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USB Flash Card is Wafer-Thin, Holds a Gig

This super-skinny USB flash card is improbably thin but still lets you stoke it with lots of your stuff. Kinda like that ho you knew in high school. Thin as a credit card and weighing less than half an ounce, you can get it festooned with some of Brando’s tacky designs for $39 or place…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 27

Pebbles That Glow in the Dark: Radioactive?

Freak out your friends and avoid lawsuits with these glow-in-the-dark pebbles, appearing to be mild-mannered gray rocks by day but glowing with an eerie green radioactive aura for about six hours each night. Get a bag of 350 for $10. Product Page [Collections, Etc., via OhGizmo]

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 27

Bye Bye Wall Warts? Run (Almost) Everything At 12 Volts

Google founder Larry Page is getting sick and tired of inefficient power supplies in servers eating up boatloads of his profits, so he’s calling for home computers and servers to have everything running at 12 volts, eliminating the need for those energy-sucking power supplies inside PCs with their various voltages and lame wastefulness. Begged Page…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 27

Dealzmodo: Samsung Digimax i5 5-megapixel Digicam, $170

Geeks.com has this tiny camera for $170 after some instant savings. It retails for $240 and includes $50 of instant savings and a $20-off coupon code (CAMERADEAL) bringing the final price down to $170. It is an average 5-megapixel digital cam with a 3x optical zoom, video capture, flash, rechargeable batteries and 50MB of included…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Sep 27

Logitech FreePulse Bluetooth 2.0 Headphones Shipping Soon

We told you about how Logitech’s FreePulse Wireless Headphones flew through the FCC approval process with their improved Bluetooth 2.0 specs (3x faster, lower power consumption, simplified multi-link), and now they’re officially out in the open for all to see. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-free-pulse-bluetooth-headphones-pass-fcc-world-202678 We’re just hoping this Bluetooth 2.0 spec performs better than most of the Bluetooth…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 27

T-Mobile Drops Catherine Zeta-Jones, World Weeps

T-Mobile has pulled the worst move ever and decided to drop Catherine Zeta-Jones. T-Mobile said she is being dropped in favor of a more “man-on-street approach to marketing.” Oh, another douchebag who can have a catch-phase. Can I hear you now? No, I can’t—so STFU and give me my Catherine Zeta-Jones back. T-Mobile Readies New…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 27

Nokia Officially Shows 5300 XpressMusic Cellphone

While a few grainy photos were leaked earlier this month, the Nokia 5300 made its official debut last night at a Nokia event in New York. (They even paid Gnarls Barkley to show up for some reason.) Now known as the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic, the music-friendly slider uses microSD cards to expand upon the cellphone’s…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Sep 27

Valleywag Institutes Public Executions of Commenters

Our beloved bloodbrothers at fellow Gawker site Valleywag are getting serious with bullshit commenters, with an easy and final solution: taking them out and shooting them. Well, figuratively. Public executions? We like! Neuro: I like your thinking, not your grammar. You’re fired. Anonymous, it’s against Valleywag policy to purely enjoy the comments of others. Positivity…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 27

Space Invaders Alarm Clock—Bew Bew!

Mornings can be a rough time for some people. I blame the traditional alarm clocks with their silly radios or annoying beeping. The Space Invaders alarm clock could cure my case of the mornings by awakening to the pleasant sounds of space invaders. It is available for $34, but looks like it will have to…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Sep 27

BenQ FP241W Display with HDMI

R: Zonkers, Batman! This 24-inch widescreen LCD monitor from BenQ is the first of its kind to have an HDMI port! Wowee! It supports resolutions up to 1080i 1900 x 1200 with a 1000:1 contrast ratio, 6 ms response time and 500cd/m2 brightness! Super awesome fun! B: But what if I don’t have anything HDMI,…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 27

Smarty Pants: Computing Meets Motion-Sensing Fabric

Okay smarty-pants, try this on for size: we’ve been hearing a lot about wearable computers, but now scientists at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute are figuring out how to manufacture pants that detect movement. https://gizmodo.com/parvis-zypad-wl-10000-wrist-computer-182007 “A loom helps sew the wires and fabric together. Then sensors embedded in the fabric measure the speed, rotation and flexibility…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 27

