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The Provia A7, developed by Hyundai Telematics, is even more souped-up than its predecessor, the horny-making A1. It starts with a slim 7″ 800 x 480 LCD, adds an animated touch interface, then packs in navigation, simultaneous reception of T-DMB TV and TPEG traffic and other data, a removable battery and a freakin’ gaming system…with…
Seeing as you’re probably already going through your 2007 receipts to figure out your taxes, here’s a question that’ll fit your current state of mind. How much did you spend on gadgets in 2007? We’re talking every sort of gadget, from toasters to HDTVs to iPods to car stereo systems to cellphones. What’d you spend?…
The December 28, 1949 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, MA) ran a story titled, “No Shooting War Seen by Toynbee Before Year 2000.” The article in its entirety appears below. You can read more about Arnold Toynbee at Wikipedia. LONDON (UP) – Professor Arnold Toynbee, 60, one of the world’s foremost historians, predicts the “cold war”…
Razer is (justifiably) known for their gaming peripherals, particularly their keyboards and mice (which you love or hate, depending on what kind of games you play). On the audio front, they’re slightly less battle hardened, and, by and by, most 2.1 systems are dreck. (I’ll totally vouch for Logitech’s ZX-2300 setup, though.) And the Mako…
Why should you be able to custom-build your Dell or HP computer but not a cellphone? That’s exactly the problem this this zzzPhone is going to solve, by way of them having a factory in China that will custom-create a phone especially for you. Although the body will look exactly like the phone shown here,…
That new 16GB iPhone push you over the edge to finally going down and buying one? Don’t forget to buy my iPhone book, which was co-written by Adam Pash of Lifehacker and Heroes fame. [iPhone Book] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-16gb-and-ipod-touch-32gb-available-352671
Don’t forget that this week is the last week you have to enter our free HDTV and Windows Media Center contest. What other contest lets you win a free TV and a gadget to get content to it? None other. [Enter now] https://gizmodo.com/contest-win-an-hdtv-and-a-windows-media-center-extende-349885
DJing on the bus, at work, in the supermarket and in line at the DMV may sound like a pipe dream, but this pocketable Tonium Pacemaker DJ system lets you do just that. We got hands-on of this at CES, but Kat from TechDigest takes it for a “spin” (worst. pun. ever.) and finds that…
This is the Enercon E-126, the world’s largest wind turbine that’s currently being installed in Germany. This monster generates over 7 Megawatts of juice, which is enough to power about 5,000 four-person households in Europe. It’s got an insane 413830-foot wingspan, and it’s specially designed to kill as few birds as possible, which was a…
Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel is supplying the gorgeous multitouch displays and maps that are being used by CNN (and we hear, FOX) to cover Super Tuesday. A couple of interesting facts: The machines start at $100k, and Perceptive Pixel’s staff is comprised of 10 people. [Washington Post]
LOS ANGELES, California (Agencies) — Hello Kitty, actress, astrophysicist and acclaimed author of the play I Can Has Pink Cheezburger, has been found dead in her Los Angeles apartment on Tuesday, probably because of an accident with a home appliance and drug overdose. LAPD, however, is not ruling out other possibilities: “We are not ruling…
Having two chargers, one for the car and one for the home, is a chump’s game. When we roll out, we prefer to schlep one single charger back and forth, which means Incase’s 2-in-1 Wall & Car charger is just the thing we need to power our iPods and iPhones. It’s $39, which makes it…
Today, LeapFrog pulled the veil off of two handhelds aimed at edu-taining kids who are still too young for an iPod, a cellphone and maybe even a Nintendo DS. The Leapster2 is a $70 streamlined, net-connected version of the first Leapster, a chunky, ergonomic thing designed for kids ages 4-8, with new games from the…
We can’t really figure this thing out. It’s supposed to be a joke “product” (we think) called the HTC Magnum. Either this man is holding a pretty gigantic tablet, or a widescreen monitor, or he’s the most hormonally developed three-year-old we’ve ever seen. This thing, whatever it is, looks real in the sense that it…
Sure, it’s an easy enough thing to find a Little Shop of Horrors plant robot that snaps shut to kill bugs, then burp comedically. But how about a bionic Venus Fly Trap that lures insects, detects them with its hidden motion detectors, then gulps them down whole and alive? The bugs fall into the clear…
Here’s what putting a wireless chip in a Band-Aid will allow your nurse to do: monitor your blood glucose, ph-level, pressure, as well as perform ECG functions and embed a three-axis accelerometer on your wound. This may not mean much to you as a guy who doesn’t have a gigantic sword cut in your side,…
Yes, SSDs are dropping in price, but that doesn’t mean you can in any way afford BiTMICRO’s new 1.6TB SSD. Yes, that’s a T for Terabyte there, folks. It’s the biggest SSD yet, and while no price was announced, it’s a safe assumption that it’s absolutely bananas. But hey, if they can make it now…
What this means: 5MP iPhones without any extra girth. Most of the high end camera phones like the N series Nokias like the N95 and the Sony Ericsson Cybershots have a major drawback of being pretty thick. Kodak’s 5MP sensor is build on an incredible 1.4 micron tech and reworking of regular CMOS design, so…
Does this phone (on the right), documented in this leaked picture, match up with the invisible phone in the teaser video that we saw on YouTube yesterday? Perhaps, and the Czech site Mobile.cz is saying that the phone has a larger display and touchscreen controls—which you can see in the picture—but also have such slightly…
If pajamas get itchy when you wear them to bed, I have a great solution: sleep naked. If that’s not an option for a self-hating person like yourself, some fancy new PJs have been developed that are totally “itch-free” and will even regulate your temperature. They’re made from a fabric called Dermasilk, which is apparently…