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MSNBC reports that rising costs of food and accommodations during CES week could drive the show out of Las Vegas when their contract ends in 2011. [MSNBC]
Last night, our weekend intern Eric Sheline made his mama proud by finishing fourth in the 11th annual Tiger Direct AMD Acer PC building contest. You’ll recall in years past that Blam finished both 3rd and 5th, which means that Sheline basically tied his master, and smoked over 80% of the seasoned editors in the…
So we’re hanging in the robotics area of the Sands Convention Hall, about to talk to WowWee, when our contact says, “Can you excuse me for a second? Dean Kamen is here…it’s the opportunity of a lifetime.” He runs off giddy. You know Dean Kamen as the inventor of the Segway (as well bigger milestones…
After going down for Apple elves to stock the shelves with the new eight-core Mac Pro and the most powerful Xserve ever—it’s back up. Mac Pros here, Xserve here. [Apple Store] https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-mac-pro-eight-cores-support-for-eight-30-in-342091
Sure, everyone here is bitter about Apple taking a steaming dump on CES for the second year in a row, but that doesn’t mean we’re finished. Oh no, not even close. Here’s what you (and we) have to look forward to today, Giz faithful: •Laser TVs! •New Guitar Hero guitars! •A surprise from AMD? •Us…
Click to viewI had a briefing with Apple on their new Xserve and Mac Pros that were released today, midweek during CES, a week before Macworld 2008. I had only one question for them, and it had nothing to do with hardware specs. Why release new gear when the Keynote is only a few days…
Click to view Apple’s got a second release that just hit the wires: A Mac Pro with two intel 45nm Quad-Core Xeons at up to 3.2GHz each. An 8-core config is standard. The front side bus is humming along at 1600MHz now, and RAM at 800MHZ. The computer also comes standard with ATI HD 2600…
Click to viewIn our second Bill Gates interview segment, we are surprised that the question about Bill’s changing image leads to a brief amusing history of Microsoft. Note the none-too-subtle hint that the Google boys should take a bit of perspective from his tale. Don’t miss Part 1 of the Bill Gates Gizmodo Interview: Bill…
Apple dropped a new machine on us, a week before Macworld, in an Xserve with two Quad-Core 3.0 HGz Xeon processors. The machine also has “a new server architecture, faster front side buses, faster memory, up to 3TB of internal storage and two PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots.” [Xserve] Apple Introduces New Xserve – Most…
Click to viewMitsubishi put together quite a spectacle to introduce its Laser TV last night at the Moon Nightclub at The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, unveiling a 65-inch rear-projection set that uses a unique laser backlight. The result is some of the most vivid color we’ve ever seen on any TV, especially the primary…
The December 13, 1942 Montana Standard (Butte, MT) ran an interesting piece by Gardner Dane about the world of 1975, devastated by war, forcing people to move underground in order to survive. The original article appeared in Every Week magazine. Excerpts, as well as the article in its entirety, appear below. Dane sets the stage…
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Financial Times is reporting that Paramount has a clause in its HD DVD exclusivity contract allowing them to bail from the sinking HD DVD ship if Warner defected to Blu-ray, and they are “poised” to do so. https://gizmodo.com/paramount-and-dreamworks-animation-go-exclusively-hd-dv-291339 Warner’s switch already put 70 percent of Hollywood’s output on Blu-ray—Paramount rolling Blu-ray too would leave Universal…
We had you at “perverts,” right? Well, here’s the deal; we just had some hands on time with Sima’s IR light for cameras. The device promises to shed a whole host of light in areas that are missing the sun-like goodness. Although we did not get to use it in optimum conditions, i.e. in an…
SoundTech, makers of some interesting computer/music peripherals, has announced a new guitar attachment called the Ediface. So what’s it do? How about giving your guitar all the flexibility of a synthesizer, converting notes to trumpets or…like the headline says…playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band with your real guitar? Windows XP and Mac compatible, the Ediface…
We just checked in with the guys at Lian Li, and we managed to peek a look at their hot new PC cases. The best of the bunch is the Armorsuit enclosure, shown in the image above. It’s smoking. The case has a solid aluminum construction (with plastic side windows), nine 5.25-inch device bays (including…
We just talked to the guys at Slacker who told us that they’ve offered trial test units to people who’ve pre-ordered. Here’s our hands-on video from November in case you wanted to see what the thing was all about. [Slacker] https://gizmodo.com/slacker-portable-personalized-radio-player-video-and-ga-323023
Up until now we have only heard about Microvision’s “plug-and-play” pico projector for mobile devices like PDAs, PMPs, digital cameras and laptops. Now that CES is here our own Nick McGlynn got the opportunity to see what this bad boy can really do. We also learned that the device pictured here is actually a prototype—the…
Sony synergy FTW! Sony officially announced Blu-ray-to-PSP movie transfers at CES today. Pop a Blu-ray movie into your PS3, jack in your PSP and download to the portable or a Memory Stick for keeps. It’s sorta like pre-ripped iPod rips on DVDs, but on Sony’s ball field. [Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/apple-and-foxs-movie-rental-deal-also-includes-pre-ripp-338145
We wonder who came up with this inspired floor plan: The HD DVD booth is in loogie-hawkin’ distance of the Blu-ray booth. But the Blu-ray guys are too busy celebrating to bother.