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Sony’s Photo Frames: S-Frame DPF-V900, DPF-V700 and DPF-D70

Sony’s first LCD photo frames ever have 800×480 displays (DVD res, which leads me to believe these were sourced from DVD players). The frames can scale photos down from up to 48MB, which would be good for transferring JPGs and even RAW files directly from a camera’s memory card without a intervening PC session. The…

Gadgets Brian Lam

PS2 Guitar Pedal Lets You Star Power, Whammy With Your Feet

Making your fake guitar automatically whammy may be a step too far, but if you want to make Guitar Hero slightly easier for yourself, check out these guitar pedals. They allow you to either activate star power or hit the whammy bar with your feet instead of your hands, making sure your hands stay exactly…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sony A300 and A350 DSLRs Have Two-Way Tilting Live View

Sony is officially the last one to the PMA DSLR party, getting real with the A300 and A350 DSLRs we glimpsed earlier. The entry-level 10.2MP A300 (same CCD sensor as the A200, $800 w/lens) snaps away at “about 3fps,” 100-3200 ISO, built-in image stabilization (vs. Nikon and Canon’s lens approach) and indeed sports that oddball…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Mr. Burns Webcam is Nice, But It’s No Futurama

Staring into Mr. Burns’ desk when you’re making Skype calls with your friends is nice and all (and for a price of $49 it’s hard to argue with it), but it’s no Futurama. What we’d really like is a Bender webcam, or a Fry webcam, or a Professor webcam, or a Robot Devil webcam, or…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Concept Stereo Adds Cuddle-ability to the Mix

The base unit in this “Bamboo” concept sound system has a display, CD slot, controls and wireless connectivity, but the clever action is in its detachable speakers. Their curving LED display acts as a music visualizer, and when mated to the base they charge up—but when you unbolt them and connect them together directly, they…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Nikon D60 Will Be Enhanced For Eye-Fi

Remember the Eye-Fi? That’s the SD card that adds auto-uploading Wi-Fi capabilities to any digital camera. Now the company has teamed with Nikon to add extended Eye-Fi functionality to the first camera on the market, Nikon’s D60. https://gizmodo.com/eye-fi-adds-wi-fi-to-almost-any-digital-camera-316537 When the Eye-Fi is inserted into the D60, the D60 will “automatically adjust its power timer settings…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Nyko Wireless Nunchuk Adapter Sucks Class From Wiis and Ninjas

Nyko’s replacement wireless nunchuk controller may have raised the question, “do we really need a wireless nunchuk?” But their new wireless nunchuk adapter, a peripheral that uses the same Wiimote wireless nunchuk transmitter plug-in and replaces Nyko’s sleek wireless nunchuk with your old, crappy wired nunchuk but using a massive dongle to wrap up the…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Guy Who Uses Stun Gun on Son to Toughen Him Up Jailed, Unsurprisingly

The father of an 18-month-old child is off to jail for four years after being found guilty of using a stun gun on the boy. His reason for using the 100,000-volt Dragonfire, which resulted in muscle damage to the kid’s heart, was because he wanted his son to be “the toughest cage fighter ever.” Yeah,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Blue Nintendo DS Coming February 10

That sexy cobalt blue Nintendo DS is coming February 10, according to GameSpot ads. [kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-ds-lite-now-in-black-and-blue-we-think-its-th-349234

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Digital Sculpture at Heathrow Airport Demonstrates that Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

Commissioned for the atrium of the brand spanking new Terminal 5 at Heathrow, Cloud is a digital sculpture conceived by art and design studio Troika. The five-meter structure is suspended above the escalators and consists of three layers. Find out what lies beneath the black and silver flick-dots, and see the sculpture in action below…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

SPOT GPS Tracking Device Is Perfect for Remote Climbers and Jealous Girlfriends

Walt Mossberg has had a look at the SPOT satellite messenger, a GPS gadget aimed at adventurers and thrill seekers. Not only does it call in the emergency services if you’re stuck and there’s no cellphone tower for miles, but it also sends out position updates to keep friends back home updated on your expedition.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

SR1500 Remote has Wi-Fi, Flash, Controls 24 Devices at Once, Prepares Chicken Casserole

With 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Web browser, Flash, Java, and more buttons than KITT’s dashboard, this WindowsCE-based SR 1500 looks like a Digital Media Remote that wants to be a cellphone when it grows up. Just looking at all those controls and side keys makes us dizzy, but if you are a TV addict, its personalized TV…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Rugged Camera from Minox is Waterproof to 33 Feet and Just Rubbery

