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Sneak peek at Motorola’s Smartphone

Some more details and pictures of Motorola’s v700, which is expected to be one of the first cellphones running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system to be released here in the States. The phone will have two displays, a 65,000 color internal one and an external monochromatic one, a mini-USB socket for connecting to a PC, and…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 25

Toyota’s self-parking car

One of the advantages to living in Manhattan is not needing to own a car, but if we ever have to break down and buy a one, we’re getting this: Toyota’s new self-parking car that’s a modified Prius with a rear-mounted camera and a special computer program for parallel parking. Officially debuts next month in…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 25

Hitachi’s 4GB Microdrive

Hitachi is pumping up its Microdrives, those tiny hard drives that fit into a CompactFlash Type II card slot, to 4 gigabytes. And it looks like these’ll actually give CompactFlash some real competition, with a 4GB Microdrive set to retail for about $499, or less than one-third what a 4GB CompactFlash memory card goes for.…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 25

Making TiVo wireless isn’t so easy

Illuminating write-up of the trials and tribulations one TiVo owner experienced when trying to add WiFi to his Series 2 TiVo so that it could update itself over the Internet without having to run an Ethernet cable from the box to the router. It took several different USB WiFi adapters and a heck of a…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 25

The Followit

Yet another creepy new GPS gadget for surreptiously tracking people. The matchbox-sized Followit is designed to be covertly dropped into someone’s bag or attached to their car and can text message you with the location of whoever it is that you’re keeping tabs on. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 25

Sony’s F-828 vs. Canon’s EOS Digital Rebel

Over at Luminous-Landscape.com, Mike Johnston explains why he’s more excited about Sony’s new 8-megapixel F-828 (pictured at right) rather than the new camera that has everyone’s tongues wagging, Canon’s new digital SLR, the EOS 300D, which is known as the EOS Digital Rebel here in the States: The 300D, to me, is a mass-market 10D,…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 25

The Concert Companion

An off-the-shelf Sony Clie loaded with special software so that audience members at classical concerts can figure out what’s going on. It’s one of the more innovative uses for wireless handhelds that we’ve seen: Conceived by former Kansas City Symphony executive Roland Valliere, the Concert Companion displays a sort of musical road map during a…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 25

The week in Gizmodo

In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: Gadgets for surviving the next blackout The SpyFinder The Nokia Music Stand Beating the odds Lukewarm review of the USB cup warmer The stolen Segway culprit The baby translator Toshiba’s iPod killer Canon’s new inexpensive digital SLR SmartID’s WiFi Detector…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 24

ViewSonic’s new V37 Pocket PC

A first look over at BargainPDA at ViewSonic’s new Pocket PC, the V37, which has a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 64MB of Flash ROM, an optional WiFi card, and a slightly better screen than that of its predecessor, the V35. Oddly, it looks like it comes with Pocket PC 2002, rather than the latest…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 23

Where tech is not taking off

We’ve been logging a lot of hours in the air lately, and while we wait patiently for airlines here to finally start offering WiFi inflight, over at PC Magazine, Lance Ulanoff muses wistfully about all the tech that could be found in airplanes these days, but isn’t. To be fair, the cash-strapped airlines (which except…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 23

Gateway’s new game plan

New York Times piece about Gateway’s new focus and the company’s continuing struggles. We’ve been a little skeptical of Gateway’s latest strategy (the third change of course in three years) of trying to become a consumer electronics company rather than just a PC manufacturer. It’s not that we don’t appreciate that they shook up the…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 23

MiTAC’s Mio 8380 vs. Sony Ericsson’s P800

We’d heard that MiTAC’s new Mio 8380 cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system was big, but we didn’t realize it was this big. Someone over at HowardForums.com posted up some pictures placing the Mio 8380 alongside the P800 Sony Ericsson’s P800 which make it abundantly clear just how large the 8380 really is. Fortunately the…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 23

Speak softly

Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Kyungbuk, South Korea have gone and invented something actually useful: a microphone sensitive enough to pick up whispers and smart enough to still filter out background noise. Sooner these start showing up in cellphones the better, we’re tired of people screaming into their handsets in public.…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 22

First Linux phone out

Surely pleasing the Slashdot Set, the first cellphone running Linux is out, at least in Asia. Motorola’s A760 looks a bit like an old school Handspring Treo, has integrated Bluetooth, but lacks both a built-in keyboard or even a numbered keypad for dialing (you gotta use the touchscreen for that). Read [Thanks, Serge]

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 22

The real O.G. – getting Palm’s original Graffiti back

Not too happy that Palm ditched its original Graffiti handwriting recognition software and replaced it with Graffiti 2, which is based on CIC’s Jot software? PalmInfocenter has a guide to how to replace Graffiti 2 with the O.G. It’ll only work with Palm’s running Palm OS 5. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 22

Bush not a gadget freak like us

Not that this is any surprise, but it’s now official: President Bush is not interested in gadgets, at least according to the Washington Post. The president, for example, doesn’t experiment with digital cameras, but a professional White House photographer is always nearby. He doesn’t need to deal with online banking or shopping because his personal…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 22

First home-theater-in-a-box with a DVD recorder

From Panasonic, the first home-theater-in-a-box to come with a DVD recorder. The SC-HT1000, which comes drops next month, is basically their DMR-E100H DVD recorder grafted onto a 5.1-channel home theater system, and can burn both DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 22

SmartID’s WiFi Detector works

There’s been a lot of grumbling (here and elsewhere) about how awful Kensington’s new WiFi Finder is, and how it doesn’t detect closed networks or 802.11g, or distinguish between cordless phones and WiFi. Well, we’ve been playing with the other WiFi detector out there, the WFS-1 from SmartID, and can attest that it works pretty…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 22

Another Japanese robotic suit

Ok, so wait a second. So there are now TWO different Japanese groups working on robotic suits? Besides the powered exoskeleton from Active Link that we reported on back in June, there’s now also the HAL-3 (Hybrid Assistive Leg), which is a joint-venture between Mitsui and Co. and thirty other Japanese companies. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 22

Rumors of a new Motorola cameraphone

Rumors of a new tri-band GSM/GPRS cellphone from Motorola. The phone, code-named Chopin, is said to have a clamshell design and a built-in digital camera. No word on what operating system it’ll be running. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 21

Sneak peek at Motorola’s Smartphone

Toyota’s self-parking car

Hitachi’s 4GB Microdrive

Making TiVo wireless isn’t so easy

The Followit

Sony’s F-828 vs. Canon’s EOS Digital Rebel

The Concert Companion

The week in Gizmodo

ViewSonic’s new V37 Pocket PC

Where tech is not taking off

Gateway’s new game plan

MiTAC’s Mio 8380 vs. Sony Ericsson’s P800

Speak softly

First Linux phone out

The real O.G. – getting Palm’s original Graffiti back

Bush not a gadget freak like us

First home-theater-in-a-box with a DVD recorder

SmartID’s WiFi Detector works

Another Japanese robotic suit

Rumors of a new Motorola cameraphone

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