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Welcome back to the home theater projector derby, InFocus, and congratulations on rolling out your first 1080p DLP home projector. The next iteration of the company’s Play Big series is named IN82 and cranks out a 4000:1 contrast ratio in that glorious resolution of which we are all so fond. It has the latest HDMI…
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You’re familiar with our Clix 2 and Clix 2 Rhapsody review already, but iRiver’s just announced an 8GB version of the player for release on July 11. Unfortunately for you, it’s only in Korea, so we’ll have to wait a bit longer to get our hands on one. Just like in making kimchi, patience pays…
There are few joys as pure as inhaling helium and talkin’ real funny. Well, helium isn’t the only gas that changes your voice when you inhale it; sulfur hexafluoride is kind of like the anti-helium, making your voice insanely deep when inhaled. Watch above as Jay Leno and manhunk #372 from Transformers get baritoned. Where…
Microsoft is holding their E3 press conference tonight. What should we expect? Well, according to overpaid palmreaders analysts, Xbox 360 price cuts are in the works. You didn’t think Papa Microsoft would let Sony go unanswered, did you? Basically, $50-70 price cuts are expected on all three Xbox 360 models. Wedbush Morgan-analyst Michael Pachter predicts…
Sony’s $100 price drop on the PS3 bumped the console up to #1 in the video game sales chart on Amazon. [Amazon]
Say, we haven’t heard from the RIAA in a little while. What are they up to? Oh, evil you say? So nothing new. The latest offense is the RIAA mounting a court challenge to force satellite radio companies XM and Sirius to pay them more in licensing fees and not allow users to record songs…
Apparently, hay fever sufferers make dangerous cyclists, as if they sneeze they oftentimes send themselves careening into ongoing traffic. Solving that problem and also making cyclists look totally badass is this Breathe Air helmet. It’s got a filter over the nose and mouth that’s designed to filter out particles that will cause problems for people…
Polaroid, once the fun company that marched to its own weird drum beat, is now officially in lockstep behind every other electronics maker. The “innovative” new Polaroid t730 digicam boasts the following: • Bright 2.5″ color LCD screen lets you “see it before you shoot” • It can tag audio to any picture • It…
That David Letterman sure knows how to demo products. Check out his deft operation of this Optimus Prime Transformer, reminding himself of some adolescent transformations of his own. [Late Show with David Letterman, CBS] https://gizmodo.com/optimus-prime-voice-changing-helmet-and-battle-blaster-271177
The iPhone file system has been compromised and you can access it using iPhoneInterface. Full access to the file system means custom ringtones and all kinds of fun stuff. One them you can see in the image: They moved the Safari application from the dashboard to the iPhone space. This also opens the door to…
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star 4.0 revision hits July 20th, but Lenovo isn’t worried about making the cut. Three days before the revision, Lenovo plans to have the T61p, its first Energy Star 4.0 configured machine, out on shelves. The T61p won’t skimp on power to save energy, either. It has a suite of…
Add this to our collection of crazy barbecue grills, this one looking exactly like a V-8 engine. That’s because it’s made of a Chevy V-8 engine block, retrofitted with a grill and propane burners that can crank out 60,000 BTU. Trent Watley and his neighbor Terry Bacon paid attention to details on this do-it-yourself project,…
Hotels and airlines have stumbled across the fact that people own iPods, computers, HDTVs and all manners of fancy gadgetry loaded with music, movies and more—and maybe, just maybe, we’d like our lodgings and flights to resemble the rest of life in the 21st century. So now they’re racing to catch up to two years…
This week at TreeHugger: We’re all about energy this week, as we mark another notch in the “world’s biggest” belt, with an 80 Megawatt solar “farm” in California. Solar’s chill cousin, “ambient vibe energy,” gets some love with this generator that harnesses the power of tiny vibrations. The Pentagon announced a public prize competition to…
Camping is getting less and less rustic by the day, with most campgrounds now offering Wi-Fi, mostly of the free variety. Kampgounds of America, one of the largest campground companies in the country, offers 379 campsites with Wi-Fi, with 324 of them not charging for the luxury of being able to check your fantasy baseball…
Ken Couch is the quintessential American adventurer. Last weekend, he hitched 105 helium balloons to a lawn chair and set out on a nine-hour adventure that took him to a height of 13,000 feet, traveling 193 miles from his home in Bend, Oregon, all the way to the other side of the state. Loading up…
Korean handset makers are all about YouTube on your cellphone it seems: Samsung is following up LG’s announcement of an upcoming YouTube-optimized phone with their own YouTube wunderkind, the SGH-L760. Difference? Samsung’s drops in Europe this month. https://gizmodo.com/lg-to-develop-youtube-phone-274615 Like LG’s months-out phone, this 3G slider lets you directly upload and share clips recorded with the…
Casio today announced it was getting cozy with YouTube, introducing two Exilim cameras that will have a YouTube Capture mode—640×480 H.264 video at 30 frames per second—plus bundled YouTube Uploader for Casio software that boasts “three easy steps.” The sleek 8.1-megapixel Exilim Card EX-S880 will come in red or black for $299.99; the slightly larger…
Here’s a design concept that’s long overdue: It’s a vibrating alarm that you wear on your finger, bypassing all that morning racket for a gentle jostling. Each of the two rings can have its own separate wake-up time, designed for comfort with an elastic band so you’ll hardly know you’re wearing it. When you wake…