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Sears Black Friday Ad Leaked

Psst. Looking to see the gadgety side of Sears on Black Friday? Look no further, as the Sears’ Black Friday ads have been leaked online. We see some fairly decent deals here, like the 42-inch Toshiba 42HP66 Widescreen Plasma for $1,199, the 42-inch Magnavox LCD for $1,359.99, some DVDs for $5.99, and some Kodak EasyShare…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Ghost Mouse

Just in time for Halloween—2007, that is—this Ghost Mouse from Pat Says Now is shaped like a mouse and has two ghosty buttons for you to click on. It’s also got a scroll wheel, but face it, you’re not buying this mouse for the features. But really, what kind of person would buy this mouse?…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Microsoft Was/Still Planning On Rewarding Zune Sharing?

Remember the rumor that the Zune will pay you for sharing a song that someone ends up buying? Well, that rumor was squashed by Cesar, the pants wearing blogger last week. Not so fast, says a reader who uncovered a whitepaper from Microsoft detailing their possible foray into “off-line economies for digital media.” https://gizmodo.com/rumor-zune-to-pay-you-for-sharing-songs-209767 In…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Other Bits & Bytes

•New Windows attack can kill firewall [InfoWorld] •MySpace Gets Tough on Copyrighted Music [Beta News] •MTV acquires video game developer Harmonix [TG Daily] •Finland convicts 22 in file sharing case [The Register] •Nanotube Computing Breakthrough [Technology Review]

Tech News Gizloco Oct 30

Sidekick 3 LRG Limited Edition Unboxing

An SF Gizmodo reader sends in this unboxing of his Sidekick 3 to us with some additional news. Apparently, they’ve only made 1000 of these SK3s total—500 green and 500 black. The SF store on Powell and Market only had 10 of the LRGs and 10 of the Diane von Furstenbergs. What’s also interesting is…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Why the PS3 Needs Lots of Power

A bit of investigative reporting on why the PS3 needs 380 watts of power to fire up. PS3 Twice as Power-Hungry as XBox 360 [Giz] https://gizmodo.com/ps3-twice-as-power-hungry-as-xbox-360-211005

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 30

Charlie White, A-List Blogger, Gets Interviewed

Our lovely Charlie White, the internet blogebrity that he is, took time to do an interview with Associated Content. In it, he talks about eating frog legs, waking up at six in the morning, how Giz is like broadcast news, and where the blogosphere is heading in the future. In many ways Charlie White described…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Casio Calms Quivering Hands with New Exilims

We’ve always been fans of Casio’s Exilim cameras (they’re great cams for our Luddite family members) and now it seems Casio is updating the family with a 7-megapixel Exilim EX-Z7 and a 6-megapixel EX-Z6. Both cams are gonna be fitted with a 2.5-inch LCD and 3x optical zoom and if you have quaky hands like…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Oct 30

E-TEN X500 is the World’s Thinnest Pocket PC Phone

At 15.5mm (0.61 inches), the E-TEN X500 is the thinnest Windows Mobile Pocket PC edition phone so far, from any company. The phone runs on a 400MHz Samsung processor, has EDGE, 802.11b/g, GPS support, a 2-megapixel camera, and Bluetooth 2.0. There’s no slide-out keyboard, unfortunately, so that puts this phone in the same category as…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Coleco’s Sonic Handheld Plays Sega Games

Coleco owners have a certain fondness for the ColecoVision console of the 80s, despite the fact that it eventually went under. That makes us fairly intrigued when we see that Target is accepting pre-orders for a Coleco Sonic Handheld, a small PSP-like device that plays Sega games. SEGA! https://gizmodo.com/sizemodo-playstation-3-vs-colecovision-209866 All the games are built in,…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Maxian D900 PMP is All That, Bag’o’Chips

The folks at dapreview managed to wrangle up the spec list for the Maxian D900 PMP, and we must say, it is mighty impressive. This PMP runs has a 4.3-inch touch-sensitive LCD, Wi-Fi, SD/MMC expandability, s-video out, DMB, integrated speakers, mic and support for all WMV, DivX, XviD, H.264, MPEG-2, MP3, AC3, OGG, FLAC, APE…

Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 30

Point: How is TiVo Doing After Launching Series 3?

