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Out first in Korea (where else?) Digix’s Picto DigiArt i90 is one of those crazy-sounding convergence gadgets. Combine a seven megapixel camera and PMP in one case, and you save people from carrying several gizmos, or so the idea goes. Mind you, the camera sounds okay for holiday snaps, with 3x optical zoom, some sort…
Bomb themes and alarm clocks go hand in hand. We have seen it a number of times in the past, most notably with the Danger Bomb Clock. Both devices will attempt to wake you up with a loud explosion sound, but only the Time Bomb clock warns you with ominous ticking as the alarm approaches.…
The powers that be over at Nokia have officially dropped the price of their N810 tablet by $90, bringing it down to a slightly more affordable $389.99. Hell, at that price buy two! [Nokia] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n810-hands-on-gallery-and-video-312680
Post-it notes are one of those archaic products that still manage to stick around, literally, in our offices and homes. With this hack, you can transform the beloved Post-it into a very 21st-century digital note system. To leave a note, all you need to do is write it out with your finger on the trackpad.…
This movie poster for the 1914 film L’Avventure Straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola) was drawn by Albert Robida. This version of the (paleo)future appears to involve riding sea creatures while shooting magical underwater firearms. See also: Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 (1882) Evening Fashions of the Year…
A concert hall has just been unveiled in Aurillac, France, that will be used for everything from sporting events to theater performances. However, the interesting thing about this building is not what is going on inside it, rather, it is what is taking place on the outside. Using a combination of glass bricks and fluorescent…
If you have been waiting for a camcorder that gets AVCHD right, the folks at Camcorder Info have some good news. According to their recent review, the Canon Vixia HF10 may have finally brought the format into its own. When compared to an HDV camcorder, the quality of the HF10’s images (artifacts, sharpness, color, low…
MINOX aims to bring “affordable digiscoping to everyone” with its new Digital Eyepiece Camera 5.0. Unlike traditional digiscoping methods of attaching a digital camera to a telescope, the 5.0 is an all-in-one solution that combines a camera, scope and eyepiece into a single device. Features include a 2.4-inch TFT screen, 40x magnification, 128MB of internal…
According to the manufacturer, the Xdream is the "first indoor fitness product that accurately simulates the experience of riding outdoors." Basically, the bike thrusts you into a virtual world via the attached computer screen. As you ride, the full experience on the screen is translated to the equipment—right down to the track surfaces and conditions.…
Everyone wants it, but for some strange reason we have been denied copy and paste functionality on the iPhone. With a new bookmarklet called iCopy, we can finally copy text and URLs that can be plugged back into Safari or an email later on. To get this miraculous technological development, simply visit the iCopy site…
Hey, I’ve been toying around with the idea of a Gizmodo reader meet-up. An excuse to play with gadgets…while going on a ski trip, really. I was thinking of putting together a meet-up, with some outdoor-ready gadgets, at some mountain in Tahoe. Instead of the normal reader meet-up where you sit in a bar and…
College students and people who enjoy watching movies on their computers will enjoy this AU Optronics 24-inch monitor, which is the world’s first 16:9 aspect ratio display for your desk. Why would you want something that’s 16:9 as opposed to the slightly narrower ratio that traditional “widescreen” desktop monitors have? Because 16:9 is the ratio…
novelty animal benches, made by the careful hand of São Paulo artisan Ted Benvenuti of Camaleonte, are gorgeous enough to grace the world of adults. [www.coolhunting.com]
KontrolFreek, the company that made the SpeedFreek add-ons to the Xbox 360 controller that we reviewed last year, has a new accessory coming soon called the FPS Freek. It’s essentially a snap-on to your controller’s thumbsticks, which lengthens them and makes small adjustments in aiming easier. Why is this necessary? IGN Gear says the first…
There ain’t nothing cooler than really intense watches. Take this ridiculous cellphone watch, for example. At over a half an inch thick, it’s certainly large, and it contains way more inside than you’d want in a watch. That includes an unlocked GSM cellphone with a 1.3-touchscreen, a stylus for operating said touchscreen, an MP3 player,…
InFocus’s new IN83 DLP projector may look the same as the previous IN82 model but it does pack some slight upgrades. Displaying full 1080p HD, the IN83 features the latest DarkChip4 DLP chipset and HDMI 1.3. The IN83 specs appear to be just a step above the IN82, and this slight upgrade wouldn’t be complete…
Remotely connecting to your parents’ computer to show them how to send email or file their taxes is fine if everything’s working correctly, but how about when there’s some sort of hardware or operating system error? IOGear’s PCPortal actually bypasses the issue entirely by being a hardware solution that hooks directly up to an Ethernet…
DualShock 3 costing Americans a fat $55 retail [kotaku.com] http://kotaku.com/366406/dualshock-3-50-pre+order-on-amazon
Say goodbye to those lousy movie plots where some girl that looks like Jennifer Garner cuts off a high-ranking execs’ finger in order to gain access to some room. Futronic’s latest FS88 fingerprint scanner is not only FBI approved, but it can detect the difference between live and dead fingers. As an added bonus, it…
A few weeks back, T-Mobile rolled out a new broadband-based landline-replacement service in Dallas and Seattle test markets, allowing customers to port their landlines to their T-Mobile account then pay $10 per month for unlimited calling via a special router. Here’s a glimpse of the router, a modified Linksys, with Ethernet jacks and two phone…
