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You don’t hear much about Dell’s line of LCD monitors, but Extreme MHz takes a look at their new 18-inch Ultrasharp 1800FP, giving it high marks for its low price and high picture quality. Read
Japanese robot security guards that run on fuel cells: Sohgo Security Services Co., a major security firm, is currently developing a robot equipped with a fuel-cell battery that will work round the clock for one week without a recharge. The current model, Guard-Robo C-4, is powered by a conventional lead battery and works continuously for…
If you’re having trouble keeping track (and who doesn’t, really?), Brighthand has an excellent guide to Everything You Need to Know About the New iPAQs. Turns out there’s a lot, there’s over a half-dozen new models coming out later this year. Read
Word that Benq is coming out with a combination 802.11b/GPRS PC card for laptops. Read
TechTV is calling the new iPronto from Philips the “Mother of All Remote Controls” and that it’s the best universal remote they’ve ever seen. And with a retail price of $1,699.99, it better be. That’s more than the cost of most people’s entire home entertainment setup: The iPronto can command every last piece of equipment,…
This isn’t much of a problem at the 200 square foot Manhattan apartment that doubles as Gizmodo HQ, but Paul Boutin gives the lowdown on how to set up proper Wi-Fi coverage in an actual, full-sized American home: The current crop of 802.11 gear (colloquially known as “Wi-Fi,” even when that’s not technically correct) can…
Over at BusinessWeek, Stephen Wildstrom argues that when it comes to staying connected, you’re better off with a PDA phone rather than a PDA with WiFi. Which leads us to believe that there’s a lot of money to be made if someone would just build a PDA phone with built-in WiFi. Read
PDAs Casio PF-3000 A new digital calculator from Casio that does more than just add up your expense reports – it’ll also let you ditch your rolodex. The PF-3000 doubles as a personal organizer, and has 961 bytes of memory that can be filled with phone numbers, addresses, and notes. If you need the extra…
Oh man, Sammy Hagar isn’t going to like this. To help fight speeding in Britain, researchers there are testing a new “car management system” that uses GPS to automatically sense what the speed limit is of the road you’re driving on. British Telecom’s resident futurologist says that “If the trials are successful, we may see…
nV News review of NVIDIA’s competitor to ATI’s All-In-Wonder TV tuner card, the Personal Cinema 2, which lets you turn a PC into a TiVo-like digital video recorder. Read
Nice roundup in yesterday’s Louisville Courier-Journal of all the handheld video game machines that are coming out later this year, like Nokia’s N-Gage (pictured at right), Sony’s PlayStation Portable, and Tapwave’s Helix. Read
A portable scanner from HP that doesn’t need to be connected to a PC to work – the Photosmart 1200 can scan photos and save the JPEGs directly to MultiMedia, Compact Flash, and Secure Digital memory cards. The 1200 has a decent maximum resolution of 1200 dpi, too. Read [Translated from German using Babelfish]
Looks like Cingular is going to be the first wireless carrier in the States to offer the S56 from Siemens, which has a color screen, built-in Bluetooth, speakerphone, and an optional digital camera accessory. Read
Save almost $50 on Netgear’s WG511 Wireless 54g PC Card for 802.11b and 802.11g WiFi. $50.79 after mail-in rebate. Amazon
Our good friend (and fellow gadgetist) Phillip M. Torrone writes in that he thinks he is close to becoming the first private owner to log over 1000 miles on a Segway Human Transporter. Just one more week and he should be there, he says. Read Amazon – Segway HT
AppleInsider on word that plans to unveil a line of Power Mac G5 desktops at their World Wide Developers Conference later this month. The new G5s will have 1.4 to 1.8GHz processors, FireWire 800, USB 2.0, and a new, more compact casing than that found on the current G4. Read
Well, we’ve been going through all of the feedback people gave us as part of our recent reader survey, and we’re going to start experimenting with comment boards on the site. Just a few posts here and there to get things rolling, then eventually we’ll allow them for each post. I’m still a bit wary…
PC Magazine guide to making your own DVDs, with primers on video capture and compression, editing and authoring software, and, of course, DVD burners. Read
HP have figured out a way for a PDA equipped with a digital camera to translate signs and text in foreign languages into English: Armed with an HP iPaq and digital camera add-on, HP researchers snapped an image of a sign in German, waited while the software identified and highlighted the text, then translated it…
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week here at Gizmodo: Color BlackBerry debuts Archos personal video player Cameraphones do’s and don’ts No tablet Mac from Apple Sneak peak at the new Treo 600 Pimps love cameraphones New wireless mini computers from Zupera Number portability gets the green light