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I-O Data HDC-UX750 eSATA Drive

I-O Data has rolled out the HDC-UX750, an even bigger eSATA (External Serial ATA) hard drive in its line of 150mbit/second spinners. This one is a 750GB behemoth whose minimalist design doesn’t look half bad. If you’re not familiar with eSATA, its advantage is that it’s over three times faster than USB 2.0, which moves…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7

Pioneer Delays Blu-ray Player

Strange things are happening at Pioneer, where yesterday we told you about its plan to drop out of the DVD player business altogether and now we hear the company’s Blu-ray player will be seriously delayed. https://gizmodo.com/pioneer-to-go-blu-ray-178683 Pioneer said the North American launch of its next-generation Blu-ray players will be postponed until this Fall, due to…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7

Design Concept: Paper Cellphone

A group of designers have proposed “Paper Says,” a cellphone whose electronic innards are recyclable and whose outside is made of paper. The idea would be to rent the low-cost phones to busy travelers, and when the rental period is over the phone can be returned and recycled with a brand-new paper exterior. The keypad…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7

Samsung D900 Gets FCC Approval

Looks like this Samsung D900, billed as the world’s thinnest slider handset, just got an affirmative nod from the FCC, so we might be seeing the svelte cellphone stateside sometime soon. Its main claim to fame is its 13mm thickness and 3-ounce weight. It’s also capable of video recording and messaging using MPEG-4/H.263. This one…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition Does a Three-Way

Western Digital is now shipping its My Book Pro Edition ($350), a 500GB external hard disk that works with Macs and PCs and has a triple play of interfaces including FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. Besides adding that lickety-split FireWire 800 connectivity, it’s a 7200 RPM drive, just like its 500GB brandmates released…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7

Gizmodo Today

Hands-On Reviews Nokia 8801 Hands-On Samsung Q1 UMPC Hands-On, Part II https://gizmodo.com/nokia-8801-hands-on-178735 Rumor and Speculation Next Prius: 100MPG, Turbocharged? https://gizmodo.com/next-prius-100mpg-turbocharged-178746 News Steal A Sidekick And Face The Wrath Of The Internet Asus HDMI-Enabled Graphics Cards Gate TViX M-3100U Media Player Remote Control Boat/Pool Skimmer IOgear’s 2.4GHz Wireless Mouse and Keyboard Cornet’s 1 Terabyte External Drive…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 7

Steal A Sidekick And Face The Wrath Of The Internet

Our mothers stressed two things: don’t steal and wash your hands after using the bathroom. Although we’re sometimes lax about the second one—we’re busy bloggers here!—the first is definitely a rule to live by. Turns out these people’s mothers didn’t do their jobs so well. Apparently, a friend of Evan’s left her Sidekick II in…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

Asus HDMI-Enabled Graphics Cards

Shown off at Computex, the two new Asus graphics cards feature HDMI and D-sub connectors for hooking up an HD connection to your TV. The ATI Radeon X1600 Pro card is low provile and the NVidia 7600GT based card is a standard card with an S/PDIF connector. To make the HDMI output carry both video…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

Gate TViX M-3100U Media Player

If you’re looking for a media player unit that just plays back a whole bunch of video formats and you don’t need TV recording functionality, there’s the TVix M-3100U. Put a standard 3.5″ hard disk inside and it will play back the media files inside as long as they’re in MPEG1/2, DivX, XviD, DVD Video,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

Samsung Q1 UMPC Hands-On, Part II

You’ve seen us taking the Samsung Q1 UMPC out of the box in Part I, and now it’s time to sit down and actually use it. Its strongest attribute is its shiny black appearance with its first-rate industrial design, and coming in a close second is its prowess as a multimedia player. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-q1-umpc-hands-on-part-1-the-out-of-box-experi-178073 Its 800×480…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 6

Remote Control Boat/Pool Skimmer

Making your kids clean the pool won’t be such a chore with this remote control boat/pool skimmer. The boat, which runs for 50 minutes on a full charge, picks up debris into the removable net which can be emptied out when you’re done cleaning/playing. Pretty sweet toy for $139. Remote control boat…also a pool skimmer!…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jun 6

