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NEC’s Lavie N iBook Clone

I’m not sure exactly how new this model is (fairly, if I babel correctly), but I’ve not seen it before, so you get to check it out with me. The NEC Lavie N is an iBook-esque 12-inch laptop with a 1280 by 768 widescreen LCD, 1.5 GHz Pentium M, Centrino 802.11b/g, and a slot-loading multiformat…

Tech News Joel May 6

Sending MMS To Friends on Other Networks

If you wanted, you could read this whole press release from AT&T Wireless, and figure out that they have been working with the 3G Americas and CDMA Development Group to develop a protocol to make sending MMS messages—namely, photos taken with cameraphones—across carriers, even if one carrier is GSM and the other is CDMA. And…

Tech News Joel May 6

T-Mobile UK’s Exclusive Sharp TM100 Slider

T-Mobile UK has an exclusive on the new Sharp TM100 tri-band phone, a perfectly average unit until you take a look at its slick sliding keypad—a feature that may be starting to get a little played out, but is still very attractive when its integrated correctly. At the moment there is no word when or…

Tech News Joel May 6

Vulcan Chooses Transmeta to Power FlipStart

Looks like Paul Allen’s Vulcan, Inc. has selected Transmeta to provide a 1GHz Efficeon processor to power FlipStart, the PDA-sized palmtop PC expected late this year. While it isn’t a huge surprise, little things like actually having a processor selected will help with the whole actually shipping a product thing, which is nice. The FlipStart…

Tech News Joel May 6

Hey, Hey! 16K

For those of us who remember cassette tape loading errors and the days of copying video game code out of the back of a magazine, this humorous flash movie brings back some of those feelings of joy and dread early home computers created (even if it focuses mostly on British hardware). And hey! The accompanying…

Tech News Joel May 6

First DVD+R DL Review: Might Want To Hold Off For a Bit

AnandTech has the first real-world review that I’ve seen of a DVD+R DL burner, the double-layered DVD technology that allows you to burn DVDs at home with the same amount of storage as a commercially pressed DVD (twice as much, that is, if you didn’t figure that out from the ‘dual’ part). The Sony DRU-700A…

Tech News Joel May 6

Navy Robot Drone Goes AWOL

DefenseTech reminds us that if circumstances find you walking the length of Norway’s coast, and you happen to see torpedo-shaped, yellowish-orange device with a propeller on one end—’bout say nine, ten feet long—call the U.S. Navy. They may have sort of lost one of their robotic mine-sweeping submarine drones. Don’t worry, though. They may or…

Tech News Joel May 6

Samsung’s YEPP YEPP YP-T5H and YP-T5V: Bite-Sized MP3 Players

Smaller than a Bic lighter, Samsung’s new YEPP YP-T5H and YP-T5V are the being touted as the “World’s Smallest Flash Players” and, you know, they just might be. Available in both 128MB and 256MB versions, the included MP3/WMA/WAV playback, an FM-tuner and voice recording, plus a three-line LCD with a choice of seven different backlight…

Tech News Joel May 6

AllofMP3.com Impressions: Serious Contender

So I decided to bite the bullet and try out the Russian music download service AllofMP3.com this morning, and so far I’m fairly impressed, but not quite enough to recommend it to everyone…yet. The signup took forever, not because they wanted a lot of personal information, but simply because the confirmation email took what seemed…

Tech News Joel May 6

NHJ’s MPM-201 Personal Video Player Concept

Details are skimpy, to say the least, but I4U has information about a new personal video player from NHJ (which sells products under the V@MP brand, among others) called the MPM-201, reportedly equipped with a 20GB hard drive, SD slot, 3.5-inch TFT screen, built-in TV tuner and video encoding, and a USB 2.0 interface. It’s…

Tech News Joel May 6

Devil Duckie USB Flash Memory Drive

If you like your USB flash memory drives rubbery, expensive, and ugly, then Thinkgeek’s got the drive for you: this 256MB Devil Duck flash drive is available for $99, which as EverythingUSB points out, you could get a far-less-obnoxious Sandisk Cruzer Mini with 512MB for the same price. But hey, we all have our vices.…

