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Starting later this month with Vista-loaded laptops from Acer, Asus, Gateway and Toshiba, Centrino Duo systems will come with Intel’s new rhythmically named “Next-Gen Wireless-N” network setup, bringing them into line with the wave of other wireless-N products now hitting the market. It’s obviously based on the draft 802.11n standard, but with approval coming ever…
The Capoco systems driverless bus truly is the bus of the future. Designed to put hundreds of thousands of bus drivers out of work, it has giant windowed sides as well as enough seating for most of a high school basketball team. The bus itself uses magnets in the road to navigate, and has satellite…
Paul Collins has a great piece detailing the restrictions blocking users from buying tracks on iTunes across national lines. For instance, if you switch your country setting to Japan looking to score some Japan X or Gackt tracks, your US credit card tags you as “illegal,” barring your entry into international digital cosmopolitanism. Of course,…
An “accidental” leak in one of Motorola’s investor documents is shedding new light on a couple of upgrades to two of Moto’s phones, the KRZR and RIZR. Based on a few images found inside the presentation, new versions of the KRZR and RIZR are on the way, each sporting a front-facing video camera, which more…
That Windows Mobile powered HTC Athena we showed you before is being released in the Netherlands on T-Mobile under the name AMEO. Along with the removable keyboard, the Ameo has an Intel XScale 624MHz processor (our HTC TyTN/Cingular 8525 only has a 400MHz processor), 8GB hard disk, 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM, miniSD slot, quad-band GSM,…
•Asus ScreenDUO: A Place for Widgets, RSS Feeds and More •Cats Getting “Bionic Eyes;” Humans Next •Monsoon’s HD Hava Gold Turns LAN’d PCs into DVRs •Jeffrey Stephenson’s Decomatic Model 12: Wow •The Everything Box: VidaBox Adds CableCARD to its Media Center PC Lineup https://gizmodo.com/asus-screenduo-a-place-for-widgets-rss-feeds-and-more-230719 Comment of the Day: Beer for Dogs: Next Stop, Doggie AA…
Ever wonder how fast your hamster runs when he’s spinning ’round stupidly on his wheel? Well, apparently someone on YouTube did and they attached a speedometer to their furry friend’s wheel to find out just how fast their four-legged pet could sprint. The little fella gets the speed count pretty high before the wheel gets…
Sometimes people just have too much damn time on their hands. Nevertheless, good craftsmanship. Thanks, Michael –Travis Hudson
“If you think this phone is cool, just wait, I’m pooping out another one just like it!”—Matto Finally someone has written an article discussing a largely overlooked idea that the iPhone could hone in on, mobile gaming. I mean it may not be a DS killer, but it could at least be a worthy adversary.…
For business, cautious, or cautious business users, upgrading their OS is nothing to be done on a Thursday night after work and forgotten about. For those people, it’s going to be a smart idea to wait until Vista Service Pack 1 is released before switching from XP. Not only is SP1 going to bring fixes,…
Rumor has it that Intel is quietly building up a new army. An army that’ll soon tackle both AMD/ATI and Nvidia. Job openings at Intel’s Visual Computing Group have led people to speculate that the chip-maker is jumping into the video card market. The job descriptions state that the VC Group will be in charge…
Anonymous sources have told Apple Recon that the next Apple special event is slated for February 20. Let the rumors begin! Well, the widescreen iPod iPhone thingie was already announced, so uh, what could be left? Software and desktop updates, of course! Leopard, iWork ’07 and updated Mac Pros are all being speculated. If you…
Geeks.com has a cheap deal on a 500GB Western Digital SATA HD with a cheap external case for the low, low price of $144. All you have to do after adding both to your cart is type in the coupon code FREECASE, which expires January 25. If you’re feeling lucky, you can go in and…
The decidedly derivative portable media player market can embrace with open arms the latest entries from LG, the FM37 (tops out at 4GB, $320), FM33 (4GB, $255) and DMB T50 (2GB, $265). As expected, the players are, to use a tired phrase, more evolution than revolution: all models are flash-based and have just barely watchable-sized…
Plantronics, Roxy and Quiksilver are jumping on the bandwagon that Burton has been commanding with years by releasing some Bluetooth-enabled snow wear that will communicate with your iPod and cellphone while on the slopes. Quiksilver will be releasing the Double Daffy Snow Jacket and Pulse Helmet. Roxy (basically the female version of Quiksilver) will be…
If Sir Mix-A-Lot was an ass connoisseur, the entire Japanese toilet manufacturing industry must be ass artistes, masters, professionals, virtuosos, and wizards. If you’re at all interested in how your rear is treated before, during, and after doing your business (this is how they justified the article), check out BusinessWeek’s feature gallery on Japanese toilet.…
If you’ve been waiting for a PS3 price cut before diving into some next gen gaming, Sony has news for you. It ain’t gonna happen. In an interview with Game Informer, Sony honcho Jack Tretton says that the R&D invested in the PS3 won’t allow them to lower the price. “There’s a heck of a…
There’s not a day that goes by that we’re thankful our own females don’t own 18 pairs of shoes in the entire spectrum of the rainbow as illustrated in the picture on the left. But if yours does, this Rakku Designs shoe rolodex will keep your footwear as organized as your contacts. At a price…
If you do any kind of air travel you may already know, if not, take a gander back a couple months ago and it is apparent that there aren’t enough power outlets in airports to accommodate for all of the gadgets and gear folks carry around. Samsung is doing something about this by installing mobile…
This week at TreeHugger: We found the Magnetically-Levitated Axial Flux Alternator with Programmable Variable Coil Resistance, Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, a residential power generator that goes on your roof (and looks good, too). They are beginning to open the kimono at EESTor, who boldly claims that its system, a kind of battery-ultracapacitor hybrid based on…
