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GPS athletic trainer

Refreshingly, a GPS gadget that’s not for tracking your children or significant other; it’s just for tracking yourself. Garmin’s new Forerunner 201 Personal Training System is designed for athletes who want precise data about their performance for training: The Forerunner 201 uses an integrated GPS sensor to measure training time, pace, distance, lap time, lap…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 29 '03

Having problems with Time-Warner’s DVR

Craig over at GearBits says that a friend of his just got the Explorer 8000 from Scientific Atlanta, the combination cable tuner/digital video recorder that Time-Warner Cable is offering to its customers in various locales around the country, and that it’s not so hot: There’s one big difference between the 8000 and your run-of-the-mill TiVo…it…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 29 '03

Solar-powered wireless network camera

It’s not exactly cheap, but there’s a new wireless IP network surveillance camera from Hutton that doesn’t just have built-in wireless, it’s solar powered as well (the idea being it can be set up to keep an eye on places that not only don’t have Ethernet, but don’t have electricty as well). The Solacam, as…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 29 '03

The future of RFID: anti-terror biosensors and RFID blockers

A couple of stories about Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, those miniature radio transmitters with unique identifiers that are supposed to replace UPC barcodes and let retailers track everything. The first, in Wired News, is that while WalMart may have shelved its plans to switch over to RFID (something that would have had HUGE implications…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 29 '03

Highlights from the IFA electronics show

Article in Reuters about the big IFA consumer electronics show going on in Berlin right now. Some of the highlights: vibrating headphones, a cycling jacket with built-in GPS, and most tantalizingly, a stereo system that is supposed to cost more than one million euros. We’re gonna try and get the manufacturer to send us one…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

First review of the Rio Nitrus

The first review we’ve seen of the Nitrus, Rio’s new 1.5GB hard drive MP3 player. Nothing too surprising – the reviewer says that with a retail price of $299, that even though it’s smaller and lighter, the Nitrus is just not a good enough deal compared with the 10GB iPod of the same price. Read…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

Sharp’s 1-bit home theater system

From Sharp, a new home-theater-in-a-box system that features Sharp’s new super high-fidelity 1-bit digital audio technology which uses an extremely high sampling rate. The SD-PX1 comes out in Japan (of course) in November. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

Not easily portable

PC Magazine takes a look at two of those new gargantuan seventeen-inch widescreen laptops that strain the very notion of portability, HP’s Pavilion zd7000 (pictured at right) and Toshiba’s Satellite P25-S507. With each topping out at about 11 pounds, you probably shouldn’t plan on doing much traveling with one of these anytime soon. And in…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

To tell the truth… on a cellphone

AgileMobile says it has a new software application for cellphones that can detect when the person you’re talking to on the phone is lying. Supposedly it can measure the stress that shows up when someone is being less than truthful. We’re sure it works perfectly. Read [Via TechDirt]

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

Sony’s new MiniDV camcorder that doubles as a three megapixel still camera

New MiniDV Handycam digital camcorder from Sony that can also take 3.31 megapixel still photos. The DCR-PC330 has a 10x optical zoom Zeiss lens, Sony’s Super NightShot infrared system for shooting in the dark, and a Memory Stick/Memory Stick PRO slot for saving still images. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

DoCoMo’s proposed 100Mbps 4G cell network

We’re not even close to getting proper 3G wireless here in the States, but not only is Japan’s NTT DoCoMo working on a 14Mbps 3G cellular data network that they hope to deploy within a couple of years, they’re already researching a 100Mbps 4G network that should be ready sometime around 2010. Read [Via Smartphone…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

Smarter Roombas

The Roomba, that robotic vacuum cleaner from iRobot, is getting a bump up in intelligence with two new smarter models: the Roomba Pro (pictured on the left), which can do spot cleaning and focus on cleaning just one specific area, and the Roomba Pro Elite (pictured on the right), which includes the extra capabilities of…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

Setting up your surround sound system

Some tips in this week’s Circuits section of the New York Times for adding surround sound to your home theater, mentioning some of the new systems coming out, like self-configuring setups from Pioneer and Yamaha and systems from Samsung and Niro that can simulate front and rear channel surround sound without actually needing to have…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

GPS III is coming

We weren’t even aware that the current Global Positioning System is actually the second generation of the technology, but the US government is already working on GPS III, which should have better accuracy and higher reliability than the current system, and enable a whole host of new applications. The first GPS III satellites should start…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

Flash memory card guide

Handy little guide to all the different Flash memory card formats out there. Well not all of them, it misses the xD-Picture Card and miniSD formats. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 28 '03

Share and share alike

Nifty, though perhaps unintended, feature of TiVo’s Home Media Option, which is available for Series 2 TiVos: besides being able to use it to stream MP3s and view digital photos stored on your computer, apparently you can also use it to stream MP3s and view digital photos stored on the computers of your friends who…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 27 '03

Nokia’s new lightweight

A new cellphone from Nokia aimed at the Asian, African, and Middle Eastern markets with an unusual, but oddly graceful keypad (whether it’s easy to use or not, we can’t say). The 2300 is a dual-band GSM phone is pretty light (just 92 grams) and has special software for filtering out text message spam. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 27 '03

New Pocket PCs from Dell on October 15th?

Rumor that Dell’s new Axim X3 series of Pocket PCs is set to drop on October 15th. It’s thought that the X3 will be smaller and slimmer than the X5, have an SD expansion card slot, 64MB of RAM, and come in two versions, a 300MHz version and a 400MHz version with either 802.11b or…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 27 '03

The Exilim’s four megapixel Exilim EX-Z4

Oh, and Casio has another upgraded Exilim coming out, this one a four megapixel version of its EX-Z3 camera, the one with the optical zoom lens. The EX-Z4 is almost exactly the same, except for the bump up in resolution from three to four megapixels. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 27 '03

Casio’s Exilim gets smaller

Casio’s superslim Exilim digital camera just got a little bit smaller. Not by much, just 10%, but enough to make a difference. Plus, the new EX-S20 and EX-M20 (pictured from left to right) cameras still have the same two megapixel resolution as their predecessors, the EX-S2 and the EX-M2, and even improve on them with…

Tech News Gizmodo Aug 27 '03

GPS athletic trainer

Having problems with Time-Warner’s DVR

Solar-powered wireless network camera

The future of RFID: anti-terror biosensors and RFID blockers

Highlights from the IFA electronics show

First review of the Rio Nitrus

Sharp’s 1-bit home theater system

Not easily portable

To tell the truth… on a cellphone

Sony’s new MiniDV camcorder that doubles as a three megapixel still camera

DoCoMo’s proposed 100Mbps 4G cell network

Smarter Roombas

Setting up your surround sound system

GPS III is coming

Flash memory card guide

Share and share alike

Nokia’s new lightweight

New Pocket PCs from Dell on October 15th?

The Exilim’s four megapixel Exilim EX-Z4

Casio’s Exilim gets smaller

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