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Panasonic’s New Bone Conducting Headphones: WTH?

At CES this year Panasonic will be showing off bone conducting headphones that beam music through your body. The Panasonic RP-BTGS10 doesn’t go inside your ear or over the ear but outside your ear. The headphone pumps sound with vibrations that move through the bone into the auditory nerve. That means you can listen to…

Panasonic’s Big Beautiful New Plasma and LED TVs Are Here

Panasonic’s latest Viera televisions. 16 Viera Plasmas up to 65-inches and 16 LED/LCDs all up to 65-inches. They include new models of some of Panasonic’s best models. The new lineup is lead by the new Smart Viera ZT60 series, and new VT60-series and ST60-series plasmas that all come equipped with many of Panasonic’s totally overwrought…

Netflix has scored the rights to WB TV shows from ’12 and ’13, as well as Chuck, Fringe and The West Wing.

Have AT&T U-Verse? Well, You’re Getting New Movies From Sony, MGM and Two Apps Today

Starting today through Sunday, AT&T U-Verse customers will be able to preview a brand spankin’ new Screen Pack filled with even more content than was previously available, says AT&T. For the low, low price of only $5 a month, U-Verse TV Screen Pack customers will instantly have unlimited access to “an extensive library” of movies…

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Monster Is Making Gaming Headphones for EA Sports

Monster, after having tried to replace Dr. Dre with anything it could think of last year, is now trying its hand at making gaming headphones. Called MVP Carbon, Monster teamed up with EA Sports to create a giant Monster made headset complete with a microphone. https://gizmodo.com/monster-tries-to-replace-dre-with-lance-armstrong-or-an-5874344 Monster also introduced a slimmer version of their Inspiration…

Sharp Has a 4K TV Ready for This Summer

Not to be left out of the spec party, Sharp just announced that it’s joining the 4K pleasure cruise this summer, with a 60-inch set. It has a 240Hz panel, active 3D, and built-in Wi-Fi. 4K packs four time the pixels of a standard 1080p TV into the same amount of space for a picture…

Sharp Would Like to Interest You in a Giant LED TV

Look at the big TVs. They’re thin! They’re bright! They’re “smart.” They’re Sharp’s LED TVs, and they’re coming your way this year. You can get them in 60-, 70-, 80-, and 90-inch flavors. There are a lot of somewhat meaningless marketing terms bandied about here, but the bottom line is this: The 6-Series is the…

MOGA’s Pro Controller Gets a Serious Grip on Android Gaming

Android is turning into more and more of a platform for serious gamers, what with NVIDIA’s upcoming Android console, the Ouya, and all that jazz. But for real games, you need a real controller, and while MOGA’s first gaming system and controller was a winner, its new Pro controller looks like it can hang with…

Asus’s Qube for Google TV Might Finally Make Google TV Worth Using

Google’s Nexus Q was supposed to be the thing that legitimized Google TV, taking it from comical TV feature to a fluid addition to Google’s services. Instead, it flopped, then never even came out. So Asus decided to make its own streaming box. The Qube’s big feature seems to be its motion sensing via an…

Griffin’s iTrip Auto Transmitter Now Streams Harman Aha Content

Drivers stuck with just an FM radio in their rides can now access Harman’s Aha streaming content through Griffin’s iTrip Auto transmitter. The service, which includes over 30,000 stations covering everything from music, to news, to audiobooks, has typically only been available in new vehicles or aftermarket in-dash stereos. But iTrip Auto users can now…

Walmart’s For-Pay Blu-ray Ripping Is Now Slightly Less Annoying, Still Way Overpriced

If you’re looking to convert DVDs and BluRay discs to a digital format and want it to be easy, but not too easy, and definitely not free, Walmart has the service for you. They’re automating their Disc-to-Digital service so you can get UltraViolet versions of movies you’ve already bought. But here’s where it gets really…

Nokia Boss: “Today we are with Microsoft, but anything is possible” (Updated 2)

Gizmodo es Español reports on some surprising words by Nokia big chief Stephen Elop. Asked about a potential Android phone in Nokia’s near future, Elop said that “anything is possible”: https://es.gizmodo.com/dejara-nokia-de-ser-fiel-a-microsoft-cualquier-giro-e-1374399 El País: Do you discard launching an Android phone next year? Elop: In the current ecosystem wars we are using Windows Phone as our…

How to Turn Your DSLR Into an Instagram DSLR Using Some Tape

You might have your fancy-ass DSLR, but can you, like, take a square picture like all the cool kids on Instagram? No of course you can’t, sucker! But here’s how to with a little… tape. Photographer Maciej Pietuszynski has posted what we desperately hope is a humorous blog post—actually it’s hard to tell if it’s…

LG Adds NFC to Its TVs and Appliances So It Can All Work Together

If you’re an LG fan, your house is about to get a whole lot smarter with a host of intelligent appliances. The company is focusing on developing not just smart devices but cultivating an entire smart home ecosystem. LG calls the plan “One Touch Connectivity,” and the idea is that it lets your phone and…

Sherpa Mates With Magellan, Births Garmin’s Oregon Personal Navigator

Don’t take your phone hiking—you’re probably not going to get service and bears might eat it. Instead, find your way through the woods with Garmin’s Oregon personal navigator. The 7-ounce multi-touch module uses data from GLONASS satellites and comes loaded with more than 100,000 topographical maps. Just zoom in to see more information about the…

Garmin’s 2013 Navigation Systems Give Directions Based on Landmarks

If you could get lost anywhere, even with a sherpa and very detailed map, Garmin is listening. Its new line of Nüvi personal navigation systems use landmarks rather than traditional street names. So rather than saying turn left at Jones street, the system tells you to turn left at the Starbucks, or another easily recognizable…

Broadcom’s 802.11ac 5G Wi-Fi chips will be showing up in select LG Smart TVs this year.

The low-end 21.5-inch iMac can now be configured with Apple’s Fusion Drive for $250. You won’t regret it. [MacRumors]

Grab Photoshop and CS2 For Absolutely Free Right Here

Adobe’s giving us all a late Christmas present. You can grab yourself a free, legitimate copy of Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite 2, right now, direct from Adobe. No catch. Well, unless you think having an Adobe account is a catch. Anyway, apparently Adobe’s tired of keeping the activation servers running to…