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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…
This week columnist Sanford May cracks open that hoary chestnut e-voting and wonders if it may be time to stop worrying and start loving the bomb. The bomb of self-rule, I’m saying. Dare to dream of soon casting your vote in local and national elections via laptop or mobile phone, you’ll run headlong into the…
Okay, this on is a little hard to follow, but it’s worth it, so stick with me. Amazon has the Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G router (the one that runs Linux that you can flash with the magic firmware to make it do all sorts of interesting tricks) bundled with a Wireless-G notebook card for $108 (there’s…
Hey, John Shirley wants to what Sony Ericsson product Paris Hilton is shoplifting acquiring in this picture. My vote? The Career-Obviator 5000. Read – Original Image Source [LeoneMafia] Update: It’s a P900! Thanks, everybody! You all win the contest! The prize? Hugs!
Canon’s new Powershot G6 — if you haven’t heard of it, that’s because it hasn’t been announced — may have had a little slip on the French shopping site Fnac.com; good for us, because that means PhotographyBlog got to scoop up all the details. A 7.1-megapixel sensor is probably the main new thing, along with…
Gah, Archos, I’m sorry! I keep almost missing big stories about your new Gmini 400, a hard disk-based player that I’m actually pretty excited about. This time it was pretty important, too: the first images I’ve seen of the new device, which looks nothing like its predecessor (and that’s good, really). The new version can…
The intern was disappointed to learn that this Japanese woman is not included with Kyocera’s new solar panel (with the world’s highest efficiency rating for mass produced solar cells). I didn’t have the heart to tell him that we actually do receive review models with our review models — screaming stacks of them, actually —…
Handtops.com is reporting that Tiqit, the funky ‘look like a PDA but is really a computer’ device that seemed to be all but dead is… not dead, at least according to Tiqit’s CEO. The defining feature of the Tiqit computer? It has a PCMCIA slot. The reason you won’t buy it? Because it will be…
Gravis, a division of the snowboarding outfitter Burton (and not related to the gamepad and soundcard company, to my knowledge) sent me one of their G-Pod third-generation iPod cases to review, and I have to say I’m fairly impressed. There’s a number of subtle but intelligent decisions apparent in the design, like a stiff, sturdy…
SMC has announced a new portable wireless access point a la the Airport Express. They’re calling it the “EZ Connect™ g 2.4GHz 802.11g Wireless Traveler s Kit SMCWTK-G,” but we’ll probably just call it the SMCWRK-G or Dance Panda Mandy, as it suits us. For what it lacks in good looks it makes up in…
So a rumor has been going around that Electronics Boutique had been instructed to pull the Nokia N-Gage QD, the updated version of the ill-fated original N-Gage. Shipping units back to the factory is never good; however, it’s not nearly as bad as some are letting on (N-Gage being pulled completely from market entirely, etc.).…
Gizmodo field reporter Kenneth Armstrong recently had the opportunity to talk to Rishi Persaud, who is in charge of product development at iSkin, about the state of their business and how they are moving beyond the iPod. Far beyond. Like, record-label beyond. Gizmodo: I was wondering if you could talk a little about how you’ve…
It might feel like a slow news day when I write about a company that makes glowing spheres coming out with a glowing box, but lo! It is not. In fact, ignoring the fact that you are paying $180 for a fancy light, the Ambient Weather Forecast Beacon is actually quite slick; the light inside…
So, uhm, I guess the wait for the T-Mobile Sidekick II is about over since PC Magazine just put up a review. Way to start the hype machine, Danger! Maybe they decided not to really talk it up because it looks sort of, you know, bland. I mean, come on, VGA camera? Is the Sidekick…
Although I’ve been blessed enough to have dodged the cellular spam bullet, I know not all of you have been so lucky. And while it’s far from an epidemic (yet), Verizon Wireless is trying to nip it in the bud, filing federal lawsuits against a group of alleged New Jersey cell phone spammers who sent…
If a DLP (digital light processing) projector is your cup of tea, Mitsubishi’s announcement of the “LVP-XD450” should be your cup of coffee. According to Mitsubishi, this new projector has the industry’s highest brightness and contrast ratio (2,600 Lumens and 2,200:1 respectively; don’t know about “highest,” but that is pretty good). And since the projectors…
Pocket-Lint manages to score the first proper Rio Carbon review I’ve seen, and certainly the first to use Guns & Roses as their test music. One thing that is a nice is the Carbon’s drag-and-drop ability, because while music managing software can be very nice, it’s also nice to have the option to just copy…
Can’t decide between a sit-down or stand version of your lake-polluting personal watercraft? Now with the Sea-Doo 3D, you don’t have to! Filter toxic exhaust fumes through our precious natural resources and up water toxicity levels in any one of three adjustable positions: VERT, like vertical, standing up, get it?; KART, like a go-kart, sitting…
Dvorak gets all bloggy about the ’10 Worst Laptops of All Time,’ asking for readers to chime in with more information about the products he thinks he might of once seen (if he could only remember the name or model number). And for as fuzzy as his memory is about which product he’s actually talking…