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Celldar

Fascinating article in BusinessWeek about Celldar, a “passive” radar system that sort of piggybacks on the whole cellphone network to track almost any moving object anywhere. It works by using complex signal-processing software to interpret how signals from cellular base stations bounce off of and interact with boats, planes, cars, and maybe even people, and…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

Samsung’s dual-3G cellphone

Samsung is showing off what it is probably the first dual-3G cellphone, the SCH-W110, which works on two different 3G cellular networks, WCDMA and CDMA2000-1x EV-DO. Comes out in South Korea next month. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

Motorola TV

Your next TV might be a Motorola. The company, which is best known for its cellphones and two-way radios, is going to follow the lead of Gateway, Dell, and HP, and enter the flat-screen TV business. The article doesn’t say whether these will be plasma or LCD TVs, but they’re also going to start selling…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

The Mecca phone

LG’s new G5300 cellphone has a feature aimed specifically for the Middle Eastern market: a compass that can automatically point the user towards Mecca when it’s time for prayer. They eventually plan to expand sales of the phones to countries like Indonesia and Malaysia which also have large Moslem populations. Read [Via MobileBurn]

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

Times Square, annotated via handhelds

We haven’t had a chance to go and try this out yet ourselves, but a group of artists sponsored by Panasonic have created a special program for PDAs called PDPal which visitors to Times Square can download from a special kiosk on 42nd Street. They can then use the program to annotate their journey on…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

No Smartphone from Dell

Dell is dropping its plans to build a cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system: Chief operating officer Kevin Rollins said this week that the presence of Nokia would make handsets a difficult market to break into and that the sector is less attractive than other consumer devices because so much profit and balance of power…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

19-inch LCD monitor shootout

Speaking of multiple monitors, over at Xbit Laboratories there’s a lengthy head-to-head comparison of a whole slew of 19-inch LCD monitors, including three models from LG, three from Sony, two from Samsung, two from Iiyama, and one from NEC. Read [Via CompReviews.About.com]

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

Multiple monitors increase productivity

Anyone who has visited Gizmodo HQ will know why we’re posting about this: a study sponsored by NEC, ATI, and the University of Utah touting the productivity benefits of having multiple monitors connected to your PC. Normally we’d be somewhat suspect of a study like this, given that NEC (which makes monitors) and ATI (which…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

Creative’s PC Multimedia Remote Control

Monster Hardware review of Creative’s inexpensive, credit-card sized, PC Multimedia Remote Control for watching DVDs on your PC or controlling music software like WinAmp. We’re just perplexed as to why the IR receiver for the remote attaches to a PC using a serial, rather than a USB, connection. Read [Via DesignTechnica]

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

Fighting robots

And we’ve found a couple of robots that look like they could kick the QRIO‘s ass: the Morph3, which was built by researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan and can perform all sorts of martial arts moves, and Fujitsu’s HOAP-2 (pictured at right), which can assume Sumo wrestling stances and moves from…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

QRIO comes to America

Sony’s QRIO entertainment robot, which we last saw riding the train in Japan, is coming to America. Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei showed one off on Saturday at the Japan Society of Northern California, and said that they will probably start selling them in the US in about a year. Read [Via CacheOp]

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

Motorola’s new 3G video phone

Way, way back in January we gushed about Motorola’s A835 3G video cellphone, and then promptly never heard another word about it. Well, the A835 is finally coming out, and while it doesn’t quite have the 256MB of memory as we had initially reported (it has just 64MB), but it does have Bluetooth, a built-in…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 14

Keitai culture photo gallery

Justin Hall of The Feature went to Japan recently and has posted up a photo gallery of some of the amazing cellphone stuff he spotted there, like Sharp’s handset with a 3D display, a cellphone signal jammer on sale at the Tokyu Hands store, and our personal fave, a Back to the Future cellphone charger…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 13

Pay by cellphone in South Korea

Demonstrating once again how embarassingly far behind the cellphone industry is here in the US, in South Korea banks, credit card companies, and the cellular carriers have teamed up to make it possible for people to easily make purchases with their cellphones: Instead of handing over credit or debit cards that get swiped, users type…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 13

Casio’s postcard printer

IDG has a piece about the latest in “living room” technology, we’ve covered everything mentioned at one point or another except for Casio’s PCP-50 printer for making personalized postcards. Doesn’t need a PC either, the PCP-50 has a memory card slot for uploading photos and a keyboard for adding your message. Comes out in Japan…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 13

Also new from HP today

Besides those two new wireless iPAQ Pocket PCs, HP made a couple of other product announcements today, including a Bluetooth GPS module for Pocket PCs, and their new TC1100 Tablet PC, which has optional 802.11g for wireless networking. Read – iPAQ Navigation System Read – TC1100

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 13

Monkeys taught to control robotic arms

Scientists at Duke have taught monkeys with special brain implants how to control a robotic arm using just their minds. Which is kinda freaky when you think about it, though obviously this research could have some very positive benefits down the line: The technology could someday allow people with paralyzing spinal cord injuries to operate…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 13

The Show Center

We’re beginning to suspect that it isn’t too hard to make a digital media adapter; we seem to be hearing about a new one every week or so. The latest we’ve come across is the Show Center from Pinnacle, which has an Ethernet port for connecting your TV and stereo to your PC, and can…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 13

JVC’s first LCD TV

You’d almost think they’d already have one out, but JVC is coming out with its first flat-panel LCD TV, a 26-inch widescreen model called the LT-26WX84. Read [Via HomeTheater.About.com]

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 13

NASA’s laser powered model plane

NASA has been showing off a model airplane powered entirely by a laser positioned on the ground. This is undoubtedly interesting in and of itself, but because it means you could build a plane that doesn’t have to have any onboard fuel or batteries and could stay aloft indefinitely, the hope is that they’ll use…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 13

Celldar

Samsung’s dual-3G cellphone

Motorola TV

The Mecca phone

Times Square, annotated via handhelds

No Smartphone from Dell

19-inch LCD monitor shootout

Multiple monitors increase productivity

Creative’s PC Multimedia Remote Control

Fighting robots

QRIO comes to America

Motorola’s new 3G video phone

Keitai culture photo gallery

Pay by cellphone in South Korea

Casio’s postcard printer

Also new from HP today

Monkeys taught to control robotic arms

The Show Center

JVC’s first LCD TV

NASA’s laser powered model plane

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