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Oppo LCD TV/DVD Player With DivX Support

Back to school is upon us, and this Oppo LCD TV/DVD player is perfect for cramped dorm rooms all over America. The $600 player has a 20-inch LCD, slot-loading DVD player, USB port and card reader. Best of all it looks like an iMac, which, I guess, is actually “worst of all” if you’re not…

Tech News Jason Chen

TiVo Series 3 Unboxing – Boy It’s Got A Lot Of Ports

Ooh, la la! PVR Wire got their hands on a Series 3 TiVo and documented every step of the standard undressing ritual. You can see the two CableCard slots, the cable and antenna in, and lots of output slots as well. There’s also the standard phone line, plus an ethernet port and USB ports. Here’s…

Tech News Jason Chen

TDK Makes 200GB Blu-ray Discs, Too Bad Nobody Can Play Them

Yes, TDK, who said they were going to make 200GB discs, went and made 200GB discs. Who’da thunk it? Well, unfortunately for everyone on the planet, there isn’t any drive or player out right now that can read 200GB discs. Oh well. https://gizmodo.com/tdk-to-develop-200gb-blu-ray-disc-166687 The 200GB monster is single sided, but has six layers with 33.333333333…

Tech News Jason Chen

Toilet Golf, For Saving Par while Dropping a Dookie

I guess for some people, pooping is a pretty boring ordeal. Personally for me, I have the time of my life while taking the Browns to the Super Bowl. Sometimes I make it a game, like race the clock, etc. Enough about my fecal fun. This is the potty putter. It’s a miniature green and…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

HTC TyTN Sync Cradle

Speaking of the HTC TyTN, here’s a dock and hot-sync cradle for $20. USB cable comes included, and the dock fits the HTC TyTN, HTC Hermes, HTC Z, Orange SPV M3100, T-Mobile MDA Vario II, i-Mate JASJAM, Qtek 9600 and Dopod CHT9000. Yes, they’re all the same phone. https://gizmodo.com/htc-tytn-and-xda-trion-windows-mobile-phones-available-198035 Dopod CHT9000 USB Cradle [Brando]

Tech News Jason Chen

Creative Fatal1ty Keyboard: Same Shit, Different Name

Here is an shot of the Fatal1ty keyboard being manufactured by Creative with Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel’s logo plastered all across it. Keyboard look familiar? It should, it is damn near identical to the Auravision EluminX that we first told you about almost four years ago! What’s up Fatal1ty? No new ideas for a keyboard? The…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Maxtek 4.3-inch GPS Navigation With Picture-in-Picture DMB

If you think about it, we’re a bit lucky here in the US. If we look at gadgets such as the 4.3-inch T-DMB GPS navigation device from Maxtek, it’s like looking into our own future. Sure, we can’t have this now, but in a few years, we’ll be able to watch TV and get directions…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sprint Palm Treo 700wx’s User Manual Leaked Online

Boy, those fellers at Sprint really have their act together. First it’s all the leaked product material. Now their actual user manual is online! https://gizmodo.com/yawn-more-palm-treo-700wx-leaks-spec-sheet-197523 Fans of Treos who are stuck on the Sprint network can go have a look. Print out all 436 pages, grab a nice lemonade and head outside for a nice,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Philips Prestigo Universal Learning Remote

Looking more like a magician’s wand than a remote, the Philips Prestigo—hey, someone there thought so too—has a touch-screen LCD and a rotary dial on its face to let you point and click your way to TV bliss. The LCD only lights up the appropriate buttons for the device you’re controlling, so you won’t get…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Philips VOIP841 DECT Skype Phone

The Philips VOIP841 uses the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) frequency, an 1.8GHz band that was set aside to allow both security and better battery life than other cordless frequencies. The base-station allows you to plug in a normal land-line connection as well as your ethernet broadband connection. This means you’re able to make calls…

Tech News Jason Chen

HTC TyTN and XDA Trion Windows Mobile Phones Available Online Now

The XDA Trion is an OEM version of the HTC TyTN, the 3G, Windows Mobile 5.0 based PDA phone from HTC. Both these models are almost identical, save for the “QWERTZ” instead of “QWERTY” keyboard on the XDA Trion. Other than that, even their prices are the same—$899. The phones have quad-band GSM, 64MB of…

Tech News Jason Chen

Honest Technology’s Placeshifting IPTV and Surveillance Device

The IP Box from Honest Technology has two practical functions. One of these is place-shifting, sending the TV channels you have at home through your broadband connection to your remote device. You can keep an eye on CNN with your laptop or PDA while you’re out in the world, wheeling and dealing. The video is…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We plot the end of the world in the spectacular Villain Chair, plan our own personal typhoon with the Kohler DTV Custom Showering Experience, and get ready for some football with the ginormous 950-page Super Bowl XL Opus book. Plus, we keep the beer gods happy with the Double-Walled Beer Glasses,…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Analog Nokia Cellphone, What the Hell?

