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Kamarack: One Hell of a PC Peripheral

This is a 3.5-inch drive bay accessory that features swappable peripherals. There are two miniature bays that can hold 2.5-inch HDD enclosures, USB hubs and memory card readers. Just swap out what you need on the fly. It’s like miniature bays for your PC tower bays. Anybody’s mind implode in on itself yet? The Kamarack…

Tech News Travis Hudson

BenQ Intros DC C540, and DC C740 Digital Cameras

With Photokina 2006 right around the corner, expect a plethora of camera announcements coming up, and here’s a case in point: BenQ is rolling out a couple of compact digital cameras, the DC C540, and DC C740 (pictured above). Both have a 2.5-inch LCD finder, 3x optical zoom, Pentax lenses and image stabilization. The main…

Tech News Charlie White

Creative Officially Unveils Zen Vision W, 60GB Zen Vision:M

There were rumors all over the Web last week pointing to a widescreen Zen and a 60GB Zen Vision Micro, but now Creative has indeed confirmed the existence of the two portable media players at an event in Singapore. The Zen Vision W sports a 4.3-inch widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) display, plays most of the…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Sony Set to Ship Dildo-Like Walkman NW-S200 Series Sports MP3 Players

Spiffy pics of the Sony Walkman NW-S200 Series Sports MP3 Players we mentioned last month are starting to surface, and the players are on schedule for a September release. Expected to be available in 1GB and 2GB sizes, the dildoesque DAPs bring sporty features to the game such as a water-resistant body, the ability to…

Tech News Charlie White

Sharp Opens the Aquos Kimono with Six Improved LCD TVs

Not to be outdone by yesterday’s announcements of a52-inch 1080p LCD by Samsung and Sony’s barrage of Bravia bravado with LCDs also topping out at 52 inches, now Sharp jumps into the fray with its spiffed-up Aquos line of six new 1080p LCD HDTVs, whose largest iteration is also 52 inches. What, is 52 the…

Tech News Charlie White

Best of Gizmodo

•Elmo SUV-Cam Micro Video Camera System •Sony Announces Lower-Priced Pearl VPL-VW50 1080p Projector •USRobotics Dual-Purpose USR9630 Cordless Skype Phone •Cell Zone: Superman’s Dressing Room Returns •Hornmassive, One Big-Ass Horn https://gizmodo.com/elmo-suv-cam-micro-video-camera-system-197696 Comment of the Day : Cell Zone [By HaxRomana] https://gizmodo.com/cell-zone-supermans-dressing-room-returns-197651 “The problem with [Cell Zone] is, as Augur says, nobody will ever use it. Privacy is…

Tech News Charlie White

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•Nokia says no to smoking; pushes for cellphone smoke detector [Textually.org] •iPod labor relations hit sour note [CNN Tech] •Microsoft Investigates Leak Of ‘Office’ Videos [InformationWeek] •Electrolysis could save the planet by creating ‘Green Iron’ [New Scientist Tech] •AT&T Says Hackers Accessed Customers’ Cards [InformationWeek]

Tech News Travis Hudson

Sony Going to Revise Production Numbers on PS3s?

Sony may be restating their 4 million unit estimate down to 2 million, thanks to troubles with Blu-ray diodes, their GPUs, and lousy Cell yields. https://gizmodo.com/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-trouble-not-enough-blue-diodes-to-g-197639 If Sony’s even going to hit the 2.0 million mark, something Microsoft couldn’t do in two months with less complicated hardware, it’s a good thing they started making PS3s…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sega Dreamcast Wristwatch

Although this isn’t an actual Dreamcast system that you can play on your wrist—oh how we wish that were so—it’s the next best thing. This watch, comissioned by Sega, has an actual Dreamcast-like face which flips open to tell you the time. Classy and nerdy. You can pre-order one at Playasia now for the Sept.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Windows Vista pre-RC1 Screenshots

We called for screenshots of Vista pre-RC1, and reader Craig answered. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-vista-preview-release-candidate-1-in-the-wild-196754 Here are some shots of the Vista desktop, in case you were at all curious what’s changed since you’ve last tried out the beta. Thanks Craig!

