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Samsung MediaLive Streams Windows Media to Televisions

We first saw it back at CES branded as the Samsung Home Digital Media Adapter. Now it’s been rebranded as MediaLive. Essentially a media streamer, the Samsung MediaLive connects to televisions via HDMI and can stream A/V from Windows systems including AC3, H.264, JPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMA, and WMV over LAN or Wi-Fi (up to…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Samsung 8 Series 850 and 860 Slim LCDs: 1.9 Inches Thick, with Ethernet and a “Touch of Color”

Going for thin and pretty, Samsung launched its Series 8 LCDs—the 850 and 860 models—with new bodies that are just 1.9-inches thick at the middle, and thinner on the ends. The 120Hz sets also come with a “Touch of Color” thanks to injection molding—rose for the 850 and deep blue for the 860. A USB…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

More Details on Samsung Series 7 Plasmas

We heard about ’em back at CES, but Samsung has released pricing and availability info on their upcoming Series 7 plasma line. The 1080p displays feature 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast, DNIe Pro image processing, Ethernet for their Infolink RSS and 4 HDMI ports. Available this August, they can be yours for $2,800 (50″), $4,500 (58″) and…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

USB Watch is Deconstructed Electronic Geekiness In Action

This concept USB watch, dubbed “Timeless” is either a fabulously ironic piece of deconstructivist electronic art, or a geeky overload. Whichever way you look at it, it’s kinda neat: basically it’s a simple digital watch, with an internal battery that’s charged when you plug it into a USB socket. And then the same USB socket…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

DIY Home Laser Show Reacts To Music, Probably Won’t Incinerate Your Eyes

For those of you who’re into a little bit of creative electronics as well as fancying yourself as a bit of a mean DJ, this DIY laser light show may be just the thing to spice up your parties. Not only will the project spray laser light around (and who doesn’t like laser light shows?)…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Scientists Make First Paper-Based Transistor

A team at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal have produced the world’s first field-effect transistor based on paper. The paper layer acts as an “interstrate”, with the actual FET components being fabricated onto both sides: so the paper holds the transistor together and acts as an insulator. Amazingly in tests the paper transistor performed…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung and Motorola Agree on Amimon Whole-House Wireless HD Standard

Be happy: A new wireless HD video standard guarantees that major brands including Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung and Motorola will have interoperable wireless video streaming. Amimon-the chip makers behind the “video modem” wireless HD tech we’ve been seeing on and off for the last few years, and most recently in Belkin’s Flywire-is announcing the WHDI…

Gadgets John Mahoney

Are Extra-Widescreen 2.35:1 TVs the Future?

Over at Sound and Vision Mag they’re asking exactly this question, and there’s a lot of logic behind it. Current flat-screen TV tech favors the 16:9 (or 1.78:1) dimension ratio, but many movies are shot in Cinemascope 2.35:1, around 32% wider. That’s why you still see letterboxing on your HDTV, or the frames are cropped…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

40 Honest Gadget Ads That Won’t Be Convincing Many People to Buy Anything

Last week, I called on you to create and submit some brutally honest gadget ads. And you did! While I’d say about half of the entries were ads for the iPhone 3G (I get it guys, you want copy and paste), we also got some pretty awesome ads for other devices. From the predictable (red-ringing…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Font Conference Shows Your Fonts as People, and They Are Ridiculous

In a world where fonts are people, Times New Roman is king. But also, Wingdings is annoying and talks in gibberish, Arial Narrow is a racist, and Futura is a sexy lady from the future. How awesome is this? Click to view [CollegeHumor]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Nokia E71 to Hit Flagship Stores This Week

We’d previously suggested a May 8th date for the much-anticipated Nokia E71 cellphone, but it looks like the actual US launch is about to happen. Rumors are that Nokia’s Flagship Store in Chicago has already got its first shipment, and has been contacting customers on the waiting list. The dual band WCDMA phone is apparently…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

NEC’s Minority Report-Style Display Tailors Adverts For You (Verdict: Frankenads)

It may be tired to bring up Minority Report, but remember the scenes in the movie where our hero gets bothered by interactive targeted advertising wherever he goes? Thanks to dear ol’ NEC, this nightmare of advert pestering may really be in our future: its new ad display panel watches its watchers with a camera,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Garmin’s New Nuvi 500 GPS Does Driving, Walking, Boating Nav in One Unit

