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Navel-gazing think tankers at Research and Markets say even though the Sony PS3 has lost the opening battle, it will still win the console war, predicting an installed base of 75 million PS3s around the world by 2010. Researchers at the Yankee Group echo that, predicting the PS 3 up top by 2011 with a…
Laptops from Apple and HP might use LEDs as a backlight source starting in the second quarter of this year. These LED backlights distribute backlight more evenly than the cold cathode florescent backlights used in laptops today, and also offer a higher range of colors. We’ve tested LCD monitors using LED backlight, and their increased…
After making throwing the FCC a few bones (maybe) to push past its last regulatory roadblock, AT&T finished its $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth and announced that Cingular will soon (again) sport the AT&T name. Now that Cingular is wholly owned by AT&T, expect a hard push on bundles which include mobile phone, internet and…
HTC’s gone and Picarded up their Star Trek (Cingular 3125) smartphone—which incidentally got pretty great reviews all around. No real details on this save for the picture on their roadmap, which shows that there’s going to be a fancy smancy camera (at least 2-megapixels is our guess) and the same flip-phone form-factor. Plsu there’s music…
Even though we’ve kicked off a new year, the battle of the 30-inch monitors continues. This time around the folks at ExtremeTech have put HP’s shiny new LP3065 against Dell’s 3007WFP. It was a close match, but ultimately the crown goes to the LP3065 for its wider color gamut and trio of dual-link DVI inputs…
If the ElmoTMX sextape wasn’t Xtreme enough for you, how about Elmo…on fire? Elmo’s creepy enough with his robotic dancing and laughing, but on fire, he’s just a singed nosehair away from haunting our dreams for years. Check out parts two (Elmo Strikes Back) and three (Return of the Elmo) after the jump. ElmoTMX On…
We’re not sure what it is, but the “BMW product” (as it’s being called by its creators) is pretty intriguing. The mystery gadget can supposedly play MP3s, DVDs, and comes with a 65k color LCD. There’s no GPS navigation, but there is Bluetooth and voice recognition. Design-wise, it doesn’t look like it’s meant to stay…
Despite Sony’s “official” statement that their BDP-S1 standalone Blu-Ray player only uses similar parts to the Pioneer BDP-HD1, there’s been more than a few similarities noted in their reviews. The Pioneer and the Sony players all have the same format support, menus, disc drives, back panels, and load times. Now, with the release of The…
Hey fellas, this is just a reminder that we haven’t forgotten about all your entries for the Gizmodo T-Shirt contest amidst all the holiday debauchery. We’re working on a new system so everyone—that means you—can make an entry and have people else vote on it. Provided there are enough entries and enough votes, we’ll hopefully…
Everyone knows that Sony’s PS3 is the cheapest way to bring a Blu-ray player home, but is it the best? That’s the question the folks at Home Theater Blog and Ultimate AV are trying to answer. Both agree that as a standard DVD player the PS3’s image quality is a bit soft, but when it…
The folks at AppleInsider are reporting that Apple’s iTV (the set top box that promised to stream media to your living room) won’t be ready for Macworld SF. Apple’s supposedly blaming the delay on issues they’re having with the device’s OS. To Apple’s defense, Jobs never said iTV would be ready for Macworld (he gave…
If the original Cone wasn’t enough to satisfy you, here’s a cone-like device called the Illumaspeaker. Essentially just a USB speaker with a color-changing tip, you could probably use it in the same manner others use The Cone. Word of warning though. The Illumaspeaker is made of hard plastic instead of rubber—which may be painful…
•Toshiba to Roll Out Cheaper HD DVD Players Next Week? •Avis Bringing WiFi to Their Rental Cars •LG DN191H Upconverting DVD/DivX Player Hands-On •Walletex Credit Card-Sized MP3 Player •A Man 32-Years Removed from Television Buys First HDTV, Tells Tale http://http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/toshiba-to-roll-out-cheaper-hd-dvd-players-next-week-225332.php Comment of the Day: Avis Bringing WiFi to Their Rental Cars “Great, now [My Company]…
Just as we did for the Apple Showtime event back in September, we’re going to load you with lots of great pics and details of all the new stuff launching at MacWorld Keynote. What will Jobs say? Will he tell us more about the iTV? The iPhone? New displays with iSight? New iPods with touchscreen?…
•Apple 10-Q: thirteen new lawsuits, nine settled [Think Secret] •UFO over Chicago airport [Boing Boing] •Satellite Radio May Try a Merger [New York Times] •Quicktime bug poses immediate threat [TG Daily] •eBayer offers OS X-booting Dell laptop [The Register]
LG’s shiny metallic slider, the Shine, is finally heading toward the States some time in ’07. Part of its “Black Label” series of phones, which includes the Chocolate, the Shine features a 2-megapixel camera, a scroller, Bluetooth and MP3 playback. The Black Label, by the way, is a fancy way of saying “this is a…
Thanks to the fact that TomTom already runs their GPS devices off of Linux, users can easily make and install their own TomTom GPS builds to make them do whatever they want. So far there’s an OpemTom MP3 player, and, well, that’s about it. There hasn’t been a whole lot of progress on this project,…
Oh-ho! Show that RIAA what you really think of their lawsuits with this RIAA-labeled toilet paper. Make sure every wipe contains the full RIAA letters, or you may be wiping that behind to spite to Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) and that can’t be a good thing. Drunk Irishmen in planes is someone to not piss…
Face it, people: scooter-like vehicles that move one upright person around at a speed just above walking will never catch on. The Segway is a joke, and taking the wheels away and putting in hovercraft technology isn’t going to make this catch on. In fact, didn’t Hammacher Schlemmer start selling basically the same thing a…
You’ve been asking for it, and now it’s here: a mobile version of Gizmodo. Just point your mobile IE or mobile Opera browsers at Gizmodo.com and you’ll be able to read us on the road. Another method we’ve been using is just grabbing a mobile RSS reader and reading it via RSS. Check it out…