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Click to viewHere you have the first MacBook Air unboxing: iPhone-styled tiny packaging, minimalist and all smooth black. What’s even more important, you’ll see it compared to a Windows laptop: a Sony VAIO (fight!). Akiko Wada, a Japanese blogger, got invited to a special event hosted by Apple Japan, and she very kindly let us…
Here’s the Jack Bauer of the new Olympus compacts: the Stylus 1030SW, drop-proof from 6 feet, waterproof to 33 feet and operates at temperatures as cold as 14 degrees Fahrenheit. With 10.1 megapixels, a 3.6 x optical zoom and a 2.7-inch LCD, and with built-in scene modes for underwater shooting as well as beach and…
This remote control design is inspired by a deck of playing cards, with two card-shaped halves that slide in different directions. By gripping it and sliding it up and down you can change your TV’s volume, and a twisting gesture changes channels or tracks on your DVD. Designer Sungwoo Park has gone for clean white…
The Skinny: Olympus just barfed out five new digital cameras. The fantastic five include the following fresh snappers: • The μ1020 (above): 10.1MP, 7x optical zoom, 2.7-inch LCD, ISO1600 and 2500, as well as Olympus’s TruePic III imaging system. • The μ850SW (pink): 8MP, 3x optical zoom, 2.5-inch LCD, 3-meter water resistance, 14.8MB internal memory,…
You may think the groovy chick in the top pic is trying to drown the new Fujitsu F705i cellphone, but you would be negating the fact that the F705i is the world’s slimmest waterproof 3G cellphone. Sitting pretty at 13.7mm thick, the Fujitsu handset can handle a 1-meter water submersion for 30 minutes. Check out…
Hitachi is releasing a new Blu-ray camera after getting spanked for their first generation. The DZ-BD9H still records to Blu-ray or a 60GB hard drive, but tries to fix the poor image performance with a new 5-megapixel CMOS sensor and image processing system, dubbed Picture Master. Full specs after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/hitachi-dz-bd7ha-worlds-first-blu-ray-camcorder-gets-320405 It is BD-R…
It was a year ago today that I started the Paleo-Future blog. With that first post I warned of my smarmy, cynical attitude toward the future. I still believe everything I wrote in that first post so out of laziness, my first blog post appears below. And I sincerely thank you for reading. I first…
Camcorder Info has their hands on of the SDR-SW20 up, Panasonic’s first attempt at a dive camcorder for those who like recording video in the ocean…as long as that ocean is less than 5 feet deep. (Like its direct competitor, the Sanyo Xacti E1, it is only waterproof to 5 feet.) They found visual quality…
The release candidate of zAlternator allows for the Zune to be synced with Windows Media Player 11, Winamp and Media Monkey, as well as iTunes (although that is untested at this point). [ZuneBoards]
WonderHowTo rented a Red One video camera (the camera that shoots 4K resolution footage), took 30 kids up into the mountains and shot some snowball fight footage. The result, shown here at just slightly lower resolution than the Red can support, still shows off how much their own Perez Hilton lookalike got pelted with snowballs.…
The first signs of HD DVD’s ultimate demise may be coming from the UK on March 10. After the news on Universal and Paramount abandoning the exclusive HD DVD deal, it seems that Amazon UK is listing three Paramount Blu-ray titles with that definitive release date: Trading Places, Coming to America and Anchorman, the latter…
The Bug Labs open source do-it-yourself hardware gadget store is now splayed open, ripe for a hot injection of your cash. [Bug Labs] https://gizmodo.com/bug-labs-store-launches-monday-minus-wi-fi-346789
The Philips READIUS prototype that we showed you over a year ago, is finally materializing as an actual consumer product, not just as an e-reader but as a mobile phone. The READIUS has a slightly different design than the prototype, with a 5-inch flexible display that actually rolls up around the phone, allowing it to…
While IR is still quite useful for certain things, transferring data between devices is something very few people still use it for. Japan’s KDDI R&D labs, however, have managed to increase the transfer rate 250 times to 1Gbps with a semiconductor laser that blinks incredibly fast. Although 1Gbps is fast, it doesn’t quite transfer a…
Spendtastic dudes who splurged on the Eight Core Mac Pros revealed earlier this month have an extra surprise for them: 64-bit Boot Camp support. The Boot Camp install discs have 64-bit Vista drivers on board, meaning you can load up Microsoft’s 2^6 bit OS with little to no problems on your silver cheese-grating behemoth. [Macrumors]…
David Levy, author of Love and Sex With Robots (a book about how we’re going to have sex with robots within 5 years and fall in love with them within 40) explains his extensive research with the subject on the Colbert Report. Between being made fun of by Colbert, the good doctor (he’s got a…
In an effort to curb unhealthy eating habits, one Catholic school in Utah has implemented a biometric finger scanning system that is used to track what kids are eating during lunch. Parents are then given the information in hopes that they will use it to help children make better choices. Here is the thing though—the…
We think this is pretty obvious, but AppleInsider says they’ve received info that the MacBook Pros will also be getting the MacBook Air‘s multi-touch trackpad feature (which we got hands-on of here). The feature was supposed to be rolled out in another refresh for the MBP line around Macworld, but was delayed in order to…
NBC has a newfound respect for Steve Jobs and Apple, and Jobs himself has spoken about mending the fence with NBC. But do a few kind words really substantiate rumors that NBC will bring their shows back to iTunes? While we don’t think a future reunion is far-fetched, there’s nothing in either interview that supports…
Unwired View has just as much clue what the model number on this leaked Sony Ericsson is, but they did manage to fish some shots out of PConline.com.cn. The phone, which could be the K870, K830 or the K780, has a 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus and LED flash plus an on-board GPS, like the W760…
