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Linksys Network Storage Link, Turn Any USB Harddrive Into Network Storage

While they’re promoting it with Maxtor, there’s nothing stopping you from using Linksys’s new Network Storage Link (NSLU2) with any external USB hard drive to turn it into a network storage device (not unlike the Mirra or other backup units). Storage Link even provides passworded web-access to files and multiple users (although they don’t get…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

Pass the Oddworld on the Left Hand Side

It’s a simple looking story: Atari obtained a 50% stake in game developer Oddworld Inhabitants, way back in 1996, when Atari still called itself Infogrames because it hadn’t bought the Atari name yet. And now, Atari is selling that stake to Microsoft for $1.8 million. But Microsoft already had a publishing agreement for Oddworld’s next…

Tech News MATT GALLANT Jun 15

eBay: Garage Full of Retro Gaming Computers

I feel absolutely absolved of any guilt I might ever have had about the two or three Tupperware bins of junk I have stuffed under my desk. Over 200 different machines in this auction (that mass of wires and plastic in the picture are just the controllers), including a variety of Spectrum and Acorns, as…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

First Nokia Series 60 Worm Discovered, Infects Via Bluetooth

It’s only a proof of concept for now, but Symantec’s Security Response site is listing the first worm for Nokia Series 60 phones, called EPOC.Cabir. The worm transmits itself over open Bluetooth connections to other phones, copying itself over where it continues to search for other Bluetooth-enabled devices — after copying itself to another, hidden…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

And On Subject of Web Email, This Yahoo Thing

Believe it or not, web email isn’t really our bailiwick, at least until it starts intersecting with mobile devices and what have you, but it is at least worth mentioning that Yahoo has upgraded its existing free email service from 4MB to 100MB, and is offering a 2GB ad-free version for $20 a year. Good…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

Gizmodo’s Threeway Gmail Giveaway

We at Gizmodo are providers. We provide. If we have a little loaf, a little fishes, we break them up and spread them around, pro bono. And by pro bono we mean we make you work for it, because that’s what we’re going to do. See, we have three more Gmail invites, and we want…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

China’s TD-SCDMA Forum and GSM Association Try To Make Nice

China had been, for a while now, ignoring the newest GSM Association cellular phone standard ‘Wideband CDMA’ (WCDMA) in favor of a Siemens-developed technology called ‘TD-SCDMA.’ The downside of this is that China’s burgeoning cellular market would be generally incompatible with GSM, the standard used by over 70 percent of the world’s mobile phone market,…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

His and Her Flash Drives

What do you get for the geeky couple who has everything? Besides a set of matching D20s? His and Her ‘Lover Disk Angel’ 128MB Flash Drives, of course. And as the ladies of Shiny Shiny so adroitly note, the Lover Disks set a good example for any couple by being completely clad in protective rubber.…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

‘Look and Shoot’ Helmets

Bat eyelashes, destroy enemy fighter — at least if you’re wearing one of the 2,000 new Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) helmets from Boeing just ordered up by the Pentagon. By simply lining up a yellow targeting cross and pressing a button, pilots can aim weapons and sensors onto whatever they happen to be looking…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

iTunes Europe Launches

Apple iTunes has launched in Europe, or at least the UK, France, and Germany. Although it’s really not terribly different than iTunes here, The Register is reporting that many independent UK artists have held out, accusing Apple of giving better deals to major labels than to the independents, meaning artists like Basement Jaxx and Dizzee…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

When Good Discs Go Bad

PCWorld takes a look at why ‘Good Discs Go Bad,’ and finds some interesting nuggets, including information about which discs work best with which drive (quick answer: who knows?), and a proposed system of grading of optical media so that consumers can have a better idea before they purchase how long their media will actually…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player

While it’s one of the first wireless media players to come with 802.11g WiFi stock standard, a few usability hang-ups prevent PC Magazine’s review team from giving the D-Link DSM-320 a better than average score. It’s got all the media playback mojo you’d expect from these modern day VCRs (which are really just hardware front-ends…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

Speedtech Weather Station Watch

It’s about as stylish as wearing a banana on your wrist (as I am required to, by law), but the the Weather Watch Pro from Speedtech needs a little room to stretch out if it’s going to provide all this functionality. Check windspeed, barometric pressure (with 9 hour history), altitude, time, temperature, windchill and more,…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

Spotnik Lamp

Inspired by the sky-breaking Russian Sputnik (the original Cold War ‘Ping of Death’) comes this lamp from designer Marko Macure called ‘Spotnik.’ Put in an orange bulb and recreate the epic battle from The Lord of the Rings, when a ragtag group of scrappy adventurers were able to cast a huge splash of Visine into…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

More on the 22 Megapixel Sinar Camera Back

Remember that 22-megapixel Sinar camera back from yesterday? Reader Jason Ozolins explains what makes peltier cooling on large CCDs so useful: I think you’ll find that the Peltier cooler on the Sinar camera back is not used to dissipate lots of internally generated heat (typical “leet overcloxor” use), but to keep the CCD sensor cold,…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

Army Unveils New Uniforms

The Army unveiled their new uniform, with a new camouflage sporting a green, tan, and gray mixture (based on a similar Marine Corps design) that is meant to work in all environments, from the concrete jungle to the forest jungle to the, uhm, sand jungle. Replacing many of the buttons with zippers and Velcro for…

Tech News Joel Jun 15

Firefox 0.9 Released

Firefox 0.9 is now available for download (the final version, not the release candidate). Get it now before Slashdot notices. Read [Mozilla]

Tech News Joel Jun 15

Pickup Games, Vol. 1 – Inspector Parker

I’ll be rounding out each day of my guest stint here with a recommendation of a nice game that you don’t necessarily need to make room for in your schedule— one that you can play a round of in just a few minutes. Today’s game sharpens and speeds up your logic neurons. It’s called Inspector…

Tech News MATT GALLANT Jun 14

New GBA Fire Emblem for Japan

On the GBA, the tactics game non pareil— the choice amongst those who pepper their language with snooty foreign phrases as well as some who don’t— is Fire Emblem. The embodiment of “easy to learn, difficult to master” gameplay, the long-running series in Japan finally crossed the Pacific last year, much to the chagrin of…

Tech News MATT GALLANT Jun 14

Mage Knight on a Phone

Elkware, a German company known for both its mobile phone games and its love for large species of deer, has announced it has secured four years’ worth of rights to publish games based on Mage Knight, the collectible tabletop wargame from WizKids. Here’s hoping they have a good idea of how to make a small…

Tech News MATT GALLANT Jun 14

Linksys Network Storage Link, Turn Any USB Harddrive Into Network Storage

Pass the Oddworld on the Left Hand Side

eBay: Garage Full of Retro Gaming Computers

First Nokia Series 60 Worm Discovered, Infects Via Bluetooth

And On Subject of Web Email, This Yahoo Thing

Gizmodo’s Threeway Gmail Giveaway

China’s TD-SCDMA Forum and GSM Association Try To Make Nice

His and Her Flash Drives

‘Look and Shoot’ Helmets

iTunes Europe Launches

When Good Discs Go Bad

D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player

Speedtech Weather Station Watch

Spotnik Lamp

More on the 22 Megapixel Sinar Camera Back

Army Unveils New Uniforms

Firefox 0.9 Released

Pickup Games, Vol. 1 – Inspector Parker

New GBA Fire Emblem for Japan

Mage Knight on a Phone

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