Tech News Jason Chen

The Inka Pen Lets You Write Underwater

The Inka Pen is both a keychain and a pen, making it better than a normal pen and definitely way better than a normal keychain. We’ve all seen those space pens when we were kids that allowed us to write upside down. The novelty quickly wore out, and those pens were soon lost or misplaced—who…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Microsoft XNA Home Game Developer Kit Available For Download

The XNA Game Studio Express, a developer pack that will allow you to make home-brew games for the Xbox 360 and the PC, is available for Beta download. Unfortunately this version only supports Windows XP SP2 and not Xbox 360 or Windows Vista. But, it’s a good start to get your feet wet with game…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sierra Wireless EVDO/HSPDA Aircards for High Speed Cell Data By USB

Yesterday, Sprint unveiled their first revision A. EVDO high speed cellular data card. That card came in the aging PCMCIA form factor, so we couldn’t use it in our Macbook Pros. Here’s a cludgy fix to that problem: EVDO and HSPDA cards that work over a USB cable. EVDO, is the broadband-like speed that Verizon…

Tech News Brian Lam

One Consumer’s Odyssey In Getting Her Motorola RAZR Repaired

One unlucky lady went through almost a dozen Motorola phone operators to try and get her Motorola V3i RAZR replaced or repaired. Reading through her IM story, we felt like she was Odysseus, her repaired RAZR was Odysseus’s wife/home, and Motorola’s phone jockeys were Poseidon, tossing her about the sea like a ruthless bitch. Long…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Hipster – A Personal Trailer

Slightly less embarrassing than carrying a fanny pack, this hipster lets you carry around your stuff in a little personal trailer. The hipster’s tied to your body, making you a half mule half, half rickshaw driving man with a trailer on your ass. We suppose this is useful for, uh, long…walks…with stuff? Yeah, I got…

Gadgets Jason Chen

1 Second Update: M-Cody M22 MP3 Player In White

We wrote about the M22 player just yesterday, but today, the fellas at TechEBlog dug up this shiny white photo. Doesn’t she look like an angel? The DAP is less than a centimeter thick, has a little 128 by 64 pixel OLED display, has USB 2.0, and support for the usual suspects, plus OGG. https://gizmodo.com/m-cody-m20-get-a-2-digit-upgrade-introducing-the-m22-197301…

Tech News Brian Lam

More Treo 750 Porn

These leaked shots of the Treo 750 won’t be equated to porn by normal folks like you and I. But to my buddy Matt Hickey, it’s a different story. He’s already printed these out and taken it into his bathroom at work for an extended break. My Treo 750 [MyPDACafe – Thanks Willy!]

Tech News Jason Chen

Lamp Refrigerator Concept

I’m always hungry, and also afraid of the dark, so when I saw this combination lamp and refrigerator, I knew I had to have one. I’d use it to hold cupcakes, bacon, ketchup, and a small bottle of premixed Tang. By Joakim Oscarsson. Cloche: Hanging Refrigerator [Sci Fi Tech]

Gadgets Brian Lam

It’s All Butter with Mitsubishi’s Flutter Shutter

A research team at Mitsubishi has developed a new type of digital camera shutter that will do a significantly better job at stopping motion and deblurring images. It works exactly how its odd name describes, the shutter flutters. With a traditional exposure, the shutter will open during the duration of the shot. The flutter shutter…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Is the Apple iSight Getting An Upgrade Soon?

Is the venerable Apple iSight getting a much needed upgrade in the next two months? The estimated ship date on the Apple Store for the webcam says “October”, but it’s hard to believe that so many people would be interested in one seeing as only two models of Apple computers—Mac Pro and Mac Mini—don’t have…

Tech News Jason Chen

Kamarack: One Hell of a PC Peripheral

BenQ Intros DC C540, and DC C740 Digital Cameras

Creative Officially Unveils Zen Vision W, 60GB Zen Vision:M

Sony Set to Ship Dildo-Like Walkman NW-S200 Series Sports MP3 Players

Sharp Opens the Aquos Kimono with Six Improved LCD TVs

Best of Gizmodo

Other Bits and Bytes

Sony Going to Revise Production Numbers on PS3s?

Sega Dreamcast Wristwatch

Windows Vista pre-RC1 Screenshots

The Inka Pen Lets You Write Underwater

Microsoft XNA Home Game Developer Kit Available For Download

Sierra Wireless EVDO/HSPDA Aircards for High Speed Cell Data By USB

One Consumer’s Odyssey In Getting Her Motorola RAZR Repaired

The Hipster – A Personal Trailer

1 Second Update: M-Cody M22 MP3 Player In White

More Treo 750 Porn

Lamp Refrigerator Concept

It’s All Butter with Mitsubishi’s Flutter Shutter

Is the Apple iSight Getting An Upgrade Soon?

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