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There it is, the evolution of a uninspired barphone. Improvements come by way of a 2MP camera, and FM radio. The remainder of the spec sheet will put you straight to sleep. https://gizmodo.com/enhanced-motoslvr-l7e-sports-edge-class-10-push-techno-210962 MOTOSLVR L9 [Motorola]
The Nokia E90 Communicator has come out of the blurry shadows and into the sharp spotlight, showing off its 3.2 megapixel camera, Edge, WiFi and HDSPA goodness on two screens, one inside and the other out. That outside screen is a conventional 240×320 while inside it’s packing an expansive 800×352 screen that can show you…
President Bush defends domestic eavesdropping, so why shouldn’t you? The Mobile Spy Ear, which completes Wild Planet’s trifecta of kiddie 007 gadgets, is moveable car with a microphone that transmits sounds to an earbud from up to 75 feet away. Too bad the vehicle itself only travels 30 feet, and it’s one of those wind…
Wild Planet’s Intruder Trap System is made up of three wireless motion sensors connected by radio frequency. I suppose the “keep out” sign just isn’t enough in this day and age. Why three? They all work together. The first one is touch sensitive… …which means you can put it on top of your iPod and…
Wild Planet’s Spy Video Car was undoubtedly one of the coolest toys of last year, hence the company’s big Toy Of The Year win. Now they are expanding the line with several additional spy-themed products. The first of which is this Agent Action Briefcase. I happen to have been one of those kids who wanted…
The 104th annual American International Toy Fair got underway this weekend, and Gizmodo is bringing extra batteries. Our coverage of the show will appear throughout the day. What’s new this year? And why did LEGO create this life-sized George Lucas head? George Lucas was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame, that’s why. LEGO…
The MOTONAV turns your smartphone into a Navigator, putting maps on your cellie’s screen, turn by turn directions out of a speaker, and allowing for point-of-interest searching, as the PR literature says “nearest pharmacy or the hottest new club.” Yes, we’re nerdy enough to get nightlife recommendations from Motorola. It’s hard to tell the scale…
She runs a Symbian OS, the longtime fav of Nokia handsets, and this pretty Moto seems to be robust enough to run video on its 320 by 240, 2.2-inch screen at 30 frames per second. It’s 15.3mm thick, which puts it behind the Samsung Ultra waifs. But it has HSDPA high speed cellular data capability,…
The Neonode N2 follows up the interesting but irrelevant original with an iPhone clone notable for its net radio stream capturing desktop software, and gesture-controlled screen. And, its super small, at 3″ tall. https://gizmodo.com/neonode-n1-launches-some-more-24514 Here’s the stat splatter, and how that gesture system works. The gesture control promises a screen free from softbutton clutter, and…
3GSM was a show I’d always been happy to cover from afar. It’s not that I didn’t want to visit Barcelona, of course. It’s just that the news had always been less than spectacular for me, so It was a hard trip to justify to the bosses. This year, things are turning out to be…
The NY Times, Businessweek, the AP, and others are crowing over the powerful new chips Intel demoed in an hotel room last week. What’s cool: Performing 1 Trillion calcs per second, the chip could do the same number crunching that 10 years ago took up 2,000 square feet of machinery to do. Instead of the…
I downloaded an episode of the first season of The Jetsons yesterday. It occurred to me that there is nothing more paleo-futuristic than the pneumatic tubes used to transport the characters. I can’t wait until the world of transportation catches up to 1960s bank teller technology. According to the Wikipedia post I linked to, (and…
On the T-Mobile wiki, they dropped some info pre-press release time, you know, to the little people. In a few hours, T-Mobile will officially announce the latest addition to the Sidekick line up. We wanted you to be the first to have the details…The T-Mobile Sidekick 3, D-Wade Edition, will be available at select T-Mobile…
We actually linked to this story from Treehugger about a year ago, but with the advent of YouTube there is renewed interest in the product…at least to me. While the dishmaker appears unwieldy, this “dishwasher sized” apparatus can actually replace cabinets worth of dishes by storing them as flat disks. Only a small amount of…
With Vista just hitting shelves, Microsoft is already looking ahead to their next OS codenamed “Vienna”, that is slated for a 2009 release. This from development VP Ben Fathi: We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don’t know what it is…Maybe it’s a new user interface paradigm…
Why does man choose to remake his favorite gadget in flour, sugar, eggs and butter? There are many theories, but current academic consensus seems to be that by ingesting an object, the ingestee can be imbued with the “powers” of said object. I, myself can now store 100,000 songs and chirp when sensing cops on…
Photos of Toshiba’s G900 Pro Windows Mobile 6 smartphone have been photographed (by photographers) at the 3GSM tradeshow. Features include a wide 800×400 touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, miniSD, fingerprint recognition and not one, but two cameras (the first is dedicated for video calls, while the other captures 2 megapixel stills). We like: not choosing…
Reliable sources told a sources’s brother’s girlfriend’s roommate’s dog’s owner’s manicurist’s magician that Sony may be working on an iPod Nano contender. While the body would be a modified design of the NW-A3000 series, new units would actually run smaller than the Nano and playback video for 8-10 hours at a time on a larger…
The Russian space program didn’t die, it was redirected to USB flash drive making. The Titan USB flash drive is constructed from a graphite/aluminum composite metal matrix that has “traditionally been used by NASA and other space agencies”. This matrix is then covered in titanium to avoid corrosion, and generally help with the entire badass…
Remember all those colors Nintendo teased us with when they announced the Wii? Now you can get them…unofficially. NDS-Central sells mod shells for console products, and just announced a variety of new Wii nunchuk cases for an awkward $11.90. Colors include Dynamic Red, Dreamy Blue, Strat Clear, Astro Yellow, and Cool Black. Despite the Wii’s…