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Bill Thompson’s most recent column for BBCi is about cameraphones, and the risks they pose to personal privacy. Read
Ric Manning, who does the Gizmo Page for the Louisville Courier-Journal, thinks that 2003 will finally be the year PVRs find a mainstream audience. One can only hope. Read
CNET roundup of the best 19-inch LCD monitors. Their picks for the best of the bunch: Princeton’s SENergy 981 and Planar’s PL191M (pictured at right). Read Amazon – Planar PL191M
A new external DVD-RW drive from Archos. The DExDVD-RW connects over USB 2.0, and with DVD-RAM disks, can double as an external hard drive as well. Read
D-Link 4-port cable/DSL routers are just $32.01 (after rebate) at Amazon. It’s amazing how it can cost under $50 now to build a home network. Amazon
We try to keep the useless jargon to a minimum here at Gizmodo, but there’s a certain amount of technical terms that are just unavoidable. This is a gadgets weblog we’re talking about. But if you’re puzzled by the sea of acronyms and terms we throw out every time we blog about a new handheld,…
Anyone worried about possible radiological terrorist attacks might want to pick up this radiation detecting wristwatch from vigiWATCH. Hopefully you’ll never have a chance to actually see how well it works. Read
Lots of hotel rooms come with VCRs these days, but has anyone stayed in one with a DVD player? UPDATE: Several readers have written in to say that, yes, they have stayed in hotels offering DVD players in their rooms, including the Meridian and 60 Thompson here in New York City, Porches in Massachusetts, the…
Wired News has its list of the top vaporware of 2002 – overhyped products that for whatever reason failed to materialize, among several gadgets like the “new” Amiga, Electronic Film, and the OQO Ultrapersonal computer. Read
Dan Gillmor, of the San Jose Mercury News, among his other prognostications for 2003, is predicting that Apple will introduce a PDA this year. There’s been speculation about this for past year or so, but remember that Steve Jobs has publically proclaimed his dislike for handhelds (he killed off the Newton soon after returning to…
Finally, an article suitable for blogging by both Gizmodo and our New York-obsessed sibling blog, Gawker! Simon Dumenco fears that TiVo and digital cable are turning New Yorkers into a city of VH1 Classic obsessed loners. It’s about time! Have you seen how good VH1 Classic is? In just one hour I once saw videos…
Despite everyone predicting that Tablet PCs would face a lukewarm reception at best, at least one manufacturer, Toshiba, is actually seeing better-than-expected demand. They’ve just announced that they’re going to increase production for the Portege 3500 Series Tablet PC by 35 percent. Apparently they sold out their first month’s supply in just two weeks. Maybe…
PalmInfocenter with the Year in Review for the Palm platform. Read
It’s about freaking time: Talking Postcards. Read
The Circuits section of the New York Times is usually chock-full of great gadgets news, and this week’s edition is no exception. David Pogue plays with Microsoft’s SmartDisplay, those portable, wireless monitors that are like dumbed down Tablet PCs, and discovers its many, considerable shortcomings. How long until Microsoft put this ill-fated venture out of…
A new laser from Mitsubishi announced this week means that 16x DVD burners should be available by 2004. That means a 4.7GB DVD could be written in about three and a half minutes. Read
This TiVo hack that lets you turn one of the buttons on the remote into a 30-second skip button has been floating around for years, but BoingBoing just pointed to a new link describing how to do it, so it seems worth mentioning for those users out there who weren’t aware of it already. TiVo…
A new “portable Internet receiver” from PDT that is basically a stereo that wirelessly connects to a PC via a transmitter plugged into a USB port. The GlobalTuner InTune-200 has a range of about 300 feet, and an be used to listen to MP3s, Internet radio, CDs, and regular broadcast radio. Read
A man in Wisconsin was arrested this weekend for stalking his former girlfriend for the past couple of months. Turns out he was able to keep tabs on her courtesy of a GPS transmitter he’d secretly installed under the hood of her car. Creepy. Read
The space between laptops and handhelds has become something of a no-man’s land for the computing industry, with relatively few products out that there don’t fall squarely into one category or the other. Samsung has a new handheld computer from Samsung called the NEXiO S160 that’s larger and more powerful than a Pocket PC, but…