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Coin-operated cellphone charger

New line of coin-operated cellphone chargers from InfiniTec are coming to America. There are already thousands of these already in China apparently, and they’ll cost about a dollar for ten minutes of charging time and be installed in hotels, food courts, and convenience stores. Guess you need something to fill the empty spaces that are…

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Social Mobiles

A few months ago design firm IDEO won the Grand Prize for its series of five concept cellphones that try to make using phones in public less socially disruptive in the 2002 Media Arts Festival held by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. The concepts are finally finally up on IDEO’s site, with our personal favorite…

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World’s thinnest GSM cellphone

Superthin GSM cellphone from Haier that’s just 12.9mm wide. The P5 also doubles as a digital voice recorder. Oh, and the photo is a bit deceptive, it doesn’t actually have a color screen. Read [Thanks, Gert]

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The Martian NetDrive

This looks like the gadget of our dreams: a totally silent wireless 40GB hard drive called the Martian NetDrive that hooks up to a network via 802.11b and lets any computer in your home access the files stored on it. Works with Mac, PC, and Linux so that everybody can share music, movies, photos, etc.…

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Canon Ixy Digital 400

Nicely designed new digital camera from Canon (the picture at right doesn’t really do it justice). The four megapixel Ixy Digital 400 has a 3x optical zoom lens and comes out in Japan around the end of this month. Read [Translated from Japanese using Babelfish]

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Widescreen 17″ LCD monitor

New widescreen 17″ LCD monitor from Melco. The W17VS-ST has a built-in TV tuner, a high contrast ratio of 600:1, and comes with a remote control. Read [Translated from Japanese using Babelfish]

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Firewire stereo components

New line of Sony digital audio stereo components that come with Firewire ports. Right now connecting a Super Audio CD player to a receiver involves using a whole bunch of RCA cables; the advantage of Firewire is that it replaces all those cables with a single all-digital connection, which results (or at least should result)…

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Anyone attending CeBIT?

Are there any readers attending CeBIT in Hannover later this week that would be interested in covering the trade show for Gizmodo? We’d love it if someone could report back (with lots of pictures) on the best of what they’ve seen in the exhibition halls. Think along the lines of Dave Weinstein’s amazing field report…

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At the forefront

Article all about the latest developments in Japan’s cellphone industry. Among the innovations: Sanyo’s JSAO5, which has a screen that transforms into a mirror at the press of a button; photo sticker machines which connect to cameraphones for printing out stored digital photos; and a new Toshiba cellphone that accepts memory cards. Read [Via I4U]

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Linux-based PDA/phone

The new Linux-based PDA/phone from German company Invair. The Firewalker doesn’t look so great, but it does have tri-band GSM and GPRS, integrated GPS for navigation, Bluetooth, 64MB of RAM, and a slot for SD and MMC memory cards. Oddly though it has a 16-shade grayscale screen, something that seems positively antiquated these days. Read…

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80GB laptop hard drives

Laptops should be getting a bump up in storage capacity soon, with tiny 80GB hard drives coming from Fujitsu and Hitachi. Read

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The Musicphone

Another new cellphone from Siemens, this one with special software that lets you compose your own tunes that you can use as ringtones or swap with friends. The M55 also has a color screen, supports tri-band GSM, and should be out in Europe by June. Read

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Tiny new Siemens cellphone

Tiny new color cellphone from Siemens. The SL55 weighs just 79g and has a keypad that slides away when not in use, shrinking the phone to a length of just 81.6mm. Supports tri-band GSM for voice and GPRS for data connections. Read

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The trade-off: size vs. reception

Apparently as cellphones continue to shrink in size and start putting antennas on the inside rather than on the outside, quality of reception is becoming worse and worse. Research from Ethertronics, a San Diego company that researches antenna capacity and manufacturers mobile-phone antennas, indicates that, all other things being equal, the radio strength of today’s…

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Vaguely unsettling Bluetooth cellphone headset

New earbud Bluetooth headset for cellphones from Samsung with a microphone that picks up the user’s voice directly via the sound resonating through their head: In promotional material released ahead of the show, Samsung said that “when we speak, our heads act as natural resonance chambers. That’s why, for example, singers use earplugs—so they can…

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Vaio teaser campaign: it’s a new wireless laptop

Well we didn’t have to wait all that long to find out what was behind that new teaser campaign from Sony. Turns out it’s a new Vaio laptop, one with lots of wireless connectivity. The Z1, as it’s called, is superslim and has built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, a 1.6GHz processor, up to 512MB of RAM,…

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AOL’s Mystro TV

Looks like AOL is coming out with a TiVo-like television-on-demand digital cable television service called Mystro TV that’ll let you pause live television and that calls up shows that aired previously from a central server, obviating the need for cable subscribers to buy any additional hardware or to remember to program a box to record…

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Thin is in

We love all things thin here at Gizmodo, so for a while now we’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival in the States of Sharp’s superthin Actius MM10 laptop, which has been out in Japan for a few months now. The MM10 is just 0.54-inches thick and just weighs 2.1 pounds, but still has a 15GB…

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Telly

New “home entertainment server” from Interact-TV called Telly that is basically a multimedia PC with an 80GB hard disk with a DVD/CD-RW drive, and that has an Ethernet port so you can stream audio and video to other devices around the house. Also comes with an interactive program guide so that it can also double…

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The Archos Multimedia Jukebox 140

New verson of the Archos Multimedia Jukebox due out next month that’ll be pretty much like the Jukebox 20, but will feature USB 2.0 for file-transfer, an improvement in video quality, and an attachment for recording directly from TV. Read

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Coin-operated cellphone charger

Social Mobiles

World’s thinnest GSM cellphone

The Martian NetDrive

Canon Ixy Digital 400

Widescreen 17″ LCD monitor

Firewire stereo components

Anyone attending CeBIT?

At the forefront

Linux-based PDA/phone

80GB laptop hard drives

The Musicphone

Tiny new Siemens cellphone

The trade-off: size vs. reception

Vaguely unsettling Bluetooth cellphone headset

Vaio teaser campaign: it’s a new wireless laptop

AOL’s Mystro TV

Thin is in

Telly

The Archos Multimedia Jukebox 140

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