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Even though Amazon swears Canon’s Digital Rebel XSi (450D) isn’t coming out til June 15 (up from April 27), Circuit City’s already selling it online and touting in-store availability. Anyone picked one up yet? [Circuit City, Thanks Rick!] https://gizmodo.com/first-canon-eos-digital-rebel-xsi-hands-on-your-xti-is-350944
Are there any tragedies greater than really wanting a cold beer and only having warm beers on hand? Without thinking too long about it, I’m going to go ahead and say no, there aren’t. That’s why I’m excited to see this method of chilling a warm can of beer down to a frosty, drinkable temperature…
This is, without a doubt, the absolute best Bluetooth headset ever made by human hands. We have no idea whether the battery life is acceptable, whether the noise reduction is adequate, or whether it even fits well over our ear. What we do know is that it’s a Metal Gear Solid 4 headset, which means…
Verizon is cutting its unlimited browsing and email plan for smartphones down to $30 a month. Right now it’s only available for a couple of devices—Moto’s Q9m and Verizon’s XV6800 and SMT5800—others will be added later on. (Blackberries have their own plan.) “Data” is nowhere in the release, so tethering will probably result in obscene…
RED’s last announcement for the day is the RED RAY disc drive, which looks like Darth Vader’s optical drive of choice. It plays 4K, 2K (Epic’s insane 5K looks like it’s off the table, but what about Scarlet’s 3K?) and 1080p video down through standard-def off of RED Disc or RED Express, plus native RAW…
Forget that tired old manila envelope joke, a new case by a company called Boa may just be the snuggest, sleekest wrapper for your MacBook Air. The Fashion Sleeve is plush-lined and offers what Boa calls “minimalist protection.” At just .65mm thin, it’s allegedly the thinnest Airbook case on the market. After seeing the pic,…
RED just announced their new RED EPIC flagship video camera at NAB, which uses a new, full-frame S35mm Mysterium X sensor. The Mysterium X matches the quality of 35mm film at 5k resolution and one ups the 4k Mysterium sensor found in the RED ONE. The EPIC can also shoot framerates up to 100 FPS.…
Red’s pocket-sized professional camera, Scarlet has made its promised debut at NAB, and it is the tiny hotness. It shoots in heady 3k resolution with Red’s new 2/3-inch Mysterium X sensor, shooting from 1-120fps (180fps burst) and up to 100MB/sec REDCODE RAW HD, recording to dual Compact Flash cards. It’s got Wi-Fi control (sweet), and…
Yet again, the results of a Gizmodo Photoshop contest prove just how warped and twisted the minds of Giz readers are. The most recent challenge: use your skills to depict Steve Jobs as either good or evil. The results ranged from inspired to unsettling to confusing to borderline-offensive, which is just what any good Photoshop…
As the amount of bandwidth we devour has skyrocketed, so has ISPs’ need to police our appetites, even as they offer more bandwidth to whet it. We talked to the biggest ISPs around to get their official positions on traffic management and content filtering to see what’s in store for your pipes. Here’s where you…
At last! The latest beta version of Apple’s iPhone 1.2.0 firmware gives you the possibility of saving pictures straight from Safari and into the Photo Album. We tried and it works: just hold your finger against an image for a longer time than usual and the popup dialog will appear. The applications are many, like…
Here’s a roundup of the weekend’s best, just in case you were busy watching Baywatch reruns across the lazy days. • Eee PC 900 got unboxed. • Amazon tax bill introduced. • $20 disposable cellphone introduced. • Heathrow Terminal 5. Fail. • WWII Star Wars figurines wee so cool they hurt us in our cool…
Super Genintari is the latest mega-console mod by Richard DaLuz, a perfect cocktail of Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis and Super NES enclosed in a retro-’80s bronze acrylic case, “formed and shaped on a homemade stript heater.” It connects to a TV using a single cable, running four games simultaneously, and probably cooks bread…
Traditional motorcycles are OK, but this is the future. We need future things. And the $82,350 glass/kevlar/carbon/steel MonoTracer bike certainly feels like it’s from the Utopian, roundmobile world to come. Featuring a fully enclosed cabin for less drag and less pebbles in the face, the MonoTracer’s 130hp BMW engine goes 0-60 in 5.6 seconds and…
So, sometimes you need to check to see if your lipstick is okay, and sometimes you need to download data from a memory card. To do both of those you need a device to help you out. But why would you combine both devices into one gizmo? I suppose it could save space in your…
Using his self-designed AI program, Philip M. Parker has “authored” 200,000 books without ever lifting his pen. While his work features some self-explanatory medical texts like The Official Patient’s Sourcebook on Acne Rosacea, most of Parker’s publications are 100-300 page industry analysis pieces like DAGENHAM MOTORS GROUP PLC: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis.…
Toshiba’s under-2-lb. Portege R500 will get its SSD boosted to 128GB, though at a still undeclared but likely super high price, says UK’s Register. The machines get a bit of a chip upgrade, too, from Intel’s 1.2GHz U7600 Core 2 Duo to a 1.33GHz U7700. The R500 is, to my knowledge, the lightest PC with…
Once upon a time, back when most Apple fanboys were still playing with Mr. Potato, a guy called Gil Amelio had the idea of licensing the Mac to clone manufacturers like Motorola and DayStar—a great move that further kicked the company into the ground, making it bleed like a God of War monster and sending…
I’m not quite sure I’ve got this right, but this here thingy is a remote-controlled clock-MP4 player-hidden camera. Apparently it’s a product that can be used for “any purpose you can think of, without anyone ever being the wiser.” ¿Qué? The built-in camera is PAL and NTSC-compatible, there is 128MB of flash memory, as well…
While a slew of hotels feature sad, generic video game controllers ready to play whatever crappy IP-streaming games the chain may offer, many Japanese hotels were once stocked with these coin-op Famicom (NES) systems. A 100 yen coin would buy you 10-15 minutes of play, which is a pretty great deal compared to the mini…
