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Did we say a new weekly feature? Aah, what were we thinking? This week we expand Gizmodo Hearts to include recommendations about digital cameras, USB flash memory drives, and multitools. We even tweaked the top hard disk MP3 player (and the new champion probably won’t surprise you. We’re easy like that.) We’ll promise to update…
What’s this? Having sold out of the foofbag soft sleeves for the Apple Power and iBooks, Foofbag has hand-crafted a limited edition run of foofpods, $12 soft sleeves for your iPod (of third- or fourth-generation). You could even use them on your iPod mini, if you didn’t mind your mini falling out and shattering on…
Gamespot reports that Sony’s Playstation 3, which won’t be properly unveiled until March of next year, will support Blu-Ray, the high-density disc format backed by Sony, Panasonic, and others. Arguably, the inclusion of DVD on the Playstation 2 really drove that format to success, so there’s a good chance that adding Blu-Ray to the PS3…
PCMag checks in with a mostly positive review of the Archos AV420 Pocket Video Recorder, marred only by the public acknowledgement that the only DVD they could find in John Dvorak’s office was a well-worn copy of Top Gun. I mean, they don’t say that, exactly, but I think we can all safely infer from…
While I applaud the hacking that was involved to turn Sony’s PSone console (the smaller version of the original Playstation) into a mobile, battery-powered version, I do sort of doubt that anyone is going to pay $500 to get a palmPSone of their own, especially with the PSP just around the corner. But if are…
So if you’re a regular Gizmodo reader this isn’t new news — in fact, it’s two months old — but Toshiba is releasing a new 60GB version of the very same harddrive that is used inside the 20 and 40GB versions of the Apple iPod. And despite what Apple will try to tell you, they’ve…
Samsung and T-Mobile have announced a new slider phone today, the Samsung d415, a $300 cameraphone with a rotating lens and a two-inch, 262k-color screen (262k is good; pretty much the best right now). Too bad the camera is still only VGA-quality. I like Samsung phones in general, though; I’m glad to see T-Mobile carrying…
Finally Nokia releases a phone that everyone wants, then bungle the supply chain so that all the retailers go out of stock. The 6230, the new(ish) candy bar phone with a nice 65k-color screen, radio, and MP3 player is nowhere to be found in London, and no one is quite sure when it will be…
Proving that there’s no end in sight to rear-guard bathroom puns, the Aquariass fish-tank/toilet hybrid from UrbanPeel is a cheeky aquarium that replaces the tank in most American Standard bowls. The $1,100 units are custom-made and sadly do not use the same water to flush as is in the tank itself. That’s too bad; I’ve…
I kept looking for a greater meaning or purpose to this Table Mirror with an integrated LCD panel in it (reflecting, you might say), but nope, that’s pretty much the whole deal. And it looks like it’s a TV-resolution screen, too, not a PC-resolution one, so I wouldn’t expect to sneak in a rowdy round…
“Spin” is a persistence-of-vision keychain prototype that, when spun through the air like, say, a lasso, displays a clock face in the air. There are even three different display modes, including an ‘analog’ mode that displays a highlighted arc of the circle, with the leading edge indicating the current hour and the trailing edge indicating…
Although they claim to be the first pictures from Blue Sky Studios’ upcoming animated film Robots, I’m fairly sure I’ve seen at least the design of this unit before. Stil, robots! With fins! Read – ROBOTS – erste Bilder [MysanDE via CultOfMac]
The US Department of Health and Human Services has teamed up with LeapFrog — makers of the children’s learning toy, the LeapPad — to use the talking books as teaching aids for illiterate Afghan people, especially women. In a country where almost 80% of women cannot read, the 42-page interactive books provide health information about…
Although public policy isn’t really our niche, there are occasional bits of regulation that are notable for the future products they herald, like the approval yesterday by the FCC of a plan by TiVo to allow sharing of recorded content to up to 10 other users via a new service called TiVoToGo. The first implementations…
So yeah, these are just USB flash memory card readers, but I’m a sucker for tight design — especially when it uses the sort of played-out but still delicious grey-on-white soft cuddle robot color scheme (coming to a HGTG movie near you). These two readers from Hagiwara Sys read MemoryStick Duo Pro and miniSD, respectively…
GRO Design is a two five man design shop in the Netherlands which has worked with clients such as Samsung, Nokia, and Philips to design interesting alternatives to more staid and thoughtless product concepts. In example, look at the four I plucked from their site. Phone, okay easy enough. Vacuum cleaner? Hrm. Radio that uses…
Along with more pictures of the attractive Mac-like LLUON All In One PC we talked about a couple of days ago, SorobanGeeks has pictures of Samsung’s new Powerbook-looking M40, a Pentium M-based machine with a 17-inch widescreen (and what looks to be an aluminum case). I guess at least a couple of Korean companies think…
IO Data Device has announced the suitably named “USB-USB,” a sort of one-touch backup device that…backs up. You plug a USB device, such as digital camera or whatnot into one end, and another USB memory device, such as a CD-RW or, again, whatnot, into the other end, press the button, and boom. No PC needed.…
I have no clue whether or not Wyty (Whitey?), a new opt-in cell phone directory, will take off or not — opt-in often means opt-not-to, in my experience. Still, they’re doing some interesting things, such as allowing Voice-Over-IP numbers and other contact information to be listed alongside your cellular number so you can have all…
It may not be obvious what The Magic Pouff is exactly from its name along, but it’s pretty simple when someone explains it. It’s an ottoman — looking rather Mushroom Kingdom, what with the eyes and all — with an inflatable bed inside. The magic comes from the wall, in the form of electrons. US…