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SanDisk has unchained their new Extreme III PRO-HG Duo cards and they are tearing ass all over the place with superfast 30MBps read and write transfer speeds. For those of you keeping track, SanDisk’s non-HG Extreme III’s can only muster 18MBps speeds. Naturally, the PRO-HG will be aimed squarely at users with high end cameras…
Case-mate has announced the release of a “groundbreaking” new product designed to protect your iPhone, iPod touch, iPod classic (80GB and 160GB) or BlackBerry Curve from scratches using a military-grade Scotchgard film from 3M that was originally designed to protect Apache helicopter blades during Desert Storm. The film is also completely clear, so there are…
We were talking today in Campfire—Giz’s virtual office—about Apple’s newly uncovered patent on a system that warns you about bad quality or dropping cellular or Wi-Fi connections “ahead of time.” Jason thought it could be useful to know that, so you could just avoid making the call. I thought that it wouldn’t be useful at…
If sales figures aren’t enough reason to show that the PSP is really making some progress in Japan against the DS, how about the fact that it was used in an upskirt crime? According to the Japanese police, or JaPoPos, a 59-year-old college administrator was looking up a skirt belonging to a 19-year-old girl on…
Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Wireless and the FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin, are on stage at All Things D. And in an instant, Mossberg is ON KEVIN’S ASS for the US’s slow, expensive broadband! “You’re the chairman of the FCC, how did you allow this to happen?” Kevin basically responds that there isn’t enough subsidation…
Charcoal grilling undoubtedly tastes better than gas, but coals can be a pain. This Baja BBQ is a solution to the more lazy among us who’d rather not deal with coal chimneys and lighter fluid. Constructed of 100% recycled biodegradable paper pulp, the Baja’s 2 pounds of coals will be perfectly hot after 20 minutes…
The inventor Dean Kamen is being interviewed at All Things D now. He’s here to talk about his cyborg prosthetic “Luke arm”. (It’s named after Luke, yes, Skywalker.) Amazing. UPDATE: The full vid of Kamen’s interview, including arm demonstration footage, is embedded below. https://gizmodo.com/dean-kamen-cyborg-arm-part-ii-261933 Dean says that fatalities are down because of battlefield tech and…
Intel’s upcoming (and delayed) Centrino 2 isn’t the only mobile platform in town. At Computex, AMD will be showing off its Puma platform, which is made up of a Turion Ultra CPU (aka Griffin), a mobile version of the 780G chipset and Mobility Radeon 3200 integrated graphics (yay synergy). AMD’s mostly targeting “volume business and…
Sure, Firefox 3 is the bee’s knees (and has been since Beta 3), but will it go down in history books? It will if it sets a world record! Mozilla’s taking the quick and easy path to everlasting glory (until someone beats it anyway) by planning to set the world record for most software downloads…
Details on the multi-touch functionality in Windows 7 are only a couple of days old, but it appears that Microsoft is already looking ahead with a multi-touch SDK slated for release at this year’s Professional Developers Conference in October. At that time, Microsoft is expected to “highlight the new multi-touch gesture APIs and explain how…
We’ve already seen a demo of Quake 3 Arena running NETWORKED on two iPhones with accelerometers, but news is some more similar games are coming this way. First, there’s Re-Volt, made by some Canadian developer, that’ll have Quake-ish graphics and feature tilt and touch controls as well. Then, even better, there will be BioShock. Yes,…
Nokia’s upcoming N96 monsterphone might justbe coming out on July 31st with the wha-wha-whaaaa inducing pricetag of $1,200 if Play.com is to be believed. At least that’s what the pre-release price is on that site – Nokia’s estimated retail price is $800. That’s still a bonkers price to pay for a phone, but it’s significantly…
Kara Swisher is inteviewing Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo (and CEO with the best pirate name). Kara: Why not TiVo tech in TVs, powering everything? Rogers: Biggest reason is that TVs already have tiny margins. Building them into TVs makes it hard to drive the same pricing. What we are finding is that the TV…
Nyko’s Charge Base 360 is finally shipping, acting much like the Charge Base PS3 they released last year. The 360 version is slightly different in that it comes with two special rechargeable battery packs with contacts that charge when docked into the charge base. If the $39 is slightly too expensive, you can go the…
The Hackintosh 10.5.3 Combo Update has just been released, letting people who want to build their own Mac on the cheap update to the latest Leopard version. According to people familiar with Hackintoshes and running OS X on whitebox computers (Adam Pash), the update was released in record time this cycle. Way to go, dude…
We get lots of pitches for products, but the guys at Disc Makers finally found one that pierces through the clutter and reaches into the heart of our everyday worries. Here’s what we got: Hi Jason, Are you looking for a safe place to store your adult DVD collection? Dude, it’s like you’re staring right…
I’m still at the D conference in SoCal, and TiVo, Verizon, the FCC and Dean Kamen are the next interviews. [All Things D]
My wife always hated my DVD collection. A testament to my bachelorhood prominently sitting on a set of shelves in our living room, she would glance over at it like an unwanted dinner guest who had long finished desserts and was now lighting up a cigar in our living room. Drunk. She’d been warming me…
One of the most fascinating profiles I’ve read this year is the Melinda Gates cover story from Fortune. She’s here at Walt and Kara’s All Things D Conference to talk about The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where Bill will be directing most of his energy come July. Although this is not directly gadget related,…
Sure, Canon’s Digital Rebel XT is practically ancient at this point, a full two generations behind, but that doesn’t mean it takes bad pictures. ‘Cause it really doesn’t. While $450 with a kit lens is nothing special, this deal comes with a with a mo’ better 28-90mm lens, making the $430 price (free shipping!) noteworthy,…
