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Developed by Chinese company InterGrafx, Mobile Secretary was unveiled yesterday at Nokia World. Basically a 3D avatar that handles SMS and incoming calls on your mobile phone, Mobile Secretary comes in various shapes and forms (plump maternal, foxy blonde Svetlana, cool-headed brunette—wonder if there are any male ones?) You can even create your own avatar…
It’s annoying that so many good (or terrible) photos are stuck inside your cameraphone. Belkin’s F8T012 Bluetooth adapter gives your computer Bluetooth 2.0 for all your diabolical purposes, but it also specifically lets you wirelessly drop photos from cellphones, for printing, storing or uploading. This can often be a pain, especially when you’re dealing with…
Intel’s latest and greatest mobile Penryn processors have (near positively) been leaked for the world to see. These new Core 2 Duo and Core 2 (Extreme!!!) processors are built on the 45nm scale (as opposed to 65nm architecture). Smaller, faster, cooler and all around better, they will most likely be officially announced at the start…
While it’s nice to print out boarding passes at home before you leave, you can’t always do the same on your return leg. Continental has a proposed fix, now in testing in Houston. You load your boarding pass onto your phone’s screen with 2D barcode exposed, then let the TSA and airline ticket checkers scan…
These Wonder Sauna (Long) Hot Pants are the kind of product you find in the back of your grandparents closet that make you rethink everything you thought you knew about them. Namely, that they aren’t retarded enough to buy a product called Wonder Sauna (Long) Hot Pants in the first place. Sucks for you, dude.…
Nielsen has teamed up with Digimarc to create Nielsen Digital Media Manager, earnest-sounding software that will “use digital watermarking and fingerprinting to establish an industry-wide rules-based solution to copyright security and to assure copyright compliance.” While much of this pertains to Nielsen’s core business, tracking the popularity of shows, it is very much a security…
We’ve told you about something similar to the 12-in-1 Konami arcade cabinet before, but this is Konami’s first appearance on Giz. Featuring (you guessed it) 12 classic Konami games—Frogger, Green Beret, Blades of Steel, Contra, Gyruss, Castlevania, Hyper Sports, Time Pilot ’84, Shao-Lins Road, Jungler, Scramble and Super Basketball—its slightly smaller stature will make for…
Think Geek’s Holiday extravaganza kicks off today, with all sorts of deals on toys that only special people like us will love and adore. Humping dogs, wristwatch phones, Star Wars cushions and digital photo frames are all part of the deal—and one lucky punter could find himself $1,000 the richer. There’s a thousand-buck shopping shpree…
Click to viewThe final Google trends for 2007 were officially announced yesterday, with the iPhone and the late plastic buxom wonderkid Anna Nicole Smith bracketing the Top 10 fastest-rising search terms. If you compare this to the first Google ranking ever, you will either conclude that the world is a better, calmer place now or…
You know Music Choice, the provider of beloved music-only cable channels from Adult Top 40 to Salsa Y Merengue? Well, they’re coming to TiVo with nearly 1,000 music videos at launch, and several thousand in all. You can access them at no charge through the TiVoCast interface. Remember videos? As if to remind us, TiVo…
Designed with the green customer in mind, Buro North’s flatpack Christmas tree comes in three sizes—1’3″, 3′ and 7’5″. Ah, I feel a song coming on. *Clamps pipe in mouth, sits on rocking chair and starts crooning* I’m dreaming of a Flatpack Christmas, Just like the Ones I Never Had. With tempers fraying, And In-laws…
Before going to Dubai to cover the Air Show, Addy and I went diving last month in the Indian Ocean, where dive computers are obligatory. I got myself a $350 Suunto Mosquito. It’s a cool little dive computer, rock-solid, with a computer connection to download diving profiles and a great design. But when you compare…
This is a smart idea from Buffalo: USB memory sticks that your kids can stick in your computer without causing wanton destruction to the files inside — or your reputation when they inadvertently download your skinflicks onto a memory stick and present Belladonna’s tattoos to their nonplussed classmates. Gallery and more info below. Available in…
Plug the Logitec LDT-1S30X4U into the USB port of your PC and you will be able to watch two TV shows at the same time. Connect a second one, thanks to its double USB, (see below, along with a screen grab) and you get to watch four shows. All sorts of features make the LDT-1S30X4U…
We attended OQO’s launch party on Monday evening, during which they showed off their updated e2 UMPC with embedded HSDPA. Unfortunately, the revised e2 will only be made available to European and Asian markets. However, do not feel out of love, my US inhabiting buddies: https://gizmodo.com/oqo-to-launch-something-new-on-december-3-325885 OQO’s O2 model, previously released Stateside, is compatible with…
Tokyo Flash’s latest addition to its Twelve 5-9 watch range, the Q, is an interesting timepiece. And by interesting, I mean that you probably need a PhD in disco-light time-telling to be able to work out just what it is you’re late for. (May I just add that, by the time you’ve worked out the…
Low resolution, slow and almost totally useless: this homemade cellphone-based surveillance camera is one of the best inventions ever. I don’t know if it’s the Gilliamesque looks, the 80s phreaking flavor or the fact that the solenoid relays—which control the cellphone keys—make it feel like an Old West telegraph machine, but I would definitely snatch…
LEDs are becoming pretty commonplace in clothes these days, but Willy Bogner has come up with an idea that is actually useful rather than decorative. He has come up with solar-powered ski suits with LED trim on them to keep you visible on the slopes. The thin film technology lights were designed by Osram, and…
Ars Technica is reporting further details on Nokia/Universal’s supposedly “free” all-you-can-eat one year music subscription service, and if you thought this plan seemed too sweet to be dreamed up by a bunch of music biz suits, you thought right. Not only are the Nokia tracks DRM’ed to prevent you from using other devices or even…
For the waistline-conscious teetotaller drunk bastard, we present this calorie-counting beer mug. Sure you could just keep track in your head, but this way at least honey knows you’re trying. [Product Page (Japanese) via Tokyomango]