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Server With Eight Hyperthreaded Dual Core Chips Goes 32-ways: Windows Goes Schitzo

Last week, a reader sent in a photo of Windows Task manager showing off a multiprocessing machine’s sixteen gonads. Not bad, pretty cool. In the spirit of one-up-man-ship, I present this: An IBM System x3950 server with eight CPUs, All hyperthreaded Xeons. The result? Windows goes schitzo seeing 32 separate processors. Eric Long, who submitted…

Gadgets Brian Lam

CS FM07 Plays MP3s and Transmits Via FM, Too

Here’s the CS FM07, a multitalented MP3 player that can read SD cards and transmit their musical contents to a car radio or home stereo. It plugs in to your car’s accessory outlet or runs on batteries, and remembers seven FM frequencies, too. Not bad for 60 bucks. Product Page [Merconnet, via uber gizmo]

Tech News Charlie White

Ambient Reality Effects: Kinda Like a Philips Ambilight, but PC-Only

If you can’t seem to get enough of the Phillips Ambilight, an LCD TV with a halo around the sides of the screen with colors that change according to its program material, now you can strap on some LEDs yourself, creating similar effects behind your Windows PC monitor with Ambient Reality Effects from SmartBytes. The…

Tech News Charlie White

Maria Sharapova-Branded Motorola PEBL

According to Wikipedia, Maira Sharapova is a tennis player; according to me, she’s hot. That aside, fans of the Russian tennis star can look forwar to getting their hands on a special white Sharapova-branded Motorola PEBL. Her signature (laser-etched, natch) is all over 50 of the special PEBLs. There’s no way to actually buy this…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

BluePod: Caller ID on Your iPod Screen, Not Much Else

Zenocom rolled out BluePod, a dongle that fits the iPod dock connector and suddenly gives you a couple of things every iPod is lacking: Bluetooth capability and FM radio. But don’t get too excited just yet. The device stops short of greatness, because all it can do is display a Bluetooth-compatible cellphone’s caller ID information…

Gadgets Charlie White

GameExpert’s PSP Portable Theater: Fancy Way of Saying ‘Dock’

Companies try to come up with clever names to disguise what their lowly products truly are, so it’s with great joy that we present the GameExpert Portable Home Theater for the PSP. Misleading name aside, the Portable Home Theater is little more than a dock with built-in speakers and a tiny subwoofer. It does, however,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

IBM Confirms Development, Shipping of Nintendo Wii Chips

Our homedawgs over at Kotaku pulled a Gizmodo and had some super secret info saved up for a midnight post. So what’s the big deal? IBM has confirmed that they have began shipping the “Broadway” chips for the Nintendo Wii to the fabrication plant in New York City … three weeks ago. So what does…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Best of Gizmodo

•Philips In Touch Message Board Concept •Iomega UltraMax 640GB Hard Drive For Macs •LG MG810 Sapphire Clamshell: It’s Chocolatey •Bluetooth ExpressCard Media Remote •Reversible Media Center: Hide That Tech, Look Like a Bookworm https://gizmodo.com/philips-in-touch-message-board-concept-199198

Tech News Charlie White

Other Bits and Bytes

•China prosecutes sellers of virtual weapons [Ars Technica} •Supercomputer aiming for petaflop [CNN Technology] •Microsoft patents verb conjugations [The Inquirer] •Semantic memory pinpointed in the brain [New Scientist] •Cisco has a new logo [The Inquirer]

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Olivetti Ink Jet Printers With WiFi And Bluetooth

The Olivetti Any Way and SImple Way are two printers with either WiFi or Bluetooth to enable you to wirelessly print photos without any sort of third-party add-on. The Any Way has a 2.4-inch LCD, prints 20ppm in black and white and 18ppm in color. A 10×15 takes 75 seconds, and has image improvement software…

Tech News Jason Chen

Amazon Launches Unbox Video Download Store

Amazon’s own movie download store and iTunes competitor has just launched. Amazon offers full length movies as well as TV shows, with shows like Prison Break and 24. You can either buy the shows outright or just rent them in WMV format for watching on your computer or a portable device. You have to use…

Commerce Jason Chen

Comments Ahoy!