By Brian L. Clark As much as we like TiVo and its new player, the company needs to face reality: Production shortages and an extraordinarily high price have plagued the Series 3’s release. How are they selling? No sales figures are available for public consumption, but there are lots of other ways to tell how…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 30

iHome iHM1B Portable Speakers For 1G iPod nano: Isn’t That iPod Dead?

For a paltry sum of $30, you can plug your spiffy, first generation iPod nano into this iHome iHM1B really small speaker (system?). Like every other gadget, it’s “sleek” and “perfect” for the home, office… wherever! The speaker sports SRS TruBass to give the illusion of bass, super sweet stereo sound and a water-resistant carrying…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Oct 30

Silver PlayStation 2 Officially Announced

Despite the PS3 and Wii consoles being oh-so-close to launching for our greedy little faces, there are actually pretty decent PS2 games due out in the next year. That’s why Sony’s announcing the release of a limited edition Silver PS2, which will retail for $130 and come with one DualShock controller. If your PS2 is…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

LG Gives TV the Midas Touch

If that 100-inch LCD we showed you before wasn’t gaudy enough for your taste buds, here’s a glimpse at LG’s new gold-framed plasma. The 71-inch TV delivers full HD (1080p) and is plated with 24-karat gold. At $132,000 it’ll cost you your entire family’s life savings (and probably your neighbor’s savings too), but who needs…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Oct 30

Lifehacker Book Now Available for Pre-Order

Our blogging cohorts at Lifehacker are releasing a book! The book is appropriately titled: Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day. If you enjoy reading Lifehacker this may be the perfect book for your collection. I’ll let Amazon explain it for those of you who are still reading this but have no clue what…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 30

Electronic Voting Machines Vulnerable To Foreign Influence?

Could it be that those evil Venezuelans are trying to screw with our electronic voting machines, the same machines that we use to elect our fine leaders? That’s what U.S. federal investigators are trying to determine after learning that company that makes the software running the electronic voting machines are from Venezuela. No conclusions yet,…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Oct 30

Dealzmodo: 19-inch Wide Hanns-G LCD, $160 Out-the-door

It’s a Twofer Tues…Monday! This is one hell of a deal from Office Depot. They are offering the Hanns-G GW191D 19-inch widescreen LCD monitor for $160 out-the-door. No rebates, no BS, just the LCD for cheap. https://gizmodo.com/dealzmodo-30-percent-off-dell-inspiron-notebooks-211029 The GW191D has a 1440 x 900 native resolution, 5ms response time, 300 cd/m2 brightness, 700:1 contrast ratio,…

Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 30

allTunes MP3 Knob

Despite being more than little bit similarity to the Griffin PowerMate knob (I have one sitting on my desk), the allTunes MP3 knob is made for MP3 playback, unlike the PowerMate’s general purpose volume adjusting. Press down to play/pause, twist the outer knob for track forward/back and twist the inner knob for volume adjustment. https://gizmodo.com/powermate-5576…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 30

Audioengine A5 Reviewed (Verdict: Diamond in the Rough)

At first glance I was skeptical about the Audioengine A5 bookshelf-style speaker system. But once I received my unit and opened up the box I knew something was a bit different. First and foremost, the individual components were wrapped is cloth bags in the box rather than not wrapped at all or in traditional plastic…

Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 30

Sears Black Friday Ad Leaked

Ghost Mouse

Microsoft Was/Still Planning On Rewarding Zune Sharing?

Other Bits & Bytes

Sidekick 3 LRG Limited Edition Unboxing

Why the PS3 Needs Lots of Power

Charlie White, A-List Blogger, Gets Interviewed

Casio Calms Quivering Hands with New Exilims

E-TEN X500 is the World’s Thinnest Pocket PC Phone

Coleco’s Sonic Handheld Plays Sega Games

Maxian D900 PMP is All That, Bag’o’Chips

Point: How is TiVo Doing After Launching Series 3?

iHome iHM1B Portable Speakers For 1G iPod nano: Isn’t That iPod Dead?

Silver PlayStation 2 Officially Announced

LG Gives TV the Midas Touch

Lifehacker Book Now Available for Pre-Order

Electronic Voting Machines Vulnerable To Foreign Influence?

Dealzmodo: 19-inch Wide Hanns-G LCD, $160 Out-the-door

allTunes MP3 Knob

Audioengine A5 Reviewed (Verdict: Diamond in the Rough)

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