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Alright, laptops are laptops. But this ruggedized Toughbook has of all things, an arm band. To keep your rugged notebook attached to your arm while you AIM and run from pumas? Yes. It also has a 12-inch touchscreen, and WLAN cellular data jammed inside of its magnesium-alloy shell. To stretch battery life to 15 hours,…
The Bios Mag crew spots a Sony Europe home HD projector with an impressive 15,000:1 contrast ratio. That’s done with an iris that opens up to flood light through its lens when you’re watching brighter scenes, and dialing it closer to closed when viewing dark ones. The 1080p projector is based off of Sony’s SXRD…
•Apple Showtime’s After Party: iPod Nano Porn, Plus Video •Apple Showtime’s After Party: Photos of the iTV Livingroom Streaming Box •Apple Showtime’s After Party: Photos of the iPod Playing Games •Apple Showtime’s After Party: New Shuffle Photos •Best iPod Accessory Ever: Combination Breathalyzer, FM Transmitter https://gizmodo.com/apple-showtimes-after-party-ipod-nano-porn-plus-video-200191 https://gizmodo.com/apple-showtimes-after-party-photos-of-the-ipod-playing-200238 Comment of the Day: Apple’s Showtime [By J.T.]…
Two things, I promised we’d revisit yesterday’s best guesses at what Steve Jobs would announce today. We were right! Kinda. The lowdown, after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/apples-showtime-the-odds-on-new-hardware-tomorrow-199842 Oh ya, the second thing: I’m totally over…this. No more Apple news for at least 12-hours during this ban. If I have to post anymore Mac news, I’ll surely…
Apple made four releases and one announcement in San Francisco today, as you probably saw if you visited Gizmodo at all in the last 12 hours. Here’s a roundup of all the stuff that went down in San Francisco. First up is the updated iPod. The Apple iPod 5.1G has a screen that’s 60% brighter…
•Microsoft Crushes Just 3 Bugs In September’s Patch Batch [Information Week] •Microsoft business software exec leaving [Business Week] •New PSP Bundle Coming This Week [Next Generation] •The next broadband pipe: Gas? [The Inquirer] •Microsoft rebuilds its search engine [CNN Tech]
You saw our TiVo Series 3 review, jumped out of your seat, and immediately went to order one—right? Well, if you’ve got an old Series 1 or Series 2 lifetime subscription, TiVo’s transfer service is online. Starting now, you can go to TiVo’s website and pay $199 to import your old subscription to your new…
Apple’s new Shuffle looks nothing like the Shuffle of old. Nah, it looks more like a Star Trek Communicator, especially with that clip on the back. At Apple’s after event party, we took some time to check out the 1GB player, with its new earbuds. Not a bad buy for $79 bucks. Jump for more…
We bet at even odds that there would be a new widescreen Video iPod. But we were burned. Again. Sigh… https://gizmodo.com/apples-showtime-the-odds-on-new-hardware-tomorrow-199842 Instead, we get an update to the Generation 5 iPod that has a few new tricks like a brighter screen, an extended battery life, better song search, and decent, Xbox Live Arcade styled games…
We thought it was worth noting that you don’t have to get a 5.1G iPod with the brighter screen and longer battery life to play the new iPod games. Your regular old 5G Video does Tetris just fine. All you have to do is plug in your iPod, and the new iTunes 7 will ask…
Designed by Porsche Design GmbH, the LaCie hard drives come in 160GB to 500GB sizes and connect via USB 2.0 or Firewire to your Windows, Mac and Linux machines. Although not much to look at, which is surprising since it’s designed by Porsche, it does ship with 1-Click backup software for PCs and Macs. The…
Apparently our “why aren’t WiFi Skype phones shipping yet” post kicked Netgear into high gear, because they’ve started shipping their Skype phones. If you’ve pre-ordered yours (for $250), you should be getting it soon. https://gizmodo.com/ask-gizmodo-why-arent-wifi-skype-phones-out-yet-199834 Unfortunately for Europe and Asia, they won’t be getting theirs until October. Amazon’s page still says “pre-order”, so expect an…
We’ve got a working video of the Xbox 360 laptop mod. It’s a 17-inch LCD with a built-in keyboard and WiFi and the guts of an Xbox 360. The final mod, of course, doesn’t have the guts exposed. But that’s probably just to show you that it’s actually an Xbox 360 in there and not…
The iTV set was by far the shining star of the show, hounded by fat, balding, geek paparazzi. The little set top box iTV looks like a half height Mac Mini with the sole purpose of streaming media to a livingroom TV. This is what is known to PC-doods as a Media Center Extender. Again,…
Blackmagic Design introduced Intensity, the first HDMI PCI Express card. It can pass an HD signal straight out of a low-cost HDV camcorder and into a Mac or PC without needing to be compressed into the HDV format. This will be a blessing for users of HDV camcorders that have HDMI ports, such as Sony’s…
We pardon this interruption from your regular scheduled Apple Lovefest to remind you that our Cable Capture Tangled Giveaway is still going on. We are giving away a prize pack full of Cable Capture organizers. Think you have a mess of tangles? You will need it to win this package. Follow the linkage here to…
Hybrio batteries by Everlast are said to last four times longer than everyday alkaline batteries and can be recharged 500 times. The kicker here is the price, though, with a four pack including a charger costing around $28. If they can last as long as the company says, these suckers will pay for themselves after…
After the main event, we were ushered to a back room where the new stuff was on display. We got to play with the pretty little second gen iPod Nano, and even got her to pose for some glamour shots. https://gizmodo.com/the-ipod-nano-the-2nd-generation-200115 Before you jump for the goods, we’ll say this. Jason Chen and I prefer…
It’s over! Thanks for tuning in. To read all our coverage in one place, click over to the Showtime tag page. Wrapup coming soon. Peace! p.s. Blam’s running for the bathroom. Complete Showtime Coverage [Gizmodo]
This week at TreeHugger: Take a ride on the eGo Cycle, the bicycle that you don’t have to pedal. With all the advances in processors, you’d think we’d be able to cobble together a computer that doesn’t waste energy or make too much noise; can we finally do it this year? LEDs finally hit the…
