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Amplify Your Opinions, America!

Hey guy! What you have to say is important! Don’t let the naysayers keep you from expressing your opinions! It’s your God-given right as an American! To express your opinions, that is! This waistband speech amplifier makes you heard for up to 50 meters! In America, we call meters yards, if I understand it correctly!…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jan 5

CES 2007: Olympus Digital Voice Recorders Double as DAPs

Olympus rolls out an improved line of digital voice recorders that double as digital audio players, and we’re liking their detachable stereo microphones and 44.1kHz recording capability. Voice menus make them easier to use, too, and their updated software makes downloading music and RSS podcast feeds a cinch. The DS recorder line will be available…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 5

BlackBerry 8800 (or 8900c?) Spotted in the Wild

Businessmen, lobbyists and compulsive e-mail checkers take note: the BlackBerry 8800 is now out in the wild. Word first hit last fall about the existence of this new BlackBerry with integrated trackball. There’s a bit of controversy, though, as some people claim that this is actually the BlackBerry 8900c rather than the 8800. Either way,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 5

Concept Umbrella Plays Music for Some Reason

In theory having an umbrella that can play music would be nice, especially with clever touches like fast forwarding and rewinding by twisting the handle. But think about it… how long do you ever hold an umbrella open at any given time? Enough to listen to one song? Maybe two or three? Furthermore, I might…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jan 5

LG Brings HD DVD/Blu-ray Combo Drive to Your PC

Just when we thought our living rooms would be the only places to benefit from that Blu-ray/HD DVD love that LG surprised us with yesterday, news comes of a new LG drive that will let us play both flavors of high definition discs on our PCs (along with traditional DVDs). As if that weren’t enough,…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 5

Cowon A2 and Q5 PMPs Details Leak: HSDPA, Touch Screen and More

Cowon is all set to make a big splash at CES next week and some details on a few of portable media players expected to be shown off are starting to leak out. First, there’s the A3 (pictured here), which we already knew about last year. Now we know that it will come Davinci, a…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 5

Cutesy Emotibud Earbud Set Could Get You Laid

Okay you he-men, this cute shit is not for you, but maybe there’s some girlie-girl in your life who would like to have this Emotibud Earbud Set. Thoughtfulness coupled with cutesy sensitivity does have its rewards. Plunk down your $16 and you get four pairs of these gummy thingamajigs that hook up to your ear…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 5

XCM Cable Hooks Up Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 and PS2

If you’re lucky enough to have an Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 and PS2 or any combination of those, this XCM XFPS 360 multicomponent cable v2 can hook you up. Just flip a switch and you can toggle between all of your machines, you spoiled brat. Your next assignment: play games on all four machines at…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 5

Hitachi Promises 1TB Hard Drive for 2007

Hitachi plans to release a 3.5-inch hard drive with a 1TB (one terabyte) capacity sometime in the first half of 2007, or The Double-O Seven as I like to call it. (The company, apparently, can’t keep a promise, since they originally claimed that it’d have one last year.) This massive hard drive will be christened…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 5

Cobra XRS R9G GPS Radar Detector: Fights the Man by Dodging Red Light Cams

Here’s a gadget for those who learned to drive by watching Mad Max. Cobra’s latest radar detector picks up on standard radar and laser guns used by The Man in speed enforcement. But it also has a GPS and a database of known speed traps and red light cameras. That’s good for slowing down before…

Tech News Brian Lam Jan 5

iLuv iPod Dock Brings the Bluetooth Love

At first this iPod dock looks a lot like many others, but the iLuv i199 Hi-Fi Audio System with BluePin Technology has an intriguing characteristic that sets it apart: its Bluetooth connectivity lets you stream music to or from your Bluetooth-enabled laptop, cellphone or MP3 player. It has clock radio functions that lull you to…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 5

VAF Sound Wall

Those aren’t Ikea blocks you’re staring at. Those are speakers. I wonder what happens to the wine glasses when you pump some Def Leopard through them at eleven. They’re about 2 feet per side, and less than 5 inches deep. And I they come in colors other than salmon, in sub, standard and “acoustic treatment…

Tech News Brian Lam Jan 5

Garmin Astro: Track Dogs, Peoples, Younger Siblings

While designed to track hunting dogs, the new Garmin Astro, which displays the exact location of its wireless transmitter(s) on its receiver/mapscreen, simply screams to be used in ways other than originally intended. Small enough to attach to a dog’s collar, the transmitters can therefore be attached to the wimpiest of humans. So instead of…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jan 5

