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ExtremeTech just compared seven one-terabyte hard drives with varying platter sizes and architectures and discovered that the drives are actually all quite similar, but with minor variations in power, noise and speed. If you’re looking for a low power, low noise drive that’s lightly slower than the rest—perhaps for a media center box— Western Digital’s…
LG’s previously leaked Glimmer phone does something interesting that we haven’t seen much of before—combine a touchscreen with a slide-out keypad underneath. The 2.8-inch touchscreen lets you control the 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and AGPS (assisted GPS), but if you’ve got ham hands and feel like touch-dialing is a bit of a chore, you can slide…
The much-rumored Sandisk Sansa Fuze has finally been brought out of the shadows, coming in 2, 4 and 8 GB sizes for $79, $99 and $129, respectively.[Gearlog] https://gizmodo.com/sandisk-prepping-sansa-fuze-363751 SANDISK INTRODUCES THE STYLISH SANSA(R) FUZE™ MP3 PLAYER Multi-Faceted Music Player Rounds out the Sansa Product Line MILPITAS, Calif., March 11, 2008- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading…
The Helios Odyssey, a 1TB, $169 storage center for your media files, just got an update for BitTorrent and Emule downloading capability. BitTorrent isn’t anything brand new in Network Attached Storage devices such as the Planex and Procare and Jack In The Box, but Emule (something we used before BitTorrent became popular) seems like an…
The space-saving “Single Person Cooker” may be of interest to you if you live in an apartment small enough that you need a retracting ceiling bed or a staircase bookshelf. A concept by designer Alex Bradley, it stores pretty much everything you need to cook— hob, utensils and a chopping board— in one small case.…
Today in New York, Panasonic showed off the Viera flat-panel TVs it launched at CES, including its badass flagship PZ800 and PZ850 plasma sets and its premiere LZ800 LCD, all coming this summer at prices to be announced. During the meeting, Panasonic also confirmed officially that it was no longer in the rear-projection business, owing…
Hulu, NBC and Fox’s new streaming service, is indeed opening to the public tomorrow as we reported rumors of yesterday. What’s news to us is that Hulu will be adding Warner Brothers shows and sports as well. The sports will come as game recaps from the NBA and NHL (finger on the pulse!) as well…
We kind of knew that the Rayzer auxiliary HID Xenon lights, which get installed between your windshield and rear-view mirror, increase visibility on dark roads. This video shows that a) the difference is spectacular when compared to regular high-beams, and b) people will think they are having a close encounter of the third kind when…
Romanian artist and graphic designer Matei Apostolescu has designed three skins to go with a limited edition white Olympus Mju 1020. The point-and-click 10-megapixel camera has a 7x optical zoom, Panorama function, face detection technology and can shoot up to VGA resolution at 30fps with sound. Full specs and the other two designs after the…
These Orbitwheel skates aren’t quite rollerblades, they aren’t quite skateboards and they aren’t quite a trip to the emergency room, but they’re pretty close to all three. They’re essentially wheels that you slip your feet through the middle of, letting you scoot around sideways until you go over a curb or a rut and end…
Once in a while we come across an invention that’s so ludicrously chauvinist, even our testosterone-fueled rants sputter to speechlessness. Just check out the NSFW photos (and plenty of ’em) after the jump. Bid for your own bitchcruiser on eBay. You have until March 16th to open the auction for $2,303.81…you know, if your fantasy…
This week at TreeHugger: In London, a study found that one in ten cellphone users has hurt themselves by walking into things while texting; what will be done to stop the carnage? Sony is ramping up its recycling efforts with dozens of events at which consumers can drop off old Sony electronics for free; we’re…
Microsoft continues to step up their design game with two keyboards to follow last month’s good-looking mice. The Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 bundle includes a 2.4GHz wireless keyboard and the previously available 7000 wireless laser mouse. The keyboard was designed for Vista and features an Aero-inspired translucent border, three assignable favorite keys, and the Comfort…
Searchme is a new search engine with an obvious inspiration for its unique UI—Apple’s Cover Flow. But that doesn’t mean that Searchme is any less intriguing. Previewing webpages visually and filtering categories dynamically, we don’t see the service usurping Google any time soon, but you might want to try out their private beta all the…
The oh-so-cute CCTV nesting box design by Cèline Shenton is a finalist in the concept gadgets competition at the Ideal Home Show in the UK this week. Find out more about it, plus the best of the rest of the 31 finalists after the jump. Singing Shower (above left) Designer Debbie MacLennan has taken the…
We love this quote from Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay of Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science: …this is the first time we have created a nano-brain. Is anyone else a little flushed after reading that? Here’s the story: While nanotechnology promises to supply us with tiny robots that enter our blood and fix the damage we’ve…
I’m not a fan of rings, but if my wife was a scientist, I would probably get her one of these Ag, Au and Pt Periodic Rings. Made in, you guessed it, real silver, gold and platinum, each has the element’s sign, atomic number and mass. Cool and pretty, but awfully expensive: $205 for Ag,…
Okay, the flashlight machine gun was alarming enough, but now there’s also the Pentagon Porcupine weaponized flashlight. A kind of all-in-one gadget for the frightened, it can help you find your car keys if you drop them in the dark, and/or blind and wound an attacker. Or victim, for that matter. https://gizmodo.com/fmg-9-flashlight-converts-to-machine-gun-in-a-second-365738 The eye-dazzling power…
If you thought the phrase “useful phone charm” was inherently oxymoronic, please meet Plug It’s phone charm offering. It looks like a hunk of plastic junk, until you split it open to reveal a complete data cable. As you can generally charge your phone via your data cable, the Plug It phone charm is fantastically…
I was desperate for a product just like Belkin’s mini surge protector and USB charger combo yesterday, as I struggled behind my desk with the nest of wires, power bricks and surge protection to find my phone charger. Taking the small-is-neat approach, Belkin looks to have tackled their Dual USB Power Adapter and Monster Power…
