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Dealzmodo: 12-Percent Off at Best Buy

I’m straying away from my traditional Dealzmodo items to give you folks a chance at saving 12-percent off at Best Buy. As always there are a couple specifications—you have to use the coupon with a Best Buy RewardZone card and some brand names like Bose, KEF and Apple are excluded. Just sign up for the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Nov 1

Microsoft and the Case of the 1080p Sony Hijinks

If you recall, yesterday Microsoft released the latest update for the 360, this was the long awaited update that added 1080p capabilities to the console. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-live-update-hits-your-living-room-211465 After a day of testing there are some particular strange things going on. People on the AVS forum are reporting that 1080p is not working with component or VGA…

Tech News Travis Hudson Nov 1

David “Fingers” Haynes: Virtuoso Button Pushing

The minute you start thinking you’re pretty fast and furious with the button pushing, take a look at David “Fingers” Haynes, wailing away on his old beat-up-looking Alesis HR-16B drum machine. He’s using that box to trigger sounds from a Yamaha DTXTREME 2S electronic percussion system. Great musicianship, showing us that the medium doesn’t matter…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 1

Nintendo Names Wii’s Virtual Console Games

Part of the Wii’s cool factor comes from its ability to play old school games via its virtual console and now thanks to the guys at 1Up, we have a first look at Nintendo’s line up. Games will be bought using Wii points, with NES games going for 500 points and SNES games (all two…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Nov 1

Sony VGN-N17L: Walks Like a MacBook, Talks Like a MacBook…

Sony appears to be the latest company to rip Apple off according to a few released pictures of its VGN-N17L Vaio laptop. A quick glance reveals a similarity to the MacBook/MacBook Pro, which I’m sure Sony would just chalk up to coincidence. It has a 15.4-inch display and, uh, a keyboard. (Specs haven’t been released,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Nov 1

Samsung SGH-X830: Nano Clone + Phone

Check out this swiveling MP3 phone from Samsung, the SGH-X830, which is so tiny it would be easy to lose in your pocket. It’s about the size and shape of an iPod nano but thicker. You can swivel the screen around to reveal its phone keypad, whose keys are arranged in an unconventional two-by-two layout.…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 1

Fatboy Speakers Are Big and Proud

Most companies tend to go with slim, unobtrusive peripherals that sit delicately by your desktop. Not Fatboy. Their new Fatboy speakers are big and proud of it. Each monitor is suited in a panther-black coat of Kevlar and can pump out 35 watts of sound. We typically don’t like fatties, but being one ourselves, we’re…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Nov 1

New LG Chocolate 2 Still Uses Dumb Touch Buttons

Just a few days after releasing a white version of its Chocolate cellphone in the U.S., LG has unveiled the cellphone’s successor, the KE800. Destined to be referred to as the Chocolate 2 or the Chocolate Platinum, the cellphone sports a number of improvements over its predecessor, save for one problem: it still uses those…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Nov 1

Colorful Sony PSPs On the Way

You can have your Sony PlayStation Portable in any color you want, as long as it’s black. Until later this month, that is. We’ve heard rumblings of the pink PSP, and now we know that’s due on November 22. We’re also hearing that Sony plans to start rolling out other colors, up to five in…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 1

Sony Vaio G1: Sub 2-Pounder, Carbon Fiber Goodness

Sony’s smashed the 2-pound barrier with its Sony Vaio G1, a 1.98-pound carbon fiber laptop that the company calls “the lightest fully usable notebook ever produced.” Despite that feather weight, it still has a 12.1-inch display, 1.5GB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive. Unfortunately, its 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo processor isn’t going to set…

Tech News Charlie White Nov 1

LightSnake USB Intelligent Microphone Cable Performs XLR Alchemy

Look at those pretty lights inside the connectors on either end of this 10-foot LightSnake USB intelligent microphone cable. They light up when it’s performing its alchemy, using an embedded analog-to-digital converter to change those analog signals emitted from high quality microphones with XLR connectors into the digital data that only a Mac or PC…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 1

Logitech Alto Keyboard Puts Laptops at Eye Level

I use a laptop exclusively. My hunched over posture shows irrefutable proof of this. The Alto is a Logitech combination keyboard and laptop perch that puts the screen at eye level, so you can keep on computing with perfect spinal alignment. The USB keyboard has a full layout, including media keys and a numeric keypad.…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 1

