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TVUPlayer Reviewed: Next Headache for TV Nets?

Imagine a system that could potentially bring you any television channel in the world, live. That’s TVUPlayer, peer-to-peer software from TVU Networks in Shanghai, China that lets anyone place a live broadcast signal on the Internet for anyone else to view. The guys at WebTV Hub tried it out, and found it simple to use…

Tech News Charlie White Oct 19

Exclusive: Play PS3 Two Weeks Early

Gizmodo hearts NYC. Why? Because we get invitations like this one sent to us. This is the flyer announcing a sneak-peek PlayStation 3 event that will go from 2PM until midnight on November 1. The people who get in will revel in two hours of sweaty hands-on time with with the most next-gen of all…

Tech News Noah Robischon Oct 19

Office Chair or Robot? You Be the Judge

This “office chair” from Ypsilon looks like it is ready to transform into a kitten-eating robot at any second. All of those knobs and levers don’t morph this thing into a robot, they simply adjust the 10 different setting that can be adjusted. Here be the big list of everything that can be tweaked: seat…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 19

Tangent’s Rugged PC Eats Mac Minis for Lunch

Looking like a cross between a tank and a mini PC, Tangent’s Rugged Mini is the first rugged desktop we’ve laid eyes on. Spec-wise, it’s not as powerful as your average desktop (it runs off an Intel Pentium M or Celeron M), but otherwise its got all the goods you’d find in its bigger counterparts…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Oct 19

Cool Ad: The Street is His Turntable

Here’s an ad for DJ equipment maker Eclectic Breaks for its Pro-X-Fade crossfader. It’s a clever animation that has a pencil-armed DJ manipulating a miniature world from his god-like perch, spinning cars as if they were vinyl, with the street being his turntable and passers-by standing in as the crossover. Nice piece of production work,…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 19

Wall Outlet 2.0: Plug-In Design Minimizes Exposure to Plumber’s Ass

Taking home the Silver in the student design category of the Idea Awards, Plug-In by designer Julia Burke fits in a standard opening for electrical outlets. Its uplifted angle makes it easier to plug things into it, so when you’re bent over to plug something in, unfortunate onlookers won’t have to see your butt crack…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 19

Intel/Yahoo to Tap Quanta For Butt-Ugly New UMPC

According to the briefest morsels of info leaking out of the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, the long-rumored collaboration between Intel and Yahoo to produce their own UMPC device has finally borne fruit in the shape of that rust-colored contraption you see above. The as-yet-unnamed UMPC is to be made by Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese…

Gadgets Jonny Hiratsuka Oct 19

Averatec Dual-Core Laptop a Snip at $849

It seems like nary the blink of an eye since dual-core CPUs were the hottest ticket in town with all their fancy cutting-edge newness and yet here they are in budget laptops going for a hefty chunk less than $1,000 already. Averatec’s latest 4lb, 12.1-inch laptop, the Averatec 2300, features a 1.6GHz dual-core AMD Turion…

Tech News Jonny Hiratsuka Oct 19

Logitech Buys Slim Devices, Promises Autonomy

Late last night saw one of our favorite companies spring quite the surprise when Slim Devices announced that it had been bought by peripherals monster Logitech. https://gizmodo.com/slim-devices-transporter-exclusive-first-look-at-the-u-189484 The company responsible for such streaming-audio goodness as the Transporter and Squeezebox is set to suckle from the Logitech marketing teat in a bid to bring its high-end…

Gadgets Jonny Hiratsuka Oct 19

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Tech News Charlie White Oct 18

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Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 18

Own GOB’s Segway

Although buying a Segway signifies you have more money than you know what to do with (and a forgiving wife), buying GOB’s Segway from Arrested Development signifies you have great taste in television. The Segway’s only at $2,500 now, but when AD fans get ahold of this expect to pay upwards of $10,000. How will…

