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I love things I can touch. Knobs and dials. Buttons. The Griffin Twenty gives you a big honkin’ dial to control your wireless music. The grace of AirPlay with the goodness of twistin’ stuff. The company’s mum on pricing and availability (“Soon”), but it should be worth the wait. Once you plug your AirPort Express…
Do you see this giganto iPad keyboard that looks like what a typewriter would look like if the typewriter never died? It’s iHome’s brand new iDM5. It’s also much more than your run of the mill iPad keyboard! Not only can you connect the keyboard with any tablet, it also works as a bluetooth speaker…
Live audio buffs will probably know Behringer better from its line of pro audio gear, but it has 50 brand new products tailored to the everyday music buff, including this cute little wireless speaker. Some of the coolest we’ve seen so far from Behringer are speakers that promise famously excellent (and famously German) pro-audio sound…
Induction cooking is pretty freaking great—your food is extremely precisely heated using magnets instead of say, fire. Now, if you’ve got some serious cash, Thermador has a giant magnetic stove that’ll powerboost your kitchen. tThe Freedom—$4,950 and arriving in July—has plenty of space for an array of pots, pans, and trays. Thermador will sell a…
Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child initiative has historically been more about promise than fulfillment. But in the $100 XO 3.0 tablet, OLPC may have its first product that’s not just practical, capable, or cheap. It’s actually… good. The first thing you need to know about the 8-inch XO 3.0 is this: it’s not the…
Asus aren’t the only ones who get to have transforming tablet fun. Lenovo just joined the party with their 10.1-inch, Ice Cream Sandwich-equipped IdeaPad S2, complete with all the versatility, speed and power you could ask for from a tablet, and then some. The IdeaPad S2 runs on Qualcomm’s 1.5 GHz dual-core Krait chipset, has…
Lenovo’s Y-series laptops aren’t flashy by any means, but the Intel Core i7 Processor, NVIDIA GeForce discrete graphics, JBL premium sound and Blu-ray drive make up for the workman-like exterior. The Y580, specifically comes in 14 and 16-inch sizes, supports up to 8 gigabytes of RAM, and has a 1 terabyte hard drive. There’s also…
Lenovo’s Android-powered K91 is, in their words, a “Smart TV” that runs Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of the OS. On top of running any Android 4.0-compatible app, Lenovo promises optimized apps, including 100 that are already preloaded. The only catch is that it’s a China exclusive for now. The comes in 55-inch or…
OK, Acer got our attention with this one: a 1080p screen and quad-core chip behind the scenes. If this is the future of Android tablets, well, giddy up! The Iconia feels lighter than the Transformer Prime, and its rubberized body gives it a more durable feel too—like you can set it on a rough table…
The first generation of Ultrabooks was rushed out. Everything felt unfinished. Not the Aspire S5. Even though Acer’s last Ultrabook attempt, the S3, was very middle-of-the-pack, the S5 looks like it’s going to be good. It feels absolutely nothing like the S3. Where the S3 was plasticy, and overall cheap-feeling, the S5 is heavy duty…
Rumors of a slimmer, more capable sibling to Acer’s A200 tablet have been floating around for a while. But all Acer had to reveal at their press conference today was that the still unnamed tablet would have a full 1080P display, and will be powered by a quad core processor. The next generation Iconia tablet…
Awwww yeah, it’s that time of year again. The Consumer Electronics Show, where we storm Las Vegas and see if there is anything worth writing about. We squeeze into fart-smelling rooms with hundreds of other tech journalists to hear about “vision” and “the future” and, this year, probably a whole lotta ultrabooks. You’ve probably heard…
Acer’s first Ultrabook, the Aspire S5, also happens to be one of the first of what will certainly be a tidal wave of Ultrabooks announced at CES this year. It’s just 15mm thick at its largest point, and weighs in at less than 3 pounds. But it’s probably only going to hold that “world’s thinnest”…
Almost exactly two years ago to the day, we got our first look at Parrot’s AR.Drone quadricopter—the coolest flying toy we’d ever seen. Well we just got our first look at the AR.Drone 2.0, and it’s gotten even cooler. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-controlled-parrot-drone-is-a-lot-cooler-than-its-5441029 For starters that little camera on board is now beaming video and photos back to…
This video shows 22-year-old Australian tourist Erin Langworthy bungee jumping from the Victoria falls bridge, 364 feet (111 meters) over the Zambesi River. Just a normal tourist video until the cord breaks and she falls into the crocodile-infested waters. Miraculously, she survived after hurting herself quite badly and swimming out of the river rapids with…
The X-Pro 1, Fujifilm’s retro rugged lens-swapping shooter, finally got the high quality reveal it deserves: big, detailed photos. Let your eyes enjoy them. The 16 MP mirrorless cam, with its heavy duty metal lenses and rubberized grippy form, will definitely be a photog lust item. We’re excited to get our mitts on it at…
It’s time for the iPad 2 to get off its high horse because there’s a new leader in the burgeoning market of covers that don’t just cover: The completely self-explanatory SolarKindle which harnesses the sun to keep Amazon’s eReader powered for up to three months. As long as you don’t only read in the dark,…
According to the New York Times, a couple of unnamed sources have tipped them that Nokia will officially introduce the rumored, and possibly already leaked, Lumia 900 at CES on Monday. But besides being “sleek” and “metallic,” there’s not much else revealed. https://gizmodo.com/nokias-next-windows-phone-just-a-stretched-out-lumia-5872678 On Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nokia…
Just hours ago we reported that the One Laptop Per Child project was going to unveil their $100 tablet at CES. And now we have some of the first official photos of the highly affordable, yet extremely durable device. https://gizmodo.com/the-100-olpc-tablet-is-really-real-5873942 As with the original OLPC, plastic is the preferred choice of materials here, keeping the…
You might think they only make knives, but Victorinox also makes some of the best flash drives on the market (they’re certainly my favorite.) They’re well-built, extremely fast, and in a few days might be available in one terabyte capacities. Yeah, you read that right. One terabyte! In addition to more storage than you’ll ever…
