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Sony Reader Q&A

Alexander Turcic sat down with a Sony product manager with a boatload of questions courtesy of the forumites over at Mobileread. Still wondering about the Sony Reader? This Q&A will likely answer all of your questions. Everything from file formats, PDF info, CONNECT service, power, operating system, audio, RSS and DRM are covered. There is…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Aug 11

Kangaroo TV: Jump Around to Many Places at Once

Now you can go to a car race and see and hear just about everything that’s going on with Kangaroo TV, a handheld device that can stream 10 live MPEG4 video channels along with audio feeds and data. It’s being rolled out first at racetracks, where fans like to hear the radio chatter between pit…

Gadgets Charlie White Aug 11

Aptera Concept Car: 330mpg, Under $20K

Yeah, you’re laughing at this weird-looking half-egg-shaped concept car now, but when gasoline costs $10 a gallon not too long from now, this 330 mile-per-gallon Aptera concept car might start looking pretty damn good. It cops that high-mpg efficiency with a fuel-sipping diesel engine lashed onto hybrid technology, coupled with its wind-slippery aerodynamics and 850-pound…

Gadgets Charlie White Aug 11

Electrolux Cyber fridge: Yet Another Solution in Search of a Problem

Here’s the next generation of that goofy idea of combining computers and refrigerators, the Electrolux Cyber fridge, whose next-gen innovation is its LCD screen mounted atop the box instead of on the door. Smart thinkin’, Electrolux, because now that crowd of people reading email, buying and ordering food and reading Gizmodo in the kitchen won’t…

Gadgets Charlie White Aug 11

VIVOphone VoiceKey: Skype Gets Even Easier

Voice-over IP (VoIP) gets easier to deal with every day as the old-skool phone companies shake in their boots, and here’s the next nail in their coffin from VIVOphone, the VoiceKey which is scarcely larger than a thumb drive. It’s so tiny that VIVOphone calls it the world’s smallest VoIP adapter, and it works with…

Gadgets Charlie White Aug 11

Apple iPod Ads: Too Racy for the USA

Sometimes living in the United States is downright oppressive. The terrorists want our whole society to vanish, and the advertisements are dumbed down and scrubbed clean for the sake of a few highly vocal prudes. Not so in the Czech Republic, where the copy accompanying this iPod advertisement reads, “iPod, the best ‘partner’ for this…

Tech News Charlie White Aug 11

Koss Cobalt Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

These Koss Cobalt headphones look like the perfect headphones for travel, as long as you’re not traveling on a plane. The around-the-ear style headphones fold up for easy storage, and come with a USB dongle for your computer and a headphone dongle for your non-Bluetooth MP3 player. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-zune-vs-heightened-airport-security-193480 The Cobalt allows you to go up…

Gadgets Jason Chen Aug 10

How To: Put a Computer In Your Car

Over at the Corsair RAM Forums, there’s a step by step guide to putting a computer in your car. The author starts with components, like a case that sips on the 12-volts from your car battery. Then he goes on to suggest optical and hard drives, a Mini ITX motherboard from VIA, and a 7-inch…

Gadgets Brian Lam Aug 10

Thanko BINOCA01 Recording Binoculars

These Thanko binoculars zooms up to 7×48, captures video at15FPS VGA resolution, and still pictures at 2 megapixels with up to 2048×1536 resolution. Perfect for capturing owls, owls nests, owl mating, owl babies, and other owl-related scenes. The binocu-cams are powered by two AAA batteries and have only 32MB of built in flash memory. And…

Gadgets Jason Chen Aug 10

Fred-o-Vision Retro TV Alarm Clock

This alarm clock will be either cool as hell, or annoying—I haven’t decided yet. It is housed in a retro-style television and will play back old game show themes and sounds to awake you in the mornings. It displays color changing text patterns that would easily get annoying while trying to sleep. Luckily it includes…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Aug 10

Lubix Pendant-Style Bluetooth Headset

The UBHS-NC1 by Lubix can be worn around the neck as a pendant or inserted into the ears as a standard headset. It’s got 6 hours of talk time, 5 hours of music and 80 hours of standby. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like it “works” in pendant mode, meaning, you can’t use it as a…

Gadgets Jason Chen Aug 10

LogiNoki, The Nokia 6610 + Logitech G5 Hybrid

This Frankenstein of a mod is the LogiNoki, a Nokia 6610 LCD stuffed inside a Logitech G5 mouse. Why anyone would want to create such a thing is beyond me, but then again, I voted Kodos. Apparently the projecte was inspired by years of trying to figure out how to put a fan inside of…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Aug 10

