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It’s not 1998, I promise, despite this announcement from Microsoft and Thomson (RCA) to release an updated MSN-branded set-top box for browsing the web and streaming media from other household PCs. To launch in October, the $200 broadband-enabled box will come with a wireless keyboard and remote and will not have much in the way…
Alright, I guess this does it: rainbow LEDs are the new blue LEDs. JVC has a new DVD/MD/CD mini-system called the UX-QD7 that not only has 63 color combinations in its LCD display, but also shoots a matching color through the clear plastic disc tray underneath. It’s also nicknamed the “Lip Lap,” although I don’t…
There’s nothing the Japanese love more than a good ol’ retail freak out, and when over 1,400 people lined up outside the Tokyo Apple store on Saturday morning to snap at a chance to get an iPod mini, the ensuing mass hysteria traveled, wave-like, up the length of the snaking line to deposit itself paralyzingly…
I was a little surprised to learn that the standard issue G.I body armor isn’t really designed to stop the sort of attacks our soldiers are suffering in modern-day battle. It makes sense, I suppose, since vests designed to stop bullets doesn’t do much to deflect “superheated … tiny liquid balls of metal that melt…
It’s just a design concept for now, but perhaps if architect Marcin Panpuch’s transparent, spherical houseboats get a warm response at the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Future House London exhibit, punting on the Thames will become a lifestyle choice. The idea is to reclaim much of the empty space along the Thames’ shores and…
Although Sharp’s announcement of its 45V-inch LCD Aquos LC-45GD1 TV isn’t news (we’ve known about it for a couple of months, at least), this article on NE Asia Online goes into a surprisingly amount of technical depth (if that’s your thing) about what decisions Sharp made in creating the world’s largest LCD TV. Sharp apparently…
So iTunes for Motorola phones was hardly the only announcement made last night during Motorola’s new ‘Seamless Mobility’ launch. For instance, the V3 RAZR — the super-hot all-metal clamshell phone that we mentioned yesterday [pictured right] — was officially unveiled, as was the MPx220, the Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition clamshell with an integrated 1.23-megapixel…
DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) radio has its fans and its detractors in the UK, but there’s no questioning the creeping tide of music devices that support the standard, like Blaupunkt’s newly-updated DAB54 in-dash car stereo. In addition to DAB radio functions like live pausing, record and rewind (rewind live streams to catch the beginning of…
Wired News profiles a new sound technology called ‘Iosono’ which aims to recreate the sweet spot of 3D sound in every seat of a theater. Created by one of the major developers of MP3, Iosono uses over 300 speakers arranged around a space to provide more realistic environment, one where sound can subtly move across…
Unless you consider hard drives to be disposable (not a bad policy, given current failure rates), you’ll probably be interested in hearing that hard drive manufacturer Seagate has upped to warranty period for all of its consumer hard drives to five years. Over the last couple of years, most major hard disk manufacturers had quietly…
Motorola and Apple have announced a mobile iTunes music player that will allow Motorola’s upcoming ‘always with you’ handsets to play music purchased from the iTunes Music Store. Although the number of songs will be limited to the flash memory storage space inside the phones, most units should be able to hold a few dozen…
It was a couple of years ago, at least, that we first heard about bandages being developed out of chitosan and now it seems they’ve been put into service in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chitosan, derived from shrimp shells, carries a positive charge and bonds with a wound’s red blood cells (which are…
Model or no, that jacket is rough. And not in a thuggish and/or ruggish way, I mean, like, on the eyes. I can’t believe a $700 jacket from the future only has a 128MB of (presumably) non-upgradeable flash memory. (Thanks, Aaron and Fred!) Read – GERMANY WIRED JACKET [APNews.Excite] Related MP3Blue Music and Bluetooth Jacket…
Mobile-Review has a breakdown of the new Motorola V3 “Razor” phone, an almost all-metal clamshell that surprisingly doesn’t forego a lot of features to reach its tiny size. Similar in function to the v600, the titanium-clad V3 is still fairly wide, but manages to remain less than 14mm thin in profile even with lots of…
It looks extremely hokey, but Matsushita Electric Works has announced a new camera with a motion-sensor that will take pictures of your pet, then email them to your mobile phone so you can keep an eye on them. Called the ‘Poppot Camera ATR0202W,’ it uses a DDI Pocket CF card for some reason (why couldn’t…
Damn, are you guys ever fast! Here are the offending Fuse ads; they are true class itself. (Thanks, Spencer and David!) Look – Pole Dancer [Gizmodo] Look – Self-Plaguer [Gizmodo] Look – Beer Bong [Gizmodo] Look – Fart Lighter [Gizmodo] Related Apple Fussy; Accuses Fuse Over Parody Ads [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/apple-fussy-accuses-fuse-over-parody-ads-18237
Apparently Apple’s none-too-keen on music video channel Fuse’s new outdoor advertisements which mimic the iPod silhouettes campaign, replacing Apple’s dancing music fans with people enjoying a nice pull of the beer bong or a casual round of self-pleasuring (suggested word: self-plaguing). The Post is reporting (haha, sorry, “reporting.” That just kills me.) that Apple’s lawyers…
In my experience, almost every new-fangled invention to replace the endless miles of cubefarms ends up being an expensive red herring that sacrifices function for form or “lightness” or any number of aesthetically interesting but ultimately distracting features that end up just being annoying (and never as good as the real, honest-to-god closed-door office that…
Is it a bad sign when a company announces an electronic jacket that is aimed at “technologically progressive, fashion-conscious men” and then doesn’t put up a good picture of the jacket on its website? If the ‘mp3blue’ coat from Bavarian clothes-haus Rosner were the first garment to incorporate a textile control pad on the a…
Soroban Geek’s Portable Media World got their webbed hands on a pre-release version of the iRiver PMP-140, the upcoming personal media player that is the one that isn’t the Windows-branded Portable Media Center (that’s the PMC- models). Although the review is a little heavy on pictures and a little light on opinion, they seem fairly…