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Fans are alright, but if you really want to sacrifice some trees to run your PC, consider this: air conditioning. One modder seems to have combined his A/C with liquid cooling, reaching coolant temperatures as crazy low as -10 Fahrenheit. What do you think, everyone? Can it play Doom? [hacknmod]
Playing with Xperia, Sony’s Windows Mobile phone with a hiptop QWERTY, revealed a few interesting things: https://gizmodo.com/xperia-x1-hiptop-killer-sony-ericssons-first-video-plu-354742 • The brushed steel finish wasn’t shabby. • Keyboard play was nice, even if clicks weren’t as satisfying as those on a gummy Hiptop QWERTY. • The demo only went as far as the 3D skin; anything beyond…
A helmet may save you life in a motorcycle/ATV/headbanging accident, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be in any condition to call for help. The Wireless Impact Guardian is a helmet that takes such an accident into account and contacts 911 for you. Loading with the placement on your head, GPS tracks your position while a…
Today is National Inventor’s Day, in honor of Thomas Edison, and Giz is going to celebrate it with some designs from the Work In Progress show by students at London’s Royal College of Art. There are no less than four concept radios in the show, including this one by Mikael Silvanto, which melds a slide…
A new sand-grain-sized chip by Audience being demoed at MWC kills extraneous noise (better than current software-based suppression) so they can, even if it sounds like you’re skydiving at the time. Basically, this speck of silicon wonderment chills in between the mic and the cell’s circuitry, where it maps sound as a 3-D matrix, scraping…
Behold the latest offering from Samsung and B&O: the 3G, dual-slider F400. Slide the front upwards and you get your keypad, slide it down and your B&O speakers heave into view. As well as the 2.2-inch QVGA display, there’s an RDS-enabled FM radio and MicroSD card slot. Price is expected to be around the 380€…
The new G400 gets its “Dual-Touch Chic” surname thanks to a touchscreen on the inside and outside of its skinny metal frame. We do, however, wonder what what the hell it’s for—controlling its music-playing functions perhaps? Measuring in at 4.1 x 2.0 x 0.6 inches, this is Samsung’s first go at an all-metal flip-phone but,…
Mobile Review is reporting that Samsung has as many as 17 new cellphones to drop at MWC 2008, including the G810 and the F480, Samsung’s Prada phone clone. We’ll bring you the best and most interesting here on the Giz. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-g810-adds-wi-fi-aims-for-nokia-n95-352468
Dear Readers, Well, two out of three ain’t bad, I guess. I was meant to be joining Blam and the guy in the red hat, Captain Zissou oh yeah, Jesus, I think his name is, for a couple of days in Barcelona, but I have been struck down by a nasty, virulent, ectoplasm-producing cold, so…
The N96 is pretty similar to the Symbian 60-powered N95 we’ve all come to recognize as Nokia’s 5MP GPS finest, but with 16GB of internal memory and a 2.8-inch screen. This model also has a built-in DVB-H receiver for digital TV signals in Europe and Asia, and a kickstand for desktop viewing. Also new are…
The third in the trio of “new” phones being shown off by Motorola at WMC 2008 in Barcelona this week is not really a new phone. Instead, the Z6w is just a Wi-Fi version of the Z6c but with a cradle added for good measure. Another pic and full specs after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-expands-its-lineup-with-moto-z6c-and-red-lg-835-330284 GSM…
The new Nokia N78 candybar cellphone comes absolutely loaded: HSPDA 3G support, Wi-Fi connectivity, FM music transmitter and integrated Assisted GPS. The later has obligatory Nokia Maps support and automatic geotagging of photos taken by its 3.2-megapixel sensor with Carl Zeiss optics. Unlike the previous N73, the $507 (350 euros) pianoblacktabulous N78 gets rid of…
If you thought the iPhone’s accelerometers trick was cool, wait until you see the new Nokia 6210 Navigator GPS in action. Using the GPS, an integrated compass and accelerometers, the 6210 will always show you the map in the right orientation, no matter how you turn the cellphone around. This is great especially when you…
The 6220 Classic seems to be Nokia’s answer to the latest Sony Ericsson Cybershots: a compact candybar with 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens that gets all its photos tagged thanks to its built-in Assisted GPS, a feature that is the norm in the latest Nokia lineup. The only bad thing: the candybar 6220…
Well, it’s Monday morning at WMC 2008 in Barcelona and Motorola has come out of the gate with a… saunter. The W161 and W181, which should be available sometime in the next month or so, look like they are aimed at the cellphone markets in Africa and India. I mean, 465 hours’ standby? Full specs…
The HTC Advantage has just received a hardware and software upgrade, and is now called the X7510. HTC has bumped the internal storage to 16GB of flash, and improved the keyboard as well as adding in Opera 9.5, and a “future version” of Windows Mobile. No price info yet, but the Advantage will be available…
Europe is getting first dibs on the P3470, the new Windows Mobile 6 phone from HTC. Boasting GPS, the P3470 comes with TomTom pre-installed, a 1GB Micro SD card and 350 minutes of talk time, but there’s one ru-roh: no 3G or Wi-Fi. Full specs, plus pricing and availability below the gallery. Key features *…
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are awesome technologies that we now take for granted, but what if the two combined in Mighty Morphing Power Ranger style to create a superior means of wireless data transmission? Well, Michael Foley of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group has said such a pairing is set to make an appearance into a…
With advanced wireless technology, wearing a wire no longer means having a voice recorder or short-range radio transmitter strapped to your chest. This 3G-equipped surveillance vest can transmit a live feed anywhere in the world. There is also a panic button and GPS, which is handy when the Bad Guys notice a massive battery pack…
The cunning masterminds behind the Storm worm are apparently rolling in great wealth. The boffins at IBM estimate the worm is netting just under $2 million per day for its creators. The Storm worm’s financial success comes from the fact that it has successfully created a massive collection of autonomously running computers, a.k.a. a botnet,…