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iHome iH7R iPod Dock and Speaker System

iHome has released the iH7R, the latest revision to its popular iH5 iPod dock and speaker system. Like the iH5, the IH7R is compatible with nearly all models of the iPod, but it adds a few features that may make it worth your while. For starters, they’ve included one more speaker, kind of like how…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Japanese Wii Release Date, Pricing Revealed: Dec. 2, $212

Today is Nintendo’s big Wii day, and they’ve just announced December 2 as the official Japan release date for their latest video game console. Whereas U.S. are expected to pay $250 on November 19, Japanese gamers will only have to pay ¥25,000, or about $212. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-wii-coming-to-america-november-19th-for-250-200516 Other launch details have emerged as well, including the…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Nintendo Wii Coming To America November 19th for $250

Expect to play Nintendo Wii in time for Turkey Day. The Date? November 19th. The price? $250. To come with Wii Sports, which includes golf, bowling, baseball and tennis games controlled by swinging the wii-mote. 25 titles available by end of year. 30 classic games, including Zelda, Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong. The info…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Best of Gizmodo

•Pentax 10.2 Megapixel K10D Digital SLR With Built-in Image Stabilizing •Microsoft’s Ergonomic Mice Have Frickin’ Lasers, Cradle Your Hands •Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 Zooms Nose Hairs With 2 Megapixel Video •QDOS Genesis for Portable Surround Sound •Men’s Suit With Smart Fabric iPod Controls https://gizmodo.com/pentax-10-2-megapixel-k10d-digital-slr-with-built-in-im-200506

Tech News Charlie White

Pentax 10.2 Megapixel K10D Digital SLR With Built-in Image Stabilization

Pentax just announced a few cameras, but we’ll start with the big boy. The K10D, has a generous 10.2 Megapixel sensor, 2.5-inch LCD, and vibrating CCD dust removal system. If that sounds like a familiar set of stats to you, well, you’re being reminded of Canon’s brilliant, affordable, Digital Rebel XTi that comes out later…

Tech News Brian Lam

Other Bits and Bytes

•Microsoft wins cash from spammer [The Inquirer] •Comcast ON DEMAND Tops Three Billion Views [DV Guru] •Sony to launch Blu-ray recorder in Japan by Dec [Reuters] •Chinese court deploys sentencing software [The Register] •Canon Copiers Possible Fire Hazard [Propeller Head]

Tech News Travis Hudson

T-Mobile’s Mysterious New Logo

Seen at CTIA, this star-shaped five point dot logo was sitting on the back of T-Mobile phones all over their booth. So what could it be? Gearlog says it’s not UMA, the T-Mobile At Home service that T-Mob is premiering soon. We’re stumped. Maybe it’s 3G? Push to talk? https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-at-home-voip-router-cellphone-box-pictures-197195 A Gearlog Mystery: What Is…

Tech News Jason Chen

Fastap’s Upcoming SureType Cellphone Keyboard

We already know that the Fastap alternative typing system isn’t as fast as advertised. But can the next generation be any better? Here are two working designs of how the next Fastap SureType will look. One is a QWERTY-ish layout with two letters per key, and the other is an alphabetical layout with one letter…

Tech News Jason Chen

Is the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Dual Core S-AM2 Discontinued?

Crecente from Kotaku finally got around to ordering the parts for his upcoming gaming PC, when he got his CPU order cancelled. This threw him into a fit of rage, where he discarded his usual email-eloquence and spat: Why did you cancel my order I still expect the chip at the price you quoted The…

Tech News Jason Chen

80s Pioneer Car Stereo Ads Make You Wish You Had 80s Cocaine To Go With

Ray from Jalopnik sent this one over to us, probably just to mess with my already fragile psyche. Watch and see. What the hell kind of drugs did they have over at Pioneer back then? Retro Ad Watch: The Pioneer-Borg Will Assimilate You With Their Stereo Commercials [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/retro-ad-watch-the-pioneer-borg-will-assimilate-you-wi-200490

Tech News Jason Chen

The Healing Log: Just Hand Over Your Money And Save Them The Trouble Of Shipping

The Healing Log is felled from healing trees in the Healing Forest of Mongolia, then shipped to Japan where Sega Toys stuck two speakers on both ends and put a sound effect generator inside. When you’re feeling blue, relax by switching this on and you’ll hear birds, rivers, and wind chimes, which is the log’s…

