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Blazing Wireless: How’s About 6Gb Per Second?

We always want to show you the world’s strongest, biggest and fastest, and now researchers have created the world’s fastest wireless link, cramming over 6Gb per second through a point-to-point wireless link. This speedy wireless trick was demoed last month by CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, which is Australia’s national science agency.…

Tech News Charlie White

Zune Website Podcast Downloads: Almost

The Microsoft Zune website still doesn’t have podcast support that’s as good as iTunes, but the Zune nation does seem to be limping toward easier podcast downloads. Take a look at its “Pass It On” page, and if you follow the NPR Podcasts link and click on a podcast within, you’ll see a button labeled…

Tech News Charlie White

Canon to Update its PowerShot Line Next Month

It’s that time of the year when new cameras show their shiny scrubbed faces, and Canon joins in the fun with three updates to its point-and-shoot PowerShot line. The PowerShot A460 (pictured above right) gets a bump up in pixelage from 4 to 5 megapixels and keeps the 4x zoom of its A430 predecessor, and…

Tech News Charlie White

XM + Sirius = Oh Wait, It’s Not Going to Happen

After much speculation, it appears that the prophesized — and hoped for — union of XM and Sirius simply isn’t meant to be. At least, that’s what FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says, posturing that such a merger wouldn’t win approval under the FCC’s current rulebook, given that the regulations that brought both of them into…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google Switch: Phone by Google and Samsung?

What’s this? Are Samsung and Google ganging up on Apple, putting together a screenier touchscreen phone to rival the iPhone? All we have so far is cryptic information, such as the words “Google Switch” accompanying this image that landed in our tip box this morning. Sure, Google talked Samsung into allowing its software to be…

Gadgets Charlie White

Samsung Intros SCH-W559 ShakyPhone

The Samsung SCH-W559 cellphone has no numeric keypad, and why should it? After Apple’s iPhone rollout, keypads to seem so last month. But entering phone numbers on a touchscreen might present a problem—there’s no tactile feedback. The solution? Samsung builds in VibeTonz to play along with virtual button pushes, giving you adjustable vibrating tactile feedback,…

Gadgets Charlie White

Minority Report Touch Interface for Real

The iPhone’s new touch interface might be nice, but it’s nowhere near as involved as the future UI envisioned in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise could drag objects across the screen and manipulate them in all kinds of ways, or “push” them aside to bring up something new. Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU’s…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Hands On the Netflix Download Video Service: Thumbs Up

Click to view Netflix flipped the switch on their video download service and I just took it for a spin. Let’s see, the essentials: https://gizmodo.com/breaking-netflix-internet-tv-film-delivery-starts-this-228894 I used a Winblows machine, plus IE, per their requirements. Logging into my account, I was presented with a new tab up top called “watch now.” Clicking through, I was…

Tech News Brian Lam and Travis Hudson

The Perfect Couch For a Lazy Gizmodian

I recently ditched the roommates and started living on my own. That meant I didn’t have to clean up after someone else’s disgusting bathroom habits, but it also meant I had to buy my own living room furniture—the essential part of home theater gear that interfaces with your butt as you play games, watch movies,…

Tech News Brian Lam

1-Minute Update: Samsung Ultra Music Phone Headed to Sprint

A couple of days ago I mentioned in my review of the Ultra Music that the Samsung rep wouldn’t budge on who the U.S. carrier would be, only admitting after some prodding that it would be a CDMA phone. Well, our favorite publicly funded leak machine, the FCC, has apparently let it slip that Sprint…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Choose Your Own iPod Adventure

Good news everyone! Those Choose Your Own Adventure books you loved to read while stuffed into a locker as a kid are finally making their way to the iPod. The CYOA titles come in two forms, e-book and audio book. With the e-book, you read normally and choose pages when prompted. As an audiobook, the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Belkin Battery Backup Brings Bonus Bulb

Not only does this Belkin Battery Backup give you six outlets, four of which are battery supported—it also has a built-in flashlight as well. This means that when your power is out, the light powers on automatically, letting you know exactly where your UPS is so you can reach under your desk and remove the…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Philips Muscles in on Vista Party with SideShow Remote

