Gadgets

Samsung’s 500GB HDD and 250GB/7200 RPM HDD For Laptops

Today Samsung announced that two new laptop hard drives, the Spinpoint M2 and M6, are ready to ship with specs that offer a 2.5-inch 250GB HDD with a 7200rpm rotation and SATA II 3.0Gbps along with a 500GB HDD with a 5400rpm spindle speed, 8MB cache, and 3.0Gbps SATA respectively. That makes the M2 one…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Study Says Gadget Buyers Are Assertive and Arrogant

Don’t just take author Douglas Coupland’s word that you’re an asshole, there’s now an online study of 25,000 people that confirms what we’ve all been thinking. https://gizmodo.com/gen-x-author-douglas-coupland-claims-that-technology-ma-371280 Apparently, people who are early adopters of technology score high on personality traits like assertiveness, but low in modesty. Those who have high points in assertiveness and leadership…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Insider Vid Shows WowWee Femisapien Fembot Knows All the Moves

The Sega E.M.A. fembot we showed you on the weekend is really the WowWee Femisapien, and WowWee has just popped up a couple of "insider videos" of it in action. They show the cleverer parts of the tech, and get Femisapien doing a little swashbuckling: though the two ‘bots are just going through a set…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Panasonic’s New Blu-ray Discs are World’s First 6x Speed Burnable

Panasonic is doing its part to see Blu-ray make even more of a success with its new LM-BR25MD and LM-BR50MD disks for home disc-burning. Both are single-sided, write-once BD-Rs, compatible with Blu-ray Disc Recordable Format version 1.3, and they’re 25GB and 50GB-sized. They’ll be released in Japan in July, at a price of $15 for…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sprint Drops Samsung Instinct Price Again: Now $129 After Rebate

Sprint is trying to set some kind of sales record with its exclusive Samsung Instinct: The fun little don’t-call-it-an-iPhone feature phone goes on sale June 20 priced at $129 after a $100 mail-in rebate. A week ago, we reported that the price had fallen from $299 to $199. Honestly, I can safely say there’s no…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Philips’ SA2840 GoGear PMP is Shuffle-esque, Squeezes in a Screen

Laughing in the face of the clip-on Coolman MP3 player and almost widdling in the trousers of the iPod shuffle itself is Philips’ new GoGear SA2840 PMP. It’s petite, clip-on and comes with a 4-line screen. Yup, even though it’s just 1.6-inches square and 0.6-inches deep its got a 128 x 64 pixel OLED and…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

First Recording of Computer Music Found. Verdict: Catchy, But You Can’t Dance to It

A recent dig around in the BBC’s archives has resulted in an unexpected find: recordings made in 1951 of a Ferranti Mark 1 computer playing tunes. Predating what was thought previously to be the first (on a Bell Labs IBM mainframe in 1957) the tapes were made during a recording of Children’s Hour in Manchester…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Panasonic’s New HD Camcorders World’s First With 3-MOS Sensors

Back in January we showed the Panasonic HDC-SD9 camcorder, which has a 3-CCD sensor, but the HDC-SD100 and HDC-HS100 announced today have a spanky new MOS system. This makes them the world’s first AVCHD camcorders with “3MOS,” which has double the light-receiving area of the CCD version, better for low-light shooting. The HS100 model records…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Violent, Anti-Social and Totally Illegal Gadgets You Won’t Find at Best Buy

Last week, I invited you to design some gadgets that, if they actually existed, would be totally illegal. While the response wasn’t as big as our amazing unlikely spokesperson contest, we still got some pretty solid, albeit f’ed up, entries. Hit the jump to see the top three winners and the rest of the winning…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Sony Ericsson’s HSPA Modems Triple-Up as Card Readers, GPS Receiver

Sony Ericsson is joining the mobile internet dongle game with the new MD400 and MD400g USB modems. Both are pretty diminutive, and pack a folding antenna and retracting USB plug to keep the size down, and both have HSPA connectivity with 7.2Mb/s download and 2.0Mb/s upload speeds. They also have card-reader slots, for MemoryStick Micro…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony Ericsson C905 8.1-Megapixel Cybershot Phone Gets Official Specs

Twice we’ve brought you leaked info on Sony Ericsson’s upcoming C905 cellphone, and today at last Sony came good with official specs. The camera in its slider body is indeed an 8.1-megapixel one, with xenon flash, auto-focus, face detection and image stabilization. The phone’s also pretty full-featured, and is GPS-ready, with a 2.4-inch TFT screen…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Samsung’s Soulb is Soul-Like in Spirit, But with B-Grade

Not so many weeks ago Blam was complimenting the Samsung Soul cellphone for its clever OLED touchpad, and already Samsung is capitalizing on the Soul name with a new phone. But the Soulb isn’t a patch on the original “Spirit of Ultra” phone. Instead it’s kind of a B-grade pale echo: that neat haptic touchpad…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Talking Twittering Teddy Bear is Nearly A Freaky Mod Too Far

