots and sex? Robots are, like, the antithesis of the best sex – messy, sweaty, sweet and tasty. BUT – and maybe this is something for Fleshbot to grapple with – there is quite a lot of interest in the idea…