So we’ve had our new comments system in the works for quite some time, and we have actually had it running for a while, but today is our unofficial launch. There are some new hot features that will please all of you outspoken commenters out there. Hit the jump to see the goods. First off,…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Battle-worn Xbox 360 Casemod

This Xbox looks like it’s straight from the set of the nonexistent Fallout movie. Post-apocalyptic scratches, dings, and peeled paint make you feel like this Xbox 360 has seen more than just the inside of your home theatre cabinet. Too bad you can only swap out the faceplate on Xbox 360s, or someone could make…

Tech News Jason Chen

Google Planning On Using Your PC to Listen In On You, Serve You Ads

According to the Register, Google’s working on a project that will use your PC’s built-in microphone to monitor what you’re watching on TV in the background. With that information, they’re going to serve you contextual ads on your browser or desktop (we don’t know which) to match the show you’re viewing. Since Google’s all for…

Tech News Jason Chen

Video of The Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive

Microsoft and Toshiba showed off their HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 at IFA 2006. No video demonstration or life usage, but starting halfway in the video, you can get a 360 degree view of the drive. There’s two USB ports on the back of the drive, one standard and one small one—most likely…

Tech News Jason Chen

Is The Apple Cube Coming Back?

Another patent was found today by Apple, this time for a cube-shaped computing device. The fins on the top look like it’s for cooling, which was definitely a problem in the original G4 cube that eventually contributed to Apple’s decision to shelve it. This time Apple’s worked many fans and heatsinks into the design so…

Tech News Jason Chen

Cable Capture Tangled Giveaway

The folks over at Cable Capture were nice enough to supply us with a ton of Cable Capture devices to be given away. The Cable Capture is a simple, stackable device that can store your excess cables—making your electronics more organized and safe. The prize pack will include 12 Cable Captures, a couple Docking Units…

Tech News Travis Hudson

TiVo Lets You Transfer Your Lifetime Subscription To Series 3 For $199

How generous of TiVo to allow you pay $199 for the ability to keep on using the so-called “Lifetime Subscription” in your new TiVo Series 3 units. As you may know, the lifetime subscription feature has been cancelled on all new sales of TiVos, including on the upcoming Series 3 box. Now, if you’ve already…

Tech News Jason Chen

Midway Stand-Up Arcade Cabinet

Any geek over the age of say, 28, will remember how it felt to play these old-timey arcade games at the arcade. Since arcades are a dying breed, and none of them actually have these old games for you to relive your seemlingly wonderful childhood,your only choice is to pick up this Big Electronics Games…

Tech News Jason Chen

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We protect our baby faces with the Anthony Logistics Pre-Shave Oil, look forward to the all-new 2007 BMW X5, and help you conserve a little space in the office with the Oppo LCD TV/DVD Player. Plus, we come across the record-toting Burton DJ Bag, add to our collection with new Nip/Tuck…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Server With Eight Hyperthreaded Dual Core Chips Goes 32-ways: Windows Goes Schitzo

CS FM07 Plays MP3s and Transmits Via FM, Too

Ambient Reality Effects: Kinda Like a Philips Ambilight, but PC-Only

Maria Sharapova-Branded Motorola PEBL

BluePod: Caller ID on Your iPod Screen, Not Much Else

GameExpert’s PSP Portable Theater: Fancy Way of Saying ‘Dock’

IBM Confirms Development, Shipping of Nintendo Wii Chips

Best of Gizmodo

Other Bits and Bytes

Olivetti Ink Jet Printers With WiFi And Bluetooth

Amazon Launches Unbox Video Download Store

Comments Ahoy!

Battle-worn Xbox 360 Casemod

Google Planning On Using Your PC to Listen In On You, Serve You Ads

Video of The Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive

Is The Apple Cube Coming Back?

Cable Capture Tangled Giveaway

TiVo Lets You Transfer Your Lifetime Subscription To Series 3 For $199

Midway Stand-Up Arcade Cabinet

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

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

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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