Gadgets Jason Chen

CTIA: Sprint Announces IP-830w Windows Mobile 5 Worldphone

This Windows Mobile 5.2 Pocket PC Edition phone from sprint has a PXA272 520MHzIntel Processor, EVDO, GSM, GPRS, 64MB internal memory, a QWERTY keypad, and tethering capabilities. The keypad slides out vertically instead of horizontally, like HTC’s phones, and comes in a silver and blue finish. This actually looks pretty sexy, and if you were…

Tech News Jason Chen

Five Reasons Why The Microsoft Zune May Succeed

Despite Microsoft’s statement that it will take five years before the Zune platform is successful, we think it has a shot of getting there in less. Why? Here are five reasons. •The Zune has a large screen. The 3-inch screen is 50% larger than the 5G iPod’s. One of the main complaints iPod users have…

Tech News Jason Chen

Vaio N Series Laptops In Grown-Up Colors: Black, Brown, White

Black, grey, blue are office colors. Red, green, yellow are fun time Crayola colors. Sony’s thinking that white, black, and brown are the colors of a home decorated by Ikea whores. Reach, young urbanites, reach! The new N line of laptops comes in black, white, which we’ve all seen before. (I won’t use the @pp1e…

Tech News Brian Lam

MoPods – Plastic Slaves That Tell You When Your Cellphone’s Ringing

These MoPods are cell-phone charms that respond when you get a call. When someone’s trying to reach you, the buggers spin and flash like spastic little monkeys. Nothing we haven’t seen before, but look how cute these guys are, encased in the transparent plastic dungeon—their confinement for all of eternity. Why? Because the one with…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Safe Protected by Laser Beams

OK, that’s enough M$FT posting. This little laser beam safe won’t let anyone near your stash unless they punch in a secret code and slice off a fingertip to unlock the biometric security system. If the laser beams break, it cries like when you take candy from a baby. (Even if it’s not as fun.)…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Download Microsoft Vista RC1 and Get a Valid Serial Free

If you didn’t have a key from a beta the last time we posted about downloading Windows Vista, rejoice. Hit up this Microsoft page, follow the instructions, and you’ll be rewarded with a download link and a valid serial to use. Then you can try it out and tell us how much it rocks/sucks, depending…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft’s Ergonomic Mice Have Frickin’ Lasers, Cradle Your Hands

The Wireless Laser Mouse 8000, Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 and Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 are all ergonomic and outfitted with lasers, albeit the non-deadly kind. And they all come in a grey/black motif, which is cool if you’re outfitting the Bat Computer, but may not go with all setups. Jump to see what…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 Zooms Nose Hairs With 2 Megapixel Video

More microsoft news to counter balance our Apple jerk-off fest yesterday. Microsoft’s NX-6000 is a high resolution webcam meant for laptops. We’re talking about a 2 megapixel resolution video stream, which amounts to a 1600 by 1200 image. Yowser. It’ll also take interpolated 7 megapixel stills. (Fakey, since it just blows up the lower res…

Tech News Brian Lam

Microsoft Releases Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 and 8000

We liked the Wireless Entertainment Desktops when it was called the Microsoft Ultimate Keyboard, but a name’s just a name. The WED 7000 and 8000 have a few interesting buttons and features, and are integrated with some current and upcoming Microsoft apps. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ultimate-keyboard-wireless-rechargeable-ba-184418 There’s a gadget button, which exposes and hides the Microsoft Gadgets—their version…

Tech News Jason Chen

iHome iH7R iPod Dock and Speaker System

Japanese Wii Release Date, Pricing Revealed: Dec. 2, $212

Nintendo Wii Coming To America November 19th for $250

Best of Gizmodo

Pentax 10.2 Megapixel K10D Digital SLR With Built-in Image Stabilization

Other Bits and Bytes

T-Mobile’s Mysterious New Logo

Fastap’s Upcoming SureType Cellphone Keyboard

Is the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Dual Core S-AM2 Discontinued?

80s Pioneer Car Stereo Ads Make You Wish You Had 80s Cocaine To Go With

The Healing Log: Just Hand Over Your Money And Save Them The Trouble Of Shipping

CTIA: Sprint Announces IP-830w Windows Mobile 5 Worldphone

Five Reasons Why The Microsoft Zune May Succeed

Vaio N Series Laptops In Grown-Up Colors: Black, Brown, White

MoPods – Plastic Slaves That Tell You When Your Cellphone’s Ringing

Safe Protected by Laser Beams

Download Microsoft Vista RC1 and Get a Valid Serial Free

Microsoft’s Ergonomic Mice Have Frickin’ Lasers, Cradle Your Hands

Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 Zooms Nose Hairs With 2 Megapixel Video

Microsoft Releases Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 and 8000

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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