Latest

March 31st 2004

Hori Katana: Soul Controller

Designed for the upcoming game ‘Onimusha 3’ (but also useful for scaring off any potential girlfriends), the Hori Katana: Soul Controller is a wireless, motion-sensitive sword that, when swung, actually makes your on-screen character do the same (he swings his motion-sensitive sword, controlling a smaller character inside his game, and so on, until your PS2…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Left Hand Of Phoneness

You know that left-handed cell phone reported on other sites today? According to Nechbi.com, it’s an April Fool’s prank come early. We would have reported this phone to you, but because we realized it was a prank, we didn’t. Also we might have been draped over our couch, drooling, due to a taser experiment gone…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

25GB Blu-ray Disc For Playstation 3

Gamespot’s (exceedingly quality, for real) News section is reporting that the Playstation 3 may use the Blu-ray Disc format. A Sony director is quoted as saying, “We’d like to establish a ground by adopting read-only BD-ROMs for a home video game console.” Of course this is the director in charge of Blue-ray Disc development, so…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Mega Diesel Engine

The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C is the worlds most powerful engine. Available in 6 to 14 cylinder versions, the turbocharged two-stroke diesel is designed to propel large container ships and produces 108,920 horsepower, weighing in at 2,300 tons. At its most efficient setting, the 14-cylinder version guzzles 1,660 gallons of fuel oil per hour, about the same…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Four Player Simultanious WiFi LCD Projector

The Matsushita TH-LB10NT LCD supports four different PC connections simultaneously over WiFi at a combined resolution of 1,024 by 768. WiFi doesn’t have enough bandwidth to function like an actual monitor cable, but presumably some type of software is used to forward screens to the device, not unlike Remote Desktop functions or VNC (which is…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Disney Princess CD Jewelry/Stash Box

‘Disney’ and ‘electronics’ may not be two words you normally associate, but someone else obviously did, because there is now a ‘Disney Electronics,’ and they’re working hard to build new products on the Brand That Walt Built. Rather than simply rebrand existing products with the Disney name and characters—although there is certainly some of that…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Garmin Forerunner 201, Personal Training Without All The JPEGs

‘Training with virtual partners’ isn’t just a euphemism for internet porn anymore, as Garmin’s Forerunner 201 opens up the concept to athletes with a wrist-mounted personal training device with integrated GPS. After setting your virtual partner’s pace and distance, the digital display keeps track of your pace, showing how well you’re doing in the race…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

MSI FX5900XT Keeps Up With ATI 9600XT

HardOCP has a review of the new FX5900XT, a new mid-level card and the first from Nvidia to co-opt ATI’s confusing XT branding (hopefully, to eventual obsolescence). The FX5900XT comes across strong, easily besting Nvidia’s former mid-range part, the FX5700 Ultra, and keeping up with ATI’s 9600XT, its main competitor. Not only that, but the…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Giant(s’) WiFi Hotspot

San Francisco’s ‘SBC Park’ is now offering free WiFi access to Giants’ fans attending games, making the stadium one of the world’s largest 802.11 hot spots. I hope the snack vendors get connected to instant messaging. OMG GIV PNUTZ ROW A SEAT 11!!!1 KTHX Read [via /.]

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Canon’s CP-300, Bilker’s Best Friend

Perfect for the mobile blackmailer, the Canon Card Photo Printer CP-300 is a lightweight portable dye-sublimation unit that can print incriminating pictures in just 85 seconds (coincidentally the average amount of time it takes to be choked to death by a jealous husband). With rechargeable battery pack and direct-from-camera printing, you can hide in even…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Xbox 2 AMD Inside?

While many rumors have earmarked IBM’s Power970 chip (AKA the Apple G5) to provide number crunching duty for Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox 2, Rob Enderle of TechNewsWorld calls that “wishful thinking by a few Apple loyalists.” His guess (tech reporting is hard work!) is that the Xbox 2 will be AMD Inside, with a 64-bit core…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Shiny Shiny SIMKey

Yesterday, TechdigestUK spun off the delightfully named ‘ShinyShiny.TV,’ a ‘For Girls, By Girls (And One Bloke)’ gadget weblog, and from the looks of it they’re getting right down to work. This SIMKey immediately caught my eye. It’s a cheap-looking PDA-like key fob with a port for SIM cards, allowing the transfer and editing of up…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Guest Review: Glenn Reynolds On The Nikon D70

The Nikon folks were supposed to send me a Coolpix 8700 to guest-review for Gizmodo. That never seemed to get off the ground, but as I bought a D70 on my own last week, I’m just reviewing that. I was, briefly, a professional photographer back when Ronald Reagan was President, and my interest in serious…

Tech News GLENN REYNOLDS Mar 31 '04

Throw Away Gadgets

The Beeb has a story that will surely shock your mind: people throw away old gadgets. According to recent studys, 16 to 34-year-olds expect to upgrade their mobiles and DVD players every three years. Over half also admitted to purchasing gadgetry based on what they felt was in fashion at the time. You all know…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

DirectPop Email To SPOT Watches

DirectPop is a POP3-to-MSN Messenger gateway for shooting short messages to those Microsoft SPOT watches, via email instead of an actual Messenger client. DirectPop uses a keyword validation to prevent just anyone from using it as an open spam relay into your watch. It also has the notable distinction of being the first public release…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

Double-Layer DVD Primer

Anandtech has a short but informative primer on the new DVD DL (Double Layer) technology that will be finding its way into our stores (and our hearts) in the next few months. Two standout items: standard DVD-DL capacity is 8.5GB, not 9GB; and manufacturers estimate blank DVD-DL media street price at $5 to $8 a…

Tech News Joel Mar 31 '04

iAudio 4: YAFP, Candyraver Edition

The iAUDIO 4 is yet another flash player (YAFP), but stands out from the pack by the inclusion of a 124-color LED backlight. The iAUDIO 4 can walk through the color list in order or at random as you’re playing music, if you’d like to keep the inside of your pocket disco-y (and lose about…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 31 '04

March 30th 2004

Feel The World’s Pain With WiFi-SM

WiFi-SM is an internet-enabled dermal patch that connects to over 4,500 news sources worldwide, delivering a mild electric shock when matched up with pre-designated keywords like “lethal injection” or “stun baton,” allowing you to share in the pain of the whole world while going about your day. For only $49.99, you can receive the WiFI-SM…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 30 '04

PuTTY SSH Client For Symbian OS

PuTTY, the popular free SSH client, has a new beta version for Symbian OS, allowing encrypted remote terminal access via your Series 60 mobile phone anywhere you have GPRS or other data service. Right now testing is being done mostly on Nokia phones, but a Sony Ericsson P800 version is in the pipe. Input might…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 30 '04

Apple’s iPod Patent Not Thinking Differently Enough

When the news of Apple’s patent application for the iPod surfaced last week, designer Noel Rubin was a little perturbed. Apple’s iPod was released in November of 2001, its interface bearing a striking resemblance to his ‘scrollJET’ project, a Macromedia Shockwave (and later Flash) front end that allows visual hierarchical browsing of filesystems—specifically media file…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 30 '04

Let us help you find what you’re looking for...

Sign up for our newsletters