Dotmobi Top-Level Domain Now Ready For The Masses

The many companies behind the dotMobi top-level domain hope to make your mobile Internet experience both better and easier. The top-level domain—like .com and .org—opened up to the general public yesterday (it was announced just a few months ago, too) and I saw the domain in action (if you can call it that) at an…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Sep 27

Omron Shows MIMO HDTV Antenna, Gets Rid of Messy Wires

The cable-less future gets a little closer with Omron’s ultra wideband (UWB) MIMO antenna destined for OEMs, specifically created for high definition video transmission. Omron calls it the first UWB antenna to transmit HD video. The company notes that HDTVs, projectors, DVD players and scalers can be equipped with this antenna, which will help get…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 27

Mio H610 Personal GPS Unit To Hit U.S. in November

Mio, makers of fine GPS devices for quite some time now, have just announced that the H610 DigiWalker personal GPS unit will hit U.S. stores in November. I was on the receiving end of a brief hands-on (the life of a blogger is a busy one, I assure you) yesterday and came away with it…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Sep 27

Second-Gen iPod nano Parts Cheaper, Less Power-Hungry

There’s more than meets the eye with Apple’s newest iPod nano, and the iSuppli Corp. Teardown Analysis service says that Apple has “remastered” the $199 4GB music player’s bill of materials cost to $72.24, down from the $89.97 parts cost for the first-generation 2GB nano. The most significant new part is a Samsung system-on-a-chip (SoC)…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 27

iZak Portable Multimedia Center: TorrentPal for HDTV

The iZak Portable Multimedia Center by Unibrain lets you copy music, video or photos from your Mac or PC via USB 2.0 and then plug that content into the TV via SVideo, component, or composite. Hey, it’s sneakernet on a grand scale! The company says it’ll handle 1080i or 720p HDTV through an optional $23…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 27

Sharp Triple Directional Viewing LCD: Three Screens, No Waiting

Sharp has enhanced its solution-searching-for-a-problem with the Triple Directional Viewing LCD, a flat panel that can show three different video signals from three different angles at the same time. Sharp showed us this impressive technology with two video sources a couple of years ago at CES, and now it’s raised the bar to three. Sharp…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 27

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•Sony Reader: Gizmodo’s Hands All Over •Jelbert GeoTagger Knows Where You Took That Picture •Nokia N95 Cellphone has Wings, 5MP Cam, GPS, HSDPA •Sony Vaio Type U, Now 32GB Flashier •Hasselblad H3D DSLR: 39 Megapixels, Lunar Price https://gizmodo.com/sony-reader-gizmodos-hands-all-over-203185 Comment of the Day : Intel Launching Quad-Core in November https://gizmodo.com/intel-launching-quad-core-in-november-203418 “I’m so glad we’re past that whole…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 27

Gizmodo Roast: Mvox Duo Bluetooth Headset-Slash-Speakerphone (WTF)

Announced at DEMO 2006 with Web 1.0 exuberance is the Mvox Duo bluetooth headset. It claims to do standard duty, plus work as a speakerphone, voice over IP headset and car kit. In otherwords, its a regular bluetooth headset, but biggie sized to fit a larger speaker inside. Where should I start talking shit about…

Tech News Brian Lam Sep 26

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USB Flash Card is Wafer-Thin, Holds a Gig

Pebbles That Glow in the Dark: Radioactive?

Bye Bye Wall Warts? Run (Almost) Everything At 12 Volts

Dealzmodo: Samsung Digimax i5 5-megapixel Digicam, $170

Logitech FreePulse Bluetooth 2.0 Headphones Shipping Soon

T-Mobile Drops Catherine Zeta-Jones, World Weeps

Nokia Officially Shows 5300 XpressMusic Cellphone

Valleywag Institutes Public Executions of Commenters

Space Invaders Alarm Clock—Bew Bew!

BenQ FP241W Display with HDMI

Smarty Pants: Computing Meets Motion-Sensing Fabric

Dotmobi Top-Level Domain Now Ready For The Masses

Omron Shows MIMO HDTV Antenna, Gets Rid of Messy Wires

Mio H610 Personal GPS Unit To Hit U.S. in November

Second-Gen iPod nano Parts Cheaper, Less Power-Hungry

iZak Portable Multimedia Center: TorrentPal for HDTV

Sharp Triple Directional Viewing LCD: Three Screens, No Waiting

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