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Nintendo’s just dropped the hammer on the NYT story saying the Nintendo DS will get full versions of downloadable games. Turns out that it’s not true, and they were just thinking of the old DS getting demos via the Wii. The Ninty says these demos will be playable just like a normal game (but won’t…
Click to viewAs if we needed another display standard, along comes DisplayPort, approved last year and just about to sally forth on graphics cards and monitors everywhere. WTF do we need another standard for, anyway? Bandwidth, that’s why. DisplayPort (plug pictured above at left, next to a dual-link DVI connector) can handle a maximum 10.8Gb…
Fujifilm has slimmed down its FinePix camera even more—now it’s just 19.8 mm thick—but the redesigned FinePix Z100fd still manages to cram 8 megapixels of imaging goodness into its slim form factor. It’s available in four color combinations, and even has a few smart features such as face detection technology that can identify 10 faces…
It’s over. The last major label to hold out on selling DRM-free MP3s, Sony BMG, is “finalizing plans” to sell music not locked down with DRM. It’ll be available sometime in the first quarter, apparently in time to get in on Amazon and Pepsi’s 1 billion song giveaway, which now looks like it’ll have tracks…
Mad Katz, maker of mediocre third-party gaming peripherals, has just signed a deal with MTV and Harmonix to start pumping out instruments for Rock Band of both the wireless and wired variety. On the one hand, having cheap, wireless Rock Band equipment would be awesome for people who want to get a bass player rocking…
Hackers l3lack J4ck, The Revival and djdut2000 have put together yet another modified iPod firmware, this time to mimic the iPod touch interface in your iPod 5G. In fact, it has a bit of the touch and a bit of the iPod Classic, as the other screenshots show: https://gizmodo.com/ipod-5-and-5-5g-get-firmware-upgrade-to-ipod-classic-310971 Obviously, it’s not going to be…
While recently a daredevil was forced to cancel a backflip in a truck because he broke his back doing some practice runs, this daredevil already has a broken back. Aaron Fotheringham was born partially paralyzed from the waist down. I guess he figured risking being fully paralyzed from the waist down wasn’t all that big…
Just in time for the NFL playoffs is Fan Light, a wrist-worn LED blinker that alternates between your team’s two fave colors when you shake your arm, notifying the opposing team’s fans that you’re far geekier than they’ll ever be. Of course, Fan Light maker FoxFury would like to see a whole stadium full of…
When we first laid eyes on this PSP solar charger, we thought it looked pretty sweet. Seemingly attaching to the outside casing of your PSP, two solar panels could recharge our handhelds while we played endlessly on sunny days as we wasted our life away in hammock bliss. For $28.76, that deal didn’t sound bad…
Gefen says it’s figured out exactly how to move HDMI signals over the coaxial cable that already exists in many homes all over the world. The company plans to show the technology at CES next week that it says will ship in April. Gefen has been working on this tech that could make it much…
Just announced for CES, Wadia Digital‘s iTransport claims a major feat: to be the first iPod dock on the market to pull content from both iPods and iPhones in pure digital format, bypassing the iPods’ internal digital to analog conversion and subsequent audio/video loss. The iTransport claims this not only makes the device an exellent…
CompactFlash is going SATA-compatible through new CFast connectors. Why does this matter to you? Various electronics that use CompactFlash, like digital cameras, are now stuck in PATA (parallel ATA speeds) that can check out data around 133MB per second. New SATA (serial ATA) implementation will boost this rate to 3GB/second. While CompactFlash will still have…
In the future, no natural food will taste as you remember it now. Because face it: fruits and vegetables are great. But if turnips tasted like Doritos, America wouldn’t be so fat that our continent occasionally dips into the ocean, like arm floaties on a grown man. Tokyo company FCOM is learning how to change…
Goodyear, that name you’re accustomed to seeing on tires, has decided to jump into the GPS game, sticking its familiar brand name onto navigation devices. Hey, they have something to do with cars, don’t they? The company has pulled a Garmin on us, brand spamming with an entire product line of eight different GPS units…
The 1981 book Out into Space (World of Tomorrow) by Neil Ardley features this image of Venus, “bombarded with containers of plants that will begin to change its atmosphere into oxygen, which people can breathe.” An excerpt from the children’s book appears below. Plans have been proposed to change Mars and Venus, the nearest planets,…
Newertech’s iPhone Speaker Dock allows you to rock out in between calls, and will further function as a loudspeaker when a call is received or made. The flexible microphone means you will be able to comfortably speak at a distance, with limited loss in calling quality. As if that was not enough, the iPhone Speaker…
Here are the answers to our Quizmodo feature that we put up on New Year’s Day. Most of you knew your onions, but there were a couple of glaring errors. There is, as far as I know, no such thing as a USB Log Cabin, although, if any one would like to build one for…
Made from a block of aircraft aluminum, Mobiado’s black Stealth Mobile is inspired by the bomber of the same name. Only 1200 will be made, so I expect the price, while not quite as expensive as a B-2 Spirit, should hit you in the pocket. Full specs of the small-buttoned beauty are below. Band GSM…
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, who hosted Larry Page’s storm-tossed nuptials on his Caribbean island, Necker, last year, says that he and the two Google founders are working on a project together. According to a diary item in a British newspaper, the British tycoon and the two search engine billionaires are working on a secret…
The Skinny: NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800, launching in late Feb / early March, will be successor to the 8800 Ultra. With an estimated 30% performance increase over the aforementioned top end GPU, and apparent support for “Quad SLI,” it is certainly no slacker. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-goes-for-the-knockout-punch-with-new-geforce-880-257111 The Catch: Expect the 9800 GX2’s 1GB frame buffer, two 65nm GPUs…