Garmin has just announced a new member of the Nuvi GPS range, the 500 series. In a first for Nuvi, the rugged, waterproof 500 units are specifically designed to be multipurpose, with maps for driving, walking, cycling and boating built in. For out-doorsy types, there’s a shaded digital elevation map option, and a dedicated compass…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

The Best, Weirdest, and Most Wonderful Gadget Designs of 2008

Click to viewThe 2008 International Design Excellence Awards are in. These are like the Oscars of the industrial design world, taking the pulse of what’s going on, highlighting tons of weird and wonderful gadgets. We have picked the best, the weirdest, and the most wonderful, from laser liners that look like Wall-E’s Eve evil twin,…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Toy Rocket Inspires Design of Variable-Speed Bullets

Repurposing the design of a kid’s toy rocket into an innovative gun may sound pretty dark, but it creates a weapon with selectable lethality. Rockets made by Lund and Company Invention of Chicago use a liquid hydrogen variable fuel-air mix to give a selectable-power launch, and now the US Army is funding research to apply…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Rear-View Mirror GPS To Come to US, Named SmartMirror

Previously named the DS400GB, the SmartMirror is a GPS system that is mounted in place of your conventional rear-view mirror, and has a rear-facing cam input. With Navigon Mobile Navigator 6.5 inside, it’s got “reality view”, a 4-inch touchscreen, integrated speakers and Bluetooth and takes SD cards. It’s actually got two inputs for rear-view cameras,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony Pushes Out Three New Walkman Phones, the W302, W902 and W595

It’s the third birthday of Sony Ericsson‘s Walkman phone label, and to celebrate it’s launching three new music-based cellphones. The W302 and W902 (left, center in the image) are both candybar cells, with the 302 having an FM radio, and 2-megapixel cam, and the 902 with a 5-megapixel cam and apparently matching the high audio…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Osram Pushes White LEDS to World-Record Brightness, Super Efficiency

It’s an interesting week in the world of LEDs: on the weekend we heard about ultra-cheap ones, and today Osram (yes, the lightbulb people) has news that they’ve pushed white LEDs to world-record brightness. By optimizing the diode, light converter and the package, their lab test squeezed 500 lumens out of a single LED at…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Canon Updates HD Palmcorders With HF11, HG21 Versions

Canon’s AVCHD HF10 camcorder got an excellent reception earlier this year, and now Canon have tweaked it slightly into the upcoming HF11 version. The most important tweaks are doubling the internal storage from 16GB to 32GB and the addition of a 24Mbps high quality MXP imaging mode. Otherwise, most features of the camera remain the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Michael Arrington Wants Help Designing a $200 Open Source Internet Tablet

Michael Arrington wants a $200 touchscreen internet tablet. So do a lot of people. Unlike a lot of people, Arrington is loaded and runs TechCrunch. So he’s taking it into his own hands and putting out a call for people to help him design a cheapo open source touchscreen tablet that would launch right into…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Samsung MediaLive Streams Windows Media to Televisions

Samsung 8 Series 850 and 860 Slim LCDs: 1.9 Inches Thick, with Ethernet and a “Touch of Color”

More Details on Samsung Series 7 Plasmas

USB Watch is Deconstructed Electronic Geekiness In Action

DIY Home Laser Show Reacts To Music, Probably Won’t Incinerate Your Eyes

Scientists Make First Paper-Based Transistor

Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung and Motorola Agree on Amimon Whole-House Wireless HD Standard

Are Extra-Widescreen 2.35:1 TVs the Future?

40 Honest Gadget Ads That Won’t Be Convincing Many People to Buy Anything

Font Conference Shows Your Fonts as People, and They Are Ridiculous

Nokia E71 to Hit Flagship Stores This Week

NEC’s Minority Report-Style Display Tailors Adverts For You (Verdict: Frankenads)

Garmin’s New Nuvi 500 GPS Does Driving, Walking, Boating Nav in One Unit

The Best, Weirdest, and Most Wonderful Gadget Designs of 2008

Toy Rocket Inspires Design of Variable-Speed Bullets

Rear-View Mirror GPS To Come to US, Named SmartMirror

Sony Pushes Out Three New Walkman Phones, the W302, W902 and W595

Osram Pushes White LEDS to World-Record Brightness, Super Efficiency

Canon Updates HD Palmcorders With HF11, HG21 Versions

Michael Arrington Wants Help Designing a $200 Open Source Internet Tablet

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

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Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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