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Nokia has used its The Way We Live Next show in Finland to reveal the company’s Point&Find system. In a nutshell, the cellphone company is developing the technology to allow you to point your Nokia cell at any object — restaurants, cinemas, even that cute girl you see on the bus to work each morning…
First, calm yourselves. Second, if you follow the link you will notice an advertisement for an iPod touch sleeve. So, what’s interesting about that? Well, the features list includes this little nugget; “Custom fit for 80GB and 160GB iPod touch models.” It certainly seems feasible somewhere down the road, but we wouldn’t recommend getting too…
As I look now to my just-arrived Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon giant box with a mix of fear and excitement before my hands-on test, I came across this recipe for perfect-looking yummylicious LEGO block cakes. And at last, right there, for a few seconds, my life was perfect and complete. Until I realized that licking…
If you are a Gmail user, head over to your account settings and select “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” to enable the newly-added IMAP access option. Enabling Internet Message Access Protocol allows you to access mail directly on the Google servers instead of downloading it to your desktop, laptop or phone. That way, if you access mail…
Sony’s Cyber-shot T-series has just seen a refresh in the form of the new DSC-T2. The 8MP eccentric colored dresser will have a 4GB internal storage capacity, Memory Stick Duo / PRO Duo card slot for memory expansion, 3 x optical zoom, Carl Zeiss lens, tasty 2.7″ 230k pixel LCD touchscreen and Sony’s Super Steady…
Give a little wave to the XPS One A2010 from Dell, which got its first outing on the FCC website. The FCC also posted Dell’s system manual on their site, which reveals that the A2010 contains an optional TV tuner. What else do we know? It’s a fairly good-looking Asustek-manufactured desktop with Intel Core 2…
The 1981 book School, Work and Play (World of Tomorrow) illustrates what the vacation of the future will surely look like. With robots and computers doing all of the work, your biggest dillema will be deciding what kind of margarita to order on your space colony retreat. Isn’t it great, living in the future? With…
Giz’s semi-goddess Sarah Meyers went to Maker Faire to admire all kinds of wonderful machines, and videotaped this straightforward demo of the workings of The Device, the first all-in-on beer machine. It’s our favorite by far, not because of its design or ingenuity, but because of what it makes: lots of different types of beer.…
The Blackbird 002 by HP looked like the gaming PC to have, with smart design including that aluminum stand. Maximum PC just gave it a 7/10 score for two main reasons: Vista OS hurts its game performance, as does its SLI implementation hacked up to use twin ATI cards…slower ATI cards. Will Smith, EIC, says…
It appears that Dell is making an attempt to take on the likes of HP and Apple with the release of the XPS 420 —a rig focused on the multimedia enthusiast. Features include: Intel Core 2 Duo or Extreme processors, your choice of ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards, a max of 1TB storage, 1-4 GB…
Have a collection of old cassette tapes lying around? Thanks to this USB Cassette Archiver you can kick out the old school jams once again in full digital glory on your MP3 player. Format conversion is a simple matter of installing the software on your PC or Mac and connecting the archiver via USB. I’m…
In preparation for Friday’s launch of Leopard, Apple has official ended bootcamp downloads. Windows partitions will continue to work, but BootCamp Assistant and driver updates will be kaput. [PC Advisor]
This photo ran in the October 29, 1937 Chester Times (Chester, PA). The firefighter of the future is shown making his bow at a demonstration in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Garbed in an asbestos suit, this smoke eater walks undaunted into the flames, armed with a chemical pump which quickly subdues flames. The equipment is…
The recently released Sansa View may already in line for an upgrade if some leaked info on the ScanDisk website is anything to go by. The link revealed listings for devices with 8, 16 and 32GB capacities with the high end price topping out at $330. And since a 32GB Sansa View does not currently…
We have been telling you about the impending release of the Playstation Eye for some time now, but for those of you who have trouble remembering what month we are currently in, much less the release date of highly anticipated gaming peripherals, you will be happy to know that the Playstation Eye is now available.…
We already know what’s new in OS X.5, but is there anything you’re dying to know in the days leading up to Leopard’s launch? Let us know if there’s any particular feature or set of features you’re dying to see up close. https://gizmodo.com/whats-new-new-in-mac-os-x-leopards-300-feature-list-311244
According to Shacknews, the latest PS3 software update, v1.94, will add support for the upcoming DualShock3 rumble controller. The update will also include Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, the first PS3 game to take advantage of DualShock3. Apparently the rumble feature can be toggled by pressing the PS button in the middle of…
Almost a year after catching wind of the SlingCatcher, The Tomo Report claims to have laid its on hands on pictures of the final packaging, which happens to splay the device’s specs. According to the box, it’ll require an HDTV, along with a USB 2.0 HDD or memory stick if you want to use SlingSync.…
In the shadow of the Leopard launch and Microsoft’s amazing earnings reports, a path to easy app installation on a modern iPhone running v1.1.1 firmware is out. iFuntastic allows for GUI jailbreaking of the phone and drag and drop of apps. Yea, I’m not getting into this until installer.app is a one click load. I’m…
Today Palm announced that a partnership with Garmin has produced a new Palm GPS Navigator with Garmin Mobile XT software. Users of Palm smartphones like the Treo and Centro can now enjoy access to over 6 million points of interest and turn-by-turn voice prompted directions, as well as free access to Garmin Online for info…