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“We have all heard about Weblogs, or ‘blogs’ for short. All of us Lockergnome staffers have one; some are a more interesting read than others (yes, I’m talking about Gretchen’s). Gizmodo is a blog devoted to gadgets! Yes – you heard me right, gadgets! Holy coolness, Batman! I love toys, and this is my new…
A new household robot from tmsuk and Sanyo called the Banryu, or “guard-dragon”, which is meant prowl around your house and keep an eye on things. The Banryu can travel up to 15 meters a minute and detect when a fire is about to break out. Comes out early next year. Read [Via BoingBoing]
Apparently Gateway is having some problems with order fulfillment when it comes to its new line of $2999 plasma televisions, and some customers are having to wait over three weeks for them to arrive. Read
A gadget geek who puts all of us to shame: a Frenchman who has about 1,300 (!) gadgets and tools on his person at all times. He’s even created his own special outfits to help him carry all of them. Read [Via Slashdot]
TheModFathers.com reviews Microsoft’s new Office Keyboard, the very same model of keyboard we use here at Gizmodo HQ. Read Amazon
The SL-5600, the latest in Sharp’s line of Linux-based Zaurus handhelds, is finally out. The SL-5600 looks a bit like those new Tungsten handhelds from Palm, since it expands to reveal a mini-keyboard, and has a 3.5″, 65,536 color, 240×320 pixel screen; 32MB of RAM and 64MB of ROM; Compact Flash and Secure Digital slots;…
Samsung and Microsoft have partnered to create a reference design for a low-cost Pocket PC that will have 32MB of RAM, a 200MHz processor, a Secure Digital slot, and weigh just 2.9 ounces. If this brings the price of a Pocket PC down to $99, Palm is in big, big trouble. Read
Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing takes a first look at SmartDisplay for TheFeature. SmartDisplay is sort of like a portable, wireless-enabled monitor. They’re kinda like a crippled Tablet PC without the internal hard drive or powerful processor, and they can’t function at all when they’re out of range of their base computer. Mark pretty much likes…
The T-Mobile’s Sidekick mobile communicator, with camera, is just $99.99 at Amazon with service activation. Unlike T-Mobile’s other mobile data plans, which irritatingly charge by the megabyte, service for the Sidekick is all-you-can-eat, so you can email and IM to your heart’s content. Amazon
A Bluetooth-enabled briefcase from Samsonite. For real. Each business case in the Hardlite 600 and 625 series comes with an embedded Bluetooth chip that can alert its owner if it’s removed and store personal data and travel information. The cache alone should help sell a few of these, but I’m not sure how useful this…
Toshiba’s flagship Pocket PC, the e740, is on sale at Amazon for just $389.94 after rebate. The e740 comes with 64MB of RAM, a 400MHz processor, Secure Digital and Compact Flash slots, a 64,000 color screen, and best of all, integrated 802.11b. Amazon
PC World on the burgeoning field of budget PDAs. They’re pretty bullish on the new Viewsonic V35 and Dell Axim 5 Pocket PCs which are about to come out. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
Another 20GB MP3 player is coming. This one isn’t the best looking player around, but the Neuros does have a few interesting features that the iPod and the Nomad Zen don’t have. It has an internal microphone, a built-in FM tuner that you can record from, and the ability to broadcast on any open FM…
Tired of the LED in your optical mouse being red? Probably not, but if for some reason you are sick of it, Extreme MHz has a DIY guide to switching that red LED to the color of your choice. Read
A new tri-band PC card modem from Sony Ericsson that supports GPRS, HSCSD, and GSM. The GC75 works in 160 countries, and you can get up to a 57.6 kbps connection with it. Can’t wait for these things to merge with 802.11b cards so you can seamlessly move from a GPRS network to a Wi-Fi…
An “invisible” laptop stand from Griffin technology called the iCurve that’s designed to be used with the PowerBook and the iBook. Read [Thanks, Derek!]
The OverClock Intelligence Agency guide to building a soundproof PC. Read
ZDnet roundup of six of the first Tablet PC models out: Acer’s TravelMate C102TI, Fujitsu’s Stylistic ST4000, HP’s Compaq Tablet PC TC1000, Motion Computing’s M1200, Toshiba’s Portege Tablet 3505, and ViewSonic’s V1100. Expect a great many more of these roundups in the coming months as more and more models hit the market. Read
Linksys’ inexpensive networking equipment is pretty popular, but almost anyone who has had to deal with their tech support knows just how ineffectual they are if you have any major problems. I actually once had a tech support guy hang up on me when I called regarding some trouble I was having setting up my…