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There are more than a few iPhone/iPod battery packs floating around these days, but Kensington’s gone and thrown one in with its new $70 charging dock. The err, adventurously named ‘Kensington Charging Dock with Mini Battery Pack‘ comes with its own mini battery that charges next to your dock-compatible iPhone/iPod. Kensington claims it’ll provide an…
On one hand, it’s great to see the SDXC standard—which theoretically tops out at 2TB—flexing its muscles a little bit. On the other, I kinda wish Toshiba wouldn’t announce a record-breaking SD card six months before release. https://gizmodo.com/new-sdxc-memory-card-spec-supports-2tb-capacities-5125341 Toshiba’s upcoming line update stretches from 16GB to 64GB, with read speeds of 60MB/s (that’s megabytes, folks)…
Carrying a lightbulb around in your pocket has always led to precariously sharp pocket lint. Or worse. Or worser. One visionary has steamrolled Edison’s design with this credit card light bulb. Tiny LEDs take the place of fragile incandescents, popping out to spread their light through a murky matrix of plastic and unidentified floating flecks—all…
If you think you can just get infected one night, fall into convulsive shakes, black out and wake up a champion head wrecker—think again. Zombies need practice, too. Ok, the truth, according to Pink Tentacle, is that some belligerent task master at Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland amusement park thought his zombie actors had “lost their edge,”…
Not being much of a crazy overclocking modder myself, I don’t really get the ridiculous Fast and the Furious design on this A-Data XPG Plus RAM, but the stats don’t lie—this module is super speedy at 2,200MHz. A-Data’s XPG Plus Series DDR3-2200+ DRAM, aside from having a name chock full of acronyms, is the world’s…
A notice supposedly leaked from retailer 7-Eleven (which sells video games in Japan) requests that orders of all 80GB PS3s cease this Sunday, and all in-store displays of these models be taken down—”at the maker’s request”. If true, this presents at least two possibilities: Either the 160GB PS3 is finally headed to Sony’s home turf,…
Logitech’s new Unifying receiver is a tiny USB nubbin that can wirelessly connect to one or more keyboards and mice, freeing up ports and space on your computer. The new peripherals that work with the receiver are the Wireless Keyboard K350, Wireless Keyboard K340, Marathon Mouse M705 and the Wireless Mouse M505. Those first two…
Taiwan’s OCZ Technologies is reportedly just three weeks out from shipping its Colossus solid state drive range, which will come in 128GB to 1TB capacities. And courtesy of Engadget, we now have pricing. The Colossus 120 (128GB) and 250 (256GB) will cost $300 and $650, respectively. As a quick comparison, Intel’s recently announced—and delayed—X-25M drives…
Samsung Korea has teaser up for its YP-M1 media player (pictured to the right of the pink R1). Notably, the site mentions an Nvidia chipset…could it be Tegra? That would match recent reports, and make the M1 a worthy successor to the P3. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-confirms-its-building-an-nvidia-tegra-powered-s-5322226 The M1 will feature a 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen using Samsung’s TouchWiz…
Nikon is demonstrating the 720p video powers of its new D300s digital SLR by tapping the talents of award-winning outdoor sports photographer, Robert Bösch, and photo journalist, Ami Vitale. The results are gorgeous. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-d300s-dslr-adds-720p-hd-video-with-stereo-input-5326020 As you may know, the $1800 D300s has the same 12.3Mp sensor as the D300, but adds the ability to shoot…
Nikon’s new Coolpix point-and-shoot line leaked yesterday, but today Nikon unveiled the official prices and specs (though no release dates) for all four cameras, including the crazy S1000pj with the built-in projector. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-coolpix-s1000pj-first-camera-with-a-projector-is-5328892 The specs and pictures we saw yesterday were dead on, though we didn’t know much about the three other models: The S70,…
It’d be weird if this didn’t happen, but here you go anyway: TeleNav’s turn-by-turn GPS Navigator app, of G1 and iPhone fame, is coming to the MyTouch 3G. Just like last time around, it’s $10/mo after a 30-day free trial https://gizmodo.com/telenav-brings-turn-by-turn-gps-to-android-and-the-g1-5152170 People have a tendency to balk at charges like that, but that’s not entirely…
The Federal Department of Transportation wants to hold a summit to evaluate the perils of texting and talking while driving. While many states have already made their own laws, this is the first time the issue has gone national. https://gizmodo.com/question-of-the-day-do-you-text-while-driving-5308695 The NY Times Bits blog says that Transportation Secretary David La Hood will announce plans…
Q: What does an ailing electronics retailer need to get back on top? A: King Kong-sized keyboards…Microsoft should buy Palm—or maybe that’s dumb…Jay-Z’s Auto-Tune attack makes people yearn for Auto-Tune… You already know that Radio Shack is most likely going to make the all-too-1990s decision to rename itself “The Shack.” (Didn’t Pizza Hut or somebody…
I’m assuming not. But I do suspect it’s something you’d all like to see. It happens to be your lucky day. Follow this Rube Goldberg contraption’s humble bowling ball origins as it moves from folding chairs, to flaming ladders, then to a boot rigged to a pipe, where it finally falls into the crotch of…
I’ve been told that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, so the next time I’m trying to charm a Star Wars fan, I’ll present him with some tasty treats in this Death Star cookie jar. Not only is this the cheapest Death Star around at only $49.99, but it will also…
Intel halted shipments of their fancy new 34nm, X-25M and X-18M SSDs to retailers because a data corruption bug occurs when you set a BIOS password, then try to alter that password in any way. https://gizmodo.com/intels-x25-m-g2-ssd-comes-with-a-shiny-silver-enclosure-5327131 According to ComputerWorld, when you change the password, then reboot, the drive becomes inoperable and you can’t access your…
San Francisco and Supermayor Gavin Newsom announced plans to take the pollution-mired Hunter’s Point Shipyard and build a $20 Million, 80,000-square foot UN Global Compact Center, which will serve as a “climate change think tank and green tech incubator.” Construction on the building will begin in 2011, and finish in mid 2012, serving as office…
Perhaps I spoke too soon in referring to the new FCC brass as “jokers.” The Chairman, Julius Genachowski, appears to be the driving force behind the agency’s quick response to the Apple—Google situation. https://gizmodo.com/fcc-now-playing-with-full-deck-somehow-gets-dealt-hand-5322274 Below are highlights from Genachowski’s career: •Chairman of the Obama campaign’s technology-policy advisers, which wrote a report championing an open Internet,…
Apple thwarted Google’s effort to release Latitude—which allows your control-freak friends to know where you are at all times—as an iPhone application. You can only update it manually using a web page, which makes it not-so-useful. Until now. https://gizmodo.com/google-latitude-for-iphone-is-a-lame-web-app-because-ap-5321583 Developer Nat Friedman thought the same as you did (something along the lines of “f*cking stupid…
