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A new wireless PC laptop card from Sony Ericsson that combines both tri-band GPRS (which means it’ll work in Europe and North America) and WiFi, so you’ll still be able to get online even if you can’t find a WiFi hotspot. Read
Given the company’s recent focus on their new Smartphone operating system, Ed Hardy over at Brighthand wonders if Microsoft is still committed to the Pocket PC? During the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, a panel discussion was held on ways to advance mobile computing. When an attendee asked what the future of Pocket PC was,…
Apparently not all of the phone companies have given up on fighting number portability. The United States Telecom Association and service provider CenturyTel asked the FCC to stop number portability from going into effect, arguing that since people will be able to switch a number from a landline to a cellphone, but not the other…
Linksys is coming out with its first Bluetooth product ever, a USB adapter for adding Bluetooth to any desktop or laptop with a USB port. Read
Kitchen gadgets tend to get short shrift here at Gizmodo, but just in time for the holidays (a phrase we’re already sick of hearing), MSNBC has a roundup of all the latest and greatest appliances and gizmos out there for the culinarily inclined, like the Rabbit Lever Vacuum Pump for resealing wine bottles, KitchenAid’s 5-Speed…
New special edition Motorola cellphone that is going to be sold only at Bloomingdale’s. The i733, which with its “eye-catching, metallic bluish-purple color” is being billed as the “ultimate fashion accessory” (we’ll be the judge of that), has a 65,000 color screen, built-in GPS, comes with ringtones like Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love” pre-installed, and costs…
New 80GB personal video player from Archos. The AV380, which has space for something like 115 feature-length films if they’re compressed using DivX, is an update of their 40GB player, the AV340, and like the AV340, has a bright 3.8-inch display. And since it plays audio files as well, the AV380, isn’t just the highest…
Also spotted at Comdex, an unusual add-on for Pocket PCs called the Peeg, or “personal electroencephalogram,” that is supposed to help stimulate the brain via a set of headphones and special eyeglasses: When the PDA application is set on “concentration,” rhythmic pinging sounds are heard in the earphones while lights flash off and on inside…
Doesn’t sound like we missed much by skipping the Comdex trade show earlier this week in Las Vegas, but there were a few highlights here and there from the show floor. Of the gadgets he saw, Jack Schofield of the Guardian liked the Totally No Noise TNN 500A, a completely silent PC from Zalman Tech…
You know how cellphones always seem to ring at the most inopportune moments? Well it can’t get more inopportune than this: A Belgium newspaper, Gazet van Antwerpen is reporting that the family of a recently deceased motorcyclist are suing the funeral firm they chose, after the dead mans cell phone started ringing – from inside…
We remember that a few years back someone was hawking old Mac Classics (or whatever) that had been turned into aquariums, and now some industrious person has done the same with an old G4 Cube (people seem to like to turn old Macs into aquariums) that they found in the trash. Read [Thanks, Jack]
We don’t normally mention announcements of new video games here on Gizmodo, but in a sign that Sony is pushing full-steam ahead with the PlayStation Portable, Japanese game publisher Koei became the first company to confirm that they’re developing titles for the forthcoming personal game console. Frighteningly, a rep from Koei also let slip that…
Normally, we insist that Gawker leave the gadget talk to us (though it’s only fair, since we did sneak Paris Hilton onto Gizmodo last week) but Choire is doing his part to enrich the English language by introducing us to two new TiVoisms: My two favorite reader coinages from today’s mail regarding TiVo, TiFaux, FauxVo,…
Kokoro Dreams and Osaka University have built a bizarre android-like robotic actress that can speak, blink, and is even capable of several different human-like facial expressions (which is a few more than many “real” actors and actresses). They’re currently showing the Actroid off at the International Robot Exhibition that is going on right now at…
What’s wrong with this picture? i-O Display Systems is coming out with a portable video player in January that just happens to be missing a screen to watch all the movies and shows stored on its 20GB hard drive. The idea behind the Riviera, as the company calls it, is that you’ll hook it up…
A new high-end A/V receiver from Onkyo with an Ethernet port that can stream Internet radio and MP3 and WMA files from a PC. The TX-NR901 can also process nearly every sort of home theater surround sound that’s out there and supports high-definition video. Read
PVR Blog is reporting that the first TiVo capable of recording high-definition television are set to come out in March or April of next year, and that there will be both a standalone and a DirecTiVo version. Read
Guess you gotta get ’em while they’re young: Japanese toymaker Tomy is selling a toy cellphone with a built-in digital camera. You can’t make a phone call with it, but you can take low-resolution photos with it and share them with friends. Read
Walking down Third Avenue last night we spotted one of the new Internet pay phones that are starting to pop up around town. The pay phones are basically little kiosks for checking email and surfing the web at a cost of 25 cents a minute. Not a bad idea for the Treo 600-less masses who…
Ximeta is coming out with the NetDisk Mini, a smaller, portable, 40GB addition to its line of NetDisk network attached storage devices which have both Ethernet ports for connecting to a local area network and USB 2.0 ports for connecting directly to a PC. Read