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SlingPlayer for Origami Announced

Soon after Microsoft s Origami and its Ultra-Mobile PC platform were officially revealed, Sling Media announced a SlingPlayer for the platform. When the UMPC products are delivered, and nobody is mentioning any dates yet, users will be able to remotely view their cable, satellite or PVR programming using this re-worked software. The SlingPlayer application has…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 10

Samsung Announces VP-X210L Camcorder, Hardened for Outdoorsy Types

Samsung has introduced the VP-X210L, a rugged camcorder that’s also a music player and still camera. Its most unusual feature is a detachable lens that can be mounted on handlebars, your helmet, or anywhere else as long as it’s not farther than 9 feet away from the camcorder body. The VP-X210L has a gigabyte of…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 10

CeBIT ’06: Pantech G-3700

It’s just so hard to look at Asian phones. They have so much to offer and tweak so many pleasure receptors that you just want to hold on to them and walk out of the booth. The G-3700 here is really sexy, nice bright screen, and it looks like the RAZR if the RAZR wasn’t…

Tech News Johnb Mar 10

CeBIT ’06: Recycle’o’saurus

We don t have a damn clue what this company makes, but they did have a sweet dinosaur made entirely out of old computer parts. Coincidentally on the other side of the hall a completely different booth had an old-style wagon made out of old computer parts. If only the dinosaur could haul the wagon…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Mar 10

CeBIT ’06: Asus R2H Keyboard Interface

The Intel booth was also featuring the Asus R2H UMPC. Luckily we got a chance to take a look at the unique keyboard interface that has been oh-so-talked about and we missed in our demo yesterday. There was a button that brought the keyboard interface up. A traditional keyboard “click” noise was made when a…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 10

CeBIT ’06: Asus Leather Laptops

While waiting around to get our hands on the Asus R2H we spotted these beauties. These were part of a leather-clad designer series of laptops and mice, which we’ve talked about before. https://gizmodo.com/asus-leather-laptop-156537 The mice aren’t as practical as the laptops. Leather coated in palm sweat is going to smell worse than a Kansas feed…

Tech News Johnb Mar 10

CeBIT ’06: Hands-On Video of the Asus R2H

The second in our ongoing series on UMPCs in the wild. Thrill to the power of Microsoft’s Sexy Windows Shell 1.0b.

Tech News Johnb Mar 10

CeBIT ’06: Motorola Mesh Camera

Motorola doesn’t just make shiny phones. We stumbled into the Moto booth to discover that their traditional product lines are alive and well, including CB radios and this Half-Life 2-esque death pod, the MEA “Rapid Response” Mesh Camera. It’s a bit old, but it really looked scary. Put a gun on there and you’re golden.…

Privacy & Security Johnb Mar 10

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Tech News Charlie White Mar 9

Talking Beer Mug Nags You for a Refill

If you have a really hard time seeing your beer mug through the fog to determine when it’s almost empty, the Never Empty Beer Mug has a sensor that tells you it’s time for more. Your beer is running dangerously low, cries the mug. Obeying the mug, you fill it up, take a few gulps…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 9

Toshiba Announces Projector with Integrated DVD Player and Super Close Lens

Toshiba introduced its et20 projector at CeBIT 2006 that includes an integrated DVD player, 5.1 channel sound and a unique lens that can produce a six-foot image from three feet away, and a 4.5-foot image from just 27 inches away. The projector also has an image enhancer Toshiba calls Realta HQV, which attempts to enhance…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 9

Microsoft Ultra-Mobile PC Goatse

Either someone over at Microsoft decided to have some fun in anticipation of the Origami/UMPC launch, or no one at Redmond has ever been Goatse’d. Ultra-Mobile PC – How to Buy [Microsoft] (Thanks, Jason!) Goatse.cx [Wikipedia] Goatse [Threadless T-Shirts] Photos tagged with firstgoatse [Flickr]

Tech News Gizmodo.com Mar 9

Lover’s Cups

Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung of MIT Media Lab have a great project called Lover’s Cups, a wireless-enabled pair of drinking glasses. Each cup can tell when someone is drinking from the other; when both are being used they glow to “celebrate this virtual kiss”. Lover’s Cups, Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung [MIT Media Lab]…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 9

OUCH! Voodoo Doll Toothpick Holder

Liked the Voodoo Knife Holder but thought having actual knives doing the piercing was a bit too gory for your kitchen? Perhaps you’ll be happy with OUCH! the Voodoo Doll Toothpick Holder. Available in grey or white, each one holds 35 toothpicks and will easily break the ice at the next dinner party you throw.…

Tech News Gizmodo.com Mar 9

Low End Theory

Gadgetry for Up North By Brendan I. Koerner Thanks to the booming prison-industrial complex, odds are you’re no more than one or two degrees removed from someone who has spent, is spending, or will spend time behind bars. Lord knows that your humble narrator certainly fits into the one-degree category, due to one close relation’s…

Tech News Brendan I. Koerner Mar 9

BenQ-Siemens OLED Phone, the S88

The highlight of this phone is easily the bright, beautiful OLED display. It also has a 2.0 megapixel camera that is also capable of capturing video. It comes in two colors: black and white and has the usually kicks of the average cell phone, including an MP3 player with expandable memory via MicroSD. This phone…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 9

Pantech PG-3600v

This phone is described as the “ultimate music phone,” coincidentally it resembles a gadget that many people in the world call the ultimate MP3 player. The phone supports WMA, MP3, AAC and AMR. It also has a 1.4 megapixel camera with a 4x zoom. The criticisms come from the fact that it has a revolutionary…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 9

CeBIT ’06: LensPen Laptop Cleaner

I just lost my lens cap so I wanted to try out the LensPen, which we’ve seen before. Luckily, they also had a brand new laptop screen cleaner which was very cool. There are three functions here—a keyboard brush, a screen brush, and a carbon black cleaner for the screen. You brush off debris then…

Tech News Johnb Mar 9

Yet Another iPod Accessory: MP3 Shower Radio

While we at Gizmodo will readily admit that this MP3 Shower Radio is not exactly the most exciting thing we ve seen in the past few days, it does have a certain kind of hokey charm to it. This water-resistant radio houses a compartment where you can put your MP3 player (read: iPod), enabling you…

Tech News Gizloco Mar 9

iPod Nano MAME Cabinet

The fine people over at iPodLinux have been working on getting MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) onto their iPods—a pretty neat achievement in and of itself, but one of them has gone an extra step further and built a MAME Cabinet around his iPod Nano. The iPod and Ms Pacman, together at last. Nerdtastic! iPod…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 9

SlingPlayer for Origami Announced

Samsung Announces VP-X210L Camcorder, Hardened for Outdoorsy Types

CeBIT ’06: Pantech G-3700

CeBIT ’06: Recycle’o’saurus

CeBIT ’06: Asus R2H Keyboard Interface

CeBIT ’06: Asus Leather Laptops

CeBIT ’06: Hands-On Video of the Asus R2H

CeBIT ’06: Motorola Mesh Camera

Gizmodo Today

Talking Beer Mug Nags You for a Refill

Toshiba Announces Projector with Integrated DVD Player and Super Close Lens

Microsoft Ultra-Mobile PC Goatse

Lover’s Cups

OUCH! Voodoo Doll Toothpick Holder

Low End Theory

BenQ-Siemens OLED Phone, the S88

Pantech PG-3600v

CeBIT ’06: LensPen Laptop Cleaner

Yet Another iPod Accessory: MP3 Shower Radio

iPod Nano MAME Cabinet

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