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As much as I love trade shows and conventions, I can’t say I’m terribly brokenhearted about the news that Hannover Fairs USA, the people responsible for hosting the technology and gadget trade show CeBIT America, have decided to cancel the 2005 show. I went to the 2004 show here in New York, and it had…
What these Alterna watches from Citizen lack in understated class they make up for with loads of gee-wizardry, including time (I know!), calendar, stopwatch, temperature, and chronograph functions. Wait, that’s time, too. Basically, you don’t care; they have lots of dials and you love them, so quit yelping. If I’m reading the pricing correctly, they…
One of the great things working at Gizmodo has allowed me to do is to get my hands on a whole range of gadgetry that I probably wouldn’t have been able to play around with otherwise. Since I work from home, each ring of the doorbell means there’s probably something new coming, so it’s a…
iRiver’s PMP-100 series portable media players have gone on sale today via the iRiver e-store, with other online retailers to follow later in the week. Two models are available for now: the PMP-120, with a 20GB hard drive; and the PMP-140, with an eight-million amazing awesomes drive (or 40GB, if you want to get all…
I don’t normally talk too much about printers — even the cute little photoprinters that all the kids are using these days — but Kodak’s new EasyShare Printer Dock Plus (Original edit: EasyShire – the world’s leading hobbit porn site) has a neat trick: after purchasing the optional Bluetooth dongle (available in October), you’ll be…
Hawking has a new webcam coming out called the HNC700PT Net-Vision Remote-Motion CCD Network Camera (maybe next time they could get every engineer’s name in there, too). Although it has lots of nice features, like the ability to be remotely controlled to pan and tilt, one of the most interesting is that the HNC700PT is…
So with all these 5GB hard disk-based MP3 players coming out (like the three or four yesterday), one would think the 1.5GB versions would start getting mighty cheap. That’s a good thing in my book; I need at least a gig before I can start thinking about a long term relationship with a player. MSI…
All DefenseTech has to do to get my attention is say “SR-71” and I’m turgid with anticipation, so when they passed along information that the Air Force is developing a top-secret (not anymore, suckers!) super-stealthy UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that will act as a sort of robotic update to the Blackbird, I was, suffice it…
So our behind-the-curtains team here at the Gawker Empire has been, well, besides basically keeping we lazy editors afloat, working hard to make sure that our websites do cool things like actually work. Brice (who I, of all editors, forgot on Sysadmin Appreciation, but will remember now) spent a long time finally building a search…
JVC has a new set of home theater systems out in Japan that transmit sound to the read speakers wireless via radio; a radio that, unfortunately, broadcasts on the 2.4GHz spectrum — the same frequency as Wi-Fi. The TH-SW5 otherwise looks like a solid system, but perhaps another model at 5GHz or 900MHz would be…
You know, I don’t know why it’s legal for id to release Doom 3 during the workweek. Some of us have to get up, you know? Anyway, I was looking at the Sony Cybershot DSC-P150 — the new one with a 7.2-megapixel resolutions; we mentioned it a couple weeks ago — and just noticed for…
Sony Ericsson has a new phone for Japan’s au cellular service, dubbed the “A1402S II.” It is, as expected, the successor to the “A1402S.” It’s a somewhat underwhelming phone, though, so it better be cheap; prices are not yet announced. Although it does of course have the Japanese standard (no jealous; stand proud, America) QVGA…
Sanyo has developed a tiny FM tuner chip that is roughly half the size of current tuners on the market; they’re calling it the “Easy Radio IC.” It requires no other parts to operate and even has an upcoming version that can tune in AM as well (that’s coming in September). At just 5mm wide,…
Hitachi today announced that they have successfully developed the world’s highest resolution organic TFT (Thin Film Transistor) display. 80 x 80 dots in 1.4 inches isn’t exactly what I think of when I hear “high resolution,” but according to Hitachi, this is the highest thus far for a display of this size. Perhaps the biggest…
If you’re selling special shoes that allow the wearers to walk on water, perhaps it is not the best idea to say you have “drowned a lot of money” in your company. I don’t know, just doesn’t seem to conjure images of great success. Then again, neither do the WaveWalk pontoon shoes, a device for…
All car stereos should have 1/8-inch 3.5mm stereo miniJack inputs.
BSquare has pulled its “Power Handheld Device,” the Pocket PC device that never quite made much of a splash in the few markets in which it was (finally) released, probably because it looked sort of junky and unappealing (but hey, just guessing). The idea is still out there to be licensed from BSquare, though, so…
The Blade Runner Dualmode is a concept vehicle from UK firm Silvertip Design that aims to take out the middleman between tractor-trailers and conventional freight trains. Currently in 1/8th-scale working model, the Blade Runner can operate on normal highways, then easily switch to running on standard train rails, using a fifth-wheel to stay on the…
Cheese and crackers, what is it with the MP3 player launches today? Pocket-Lint points out two more products, from two different companies: the first is a 64MB (ack!) from Alba clunkily called the MP364NDI [pictured left] that is aimed at the ‘beginner market’ (you know, those music rookies who can only listen to eight songs…
Alienware has a new line of Windows Media Center PCs that are integrated into flat-panel displays which they’re calling “DHD” systems (You know, Digital Home, errr, uhm) but you may know as Hy-Tek’s TekPanel of The Apprentice fame. So despite Alienware’s claims of “innovation,” there’s not a whole lot new to see here; it’s a…