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The PRISMIQ Media Player/Recorder

PRISMIQ is coming out with a new version of their Media Player digital media adapter that will be able to record TV shows like a TiVo, not just stream audio and video files from a PC. The kicker is that the Media Player/Recorder won’t have a hard drive of its own — it’ll save everything…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 16

Digital pen roundup

Head-to-head review of Nokia’s SU-1B, Sony Ericsson’s CHA-30 Chatpen, and Logitech’s io Pen (pictured at right) three digital pens that can capture what you’re writing and either store it as a file or transmit it over Bluetooth to a cellphone or PC. You can even send emails directly from the Chatpen, though a monthly subscription…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 16

Three Motorola Smartphones next year: the MPx220, the MPx100, and the MPx300

MSMobiles reports that in addition to the MPx220 (which we wrote about the other day), there will be two more cellphones running on Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system from Motorola next year, the MPx100 and the MPx300. There are no details about when exactly the phones might come out or what features they might have. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 16

CompactFlash USB Host Adapter card for Pocket PCs

From Twin Paradox and Cypress Semiconductor, a new CompactFlash USB Host Adapter card for Pocket PCs with two USB ports for connecting peripherals like keyboards, printers, Flash memory drives, etc. Should be out in February of next year. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 16

Unlock doors with your cellphone

Not sure how old this is (looks like it surfaced last year), but Euro Electronics has a door lock that can be locked and unlocked using a cellphone. As if you needed another reason not to lose your phone. Read [Via The Red Ferret Journal]

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

The TAZ I gets better

They still don’t have any actual photos of it on their site, but Tight Systems has made a few improvements to the specs of their forthcoming TAZ I personal video player. It’s still gonna be able to play MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, and DivX video formats and MP3 and Ogg Vorbis audio formats and have a…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

First review of the Sony Ericsson T630

Three part review on PowerPage of the T630, Sony Ericsson’s successor to the T610, which promises to be a highly sought after phone when it comes out here early next year. Besides having Bluetooth, reviewer Jason O’Grady says that, The main benefits of the T630 are the new 65,000-color TFT display, QuickShare picture sharing technology…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

The TransPod FM

A new combination car mount/charger/FM transmitter from DLO for listening to your third-generation iPod on your car stereo. The TransPod FM even plugs into your cigarette lighter so you don’t have to drain the iPod’s batteries. Comes out on Wednesday. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

The Zukero V3

Unusual little gadget from Swiss company Smartdata called the ZukeroV3 which is basically a Bluetooth dongle which plugs into a stereo, connects to a compatible cellphone over Bluetooth, and then uses the phone’s GPRS data connection to stream audio over the Internet. We’re not sure how well it works, but certainly one of the more…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

Verizon’s second cameraphone

Verizon has only just come out with their second cameraphone, the Audiovox CDM-8900 (which has a 0.3 megapixel camera with self-timer), and Alan Reiter isn’t too impressed with it. Anyway, you should be able to pick up the CDM-8900 for just $99.99 with a two-year service contract. Read – VerizonWireless.com Read – Reiter’s Camera Phone…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

Toshiba’s even tinier hard drive

Toshiba is outdoing themselves, topping the one-inch hard drive they plan to show off at the Consumer Electronics Show next month with today’s announcement that they’re working on a nickel-sized (0.85-inch) hard drive that can store up to 3GB of data. Mass production won’t start until next year, but the sooner they get these into…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

The PSX arrives

The PSX, Sony’s extreme version of the PlayStation 2 with a DVD burner and a hard drive for recording TV shows, came out in Japan last week, and apparently it’s turning out to be a bit of a disappointment. We mentioned the other day how Sony removed some features from the PSX at the last…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

SPOT watch review

Over at Microsoft Monitor, one of the first reviews of a wristwatch using Microsoft’s new Smart Personal Object Technology, or SPOT. SPOT uses FM radio subcarrier frequencies to wirelessly deliver information like the weather, news, and stock quotes to a whole variety of devices besides watches, like refrigerators, alarm clocks, and coffee makers. Curiously, the…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

Illegal convergence

Blah, blah, blah, by now we’re totally bored with this whole convergence thing — we get it, you can stream movies and MP3s from your PC to your TV over a home network. News.com is running a story about all this stuff that provides a good overview, but isn’t all that interesting except for the…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

AT&T Wireless explains itself

As requested (read: ordered) by the FCC, AT&T Wireless has explained why they’ve had so many problems implenting number portability (many customers had to wait a week or more to successfully switch to or from AT&T). They’re blaming it on the company they hired to handle switchovers for them and not enough testing of the…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

Phoning it in

Yes, cellphones really are everywhere, but that said, you still have to be surprised when a football player uses one in the middle of an NFL game: New Orleans Pro Bowl receiver Joe Horn celebrated his second touchdown against the New York Giants on Sunday by making a cell-phone call in the end zone. After…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 15

Going to CES? Gizmodo needs you

Gizmodo is hitting the big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month, and since the show is far too big for one man (i.e. me) to cover effectively, we’re looking for correspondents willing to file field reports along the lines of what Dave Weinstein did for us last year (Dave, write us if you’re…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 14

The tiny T-Cube

Speaking of cubes, there’s a tiny new full-functioning PC the size (and color) of an orange. The T-Cube, as it’s called, runs on the T-Engine operating system and is being targeted mainly at the Chinese market. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 14

A G5 Cube?

Apparently there has been some speculation about whether or not Apple might introduce a Cube version of their Power Mac G5 desktop (to be honest, we hadn’t noticed). Anyway, there’s an article over at Kuro5hin explaining why the original G4 Cube failed and why a G5 Cube is equally unlikely to succeed, (not that it…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 14

The week in Gizmodo

In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: The i-Duck Warchalking + Bluejacking = Bluechalking? Rickshaw cellphones in India Calculighters Sony’s prototype cellphone WiFi BlackBerry coming Eyeball cam The bone phone Bring your videophone to the movies, go to jail. At least in California The Executive Laptop Steering…

Tech News Gizmodo Dec 14

The PRISMIQ Media Player/Recorder

Digital pen roundup

Three Motorola Smartphones next year: the MPx220, the MPx100, and the MPx300

CompactFlash USB Host Adapter card for Pocket PCs

Unlock doors with your cellphone

The TAZ I gets better

First review of the Sony Ericsson T630

The TransPod FM

The Zukero V3

Verizon’s second cameraphone

Toshiba’s even tinier hard drive

The PSX arrives

SPOT watch review

Illegal convergence

AT&T Wireless explains itself

Phoning it in

Going to CES? Gizmodo needs you

The tiny T-Cube

A G5 Cube?

The week in Gizmodo

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