Tech News Joel May 6

Wired’s NextFest Gadget Concepts

In a story that I’m sure will appeal to almost every single Gizmodo reader, Wired Magazine challenges five design groups to come up with their visions of gadgetry a decade from now—all speculation, of course, but we’ll all have forgotten it in ten years, anyhow. I especially like the idea of a series of folding,…

Tech News Joel May 6

Sony Preps EyeToy: Chat for E3

Sony announced another set of software for its web cam peripheral (and plans to show it at E3), called EyeToy: Chat. The idea is to turn the Playstation 2 into a big communications portal, with the ability to support up to 256 users simultaneously in text mode (IRC with a PS2 controller. Fun.), voice chat…

Tech News Joel May 6

Sony Ericsson P900 Layla: Good Thing It’s Just A Prototype

Slashphone takes a look at the Sony Ericsson ‘Layla’ prototype—the one we all got a little too worked up about a few days ago—and decides, you know, maybe that flip down keyboard might not be too comfortable to use. I have to admit, as much as I am a keyboard advocate, when I first saw…

Tech News Joel May 6

Fair Use: Everybody Bends the Rules

Won’t it be funny if the FCC’s end-user rights-limiting Broadcast Flag screws up Colin Powell’s (father of FCC Chairman and Gizmodo-reader Michael Powell) nightly TiVo regimen? It’s not that ridiculous to see a simple progression from regulation blocking DVRs’ ability to record HDTV streams to regulation blocking DVRs’ ability to do other things, like, I…

Tech News Joel May 6

Haking DC 400S Series

I’m dubious of every single electronics company on the planet that makes binoculars with the cheesy digital cameras mounted in the middle, but so far these Haking DC 400S Series cameras do look all right. They aren’t the thinnest cameras ever, but 15-millimeters isn’t bad for a 4-megapixel, especially when most other super-thin cheap cameras…

Tech News Joel May 6

Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes

The Times’ Circuits section accidentally reports about something interesting this morning when they talk about the development of the new ‘Adidas 1’ self-adapting running shoe. Although the article is too busy getting quotes from Rob Enderle to actually break down what exactly the shoes do to adapt, I was able to triangulate that an internal…

Tech News Joel May 6

Consider This Our Safety Moment

If you’re going to have an accident with a nail gun, try not to do it six times. Isidro Mejia, 39, had four nails penetrate his skull — three went into his brain — in the April 19 accident, according to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center. Another of the nails lodged in his vertebral column…

Tech News Joel May 6

iRiver’s New iFP-700 and iFP-800 Series Flash Players

iRiver has dropped two new top-end flash memory music players, both with options up to 1GB. The iFP-700 and iFP-800 series are, functionally, pretty much the same as iRiver’s other, older flash players, with MP3/OGG/WMA playback, MP3 recording, FM tuner and encoder, and the ability to work with most WMA-DRM music files from Those Music…

Tech News Joel May 6

Electrolux Trilobite Robotic Floor Vac Review (Bunny Not Included)

Pocket-Lint got their hands on a Electrolux Trilobite, a cheeky British robot vacuum similar to (inspired by? Update: Apparently not, says the entire country of Dutchland) the iRobot Roomba. For something that costs 1000, you’d think it might merit a slightly better score in a review, but the Trilobite is apparently sort of skittish; its…

Tech News Joel May 6

NEC’s Lavie N iBook Clone

Sending MMS To Friends on Other Networks

T-Mobile UK’s Exclusive Sharp TM100 Slider

Vulcan Chooses Transmeta to Power FlipStart

Hey, Hey! 16K

First DVD+R DL Review: Might Want To Hold Off For a Bit

Navy Robot Drone Goes AWOL

Samsung’s YEPP YEPP YP-T5H and YP-T5V: Bite-Sized MP3 Players

AllofMP3.com Impressions: Serious Contender

NHJ’s MPM-201 Personal Video Player Concept

Devil Duckie USB Flash Memory Drive

Wired’s NextFest Gadget Concepts

Sony Preps EyeToy: Chat for E3

Sony Ericsson P900 Layla: Good Thing It’s Just A Prototype

Fair Use: Everybody Bends the Rules

Haking DC 400S Series

Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes

Consider This Our Safety Moment

iRiver’s New iFP-700 and iFP-800 Series Flash Players

Electrolux Trilobite Robotic Floor Vac Review (Bunny Not Included)

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