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Chapter 8 of Arthur C. Clarke‘s 1986 book July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century describes what the year 2019 holds for popular media such as TV, music and movies. Some predictions, like a mass medium that plugs directly into the human brain, may not be a reality by 2019 (Clarke writes about demand…
Razer, the firm that brings us all those high-end gaming peripherals, has made its first foray into the Xbox market with a couple of add-ons. The Onza controller and Chimaera pro gaming headset will be available later this year. The $50 Onza, with its swanky green trim, has Razer’s Hyperesponse Technology, (blah blah fishcakes) adjustable…
Clue: It’s not the world champion Conker player’s special box. There’s a clue in those last two words, though. It is, my friends, a big bunch of Woodvibes – sex toys made of wood. Which is what I thought they provoked. Jonas Lonborg’s creation (ingredients: aluminum, electronic gizzards, er, wood, special box which charges them…
Those clever people at Sigma have just announced the arrival of NeoVue, a wireless streaming platform that will let you watch stuff from your small-screened gizmo (laptop, phone) on a bigger-screened gizmo (telly.) Yay! [Wireless Developer’s Journal]
Yesterday, Obama’s Chief Technology Officer went to Vegas to hang out with Blam, Chen, Frooch, et al. And what did he get from Consumer Electronics Association head honcho? Not a request for POTUS’s cell number, but a bollocking. A light bollocking, admittedly, but Gary Shapiro called him out on what he sees as the Government’s…
President Sarkozy, that small man with the excellent peripheral – wife Carla Bruni – could be going for the Internet giants in order to claw back some of the revenue he claims that creatives are losing through piracy. In his traditional new year speech outlining his plans for the next 360 or so days, Sarkozy…
Now this is what I call an iPod dock. Behind it, crazy guy Moritz Waldemeyer, the guy behind OK Go‘s LED suits for their tours a couple of years back. What is it, chaps? A smoky, light-y Home Disco! https://gizmodo.com/ok-go-to-rock-moritz-waldemeyer-led-suits-on-their-upco-326773 Waldemeyer was commissioned by swank UK design-porn magazine Wallpaper to come up with a Home…
Despite the fact that we thought they had become extinct in, oh, 2009, Pleo is, apparently, back for 2010 with a second-gen model, and an outsized version of the current, extinct model. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/ugobe-folds-pleo-goes-the-way-of-the-dinosaur-5220942
At CES, The world’s greatest Elvis impersonator sings his song at the Motorola booth. This last year, Moto’s Android-powered Droid fast tracked them back to relevance.
When I have nothing better to do, I love killing a few minutes with music maker apps such as Melodica or Band on my iPod touch. From the looks of it, I might have to add Looptastic to the arsenal. Looptastic is a weird app that takes parts of DJ apps such as Ableton or…
C’mon, like you didn’t see this one coming. 25 bucks here. [Etsy via Geek Sugar via Unplggd] https://gizmodo.com/netbook-cover-fashions-itself-in-the-likeness-of-an-nes-5311418/
Dave Zatz got an early peek at Monsoon’s new video placeshifter, the Volcano, and was pleasantly surprised by its feature set, which combines the functionality of a Slingbox with that of a Slingcatcher. Oh, reeaaaallly? The Volcano can stream media from any TV or video source at 720p to PCs and cellphones, including the Android,…
Vizio’s conceptual (but candidate for release) headphones have an LCD on both earpiece that can display a visualizer, album art, or picture of your cat, because the people around you really need to be subjected to that. The headphones will be Bluetooth-enabled, so no cords muck up your affront to style. We don’t know anything…
With a 7″ screen and a book-like form factor, the Album2 is well suited for sharing your digital files in a non-digital setting. It was satisfying to hold, simple to navigate and kept the emphasis on content. Instead of audio, video, and images, the Album2 sorts your media in terms of the actions “Watch,” “Look,”…
We know it’s tough keeping up with all the CES craziness. To help you cope, we updated our recap of the coolest stuff we’ve seen at CES: [Gizmodo’s Best of CES] https://gizmodo.com/the-best-of-ces-5441762
No major companies are quite ready to bring a proper Android tablet to market, but they’re edging closer. When they do, they could do worse than turn out something like this 7-inch, Tegra 2 design from Compal. Under the hood is Nvidia’s newest Tegra, which guarantees snappy interface, video and graphics performance in theory. In…
This 21×9, 2:35:1, 58-inch Vizio Cinema Display looks really, really, really wide in person. But don’t worry, when you bring it home, it’ll just have black bars on each side 95% of the time. More info here. https://gizmodo.com/vizio-xvt-pro-580cd-their-first-2560×1080-res-58-inch-5440598
We were pretty intrigued by the Yogen manual charger concept we saw earlier. While the production unit we saw today is markedly different—it doesn’t disappoint. Instead of charging gadgets with a pedal, users now pull a cord. https://gizmodo.com/yogen-max-charges-laptops-with-feet-5100976 Charging devices while pulling the string takes just as long as charging them via wall outlet so…
In case you having sleepless nights fretting about content partners for Spring Design‘s Alex e-reader, they’ve linked up with Borders, and will feature the Kobo eBook store on their dual-screened device. That’s something Barnes and Noble likely won’t be accused of copying. https://gizmodo.com/barnes-nobles-nook-may-violate-spring-designs-alex-re-5395705 Spring Design and Borders Announce eBook Agreement Borders to be eBook Seller…
Here’s a sad reminder that USB cables belong plugged into peripherals, not children. Toddler Trinity Anderson was playing with a USB cable plugged into a laptop and put it in her mouth, which shocked her and knocked her out. Trinity remains at Children’s Hospital with third-degree burns on her tongue, palate and lips. She is…