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AOpen MiniPCs Will Use Core 2 Duo

While yesterday may have been the big unveiling of the Intel Core 2 Duo—also known as Merom—AOpen just announced that its MiniPC line of PCs (think of them almost as the PC’s Mac mini) will also be using Intel’s latest wunderchip. Both the MP945-X and the MP945-VXR will use the Merom processor. https://gizmodo.com/intel-core-duo-whassup-faster-197105 The MP945-VXR…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Maxian M800 PMP: Another Korean Player, Not Cheap

As if Korean company Maxian hasn’t released enough personal media players (PMP), here comes another one, the M800, which looks remarkably similar to its brandmate, the T700 that we mentioned earlier this month. This one does bring a slimmer 17mm form factor to the party, along with the 4.3-inch 480×272 LCD made by Sharp, so…

Gadgets Charlie White

Philips READIUS E-Reader Scroll Prototype

You’ve heard of e-ink devices, like the Sony Librie, or e-reader, or whatever. But you’ve never seen a real working prototype of an electronic reader based on a flexible e-paper, that rolls up like a scroll. And you’ve never seen a video of said device being explained by a Norwegian named Hans to an Austrailian…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Philips TSU9600 Pronto Professional is the Mega Remote

Philips’s latest Pronto is a bit like Hulk Hogan, big, beefy, and shiny on top. Instead of 24 inch pythons, it has a 640 by 480 pixel touchscreen that’s only 3.7-inches big. That’s a whole lotta pixels per square inch, meaning the screen is going to be sharp as heck. The controller can link wave…

Tech News Brian Lam

Best of Gizmodo

•Epson PowerLite Cinema 400 Projector: LCD-Driven, and HD Ready •Ban Beater Recycles Your Bathwater For Plant Watering/Car Washing •Samsung Core 2 Duos the Q35 and the R55 Notebooks •Simple Image-Based PSP Exploit For 2.0-2.8 Firmware Released •Trekstor Vibez Digital Audio Player Looks Odd, Might Actually Be Good https://gizmodo.com/epson-powerlite-cinema-400-projector-lcd-driven-and-h-197187

Tech News Charlie White

Other Bits and Bytes

•Chinese Manufacturers To Become Leader In The Hybrid Car Market [Autopia – Wired Blogs] •Singapore Going Crazy For Wi-Fi, Coocoo For Cocoa Puffs [C|Net] •Lockheed Martin To Produce New Supersonic Jet That Will Travel At 1,200MPH (Mach 1.8) [Wired] •Fabric With Fiber Optics Woven In Seen To Be A Rising Fashion Trend [BBC News]

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TurboFragPad Mouse Pad Basically a Glowing Pane of Glass

The nerds at GameApex went ahead and did a 3 page review of a mouse pad. But not just any mousepad. These are the all glass, custom etched, super-duper high performance, cold-cathode lit TurboFragPad mouse pads. Oh Joy! Author Adil Qarni finds it to be nicer looking and bigger than the Loony Tunes pointer pad…

Tech News Brian Lam

T-Mobile At Home VoIP Router/Cellphone Box Pictures

Remember the T-Mobile At Home VoIP service we told you about a few weeks ago? Looks like T-Mobile has rolled out the limited-edition beta deployment, and one such user sent in these pictures of his box that came with a router and a cellphone. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-secretly-testing-t-mobile-at-home-192149 With T-mobile At Home and the included Samsung dual-mode phone…

Tech News Jason Chen

OS X Leopard: Expose + Spaces Demo

Are you curious how expose in OS X will work with the upcoming “spaces” virtual desktop feature? Take a look. You can easily move windows between desktops and expose will “re-expose” the desktop once you’ve dropped the window. Quite neat. How Expose Works With Spaces in Mac OS X Leopard [Crunchgear]

Tech News Jason Chen

Epson PowerLite Cinema 400 Projector: LCD-Driven, and HD Ready

The Epson PowerLite Cinema 400 Projector is a follow up to last year’s PowerLite Cinema 550. Comparatively, this new model is priced at $1599.99 ($900 dollars less), with 1500 lumens (vs 1400), and the same 720p resolution. It’s nice to see HD projectors dropping in price—in five years time, we’ll see them in cracker jack…

