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Oh, CES. You are a disgusting, bloated beast oozing everything that makes this industry horrible. Nay, everything that makes our culture horrible. Sure, to you fine readers it might look like it’s all product announcements and good times, but that’s far from the truth. In reality, it’s a vile clusterfuck of nerds, sluts and suits;…
The Gadget: National Geographic is launching a night vision scope that has the ability to take still pictures. The NV20/20 will have a user variable frame rate, three infrared intelligence modes and it will be able to amplify ambient light by a factor of 650. The scope will ship in April and retail at $520.…
“If we get bigger than 150, we might have to go with Airbus.” Heard in: Panasonic booth…an exec saying how they could only fit one of its prototype 150-inch plasmas in a Boeing 747 cargo hold—and only just barely. https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-first-150-inch-plasma-photos-341633
It’s still years away from mainstream adoption—and there are huge barriers to manufacturing the larger screen sizes—but Sony and Samsung are already slogging it out to achieve the largest screen size for its prototype OLED TVs. (Toshiba already took its 30-incher out of this year’s battle.) The active-matrix organic light-emitting diode technology (AM-OLED), produces brighter…
Today, a tragic event of dramatic proportions hit CES 2008 in Las Vegas: Chandler Blinkers III, affectionally known as Pit by everyone at Panasonic, died in the water tank at their booth. According to the press conference held by the company, the circumstances are still unknown and police is still investigating. “He was there one…
This Korean PaperTablet for uPlusPen looks like a regular pen, but has a USB connector so you can digitize your inputs like a tablet. It’s not as fancy as Jesus’s favorite Wacom Cintiq, but this only costs $99 and you can use it on any old piece of paper. We tried it out, starting on…
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What is it? In addition to being a plain ol’ indoor/outdoor thermometer kit, the Weather Direct 4-Day Audio Weather Forecaster has an internet connection (through a proprietary wireless link interface) to download weather predictions for the next three days. Add text-to-voice email capability (it actually reads the subjects and sender fields as new mail shows…
Click to viewSony’s Boomerang controller for the PS3 never made the light of day, but that doesn’t stop it from being knocked off by a Chinese OEM. We spotted this in the International Corridor of CES. And we feel really, really bad for the sweatshop workers who have to crank out such products…that are obsolete…
The Gizmo: The iBuddy is a portable iPod DJ mixing station, with inputs for two iPods, two MP3 players or a combination of the two. The three knobs control things that are strictly to do with DJ talk, like “reverb,” “flange” and “autophase.” As crap as we are with DJ lingo, we know it sounded…
It looks like Activision is cashing in even more on their lucrative Guitar Hero license. The Air Guitar Rocker by Jada allows you to fake rock without your console. A belt buckle senses your air rocking (via magic pick) and sends the signal to an accompanying belt pack that both acts 1) as the speaker…
The Everex Cloudbook that we showed you a month ago has finally been given an official release date. So if you were hoping to get the $400 Eee PC rival, it will be available from Walmart.com on January 25th. There’s no word on if you’ll be able to pick one up at an actual brick-n-mortar…
We got our hands on that pretty iRiver iAMOLED Photo Tank, and it’s plenty handy. The only problem is, the most appealing aspect of it is its active matrix OLED (AMOLED) screen, and in this mockup, it wasn’t working yet. The real thing won’t see the light of day until Q3, but until then, we’ll…
Sprint’s CTO says its WiMax service Xohm is a go for an April launch with around 10 devices available. Good news for Sprint! Bad news for you: “People will be excited about our rates. They won’t be ecstatic about them because we’re not going to give it away.” Translation: It’s more than you wanna pay.…
Though neither LG nor Philips showcased a thin LCD in their spring lineups, their joint display development group LG.Philips is proudly displaying this 47″ Ultra-Slim 120Hz LCD. How slim? 19.8mm, or about .77 inches, making it a lot thinner than the LCD TVs Hitachi is launching, and only a tad thicker than some of the…
A new ad in Australia highlights the dangers of crossing the road with your MP3 player rumbling your inner ear canal at full volume. And of course, it shows the iPod in a new twist of Apple’s original silhouettes campaign, now using the headphones cable as a way to draw the place in which a…
Click to viewSome genius has created the Ultimate Pleasure and Sex Training Machine using a vibrator and a ThighMaster, that weird legs exercise spring-based contraption that invaded the ’80s like a plague of Galaga space aliens with a Spanish Fly overdose. The how-to seems quite simple, but the best thing, other than the looks (which…
Click to viewRemember that Unilever promotion that is giving away 10,000 iPod shuffles frozen inside $1 fruit popsicles? Well, we just got the pictures of how it actually looks inside: https://gizmodo.com/ice-cream-company-gives-away-10-000-frozen-ipods-inside-333129 A reader of our friends at Brazilian creativity blog Brainstorm9 got his prize and sent them the photos of the fake popsicle/package, designed to…
ThinkGeek, one of our favorite purveyors of silly gadgets and almost- or totally-useless (but oh that’s kinda cool ok can’t resist) stuff, is having a clearance sale of 50 products with up to 50% discounts, from the 15″ Gigantor Digital Photo Frame to the R2-D2 trash can. Our top 5 discounts (read, what I’m going…
The October 12, 1961 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) ran a story titled, “Disposable Clothes Seen Just Around The Corner.” Excerpts appear below. A research laboratory cuts its big laundry bill way down by sending dirty smocks, coveralls, etc., to the garbage pail. A housewife convinces her husband that her new party dress is a good…