Apple Keynote 2007: Speculation that iTunes will Snag Song Lyrics

Gracenote, which provides all of that fancy information about CDs when you pop them into your computer and play (or rip) them in iTunes and other players, has a lyric service in the pipeline set to launch in “early 2007” after inking deals with several record labels to license song lyrics. Interestingly, the press release…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 5

Garmin 580 GPS: Can Grab Movie Times, Weather, Traffic, and Gas Prices

When we spotted that Garmin Nuvi 680 a few weeks ago, with its MSNDirect data-over-FM service, we didn’t think it would be the only one to get bits of useful data from the airwaves. Here’s the car focused c580. https://gizmodo.com/garmin-nuvi-670-gps-with-msndirect-for-weather-traffic-217857 It does the head-of-its-class GPS navigation that all Garmins do. But like the 680, it…

Gadgets Brian Lam Jan 4

Dealzmodo: Creative Xmod MP3 Enhancer For $49

The normal price for the Creative Xmod is $80. Fry’s.com has it for $49. Get it and make your Journey songs sound like they did back in ’84. https://gizmodo.com/creative-xmod-promises-to-make-your-crappy-mp3s-sound-b-204903 Product Page [Frys – Thanks Ryan] Closer Look [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/a-closer-look-at-the-sound-enhancing-creative-xmod-206268

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 4

Octavio 1 High-End Zune Speakers From VAF

Retailing at $499, the Octavio 1 is the most expensive Zune speaker system we’ve seen yet. At twice the price of the actual Zune unit, the Octavio 1 can hook up a Zune, TV, game console, or DVD player and combines an 8-inch bass driver, two 5.25-inch woofers and 2 fluid-damped fabric dome tweeters all…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 4

Fujifilm Finepix A610 and A800 Low-end Digicams

Designed for beginners and cheapskates, the A800 and A610 have 8- and 6-megapixel sensors and come at a price of $179 and $129, respectively. They both have 3x optical zoom, but the A800 has an ISO range of 100-800, whereas the A610 only has 100-400. Both have a 2.5-inch LCD display and support SD and…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 4

Microtek Unveils Thrifty Plasmas

Microtek’s debuting two lines of plasma TVs at CES this year. Their two higher-end Cineon-branded plasmas come in a piano-black finish and are available in 42-inch and 50-inch sizes. The 42-inch has a single large base (left) whereas the 50-inch has two legs (right). Prices on their website—for what we’re guessing are older models—are $1,599…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 4

Apple Keynote 2007: Apple iLife Rumored to Get TV/DVR Functions?

While everyone in the blogosphere has been focusing on what kind of hardware his Steveness will blind us with at next week’s Macworld, the folks at T3 have quietly picked up on a potential leak via an Amazon placeholder. Apparently, Apple plans on rolling out an upgraded version of iLife 07 next week, but the…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 4

Amplify Your Opinions, America!

CES 2007: Olympus Digital Voice Recorders Double as DAPs

BlackBerry 8800 (or 8900c?) Spotted in the Wild

Concept Umbrella Plays Music for Some Reason

LG Brings HD DVD/Blu-ray Combo Drive to Your PC

Cowon A2 and Q5 PMPs Details Leak: HSDPA, Touch Screen and More

Cutesy Emotibud Earbud Set Could Get You Laid

XCM Cable Hooks Up Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 and PS2

Hitachi Promises 1TB Hard Drive for 2007

Cobra XRS R9G GPS Radar Detector: Fights the Man by Dodging Red Light Cams

iLuv iPod Dock Brings the Bluetooth Love

VAF Sound Wall

Garmin Astro: Track Dogs, Peoples, Younger Siblings

Apple Keynote 2007: Speculation that iTunes will Snag Song Lyrics

Garmin 580 GPS: Can Grab Movie Times, Weather, Traffic, and Gas Prices

Dealzmodo: Creative Xmod MP3 Enhancer For $49

Octavio 1 High-End Zune Speakers From VAF

Fujifilm Finepix A610 and A800 Low-end Digicams

Microtek Unveils Thrifty Plasmas

Apple Keynote 2007: Apple iLife Rumored to Get TV/DVR Functions?

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