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Creative’s new HS-1200 wireless headset features a new, as yet unnamed proprietary compression technology developed by Avnera that rivals the Bluetooth standard. Some of the advantages of the new technology include a greater data transfer rate than Bluetooth as well as lower energy consumption (9 hours to a charge.) The HS-1200 also features duplex technology…
The world’s number one consumer of wood for casemods, Jeffrey Stephenson, has created another machine called the Pico Bayard. It’s got a 1GHz Via C7 CPU, an 8-inch EarthLCD touchscreen LCD on the front, 1GB Crucial DDR2 memory, and integrated Wi-Fi. The most important part is how this guy looks, and it looks great with…
The Gadget: OpenMoko’s just-announced Neo Freerunner, which is the mass-market version of their previous Neo 1973 phone. https://gizmodo.com/openmoko-launches-neo-freerunner-open-source-smartphone-339965 The Impressions: It uses the exact same UI as the previous version, but is actually really preliminary and buggy in the version we played with (it was power cycling for a short while). They assured us that…
Panasonic’s following their very highly regarded 750 series plasma with a PZ850 series. Since the 750 was king for awhile (pre Pioneer Kuro), we can expect great things from the 850. The biggest change is the introduction of an IPTV system, which will stream content like the YouTube (maybe) they demoed at the keynote. The…
The Dreamcast, borderline success that it was, always held a special place in our hearts. We just had a soft spot for punching the crap out of each other during a session of Virtua Fighter. That is why this Portable Dreamcast, put together by a zealous fanboy, has us experiencing a warm feeling in the…
The Sony Ericsson W760 is the first phone US that rocks the latest Walkman interface (it’s out in Europe), which is by the far the best one yet. It’s cleaner, clearer and just plain sexier than the previous generation. (Compare the W350, which uses the old one.) The major problem is that it really left…
The Sony Ericsson W350 a small phone that reminds me a lot of the Media Skin phone a ton of people carried around while I was in Japan—there’s a razor-thin flip plate that covers the keypad, though the W350 adds the twist of music controls on the front. It’s not feature packed, but it’ll probably…
GM may have announced their Chevy Volt Hydrogen concept months ago, but attendees at CES are getting the world’s first look under the hood of the eco-friendly beast. More than just a random rendering, one can see Chevy’s direction with eco-cars in some very clear side-by-side trends when compared with the original Chevy Volt. Our…
We already know that Creative’s upgraded Xdock is the first iPod dock that allows users to upconvert their video to HD resolution and music to X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity, as well as one of the first docks to work with new iPods —and a hands on has revealed that it does this job quite well. We…
Taser wants its products to be common gadgets along the same lines as cell phones and MP3 players; you know, the stuff you always carry with you. That’s why it’s released a belt holster for its tasers that can be loaded up with 1GB of MP3s. Perhaps the most feature-free MP3 player we’ve ever seen,…
Hey guys. Here’s how much we love you: We just took 20 minutes out of our busy day to sit down with Bill Gates, and ask him about all kinds of things: his personal style (or lack thereof), his constantly changing public image, the difference between Microsoft and Apple, mistakes that were made, and the…
Splitscreen gaming has been with us since the dinosaurs, but the one big flaw is being able to see your opponent’s screen. Texas Instruments has invented a pair of glasses that will allow one screen to be used, while showing two independent views of the action, i.e. you only see your split of the screen.…
The guys at LaCie just announced four new external hard drives, aimed at various markets and a 24-inch stonking screen. Check out the lot below: • LaCie d2 Quadra ($189.) Offers quadruple interface (USB/FW400/FW800/eSATA), and will be available in capacities ranging from 320GB to 1TB. It has a large surface area, meaning heat dissipation is…
The Scoop: SanDisk’s latest microSDHC card has 12GB of storage, the fattest microSDHC card ever. But! It’s only a proof of concept. According to the booth reps, the actual release model in June will be a whopping 16GB, double the previous biggun’. The Catch: Um, none, except more gigs=more dollars. [SanDisk] Photography by Curtis Walker…
What Up: SanDisk’s Sansa Clip update is on the money: Storage capacity bumped to 4GB, and it’s only 80 bucks, an awesome mp3-player dollars-to-data ratio. Plus, the new silver sheen makes the old black plastic Clip look positively uncivilized. What Blows: The battery life only eeks past “decent” at 15 hours. [SanDisk] Photography by Curtis…
Story: It’s the same SanDisk Sansa View, just with another 16GB of storage crammed in for a total of 32GB. Cost? 350 smackers next month. Bore-y: It’s the exact same player, it just holds more crap—for a price. https://gizmodo.com/sandisk-reinvents-16gb-sansa-view-as-price-slashed-nano-297986 [SanDisk] Photography by Curtis Walker
Sanyo’s PLC-XL50 is an ultra short throw LCD projector we’ve been waiting to see in the flesh for some time. Why? It can create an 80-inch image from just three inches away. That’s insane, and seeing the effect in person with six projectors running in tandem, some on the floor and some on the wall,…
The September 9, 1939 Syracuse Herald Journal (Syracuse, NY) ran a short piece about the shift from railways to buses as a form of mass transit in New York City. The piece ended on an optimistic note about buses and alternative energy of the future. An excerpt appears below. Doubtless some day the operators will…
Polaroid’s CES lineup is a little on the underwhelming side, but there are a few products that are worth a quick mention. These products include the Freescape Media Exchange, the Freescape mobile player, a full-HD widescreen LCD TV, a Wi-Fi digital frame and an 8.0 megapixel camera. More details after the break. •Freescape Digital Media…
The Pitch:We got the jump on the InPerson back in December thanks to the FCC, but now we have learned that the product is actually being positioned as a portable wireless videoconferencing device as opposed to a phone, as was reported previously. Creative hopes that the inPerson will become an affordable replacement for the extremely…