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Parrot’s set to make an official announcement on the MK6000 in-car Bluetooth speakerphone tomorrow, but uber gizmo has news of it today. The MK6000 has dual microphones for noise reduction, text-to-speech to read back your phone’s contacts, and can play streaming music from any bluetooth device—which includes phones, laptops, and MP3 players. https://gizmodo.com/stormblue-a9-bluetooth-enabled-music-player-203090 The MK6000…
DEMO is a bust for hardware geeks, but we did catch a live Zing music player—you know that one that uses WiFi to download internet radio and Sirius. The nice lady showing it off told me that they weren’t announcing anything right now, but gave us a little tour of the player, as well as…
We remember wanting a piece of this Freedom Mini action way back when it was announced last year, but not being able to find it anywhere. But good news shoppers, it’s finally available from X-TremeGeek for $84.97. https://gizmodo.com/freedom-input-mini-keyboard-it-loves-our-freedom-116004 To recap, the Freedom Mini is a Bluetooth mini-keyboard for cellphones and PDAs that don’t have a…
This do-it-yourself espionage kit can be great for getting your career back on track after that lying HR broad complained about some inappropriate conduct in the break room. All you have to do is use the micro-listening device for eavesdropping, the invisible ink pen and decoder to write hidden messages to yourself, and the two…
Are you one of those people who suddenly cracks a naive smile, tilts your head and vacantly says, “Ya know, I like people.” ? We’re happy for you. As long as you’re not talking about a cookbook, it’s OK to be a people person. If you also have a clock fetish like we do, this’ll be…
Remember the new Slingbox we posted about? The AV model with composite and s-video inputs? Looks like it’s already out at Best Buy. https://gizmodo.com/new-slingbox-details-tuner-pro-and-a-v-202348 Zatz went down to Best Buy for lunch—he’s on an all TiVo diet—and saw the AV staring back at him. According to the side of the box, the Pro and Tuner…
Two cards from SanDisk for photogs who like to shoot first and ask questions later—the 12GB and 16GB Extreme III CF Cards. They both have write and read speeds of 20MB/s, and will be $779.99 and $1,049 respectively in December. Press Release [SanDisk]
The Jelbert Geotagger attaches to your camera’s flash shoe and knows exactly where you are when you snap a picture. Thanks to its GPS and compass, the Geotagger can note your coordinates, the direction you’re facing, and the time and date you took the shot. After you get back to photo studio, a.k.a. your step-mother’s…
VW R&D must not have enough to do after helping Stanford win the DARPA Grand Challenge. Instead of working on the ever-elusive flying car, they’ve outfitted this old hippie bus with hidden tech. The drivetrain is all electric, and the surfboards on top have solar cells for charging up the lithium battery banks. Click to…
I thought the Black Diamond Switchback was just an average run-of-the-mill UMPC that came in a rugged case, until I learned of the module system that they are using. This UMPC has well over 20 modules that can be easily swapped onto the UMPC, including a breathalyzer. Some of the other modules include terrestrial radio,…
Looking for an unusual coffee table? This one created by Irish designer Lorraine Brennan is made out of 2mm folded steel. Certainly not lighter than air, but this plane might lighten up that plain living room of yours. Plane Table [designboom]
This week at TreeHugger: We find a portable solar panel to charge all of our gadgets, from mp3 player to cellphone. According to Greenpeace, many computers are still ripe with toxins, with high levels of nasty stuff in HP and Apple laptops. We chat with John Shegerian, founder of Electronic Recyclers, about e-waste, why there’s…
You may have a pearly white interior in your Mercedes CLS, so you obviously need a pearly white computer to go in it. Luckily one smart car customizer, Mattes Interieurtechnik (awesome name), realized that one company does make a pearly white computer. Mattes plopped an iMac into the backseat of this CLS. He wasn’t very…
Hey…glad you could join us today, sleepyhead. While you were passed out, we dropped some great posts including exclusive photos of the internet-enabled Dash GPS system, an the first EVDO Revision A enabled Sony Vaio laptop, and a hands on of the Sony Reader (with accesories). There ya go, something to read while you drink…
To demonstrate its prowess for producing electronic equipment, Japan’s Murata Manufacturing unveiled the latest model of its bicycling robot, Murata Seisaku-Kun. The 50cm high cyclist can navigate an S-curve, pedal up a 2cm wide incline, or stop on a one-yen coin while maintaining its balance — all through the aid of ultrasonic and shock censors.…
Well, Canon just did it, so why shouldn’t Epson. This is the P-5000—it is a combination portable photo viewer, photo dumper and general PMP device. It has a 4-inch display with a 640 x 480 resolution to display video and pictures from the integrated 80GB hard drive or from CF, SD or SDHC portable media.…
Good thing DEMO is so F’n boring, I can still post. Nokia dropped word of their N95 multimedia computer today. (We still call em cellphones, but don’t tell Nokia that or they’ll bop us on the head…again) The smartphone has a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, which they say can take dvd-like video…
Outpost has this DVD recorder for a mere $50. It can playback from DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW, VCD, SVCD, CD, MP3 and JPEG. And it can record to DVD+R/RW. This could be a nice pickup for those out there who haven’t taken the plunge into DVR with a TiVo or the like but are still interested in recording…
Digitimes, the premier news source in usual bullshit rumors, has a new one today that actually seems a legitimate, kind of. They are reporting that there will be a $100 price cut on the Xbox 360 Premium bundle, bringing the price down to $300 so that they can later bundle the HD DVD player with…