Best of Gizmodo

•Sanyo Eneloopy, the Dog-Gone Battery Tester •Stripy Speakers Rotate, Glow •Razer Tarantula Keyboard Reviewed (Verdict: Gives Your Gaming Some Bite) •Sanyo Rolls Out Eneloop Solar Charger, Rechargeable Heater •Saitek Suits Up Mouse with Touch-sensitive Scrolling https://gizmodo.com/sanyo-eneloopy-the-dog-gone-battery-tester-211270 Comment of the Day: BananaGuard “I already think its funny when people eat bananas, because in all their falic-ness,…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 31

Other Bits and Bytes

•Vista licensing also limits benchmarking [InfoWorld] •Google snaps up JotSpot [Ars Technica] •Wired Digital Acquires Reddit [Wired] •MySpace Acts To Halt Music Piracy [Broadband Reports] •Sony woes deepen with PS3 launch numbers cut by 20 percent in Japan [Krunker]

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 31

Ridiculously Beautiful: Japan’s INFOBAR2 Cellphone

Jean Snow stopped by the KDDI Design Studio and got an eyeful in the form of these beautiful bar phones. Large, squarish buttons in a grid, flush to a curved surface that looks to be as comfortable to hold in the hand as a piece of fruit. Good design is easy, in retrospect. Handsets in…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 31

HTC Herald Reviewed (Verdict: Thin and Awesome)

Not that we can read this review (it’s in Polish, and there are no decent Polish -> English translations that we can find), but this HTC Herald review looks promising. The Herald is the successor to the TyTN Wizard, featuring similar features in a thinner package. The accompanying video is also pretty neat. There’s now…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 31

Cingular Treo 750 in the Wild

Boy genius as a shot of the upcoming Cingular Treo 750, a Windows Mobile 5-powered smartphone from Palm. The phone looks just about the same as the European version, and is making the rounds with Cingular support teams—probably where BG got this shot. Unfortunately, it seems like the Cingular version of the phone is quite…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 31

Xbox 360 Live Update Hits Your Living Room

If you haven’t already, go grab your Xbox 360 Dashboard update now. With it brings 1080p support over component and VGA, HD DVD player support, WMV streaming from WMP11, file playback from external storage, and much much more. Check out the big list of updates after the jump. New Features HD 1080p video mode support…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 31

Saitek Suits Up Mouse with Touch-sensitive Scrolling

A cross between Apple’s Mighty Mouse and Motorola’s PEBL, the Obsidian is Saitek’s most fashionable mouse to date. Its got a 1,000 dpi resolution and ditches a scroll wheel for touch-sensitive scrolling. The horizontal charging dock can simultaneously charge your mouse and a spare battery making sure your mouse never goes hungry. We’ve never been…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Oct 31

Motorola Making RAZR-based Linux Smartphone

Seen in this fuzzy slide off some guy’s undoubtedly boring presentation, Motorola seems to be preparing a Linux-based RAZR PDA-phone sometime this decade. We already know how Motorola likes Linux for various phones, so it’s not out of the question for them to slap a version into a RAZR, pat themselves on the ass (no…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 31

Dealzmodo: 12-Percent Off at Best Buy

Microsoft and the Case of the 1080p Sony Hijinks

David “Fingers” Haynes: Virtuoso Button Pushing

Nintendo Names Wii’s Virtual Console Games

Sony VGN-N17L: Walks Like a MacBook, Talks Like a MacBook…

Samsung SGH-X830: Nano Clone + Phone

Fatboy Speakers Are Big and Proud

New LG Chocolate 2 Still Uses Dumb Touch Buttons

Colorful Sony PSPs On the Way

Sony Vaio G1: Sub 2-Pounder, Carbon Fiber Goodness

LightSnake USB Intelligent Microphone Cable Performs XLR Alchemy

Logitech Alto Keyboard Puts Laptops at Eye Level

Best of Gizmodo

Other Bits and Bytes

Ridiculously Beautiful: Japan’s INFOBAR2 Cellphone

HTC Herald Reviewed (Verdict: Thin and Awesome)

Cingular Treo 750 in the Wild

Xbox 360 Live Update Hits Your Living Room

Saitek Suits Up Mouse with Touch-sensitive Scrolling

Motorola Making RAZR-based Linux Smartphone

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