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We’re not gonna have to wait until CES to see what TVs Samsung’s got up its sleeves for 2009, since AVForums has revealed everything in store: Standard new features across the entire line include a bunch of menu and and setting tweaks, expanded and improved video processing options, dual USB ports and compatibility with a…
While HDMI may be the greatest home theater connection known to Man, there can be instances when it comes unplugged accidentally. The universal hd EZ lock was designed to prevent such travesties. Designed to work with most HDMI components and most HDMI cords, the premise is pretty simple. The lock uses either a screw or…
The robust update Blu-ray’s BD+ copy protection that was gonna take three months to crack was just busted by Slysoft, months ahead of schedule. Wanna guess what’s gonna happen to the next BD+ update? [Inquirer] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-drm-5112007
Tech-On got out their tiny non-standard screwdrivers and tweezers and took apart an Optoma PK101 projector, revealing an engineering miracle—the components necessary to squeeze a DLP projector into your shirt pocket. https://gizmodo.com/japanese-apple-stores-to-sell-optoma-picoprojector-in-d-5082969 Some of these shots could use a penny for scale, because it’s unclear exactly how small we’re talking. But basically the entire optical…
We love HP’s new Time Machine-compatible MediaSmart Home Server. 9to5Mac reports that Apple is working on something similar, but it’ll be tied into MobileMe and will share music, movies and more over the internet. https://gizmodo.com/hp-mediasmart-ex487-server-has-remote-mp3-streaming-ma-5119452 Here’s the full list of features 9to5Mac has heard will make it to Apple’s SpaceTime Thing: • The device will…
We talk about Batman a lot in these parts, but with 200 men an women signed up in the World Superhero Registry, his time in the spot dim light may be over. Both Rolling Stone and the Times Online have written about the US’s superhero phenomenon. Labeled by some as a post-9/11 response and apparently…
Like earlier phones in Philips’ Xenium series, the X710 is going to give you lots of talk time—but it’s no iPhone killer. https://gizmodo.com/philips-xenium-9-9-cellphones-let-you-talk-forever-and-232515 Outside of the dual SIM slots, the X710 throws in the following features: – Support communications standards: GSM: 900, 1800, 1900 MHz / EDGE, GPRS Class 10 – Dimensions: 113,6 x49, 1×16,…
We’ll give someone a $200 iTunes Gift Card for taking this short survey, and thereby revive the music industry. Simply email [email protected] with the last question of the survey to enter. Standard contest rules apply.
While our goal is generally to protect our data, the Eraser Flash Drive concept is just self-destructive enough to placate our inner wild man. The flash drive isn’t just coated in a eraser material. The entire thing actually is an eraser, save for the flash drive circuitry. Eventually, you’ll wear the drive down to that…
We all know that Best Buy isn’t above deceiving their customers into purchasing their pricey HDTV calibration service, but it looks like they have changed tactics by using different cables on side-by-side displays. https://gizmodo.com/how-best-buy-sells-its-pricey-hdtv-calibration-service-5075139 A Consumerist tipster caught his local Best Buy running a display highlighting the difference between a calibrated and an un-calibrated HDTV.…
Here are the winners of the Go Miniman Go video contest, that celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Lego minifig. Choosing was difficult, as many were simply amazing, but here are the best five. https://gizmodo.com/gizs-lego-minifig-contest-win-the-best-vintage-sets-ev-5040808 Fifth place Title: Attack of the Second Amendment Author: Zach Macias Fourth place Title The Archeologists Author Dobromil Nosek Third…
I don’t know what to think about Repisa N5, a bookshelf that can be flattened against the wall and expanded selectively to place objects of any kinds. It doesn’t take space, but it does. Designed by Sebastian Errazuriz, Repisa N5 looks more like a design for galleries and shops than homes. Or maybe the outer…
We’ve been waiting a few months for the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter in order to hook up our 30-inch Dell 3007WFP monitor, but when it got here, it was periodically unusable. Here’s the issue: occasionally (somewhere between a few minutes and an hour), the screen will look like it’s missing half its display…
As if our lives don’t pass by fast enough, photographer Eirik Solheim managed to encapsulate the passage of an entire year into a 40 second HD clip using photos complied from his Canon 400D. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-frankenreview-canon-400d-rebel-xti-205083 Solheim snapped images out his window at regular intervals all through 2008 and recorded background sounds using a Canon S2…
Germany’s Eee PC News has spied what it believes is Asus’s new S121—der maxi S101, if you will—stuffing an Atom-powered netbook platform into a 12-inch form factor. https://gizmodo.com/first-asus-s101-review-verdict-what-we-expected-5060208 Specs and price are yet unknown, but the 12-inch netbook category is quickly growing, with Samsung and Dell in the fray, among others. If you ask me,…
I never quite understood gaming laptops, what with them being heavy, bulky and priced exorbitantly. But hey, if you’re going to do it, you might as well go all-out and design one with three screens. The Prime Gaming Laptop is a concept design by Kyle Cherry, and it’s ridiculous. Yes, it’s a 26-inch notebook. Since…
In an ocean of business cards, standing out from the crowd is extremely important. This planetary gear version will definitely get noticed—making you appear more creative and hardworking than you probably are. Granted, making one of these cards using the basic instructions provided by Thingverse is going to be a bit tricky, so don’t go…
In anticipation of Vista’s new hardware requirements—a truckload of RAM—major RAM suppliers like Hynix and Samsung basically doubled their production. Vista’s anemic sales and the economy hosed them, but it’s good for you. Every maker has a huge oversupply of RAM—Hynix has raised capacity by 159 percent, Inotera by 112 percent, Elpida by 103 percent…
Are these people out of their spanking-loving, English-disciplined, bloody psycho minds? Judging from these news, yes they are: Schools in Britain are now installing CCTV and microphones in classrooms for four-year-old kids. According to the Daily Mail, schools have installed new cameras to watch and listen to “pupils as young as four”. Apparently, the authorities…
Here’s a list of the very best gear we’ve seen this year. It’s more bragger’s guide than buyer’s guide—if you have any of this, you can officially tell your friends to suck on it. The year winds to an end and every product worth a damn has already hit store shelves—there’s not going to be…
