Hewlett-Packard

HP Pavilion DV2 Laptop Now Available At A Svelte $749

We spotted HP’s sleek, powerful, 12-inch DV2 back at CES, and now it’s finally available for sale for only $749. It’s packing some pretty impressive specs at that price point. https://gizmodo.com/hp-pavilion-dv2-notebook-is-hps-first-12-inch-full-fun-5124141 The DV2, which checks in at under an inch thick and less than 4 pounds, is HP’s best combination of portability, power, and price…

A Lesson in Gadget Product Placement, Courtesy of Scooter Smiff

Moderately musical little person Scooter Smiff has helpfully demonstrated, point by point, how not to endorse gadgets in your music video. 1. Get a company’s flagship phone I understand that Scooter Smiff’s audience is probably as young as he is and doesn’t buy many massive smartphones, but if you’ve got to shill for a BlackBerry,…

Sony Recalls Battery Packs Found in HP, Toshiba and Dell Laptops

Today HP, Toshiba, and Dell issued a recall of 100,000 Sony battery packs found in their laptops sold between 2004 and 2006. Only 35,000 battery packs were affected in the U.S, with an additional 65,000 batteries recalled worldwide. Out of the 40 reported incidents, only 19 incidents have been in the U.S., thus affecting a…

HP Shows Off Two New iPaq Phones: One Touch, One Not

HP’s rumored touchscreen handset has showed up in the for of the iPaq Data Communicator, a pop-out QWERTY Windows Mobile handset, with a solid but predictable spec sheet. You’ll find a full range of 3G capabilities, Wi-Fi, a-GPS, a 3.1MP camera with autofocus and flash all behind a 2.8in, 320 x 240 screen, controlled with…

HP Planning Touchscreen Laptops, New Netbooks and a Touch Phone, Like, Now

HP does pretty well for itself nowadays, consistently leading the market in notebook sales. According to the Wall Street Journal, though, they want to diversify. A lot. In a scattershot semi-announcement, the company said it is working in three new directions. Long-rumored touchscreen notebooks, likely to feature HP’s second-gen TouchSmart interface, are due before the…

VoodooPC Will Survive, But Confirms “Integration” into HP

I just got off the phone with Rahul Sood, founder of VoodooPC, who confirmed that the rumors of Voodoo’s demise were not just premature but “nonsense,” but said “HP is asking us to integrate into the larger execution engine.” Rahul is comfortable speaking both plainly and in business-ese—what we take this to mean is that…

New HP Notebooks Boast Hi-Def 16:9 Screens

HP has dropped two notebooks catering to portable home theater addicts. Both computers run Windows Vista SP1 and come with Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 processors, Nvidia GeForce 9600M graphics chips, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a DVD±R/RW drive. The HDX16 has a 16-inch 1366×768 pixel Brightview display and comes with a 320GB hard…

HP Gaming Mice Have 5 Programmable Profiles, 5 Macro Buttons

HP has two new mice out dedicated to gaming. The HDX Laser Mouse gives you five mouse setting profiles, five programmable macro buttons, and is allegedly eight times faster than conventional mice. The slightly more advanced Laser Gaming Mouse with Voodoo DNA gives you everything the regular laser mouse has, plus HP’s VoodooDNA GUI software…

3.5-Inch Digital Photo Frame from HP Small but Chic

There’s been a slew of Hewlett Packard products over the past few days and, although this digital picture frame is probably the smallest of the bunch, it’s pretty damn cute. Available in Europe at the moment, the frame has QGVA resolution, is SD-, SDHC- and MMC-compatible, can hold up to 45 pictures, and costs $76.…

HP Pavillion DV Series Notebooks Redesigned with Magic Chrome, Blu-ray, HD Tuners and More

HP overhauled its feature-packed consumer DV notebooks, the familiar black-and-silver ID getting a “magic chrome” enhancement: otherwise invisible controls light-up when touched. It’s the first new look for the Pavilion line since 2006. The entire line features HD tuners, Blu-ray drives, webcams, fingerprint readers and built-in 3G internet. Here’s a closer look at the line,…

Bill Gates Says White Space Is for Free Wi-Fi; Broadcasters Want License and Regulation

Referring to Microsoft’s desire to use soon-to-be-opened broadcasting bandwidth for low-powered unlicensed wireless devices, Bill Gates argued that it will make for improved Wi-Fi, a term he appears to be using as simply non-regulated, subscription-free wireless. He said: “We’re hopeful that that will be made available so that Wi-Fi can explode in terms of its…

I’d Rather Live in the Old Disney “House of the Future” Than the New One

Here’s two visions of our future home. One has wall-sized TVs, lots of plastic wares and all-electric grooming tools. The other, touchscreens everywhere, smart kitchen counters and auto-thermostats. The first is Disney’s vision of now back in 1957, the second, its re-vision of the House of the Future with Lifeware, HP and Microsoft, which is…

HP Updates MediaSmart Server, Adds Linux-Powered mv2120 Media Vault

The Skinny: The mv2120 Media Vault, a junior Linux-based server with the Photo Webshare and iTunes server functionality of its big brother but a much lower cost. (They’ll start at $300.) As for the big guy, he’s getting some much needed updates come February, including server-side anti-virus software from McAfee; improved media streaming to Media…

Voiscan Uses HP Technology to Scan Text and Speak It in Any Language

A South Korean company, Mouscan, is bringing out a handy little gizmo that scans text and then reads it aloud in any language. The Voiscan, which uses technology originally developed by Hewlett-Packard for its CapShare handheld scanning device way back in 1998, is quick and easy to use. All you do is wave the cellphone-sized…

HP to Outsource Digital Camera Business

Hewlett-Packard’s shifting the focus of its digital photo business from cameras to home printing and online photo services. Future cameras will still bear the HP branding, but they’ll be designed and manufactured by a licensed third party. The HP-but-not camera deal should be set with the ghost producer halfway into 2008—HP will keep selling their…

Dell got in bed with GOME Group, the Chinese equivalent of Best Buy, to improve poor sales in China. Lenovo is market leader with 35 percent; HP has around 12. By comparison, Dell’s market share is “single digit.” [Reuters]

Microsoft Google Dell Coalition “White Space” Prototypes Get Knocked By FCC: Device Gallery and Details

When Dell, Earthlink, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft and Philips got together to create a prototype “white space” device—that is, a box capable of two-way high-bandwidth wireless communication in the frequencies now occupied by analog TV signal—you would have thought the combined muscle would ensure success. But the White Spaces Coalition has failed its first test…

HP Goes for Gold at CES

No, it’s not just computers anymore folks. Look for good old Hewlett Packard to attack from all sides at CES this year, introducing 9 HD TVs (including LCD, microdisplay and plasma models), 4 consumer notebooks, a digital entertainment PC and 7 compact digital cameras. Wow. Now that’s a well-rounded company. The big “first” being touted,…

Gizmodo Ink

In the market for a TV set shaped like a baseball or a container of french fries? Designer TV manufacturer Hannspree sets up a boutique in San Francisco’s Union Square. [San Francisco Chronicle]. Japanese feds consider charging a royalty, destined to be called the iPod tax, on MP3 players. The tax would amount to 2%-5%…

Gizmodo Ink for August 24, 2005

The dailies weigh in on Intel’s new chip, USA Today educates you on the wonders of free HD radio, Hewlett-Packard powers R2-D2, Toshiba says there will never be peace between HD-DVD and Blue-Ray, and WSJ tries out HP’s new photo printer. Hewlett-Packard will supply George Lucas’ film and game companies with enough PCs, workstations, and…