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Iomega’s new Screenplay HD Multimedia drive promises that you can “leave the PC behind” since it stores your movies, pics and tunes and connects directly to your HDTV. You simply save them via the USB2.0 connection, and it’s standalone from there on. It can upscale to to 720p and 1080i, plays a wide bunch of…
In the ’80s, the only things bigger than man-perms were robots and synthesizers. Waseda University’s WABOT-2 combined both of these trends in to what may be considered the ultimate ’80s icon. Extremely advanced for the day, the WABOT-2 could not only read music to play the electronic organ, but accompany a singer with a dynamic…
Click to view Here’s a tip for next time you’re emptying a sealed storage tank on a train or a truck: make sure you properly vent it! If you don’t, it’ll implode in an amazing fashion, which might make for an entertaining video but will probably get you yelled at and fired. But hot damn,…
This replica medical tricorder from Star Trek TOS is hugely detailed and looks pretty much like the “real” thing. It even comes with the removable scanner thingy. Plus it’s got light and sound effects built-in, so you won’t have to hold it over alien flu victims and whisper “widdlyweep… widdlyweep…” Mind you, I’m pretty sure…
Although the S2 pebble may be cuter, Samsung’s S3 is a beefed-up PMP for people who need more multimedia support. The 4GB S3 plays audio (MP3, WMA and OGG), video (MPEG4, SVI), JPEGs and even text. Like most other Samsung players, it has an FM radio and games. The coolest thing about the player, which…
Yesterday we told you that Asus was not everyone’s favorite company after shipping customers Eee PC 900s with smaller batteries than those supplied to reviewers. Now Asus is offering their Hong Kong customers a free battery upgrade. Here’s the letter that Asus is sending to eligible customers: https://gizmodo.com/asus-gives-reviewers-different-batteries-than-consumers-382474 Automatically translated text: Eee PC 900 free…
You know, one of the most common typos I make when I try to go to Google is googlemotherfucker.com. Happens all the time. Luckily, Google actually owns that domain name, so I won’t happen upon a bed of pop-up nastiness. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom has come up with a massive list of domain names Google…
On paper, the Samsung YP-S2 is just another shuffle-beater, a 1GB player for $39. But in person, it’s the most stylish of its class, in five colors, including those below and a white with faux marble grain. (Sadly Samsung didn’t have that one on hand.) It charges via a removable USB dongle that plugs right…
Leaky signals from badly-installed AT&T U-Verse systems are squeezing up into the cable network and degrading broadband performance for others on some nodes, according to Comcast. About 40 cases of the problem have been reported since AT&T began supplying U-Verse in the Chicago area, with about 17,000 Comcast customers being affected. And though at first…
LaCie’s Rugged line of portable hard drives isn’t the first to cram 500GB into your pocket, but they’re betting it’s the most protected 500GB you’ll ever hold, with a shock-resistant (and ugly) orange rubber bumper padding the internal shock protection. Buffalo’s 500GB option is sleeker and has thwack-thwarting tech of its own, but the brickier…
In our Gizmodomobile (a sort of cross between the Batmobile, those cars from M.A.S.K. and every other awesometastic vehicle you’ve ever read about, dreamed about or just imagined), sometimes we need to disable all 238 installed GPS tracking devices to go off the grid (namely while we park for hours on end outside of Bill…
The founder and chairman of OLPC has admitted that only using open-source software has not been good for the project. Just a day after the resignation of group president Walter Bender, Nicholas Negroponte admitted that the choice of the Sugar operating system has hit the XO laptop project in two places: usability; and popularity. With…
In yet another demonstration of the never-ending hacking possibilities of the ASUS Eee PC laptop, three criminals in Brazil rigged an ATM with the little low cost computer to grab credit card information and personal information numbers to clone cards. Smart, except that one of them was a total moron. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-install-an-internal-3g-card-in-the-asus-eee-pc-338308 Click to view The…
While both Intel and Samsung are promising big drops in SSD prices by the year’s end for now they still cost plenty. Unless you want to take the DIY route, and use this nifty gizmo from Century which uses compact flash cards for storage. The new version now accepts CF 3x cards and can create…
ThinkGeek is shipping Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus keyboard at last. Price is $1,589.99. [ThinkGeek]
Microsoft’s Live Mesh is designed to share data between all your computing devices using the net as a hub, and it’s just gone private beta. So about 10,000 of you have the opportunity to join up to this “cloud computing” beta, and see how easy it is to port data between your cellphone, PDA, work…
Click to viewApple’s bought itself a chip company, P.A. Semi, that could make chips for future iPods and iPhones. The company was founded by Dan Dobberpuhl, lead designer of Alpha chips, who last year announced a 64-bit dual core processor that is said to be about 300% more efficient than the nearest competition, using only…
Maximum PC has reviewed AMD’s tri-core 2.4GHz Phenom X3 8750 CPU. It performs like you’d expect—in between quad and dual cores. Fine, but it’s $195. You can pick up AMD’s top quad core, the X4 9850 for only $235, or Intel’s Q6600 (which mercilessly beat down the X4 9850 in benchmarks) for $224 now, or…
Rugged and waterproof cameras are great, but they’ve got a lot of improving to do in general design before they’ll be good in the outdoors. I mean, someone just keep me from losing these things. The first waterproof camera I used was a Pentax W10 in 2006, one of the first simple cams that didn’t…
Tomato violence only marks the beginning of my love affair with the Casio’s Exilim EX-F1, aka the Hiro Nakamura supercam. It’s crazy addictive. Last weekend I went looking for fast-moving objects to capture in slow-mo, and in my backyard I came up with a freakin’ menagerie of unexpectedly interesting little beasties. https://gizmodo.com/casio-exilim-ex-f1-tomato-violence-at-300-600-and-120-381363 Everything is a…
