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Okay, short and sweet. Textile Interfaces designed the jacket, while the Lumalive light-up plate came courtesy of Philips. It’s old promo-wear from Philips, but we got hold of one that plays Pac Man. On your chest &mdash well, mine, actually.
Adrian Drake over at Brick Frenzy has created a fully transformable Decepticon out of LEGOs that stands at just a little over 2-feet tall and periodically tries to take over the Earth. The Decepticon, named Blackout, is a mishmash of the original toy, a MH-53 Pave Low helicopter and a bit of the movie Blackout…
If you skipped Gizmodo on weekend, man, did you miss some serious technological goings on from IFA 2007. Here are all the best bits from the event and the rest: • Google Earth got a secret flight simulator feature. • We got our hands on Sanyo’s Xacti HD camcorder. • We saw the Philips’s Aurea…
At Philips’ IFA booth we saw the 132-inch Wow 3D Display experience. Did we get wowed? Sadly, not really. First, it is not a single 132-inch display, but nine 42-inch 3D panels put together (Philips never claimed otherwise, by the way. Only some blogs did.) Even when you are in the optimal view position, right…
There were coffins, toilets, underwater landscapes that had everything except Mario swimming around looking for coins, a box file, a bikini babe and this thing. Honestly, wherever I go in my nightmares, Hello frackin’ Kitty is there, waiting. Pass me the chainsaw, Helmut, and make it snappy: I’ve got a whole gallery to get through.…
We saw Harman Kardon’s Go + Play portable dock last year, but at IFA we actually Went + Played with it (did you see what I just did there?). And we can report that the three-bass, two-treble speaker system RAWKS. More pics and info below. https://gizmodo.com/jbl-gets-jiggy-with-speaker-design-headphones-198122 Despite the noise in the Harman International tent, which…
Samsung’s booth failed to inspire us: not a single sight of their worldwide famous cyborg ninjas caressing their hardware and cheap Aurea-wannabe Ghetto-ambilight. [GALLERY UPDATE: we found ninjas!] https://gizmodo.com/up-close-and-personal-video-of-philips-aurea-295761 Yeah, I know, evening dresses are no place for a mighty ninja warrior, so now it’s official: Samsung gets the Giz Lamest Big Company IFA Booth…
Last week we gave you the specs of Samsung’s new Windows-, Linux- and Mac-compatible printers &mdash the ML-1630 is a monochrome laser printer, the SCX-4500 a 16 page-per-minute multi-function printer &mdash and yesterday we got to see them for ourselves. Glossy, smooth, they’re the kind of printers that make you want to kick off your…
Despite what Phil Ryan from Crave said, the the US-bound Hitachi Full HD 1080p Blu-ray cameras are very real. In fact, we played with them at Hitachi’s booth here in IFA and they felt absolutely fantastisch! Both the Blu-ray (BZ-BD70E) and the hybrid hard drive/Blu-ray model (BZ-BD7HE) are solid and fit well in our hands.…
Consider the Bavarian hunting jacket with built-in MP3 controls. Consider it, and then wonder why you’d want to listen to oompah music while you blast away at anything in feathers, fur &mdash or if you’re Dick Cheney, anyone who’s standing too close to you. To drown out the screams, I suppose. There is also a…
Hold on to your proverbial horses, this is nothing official, but it is an interesting looking mock-up nonetheless. We are going with mock-up because: The Apple legal team has not contacted us, the source, Alflennierlandsen, has given no explanation of how he happened upon the image and finally, the blogger has an unusually lengthy name/handle.…
The European Palm site has dropped a teaser page concerning the new Palm smartphone. The page indicates the 12/09/07, but does not specify whether this will be a launch date or not. Specifically it states: “The new Palm smartphone. The word is, it’s great for email, mobile internet, instant messaging, text and – with a…
We had the pleasure of listening to the new JBL’s Project Everest Everest DD66000 speakers plus a few other important-sounding things, but, frankly, they had us at “$40,000 per speaker.” Where were we? In JBL’s rather impressive home cinema that cost $300,000 to build —including 6TB of storage for DVDs, their lowest end setup. And…
In addition to a Carl Zeiss 5X zoom lens, 3.5″ wide/touchscreen LCD, Sony’s Cybershot T200 features a smile sensor that will automagically snag shots when your family and friends are pretending to enjoy your company. In this demonstration, the potential gimmick seems to actually work. Though you’ll notice that the sensors have a tough time…
Dear Giz Readers, Well, here I am in front of Samsung’s ma-ma-ma-mahoosive TV that they are showing off in Berlin. It’s 102 inches of plasma loveliness and Mark and J made me stand in front of it… Go on, Addy, they exhorted, pretend you’re a booth babe. It didn’t work, though, because I still look…
Here at IFA, we got our grubby, bar stamp-stained mitts on Canon’s wicked EOS-1Ds Mark III. It’s sporting a full-frame 21.1MP sensor that gave Jesus and I, as Ad aptly put it, “little techno woodies.” Check out that Canon rep behind our setup. He doesn’t trust us one bit, afraid that we might smuggle the…
Phonak have launched the world’s first in-ear RF receiver. The device supports multiple frequencies, comes bundled with a remote control and will be active for 13hours on a single battery. The diminutive receiver, called Phonak Invisity, remains (apparently) completely invisible when in use. It is capable of picking up transmissions from mobile phones, walkie-talkies and…
The Apple fanboys amongst us (myself included) are going to have to eat some serious, humble banoffee pie. Check out this sweet laptop mod. We are calling it the Banana Laptop. Reasons for this lie in the fact there is a banana fashioned into the laptop’s cover. Genius. I never thought I would say this,…
Poor Jesus, I heckle him about his iPhone love as he’s just trying to give our dear readers a taste of Samsung’s YP-P2 PMP. But you really need to know the context: Jesus, Ad and I are cabbing it back from the show yesterday. Jesus whips out the old iPhone to check his email, feel…
We played with the Samsung YP-P2 all-touch-screen digital audio player at their IFA booth. The machine feels good: light, sleek and slim. But when it comes to the touchy-touchy action, don’t expect an experience like the one you get with the iPhone UI (or the rumored iPod Touch for that matter.) In a word: crude.…