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Laser beams, battle axes, shotguns and more, no weapon is too crazy for CTA Digital’s Wii accessories. Check out the gallery to see them all. Click to view Thanks to Wilson for the awesome pics!
Now that New Line has gone exclusively with Blu-ray, it seems inevitable that we’ll get the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy on that format in sexy, sexy high-def. But what if you’ve already invested a few hundred bucks in the full extended edition trilogy? Will it be worth rebuying the movies in Blu-ray? In…
Click to viewIn our third interview segment, we asked Bill what’s on his mind when he wakes up in the morning, and what he’s still worried about when he goes to bed at night. At first his answer was businesslike, about Microsoft’s goals. But then it took a turn for the personal. Yes, Gizmodo readers,…
Spotted: What’s this? A Sony A200 digital SLR with a flip-screen finder? Others are guessing that it’s an A300. WTF: Either way, it’s a great way to get the most out of that live view capability. [Dyxum Forum]
Very few people know more about the practical robotics industry more than iRobot CEO Colin Angle. We had a nice chat with him (he did all the talking) earlier today about the state of the robotics industry, why iRobot is essentially the only company doing what they’re doing in the field, what kind of robots…
Remember that XStreamHD 1080p program service we told you about last month? It turns out movie star Michael Douglas is one of the investors, and he was here at CES touting the service that will debut later this year. New info? The lowest-end 500GB home media server and HD Media Receiver will sell for $399,…
The Brief: Hold the Aigopen up to any content in a book (text or images), and it will read out exactly what is going on, in either Chinese or English. We were amazed with the concept, clarity of audio and miniature size. As ever, there was a catch. The Catch: It only works with books…
We just got a look at Peavy’s new Riffmaster Pro System, a $2000 add-on for Guitar Hero that takes playing fake guitar very seriously. For that money you get two controllers, which are authentic Peavey guitars gutted out and rewired for game-mode, a full P.A. system that houses a PS2, an amp head to control…
We have been harping on about Splash power’s wireless charging solution from way back in 2003, but they have just showed us a working unit. Here’s the surprise; it really works. The idea is simple, by plugging in a dongle into the base of your gadget, you are able to drop the device into a…
CES is in full swing. But if today’s new Mac Pro and Xserve announcements are the news Apple can spare from the keynote, Macworld is going to be huge. To celebrate, I’d like to buy you a beer if you’re going to the show. Just come on over to this party Giz and Ars are…
We’ve seen Ricavision’s Sideshow Remotes before (and even got hands-on with their previous concept SideShow remote), but this is the first time we’ve fondled the commercial version that’s coming next year. https://gizmodo.com/ricavision-vave100-universal-sideshow-remote-328954 Ricavision and Microsoft have a tight relationship (the latter used the former’s Media Center computers way back years ago to do one of…
We got our hands on a final build of the promising lap-ready Phantom Lapboard Keyboard at CES, and what can we say? It appeared every bit as wireless and ambidextrous as we thought. But this is the aptly named Phantom Keyboard we’re talking about—the keyboard that Alienware wanted but couldn’t secure—the keyboard we’ve been looking…
Cherished CES press room cookie provider Bonnie Snyder-Lapioli tells us that 90% of the people on whom she bestows her heavenly chocolate chip cookies say “thank you.” That’s a pretty polite group! Bonnie’s baking up the cookies from dawn to dusk, with each batch taking 25 minutes from start to finish. In one day, the…
We just met with AMD’s CTO Phil Hester, and he clued us in on a few cool high-def processing tricks that the company will pull this year: • The Puma mobile chipset, due out in Q2 of this year, is able to play the Transformers HD DVD (intense MPEG-4 AVC) and still have 40% to…
We just got a nice look at the R680, the upcoming enthusiast graphics card from ATI that is, apparently, as fast as 1000 Cray-1s. We’re not allowed to say exactly how fast that is, but maybe you want to hazard a guess. The details are all hush-hush but assume that what people have already written…
The FemiSapien is WowWee’s new female robot, a RoboSapien with a hot-ish, Barbiesque figure. For now the FemiSapien is just a toy for children, but we know what you’re thinking: “Cylon companion.” So can WowWee justify their gadget? (Or, maybe more importantly, do female robots really need any justification at all?)
Scans of DirecTV’s PC Tuner showed up on the DBStalk forums. The tuner supposedly has two coaxial inputs, one USB output, Ethernet and USB inputs, Vista Media Center support and a DVR interface that uses your PC’s HDD. No word on whether the tuner is HD or SD, but If this is the real deal,…
MacRumors has a screenshot from a Family Guy DVD slated to drop on Jan. 15 that includes a digital copy for iTunes and iPod, seemingly confirming what we heard earlier. But, the “Fox Digital Copy” (which apparently is in WMV and H.264) requires iTunes 7.6, which AppleInsider says will debut at Macworld (obvs) and include…
I just checked out a rad driving simulator at the Delphi booth. It totally made me feel like I was behind the wheel, as you can see in the video. To be fair, they were showing off some pretty interesting tech, such as sensors that could tell if you were looking straight ahead or off…
We [heart] Sanrio’s Hello Kitty lineup. They didn’t have anything as innovative as last year’s lady shaver on display. Instead, the Kitty seems to be going emo, with a line of sweet matte black music devices. A full gallery of the booth and all its wacky goodness is after the jump… https://gizmodo.com/hello-kitty-gallery-228213 Photos by Gizmodo’s…