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If you have been debating whether to purchase a Palm TX for the last three years, your amazingly long uncertainty period has paid off; you now get a free Palm Z22 with every Palm TX purchased. You may very well say that you care more about Angelina’s adoption plans, and if you did, we’d be…
At this year’s Game Developer’s conference, Vuzix has unveiled a headset with a new feature that should be very interesting for gamers—especially fans of co-op FPS titles. The iWear AV920-C is capable of accepting video from anything with a composite video out and displaying it on the internal 640×480 LCDs. That’s equivalent to viewing a…
Kotaku found this InterSense technology demo down at the Game Developers Conference, which seems to do what Nintendo and LucasArts will not: a 1 to 1 mapping of a gesture controller to a lightsaber on screen. These guys are more of a technology company rather than a peripheral company like Novint, so they’re aiming at…
Could you imagine if you had to solve a Rubik’s cube every time you had to access your email? Your Google Groups friends would call you up in about a week wondering if you died. Cheng-Li Hung thinks differently, and designed up this rather cool-looking (and slightly simplified) Rubik’s security system. To secure your computer,…
There isn’t anyone inside this six-and-half-ton beast, getting off on smashing through crappy 80s cars. No, the Army’s latest baby, built by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Engineering Center, is a robot. The Crusher navigates (and destroys) autonomously and will climb four-foot “steps” as easy as it tears up a hill. Apparently other vehicles in their Future…
This Touchpad app for the iPhone/iPod Touch is similar to a regular VNC app, but instead of mapping screen taps like a touchscreen, it maps screen taps like the touchpad on your laptop. You’ll get what we mean if you watch the video. Connect your iPhone to your computer via Wi-Fi and start gesturing around…
Microsoft’s sudden embrace of interoperability and openness is a big change of tune from the tightly puckered song of the past right? Well, the EU says they’ve heard it all before—at least four times. And while EU regulators breathing down Ballmer’s neck is undoubtedly one of the reasons for the shift—you know, aside from remaining…
An interesting battle is brewing between the upcoming Lenovo X300 and the MacBook Air. The esteemed Walt Mossberg has already threw in his two cents, and now you can too—complete with a fancy percentage breakdown. So which is it going to be? Are you in Lenovo’s corner or Apple’s? https://gizmodo.com/macbook-air-review-348753 Gawker Media polls require Javascript;…
USB Missiles are fun (I shot Dvorak in the chest with one once, it did not induce a heart attack as I had hoped), but actual cannons are even more fun. This 25-inch field cannon is the closest you’ll get to having a Civil War cannon in your office—unless you’re the undersecretary of Civil War…
It appears that hawks the world over are not Giz readers, because they would have known that WowWee’s Dragonfly is for high flying fun—not eating. Apparently, one such technologically impaired hawk in Long Island learned this the hard way after it snatched a boy’s Dragonfly out of mid air. https://gizmodo.com/wowwee-dragonfly-on-sale-now-for-49-235178 After investigating the story printed…
The Aurora Multimedia site says that their 6 or 12 button Waci-Pad is “ideal for wall or podium mounting,” we know exactly where we’re putting this—next to the our front door so we can switch on all our electronics when we enter the house (or off when we leave, but that never happens). The Waci-Pad…
This house of the future was illustrated by Fred McNabb and comes from the amazing site, Plan59. It features personal helicopters, giant-sized fruit, glass walls, dust-free floors, ultrasonic laundry and, of course, picturephone. See also: Personal Helicopter (1943) Commuter Helicopter (1947) The Future of Glass (1958) Closer Than We Think! Robot Housemaid (1959) 1999 A.D.…
Repetitive stress injuries are a dead serious issue people. And to help alleviate your pain, you need a serious solution. Fortunately, some compassionate soul has developed just such a solution in these sausage and egg themed wrist rests. In addition to their ergonomic benefits, these rests also remind you that breakfast is the most important…
We’ve seen our fair share of organizers over the years—especially since we live next door to those good-naturedly anal folks at Lifehacker—but this SpaceStation seems like it’s the most minimal that we’ve seen yet. The system consists of a long, rubberized pad to lay your electronics on top of and a hollow bottom with USB…
Designer Chris Owens has come up with a fashion phone that’s even slicker (and lacking in features) than the LG Prada or the Samsung Armani phones. The design’s appealing because it’s got a giant screen on the front (much like the Prada or the iPhone), but has an illuminated glass dialpad that slides out from…
The rumor is official. Onkyo was notable for being one of the few hardware makers outside of Toshiba that planned HD DVD players. Also, I apologize for so many of these posts. It’ll be over shortly. [Onkyo] https://gizmodo.com/onkyo-dropping-hd-dvd-support-352542
After about an hour of playtime with the final version of the squishable $180 Wi-Fi widget ball chumby, I want one on my desk. Is it essential gadgetry? No. It’s not meant to be. Until you’re addicted to it. If you’re not familiar with the basic premise, chumby is a Wi-Fi gadget with a touchscreen…
Awesome. Young Optics Inc. has announced that it will release a Pico projector by the end of this quarter or the beginning of the next, which would make it the first such product to hit the market. The device will be based on Texas Instruments technology and utilize a DPL chip and RGB LED light…
Things just get worse and worse for Everex’s Cloudbook, previously thought to be a competitor to the popular Asus Eee PC, as the first company to actually ship the mini laptop has ceased selling it. ZaReason says they’ve lost so much money in shipping out refunds (due to bank transaction fees) that it’s no longer…
I got a chance to see first hand what the newly announced Zune gaming platform could look like. It’s important to keep in mind that this announcement is still in the early stages of development, and we won’t see any finished products, on the business or creative side, anytime soon. But this quick video walkthrough…
