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This isn’t the first product to come down the pipeline offering portable audio recording capabilities for the iPod, but the new ProTrack from Alesis is definitely the most feature-rich. According to the press release, the ProTrack is “the world’s first professional handheld digital stereo recorder for iPod” with two built-in high-quality condenser microphones, a pair…
I’m not a huge Olympics fan, but NBC is partnering with digital content provider Wavexpress to provide some pretty remarkable coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games. Dubbed “Olympics On the Go,” Vista Media Center users will be able to schedule their favorite summer events to download automagically to their PCs or laptops (through TVTonic). Clips…
For those of us who have an iPod (or two) along with an iPhone (or two) under one roof, JVC has just released the NX-PN7 (we had a hands-on way back at CES). Aside from docking more than one iThing at a time, the $149.95 NX-PN7 features AM/FM tuning, alarm clock, timer and unspecified video…
“Yesterday up in the air I snapped a sat that wasn’t there”— so might photographer Trevor Paglen say about his show at the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum. It’s a series of photos of 189 secret satellites: the ones that officially “don’t exist.” Dubbed The Other Night Sky the photos are time-lapse images…
This is the first footage of the same XO OLPC doing a dual-boot of Sugar Linux and Windows XP—something skeptics have said wasn’t going to happen. Soon, XOs will ship with both Sugar and XP for Boot Camp-style dual-booting options. They will never come with only XP, though the team is working on adding more…
Thanks for convincing the Saudis to up oil production. Really, the SUVs of the world thank you, but it meant missing the greatest weekend gadget news ever written. Bad oil tycoon. Read this: • Gizmodo’s own Mark Wilson got caught up in a dangerous tornado, but it was no match for the power of YouTube.…
Warner, the studio that sunk HD DVD’s ship as it climbed aboard Blu-ray’s, will be one of the slowest to jump on BD-Live, Blu-ray’s online interactive content. Its BD-Live discs will arrive around Christmastime, with features like real-time viewing (?), a search engine, library access, and a recommendation tool-all pretty boring compared to Fox’s BD-Live…
We weren’t sure that this day would ever come. Even when we spoke with John Landino (Phantom Development Consultant) at CES, he wasn’t sure the day would ever come. Today, I got an email from him. https://gizmodo.com/phantom-lapboard-keyboard-its-coming-maybe-342396 That’s right Mark; we have sold a product:) and booked a dollar…what is the world coming to? It’s…
After years of neglect, AOL has apparently remembered that Windows Mobile exists and just released a new official AIM client. Though still in beta, it’s supposedly compatible with all WinMo 5 and 6 devices. It looks pretty swank, at least as far as WinMo apps go, and more than satisfying for a mobile AIM client.…
Is this the Helio Ocean 2? According to someone on the Helio City forums who grabbed this screenshot from a since-removed YouTube video, yes. Is Helio even going to be around long enough to release another version of the Ocean? We’ll see, but I’m not placing any bets one way or the other. But the…
Almost as famous as Daft Punk‘s electro-tunes are their glowing electro-outfits. And now, thanks to the chap who made clothes for their 2007 Alive tour, and an Instructables DIY page you too could don glowing gear. It looks fairly easy, as long as you’re nifty with a needle and thread: the hardest part seems to…
Oh, Android delays, let us count the ways: T-Mobile will probably deliver an Android phone by the end of the year, but the WSJ says that working with T-Mo is sucking up so much Google juice that Sprint will have to wait until 2009 (and its Android phone might not play on EV-DO, but WiMax).…
Sonic Blaster, 1966 The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB—above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult. We rate the toy Not Acceptable. You can’t make up stuff this good and Consumer Reports has…
The Big Time Digital Wall Clock has no qualms about its place in your life. It’s giving you the time. And doing it the big way. At over three feet wide and a foot and a half long, the Big Time clock features an admittedly stylish circuit board backing. Maybe we’d consider the purchase if…
According to Time, porn producers are excited about the new iPhone 3G because it will quickly put content right on the hand of the users, without having to go through the carrier, which already have control over the $1.7-billion mobile porn market. Not only that: the porn industry sees its large touch screen, web browser,…
Girl Talk, the manic mashup artist who combines hundreds and hundreds of samples to create his frenetic, ADD music, just released his new album, Feed the Animals last week (as a pay-what-you-want download, incidentally). It includes a song with "New Soul" by Yael Naim sampled, the song from the Macbook Air ad. Of course, now…
New to the Wii homebrew scene, the “WiiBrator” app is “creating a buzz.” The work of Team DWiildo, it’s a way to convert the jack-of-all-trades Wiimote into a “relaxation” device. Here’s the more detailed description, along with an important warning: This is a highly advanced technology demo of a Wii vibrator. Use at your own…
Designer Yurii Smitana Perfilov clearly took a look at the chaotic button-fest that is the usual universal remote and thought “uuuugleee.” So the first thing you notice about the sPult remote is its gorgeousness, like a retro-futuristic digital dagger. The second thing is the lack of buttons: that scroll wheel does volume or channels, selected…
According to Gartner there are now more than 1 billion computers in use on this little planet Earth. And not happy with that piece of trivia, they asked their Magic Eight Ball if the number was going to double in early 2014. The answer: “Probably.” What I would like to know is: how many of…
The motors inside LiveLuggage’s ingenious power-assisted suitcase can turn a 65-pound load into something one-tenth of the size. With an anti-gravity handle and force sensors in the wheels, LiveLuggage is hack- and thief-proof and, once charged, the battery will run for a couple of hours. Costing $1,300, I’m tempted to try one of these just…