Just when we thought we had seen every SideShow-based gadget at CES, in comes Philips with its SRM7500. Like the other SideShow remotes we’ve uncovered, the SRM7500 squeezes in Media Center controls alongside an LCD that gives you access to photos, music, or videos while your PC is off. Philips is also claiming the SRM7500…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Any Media iPod Uploader Takes the Computer Out of iPod Videos

If ripping shows and re-encoding them into iPod format so you can watch them on the road sounds like too much hassle, this Any-Media iPod Uploader should be just the thing for you. All you have to do is plug in an RCA connection—TVs, VCRs, and DVD players have them—hit record, and the iRecord will…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Tracking the iPhone’s DNA: Who’s its Touchscreen’s Daddy?

myiPhone.com and macrumors are thinking the same thing: Maybe the iPhone’s touch tech is licensed from Synaptics, and therefore the same tech demoed in the Onyx concept phone and the touchscreen-tastic LG KE850 above. Family? Maybe. Extensive videos attemping to prove so are worth watching over at myiPhone.com, and I think Macrumors.com has a point…

Tech News Brian Lam

Vizio Quietly Prepping Wireless Speakers

We’re not sure how long they’ve managed to keep this under the radar, but it looks like Vizio has been working on a wireless speaker set up dubbed the Jive. It’s still a little unclear how it works, but it appears that the TV (perhaps a new Vizio TV?) will have built-in wireless and transmit…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

MobiBLU’s D5 Video Player

The upcoming D5 Video player looks like a devilish version of the Zune, with its horizontal LCD and clickwheel for right-handed navigation. The D5 will be light, in true MobiBLU fashion, and come with a 2.0-inch LCD, FM tuner, FM/Voice recording, MP3/WMA playback, and weigh only 51 grams. Unfortunately it’s a flash-based, coming in 1…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sanyo Xacti HD2 Flash Camcorder: Better Low Light, HDMI, Still 720p

Lots of camcorder experts hated the Sanyo Xacti HD1’s flash camcorder’s quality, despite its 720p HD resolution. This update, the HD2, tackles the issue of lousy low light sensitivity with a 7.38 MPixel CCD. (It’ll now work in 12.5 lux, while the older one only went as low as 50 lux.) That’s good, because I…

Tech News Brian Lam

How Does Jeep’s Waterfall Show Work?

If you’ve been to any auto show with Jeep in attendance, you’ve probably seen that fancy waterfall thing they use to write the word “Jeep”, “Toyota Sucks”, and draw pictures. But how does it work? Think of it as an ink-jet but with water that you can program patterns into. It’s a bit less impressive…

Gadgets Jason Chen

FuzzyWuzzyModo: The Winner

Looks like BBQ the chinchilla touched your geeky little hearts: the chinchilla playing Animal Crossing on Nintendo DS got the most votes in our Fuzzy Wuzzy Modo competition, so the $50 Amazon Gift certificate prize goes to Rob, who will probably be spending it on replacement DS styluses. Thanks to everyone who voted, and if…

Gadgets Rbaguley

Blazing Wireless: How’s About 6Gb Per Second?

Zune Website Podcast Downloads: Almost

Canon to Update its PowerShot Line Next Month

XM + Sirius = Oh Wait, It’s Not Going to Happen

Google Switch: Phone by Google and Samsung?

Samsung Intros SCH-W559 ShakyPhone

Minority Report Touch Interface for Real

Hands On the Netflix Download Video Service: Thumbs Up

The Perfect Couch For a Lazy Gizmodian

1-Minute Update: Samsung Ultra Music Phone Headed to Sprint

Choose Your Own iPod Adventure

Belkin Battery Backup Brings Bonus Bulb

Philips Muscles in on Vista Party with SideShow Remote

Any Media iPod Uploader Takes the Computer Out of iPod Videos

Tracking the iPhone’s DNA: Who’s its Touchscreen’s Daddy?

Vizio Quietly Prepping Wireless Speakers

MobiBLU’s D5 Video Player

Sanyo Xacti HD2 Flash Camcorder: Better Low Light, HDMI, Still 720p

How Does Jeep’s Waterfall Show Work?

FuzzyWuzzyModo: The Winner

Roborock F25 Ultra Steam Wet Dry Vacuum Is Now at Its Lowest Price, but Only During the Spring Sale Window

This $450 Semi-Dumb Phone Is Barely Even a Phone

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