IOgear’s 2.4GHz Wireless Mouse and Keyboard

If you’ve ever tried using two wireless keyboards and mice in close proximity to each other, especially if both are from the same manufacturer, you’ll know that there’s considerable interference even when configuring them to separate channels. Now, with the IOGear 2.4GHz Wireless Multimedia keyboard, your new keyboard won’t interfere with your old wireless one,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

Cornet’s 1 Terabyte External Drive

Cornet joins the one terabyte club with the Maximus Platinum drive. Sporting USB 2.0 and both Firewire 400 and 800, this drive should be great for owners of the MacBook Pro 17″, which still has the Firewire 800 port. Windows XP and 2000 are also supported. https://gizmodo.com/a-terabyte-of-storage-in-a-bright-yellow-box-166928 Available now for $1,230. Product Page [Cornet via…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

HP’s Asia-Only rw6828 Windows Mobile Phone

Here’s a powerful Asia-Only phone for importers to drool over (and then cry as they pull out their credit cards to buy one). The HP iPAQ isn’t available in the US or Europe, but has some powerfully nice specs. Among them, a 416MHz Intel PXA272 Processor, 64MB of RAM and 128MB Rom, 2-megapixel camera, miniSD…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

Pepper Pad 3

Pepper Pad, the other not-a-pda-but-not-yet-a-PC PC is coming to spoil the UMPC’s thunder with the Pepper Pad 3. Running the Linux 2.6 kernel, the PP3 has a 7″ 800×480 screen, a 20 GB hard disk, split QWERTY keypad, 802.11 b/g, speakers, USB, and a built-in webcam. It’s used mostly for web browsing (like surfing the…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

Vitas DM-750 GPS and PMP

Very cool Korean item today from Vitas. The DM-750 is a GPS that looks to have 3d navigational maps, plus a DMB to watch TV on the road (hopefully not when you’re driving). The unit comes with a 7″ touch screen and a CF slot for holding maps. Weighs 558 grams and is available for…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jun 6

MAX Media Dock For Nintendo DS and DS Lite

The next time your cousin brags about how his PSP can play media and your DS can’t, shove a MAX Media Dock in his face. Watch him cry as you show him how it plugs directly into the DS’s GBA port and plays MP3s from compact flash cards of up to 8 GB. Then see…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

Sirocco Wireless Audio Bridge from Sondigo

Since being able to move all your digital media throughout the house is all the rage these days, it seems sort of strange that companies are still offering solutions can only stream audio. C’est la vie. Sondigo is the latest company to offer such a device with its Sirocco Wireless Audio Bridge. Once integrated into…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jun 6

Ultimate Dealer Button

With the Texas Hold’em poker craze sweeping the nation and turning our youth into little cigarette-smoking, whiskey-chugging gamblers, there has to be room for some gadgets, right? Welcome the Ultimate Dealer Button. For those unfamiliar with the game, the “dealer button” in Hold’em poker rotates around the table, designating who is in the dealer position.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jun 6

Turn Your $60 Linksys Router Into a $600 Linksys Router

Everyone’s known for a while about the Linksys firmware snafu that forced Cisco, who bought them, into releasing the WRT54G firmware into the Open Source community. As a result, it was easy to load Linux applications onto the WRT54G to make it do all sorts of interesting things, like adding web-server, Asterisk and RADIUS functionality.…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 6

I-O Data HDC-UX750 eSATA Drive

Pioneer Delays Blu-ray Player

Design Concept: Paper Cellphone

Samsung D900 Gets FCC Approval

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition Does a Three-Way

Gizmodo Today

Steal A Sidekick And Face The Wrath Of The Internet

Asus HDMI-Enabled Graphics Cards

Gate TViX M-3100U Media Player

Samsung Q1 UMPC Hands-On, Part II

Remote Control Boat/Pool Skimmer

IOgear’s 2.4GHz Wireless Mouse and Keyboard

Cornet’s 1 Terabyte External Drive

HP’s Asia-Only rw6828 Windows Mobile Phone

Pepper Pad 3

Vitas DM-750 GPS and PMP

MAX Media Dock For Nintendo DS and DS Lite

Sirocco Wireless Audio Bridge from Sondigo

Ultimate Dealer Button

Turn Your $60 Linksys Router Into a $600 Linksys Router

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