Sony Energy Link: Portable USB Power
It’s not all fancy TVs and home theater setups from Sony today, no sir. They’ve also seen fit to introduce the Energy Link USB, a portable (what isn’t portable nowadays?) USB power supply. Simple enough. Just stuff the little Altoids can-looking thing with batteries and you’ve got enough juice to run most USB devices for…
Grundig U900 Single Core Linux-Based Cellphone Looks Like It Belongs in 2002
Linux and open source aficionados might want to thank Grundig for its U900 cellphnone, which we somehow overlooked at 3SGM. The clamshell won’t win any awards for unique or inspired design, but the fact that it’s based on Linux should make more than a few of you wet like October. We’re also partial to the…
The Magic in Sony’s 2007 LCD HDTVs: Playstation GUIs, 120Hz Output, and Internet Video
Sony’s best LCDs in today’s announcements are disappointingly not in the top of the line XBR series of Bravias, but additions to their still high-end V-series of LCDs. The 1080p models come in 40 and 46-inch sizes, dubbed the KDL-40v3000 and KDL-46v3000, respectively. They get many tricks, including upscaling from standard def sources to full…
Sony VPL-AW15: A Low-End, Videophile Projector
Sony’s Projector offerings in the US jump from $2000 VPL-HS60, and jump quickly to the Pearl’s $5000 MSRP. This project aims square in between those two. It has a 720p natural res, but will take 1080/24 signals as well as all the rest. Its 12,000:1, dynamically controlled iris is a contrast ratio just below the…
Cellphone Tells Blabbermouth Wife To Quiet Down
So you’re on the phone on your way from work talking to you lovely wife about how “interesting” her day was: she put the kids on the school bus, cleaned the house, cooked dinner, etc. As it should be. However, you spot a hazard on the road then have to quickly tell her to shut…
Enemies Line Up to Beat Unreleased iPhone While Jobs Fixes Tofu Pancakes for Breakfast
Just in case you weren’t sick enough of it, Newlaunches has a summary of the top competitors for Apple’s iPhone, all of them previously featured in Gizmodo. They start at number 5 with the Meizu we-swear-we-really-didn’t-clone-it! M8 PMP, the Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone that really wants to be an iPhone when he grows up. Going…
Sony NV-U1 Portable GPS Unit: Last of a Dying Breed?
Better get used to seeing the Sony name today, kiddos. Here we have the NV-U1, a stand-alone portable GPS unit, or portable navigation device (PND) in the original Latin. Its 4.3-inch screen is comparable to the myriad other portable GPS devices on the market, as is the included SD card reader. Come to think of…
Sony T100 and T20: for Staying In and Going Out
The two newest recruits to the Cybershot family, the T100 and T20, are aiming to bring out your inner fashionista, apparently. That is, if your inner fashionista is moved by half-an-inch of pink or red metal this week. And have you crowded round the HDTV at a party to check out how great Araminta’s shoes…
Sony Internet Video Link Overpriced at $300
The release date for Sony’s Internet Video Link was just set in July. And while it started as a peculiarity, the pricing at $300 makes it a stinker. https://gizmodo.com/gallery-and-hands-on-sony-bravia-internet-video-link-b-226824 The TV net streaming box that only works with a few newer Bravias seemed to bring the mega corp’s bad taste in launching media formats to…
Panasonic LX87 Portable DVD Player Has 12-Hour Battery Life, Longest Yet
Panasonic celebrates Sony Day by showing off two portable DVD players, the LX87-S (pictured here) and the LS80-K. Both have 8.5-inch screens and the LX87 has a 12-hour battery life, supposedly the industry’s longest. As portable DVD players go, they’ve got all of the basics down: MP3 playback, JPEG viewing, compatibility with SD and SDHC…