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We’ve been waiting a long, long time this, but we think Pioneer’s new line of TiVo digital video recorders with built-in DVD recorders is finally out. They’re not cheap, but both the DVR-810H (pictured at right) and the DVR-57H will let you do one thing that isn’t possible with any other TiVo: save TV shows…
Media2Go, Microsoft’s new operating system for personal video players, isn’t called Media2Go anymore. From now on the software will be known as Portable Media Center. Now we know it’s tough to let go of the old name that we had all gotten so attached to, but if it’s any consolation, the first Portable Media Centers…
Citizen, which is best known for its wristwatches, says it’s coming out with the “world’s smallest, thinnest, and lightest personal digital assistant.” About the size of a credit card, this might actually be the world’s smallest PDA since it appears that Fossil has all but abandoned its planned WristPDA. Read
Contradicting just about everything the company has said up until this point, Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft’s Platforms Group, confirmed that there will be an update of the Tablet PC operating system. Code-named Lonestar, it will include better handwriting recognition and few other improvements, and should be ready sometime early next year. Read [Thanks, Christopher…
Nokia announced the 7700, their first Series 90 cellphone, today in Nice. At first glance the phone, with its wedge-shaped design, reminds us of the N-Gage, but the 7700 is designed for a lot more than playing games. The 7700 has a large, 640×320 resolution, 65,000 color touchscreen which can be used for watching video…
Updated version of Sigma’s SD9 digital SLR camera. The 10.3 megapixel SD10 also uses Foveon’s X3 sensor technology, which can capture red, green, and blue light with every pixel, unlike other digital camera sensors where each pixel can only record a specific color. The result is supposed to be enhanced sensitivity and improved color accuracy.…
It’s something of a dubious distinction these days, but Panasonic has come out with the world’s lightest and smallest MiniDisc player. The SJ-MJ97 weighs a mere 63 grams with battery and is just 11mm thick. Read
The Detroit Science Center has come up with an ingenious new use for an industrial robot: as a high-speed jack-o-lantern carver. Read [Via BoingBoing]
Less than three weeks after its release, GameStop is offering Nokia’s N-Gage gamephone for $199.99, a full hundred bucks off the retail price. Now while $200 is probably a lot closer to what the N-Gage should have been priced at if Nokia had seriously wanted to compete against Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, it’s probably going…
The head of the addictions unit at The Priory clinic in London says that they’re seeing an increasing number of patients who compulsively send text messages for upwards of seven hours a day. So maybe it’s good that text messaging hasn’t really caught on here in the States. Read [Thanks, Mike]
New version of Hitachi’s Prius Deck Media Center PC, this one running the new 2004 version of the operating system. Only available in Japan (unfortunately), the Prius Deck 770G comes with a nice high-resolution widescreen LCD, a 3GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a DVD burner, a TV tuner, and a remote control. Read PS –…
Gizmodo is looking for an intern. The internship pays a very small monthly stipend and would require about five to fifteen hours of work a week, mainly managing our various affiliate programs and doing research for various projects. The position is only open to those in the New York area, and is not suitable for…
San Francisco Chronicle roundup of all the different new PDAs that come with built-in WiFi, like Sony’s Clie UX50 (pictured at right), HP’s iPAQ h4350 Pocket PC, and Dell’s Axim X3i. Speaking of the UX50, Palm Infocenter’s in-depth review of it went up today. Read – San Francisco Chronicle Read – Palm Infocenter Amazon –…
A review of that new Dell Digital Jukebox MP3 player is up at DellDJSite.com. They check out the 20GB version, which unlike the 15GB Dell DJ, also comes with a remote and a case. And believe it or not, Dell actually underestimated the DJ’s battery life, with the reviewer getting nearly 23 hours of playback…
Joining firearms, cellphones and wireless mice on the list of gadgets banned from airplanes is the Knee Defender, a small block of plastic that will prevent the asshole sitting in front of you from fully reclining his or her seat and making the rest of your flight a living hell: Northwest Airlines said it will…
In an attempt to stave off defections once cellphone number portability goes into effect late next month, T-Mobile is expanding its unlimited weekend calling plan to include Fridays as well as Saturdays and Sundays. Read [Via PhoneScoop]
Sometimes it’s just too easy, you know? Read
David Coursey of ZDNet looks at the checkered history of the all-in-one PC and why they haven’t been more popular. He mentions the iMac, one of the few successful all-in-one computers, and a few recent models like the ClientPro from MPC (pictured at right) and Gateway’s Profile 4, though curiously he fails to include Sony’s…
PocketPCReviews takes a look at Rikaline’s new Bluetooth GPS receiver for Pocket PCs, the 6031-X7, which stands out mainly because of its lengthy battery life of 16 hours. Read
Remember last week how we mentioned that a “household name” was going to be using Hitachi’s tiny new 1.8-inch hard drives in its new MP3 player? Well the big name has turned out to be Dell, who released some details on the Dell Digital Jukebox, its new MP3 player which comes out tomorrow. The Digital…