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TomTom’s Go 740 Live GPS is their first to have a cellular connection built-in, used to download traffic weather and friend finder information. Old TomTom’s had cellular data capabilities with very limited models, over bluetooth, through your cellular handset, but model support, but having this service built in, free for a year. The unit also…
Fulton Innovations showed off their eCoupled induction charger with an iPhone that was able to recharge by simply placing it on a surface, no adapters necessary. It was a modded iPhone, sure, but cool nonetheless. They also talked about batteries that they would soon be offering for phones that, you know, actually let you swap…
I’m usually not into that liquid cooling glowy PC mod stuff, but the HP Firebird 803 really is a nice looking machine…in a clinical circuitry kind of way. https://gizmodo.com/gallery-check-out-the-hp-firebird-803s-liquid-cooled-i-5123837 As we’ve mentioned before, slight modifications to the traditional gaming PC rubric allow the machine to run a 2.83 GHz Core 2 Quad processor, 640 GB…
Usually when we hear Google Street View news, it’s over kitty-cat privacy issues or people peeing in the street. But this time around, the mayhem monitor actually helped solve the kidnapping of a young girl. https://gizmodo.com/google-street-view-invades-cats-privacy-265157 Police in Massachusetts were trying to track down a missing 9-year-old girl who had allegedly been kidnapped by her…
I just played around with the new Lenovo W700ds laptop, complete with two screens and built-in Wacom tablet, and it’s a monster. It’s not exactly portable, but it’s as feature-filled as laptops get. https://gizmodo.com/crazy-ibm-thinkpad-w700ds-has-integrated-secondary-disp-5113768 Of course there’s the secondary screen, clocking in at 10.6 inches and popping out of the side of the 17-inch screen.…
I just greased on Logitech’s G19 gaming keyboard with its full-blown, full-color LCD display, and it feels just like the G-keyboards you love, but you know, topped a pretty YouTube-playing, widget-powered display. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-g18-gaming-keyboard-rocks-your-face-with-full-5107349 GALLERY END So the 320×240 GamePanel LCD runs a whole bunch of widgets out of the box, like for Twitter, images, VOIP,…
It seems that we see tiny projectors often, but never in actual phones or in devices I can imagine myself using. The tradition continued tonight with more prototype pico projectors from 3M. They had two prototypes on view: one played video off SD cards, the other plugged into an iPhone and played videos off that.…
A sneak peek at the Samsung’s CES booth revealed this daunting, 117-strong LCD wing. I’d estimate each of those screens is at least 40-inches. That would put the entire television wingspan at 80 feet.
After the press conference blitz of today, I snuck off to Panasonic’s booth (still under construction) to check out their 3DHD technology—a 3D plasma screen that runs in true 1080p. Before you read any further, I’ll answer that nagging question. Yes, you need to wear special glasses. The demo system starts with a retrofitted 103-inch…
No silly opening video, but Ballmer did kick off his CES 2009 keynote with a silly string of text messages from his surprisingly sweet WinMo phone. [Ballmer CES 2009 Keynote] https://gizmodo.com/live-microsoft-ces-2009-keynote-kicks-off-the-ballmer-5125953
Sony’s CES camcorder lineup might’ve been bloated, but these little $170 and $200 Webbie 1080p camcorders are refreshingly different enough (for Sony) to take a closer peek. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-obese-2009-camcorder-lineup-5125131 Like the Vaio P brings some high-end class to the netbook category (though it’s not really a netbook), Sony’s Webbie HD Cameras are Sony’s take on cheap,…
Ford and Microsoft’s Sync is already pretty great—and the new generation Sync that S-Balm’s revealing at this very moment at his keynote is better—turn-by-turn voice direction and more, cooed by Sync’s lovely Samantha. Sync has never tackled nav info, so it’ll be interesting to see how this pans out. The traffic service will send you…
This modified M50 dual-computing laptop (there’s two computers in there sharing a battery) has two displays, one of which is 4.3-inches, and is actually a prototype that will be manufactured later this year. The smaller computer and display can run on 12 hours and can handle emailing and contact needs, but isn’t removable yet, so…
Here at CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Steve Ballmer has kicked off his speech wearing Bill Gates’ old shoes. Was TechCrunch right about the speech’s contents? Update: Here’s video of the keynote: https://gizmodo.com/leak-everything-microsoft-is-announcing-at-ces-5122565 Click to view Or, if you want the quick and dirty, here’s what unfurled in front of me, give or take a…
Today, Ars Technica picked up a blip from Nicholas Negroponte, who informed readers of his intention to cut half the staff and reduce pay of the rest, and emphasizing the shift to hardware. The already beleaguered non-profit has been hit as hard as other charities during the economic crisis, says Negroponte, who said on the…
Gadget this, TV that, GPS those, DAP these—glossierer and glossierer gizmos everywhere and not a slice of bacon to eat. For those of you sick of this electronics barrage, here’s some eye and tongue candy.
The keyboard? It rocks. The screen? Beautiful. The trackball is just the right amount of gritty, so your finger sticks to it and doesn’t slide off onto the keyboard. The instant-on OS? Classy. The keys are small, but just the perfect amount of small—you’ll only have a problem if you have fingers the size of…
A simplified EEG-based game using the Star Wars license tricks kids into thinking they have Professor X-like abilities, when all they’re doing is learning to activate one part of their brain. This Force Trainer, priced at $90-$100, hooks up to your head via wireless headset and transmits your reading to the toy, which blows air…
Sony’s much-hyped Vaio P Netbook has finally come out from under wraps, weighing under 1.4 pounds, sitting under an inch thick, and packing in an 8-inch screen with a 2.08:1 aspect ratio (1600×768!). The netbook also has Verizon WWAN 3G mobile broadband, has a keyboard that’s only 10% smaller than the Vaio TT and 802.11n…
Sony’s Walkman NWZ-X1000 features an OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi and built-in noise cancellation. The X-series Walkman seems like a very impressive piece of hardware. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-sonys-new-walkman-to-feature-oled-touchscreen-an-5108531 Much like its direct competitor, the iPod Touch, it comes in 16GB and 32GB flavors and can be used to surf the web. The screen’s half an inch smaller, but it’s…