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Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 8 '06

DIY $9 Macro SLR Lens

Got a SLR camera and want a macro lens without shelling out the big bucks? It’s quite simple if you are flickr user, Rautiocination. an ungodly abomination, a EF 90-300 mm lens which is male to male filter coupled to a EF-S 18-55 lens …potential magnification is around 300 / 18 = ~16x (not taking…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 8 '06

Xbox 360 November Dashboard Update Screenshots

The next Xbox 360 dashboard update lands in November, and here’s a sneak peek at what’s new. First, the Xbox Live Arcade screen is changed to have an Xbox Live arcade image for its loading screen. All the icons are also wider, and look more polished than before. The Games screen has a “Launchpad” option…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 8 '06

Marimekko Texture Mouse

The arty-looking Marimekko Texture Mouse brings high-touch to your tech, and might just cheer up one or two of your more-naive colleagues. Good luck getting one in the United States, though—they’re only sold in Japan at this point but that could change soon. Product Page [Kokuyo, via Red House Design]

Tech News Charlie White Sep 8 '06

bCODE SMS Drink Sending: Good Idea, Poor Execution

bCODE is a new SMS service that allows you to buy drinks for a friend via a SMS or text message. It’s a pretty awesome idea, but there are some major flaws. First and foremost, the service costs a ton, for the consumer and the bar. Mainly because the bar has to install special scanning…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 8 '06

Red Digital Cinema Camcorder Sensor Reveals First Footage: 4K Digital Cinema for $17.5K?

The Red Digital Cinema camcorder set digital filmmakers into a tizzy when it was introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention last April, because it’s really hard to make a digital camera capable of 4K (4,520 x 2540 pixels) image acquisition for a price the company quoted at $17,500 (all near-competitors cost well…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 8 '06

General Dynamics GoBook XR-1 Rugged Notebook

This notebook can sure as hell withstand rough handling, but too bad it wouldn’t be able to withstand fire, especially from the inside. The GoBook XR-1 will be available later this month. It is powered by a Intel Core Duo processor and includes all of the wireless features (Wi-Fi, WWAN, Bluetooth, GPS) that would make…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 8 '06

Maxtor Fusion Hands-On: Not Too Shabby Nor Extensive

Maxtor’s added a bunch of little features to its 500GB Fusion hard drive to make it more appealing to a skeptical public. CrunchGear, nerds that they are, did a hands-on with the unit, putting it through a series of feats of strength and tests of might. How did it hold up? In a word, well.…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Sep 8 '06

Color Phasing Light Speakers Keep the Party Moving

School has started for most kids around the country and the need to trick out a dorm room is an ever-present obsession, which is why these color phase changing speakers are so great. They’re able to produce up to 200 color combinations and because their LEDs aren’t total pieces of junk, the lights even look…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Sep 8 '06

Solar Driveway Markers: Landing Lights for the Brain Dead

Here at the Giz, we want solar everything, but wish those dang arrays were more powerful. Here’s another item to add to our list, and these might be just powerful enough: solar-powered driveway markers that make your personal thoroughfares look like O’Hare on a slow night. They’re tough, made of aluminum alloy that’s strong enough…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 8 '06

Online Alarm Clock Wakes You With an Electro-Chirp

We’ve shown you plenty of alarm clocks here at the Giz, many of which make you perform unusual tasks to earn your quietude. But forget the material world, go virtual with an online alarm clock that gives you big digits you can read from half a mile away, and you have a choice of colors,…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 8 '06

Dealzmodo: Friday Football Special, Half-Off Sharp AQUOS LCD

No, none of that pansy European “football,” I’m talking about real, hard hitting, American football. The college football season kicked off last week and the NFL season kicked off last night, so what is a better way to spend the weekend than watching all of the great games on a 26-inch Sharp AQUOS LCD HDTV.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 8 '06

Storybook Frames: 7-Inch Digital Picture Frames, Disguised as Old-Skool

These 7-inch 480×234 widescreen digital picture frames have a familiar look, enclosed in a conventional-looking frame that disguises their digital underpinnings. They’ll look right at home among all those other conventional picture frames on your desk. They’re compatible with the usual array of flash memory cards, and can also play back MP3s with their integrated…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 8 '06

X-Ray of Cellphones Inside of Cellmates: What Phone is In His Butt?

