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This is the MWMIK or Mobility Weapon Mounted Installation Kit. The troops in Afghanistan call it “Wimiks.” We call it “Mad Max Jeepy BMF”, a new 4×4 attack rover that can kick some serious baddy’s butt thanks to its three soldiers/three major guns combo. It can mount different weapon configurations, including .50 caliber machine guns…
A day after Apple’s iPod onslaught, this is Microsoft’s response: a limited edition pink Zune, complete with bedazzlingjewel images and Nylon magazine branding. Only 1,000 will be available, first at Nylon’s fashion week party, then at Urban Outfitters, and lastly on eBay for less than the price of a brown Zune. [Crave]
Made for those super, super nerds who actually have rackmounts at home, Alienware’s HD Media server has 1080p via HDMI, internal cable card (OCUR) support, Dolby Digital 7.1 preamp output, and built-in Media Center Blu-ray support. In addition to that, there’s going to be native iTunes support so you won’t have to exit the Media…
For those of you who want to relive the hour and a half you spent not working, here’s Apple’s official recording of the keynote yesterday. [Apple]
Although DLP is a cheap way to get into large-sized HD sets, it has worse color saturation, worse contrast and is generally worse looking when compared to LCD or Plasma. Texas Instruments’ DarkChip 4 is supposedly going to “deliver 30% or more increase in native contrast ratio depending on the application,” which spells good news…
Pushing out his review a bit before the official embargo lifted last night, our favorite Times wonder-reporter put the video store in a box, Vudu, through its paces and walked away mostly happy with the experience. Brownie points for: picture quality, slick five-button remote, pay-per-flick, and truly instant viewing. Buts: https://gizmodo.com/new-details-and-screenshots-of-the-vudu-video-on-demand-272958 You need a speedy…
After so many rumors, Sony’s Alpha DSLR has finally made its appearance. It’s got Sony’s Super SteadyShot in-body image stabilization, compatibility with Minolta Maxxum mount lenses, HDMI output, 12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor (with analog-to-digital signal conversaion and dual noise reduction), continuous shooting in JPG and RAW (18 frames), and connectivity with Sony BRAVIAs. Retails for $1400…
Do you like fruity alcoholic beverages that allow you to get wasted without ever really tasting the booze in your drinks? Are you a functional alcoholic on the go? Good news! GO Wodka is a new line of fruity hooch that comes packaged in portable, toothpaste-like tubes. No one will suspect that you’re actually sucking…
Look, while I can certainly understand the convenience of using urine to charge some AA batteries if you’re, say, stranded somewhere miles away from any other power source, it doesn’t seem all that practical for day-to-day uses. That’s not to say that these NoPoPo batteries aren’t a technological marvel, because I’m sure they are. I…
Less than 24 hours after Apple’s event, Charlie and I are here at the CEDIA 2007 home theater show, in gorgeous Denver. Aside from sucking wind in the mile-high city, the convention center is an interesting mix of beautiful architecture, and not-so-crowded show floors, but unfortunately, the damn place is cellular hostile, Ethernet, and by…
The Pitch “Penelope” is not a happy camper. Seems that she’s had it up to here with her boyfriend’s vinylphilia, and she appears to have issued an ultimatum in advance of her latest business trip: either the records go, or I do. How will the conflicted Romeo respond? Why, by magically using a couple of…
The Seagate hard drive barrage continues with a triplet of new enterprise hard drives. First up is the Barracuda FDE, a 7200 rpm drive which offers native full hard drive encryption using AES. It’ll be available in capacities up to 1TB in 2008. Next up: Seagate’s touting its newest Cheetah drive, the 15k.6, as “the…
Panasonic just announced a “more affordable” 1080p 42″ plasma for $1,799, and a 50-incher for $2,799. It’s good news for the plasma camp, since 1080p has been where LCD makers have been hitting the price war hardest. The new Panasonic TH-42PZ77 is just $200 more than Westinghouse’s notoriously well-priced 1080p 42-incher, while the Panasonic TH-50PZ77…
Seagate’s Maxtor OneTouch line is getting an upgrade, with three new models in the OneTouch 4 series: OneTouch 4 ($100 for 250GB, $170 for 500GB, $270 for 750GB), OneTouch 4 Plus ($130 for 250GB up to $360 for 1TB) and the OneTouch 4 Mini ($100 for 80GB, $120 for 120GB and $150 for 160GB). Besides…
Screw the popemobile; that was for the unaggressive John Paul II. Welcome to the reign of badass Benedict XVI, who will be touring Austria this month in a custom poped-out Blackhawk helicopter (pictured), complete with custom seats emblazoned with the papal insignia. While flying around in his heli/hoopty, he’ll be accompanied by some Northrop Grumman…
Toshiba has just announced the “world’s highest-capacity 1.8″ hard drisk drive,” a new 160GB CE-ATA drive aimed at the PMP market, along with an 80GB PATA drive of the same size. Hmmm…sounds so familiar. https://gizmodo.com/apples-ipod-classic-is-overgrown-hard-drive-equipped-n-296675 I’m actually fairly pumped about the new, massive iPod Classic, glad that Apple hasn’t written off those of us who…
Our MT servers (what we use to upload posts) are currently freaking out due to a bad router in Baltimore or something like that, so most of the Giz writers are unable to post at the moment. We’re hoping to have the issue fixed ASAP, but we just wanted to let you know. Somehow I…
Pioneer’s new Elite Blu-ray player, the $1,000 BDP-95FD, is geared to audiophiles as much as it is aimed at videophiles: In addition to HDMI 1.3a and x.v.ycc color, it has bitstream output of even the highest audio codecs, including DTS HD Master Audio. In other words, if you just bought one of the latest, most…
Click to viewYou may be asking yourself where are Mail, Weather, Google Maps or Stocks in the new iPod touch. The answer: they are coming, but probably not from Apple. The iPod runs Mac OS X like the iPhone does and we have got unofficial word from inside Apple that it runs exactly the same…
What do the the United States’ most classified, undercover agents need to do their job better? A little social networking. In order to better share information between various areas of U.S. intelligence, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is setting up a network called A-Space. A-Space is a social community ala Facebook that…