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Fujitsu may call it a mini laptop, but we all know the P1610 is the illegitimate love child of a UMPC, ultraportable, Tablet PC threesome. It’s got a swiveling 8.9-inch display, an 80GB hard drive, and built-in Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. There’s no dual-core love here though. Instead it’s powered by a 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo processor. The…
GPS navigation systems are getting more affordable every day, with powerful but basic units such as the Garmin StreetPilot c320 selling for scarcely more than $300. We got four higher-end GPS units together in the same place, taking them out of the road and comparing their capabilities. The crazy thing is, we liked them all.…
I don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened. This video is courtesy of our lovers over at Dethroner. It is a 10-minute long video of some guy piloting a small helicopter and opening beer bottles with said helicopter. If I understand correctly, this guy set a world record for shortest amount of time spent…
Digital DJs have one more way to keep the floor-filling beats going thanks to the X-Session Pro. The USB-powered controller fuses the standard controls of a two-channel DJ mixer with the transport and pitch controls of a turntable. It may not be not be suitable for pros, but it’ll let you control volume, pitch, EQ,…
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Steven Levy, the Newsweek tech reporter has the kind of inside access at Apple worth Walt Mossberg’s weight in gold. Check out this locker room talk about the size of Zune’s “social neworking” je-ne-sais-quoi from his Q&A with Steve Jobs. Levy: Microsoft has announced its new iPod competitor, Zune. It says that this device is…
Somewhere down the line in the old blogosphere, a picture of the Motorola Q Pro in the wild has surfaced. We told you about the upcoming release of this more-powerful version of Motorola’s Smartphone, due in Q1 2007, but we didn’t show you a picture of the upcoming handset in all of its mysterious blackness.…
How many of you gizmodo readers are ladies? And what subset of lady readers are offended by our boyish lockeroom jargon? I’m guessing about 12 percent, with a meager 4 percent offended. The rest charmed. Or so offended that you never come back again. Just curious if our ranks are more animal house or co-ed…
We’re all for enhancing our TV-viewing experience, but this 6-pound helmet looks more like a prop from SpaceBalls than something we’d wanna wear. Still, Toshiba claims the helmet will give its wearer a 360-degree panorama when watching TV or playing games. Personally, we’d rather use it to scare small children. The Raw Feed via Daily…
Motorola is going MAXX to the XTREME with their latest RAZR handheld. Just when there weren’t quite enough variants of the RAZR, they are throwing one more out there. The MAXX is a high-end RAZR that has a 2-megapixel camera, touch-sensitive buttons, microSD expandability, EV-DO and Bluetooth, of course. This phone should be hitting the…
Our recent ruminations about nuclear weapons and who’s got ’em/who doesn’t got us to thinking about apocalypse. It’s the stuff of science fiction, but what would happen if all of a sudden there were no people on Earth? The Times of London put together a timeline of what the Earth would look like 20 years…
Here’s a great substitute for that wall-hanging LCD TV: a touch of reality on your wall with an all-in-one wall-mounted aquarium from Aussie Aquariums. They’re available in a variety of shapes and sizes, including both rectangular-shaped models and round ones that look like portholes. Putting one of these in your house is going to take…
This clock is actually labeled as a USB Digital Thermo Clock Air Purifier. Odd name, yes, but it accurately describes everything that this little USB device does. It can purify the air around you (probably not much, though), and tell you the time, temperature and date all while glowing. It is available through Brando for…
We’re not so sure whether we should believe ThinkSecret or not, given that we’ve found the site’s predictions to be about 57% accurate, but anyway, here’s one that seems logical and could actually happen: sources report that Steve Jobs and Bono have discussed bringing a red iMac and MacBook to market part of its purchase…
If you’ve always wanted an LED watch, but were never quite into the whole cyborg look, TokyoFlash’s new Retsu model can satisfy your craving without swallowing your entire wrist. The new Retsu watch is just 8mm thin (or 0.31 inches) and weighs 40 grams (just over an ounce). It’s still impossible for mere mortals to…
So I guess Outpost relaunched their website as Frys, today—wasn’t Outpost always owned by Frys anyway? Regardless, they are having some pretty nice sales on their website including a 19-inch Samsung LCD monitor for $200, a 400GB external HDD for $260, a PS2 bundle that includes 10 games for $170 and a 37-inch LCD HDTV…
Pandigital has released a 5.6-inch, 7-inch, 8-inch and 9.2-inch digital photo frame. What makes these frames different than the average bear is the ability to play video. In addition to the usual flavor of image files supports, this frame will also play back video from MPEG for AVI formats. Media can be loaded onto the…
Honda takes GPS navigation to the next level, planning to add weather data and social networking to its upcoming factory-installed car navi systems. It connects to the Japanese InterNavi Premium Club, showing you what the weather is like wherever you are, and what it will be like on your proposed route. There’s also a social…
Sony has added four models to their ever-growing line of sound-isolating earbuds. The MDR-KX70LW are the same earbuds, but have a new case with a winding cable recoiler attached to a carbineer clip. The MDR-EX85LP are earbuds with a 13.5mm driver unit and are available in four different colors. The MDR-EX52SL are a bit lower…
Want to put together a quick and tasteful photo/music sequence? At Tracking Shot, upload some photos and a song, and the free Flash-based web app automagically mixes up a pictorial montage for you, syncing up your pics with the beat of your music. Tell it which pics are more important, select a few key areas…
