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Last year at CES, we rounded up schwag every day to show you what crap people were handing out. This year, we didn’t do it. We’re also not doing some schwag giveaway. Why? Because schwag sucks, and we don’t want to give free publicity to companies just because they had the bright idea to slap…
Mary Lou Jepsen, the XO laptop’s designer and OLPC’s CTO, split from the project a little over a week ago to “commercialize” some of the tech she developed for the project—the display in particular—through a for-profit venture, Pixel-Qi. Probable result: a new generation of OLPC competitors from commercial outfits. But it gets better! It’s come…
Click to viewT minus four days and counting. Steve Jobs’ Macworld 2008 keynote is next Tuesday and at this point we only know one thing for sure: something big is coming from Apple. Maybe not one single iceberg-sized thing, but this year we believe the Boom Count™ is going to be so high that Apple…
CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn’t help ourselves. We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn’t stop. (And Panasonic, you’re so lucky that 150-incher didn’t have an active…
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Today’s the last day of CES, and a good chunk of the press has left. That means the people who man the booths are left with no one to talk to except each other, making each desolate booth a sad tableau of loneliness. Don’t worry, PR people. It’s almost over.
Sony announced 16 new camcorders at this year’s CES. Seriously, 16 brand new freaking camcorders. Why would any product line need so many (often indistinguishable) options? We went straight to the source to find out. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-sonys-sixteen-model-ces-2008-camcorder-li-341291
I have so many issues with this LCD shirt that IBM is making women wear at CES, I don’t know where to start. First off, they’re instructed to say “Are you looking at my chest?” as people pass by. And supposing I do just that, why have her feminine curves been replaced with a grotesque…
Citing the ever-chatty “people familiar with the agreements” Bloomberg is reporting that Warner is the latest studio to climb aboard the iTunes video rental express. For and against breakdown: Warner has been pretty busy this week on the vid front—and it’s a total “duh” that Apple has been/is talking with all of the major studios.…
Pioneer compared an iPhone to their 9mm Kuro Plasma. They must be Gizmodo fans. [Pioneer Vid] https://gizmodo.com/sizemodo-pioneer-kuro-9mm-plasma-tv-concept-vs-iphone-341428
Meet Aaron Broder, the 14-year-old reporter and member of the Scholastic Kids Press Corps. He’s covering CES from start to finish. Chaperoned by his mom, the resourceful young man convinced the CES suits to bend the “no one under 16, no exceptions” rule to grant him a press pass. Good move, because after all, there…
“A blog? Is that like the internet?” Heard in: the International Pavilion…over the shattering of two Gizmodo writers’ hearts.
We’ve heard from reputable sources at CES 2008 that people are returning HD DVD players they bought at low prices over the holidays because of all the crap that’s gone down in the HD DVD camp this past week. UPDATE: We’ve got a response back from Jodi Sally, Toshiba’s VP of Digital A/V Marketing regarding…
With display technologies like plasma and LCD having so much sex appeal, why should we still want the heft (aka “fat friend”) DLP? We gave the camp 15 seconds to convince us.
Samsung built the first 3D plasma screen for giving that added dimension to gaming and movies, and the test drive was promising, if not earth shattering. You of course need goggles for the full experience, unlike some of those 3D LCDs that actually send different images to each of your eyes. This is more like…
What’s better than a digital photo frame that takes in SD, MS, MMC and XD cards to plaster your loved ones on an 8-inch LCD? One that also includes a photo printer on board. The back of this PhotoBox has a 300x300dpi printer, which shoots out snaps at a rate of 1 every 42 seconds.…
The Samsung F490 has been launched today, but not at CES. As expected, the touch-based phone from Samsung looks pretty. The cellphone has a 3.2-inch 262,000 color touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera and supports HSDPA at 3.6Mbps. No release date yet for the US, but it looks like it will reach Europe first for a whopping…
The Availbot was a neat prototype, but this USB i-Buddy we just saw takes instant message emote representation to the next level. When one of your pre-specified MSN buddies signs on, the little monarch man blinks its lights, flaps its wings or twists its body in a way that can only be described as incredibly…
A 18-year-old was arrested this week after trying to kill his father by strangling him with the cable of his videoconsole gamepad. While the videogame console brand hasn’t been disclosed yet, the police have been able to establish the circumstances that lead to the almost surrealistic (but strangely understandable) murder attempt: According to the police,…
Come along on a bed tour, where this Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed by Leggett & Platt can run as high as $50,000, depending on how you configure it. Plug in your iPod (it’s not quite ready for the iPhone, even though it will fit), trick it out with 2K watts of subwoofer/fanny-rattling power, or…