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If you are unfamiliar, Eye-Fi SD cards can add Wi-Fi to any camera (and they work pretty well to boot). Now the company is announcing automatic uploading direct to YouTube. https://gizmodo.com/eye-fi-adds-wi-fi-to-almost-any-digital-camera-316537 Eye-Fi is previewing the new technology at CES this year, and they are designing their upload service to support full-HD video—which would pair nicely…
Netgear’s ITV2000 Internet TV Player is half the size of the Roku Netflix Player and pulls from 90+ live streams (foreign news!), plus search clips from sites like NBC, ESPN and YouTube. The Skinny: If you don’t already have some device hooked up to your TV that can access these sites, or you want to…
In case you were curious about the all-powerful EVA9150 media box we’ve posted on previously, know that it’s coming out in February at the previously mentioned price of $400. https://gizmodo.com/netgear-digital-entertainer-elite-htpc-in-a-set-top-bo-5100502 Digital Entertainer Elite (EVA9150) An ideal solution for serious media enthusiasts, NETGEAR’s Digital Entertainer Elite (EVA9150) is the most powerful and flexible digital media player…
LG opened up today’s CES press bonanza by dropping the new LHX series (a new name for the LH95), a 0.97-inch 240Hz LCD with signals streaming from a wireless “media box.” https://gizmodo.com/lgs-upcoming-lh95-is-the-thinnest-lcd-tv-yet-5120397 The size is 55 inches, and still no no word yet on price. Also new is the LH90 series, which brings all of…
The watch phone we’ve seen LG toying with over the last few days (and behind glass at last year’s CES) is now for real, and will hit production “later this year” https://gizmodo.com/lg-touchscreen-watch-phone-will-support-3g-speech-reco-5119487 LG demo’d the phone from the stage here at their press conference, and it features 3G HSDPA. So as long as you don’t…
The SD Association has announced a new card spec dubbed SDXC (eXtended Capacity) that can support memory capacities up to 2TB with read/write speeds to 104MB per second. According to their calculations, that would mean you could store 100 high-def movies, 60 hours of HD recording, or 17,000 fine-mode photos on a portable device. Again,…
We knew Asus is looking into an Android-based cellphone but now CEO Johnny Shih has said at CES that they are thinking about doing an Android-based Eee PC, all while praising Apple for the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/androids-open-handset-alliance-adds-14-members-sony-er-5105406 Maybe Asus was inspired by this hack, but the idea of a simplified, cell-enabled netbook computer—tablet please—is very appealing.…
There were a lot of entries to our Toshiba X305 contest, but in the end there can be only one. So, congrats to Lee Payne for his future laptop design. https://gizmodo.com/contest-design-the-gaming-laptop-of-the-future-and-win-5094258 There were a lot of entries on this one, many of which were truly remarkable. So, in the end I simply went with the…
No XL iPod touch pro or fabled Apple tablets at the Philnote. Too bad, because I want one badly. Maybe the new pen and touch-enabled Modbook Pro will do. https://gizmodo.com/macworld-2009-keynote-liveblog-archive-5123052 The new version of the Modbook is made of machined aluminum, finished in black. While its design is clearly not Jon Ive’s, the 0.93-inch Modbook…
Whether you’re attending CES in Vegas this week or are just curious about what to expect from our coverage, you need to be prepared. Here’s our guide to everything from press conferences to strip clubs. For the Readers at Home: CES is taking place now through the weekend in Las Vegas. We’re rolling in with…
Rand McNally has been in the travel biz so long, I wouldn’t be surprised if they made maps of Pangaea. With that kind of history, you know you can trust their Navigon GPS travel guides. Specifically, Navigon has partnered with Rand McNally to bring Scenic Routes and City Guides to their GPS devices. Rand McNally’s…
This is probably one of the scariest videos I’ve seen: The spread of Walmart. It may just be the slimy green, but it looks like an outbreak movie where everyone dies. The first Wal-Mart, called Wal-Mart Discount City, opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in July 2, 1962. Five years later, the company already had 24 stores…
Well that was a neat little progression: Early suspicions, followed by a purported internal leak, capped with an official announcement. T-Mobile will be adding the BlackBerry Curve 8900 to their lineup come February. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-curve-8900-hits-t-mobile-feb-18-5117642 The press release doesn’t get any more specific than that, but seems to lend authority to the previous leak, which indicated…
Garmin just dropped a couple new GPS units on us, the 855 and 885T. Both of ’em bring lane assist and voice control together and cost as much as a used car. The two units are essentially the same, with the one difference being that the 885T has Bluetooth speakerphone and MSN Direct, which loads…
Despite its blurry focus and dodgy reflections, this video of the Kogan Agora—following yesterday’s requisite in-the-wild fuzzy photos—is an official release. Poor production values aside, the Agora is looking puhhhrreeetyyy good. Response is snappy, which could be down to the Agora’s hardware or the as-of-yet uncertain scalability of Android. The interface seems to work fine…
I was taken to a Vegas house off the strip. There’s a fluorescent green pool, a purple jacuzzi. No strippers in sight—it was time to set a fireproof hard disk aflame. I was being shown the ioSafe Solo, a fireproof and floodproof external hard drive that’s the first consumer product from a company that’s only…
Do you enjoy music but not enough to care what specific music you’re listening to? Then the Sansa slotRadio is designed for you, it comes with 1,000 “hand picked” songs. No taste required. Yes, Sandisk’s newest Sansa makes acquiring music easier than ever, with 1,000 songs “handpicked from the Billboard charts” coming on a microSD…
The redesigned TiVo Search does away with the Swivel Search and now makes show searching more efficient and HD friendly. Just like Swivel Search TiVo Search will weed through both live TV and broadband content, like Amazon on Demand and Youtube, to find a complete list of available programs. But now upon searching for a…
Linksys’ new Wireless Home Audio system is very similar in function to Sonos’ streaming home audio system, and on specs alone, manages to out spec the latter in some areas. The Wireless Home Audio system comes in a variety of form factors, including standalone CD players with touch panels, hubs that connect to your home…
The Gadget: Linksys’ Media Hub seems like a server, since it backs up data, gathers your media files automatically, and streams media over IP, but it’s more like a super functional NAS drive with RAID support. The Skinny: The Media Hub NAS drive is built on top of a custom linux platform that works with…