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Here in New York it’s been way too nice outside lately to be cooped up indoors. Fortunately for you, my contract with Gizmodo’s publisher, Nick Denton, requires me to produce a certain number of posts each day (see if you can guess what that number is!), so instead of being out, having fun, I’m inside,…
We’re incredulous that this is actually legal: a box from Nextedi called the TVBrick Home Server that hooks up to your television and then via a home network streams the channels onto the Internet so that “family members” in other countries can watch their favorite TV shows from back home. The manufacturer says that since…
It’s summer, and while we’ve yet to spot a mosquito here in the Lower East Side, it’s safe to assume that they’re still a nuisance for the rest of the country. CNN has a roundup of the different methods for keeping the bloodsuckers at bay. Perhaps not surprisingly, high-tech isn’t the way to go –…
Turns out thatusing a cellphone while behind the wheel might not be what makes you a bad driver. You might just be a bad driver in general. Not that the methodology of their study is particularly rigorous, but Response Insurance did a survey of drivers and found that people who talk on their cellphone while…
HP’s new color ink-jet printer, the Deskjet 3520, is set to retail for $39, which is about as cheap as we’ve ever seen one of these. Should be out later this month. Read
From Hitachi, a new imaging system called the AirSho that lets you project images onto specially coated Plexiglas so that they appear to just be floating in air: The system displays full-motion images – generated by a PC or DVD player – that give the illusion of appearing out of nowhere. It uses a floor-…
Anyone know how to manually set the modem speed on a TiVo? Please please please write in if you do.
Maybe this is stretching the definition of a gadget somewhat, but a couple of guys in Britain have built a jet-powered glider, and even have some video footage of the test flight. Read [Via BoingBoing]
Last week DesignTechnica didn’t like Gateway’s Media Center PC, this week they’re not so hot on Sony’s new mid-range desktop PC, the Vaio PCV-RS220: When there are so many desktop options in the $999 market, it is hard to recommend the Sony VAIO PCV-RS220 system as the one to go with. With no video expansion…
You might have noticed that Gateway has been releasing lots of products lately that aren’t computers, like plasma televisions, DVD players, home theater systems, and other consumer electronics. They’ve been flailing for the last few years, trying to settle on a strategy that will bring them back in to the black. CNET has an interview…
Digital Photography Review takes an in-depth look at Canon’s new “flagship” digital camera, the five megapixel PowerShot G5, which also features a 4x optical zoom lens. Sounds like it’s a good camera, but not necessarily worth the upgrade from the G3. Read
Not that it’s likely to have much of an effect, but a bunch of Sprint PCS customers are petitioning the company to release the Sony Ericsson T608. The T608 was all set to become the first CDMA with built-in Bluetooth, that is, until Sony Ericsson dropped the phone from its line-up shortly before it was…
As long as we’re on the topic of personal video players, the most surprising entrant into the field we’ve seen yet is from Tiger Electronics, which has come out with one for kids. The VIDEONOW has a 1.7 by 1.3-inch monochrome LCD screen and plays special proprietary 3.5-inch discs that can hold up to 30…
Toshiba’s jumping on the bigger-is-better bandwagon, and has just come out with its own laptop with a massive 17-inch widescreen display, the frightening-looking Satellite P25-S507. Besides the huge screen, the P25-S507 comes with a 2.8GHz processor, built-in 802.11a and 802.11b, and a 60GB hard drive. Read
New wireless version AlphaSmart’s Dana with built-in 802.11b. The Dana Wireless, which is aimed mainly at the educational market, is one of those gadgets that falls somewhere between a PDA and a laptop. It runs on the Palm operating system, and has a decently-sized keyboard, 8MB of RAM, and a 560×160 pixel greyscale touchscreen display.…
A couple of swanky new Pocket PCs from Mitac, which seems like it’s working hard to make a name for itself in the handheld world. Both the Mio 339 and 558 have 400MHz processors, an SDIO expansion slot, 64MB of RAM, and 64MB of flash ROM. The 339 has a 3.5-inch, 65,000 color transflective display…
It’s still firmly within the realm of vaporware, but a company called Gotuit is working on a TiVo for car radio that they’re marketing as “The Radio That Remembers”: Users could even program their Gotuit system, a small box mounted behind the dash or in the trunk, to record late-night talk shows while the car…
With all the talk about home networks and digital entertainment hubs lately, suddenly bandwidth within the home has become something of an issue. We’ve all but given up on using 802.11b to transfer files between PCs here at Gizmodo HQ; even at 11Mbps, it just takes too long to move 15 gigabytes of MP3s from…
Toshiba might have beat them to it, but NEC has their own prototype of a fuel cell-powered laptop. Right now the fuel cell only provides about five hours of juice before it runs dry, but NEC expects that within a couple of years they’ll be able to squeeze 40 hours out of one before it…
Cheating on exams via text message is already problem in some schools, but apparently some kids in Britain have taken things to the next level, using cameraphones to send friends photographs of test questions. The Ministry of Education is fighting back, giving exam supervisors special scanners which can detect when a cellphone is being used.…