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In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past seven days of Gizmodo: Pictures of those three new Nokia cellphones November 24th looms ever closer No more waiting at red lights Sidetalkin’ The Knee Defender Nokia unwraps the 7700 World’s smallest PDA Pioneer’s DVD recorders with TiVo The Antelope arrives Sharp’s sharp…
Not many details available about this, but a photo has turned up of what could be Sony’s new Clie UX80 handheld, which looks just like the Clie UX50 but has a larger screen. There’s also speculation that the display on the UX80 would be able to switch from landscape to portrait mode, something that the…
You know how sometimes you think up a gadget but you figure that no one will ever build it? Well, the Omnifi is one of those gadgets, except that it’s real. The Omnifi is a digital media player for your car with a 20GB hard drive and an 802.11b WiFi attachment which actually makes it…
MSMobiles takes a look at Dell’s new Axim X3 Pocket PC with built-in WiFi and notices something very interesting: that the X3’s antenna sports a Bluetooth logo, even though it doesn’t actually have Bluetooth built-in. Could Dell be planning to release an updated version with Bluetooth soon? Read
Over at MSNBC.com, Gary Krakow compares three new phones that have just hit stores: Motorola’s new MPx200 (pictured at right) and GPS-enabled i730 cellphones, and Siemens’ stylish SL56 handset. Krakow gives high marks to the MPx200, which runs Microsoft’s new Smartphone operating system, calling it “one slick device” and noting that it’s a marked improvement…
They’re not planning on building these themselves (they plan to license the technology to other manufacturers), but IBM has designed a dual-screen PDA that has a second fold-out display for whenever you need a little extra real estate. Frustratingly there are no pictures accompanying the article illustrating what one of these dual-screen PDAs might actually…
New phone from Philips aimed at the “youth” market that comes with special “BeDJ” software which lets you create custom music mixes on the phone which can be used as ringtones or swapped with friends (how long until someone releases the first album created entirely on a cellphone?). The Fisio 530 also has a 65,000…
We’re not sure we like the idea of guns that make it easier to kill people, but the Corner Shot is about as gadgety a firearm as we’ve ever seen. Designed so that it can be shot at a right angle, the Corner Shot has a swiveling barrel with a color camera attached to it…
Sometimes you just have to let go. Yesterday some genius riding the Metro-North commuter line here in New York accidentally dropped his cellphone into one of the train’s toilets and then proceeded to get himself trapped as he stuck in his arm to try and retrieve it. It took several rescue crews and the jaws…
DesignTechnica review the DV-S20 Pocket Multi-Cam, Gateway’s incredibly small new tapeless camcorder which record video files in the MPEG4 format and take 2.1 megapixel still images. The quality of the video isn’t exactly breathtaking on this thing, but because it uses Flash memory cards for storage, it’s easy to quickly transfer your footage to a…
A company called Infinite Range is working on a special Bluetooth add-on for MP3 players called RangeScan that’ll let you wirelessly transmit audio to a stereo. The only problem is that right now all it does is take the analog audio signal from the players headphones jack, convert into a digital stream, and then decode…
The next version of the Pocket PC Phone, known as the XDA II or the MDA II depending on which carrier is offering it, still isn’t available here, but it is out in the United Arab Emirates, where it’s sold as the “i mate.” Pocket PC Dubai has an early review of the phone, which…
The Register review of the Chiba, Rio’s new compact MP3 player, which comes with only 256MB of internal memory but fortunately has a slot for SD memory cards if you want to add extra capacity to it. Read
Howard Stern carries a Treo 600: He was showing off his new Treo 600 to the gang this morning. He takes a picture so we can all hear the neat sound it makes. He is proud. And this leads to a game of phoneupsmanship with Crazy Cabbie, the overnight guy. Howard says his phone is…
Skinny LCD and plasma TVs are all the rage, but DesignTechnica has some information on a new 55-inch high-definition television from Philips, the Cineos 55PL9773, which isn’t quite as thin as a flat-panel display, but at just over 17 inches deep is considerably smaller than most rear-projection TVs. Read
The New York Times asks eleven famous people what dream gadgets or technology they really, really want to see. Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, wants a cat locator (easily done); Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow wants a brain implant that can replace all the gadgets he has to carry around; sports commentator Cris…
We’d thought that the cellphone companies had stopped trying to weasel out implementing number portability after a Federal appeals court threw out their lawsuit against the FCC back in June, but apparently they hadn’t quite given up yet. AT&T Wireless and Cingular just tried again in court to stall the new rules by arguing that…
Sleek new 3.2 megapixel digital camera from Nikon. The Coolpix 3700, which has a 3x optical zoom lens, also happens to be the first camera in the Coolpix line to use SD, rather than CompactFlash, memory cards. Read
IBM is thinking about bringing back the Butterfly keyboard, which appeared on some of its ThinkPad laptops in the mid-Nineties. The Butterfly keyboard could expand to be wider than the rest of the laptop, making it possible to pack a bigger keyboard into a smaller computer. Anyway, IBM has been showing off a couple of…
Not sure if they meant to let this get out or not, but the other day some Microsoft executives said that ten new Tablet PCs will be announced at next month’s Comdex trade show. Read [Thanks, Christopher Coulter]