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This seems like a lot of trouble just to be able to listen to your phone’s built-in FM radio, but Nokia has a new pair of external stereo speakers designed to be hooked up to its 6800 and 7250 cellphones. Fortunately, the Music Stand can also double as speakers for a CD player or MP3…
Some early details about a couple of new Pocket PCs coming from Fujitsu-Siemens, one with both 802.11b and Bluetooth built-in, the other with just Bluetooth. Both of the new handhelds in the Pocket Loox 610 series will have 400MHz processors, 240×320 pixel LCD touchscreens, 64MB of Flash ROM, and CompactFlash and SD expansion slots. The…
Speaking of portable electricity generators, a company in Colorado called Community Power Corp. is going to start selling generators that can be powered by all that rotten food you’d have to throw away because of a power outage. The BioMax generator is non-polluting and runs on biomass, or basically any kind of plant matter or…
Much to our surprise, it looks like the first cellphone to come out that will run the new, updated Smartphone 2003 operating system will be the Dopod 515, which is manufactured by Dopod Communications Corporation and is probably only for the Chinese market. If the 515 looks at all familiar to you, that’s because it…
Emily over at PicturePhoning.org thinks that the SpyDetector, which supposedly can locate and detect any kind of hidden camera, might be the only way to keep people from using cameraphones where they’re not supposed to. We have no idea how this works, or if it really works at all. The only articles we could find…
As the resolution of digital camers soars ever upwards, it’s important to remember that picture quality isn’t all about the number of pixels. Over at Photo.net, Bob Atkins writes that it’s also the size digital cameras – Minolta’s Dimage Xi (pictured at right), Nikon’s Coolpix 995, and Canon’s D30 – which all have resolutions of…
Our pal Eric just picked up a Sony Ericsson T616, and has written up a lengthy review of it looking at how his new phone stacks up against his old phone, an HTC Tanager running Windows Smartphone, in terms of interface, dialing, screen quality, web browsing, etc. Read
Reader Ben Bethel writes in with an excellent suggestion: a discussion about what gadgets people should have on hand for a blackout. We managed to miss the whole thing (we’ve been in California for the past few weeks), but we realized that we don’t even have a flashlight back at Gizmodo HQ in New York…
A French company, Albatross, is coming out with what looks like one of best Tablet PCs yet: the TBPC00803, which has a 1.6GHz Centrino processor, 30GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, a 14.1-inch LCD screen (making it one of the first with a display this large). Albatross is just the rebrander (the computers are actually…
The US military is working on a gadget called the WolfPack which can be parachuted into enemy territory and jam all the cellular transmission in the local area. Even geekier is that a whole bunch of WolfPacks can connect together to form a mesh network that can “collectively gang up” on signals. All we want…
New super-slim cellphone from Samsung. The SGH-C100, which weighs just 76 grams and is only 17mm thick, is the thinnest phone they’ve ever made that comes with a color screen. And since it’s a dual-band (rather than tri-band) GSM phone, it looks like the C100 is just for the Asian market. Read
Scientists have created the first “interactive” computer called the MAYA that uses DNA to crunch numbers instead of silicon chips. Right now it can only play tic-tac-toe, but the fact that it can do anything at all is rather amazing. Read [Via SmartMobs]
At the risk of going overboard with posts about the new UX50, Sony’s Clie-Online website has lots and lots of info about their new wireless Clie handheld, and Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has one of the earliest reviews. He likes it, but thinks it’s a couple of hundred bucks too expensive. Read…
As we mentioned last week, Palm is splitting up into two companies, and the part that does the hardware, Palm Solutions Group, is getting a new name (the operating system part is keeping the name it has now, PalmSource). Today we found out what it was: PalmOne, which is so boring and unimaginative a name…
Most of us haven’t even upgraded our wireless networks to 802.11g yet, and already someone’s come out with another standard. Airgo hopes that it’s new wireless data standard, which has double the speed (54Mbps vs. 108Mbps) and up to six times the range of 802.11a and 802.11g, will emerge as the successor to WiFi. There’s…
If you don’t want to go without power during the next blackout, Slate recommends picking up the EU3000, a portable generator from Honda which pumps out 2,500 watts of juice. Read
Some screenshots over at Smartphone Thoughts of Smartphone 2003, the new version of Microsoft’s operating system for cellphones. When handsets running Smartphone finally hit the US this fall, it’s expected that they’ll have this updated version of the OS rather than the older version that came out last year. Read
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: HP’s 100 Rio’s new MP3 players revealed The Guide Robot Sanyo’s TV cellphone The SIPphone Intel’s WiFi chair Pics of CEC’s wristphone Stolen Segway sting operation Should Sony buy Apple? Gizmodo turns one! High and low: Sony’s new digital cameras
Sharp’s two new Mebius laptops, which go on sale in Japan at the end of the month, both have one very interesting feature: you can play DVDs or watch TV on them without needing to boot up first (there are already a few laptops that can do the same thing with audio CDs). The rest…
An actual veterinarian reviews the Bowlingual, that device from Japan which purports to decipher your dog’s barking, and concludes (surprise, surprise) that it simply doesn’t work: The translations went from bad to worse when I tested the apparatus on real- live dogs. I tested it on the home alone function, which records each bout of…