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The Pitch: Kodak’s ESP 3 all-in-one printer, which has a nice black finish and a software feature for facial retouching with “one click” that “reduces blemishes” and enhances facial features. They also claim that it saves 50% ink when compared to similar inkjet printers. The Catch: It’s hard to tell exactly what the 50% ink…
The Gear: iRiver’s IAMOLED Photo Tank is another PMP, but it’s HD-based (80 or 160GB) to SPINN’s flash, and its 4.1-inch AMOLED display uses even less power than passive matrix OLED displays for longer batt. life. It’s photo-oriented, with CF and SD slots, though it also does video voice recording, FM and uses the by-this-post-much-hyped…
The Skinny: Not really known for their gaming wares, Gateway’s FX Edition notebooks bring the fire with NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS graphics cards, HDMI out and eSATA ports, 17-inch WUXGA screen (1920×1200) displays, and HD DVD drive options. The top of the line P-171XL rocks a Core 2 Extreme X7900 proc, 3 gigs of RAM…
What’s It: The flash-based SPINN PMP uses iriver’s eponymous SPINN UI, which “combines warmth of analog controls” with digital content—apparently this is an analog toggle wheel of some sort. It’s stacked PMP-wise, otherwise: 3.2-inch 480×272 screen, FM tuner, flash, Bluetooth, dictionary and 30fps MP4 playback. The shell and UI are also really attractive for a…
The Blurb: The FX7020 is a budget gamer desktop, coming in right around a grand with quad-core AMD Phenom setup, a 512MB NVIDIA 8800GT graphics card (which actually stacks up well to the at least doubly expensive 8800GTXs) and 3GB of RAM. The FX540 is their flagship w/ an SLi-ready motherboard, which explains the massive…
Here is the first look at Linksys’ new UltraRange Plus N-routers. First up is the WRT160N, a sub-$100 router, and next is the WRT310N. Check out the gallery below to see them in all of their sleek and sexy goodness. [Linksys]
Not only can you use this to play back streamed HD content from the Slingbox Pro HD on your HDTV, the Slingcatcher acts as a file dump for tons of file formats as well (DivX, XviD). The third and most innovative feature of the Slingcatcher is its ability to take video from your PC (either…
Current users of Slingplayer can upgrade for free to Slingplayer 2.0, which will have updated social-networking sharing functions in the near future. [Slingbox]
Audio-Technica released the QuietPoint ATH-ANC3 active noise-cancelling in-ear headphones today. They say that the battery-powered ear buds block out 85% of all outside noise. We don’t understand the point. Since in-ear headphones already cancel outside noise by design, some of the technology here is doing double duty. Still, we guess it’s some kind of statement…
The Skinny (literally): iriver’s Aplayer is a seriously svelte MP3 Player player that manages to cram an FM tuner and a built-in microphone in its brushed metal shell. No deets on what other formats it supports, but it’s available in 2, 4 and 8GB sizes. The Rub No price yet, and it could be pricey.
Ridata introduced three SSDs today, in 32-, 64-, and 128GB capacities. We’ve seen SSDs this large before, but Ridata claims 170MB/sec read and 105MB/sec write speeds, blowing out their recent competition. Full release after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-introduces-3-new-ssd-flavors-128gb-is-the-tast-332171 Ridata Ramps Up 2.5″ SATA SSD Read Speed to Sizzling 300MBPS Read: Up to 170MB/per sec.; Write: Up…
A few months ago we showed you Pacemaker’s pocket-sized DJ system, which at first glance seemed like a interestingly entertaining product. After a video demonstration by company DJ Ola Sars, the Pacemaker appears to be even more fun than we originally imagined. Even-though it has been over six months since we showed you the party…
Well Hung: When we saw the first announcement of the Smartparts 32″ digital picture frame, we were wondering just how good the 1366×768 panel would look. We saw it tonight, and it’s super-sharp. It’s so big, it needs mounting hardware if you’re hanging it on your wall, but it just might be worth the trouble.…
The pitch: the JVC NXPN7 is an iPod dock that isn’t just an iPod dock, but TWO iPod docks capable of supporting any combination of iPhone/iPod you could imagine. https://gizmodo.com/jvcs-nx-pn7-dual-ipod-dock-341209 The price: $150 The details: It’s easy to swap between your two iDevices, complete with programmable color coordination. And this JVC dual dock features all…
We just got hands-on with the Redfly Mobile, the Palm Foleo-ish Windows Mobile UMPC that feeds off of the processing power (and user interface) of your WinMo phone. Here’s what we think. https://gizmodo.com/redfly-mobile-companion-is-the-palm-foleo-for-windows-m-339387 • It’s snappier than I thought it would be. Even though it’s powered off of a Windows Mobile phone, there’s a separate…
Jook is a small device that plus into the bottom of your iPod, iPhone or Zune, allowing you to stream songs to your friends. Of course, you friends also have to have a Jook, and you can’t actually send files. Sure, you could just unplug your headphones from your player and plug them into your…
If you’ve ever tried to set up your iPhone on an iPod dock you know that it sounds like a swarm of killer bees on the loose. Altec Lansing’s solved that problem with the T612 dock by somehow filtering out the GSM buzz. Out this fall.
Though Microsoft swears this is “not something we plan to productize,” the concept mobile OS Bill Gates just demonstrated in his CES 2008 keynote looked hauntingly like something that might be found in imminent Windows Mobile 7—or perhaps the more tantalizing Windows Mobile 8 we’ve heard tell of. What’s your opinion? [Bill Gates CES 2008…
During the Microsoft keynote, we heard Robbie Bach just say “We take [television software] seriously, it’s not just a hobby for us.” (Emphasis on ‘hobby’.) https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-farewell-ces-keynote-cheat-sheet-341352
With Intel’s new Silverthorne processor, we can expect a whole new line of smaller, faster and more power efficient UMPCs…many of which we spotted today. We groped models from Aigo (a touchscreen slider with 3MP camera), Clarion (nonworking but small), Lenovo and Toshiba (a blingtastic but a bit slow). A mixture of final products and…