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If you haven’t nominated us already, we’d certainly appreciate your support for the Eighth Annual Weblog Awards 2008, accepting nominations until 10 p.m. Eastern Time tomorrow. The more nominations we get, the better, newsier, funnier, trashier, more knowledgeable and sexier we’ll be for you. It’s just that simple—it’s a huge morale booster. And yes, we’re…
Meraki Networks is expanding its SF network of 500 Wi-Fi repeaters—which covered two sq. miles and 40,000 people—to between 10 and 15 thousand to eventually cover the whole city. TC has details on why it might work this time around when it didn’t for Google/Earthlink. [TechCrunch] https://gizmodo.com/citywide-wi-fi-turns-out-to-be-impossible-for-big-towns-295525
Apple might be working on a dynamic keyboard with OLEDs behind each movable key. Apple’s patent application for this OLED keyboard hid in the background since March of last year, and the exciting thing is it looks a whole lot like Art Lebedev’s as-yet-unreleased Optimus keyboard. While this kind of flexibility is right in line…
Just like your ex-wife This pig eats all your money. I’ll be here all week. [Product Page]
This Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed by Leggett & Platt looks like the crib of the century, and we’re not even finished with the first decade yet. First of all, it keeps an eye on what you’re doing all night long, diagnosing your movement and breathing patterns, and even sensing that buzz-saw snoring that keeps…
Westinghouse is jumping into the wireless TV business with partner Pulse-LINK to unveil an ultrawideband HDTV in the second quarter of next year. Using Pulse-LINK’s wireless HDMI system, a highbandwidth Blu-ray or HD DVD signal can be streamed through an invisible pipeline of up to 500 Mbps at 8 feet, or 115 Mbps at 40…
Sure, you may have heard of Atari’s less-than-stellar handheld offerings such as the Lynx and the Touch Me, but my guess is that you’ve never seen this, a prototype for a handheld breakout game that was never released. In fact, only two of these prototypes exist in the world. If you’re a mad breakout fan,…
This week at Uncrate: We recover from the stress-filled holidays with a trip to Offshore Sailing School, tear up the hillside on the Alu Sled, and enjoy a trip into male entertainment’s past with the Playboy December 1953 Reprint. We also warm ourselves with a glass of Depaz Blue Cane Rhum, hit the trails in…
Got a guitar for Christmas and plan on becoming the next Bob Dylan? Spring $400 on this little pocket recorder, and you just might. This mean-looking stereo recorder from Olympus weighs 5.8 ounces and can track stereo 24-bit 96kHz linear PCM uncompressed, so you get essentially everything the built-in microphones can pick up. It can…
2008 is shaping up to be the year that WiMax becomes a household name, and Motorola is ready and waiting to collect your hard earned dollars as soon as the hype starts a-rolling. It’s just announced the CPEi 100, a new plug-and-play WiMax modem that joins its bulkier CPEi 300 and CPEi 800 cousins. Look…
Syntax-Brillian’s 47″ Olevia LCD (pictured here) is riding high on the kudos it got from Wired, and now the company builds on those laurels with a line of LCD displays with 120Hz technology along with 1080p resolution. Olivia is doing a full-blown rollout of the line, with five sizes from 42 inches to 65 inches.…
The Pinnacle Video Transfer is one of the best-looking solutions for analog to digital file conversion we’ve seen in a long time. A pocketable 4.8″ x 2.6″ x 0.9″ device, the Video Transfer converts video from analog composite and S-Video through the H.264 codec to MPEG4…wait for it…through USB to iPods, PSPs or flash drives.…
We’ve seen big digital picture frames before, but Smartparts takes the prize for biggest one yet: a 32-inch digital picture frame that’ll be rolling out at CES 2008. The 16:9 LCD panel has a resolution of 1366×768, which might look pretty good if you don’t get too close. It has another neat twist, the ability…
Our newest family member, the slick sci-fi culture blog io9, has been around for about a day now and is already pumping out the hits. Just take a look at this photo of exploding nano-wires they posted. Yes, those are the tiniest explosions you’ve ever seen. Taken with an electron scanning micrograph by Fanny Beron…
We’re not germophobes here at Gizmodo—not necessarily because we aren’t afraid of tiny sickness-inducing attack—but because we’re too lazy to dust let alone sterilize. But the Germ Guardian Air Sanitizer offers a lifestyle of sloth paranoia we could live with. Using UV-C rays (like similar models on the market), the device kills 99.9% of airborne…
OpenMoko today announced the Neo FreeRunner, a mass-market version of the Neo 1973 open-source phone, and will be showing it off at CES next week. The phone will have the same “overall look and feel” as the developers’ product, but it has a faster 500MHz processor, 3D graphics, and a new lineup of open-source mobile…
Apparently the Futurama movie wasn’t riffing with dated material, because spam scams are still a real threat in the world—much of South Korea’s military has fallen for an email virus that pulled information off individual soldier’s PCs. And to address what you’re all thinking right now: the catchy email subject had nothing to do with…
This Apple docking station patent shows a screen base in which you can slide in a MacBook through its side. While this would be difficult to do with current MacBook models, it fits perfectly with the idea of the ultra-light, ultra-slim MacBook that allegedly will be presented at MacWorld. Basically, the patent shows an iMac-like…
Dell’s Inspiron 1525 gives you a lot for your $999. With a 15.4-inch high-res screen, 2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 processor, built-in webcam, and almost four-and-a-half hours’ battery life and all sorts of holes for you to stick things into, including an HDMI port. Full specs are below the gallery. CPU 2.0-GHz Intel Core…
Running at 7,200rpm and with a 1TB capacity, Samsung’s new F1 RAID Class 3.5-inch HDD offers the world’s highest recording density and is aimed at storage and video surveillance applications. Using just three platters, the HDD’s low power consumption makes it the coolest operating 1TB drive in its class. Full press release is below. Seoul,…