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Panera Wireless Loungers

Gearbits has a short story about the technorati they’ve spied at the local Panera restaurants, taking advantage of the free WiFi and fountain drink refills. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen people mention hanging out in Panera; what other places do you hang out that provide free wireless? National chains would be useful in…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 12

Silverstone SDP01 6-in-1 Media Reader Could Use Extra Inches

The Silverstone SDP01 is, basically, just another 6-in-1 media reader that installs into a spare PC 3.5-inch bay. Its stand-out feature is the ability to eject its reader hardware from the bay for use as a portable media reader with a laptop (or other USB host device). Designtechnica finds it capable, with a few dangling…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 12

U.S. Robotics’ New Wireless Adapters

A couple new products launched from U.S. Robotics this week, and while they aren’t exactly ground breaking, it makes me happy to know that U.S. Robotics is shipping products again (I’m an old fan from the 1200 baud days). Both are 802.11g adapters, the first a USB 2.0 version for laptops or PCs, and the…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 12

D-Link Wireless Internet Tin Can Camera

The folks at Mobile PC Mag don’t think the D-Link Wireless Internet Camera is much to look at, describing it as “a tin can mounted on a stick.” And okay, I can’t argue with that, but it looks like a tin can that needs a hug to me. Either way, it streams video via 802.11b…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 12

Methinks Someone Was Stonethed

Someone has translated a scene from Shakespeare’s 12th Night into SMS txt shorthand: DUK RSNO 1s mor, Cesario, gt thee 2 yond same sovereign cruelty: tel her, my lov, mor noble thN D wrld, Prizes nt qty of drty lands; D parts dat fortuN hath bestow’d upon her, tel her, I hld as giddily as…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 12

Good Morning Rumor: Xbox Redesign?

Good morning, friends. Let’s start the day right, with wholly speculative rumor: I was at a concert for the band Linkin Park at the Meteora World tour about a month ago. After the show I went outside to meet Linkin Park and the opening band Story of the Year. After about 30 minutes of interesting…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 12

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Product Highlights • Bella DV Keyboard With Video Jog/Shuttle [Bella-USA] • LED Spinning iTop [Firebox] • Rollo Clown-Head Bike [RolloBikes] • World’s Smallest Flash Drive (Sort of) [AkibaLive] • ‘BossFrog’ Chinese Bluetooth Frogpad Keyboard [Frogpad] • Another Clackity Mac Keyboard [Kensington] • Another USB Headset with Built-in Sound [Logitech] • iPaq H6300 Specs and Release…

Tech News Joel Apr 11

LED Blues

Apparently not everyone thinks blue LEDs are as desirable as electronics manufacturers do. Globe and Mail’s Ian Johnson has his panties in a bind over the recent ubiquity of blue in consumer products and hopes their days of distracting him with their shiny shiny are numbered. Of course, I’ve just summarized the whole thing for…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 11

eBay: If Rice Is For Imports, Does That Make This Wheat?

If you, this weekend, will be staying home and being uncool (like me), take solace that you have purchased neither of these two items plucked from America’s cultural tawdriness barometer, eBay. If you have purchased either this fake supercharger or bogus turbocharger whistle, do not be ashamed. Be assured that few could resist such adroit…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

Sponsor Attack!

If it weren’t for sponsors, we couldn’t afford to throw away our computers every time they got dusty. If you’d like to advertise with Gizmodo, don’t be so shy. We’ve done this before. This week’s sponsors include: • Roku “The world’s coolest music player.” • Mirra Personal Server “Hands-free continuous backup”

Tech News Joel Apr 9

Homebrew Tatra G4 In-Car Computer

Computers in cars aren’t new; hell, you can buy one from Sony or Pioneer these days, if you want. But this homebrew job, ‘the Tatra Mac G4,’ is extraordinarily well put-together, right down to the live ethernet ports in the arm rest and the custom software that processes data gleaned from the car’s standard electronics.…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

