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Corsair’s Voyager Port a semi-automated backup system, just waiting for your USB 2.0 flash drives to dock into. It’s designed as an easy way to use your current USB drives to store data, with a one-button backup that sucks your computer’s files through the disc and into your thumbstick. It’s quite useful if you have…
Fact: 99% of holidays were invented by Hallmark back in 1623, and since then, yearly life has been punctuated by needless festive ceremony. Well here’s the stamp They Don’t Want You To Know About. The “All-In-One Card Stamp” is, sadly, just a concept by Ji Lee. But hopefully there’s a good Samaritan out there who’s…
We have an absurd amount of prizes to give away at our Snowmodo event on Saturday April 4th at Northstar, so if you’re planning on attending you’ll have a very good chance of winning something. https://gizmodo.com/gizs-snowmodo-reader-meetup-saturday-april-4th-north-5143084 Thanks to all the companies that are participating in Snowmodo we are able to offer all this stuff, and…
Have 10 spare minutes to click through a couple multiple choice questions? The questions are like 100x easier than the SATs, and when you’re finished we’ll give one lucky winner an 8gb iPod Nano (you can even pick the color). Simply email the last question of the survey to [email protected]. Standard rules apply
This week, I asked you to send me in photos of your disastrous workspaces. And man, you people are much, much more disgusting than I thought. And I assumed you were pretty disgusting. First Place — David Schaefer Second Place — Grossi Roberta Third Place — Dudesque
The GAME-800 is just another one of those direct from manufacturer PMP all-in-one pocket devices. And maybe it’s just because I was a corpulent kid, but I find the design quite charming. Emulating NES/Famicom, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Super Famicom and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis titles, the GAME-800 is a crudely controlled but effective looking pocket emulator…
OK, so maybe you don’t exactly get a Sports Illustrated supermodel for free, but oh, it’s close enough. So kick back with your ice cream, shop, and enjoy the show. Computing & Peripherals • Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS 1.5 TB SATA II Internal Hard Drive for $119.99 plus free shipping (normally $130 – valid until 4/6.…
As of right now, American Airlines has Gogo Wi-Fi on all of 15 planes. Today they’ve announced that 318 more planes will be getting this $100,000 upgrade…but it will take a few years for the project to be complete. By the time it actually happens, I plan on having internet beamed straight to my soul.…
Every major netbook manufacturer has their own budget MacBook Air-like system coming to the market soon. Here’s the first look at something slightly more spacious, MSI’s X340, a full-sized 13.4-inch laptop in a petite frame. The sub-3lb system toured in this clip is loaded with an Intel Celeron M 725, which should be faster than…
The January 4, 1959 edition of Closer Than We Think illustrated the corner grocermat of the future. The modular/mobile nature of the whole idea is reminiscent of the “farm to market” trains featured in Magic Highway, U.S.A. They certainly could have inspired the “mobile malls” of 1981 we looked at a while back. Here’s an…
This Demekin Pocket Fisheye Camera is a tiny, foldable fisheye camera. Pretty awesome, right? But wait, it takes 110mm film? Yeah, thanks but no thanks. [Product Page]
On top of confirming pricing for all of their CES gear, Samsung today rolled out a couple new MP3 players—one iPod Shuffle-like, the U5, and one in the Nano price range, the Q2. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-2009-hdtv-prices-confirmed-5192372 The Q2 will save you a few bucks on the Nano, and will net you a little bit more screen real…
One size fits all and just $20 each. I confess, I’m tempted. I just can’t decide which sweater to get for my laptop. Pepto-Bismol pink and cigarette ash snowflakes or the classic diarrhea brown? I want them all. On second thought, I will go with a yellow neoprene skin. It matches my favorite latex chicken…
The Weddinger 901 Automatica from Bless is designed to be an R/C mule…so to speak. According to the product page, they can be “used as speakers, CD holder, tray or even as a disco ball.” Disco ball? Really? Anyway, the configuration above is all about mobile tunes. Just pop in your iPod and deliver music…
Samsung just confirmed that those leaked prices for 2009 HDTVs are correct. Head over to HDGuru to see the full list of what you’re going to be paying. [HD Guru] https://gizmodo.com/prices-leaked-for-2009-samsung-hdtvs-5185989
The low end soundbar market has quickly become commoditized, but Samsung’s latest HT-WS1 is, at minimum, a contender. Expelling 260W over 2.1 channels that can simulate surround sound, the system is only 2.6-inches deep and appears wide enough to distinguish right and left channels, plus it includes a wireless subwoofer to avoid any cord runs…
Lisa and Toyo demonstrate the Star Guitar iPhone app with such paid-for enthusiasm that we just need to award them the Giz Video of the Day award. It’s that good. The app itself is very neat. You can play back synth guitar versions of popular songs by just tapping on chord buttons on your iPhone.…
Nikita Buyanov was commissioned to design a series of conceptual, female-oriented laptops for HP/Intel, and the Chameleon kind of rocked our world. But we still consider ourselves men. Featuring a series of three cameras, the Chameleon uses complimenting “adaptive microcell coverage” to blend in to its surroundings—or at the very least coordinate with your crotchwear.…
The diminishing size of gadgetry is about as certain as Moore’s law, and is generally good for us. But for some, size is an obsession, and smaller is always better. This is what they’ve wrought: Smallest CRT TV Although smaller CRT screens can be had (such as those used in old camcorder viewfinders), they won’t…
HP’s apparently following up its OS X Time Machine compatible MediaSmart EX487 Windows Home Server with a smaller model, shipping with just 640GB of storage. https://gizmodo.com/hp-mediasmart-ex487-server-has-remote-mp3-streaming-ma-5119452 No other real details can be seen from this low-rez box shot, but it’s likely that this LX195 doesn’t have Mac support, so don’t hold out for that if…