BenQ LinkPro: Wirelessly Transmit Presentations to Projectors

The BenQ LinkPro is compatible with BenQ’s MP620, MP770 and MP720p projectors and wireless transmits what’s on a PC’s display to any of the aforementioned projectors. Obviously, the main benefit is that you’re no longer tethered to a cable in order to get that wildly entertaining, if not immensely informative, PowerPoint presentation onto the wall.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Aug 10

Super Mario Robot: Remote Controlled by Japanese NES Joypad

More remote controlled goodness! This little Mario action figure walks when you mash on the joypad—a Japanese NES (or Famicon) replica controller. He knows how to go forward, backward, left and right. No fireballs or jumping, unfortunately. There’s a picture of the Toad version, and a video of the toy in action, after the jump.…

Gadgets Brian Lam Aug 10

Don’t Break the Bottle: Make Them Dance for their Dinner, Too

Don’t Break the Bottle is designed to exasperate your guests, making them work for their opportunity to imbibe. It fits on any standard wine bottle, and nobody drinks until that puzzle is solved, one way or another. Please, don’t invite me to any parties where I must somehow solve a puzzle to get to the…

Gadgets Charlie White Aug 10

No Shock/Aromatherapy Door Handles: Opium Scent? Huh?

At first glance, we thought these door handles made by supplier of door handles to yachts free:go were the same as the lighted door handles we’ve mentioned before, but no, these unusual knobs have a dual purpose: they’re soft and elastic to the touch, and they also emit an allegedly pleasant aroma. https://gizmodo.com/lighted-door-handle-189021 Ahh, aromatherapy,…

Gadgets Charlie White Aug 10

TV Shopping Cart Entertains Kids, Kills Dad’s Integrity

This bright blue and green Barney shopping cart is a little more than meets the eye. It is equipped with a small LCD television that can play Barney, Bob the Builder or The Wiggles for the kiddos while the parents shop. The child seats on this cart are in the front closer to the ground…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Aug 10

Analog Projection Clock: See-Through, Old Skool

Projection clocks are dime a dozen, but this one’s different, tossing a good old-fashioned analog clock face onto the wall that can be up to 3 feet in diameter. It has an 80-watt halogen bulb doing the shining, which must mean it’s too bright to be destined for your nightstand. It’s actually not a bad-looking…

Gadgets Charlie White Aug 10

General Electric Vapor Tracer: An Electronic Bloodhound for Busting Druglords

This, my friend, is the Vapor Tracer, a device being used in the drug wars to sniff out narcotics. Its nose is a mass spectrometry sensor, which finds little bags of cocaine in your ass by detecting the “mass-to-charge ratio of ions”. Yeah, neither do we. Anyhow, it’s the coolest of all the hardware in…

Gadgets Brian Lam Aug 10

Fly Wheels XPV: Flying Remote Controlled Car

This remote controlled car looks like a little Moller Skycar for a reason. It zooms over grass, concrete, and dirt. But at 20MPH, it goes airborne. Whoosh! During flight, the vehicle can reach heights of 20 stories at 30MPH. And the racer only costs 60 bucks (plus $20 for a rechargeable battery that’ll last 10…

Gadgets Brian Lam Aug 9

Sony Reader Q&A

Kangaroo TV: Jump Around to Many Places at Once

Aptera Concept Car: 330mpg, Under $20K

Electrolux Cyber fridge: Yet Another Solution in Search of a Problem

VIVOphone VoiceKey: Skype Gets Even Easier

Apple iPod Ads: Too Racy for the USA

Koss Cobalt Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

How To: Put a Computer In Your Car

Thanko BINOCA01 Recording Binoculars

Fred-o-Vision Retro TV Alarm Clock

Lubix Pendant-Style Bluetooth Headset

LogiNoki, The Nokia 6610 + Logitech G5 Hybrid

BenQ LinkPro: Wirelessly Transmit Presentations to Projectors

Super Mario Robot: Remote Controlled by Japanese NES Joypad

Don’t Break the Bottle: Make Them Dance for their Dinner, Too

No Shock/Aromatherapy Door Handles: Opium Scent? Huh?

TV Shopping Cart Entertains Kids, Kills Dad’s Integrity

Analog Projection Clock: See-Through, Old Skool

General Electric Vapor Tracer: An Electronic Bloodhound for Busting Druglords

Fly Wheels XPV: Flying Remote Controlled Car

HP Laptop With Microsoft 365 Hits Record Low After Multiple Price Cuts, Now Cheaper Than A16 iPad

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