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iPod You can’t really go wrong with the iPod – brilliant design, small size, huge storage capacity, and now, PC compatiblity. Amazon Nomad Creative Zen The iPod is great, but a good lower priced alternative is Creative’s Nomad Zen. The design isn’t as hot, but the price is great ($282.49 after rebate) and you don’t…
Sony Cybershot DSC-U20 There are tons of digital cameras on the market now, so many that it’s becoming difficult to keep up with all the different models out there. But there a few that have caught our eye here at Gizmodo, like the stylish, compact, and light (just 4 ounces) Sony Cybershot DSC-U20, which has…
Gateway’s 42″ Plasma Television $3000 is rarely considered cheap, but Gateway’s new 42″ widescreen plasma television is really, really inexpensive compared with every plasma TV on the market. It’s still a lot of money, but this is one gift that is guaranteed to please just about any gadgets freak out there. Read Panasonic DMR-HS2 You…
vpr Matrix 200A5 Regular readers will know that I’ve been lusting after the widescreen vpr Matrix 200A5 laptop from Best Buy (it’s designed by Porsche Design of Austria). It has a 15.2-inch widescreen display (like the PowerBook G4), a 2.0GHz Pentium processor, 40GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, DVD/CD-RW drive, 32MB video card, two FireWire…
Aiptek has a new digital camera attachment called the iViewer that pops into the Compact Flash slots of Pocket PCs. Resolution is pretty low though, just 640×480 pixels. You’d think that there’d be some money to be made from selling digital camera attachments that took digital photos with actually decent resolution. Read
TechTV on a new wristwatch with a two-way radio from Xact. The WristLinx X2X (do you think there are enough “X’s” in the name?) has a range of 1.5 miles and will work with other two-radios, not just other WristLinx X2Xs. Read
If you’re one of the very few people out there who is actually in the market for a videophone, keep waiting. The New York Times gives the Vialta Beamer, the latest in a long line of efforts over the past forty years or so to bring video telephony to the masses, the thumbs down: The…
A couple of external CD burners that pull triple duty as DVD players and portable CD players as well. Both the JackRabbit32 from Philips (which burns CD-Rs at 32x) and the MPD-AP20U from Sony (which burns at 24x) use USB 2.0 for connectivity. Read – Philips JackRabbit32 Read – Sony MPD-AP20U
A dock for your iPod from Japanese company Quest. It has a Firewire port, so you can automatically connect your iPod to your computer, but it also has a built-in jack so you can hook the dock up to a stereo. It’s a little hard to tell from Babelfish’s mangled Japanese-to-English translation of the site,…
It’s official: Creative’s new 6mm thick CardCam has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s thinnest digital camera. No LCD screen, but the CardCam does have a resolution of 1.3-megapixels and 8MB of internal storage. Read
Digital Photography Review has an in-depth look at the 3.43-Sigma SD9, the first digital camera to use Foveon’s X3 imaging technology,which captures red, green, and blue light with every pixel, rather than other sensors in which each pixel can only record a specific color. Apparently X3 lives up to the hype, as Digital Photography review…
Rather than buy a gigantic television, people with lots of blank wall space (like my friend Christian) are turning to LCD projectors for watching video and playing video games. The only problem is that these projectors usually aren’t cheap. Now for the budget-conscious among us, GideonTech has a DIY guide to building your own LCD…
It’s been going around the blogosphere that Barbie now has a blog (or rather some poor marketing person at Mattel now has the job of ghostwriting a blog). While interesting, that normally wouldn’t be enough to merit a mention on gadgets blog, except for the fact that on the site is a picture of Barbie’s…
If you’re always ruining your CDs and DVDs with scratches, you might want to check out a new line of damage-resistant recordable DVDs coming out from TDK. These so-called Armor Plated DVDs are supposed to have coatings that are 100 times more scratch resistant than regular recordable DVDs. Read
Treo 180, 180g, and 270 owners who use T-Mobile as their service provider will be able to download a software update from Handspring that will let them connect to T-Mobile’s GPRS network, which means faster download speeds for surfing the Web and checking email. Should be available for Treo owners who use Cingular soon. Read…
A new pair of Bluetooth-enabled stereo headphones from Korean company OpenBrain. The Bluetooth Stereo Headset works with any Bluetooth-ready PC or mobile phone, and also comes with up to 128MB of built-in memory so it can double as a portable MP3 player all on its own. OpenBrain is going to have to do something about…
It’s been a mighty slow week for new gadgets. Any big announcements were made last week at Comdex, and most manufacturers know better than to unveil new products during a week when most Americans are thinking about their Thanksgiving plans.
Four new CDMA 1xRTT-compatible (the new high-speed network that Sprint PCS uses) cellphones from Audiovox: the CDM-9600, which has GPS, a built-in digital camera, and a 16-bit color display (pictured at right); the dual display CDM-9500; and two low-end models, the CDM-8500 and the CDM-8300. Should be out sometime early next year. Read
You can use your Palm now to keep track of your workouts with a new Palm OS-compatible treadmill from Star Trac. The Star Trac Pro Elite has an IR port that can automatically beam workout data to a Palm PDA. Read
Lengthy review over at Mobigeeks of the new SPV from Orange, the first cellphone to run Microsoft’s new Smartphone operating system. The review includes plenty of screenshots of the different applications and games available; besides the usual email and web browsing apps, the SPV has a version of Windows Media Player, so it can double…