Gadgets Jason Chen Oct 18

VidaBox Creates HD DVD/Blu-ray Sandwich

We’ve pretty much had it with the whole HD DVD vs Blu-ray war, but if you’ve got your heart set on owning both formats, the VidaBox Dual HD Lux and Dual HD Max are the first Media Center PCs that can be configured with both flavors inside making for one tasty PC. The machines can…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Oct 18

Flashlight Pong

Something we’d either need to be really bored or really drunk to think of—these guys rigged up a screen with light sensors so they can play Pong with flashlights. Next up, Halo 2 with a miner’s helmet. Project Page [Diaplsy22 via TechEBlog]

Gadgets Jason Chen Oct 18

Microscope Cellphone Strap

Cellphones are getting smaller, no doubt. And screens? Sharper. So one day soon we’ll all need this little microscope cellphone strap just to read our text messages. Does up to 15x magnification. I want this thing, esp as my eyes fade into mole-vision from blogging 18 hours a day. Microscope Cellphone Strap [TokyoMango]

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 18

Sony’s Ultra HD 4K Projector Isn’t Quite 4K

First covered by us way back in the Johnson administration, the Sony Silicon X-tal Reflective Display (SXRD) technology gives projectors a max resolution of 4096 x 2160, which if you do the math, is 8.8 megapixels. Their newest projector using this technology is the SRX-S110, a device more at home in professional workspaces than actual…

Gadgets Jason Chen Oct 18

SMS Earthquake Alert; Letting You Know There’s Only Seconds to Live by Cellphone

Having lived in San Francisco for the last four years I thought that by now I would have gotten my first decent earthquake out of the way. But alas, I am still an earthquake virgin. So I walk around with the question looming in my head, “When will it hit & then what the hell…

Tech News Ben Longo Oct 18

Indoor Plantwall Puts Bloggers Back in Touch with Nature

Bloggers don’t get much sunlight in their day-to-day routine, so this plant wall is about as close as we’ll get to “being outside.” Created by the folks at Green Fortune, the wall can be custom made to fit any space (including our bloggy sweatshop downtown) and best of all, it waters and fertilizes itself. That’s…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Oct 18

D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme Draft 802.11n Router

D-Link’s jumping into the Draft 802.11n pool with the DIR-655 Xtreme N router, which has three antennas that are, coincidentally enough, not used for MIMO. The router is supposed to be the first Gigabit Draft N router that has “Intelligent Wireless Quality of Service” technology to prioritize bandwidth, meaning your VoIP calls are of higher…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 18

Ultra Products’ Stackable Peripherals

Having taken the Lego philosophy of design to heart, Ultra Products is releasing a series of peripherals that stack on top of each other to form a tower of technology. Arrangeable in vertical (if you only have one) or horizontal positions, the bricks stack one on top of the other, leaving enough space so that…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 18

TVUPlayer Reviewed: Next Headache for TV Nets?

Exclusive: Play PS3 Two Weeks Early

Office Chair or Robot? You Be the Judge

Tangent’s Rugged PC Eats Mac Minis for Lunch

Cool Ad: The Street is His Turntable

Wall Outlet 2.0: Plug-In Design Minimizes Exposure to Plumber’s Ass

Intel/Yahoo to Tap Quanta For Butt-Ugly New UMPC

Averatec Dual-Core Laptop a Snip at $849

Logitech Buys Slim Devices, Promises Autonomy

Best of Gizmodo

Other Bits and Bytes

Own GOB’s Segway

VidaBox Creates HD DVD/Blu-ray Sandwich

Flashlight Pong

Microscope Cellphone Strap

Sony’s Ultra HD 4K Projector Isn’t Quite 4K

SMS Earthquake Alert; Letting You Know There’s Only Seconds to Live by Cellphone

Indoor Plantwall Puts Bloggers Back in Touch with Nature

D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme Draft 802.11n Router

Ultra Products’ Stackable Peripherals

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