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Aren’t Cellphones Annoying? And What’s Up With Those PDAs?

There was a time where I thought my career was going to be in that sparkling sugarplum factory known as “computers,” but reading columns like this one by Robert J. Samuelson has convinced me that my career in “journalism” is much more suited to my desire to string lots of curmudgeonly words together and get…

Tech News Joel

Epson’s World’s Lightest Flyer Still Smallest, Awesome

See, I saw that Epson had released a new model of their “World’s Lightest Micro-Flying Robot” – you know, the one that was a big deal late last year – and thought, “We’ve already talked about that. Nobody will be interested.” I was wrong, according to the emails, though, so I guess I better mention…

Tech News Joel

Mobile PC Design Showcase Asking For Submissions

Damn those punks at MobilePC Magazine for coping one of my most brilliant, as yet unmentioned and only halfway considered ideas. They’re having a Mobile PC Design Showcase, uhm, thing. It’s not a contest, exactly, because they’re just giving away an honorarium (like an aquarium but for honor) to those who submit 3D concepts that…

Tech News Joel

iBoom

Digital Lifestyle Outfitters has announced the iBoom, a 20-watts per channel, four-speaker boombox designed to holster the iPod and iPod mini. Although it looks like most of the controls will still be handled on the iPod itself (although there are separate ones for the built-in FM radio), the iBoom offers yet another way to impose…

Tech News Joel

Solar Charged Vibrator

You may all remember the USB-powered ten speed Matrix Vibe. Fondly remembering those crazy days of USB-powered-everything, I went digging for more alternative-powered sex toy hijinx. What I found was enough to make any geeky kinkster — especially an environmentalist — cream her panties. https://gizmodo.com/a-true-plug-and-play-peripheral-7478 Yes, the folks at California Exotic bring frequent campers and…

Tech News MIRIAM BOON

The Other RoadTrip

What happens when two companies come out with an FM transmitter for the car called “RoadTrip” in the same week? Although Newer Technologies RoadTrip isn’t as full featured as the one offered by Griffin, it does have the ability to work with any car-bound device that uses a miniJack out – it’s not iPod only,…

Tech News Joel

Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro

I was about to unleash the hounds on Turtle Beach for pushing their new Audio Advantage Micro as a “Virtual Surround Sound USB Audio Adapter,” because just about every computer made in the last five years or so has been able to do that passable (if not ear-blowing) stereo “surround” out-of-phase trick. But lo! I…

Tech News Joel

Pills To Go

Except for my reticence to slug back stale water, I have to agree with our buddy Josh Rubin’s assessment of this “Pills to Go” concept from UK firm Priestman Goode – no one should have to master “the art of the dry swallow.” Capsules and water all in a portable package sounds like a pretty…

Tech News Joel

Usagi Office

Good luck trying to get your hands on them in the US, but these House Keeping Rabbit Series of desk tools are awfully cute, with various sets of things like desk whisks, cable caddies, and a business card holder. If you could manage to get them ordered, you could have an entire desk covered in…

Tech News Joel

Feature Creep: The Real World

This week editorialist Sanford May explains how Real Network’s Rob Glaser may be the best cheerleader Apple’s iTunes Music Store never wanted. War, politics, hurricanes, forget about them. I’ve been watching Rob Glaser and his Real Networks fall flat on their faces. I’ve been captivated by their maneuvering; why, you’d almost think they didn’t like…

Tech News Joel

Oregon Scientific MP100: Another World’s Smallest

Oregon Scientific is taking a stab at the “World’s Smallest MP3 Player” title, but considering they don’t throw a quarter or a finger or something into the picture Tech-Digest has (which can be added to the pictures on their barely-functional site for a total of… one) doesn’t really tell us much. What we do know,…

Tech News Joel

AJP D500E Gaming Notebook Reviewed

It might tell you a little about the hardcore gaming notebook market that two of the main competitors use the exact same chassis. Fortunately, though, the AJP D500E Gaming Notebook separates itself from Trusted Review’s currently-crowned “Speed King” (the Rock Xtreme! XTR-3.4EE) by adding in a higher-resolution screen (1,600 by 1,200 pixels native), among other…