We’ve seen some vintage phones given a new-age twist in the past, but this is just crazy. Crazy I tell you! https://gizmodo.com/sparkfun-portable-rotary-cellular-phone-103361 I’ve uploaded some photos of my analogue phone + old Nokia phone. I’m currently overseas so I’ve had to leave it behind, but every time I’ve used it, I got great reactions out…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Surprise! Mac mini Core Solo CPUs Quietly Getting Duo’d?

Here’s a report:mdash;a lone report, mind you, of a buyer’s new Mac mini shipped with upgraded specs. He couldn’t have been happier if a stripper jumped from the box. From SuperG’s words found on hardmac.com: I have ordered a Mac mini Core solo with 1GB of RAM last Saturday to use it as a server,…

Tech News Brian Lam

California Law Passes, Requires Routers to Come with Security Warning

A California bill was passed today requiring all Wi-Fi routers sold in the state of California to come with a prominent warning about Wi-Fi security and the dangers of having an unsecured wireless network. Manufacturers will have the option of including a security warning in the software setup or physically including a warning sticker on…

Privacy & Security Travis Hudson

TracNet 100 Mobile Stuffs WiFi and TV in your Car

Here it is, the thing to make your computer a little bit more like KITT. The TracNet 100 Mobile puts a WiFi hotspot, web browsing, and IPTV in your hoopty ride. The data love comes courtesy of a Verizon EVDO card, built into the controller box. That box itself has 802.11G wireless, 3 ethernet ports,…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Pretec’s 8GB SD 2.0 Memory Card

Pretec will release an 8GB SD 2.0 (SDHC) memory card before the end of the year that will have access speeds of up to 20MB per second. Unlike SD cards using the old SD 1.0/1.1, cards following the SD 2.0 standard won’t have a 4GB size limit. Chalk this up to a new method of…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

SIRIUS Stiletto, Soloist Doing It in the Wild

Nothing gets my blood pumping more than in the wild shots of some of the latest SIRIUS gadgets working together in the wild. This picture obviously proves that the Stiletto and the Soloist will work together like apples and oranges. https://gizmodo.com/soloist-universal-media-dock-for-sirius-etc-192203 Stiletto and Soloist – so happy together [Orbitcast]

Tech News Travis Hudson

Entertrainer Exercise Motivator: Keep Moving, or Daddy Takes the TV Away

Here’s a torture device for the unmotivated and TV addicted: The Intertrainer Exercise Motivator ($140) from PowerUp Fitness, which is wirelessly connected to the TV and turns down the volume if you don’t exercise hard enough. Just strap it around your torso, and if you start slacking off it senses your relaxation, going so far…

Gadgets Charlie White

Oppo LCD TV/DVD Player With DivX Support

TiVo Series 3 Unboxing – Boy It’s Got A Lot Of Ports

TDK Makes 200GB Blu-ray Discs, Too Bad Nobody Can Play Them

Toilet Golf, For Saving Par while Dropping a Dookie

HTC TyTN Sync Cradle

Creative Fatal1ty Keyboard: Same Shit, Different Name

Maxtek 4.3-inch GPS Navigation With Picture-in-Picture DMB

Sprint Palm Treo 700wx’s User Manual Leaked Online

Philips Prestigo Universal Learning Remote

Philips VOIP841 DECT Skype Phone

HTC TyTN and XDA Trion Windows Mobile Phones Available Online Now

Honest Technology’s Placeshifting IPTV and Surveillance Device

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Analog Nokia Cellphone, What the Hell?

Surprise! Mac mini Core Solo CPUs Quietly Getting Duo’d?

California Law Passes, Requires Routers to Come with Security Warning

TracNet 100 Mobile Stuffs WiFi and TV in your Car

Pretec’s 8GB SD 2.0 Memory Card

SIRIUS Stiletto, Soloist Doing It in the Wild

Entertrainer Exercise Motivator: Keep Moving, or Daddy Takes the TV Away

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