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The call to meet the challenge of the relentless Defenseless Baby Scourge is addressed once again as Northrop Grumman joins Boeing in unveiling a new automated flying drone. The X-47B robotic fighter jet was presented in full-scale mockup this week, but won’t be ready to fly the friendly skies until sometime in 2006 (no matter…
There are variety of useful things that could be done with an LCD on a shopping cart, and not all of them involve pornography. MSNBC takes a wireless-enable “Shopping Buddy” cart out for a spin and walks away pretty impressed, finding it to make shopping a lot more convenient and, surprisingly, fun. Simple things like…
Some of you might not care about a special gold-color edition Nintendo Gamecube, but I’m the guy who traded a perfectly good black Gamecube in to get the special Platinum Edition two Christmas past. Why? It was shiny, hello. I agree with Planet Gamecube when they say Nintendo should release this gold version in the…
The first two handsets for AT&T Wireless’s new UMTS high-speed 3G wireless service could be nicer, especially for $300 a pop, but it’s a new service so we’ll give them a break for the moment. The Motorola A845 looks like the one to get compared to the Nokia 6651, if only for the camera alone.…
Ars Technica’s Eric Bangeman gives the Apple Airport Express a good once-over, testing it not only in its primary job as an 802.11g access point, but all the additional features (like streaming iTunes music, extending the range of an existing network, and printer sharing) as well. And all the extra functionality is what ultimately makes…
Surely you’ve seen the wonderful Japanese square watermelons (and if you haven’t, there are pictures of those, too), but have you ever seen a watermelon grown into the shape of a pyramid? Oh, you’re such a liar. Read – Suika [AkihabaraNews]
Another i-Mode FeliCa phone from NTT DoCoMo has been announced, the SO506iC, a twist phone that comes in four colors with up to eight different styles of “fit covers.” And in a move our friend Gilad will be pleased with, a Disk Jog dial has been placed on t he outside that allows users to…
I guess a waterproof USB flash memory drive is a good thing (I mean, I am the person with the open aquarium in his floor, like, four feet from me), but in most instances, it might be the sort of added feature that doesn’t ever really get used, like those annoying “seat belt” things they…
Roland Piquepaille sat down with the CEO and CTO of Novinit, the French firm behind the Jackito “Tactile Digital Assistant” (the one you use with just your thumbs). Although the company appears to have realized many of the errors they initially made in the product announcement, there’s still enough tomfoolery to dispell any confidence that…
You know, this whole having a social life thing is not conducive at all to cooking you kids your gadget breakfast. Fortunately for me, Panasonic and Sony have provided some low-hanging fruit this morning with the launch of several new digital cameras, including a really nice looking CyberShot [pictured] with a 7-megapixel sensor. And by…
These aren’t retro gadgets, exactly, but that doesn’t make them less tubular, or alternately, wicked. These Get Reel CD-ROMs from Bass Boy pack tons of interactive data about reel-to-reel tape recorders from as far back as 1940 to as recently as 1977, with thousands of pictures, circuit diagrams, owners manuals, vintage advertisements, and more. The…
Just the other day I was commenting to a friend how infrequently the tripod mounts on most low-end consumer cameras are ever used, because who ever packs a tripod when they’re running around with their tiny camera? This Bottle Cap Tripod is a great solution, then, making it easy to throw together a jerry-rigged tripod…
Mobile Gadget News has an in-depth review of the Mobile Crossing Bluetooth GPS unit, a tiny GPS unit designed to be used in conjunction with Pocket PCs or other Bluetooth-enabled devices (that is to say, don’t try to use it as a stand alone GPS unit). With an 8-hour battery life and operation up to…
Although we’ve already talked about the air-conditioned jacket from PC2B, what I didn’t see was this great illustration for the product, which I thought I’d share because it’s awfully cute. That is all! Related Air Conditioned Jacket [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/air-conditioned-jacket-17229
Although I don’t see it on their website anywhere yet (and it may not even ever make it to the States), Taiwanese peripheral manufacturer Acon (makers of the “Cable Ass’y”) has a new addition to their Power Runner line, the PR-2500, designed specifically for the Apple iPod. There are other external, rechargeable battery packs for…
NTT Advanced Technology has partnered with Bic Camera (nothing to do with the pens, I’m afraid) to bring Japanese customers a mobile, solar-powered recharging unit, dubbed the “Pocket Charger.” Folding open and close like a laptop, the charger can slurp enough power in four or five hours to fully recharge two cellular phones (or PDAs,…
Women scrawl; Lord knows how they scrawl! (Especially on pictures, you know.) Thank goodness, then, that BenQ’s new E40 digital camera, targeted at “fun, fearless females” has the ability to scrawl all over pictures. All over the place! Scrawls! On the pictures! What’s a scrawl! No idea! Even better (read: not better), you can add…
“Variety… video… without wires… partners… cheerleaders… coast-to-coast. Bold… merge… heck… potent force… one man’s leadership… visionary… Tachikawa. Momentum… increase… confident… mobile wallet… competitive… stimulate… effort. Joined forces… impact… diligently… collaborated… aggregated… exciting… convergence… consuming… soap opera. Pleasure… technical… devices… long… driving… handheld… core… compelling… achieving key milestone… prepaid. Value chain… across… Canuck… up the road……
Verizon has announced the highly-anticipated Motorola V710 — a 1.23-megapixel and Bluetooth clamshell phone — is now shipping and should be available nationwide by August. I know it doesn’t make sense that Verizon has gotten a hot phone before other carriers, let alone get a hot phone and sell it for around $250 (after rebates…
BREAKING FAKE NEWS: Gizmodo has gained access to a confidential letter from Nokia’s Chief Executive Officer detailing how, in some cases (particularly if the user is especially gullible or easy suggestible), Nokia phones can release a burst of electromagnetic energy, causing heart failure, brain hemorrhaging, and in some cases Instant Death Syndrome. In the letter,…