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Insignia Amigo: Flash-based MP3 Player

For the anything-but-iPod crowd, there’s the Insignia Amigo flash-based MP3 player, which looks nice and has some decent features to boot. It comes in 1 and 2GB sizes, has a built in FM tuner, color OLED screen, MP3/WMA/WMA-DRM/Audible/JPEG support, 18 hours of playback time, and even album art display. The Amigo is both PC and…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 27 '06

Microsoft Zune To Come With Some Content

The official Microsoft Zune blog, the same one used to disseminate information to other blogs, says the Zune is going to come with “some content” on it—no what, who, or how much of it. Wow, could you tell us less? Maybe not even mention the name Zune at all? Perhaps go back to denying that…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 27 '06

Court Says Border Agents Have the Right to Search Your Laptop

Customs agents already have the power now to search your luggage when you cross borders, thanks to a circuit court ruling, they have the power to inspect the data on your laptops as well. The decision was handed down relating to this case: Stuart Romm boarded a plane in Las Vegas on February 1, 2004.…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 27 '06

Functional Concept: Slice-o-rama, The Vegetable Table Saw

The Slice-o-rama is just a design prototype for now, but this cutting board table saw has rails to guide the built-in table saw into your lettuce, potatoes, apples and yams. It uses the kind of saw that removes casts from your arm, so it supposedly won’t cut into your fingers. I haven’t been lucky enough…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 27 '06

Samsung SCH-B500 Slider With DMB

This black slider from Samsung has Bluetooth, MP3 player, two-megapixel camera and 320×240 display. It’s 1.4-inches thick and has the popular Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) that’s found on most cellphones and media players released in Korea. No word on a US launch, but the UI supports English as well as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, so…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 27 '06

Corsair Flash Readout USB: Lets You Know When it’s Full (Burp)

This USB key can display how much space you’ve eaten up, using either a pie chart or digits. The screen also has an 11-character readout to help you remember what you stored. It’s not an LCD, but a “Bi-stable Cholesteric” Display, which doesn’t need power to maintain its image. Comes in capacities of 1 and…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 27 '06

Music Mogul Pharrell Williams and His 18-Karat-gold Blackberry

Pharrell’s 18-karat Blackberry has one up on Just Blaze who scored a K1 KRZR before it was even announced in the States. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-canary-in-the-wild-185898 P’s may not be skinny, blue or flip open, but it’s made out of gold, son! And he can text message loads faster than on the KRZR. The gold BB was designed…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 27 '06

Sony Launches PSP Wi-Fi Network in Europe, Australia

Tomorrow Sony will be launching PlayStation Spot. This is a network of Wi-Fi hotspots that will allows PSP users to download demos, songs, games, videos and pictures and also play the games with other PSP users. Access to the wireless network itself will be free, but expect to pay out the wazoo for any kind…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 27 '06

Top Gear’s Limey Bastards Hack Cars for Remote Control

There are only so many stunts you can pull in a car before you worry about getting yourself killed. So UK auto show Top Gear rigged some with remote controls, and raced them past a swinging wrecking ball, through a dirt track, and over ramps.– Brian Lam Top Gear Video: Full-Sized Remote Controlled Cars [via…

Gadgets Brian Lam Jul 27 '06

Sony Alpha 100 DSLR Field Test (Verdict: Great Quality Images For A Price)

Popular Photography first took the Alpha 100 into Alaska for a boat-test. Sony’s on-board image stabilization meant he didn’t need to take an image-stabilized lens with him, as it effectively added that feature to every lens used. The seven features he found great with the Alpha 100 were: anti-blurring, the 10.2 megapixel sensor, the LCD,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 27 '06

Shure Thing Scavenger Hunt: Day 4

It is day four of our Shure Thing Scavenger Hunt. If you are just tuning in we are giving away a pair of $550 Shure E500PTH Sound Isolating Earphones. Everyday we are giving a clue that requires deep digging inside of the Gizmodo vault to find a specific product or a post. Once you figure…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 27 '06

Bullet Pointed List of What Vista Offers Over Media Center ’05

A Microsoft Project Manager for their eHome division got sick and tired of people complaining that there weren’t any “new features” in Vista over MCE 2005. So tired, in fact, he compiled a huge list of all the 32 new features that will improve your life. Some of the ones that we know you’re looking…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 27 '06

