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Here’s a sneak peak at Windows Mobile 5 successor, Crossbow. What would you do when posting an exclusive of a highly anticipated OS…go through every IM sound effect known to man you say? Then today is your lucky day. It doesn’t look like much has changed. Windows Mobile Crossbow [via Davey C. at mobilitytoday]
Canon announced their entire new consumer camcorder line before CES, the DC50, DC200 Series and the ZR Series The DC50 is Canon’s flagship consumer model, which will tell you that their entire lineup is a pretty sad state of affairs. It records direct to DVD and can take hi-res stills with its 5.39 Megapixel CCD…
Dean T. of the Mercury News just made an oops and leaked some Xbox 360 announcements Microsoft was planning on dropping next week at CES. Not only does he mention the improved Xbox 360s with 120GB hard drives and HDMI ports, he also talks about the use of the Xbox 360 as an IPTV set-top-box.…
Everyone says CES doesn’t start until Monday. But we went to the Las Vegas Convention Center today, disguised as construction workers, and got to take all sorts of cool photos before we started getting dirty looks from the CES rent-a-cops. Most of the booths, including Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Philips, and Hitachi, were coming together so…
IPEVO, whose minimalist Free-1 USB handset made it stupidly simple to make SkypeOut calls, just dialed us up and announced three new products for CES. The Solo.1 (above) is a Skype certified phone that doesn’t need the computer—it’s an IP phone with a 2-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet switch. The 2.4-inch color screen has the usual Skype…
Google, Earthlink and the City of San Francisco have agreed to a 4-year deal to blanket the city in WiFi. Earthlink will build the $14-17 million system, and they’ll earn their cash back by charging $21.95 a month for a connection boosted to 3-4 times the speed of the free service. Google will sell ads…
Despite Apple’s offering of up to 200GB of storage on MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, all those MP3s and video files we download off the net still leave us wanting. MCE Technologies comes up with an ingenius solution that takes out your optical DVD drive, shoves it in an external case, and replaces that space…
Is this annoying? Is this annoying? Is this annoying? This credit card-sized, super bright blinking LED light has been officially sanctioned by the London cabbie association. Taxi Hailer – catch a cab ahead of the crowd [Tech Digest (via)]
Looking back on that revelation about European journalist not being shipped to London to watch the Keynote, we’ve come to the conclusion that there’s going to be only a few hardware items released on Tuesday. Why? Because if there were new hardware—MacBooks, updated Mac Minis, new Cinema Displays—the Europeans would be in on it too.…
Unfortunately not powered via USB, this balcony grill is perfect for urban dwellers who don’t have enough space for a real BBQ grill. Just mount the grill on your rail and you’re good to go. Only problem is it’s just a design. https://gizmodo.com/usb-powered-bbq-wtf-196087 Design Page [Henrik-drecker via trnd via Random Good stuff via Neatorama]
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Tough luck if you were subscribing to Virgin Digital music, as the company is shelving their US operations and giving users some free Napster content instead. If you’re one of the affected, you can grab your free Napster player and three free months of Napster To Go service as a consolation prize. Both Napster and…
Although the formal “unveiling” won’t be until summer of ’07, Cingular will demo live video streaming through handsets at CES next week. With a video-capable handset, streams can be started over standard audio calls by just pressing a button on the cell. “The parents receive an invitation asking if they want to view the live…
Faithful Gizmodo readers! It’s the time of year again to nominate us for the Annual Weblog Awards. This year’s the seventh, and seven’s our lucky number. Or was it fourteen. In any case, just enter in our name and URL wherever you think we fit. Categories like best American weblog, computers or technology, most humorous,…
Thanks to the fact that the standard SIXAXIS controller doesn’t have vibration, most game developers aren’t going to program in vibration functions to their games on the odd hope that someone will pick up a PS3 Racing Wheel. In turn, PS3 racing wheels—like this one from Logitech—won’t have vibration functions either. Oh joy. Hit the…
We first told you about John Maushammer and his pong watch way back in September, and the good news is that it is finally done. Maushammer was inspired by the pong clock that took the world by storm (not really) this summer. https://gizmodo.com/pong-watch-a-smaller-geekier-pong-clock-200341 I succeeded in compressing all the electronics for this watch in to…
Idolator got 497 critics, bloggers, and…well we suppose that’s it—everyone’s a critic or a blogger—to rate the year in music. Go check out what they’ve done and see who won the top artists, tracks, and albums of the year. At the very least it makes for some fodder for your fancy new music player you…
•Xbox 360 v2 Found, Codenamed Zephyr •Concept Umbrella Plays Music for Some Reason •Cowon A2 and Q5 PMPs Details Leak: HSDPA, Touch Screen and More •XCM Cable Hooks Up Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 and PS2 •VAF Sound Wall https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-v2-found-codenamed-zephyr-226366 Comment of the Day: Xbox 360 v2, Codenamed Zephyr “Why does the release of something better…
Preparing your kids to grow up to be a vagrant, transient or hobo? Give’m this RC metal detector, which lets them search for coins, watches, and other lost valuables wherever there’s sand or dirt. The cars run on 4AA and 1PP3 battery—9V to us non-Brits—and comes with a little plastic shovel and rake. Teach a…
•VW clean diesel concept features NOx filter [MobileMag] •IE ‘unsafe’ for 284 days last year [The Register] •Taiwan company sues Apple over lost sales [InfoWorld] •Sony renames new HDTV standard xvYCC to x.v. Color/Colour [HD Beat] •Drive makers race to be first with 1TB drives [InfoWorld]