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If you’re thinking about getting someone a 20GB iPod as a gift (or just buying one for yourself), Amazon is giving away a free “iPod Travel Bundle” with purchase. The bundle includes a PowerPod Auto adapter so you can use your iPod in the car, and an irock! wireless music adapter (pictured at right) so…
Researchers at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon are hard at work on a toy version of NASA’s Mars rover that they hope to have on the market by 2004 at a retail price somewhere around $500. Glad to see they’re working on something practical for a change! Read [Via BoingBoing]
A new BlackBerry from Research in Motion that runs on Nextel’s cellular network. The BlackBerry 6510 can do email and make cellphone calls like other BlackBerries, but it also has a two-radio feature so that you can use it as a “walkie-talkie” with other Nextel subscribers. Read
Design Technica has a first look at the aptly named Icebox FlipScreen, a computer designed be attached underneath the cabinets in your kitchen. Has a 12.1 inch flat-panel LCD screen that flips up when not in use, and comes with a DVD/CD drive, wireless mouse, keyboard, and remote control, and a built-in television tuner. Read
A few months ago Danish electronics company KiSS Technology introduced the first DVD player to support video files compressed with DivX. Now for their latest DVD/DivX player they’ve added an Ethernet connection for streaming audio and video over the Internet. Read
My-Symbian.com has a head-to-head comparison of Nokia’s 7650 Imaging Phone and the new Microsoft Smartphone-powered SPV cellphone from Orange. Read
Tom’s Hardware Guide roundup of wireless gateways, those 802.11b wireless access points that also have DSL/cable modem routers. Their pick for the best of the bunch? Netgear’s FM-114P: “The Netgear FM-114P came top in nearly all of our individual test categories and therefore receives the review team’s recommendation. No other product tested sends data faster…
The opening salvo in the 2-megapixel digital camera price war predicted last week by IDC (and apparently eagerly awaited by Glenn Reynolds!) has been shot. Visioneer has two new 2-megapixel cameras coming out that each cost $99.99 after rebate, the MX 200 and the LX 200 (pictured at right). Read Amazon
CNET likes Samsung’s new budget home-theater-in-a-box system, the 60 watt, 5.1 channel HT-DM550, which also comes with a progressive scan DVD player. Read Amazon
A reader writes in to recommend the Disc-Clone, a CD burner that can function as a standalone disc copier, or hook up to a PC as an external drive: “By far the best CD burner for the money on the market. This unit is an external burner which needs no computer or you can hook…
InfoSync review of the latest Pocket PC Phone from T-Mobile, the MDA, which is almost identical to its predecessor, the O2 XDA. All the hardware specs like processor speed, memory, etc are the same, but the MDA has slightly different styling. It’s almost as if T-Mobile deliberately wants to confuse people. Read
Akihabara, Tokyo’s electronics district, is something of a mecca for gadget freaks. Even if you don’t intend to buy anything, it merits a pilgrimage just to catch a glimpse of all the crazy futuristic electronics that may or may not hit American shores sometime in the next few years. A few weeks ago we featured…
Pocket PC Magazine review of the new Dell Pocket PC, the Axim 5. They like it: “To date, the Dell Axim X5 delivers the best combination of price, power, and pizzazz I’ve ever seen. Other Pocket PC manufacturers will be scrambling to match this, and that will be good for consumers and enterprise users alike.”…
Canon, Fujifilm, HP, Olympus, Seiko Epson, and Sony are collaborating to develop a new industry standard that would allow digital cameras to bypass computers altogether and connect directly to printers for printing photos. Right now each manufacturer has its own direct printing system, so you can only connect your camera directly to your printer if…
The New York Times Magazine on the latest luxury accessory, the $19,450 Vertu cellphone. If you’re gonna spend $20,000 on a Patek Philippe watch, or $5,000 on an Hermes handbag, why not drop 20 grand on your cellphone as well? At that level we’re not talking about functionality anyway – it’s just pure status symbol.…
A Bluetooth-enabled 5GB hard drive Toshiba. The Hopbit is about the size of an iPod and can connect wirelessly to Bluetooth-enabled handhelds and digital cameras. It’s a great idea. It means you can have access to tons of music, movies, etc on your Palm or Pocket PC while your Hopbit is in your bag or…
JVC plans to introduce a radio that can automatically slow down speech so that listeners can better hear what’s being said. Not many details available, but most likely these will be radios with some flash memory built-in. Hopefully these radios will able to pause, slow down, or rewind what’s being broadcast. If not, it’d be…
A new robot created by an Austrian electrician means you won’t have to go to a tattoo parlor to get that “Thuglife” tattoo on your stomach; just load up the image, strap on the robot, and press start. And it’s powered by a Palm of all things. But why is it that the thought of…
Welcome to the Gizmodo Holiday Gadget Gift Guide, our suggestions for the best gadgets to give as gifts (or to ask for) this holiday season. If you’ve got your own suggestions for good gadget gifts, or you have a particular gadget you’re dying to find under the tree this year, write in and let us…
T-Mobile Sidekick (aka the Hiptop from Danger) This little mobile communicator from Danger can do it all: email, surf the web, instant messenger, make phone calls, and even take pictures with an attachment. Amazon Dell Axim X5 Pocket PC Choosing a budget handheld to recommend was tough, The price of an entry-level Pocket PC has…