We wrote about four inmates in an El Salvadorian prison caught hiding cellphones in their butts. The comments, from faithful readers such as yourself, were fantastic. I mean, duh, I can’t believe I missed the jokes about vibrate, chocolate phones, and dropped calls. Anyhoo, Ron S. writes in with an x-ray from the AP. https://gizmodo.com/cellphones-found-inside-cellmates-198993…

Tech News Brian Lam Sep 8 '06

Bandai’s Ant’s Life Studio Virtual Ant Farm

Bandai is set to release Ant’s Life Studio this November in Japan, a virtual ant farm simulator that could very well become the next Tamagotchi. It’s apparently being aimed at the hordes of Japanese men who do nothing but slave away at a tiny desk all day, working until their eyes fall out. Maybe Bandai’s…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Sep 8 '06

IKEA TROFE Mug: Dishwasherowned

This isn’t so much of a gadget, but an extremely handy device that I wish I would have thought of. This TROFE mug from IKEA has a simple notch on the bottom of the mug that prevents water from pooling up around the base during a dishwasher run. What is even more amazing—IKEA makes these…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Sep 8 '06

MacBook Joins the Club of Igniting Laptops

Reader Eric has a little problem with his MacBook. The bottom left corner of the screen managed to somehow catch on fire, in turn toasting the entire left side of his notebook. Oddly enough, it doesn’t seem that this problem was caused by an overheating battery. Eric said the employees at the Apple Store were…

Tech News Travis Hudson Sep 8 '06

Samsung Unveils 7-Inch Flexible LCD, Called World’s Largest

Here’s one of those breakthrough components that could change the Giz-world, a 7-inch flexible LCD from Samsung that will result in a new generation of strange and curved portable devices such as GPS navigation systems and video players. When it’s unleashed into mass production, it’ll be the largest flexible LCD module in the world, maintaining…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 8 '06

Microsoft to Release Cheaper Xbox 360 in Japan Right Before PS3 Launch

Microsoft is looking to steal some of the PS3’s launch thunder (not that Sony isn’t do a fine job of borking it up themselves) in Japan by releasing the Core version of its Xbox 360 console on November 2, just a few days before the PS3’s launch. Right now, only the Premium edition (the “real”…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Sep 8 '06

Aerocool Power Supply with Sockets Instead of Too-Many-Cables

PC case modders know that power supply units (PSU) usually have a spaghetti bowl’s worth of cables along for the ride, and what do you do with that mess if you don’t need them all? This Aerocool Turbine Power 550-watt PSU solves that problem, letting you add just the cables you’ll use, plugging them into…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 8 '06

Sponsor Huggles

DIY $9 Macro SLR Lens

Xbox 360 November Dashboard Update Screenshots

Marimekko Texture Mouse

bCODE SMS Drink Sending: Good Idea, Poor Execution

Red Digital Cinema Camcorder Sensor Reveals First Footage: 4K Digital Cinema for $17.5K?

General Dynamics GoBook XR-1 Rugged Notebook

Maxtor Fusion Hands-On: Not Too Shabby Nor Extensive

Color Phasing Light Speakers Keep the Party Moving

Solar Driveway Markers: Landing Lights for the Brain Dead

Online Alarm Clock Wakes You With an Electro-Chirp

Dealzmodo: Friday Football Special, Half-Off Sharp AQUOS LCD

Storybook Frames: 7-Inch Digital Picture Frames, Disguised as Old-Skool

X-Ray of Cellphones Inside of Cellmates: What Phone is In His Butt?

Bandai’s Ant’s Life Studio Virtual Ant Farm

IKEA TROFE Mug: Dishwasherowned

MacBook Joins the Club of Igniting Laptops

Samsung Unveils 7-Inch Flexible LCD, Called World’s Largest

Microsoft to Release Cheaper Xbox 360 in Japan Right Before PS3 Launch

Aerocool Power Supply with Sockets Instead of Too-Many-Cables

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