Flying Cars: Forget It

We’re suckers for flying cars around here. I mean, just look at that picture above. It is so cool. Who wouldn’t want to fly above the daily traffic jam, pulling back on the steering wheel and rotating above the fray? https://gizmodo.com/transition-personal-air-vehicle-to-fly-by-2009-155483 Meanwhile, back on terra firma, Mike Elegan at Personal Tech Pipeline talks some sense…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 27 '06

Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: Unboxing, Review

So, earlier this week Apple released the updated Bluetooth Mighty Mouse and Nick Starr was one of the first guys to document the unboxing. Gizmodo has kind of declared itself as unofficial Mighty Mouse haters, but unboxing pr0n is always fun to see, even if it is crap. https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-released-189646 According to Nick there is no…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 27 '06

Sharp Lumiwall: Solar-Powered Wall of Light

We first saw Sharp Lumiwall technology in solar-powered streetlights, and now the company is offering the thin-film transparent solar panels sandwiched between pieces of glass. https://gizmodo.com/sharps-solar-powered-street-lamp-lumiwall-18520 During the day, the glass panels store energy using the solar arrays. While the sunlight shines on them, they look like smoked glass windows, but then at night they…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 27 '06

TiVo Wins Emmy, Deserves It

At the Interactive Television Emmy Awards, TiVo will be taking home the hardware for Outstanding Achievement in Enhanced Television Programming. The PVR software and hardware developer beat out all the other finalists in that category, including AOL Music on Demand, CNN Enhanced and DirecTV Interactive Sports. “TiVo was the very first offering in the DVR…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 27 '06

Low End Theory

Sony is the New Sorny By Brendan I. Koerner Many moons ago, when Low End Theory was still a metaphorical pup, I wrote a column about the principle of value spread—that is, the phenomenon of companies that manufacture both cheapo and ultra-expensive electronic goods. One of the true champs of value spread was Sony, which…

Tech News Brendan I. Koerner Jul 27 '06

Samsung CX223BW 22-Inch LCD

When a 20-inch monitor is not going to be large enough and a 24-incher is way too big, here comes the Samsung CX223BW 22-inch LCD display to the rescue. Its native resolution is a paltry 1680×1050 (we would have preferred a 1920×1200 resolution on a widescreen this big), but it has a quick gray-to-gray response…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 27 '06

TruScene Car Monitoring Device

The TruScene is a device that will actively monitor and record around your vehicle. It does the recording in 30 second clips and will only save the clips if a sudden bump or jolt occurs—perhaps from a hit and run. The TruScene could be really helpful making those hit-and-runners burn in hell—well, a hit and…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 27 '06

Multitasking Post-it Notes: Not Just For Notes Any More

We’re always eager to turn to our cheery bunkmates at Lifehacker for helpful hints, and here’s a good example that we were wondering why we hadn’t thought of before: Use the sticky side of a Post-it note to pick up crumbs and such that gets stuck between the keys of your assorted gadgetry. Crumbs, dust,…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 27 '06

Insignia Amigo: Flash-based MP3 Player

Microsoft Zune To Come With Some Content

Court Says Border Agents Have the Right to Search Your Laptop

Functional Concept: Slice-o-rama, The Vegetable Table Saw

Samsung SCH-B500 Slider With DMB

Corsair Flash Readout USB: Lets You Know When it’s Full (Burp)

Music Mogul Pharrell Williams and His 18-Karat-gold Blackberry

Sony Launches PSP Wi-Fi Network in Europe, Australia

Top Gear’s Limey Bastards Hack Cars for Remote Control

Sony Alpha 100 DSLR Field Test (Verdict: Great Quality Images For A Price)

Shure Thing Scavenger Hunt: Day 4

Bullet Pointed List of What Vista Offers Over Media Center ’05

Flying Cars: Forget It

Bluetooth Mighty Mouse: Unboxing, Review

Sharp Lumiwall: Solar-Powered Wall of Light

TiVo Wins Emmy, Deserves It

Low End Theory

Samsung CX223BW 22-Inch LCD

TruScene Car Monitoring Device

Multitasking Post-it Notes: Not Just For Notes Any More

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