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How to spend your spring break this year

Perhaps grossly miscalculating what college students like to do on their spring breaks, Hewlett-Packard is sponsoring a treasure hunt in which participants receive clues on iPAQ h1910 Pocket PCs. It gets better though: HP will conduct a tech fair on the beach at its own “Cyber Smoothie Shack,” where students will be able to test-drive…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

Sony PCV-W20

New updated version of the VAIO W, Sony’s unusual all-in-one desktop with a fold out keyboard and a nice built-in 15.3″ widescreen LCD monitor. The main difference between the PCV-W20 and the PCV-W10 is a bump up in processor speed to 1.8GHz. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

Sharp’s new LCD is very sharp

Beautiful new 19″ LCD monitor from Sharp that’s just 22.5 mm thick, and has an extremely high contrast ratio of 700:1. Let’s just say that you’ve probably never laid eyes on an LCD with a contrast ratio that high. Read [Translated from Japanese using Babelfish]

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

The convenience revolution

Our old buddy Stewart Alsop is very pleased with the new breed of cellphones like the Motorola T720 (pictured at right), and the Samsung A500, which connect to the Internet using higher-speed data networks like GPRS and CDMA 1xRTT, and thinks they’re going to lead to what he calls “the convenience revolution”. Read Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

Rescue baseballs

Researchers at Penn State have figured out how to implant microphones and transmitters into baseballs, which can then be tossed into collapsed buildings to make it easier to listen for signs of life and detect survivors. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

Amazon sale on Linksys wireless gear

Always popular with the young people, Amazon is having a big sale on all Linksys wireless networking gear. Just make sure you stay from the WPC wireless card, which is crap. Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

Canon’s new digital SLR

Details emerging on the 10D, Canon’s new digital SLR camera. It’ll have the same six megapixel sensor as its predecessor, the D60, perform better in low light, and write to disk much faster so you don’t have to wait so long between photos. Read [Via PhotographyBlog]

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

High-definition audio on the PC

Intel is working on a new standard for high-definition audio on PCs that’s code-named “Azalia”. Means eventually most PC soundcards will be able to handle to playing DVD-Audio and Super Audio CDs. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

The Intel Windows Powered Smartphone

Word of another cellphone powered by Microsoft’s new Smartphone OS, this one from Wistron, that confusingly doesn’t run the same exact version of Smartphone as its predecessors, but rather a new variant called Intel Windows Powered Smartphone that incorporates Intel’s new Personal Internet Client Architecture. Sadly, no explanation of what that is appears in the…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 25

More on the Matrix phone

A press release with bit more on the Matrix phone and some more pictures. Looks like the phone will have a 65,000 color LCD screen and an ear piece that slides open automatically at the touch of a button. It’s hard to tell the actual size, but it looks a bit bulky from the pics.…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

Fashion phones

While we wouldn’t mind owning a Vertu, that $20,000 cellphone made of platinum and sapphires, the new line of Xelibri “fashion” cellphones from Siemens look horrid and demonstrate rather conclusively that no one should turn to a big German conglomerate for their fashion accessories. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

Poor little TiVo

This might come as a surprise, but TiVo isn’t the number one digital video recorder. Despite getting a ringing endorsement from FCC chairman Michael Powell (he called it “God’s machine”), successfully insinuating itself as a generic term (like Kleenex), and even getting turned into a verb (like Xerox), the digital video recorder in the greatest…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

Color Blackberry

This almost slipped through the cracks, since the news broke a bit late on Friday evening: Research in Motion has a color Blackberry in the works, though there’s no word on when it’ll hit stores. With a color Hiptop on the horizon, could RIM be feeling the heat? Read

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

First Ogg Vorbis player

It’s been a long time in coming, but the Neuros, which comes out next month, will be the first portable audio player to support playback of music encoded in the open source, royalty-free Vorbis format. Read [Via Slashdot]

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

Nine new digital cameras from Sony

No less than nine new digital cameras out from Sony today: the DSC-V1 (pictured at right) a new five megapixel compact prosumer camera with a 4x Zeiss zoom lens; a bunch of new Cybershot cameras, all with either three or five megapixels, and varying degrees of zoom and support for USB 2.0 and Memory Stick…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

Ask Gizmodo

After getting some helpful advice from Gizmodo the other day in his quest for a handheld PC that combined WiFi with a cellphone, Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous blog suggests that we should start a help column. Given the enormous volume of mail we’ve been getting lately with requests for gadget-related tips and advice, that sounds…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

External battery pack for the iPod

One of the least discussed downsides of the iPod (and yes there are some) is its battery life, which dwindles from ten or eleven hours on purchase to as little as two hours after about a year of use. There’s no way to replace the battery either, though Apple will cut you a break of…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

First Bluetooth car

Spectrum on the ten most technically sophisticated cars of the year, including the 9-3 from Saab, the first car to come equipped with Bluetooth, making it possible to connect a Bluetooth-headset or wireless PDAs and laptops to the car’s built-in cellphone. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

What is the Matrix phone?

Tying in with the forthcoming Matrix sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, Samsung is coming out with a Matrix-themed cellphone. Like the sequel itself, Samsung is keeping the phone shrouded in mystery, and so far hasn’t released any info about the phone or when or where it might be sold. If the phone is a hit (and…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

A USB toothbrush. Seriously.

Could someone please explain why in the hell anyone would need an electric toothbrush that can plug into the USB port of a computer? Is it to power the toothbrush, since a USB port can be used to power some gadgets? Could anyone going to Japan soon please pick one of these up for us?…

Tech News Gizmodo Feb 24

How to spend your spring break this year

Sony PCV-W20

Sharp’s new LCD is very sharp

The convenience revolution

Rescue baseballs

Amazon sale on Linksys wireless gear

Canon’s new digital SLR

High-definition audio on the PC

The Intel Windows Powered Smartphone

More on the Matrix phone

Fashion phones

Poor little TiVo

Color Blackberry

First Ogg Vorbis player

Nine new digital cameras from Sony

Ask Gizmodo

External battery pack for the iPod

First Bluetooth car

What is the Matrix phone?

A USB toothbrush. Seriously.

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