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Today at the Gateway One press event, Gateway quietly revealed a potentially more exciting product, the 30-inch ExtremeHD 1600 monitor. It could very well be the only screen you ever need, because it takes everything from a VCR to a high-end gaming PC and upscales it all with HQV Realta technology to display on its…
Ross Lovegrove, designer of beautiful, yet useful, things, has teamed up with Artemide and Sharp Solar to produce these solar-powered street lamps that are to light up the Ringstrasse outside Vienna’s Museum for Angewandte Kunste (that’s the Museum for Applied Arts and Contemporary Art.) They’ll be going up on a tree-line boulevard, so expect the…
Normally I don’t get this jazzed about desktop PCs, but the Gateway One is special. From the sleek yet substantial design to the quiet, powerful core, it’s a real statement, especially from the cow-pocked South Dakota underdog. Let me take you on a guided tour: Setup is as easy as a laptop. Connect the power…
There have been spy shots and leaked official photos, and now Sprint just made it official that the Palm Centro will find itself in someone’s hot little hand on October 14 for a mere $99.99. And looky there, it’s got a surprising color slathered onto it, too. https://gizmodo.com/palm-gandolf-officially-the-centro-smallest-treo-ever-290451 Just in case everyone is completely bored…
A simpler version of the nudie pens that you turned upside down to reveal what was beneath the cupcake’s black bikini (I always found them in my dad’s suit pockets), the Undress Me mug comes in both guy and gal versions. You can find out how much it costs and check the girl’s version after…
An ongoing art project by Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, the Dress Tent “poses the question of what lies under a woman’s skirt in the 21st Century.” Tent poles? Guy ropes? Seventeen eagle scouts? An entire platoon of infantry? Monged-out festival-goers? Knickers? My lips are sealed. [Robin Lasser via Metro]
Microsoft says they have pocketed $170 million in the first 24 hours of Halo 3 sales, beating Spiderman 3—despite Brian’s spoiler. And yes, Bill Gates is the Prophet of Truth. [BBC]
First spotted at Gitex in Dubai, Samsung’s i780 is a GPS phone with full QWERTY keyboard and is expected to hit Europe, Sweden first, at the beginning of next year. There is speculation that could be the new Blackjack, but you can judget for yourself by looking at the specs, which are below. HSDPA/WCDMA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity…
Here’s a vid of some of the weirder stuff from Show Stoppers. We wrote about the Eyeclops earlier this year, but here’s a hands-on of it, as well as a bunch of 20-buck-themed game controllers (Millennium Falcon, Deal Or No Deal, Pirates Of The Caribbean and Pac Man.) Check out that 200x magnification on the…
The new Gyration M2000 Travel Air-Mouse works in the air using their new UltraSense 5-degrees-of-freedom motion sensor technology, which is what their media center remote uses too. It also works over any surface, thanks to its built-in laser surface sensor. It only weighs 3.9 ounces, so don’t worry: you won’t be doing any significant exercise…
All clues point to the fact that this USB cat from Japan is, in fact, a mouse. Or is it? What do you think this infernal contraption is most likely to be? Vote in the poll below. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in…
SlingPlayer mobile, the app that lets you watch all your TV shows on your cellphone streamed from your SlingBox, has just launched in the US for $29, Canada for $34, and the UK for £19. It’s the same basic functionality—although this has streaming support over 3G and/or Wi-Fi and landscape fullscreen support—but now supporting Nokia…
Sony’s latest Video Walkman series, the NW-A910, is to be released next month in Japan. Available in 16GB, 8GB and 4GB models, Sony claim it’s the smallest and lightest device to watch and record digital TV on. And that’s not all: The 16GB model can record up to 100 hours of digital terrestrial TV, programmable…
We saw and listened to the Griffin Evolve at IFA2007. They have a good sound and the possibility of using any number of wireless speaker cubes around the house or garden, which auto-configure themselves by touching the dock and can play for 10 to 12 hours in a 2-hour battery charge. Griffin is still targeting…
Microsoft has revamped their Live Search, looking for their personal Holy Grail: beat Google. And the other guys. According to search and advertising platforms VP Satya Nadella “this time, we feel we can claim we are as good as Google.” Which is kind of what they said the last time, so we will have to…
Later today at DigitalLife, Microsoft’s Windows Media Center chief Joe Belfiore will demo the new Media Center Extenders you’re just now hearing about, including the Linksys DMA2200 and DMA2100, and the D-Link DSM-750 MediaLounge Media Player. Another one he’ll show off is the Niveus Media Extender, which we’ll cover in more depth tomorrow. https://gizmodo.com/linksys-dma-2200-media-center-extender-2-0-plus-dvd-pla-304065 Microsoft…
You may have heard about the new Media Center Extenders from Cisco’s Linksys division. The DMA2200 shown above is a high-def MCE with 1080p-upscaling DVD player and Dual-Band Wireless-N, priced at $350. The smaller $300 DMA2100 MCE is geared for bedrooms and kitchens, places where you’re going to want less clutter, though to be honest,…
Click to view I had the pleasure of trying on the BackpackShield bulletproof bookbag insert tonight at ShowStoppers, and it was amazing. Made from 13 layers of K-29 Kevlar, this thin, lightweight plate fits in most backpacks and can stop every bullet from a 9mm all the way to Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum. It doesn’t…
Digital-picture frame pioneer Ceiva is jumping the gun on Whirlpool’s latest refrigerator announcement, called “centralpark” I believe. The concept has been shown off before, but this is its first production application: it’s got a modular interface at the top, and Ceiva (and presumably others) have built something to fit the module. Why did Whirlpool go…
WiMax modems. The phrase doesn’t generally conjure gadget lust, which is why I’m so confused looking at these better than well designed WiMax modems from Moto. The silver and droid-like CPEi300 is a desktop modem based on Intel’s 2250 Rosedale 2 chipset, compatible with 802.16e-2005, which TG Daily spells out as the 2.3, 2.5 and…