Manly and rugged outdoorsmen with small rucksacks might find Minox’s DC6033 WP so far up their mountain path it’s parked in their crevasse. Encased in rubber armor, the six-megapixel point-and-shoot camera is dust, dirt, sand and salt-proof, and you can take it underwater to a depth of 33 feet. As well as a 4x zoom,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

USB Aroma Radio and Speaker Has Three Words With No Business Being Together

Confounded and befuddled are two emotions that splashed across our face when we saw this USB Aroma Radio + Speaker. It’s a USB speaker, which is fine in itself, but in this case it lights up in one of seven different colors. But not only is it USB, you can throw in some aromatic liquid…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Robots Sniff Out Pollens So Japanese Don’t Have To

Worried about springtime pollen levels, Weathernews, Inc. of Tokyo is sending out an army of robot noses to monitor allergens. Two hundred 12-inch spherical robots are being strung up across Japan, each with monitoring gear that tests levels of airborne cedar and cypress pollen. Every bot hangs outside a volunteer’s home, its “eyes” flashing colors…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Cobalt Blue DS Arriving Next Month, Still Smoking Hot

Our favorite Japanese pseudo-citizen at Kotaku turns up some insider verbiage on that hot hot black-and-blue sex machine of a DS Lite that Circuit City pre-emptively had up for pre-order. The warehouse just started slapping the clamshells together, which in person, says the source, looks more “purplish blue” and “awesome.” https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-ds-lite-now-in-black-and-blue-we-think-its-th-349234 It is, in fact,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Cheeseburger in a Can Is Both the Best and Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen

This is a cheeseburger. In a can. It’s a cheeseburger in a can. I honestly can’t figure out how I feel about this: is it the greatest achievement of mankind thus far, or is it an abomination of foodstuffs that deserves to be hucked back into the gaping maw of whatever food processing plant it…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Panasonic Scoops Themselves on PMA Digital Camera Lineup

Panasonic is apparently testing the “effectiveness” of RSS in the press room. Turns out, it’s very effective, since they’ve scooped themselves on their PMA lineup! All of the links go to blank pages for now, but at least we know what’s coming: New FS-series, FX-35 (their first w/ a 25mm wide-angle lens), budget LZ line…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Pink BlackBerry Pearl Aimed at Consumer Market as RIM Feels iPhone Heat

RIM’s response to the market-share-gulping iPhone is to try to appeal to the female consumer by splashing pink paint all over the BlackBerry Pearl. Sigh. Why do some manufacturers insist on churning out pink versions of their products for women? Research says women are not particularly into it—unless, of course, she is a crack-addled nutcase…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Everio GZ-HD6 is First Consumer HDD Camera to Output 1080p Using Chip Tricks, Says JVC

JVC has fired out a bunch of new HDD-recording camcorders recently, but the Everio GZ-HD6 offers something special: it outputs video at a cracking 1080/60p pace. A smaller successor to last year’s HD7, the HD6 has the same 3-CCD full HD sensor system, this time married to a 10x optical zoom lens. With a bigger…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony’s Photo Frames: S-Frame DPF-V900, DPF-V700 and DPF-D70

PS2 Guitar Pedal Lets You Star Power, Whammy With Your Feet

Sony A300 and A350 DSLRs Have Two-Way Tilting Live View

Mr. Burns Webcam is Nice, But It’s No Futurama

Concept Stereo Adds Cuddle-ability to the Mix

Nikon D60 Will Be Enhanced For Eye-Fi

Nyko Wireless Nunchuk Adapter Sucks Class From Wiis and Ninjas

Guy Who Uses Stun Gun on Son to Toughen Him Up Jailed, Unsurprisingly

Blue Nintendo DS Coming February 10

Digital Sculpture at Heathrow Airport Demonstrates that Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

SPOT GPS Tracking Device Is Perfect for Remote Climbers and Jealous Girlfriends

SR1500 Remote has Wi-Fi, Flash, Controls 24 Devices at Once, Prepares Chicken Casserole

Rugged Camera from Minox is Waterproof to 33 Feet and Just Rubbery

USB Aroma Radio and Speaker Has Three Words With No Business Being Together

Robots Sniff Out Pollens So Japanese Don’t Have To

Cobalt Blue DS Arriving Next Month, Still Smoking Hot

Cheeseburger in a Can Is Both the Best and Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen

Panasonic Scoops Themselves on PMA Digital Camera Lineup

Pink BlackBerry Pearl Aimed at Consumer Market as RIM Feels iPhone Heat

Everio GZ-HD6 is First Consumer HDD Camera to Output 1080p Using Chip Tricks, Says JVC

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

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

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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