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The Rio Karma vs. the iPod

Just received this photo comparing the new 40GB Rio Karma with an iPod. Probably is not accurate. [Thanks, Gerard]

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 6

Anyone else as unimpressed with Gateway’s new MP3 player as we are? We’re finding it hard to get excited about their new USB Digital Audio Player, which comes in 128MB and 256MB varieties. Sure, it also double as a portable USB key drive and a digital voice recorder, but who can get by on just…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 6

Sony Clie car cradle

An interesting new car cradle for Sony’s NX80V, NX73V, and TG50 Clie handhelds. The PEGA-CC5 comes with a built-in GPS receiver for in-car navigation and an FM transmitter for listening to MP3 files stored on a Clie on your car stereo. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 6

Two reviews of HP’s iPAQ h1940 Pocket PC

A pair of reviews, one at Brighthand, the other at InfoSync of Hewlett-Packard’s new iPAQ h1940 Pocket PC. Both give high marks to the h1940, which is an updated version of last year’s h1910 model. Just one half-inch thick, the h1940 is one of the thinner Pocket PCs on the market, and has a 3.5-inch…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 6

Motorola and NEC’s WiFi cellphone

And in a similar vein to BT’s BluePhone, Motorola and NEC are working on a WiFi cellphone that makes voice over IP calls when it’s within range of a WiFi network, and then can seamlessly switch over to a cellular network when it’s taken out of range. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

Airlines on the look out for gadgets

In light of the recent discovery of a whole panoply of gadgets in al Qaeda hideouts that had been converted into weapons or bombs (like camera flashes that turned into stun guns), the Department of Homeland Security is issuing a warning to airports to be pay extra close attention to passengers with computer equipment and…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

BT’s BluePhone

UK telecom company BT, which hasn’t been known for its innovativeness lately, has something interesting up its sleeve — a system called BluePhone which will let you use a cellphone to make phone calls over a voice over IP connection when at home, and then connect to cellular networks everywhere else: The handset will make…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

Sharp’s Tablet PC

Sharp’s new Tablet PC is reportedly set to drop here in the US on October 20th. The convertible-style Actius TN10W will have a Centrino 1.1GHz processor, 256MB of RAM (expandable to 768MB), built-in 802.11b, a 30GB hard drive, and a 12.1″ display. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

The cost of divorce by text message

The new penalty for divorcing your wife via text message in Malaysia: $263.12. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

Sony’s new WiFi TVs

A couple of new plasma televisions from Sony with built-in 802.11a. Besides being able to access the Internet or stream video from a PC over a wireless home network, the 50-inch KDE-P50HZ1 and the 42-inch KDE-P42HZ1 also come with a large remote control with a 6-by-3.5-inch LCD display that can also be used to surf…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

CameraFax

Pushing this whole convergence thing a little too far: a new fax machine from Sharp with a 3.1 megapixel digital camera module that can be programmed to snap a picture of your home and then fax it (or email it) to you wherever you are. For the Japanese market only. Read [Via PicturePhoning.com]

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

Holographic keypads

Canesta’s laser-projected virtual keyboard isn’t even out yet, but there’s already a company taking it up a notch with holographic keypads that float in the air: To help demonstrate his invention to potential licensees, Mr. McPheters has set up his laptop so that he can give a Powerpoint presentation without touching the computer, by punching…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

Wireless handheld laser pointer moust

A new wireless handheld mouse from IOGEAR called the Phaser that raises the geekiness quotient to another power by having a built-in laser pointer as well. Hopefully you can guess for yourself why they call it the Phaser, because we’re not going there. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

The FotoBar

Another one of those combination gadgets, this one a standalone USB 2.0 DVD/CD-RW drive that doubles as a Flash memory card reader. Besides functioning as an external drive and card reader for a PC, the FotoBar can be hooked up to a TV and used as either digital photo viewer and or a DVD player,…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 5

WiFi sniffing robot

Spotted at this year’s DefCon hacker convention: a robot which can roam around searching for vulnerable wireless networks. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 4

Video iPods?

Not really any new information here, but MP3 NewsWire speculates that Apple has a video iPod in the works, and that they’ll also introduce some sort of iTunes-like service that sells Quicktime files of feature films so that people will have something to watch on them. It’s certainly a predicatable move for them, but Apple…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 4

Down on Kensington’s WiFi Finder

Is Kensington’s WiFi detector a dog? Apparently there have been legions of complainst about how it doesn’t detect 802.11g networks (like Kensington originally claimed it would), has trouble picking up anything except very strong 802.11b access points, and that it’s designed to ignore encrypted networks. We’ve been playing around with SmartID’s WiFi Detector, and so…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 4

Treo 270 for just $49.99 at Amazon

Probably because the new Treo 600’s are due out in a couple of months, Handspring’s dropped the price of the Treo 270 to just $50 with new service activation. Worth considering if you don’t want to wait a few months for the Treo 600 or don’t want to cough up the $400 or $500 it’s…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 4

4GB CompactFlash memory card

It ain’t cheap (retail price: $1,499), but Lexar has a new four gigabyte CompactFlash memory card out. Let’s pause and think about this for a moment. Four gigabytes is enough to store as many as 45,000 JPEGs, which is probably more photographs than the average person will take in their entire lifetime. Eventually, as camera…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 4

A BlackBerry iPAQ?

Rumor going around that Hewlett-Packard will buy Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry line of wireless handhelds. Not sure exactly what HP would do with RIM once they bought it, but it’s probably safe to assume that they’d add the BlackBerry’s email technology to their iPAQ Pocket PCs. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 4

The Rio Karma vs. the iPod

Gateway’s new MP3 player

Sony Clie car cradle

Two reviews of HP’s iPAQ h1940 Pocket PC

Motorola and NEC’s WiFi cellphone

Airlines on the look out for gadgets

BT’s BluePhone

Sharp’s Tablet PC

The cost of divorce by text message

Sony’s new WiFi TVs

CameraFax

Holographic keypads

Wireless handheld laser pointer moust

The FotoBar

WiFi sniffing robot

Video iPods?

Down on Kensington’s WiFi Finder

Treo 270 for just $49.99 at Amazon

4GB CompactFlash memory card

A BlackBerry iPAQ?

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