Tech News Joel

Canon’s EOS 20D Pictures and Specs Leaked

And while we’re on the leaked photo tip, Canon has let slip the dogs of, uh, camera… pictures. The EOS 20D hasn’t been officially announced yet (it’s expected by the end of this week), but the first details are being gleaned from pictures that are still up on Canon’s site. There’s a mess of projected…

Tech News Joel

HP iPaq RW6100 Photos

Whoa, this is a crazy one. There apparently had been rumors floating about of a new HP iPaq smartphone, called the RW6100, and pictures have surfaced on a Korean website of what looks to be that very thing. What’s interesting to me, though, is that it appears to be a slider, although with just a…

Tech News Joel

Cambridge SoundWorks Mick Fleetwood Signature Model Twelve Speakers

When I go into the local middle- and high-schools each week for my “Gizmodo: Talkin’ Teen” heart-to-heart rap session, the number one inquiry I get from the kids during our Q&A is, “Yo, when is Mick Fleetwood going to endorse a set of Cambridge SoundWorks portable speakers?” And I chuckle a little then, and walk…

Tech News Joel

Barret’s XM109: No-Hassle 25mm Sniper Rifle

Barrett’s prototype XM109 packs no-fuss, some-muss light armor penetration into a convenient point-and-shoot form factor that makes lofting 25mm sniper rounds downrange a relative walk in the park for today’s workaday infantryman. Going into testing this month, the XM109 uses the computerized sighting-system “BORS” (Barrett Optical Ranging Sighting System) to automatically compensates for changes in…

Tech News Joel

Pioneer DVJ-X1 DVD Turntable

Pioneer has announce the DVJ-X1, the first (to my knowledge) DVD-based turntable for real-time video mixing straight from source discs. It’s got all the normal tomfoolery you’d expect from a digital turntable, like no-tempo-loss reversals, Hot Cues (instantly recall up to three points on the disc), and Emergency Loop functions for when you drop the…

Tech News Joel

Keyspan USB-to-Parallel Cable

Good morning, friends. Monitor shopping, especially used monitor shopping from a tiny shop in New Jersey that takes four hours round trip… well, it sucks, especially when the monitors are crap. If you needed a surprise ending, I’m sorry, I can’t provide one. What I can provide is this new Keyspan USB-to-Parallel cable, the sort…

Tech News Joel

Hoodie iPod Cases

Gawker’s new editor Jessica Coen points out these little hoodie iPod cases from a little boutique called “C.Ronson” located somewhere in a district called “Nolita” in a town she says is named “Manhattan.” And then she started puking, and I don’t know why. When former Gawker editor Anna Wintour Choire Sicha was puking, we always…

Tech News Joel

$600 Wal-Mart Notebook PC

As a back-to-school special, this $600 ECS-branded notebook from Wal-Mart isn’t half bad – 14-inch screen, Athlon XP-M 1600+, Wi-Fi (b), and DVD-ROM. Add a little extra memory to boost up the 128MB stock setup and you’ve got yourself a pretty decent little machine for browsing porn and downloading term papers. Plus it comes with…

Tech News Joel

Aren’t Cellphones Annoying? And What’s Up With Those PDAs?

Epson’s World’s Lightest Flyer Still Smallest, Awesome

Mobile PC Design Showcase Asking For Submissions

iBoom

Solar Charged Vibrator

The Other RoadTrip

Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro

Pills To Go

Usagi Office

Feature Creep: The Real World

Oregon Scientific MP100: Another World’s Smallest

AJP D500E Gaming Notebook Reviewed

Canon’s EOS 20D Pictures and Specs Leaked

HP iPaq RW6100 Photos

Cambridge SoundWorks Mick Fleetwood Signature Model Twelve Speakers

Barret’s XM109: No-Hassle 25mm Sniper Rifle

Pioneer DVJ-X1 DVD Turntable

Keyspan USB-to-Parallel Cable

Hoodie iPod Cases

$600 Wal-Mart Notebook PC

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

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

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

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