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Not really any new information here, but MP3 NewsWire speculates that Apple has a video iPod in the works, and that they’ll also introduce some sort of iTunes-like service that sells Quicktime files of feature films so that people will have something to watch on them. It’s certainly a predicatable move for them, but Apple…
Is Kensington’s WiFi detector a dog? Apparently there have been legions of complainst about how it doesn’t detect 802.11g networks (like Kensington originally claimed it would), has trouble picking up anything except very strong 802.11b access points, and that it’s designed to ignore encrypted networks. We’ve been playing around with SmartID’s WiFi Detector, and so…
Probably because the new Treo 600’s are due out in a couple of months, Handspring’s dropped the price of the Treo 270 to just $50 with new service activation. Worth considering if you don’t want to wait a few months for the Treo 600 or don’t want to cough up the $400 or $500 it’s…
It ain’t cheap (retail price: $1,499), but Lexar has a new four gigabyte CompactFlash memory card out. Let’s pause and think about this for a moment. Four gigabytes is enough to store as many as 45,000 JPEGs, which is probably more photographs than the average person will take in their entire lifetime. Eventually, as camera…
Rumor going around that Hewlett-Packard will buy Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry line of wireless handhelds. Not sure exactly what HP would do with RIM once they bought it, but it’s probably safe to assume that they’d add the BlackBerry’s email technology to their iPAQ Pocket PCs. Read
The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner and its brethren might get all the attention, but robotic lawnmowers have actually been on the market for years now. The New York Times has an article on a couple of them, the RoboMower RL800 from Friendly Robotics (pictured at right), and the Auto Mower from the somewhat unusually-named company…
A new electronic glove for the deaf that can translate gestures made in American Sign Language into speech or text: The AcceleGlove is a wearable computer with super-small electronic circuitry. Sensors in the glove work with a micro-controller attached to the wearer’s arm, mapping the placement and movement of the arm and fingers. That information…
Some photos of those new Rio players have surfaced. The 40GB Rio Karma (pictured at right), which looks like it might possibly rival the iPod in size (it’s hard to tell from the photo), has a street date of October 17th. Not sure about the other three players, but they’ll probably be the same. Read…
We’re still partial to spinning actual records, but Pioneer has updated the CDJ-1000, its CD player for DJs that let’s you cut and scratch CDs sorta like how you would on a turntable with vinyl. The CDJ-1000MK2 has pretty much the same design as the CDJ-1000, just better sound quality and improved response time. Read…
Just got a tip that Rio, which was once THE name in MP3 players, has four new models on the way called the Fuse, the Cali, the Chiba, and the Karma. The Fuse will be a 128MB USB key drive player. The Cali and the Chiba players will have 128MB and 256MB of internal memory,…
On the off chance you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: New Smartphone from Asus More pics of Sony Ericsson’s P900/810 eMachines’ 802.11g laptop USB “personal massager” Disposable digital camera WiFi picture frames The Screenfridge iTrip: Banned in the UK New wearable camera from Minox
Mobile.Burn is calling it “possibly the most advanced phone you’ll come across this year,” and Motorola’s new A920 PDA phone really does look hot: it’s a keypad-less GSM/UMTS/GPRS phone with built-in GPS for navigation and location-based services, an integrated digital camera, a slot for SD memory cards, and it runs on an operating system similar…
Probably the most vaporous of all the gadgets we’ve covered on Gizmodo in the past year have been the so-called ultra-personal computers. These are the ones which cram a full-fledged PC running Windows XP into something slightly larger than a PDA. The release dates for the OQO (pictured at right), the Tiqit, and the Vulcan…
It’s taken freaking long enough, but Samsung’s SPH-A600 cameraphone, the one with a rotating 65,000 color screen and a swiveling camera with 4x digital zoom, has finally, finally come out. Read
Review of LiteOn’s PhoMaster LVD-2001, a progressive scan DVD player that supports playback of DivX and MPEG-4 video files, the idea being that you can burn all those DivX-encoded movies and TV shows you’ve downloaded off of the Internet to a CD-R and watch them on your TV rather than your PC. Also has two…
Even more bad news for TiVo: Time-Warner Cable in New York (and a few other places) is going to start offering subscribers a set-top box that can record TV shows like a TiVo. The box they’re going with is Scientific Atlanta’s Explorer 8000 (pictured at right), which has an 80GB hard drive and dual television…
We’ve already seen Sony Ericsson and Nokia license this same technology from Anoto, but there’s another new digital Bluetooth pen from Maxell that can transmit what you’re writing directly to a computer or a cellphone and either store it as a file or send it off as an text message or email. You do have…
Verizon and Vodafone are collaborating on a dual-band laptop card that connects to both GPRS and CDMA 1xRTT networks, which means you’d be able to easily access both Vodafone’s GPRS network in Europe and Verizon’s CDMA network here. Read [Via Reiter.weblogger.com]
Tiny new wearable digital camera from Minox. The 2.1-megapixel DD1 is just 3.27 by 2.95 inches in size, and comes with 32MB of internal memory and a slot for SD memory cards. Read [Thanks, Jeff]
Who needs Nokia’s N-Gage when you can just get this: a game pad controller from Sprint PCS for Samsung’s new A600 cameraphone. The Game Pad is roughly the size and shape of a Game Boy Advance, except that the vibrant color screen is part of a phone that can be removed at any time except…