Having a cyborg teddy reading out your Twitter alerts… *shiver* the idea gives me the creeps a little. But not the guys who came up with the idea over at HyHome2.0. They’ve even got an instructional video so you can build your own artificial-voice bear, which uses Bluetooth to get data from your PC so…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony Brings Out Energy-Efficient 32-Inch LCD in Japan

The Bravia KDL-32JE1 is an energy-efficient TV from Bravia which consumes just 89W of power, compared to 160W on an equivalent Bravia. It also uses plastic parts recycled from other Sony departments, such as the plastic waste from collected TVs, polystyrene packaging and the waste from the optical film from LCD TVs. Available on July…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

ImAmp by Audiotrack Beefs Up Your Cans on the Go

If you like to watch a movie on the go, but find your headphones don’t give you enough volume for the full-on fillum experience, then you might appreciate the ImAmp. Made by Korean company Audiotrack, the ImAmp is a separate amplifier with a couple of headphone jacks, line input and volume control. The battery takes…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Thanko’s Lazy Geek’s Cushion, Perfect for Prone PC Action

Ages ago I admitted to being a floor-lounger, and it looks like Thanko has come up with a solution that’ll let me combine lazing around and blogging for the Giz at the same time. I might rename it from Lazy Geek’s Cushion to “Relaxed Blogger’s Desk” though. Looking a little like a massage table, it’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

USB Tube Clock Possibly the Most Expensive Object from Brando Ever

Brando’s tube clock with USB connection is, at $70, possibly the most ‘spenny thing that Brando has ever produced. Six tubes display the hours, minutes and seconds, and it connects via USB to your laptop or computer. Lets not forget that B&W already made a Tube Clock, but it’s three times the price of the…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Video: Samsung Omnia i900 in Action

MobiFrance got a hands on with the Samsung Omnia i900 at the launch event in Singapore, and as the video shows, there are some nice multimedia features at work with the UI. Homescreen widgets, touch friendly camera interface, clean looking icons, etc. However, the UI also looks a bit clunky with its animations and overall…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

Question of the Day: What Percentage of Your Music is Illegal?

With the news from a new survey that says 48% of music owned by teens is illegal, I got to thinking. My iTunes library is stuffed with tracks bought from the Music Store, along with ripped CDs I actually own, and there’s a huge stack of CDs I’ve yet to rip to MP3… which I…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

MSI Wind Delayed, But Not For Long

We’re as excited about the MSI Wind as you are, but the US release has been delayed to June 27. Since the hardware is long finished and distributed to the rest of the world, don’t fret about production problems or false promises on this $500 $479, 10″ Eee-killer. MSI probably just wanted to launch with more…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Samsung’s 500GB HDD and 250GB/7200 RPM HDD For Laptops

Study Says Gadget Buyers Are Assertive and Arrogant

Insider Vid Shows WowWee Femisapien Fembot Knows All the Moves

Panasonic’s New Blu-ray Discs are World’s First 6x Speed Burnable

Sprint Drops Samsung Instinct Price Again: Now $129 After Rebate

Philips’ SA2840 GoGear PMP is Shuffle-esque, Squeezes in a Screen

First Recording of Computer Music Found. Verdict: Catchy, But You Can’t Dance to It

Panasonic’s New HD Camcorders World’s First With 3-MOS Sensors

Violent, Anti-Social and Totally Illegal Gadgets You Won’t Find at Best Buy

Sony Ericsson’s HSPA Modems Triple-Up as Card Readers, GPS Receiver

Sony Ericsson C905 8.1-Megapixel Cybershot Phone Gets Official Specs

Samsung’s Soulb is Soul-Like in Spirit, But with B-Grade

Talking Twittering Teddy Bear is Nearly A Freaky Mod Too Far

Sony Brings Out Energy-Efficient 32-Inch LCD in Japan

ImAmp by Audiotrack Beefs Up Your Cans on the Go

Thanko’s Lazy Geek’s Cushion, Perfect for Prone PC Action

USB Tube Clock Possibly the Most Expensive Object from Brando Ever

Video: Samsung Omnia i900 in Action

Question of the Day: What Percentage of Your Music is Illegal?

MSI Wind Delayed, But Not For Long

Fitbit Versa 4 Drops to a Record Low as Google Makes Another Push into Fitness Smartwatches Following the Pixel Watch

JBL Boombox 4 Speaker Didn’t Stay at Full Price for Long as Amazon’s Spring Sale Pushes It Close to Used Pricing

Final Call: Get NordVPN at $266 Off + Amazon Gift Card (Few Days Left)

C-3PO’s Head From ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Sold for a Cool Million

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Delivers Fast Speeds, Low Monthly Prices and Cash Back

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

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

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Let us help find what you are looking for...