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One of CrunchGear’s crew snagged a looksie at the buds coming standard with the Zune 2, and apparently, they’re quite earworthy. They’re “a mashup between the current premium headphones and the V-Moda buds you see up top.” Microsoft’s also chunking cheap plastic cables in favor of cloth-wrapped ones—hopefully, the brown and black stripes look less…
Rumblings of HP’s return to the hand held world are looking more solid with a complete lineup of very legitimate looking iPAQs. We’ll run you through it wham-bam-thank-you-ma’m style. Hit the jump and let’s do this thing. iPAQ 914 (aka bonecrusher) (Pictured above) This is the big model smartphone. Windows Mobile, 2.46″ 240×320 px touchscreen,…
Mitsubishi’s HC6000 1080p projector is indeed coming to the US, and will cost “under $4,000.” We showed you the Japanese version; the US edition is slightly awesomer with 13,000:1 contrast ratio and HQV. https://gizmodo.com/mitsubishi-lvp-hc6000-1080p-projector-cheap-and-quiet-292128
Apple may not have responded to Microsoft with a surface clone, but another company is stepping up to the plate for them. Home A/V company Savant has announced their new ROSIE coffee table, a 40-inch touchscreen Apple computer in a form reminiscent of Microsoft’s Surface. While we have no specifics on hardware, the ROSIE claims…
Click to viewHey folks, our Apple Liveblog will be here, at live.gizmodo.com. Check back and hit refresh often (this new system doesn’t auto-refresh) in order to see the newest updates. I’ll be doing live updates before the show as well, with some color commentary on all the pushing and shoving we see people do to…
The hype for EEStor’s mythical battery-killing, capacitor-based technology that we’ve been hearing about for a while keeps coming, re-ringing promises of, for instance, a five-minute plug-in time for a car to make a 500-mile trip. Naturally, details on how EEStor has managed to accomplish a feat academics have been taking whacks at for years—sufficient insulation…
Game Cabinets makes some excellent retro gaming systems, but their newest Stinger is not just intended for classic MAME fun. Instead, it wants to be an integral part of your home theater. Essentially a PC with TV-out and joystick controls, the Stinger can do anything a PC can do—including running Windows Media Center Edition and…
Sony is stepping up their LocationFree game, now supporting HD transmission through this new transmitter/receiver pair, the LF-W1HD kit. The catch? Well, there are two, actually. First, the HD signal is not your source signal but an MPEG4 compressed product. Sony claims the picture has somewhere near 96% fidelity, which is still pretty good in…
Realizing that Samsung’s BD-UP5000 was going to give the original hybrid BH100 a run for its money, LG announced the more competitive BH200 Super Blu Player for watching both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. It’ll cost $999 when it ships in October, and will include support and features its $1,200 predecessor sorely lacked: https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-samsungs-bd-up5000-hybrid-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-p-282569 According…
We’ve been following PS3 firmware updates like a hawk…err…group of hawks. But the new 1.92 firmware update is no biggie. As said by Sony, “This update focuses on some PS3 compatibility and playability issues for select titles.” But what do you expect for a mere hundreth update? However, Sony did elude to working on “a…
Hey, we’ll be liveblogging the Apple event tomorrow, which, in case you haven’t heard, is probably going to feature a slew of new iPods. You can check our home page tomorrow morning, the event starts at 10AM PDT.
Kikkerland has designed this cute USB hub called Hub Man, who has USB sockets for arms and legs, and an LED for a heart. Most of his limbs run at USB 1.0, with only one bionic limb running at the faster USB 2.0. It costs $19, which is more than some other, faster hubs, but…
When you’re in a strange city it’s easy to get lost, but you don’t want to miss the sights because you’re glued to a map or GPS device. German and Swedish researchers may have created a solution – a cell phone that can give you GPS directions simply by heating up or cooling down the…
Why pointless? Because ninjas totally own pirates. End of story. The AA 4-packs run $3 (plus shipping), which is a great deal for the ninja batteries since they’ll assassinate rival portable electronics and power your Walkman for approximately 100 years. [Think Geek via Shiny Shiny]
After the he said/she said BS between Apple and NBC over the last few days, we’re kind of glad to see some kind of resolution: NBC’s taking its business to Amazon Unbox, which will give NBC “greater flexibility in the pricing and packaging of video downloads.” For the time being though, shows still seem to…
The main IFA building kind of looks like BattleStar Galactica. Inside, the whole thing just looks like a B-movie set, making you think that you are in a groovy sci-fi flick from the ’70s. Full of teutonic cylons too, obviously conspiring to kill us all. Or sell us useless things. I can go either way…
” Smoking Lamp” (HeHe, 2005) Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen In the diverse discipline of design for public and private spaces, artists are constantly creating new ways of envisioning our relationship to the objects we interact with daily. Exploring this connection is Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (collectively known as “HeHe”) whose work provides glimpses of…
The Zune’s officially getting a price drop down to $199 starting tomorrow. That means if you bought your Zune in the past week, take it back tomorrow for a pricematch. [Zune Insider]
The not-new-but-still-enjoyable video above is pegged to a fresh quote from a Microsoft exec, via Reuters: “It wouldn’t be unreasonable to think at some point there might some integrated thing,” Mindy Mount, chief financial officer of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, told investors at Citigroup’s global technology conference. That was in response to asking about…
My really cheap buddy, who specializes in cheap things, being cheap, and saving money by being cheap, confirms that this is a pretty good deal on a 32-inch HDTV. It’s an Emprex—which may not scream quality to you—but is actually decent if all you want is HD without paying too much. Shipping’s extra. [Outpost –…