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Here’s an idea—build a subwoofer into a wall to save some space, and turn the deadspace behind your drywall into a resonating chamber. Actually, I’m not certain these subs aren’t sealed around the back. It would make more sense if they were, because any serious thumping could start pushing fiberglass out your wallsockets. Two 8-inch…
Valleywag’s Nick Douglas has no love for stupid gadgets. Hell, he doesn’t even have love for the shit that gets Giz editors woody. While we were drooling, clapping, and giving up our souls (again) to Apple on tuesday, Nicky turned his low tech eye to finding a gadget better than Apple’s $300 iTV: A lowly,…
Here’s a video of two Zunes engaging in some safe exchange of content. First you pick a song, hit share, and a list pops up of the Zunes nearby. Click send, and your Zune prompts the other guy’s girl’s Zune to accept your song. Sending takes around 10+ seconds, if this video is in real…
iRobot, the makers of the Roomba, announced the iRobot Dirt Dog, a Roomba-like robot that’s designed to clean up your workshop. The robot is more rugged than the Roomba, and can pick up small nails, dirt, sawdust and other semi-large objects that the normal Roomba wouldn’t be able to handle. The Dirt Dog’s bagless debris…
As if GPS navigation, iPod connections, and handsfree Bluetooth calls weren’t distraction enough, Sarotech is going to launch the DVP-370Vx wireless in-car DivX player for the Asian market. [Insert Asian driver joke here]. The Sarotech player can play DivX, Xvid, MP3s and JPEGs—if you’re about to die, why not have a slideshow of your family…
The Giz likes more than just gadgets. We get games. We even get cars, sometimes. But Gizmodo does not compute music. No. Music, to our cyborgorian brains, is just more data to be jacked from CD, put on MP3 player. Gawker’s new blog Idolator? They understand music. Idolator is all about music, and how the…
The upcoming Libra Windows Mobile device from HTC is quite a bit smaller than the slide-out QWERTY devices on the market now from HTC. This one looks, for the most part, like a standard dial-pad enabled phone. However, there’s a three-row QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the side, compared to the four row QWERTY…
We knew about the pricing for the Wii, and the release date, late last night. So Nintendo’s press event today had a lot of the wind taken outta its sails. But the event just ended, and Kotaku just finished typing up the post powerpoint Q&A. Then homeboy, Joel “JJ” Johnson diggs deeper in a Wired…
This week at Uncrate: We try to figure how we’re going to come up with $800 for the TiVo Series3 HD, $250 for the Nintendo Wii, another $250 for the new iPod nano, and $500 more for Logitech’s new Harmony 1000 remote. And if that wasn’t enough dough to break us, we come across a…
Remember a couple days ago when we broke the story about the fancy pants Logitech Harmony 1000 do-it-all remote. Well I got a chance to sit down with a Logitech rep for a bit of a hands-on experience, and I must say, it is the cat’s pajamas and more. https://gizmodo.com/first-photos-logitech-harmony-1000-universal-remote-ca-199966 Jump to get the full…
The Mobile Manager software from Synchronica, when installed on your phone, can remotely lock or delete data to ensure that thieves don’t access sensitive information on your device. Not only that, when remotely activated, the software and make the phone play back an insane female scream designed to alert people that the phone’s been stolen.…
Some Princeton researchers made a demonstration video of how it’s possible to steal an election with a Diebold voting machine in under a minute. Anyone with physical access to the machine can put in malicious software to steal votes—such as election workers who have unsupervised access to the machines before elections. All they have to…
We called up J Allard today to get him to spill the rest of the Zune enchillada. Like our obsession with Steve Jobs, cousin gaming site Kotaku can’t stop thinking about Allard. Brian Ashcraft wanted us to ask him questions like, “If Microsoft was a World of Warcraft guild, what class would you be? ”…
Here’s a video of the Zune in action. You can see the the textured/stylized backgrounds with the white text on it, the huge album art—we love that—the browsing, and video playback. The videos are viewed horizontally, so you’ll have to turn your Zune sideways. Also shown is the FM playback, where you can see what…
Eager shoppers have already ran out and bought the 2G iPod Nano and took pictures of the unpacking ceremony. The new packaging sure looks nice, and from our firsthand experience, the Nano is still as tiny as ever. We prefer the old Nano design, but we wouldn’t say no if someone gave us one for…
Giving bikers even more protection against being hit by cars, the Electrodynamic Bike Light attaches to both wheels and shines forward and backwards to improve visibility at night. Instead of being powered by batteries or friction, like rim mounted dynamos, these use electromagnetic induction. For those who skipped physics class, that means two magnets, in…
Media D cor is a company that specializes in making art and mirror frames that can conceal plasma or LCD televisions. They have mirror frames what will display as just a mirror when the framed television is off, and display the television when on. They also have artwork frames that will roll down artwork when…
The hijack-proof plane concept is a part of a four-year, 35.8 million Euro project to develop a plane that’s as impervious as possible to terrorist plots. The advanced technology can monitor passengers via video and microphone, bar entry to the cockpit unless there’s a correct fingerprint ID, and avoid collisions with buildings or mountains by…
Today Toshiba also announced the addition of two HD DVD players to their line of HD DVD players. But before I get to that, I need to mention some funny tidbits the PR lady said. She rambled about how well the HD DVD launch went in April, then she mentioned that there are Toshiba HD…
Toshiba announced the addition of two Cinema Series Pro models to their line of REGZA LCD TVs. These are very high-end TVs. They were created specifically for hi-fi lovers and custom installations. There will be 42-inch and 47-inch models available. The displays feature PixelPure 12-bit processing that prevents banding and artifacts. Also integrated into these…