SanDisk Cruzer Micro MP3 Companion

SanDisk has a new set of flash drives out, the ‘Cruzer Micro,’ in 128, 256 and 512MB sizes. I’m at the point where I wouldn’t even mention Yet Another Flash Drive, but SanDisk snuck in this marginally crafty Cruzer Micro MP3 companion, a AAA-powered music player that uses the flash drives as a storage medium.…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

First N-Gage 2 Pictures

Someone has leaked the first shots of Nokia’s next N-Gage iteration, and sadly all the reports are true: Sidetalkin’, the go-to joke of 2003 is no more. What’s more, there is also a proper MMC slot so that games can be inserted without removing the battery. Although this screenshot says it has a ‘Camera’ menu…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

Microsoft’s Groovy Special Ed Mice

Microsoft has three new special-edition wireless optical mice, designed to appeal to those that find current mouse styling (or good taste) boring. Styles include the ‘Groovy,’ ‘Immersion,’ and the ‘Night Vision,’ but fear not: Microsoft is asking users to vote for future special-edition finishes. Actually, go ahead and fear, because I just checked out all…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

NEC’s Credit Card Phone

Don’t get too riled up: this NEC N900 cameraphone is available only in China for now. Plus it can only be used with a headset, but that only makes the credit-card sized device a tiny bit less desirable. Read

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

Freecom FHD-XS External Hard Drive With Built-In USB Cable

Freecom Technologies has announced four external USB drives, including the good looking FHD-XS, a bus-powered 40GB 1.8-inch hard drive with an integreated USB cable. If 2003 was the year of Yet Another Flash Drive, I welcome 2004 as the year of Yet Another USB Hard Drive. Read

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

Indian Cellphone Explosion

Om Malik is in India doing some work and has blogged about the burgeoning Indian cellphone market. Apparently, it’s set to explode, with over 12 million new subscribers in just the last three months, and companies like Samsung, LG, and BenQ pushing new phones into the markets with great success. He also talks about using…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

Sony Ericsson’s Virtual Product Placement

Sony Ericsson’s P900 mobile phone is a featured product inside of Ubisoft’s new game Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, and one of Mobile9’s forum members grabbed a screen shot. It’s sort of sad that a high-tech super agent like Sam Fisher would use a modified commercial phone, but considering how much consumer hardware finds its way…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

More DS Mock-Ups and the Worst Scammer Ever

More DS mockups: That would be very hard to hold. [Thanks, Ali!] This one came from Joe Balardi (as well as a few others). Joe Balardi is the worst scammer ever. Gizmodo has a bounty out for the first Nintendo DS pics, right? We get lots of images sent in with crazy, inflated tales of…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

Rumor: Xbox 2 Hard Drive Also a Portable Music Player?

So apparently I got a sexy anonymous rumor yesterday morning, but Thunderbird’s wonky spam filtering decided it could wait to be posted until today. Regarding the Xbox 2 hard drive, I was snowboarding in Whistler, B.C. from February 19 – 26, 2004. We were in a bar called the Amsterdam Cafe in the village one…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Apr 9

Panera Wireless Loungers

Silverstone SDP01 6-in-1 Media Reader Could Use Extra Inches

U.S. Robotics’ New Wireless Adapters

D-Link Wireless Internet Tin Can Camera

Methinks Someone Was Stonethed

Good Morning Rumor: Xbox Redesign?

Other Bits

LED Blues

eBay: If Rice Is For Imports, Does That Make This Wheat?

Sponsor Attack!

Homebrew Tatra G4 In-Car Computer

SanDisk Cruzer Micro MP3 Companion

First N-Gage 2 Pictures

Microsoft’s Groovy Special Ed Mice

NEC’s Credit Card Phone

Freecom FHD-XS External Hard Drive With Built-In USB Cable

Indian Cellphone Explosion

Sony Ericsson’s Virtual Product Placement

More DS Mock-Ups and the Worst Scammer Ever

Rumor: Xbox 2 Hard Drive Also a Portable Music Player?

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