Swiss FusionMan Flies With Kevlar, Fiberglass Wings and Probably a High Dose of Cheese and Wine
Let’s hear it for the Swiss, who are probably seen as the most boring of Europeans. Remember Orson Welles’ character, Harry Lime, in The Third Man? “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had 500…
JVC Gets the Hang of Networking; Embraces DivX
JVC today introduced its Sophisti DD-3 system, two D’s for a double dose of digital pimpin’. It’s a 3.1 home theater in a box, with a DVD player, subwoofer and three speakers. The front left and right speakers do a virtual surround thing so you don’t need two in the rear, says JVC. (Home theater…
Fujitsu Releases New Spaceage-style Desktops, Black Monoliths to Come Later
Fujitsu has brought out a Spring range of desktop PCs that look all white and fresh and lovely (if you ignore the repulsive screen graphics that the pics have been issued with). The one above is the Deskpower LX, which can work as an all-in-one video tool. The LX will cost you around $2,250 and…
Underdog Lexmark To Outsmart Competition With Secret Wi-Fi Technology
Lexmark is the Butters of the printing business. Though it regularly gets stomped on by Canon (Kyle), Epson (Stan) and HP (Cartman, of course), it manages to keep an insanely chipper attitude. And like Butters’ alter ego Professor Chaos, though it remains consistently behind the pack on such small matters of print and paper quality,…
Eyes-On the Red Camera: Real and Beautiful, 4K Support Promised on Launch [UPDATED]
For a while, Gizmodo had been wondering if the $17K Red On 4K camcorder was genuine or just another piece of vaporware. That’s why we’re glad to see the camera at NAB 07 in front of our faces, with support from Apple, Peter Jackson, and others. We had a chance to talk with Red One…
NAB07: Show Cars for Pro Video Geeks Like Us
Sitting on their own outside was a collection of satellite trucks, news vans, remote location vehicles; basically, a car show for broadcast geeks. Varying in size from Hummer H2 all the way up to semi-truck sized rigs, we were shooed away when the subject of pricing was broached. “If you have to ask, you can’t…
Gunshot Audio: Virginia Tech Shooting Update
I have updated the Virginia Tech death toll on our first post several times, and although, like some of you have posted, it is hard to imagine a killer with that kind of sick drive, the numbers themselves tend to lose their meaning. The sense of fear and realism became more clear when I saw…
10 Must Read Gizmodo Posts: April 16, 2007
Hands On: Red One 4k—We got to hold a whole lotta’ camcorder today at NAB. https://gizmodo.com/nab07-hands-on-red-one-4k-digital-cinema-camera-galler-252750 Intel WiMax Chip Date Announcement—Rumor has it that Intel will be announcing the release dates for their WiMax chips this week. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-intel-to-announce-wimax-chip-date-252727 Lady Zune—Yet another Zune color, this time it’s a lady Zune-and it’s pink. https://gizmodo.com/pink-zune-looks-girly-but-in-a-good-way-252722 More after the…