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Gizmodo, which is run by my fellow Mobius-attendee Pete Rojas, is an excellent blog-style site for keeping up to date on the world of electronic gadgets. Pete has a broad approach to the topic, covering everything from Pocket PCs to home audio components. If it’s a cool gadget, Pete will tell you about it –…
“Bookmark and visit Gizmodo at least weekly and you’ll discover the latest tech products for your watch or wish lists. We recently came upon a new Web blog less than a year old, Gizmodo. And now we’re back there at least every other day. Why? Because there is no better place on the Web to…
“I WAS GOING TO BUY A DIGITAL CAMERA today, but thanks to Nick Denton’s Gizmodo site, I found this article saying that prices are likely to drop sharply in the next few weeks. Thanks, Gizmodo! My wife, interestingly, was up in New York last week doing a TV show and dropped by her cousin’s palatial…
Can’t decide between a ReplayTV or a TiVo? CNET has a head-to-head comparison of the latest PVRs from each. Read Amazon – ReplayTV 5040 Amazon – TiVo DVR Series2
Washington Post piece about Michael Osver, one of the thirty winners of Amazon’s contest to be one of the first owners of a Segway Human Transporter. Winners had to submit a 75-word essay describing why they should get a Segway months before they go on sale to the general public. Osver wrote: My dream .…
Project Dreamix is trying to turn Microsoft’s Xbox into a digital home entertainment hub. The goal is an Xbox that can function like a TiVo and record television and play most audio and video formats. Isn’t Microsoft pretty much planning to do this anyway? Read Amazon [Via Slashdot]
Neil Curry of the BBC points out that it might not be that much of a coincidence that the Consumer Electronics Show and the annual porn convention known as the Adult Entertainment Show both happen in Las Vegas at the same time. Read
Dior’s carrying case may have been the ultimate iPod accessory, but it looks like its crown may just have been swiped by the sleek-looking Groove bag by Felicidade, which has a slot for your iPod and built-in speakers. Spotted at the Sakuraya store in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Read
We reported on rumors of this way back in September, but this article over at the BBC confirms that the new version of the Sidekick, that mobile email/IM/cellphone gadget from Danger, will come with a color screen. Read Amazon [Via BoingBoing]
Glenn Fleishman, of Wi-Fi Networking News, and Adam Engst, have launched a new weblog dedicated entirely to the AirPort, Apple’s wireless networking system. Read
Hackers have already started taking apart the Roomba, that new robotic vacuum cleaner from iRobot. Jake Luck and John Ionnidis are trying to figure out ways to mod it, with their ultimate goal a Roomba they can control via 802.11b. Read [Via BoingBoing]
A new credit card-sized hard disk that can hold up to 5GB. The StorCard, as it’s called, is just 0.03″ thick, and actually has a superthin disk of Mylar spinning inside. The cards should be out later this year, and are expected to retail for under $15. Sounds a little too good to be true,…
Design firm IDEO just received the Grand Prize in the 2002 Media Arts Festival held by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs for its series of concept cellphones intended to make using a cellphone less anti-social. Among their ideas: a phone that gives you an electric shock if the other person is talking too loudly, another…
Just in time for the Super Bowl, Consumer Reports has a guide to buying a very, very large television. They like the 57-inch Sony KP-57WS500 (pictured at right), the 51-inch Hitachi 51UWX20B, and the 50-inch Toshiba 50HDX82. Read Amazon – Sony Amazon – Hitachi Amazon – Toshiba http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/Y02Y1682404Y0162752/qid=1042783904/sr=gizmodo-20/103-6914722-8864618?tag=gmgamzn-20
On the way: Double-sided DVD-Audio discs that play in regular old CD players. One side will have the high-fidelity DVD-Audio tracks; flip the disc over to play it in a CD player. Looks like the recording industry is getting desperate for people to move over to DVD-Audio. Read
Anyone else going through CES withdrawal?
Microsoft’s new smart watch and Fossil’s new PDA watch might be getting all the hype, but the OnHandPC, a wristwatch PDA with 2MB of RAM and a mini-joystick for entering data, has managed to accrue a rather loyal following of its own. Read
We feel somewhat uncouth blogging about such a, shall we say unusual, product, but in the interest of taking an equal-opportunity approach to our gadget coverage, if you’re at all embarrassed about your malodourousness, check out the GasBGon seat cushion from Dairiair. Read
Tiny new hi-fi from Sony that combines a CD and a Mini Disc recorder that can can connect to a PC using a USB cable in order to make mixes using MP3 files on stored on your hard drive. As with most Mini Disc products, the LAM-Z10 Sound Gate is for the Japanese market only.…
Samsung’s first cameraphone, the SGH-v205, is finally out. The SGH-v205 connects to GSM networks for voice, GPRS for data, and is available from T-Mobile now. Read