Tech News Brian Lam

TiVo Finally Gets Wireless Adapter With WPA Support

Security-minded wireless users have long switched from the weak WEP encryption to WPA or WPA2 on their wireless routers. WPA and WPA2 are slightly more secure than WEP, which can be cracked within seconds with the right tool. So why has TiVo been so slow to offer support for WPA? Who knows, but at least…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ban Beater Recycles Your Bathwater For Plant Watering/Car Washing

This may be old hat to our UK readers, but the Ban Beater device is a gadget that helps you recycle your used bathwater for outdoor use. After you bathe, use the Ban Beater to suck up the “greywater”, take it outside, and you’ve got enough water to feed your plants. You could technically use…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Firmware Update Management Object Standard Published, Can Someday Update Your Phone’s Firmware Over The Air

The Open Mobile Alliance published its standard for updating phones, paving the way for your phone to someday be able to update yourself without any supervision—similar to Windows Update. We say “someday”, because phone makers don’t want to make phones that support this until servers are in place, and service providers don’t want to put…

Tech News Jason Chen

Naneu Pro u120 Bag Reviewed (Verdict: Baggy, But In A Good Way)

Crunchgear needed a bag that holds all their junk and was padded enough so that said junk wouldn’t break. The solution came as in the form of a Naneu Pro u120, which they named the “finest bag in its class”. The main compartment acts like a regular backpack, or can be used to fit the…

Gadgets Jason Chen

HP hw6900 Smartphone Releasing This Weekend On Cingular/T-Mobile?

Mobility Today has information that the HP hw6900 PocketPC phone is going to be released this weekend on both T-Mobile and Cingular. T-Mobile rarely gets new phones, so their customers should be very happy. And since this information supposedly comes straight from a mouth of a HP internet chat associate, we’ll give a little bit…

Tech News Jason Chen

Tangleless Earbuds with the earBuddy

The earBuddy is a keychain container that stores your earbuds and makes them a bit easier to carry around. In all reality this is a pretty nifty little invention that could prevent earbud tangles. It is available for $15. Save the ‘buds, stop the tangles! Product Page [Via Redferret]

Tech News Travis Hudson

SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway Update

If you recall, we are giving away a couple of the SanDisk 2GB Cruzer Titanium w/ U3 USB flash drives in our Indestructible Giveaway. Follow the linkage here to get all of the details on the contest and what you need to do to win. Thanks to Rob for his video submission of a monitor…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Sony PS3 GPU Gets Downgraded

The Sony PS3’s GPU, previously running at 550MHz Core/700MHz memory, has been downgraded to 500MHz Core/650MHz memory. We don’t mean to crap on Sony’s cake all the time, but when their most powerful machine EVAR keeps losing its power, people start to notice. In any case, if decreasing the specs will help get more units…

Tech News Jason Chen

Battlestar Galactica Story-Recap Available on Xbox Live Marketplace

Starting now, you can download the Season 1 and 2 recap video of Battlestar Galactica, which fills you in on Seasons 1 and 2 and gears you up for the start of Season 3 in October. When we were at E3, we grilled the Xbox Live guys for an answer on whether they were ever…

Tech News Jason Chen

Dash.Net Cellular/WiFi/GPS Networked Driving Device

The Dash.net service is a combination of hardware and software, hooking up your in-car navigation system that connects to the online dash.net using WiFi or the cellular network. The device has a GPS system for normal GPS-navigation functions, but also can connect to other Dash.net users/devices while on the road to create a mesh of…

Gadgets Jason Chen

AOpen MiniPCs Will Use Core 2 Duo

Maxian M800 PMP: Another Korean Player, Not Cheap

Philips READIUS E-Reader Scroll Prototype

Philips TSU9600 Pronto Professional is the Mega Remote

Best of Gizmodo

Other Bits and Bytes

TurboFragPad Mouse Pad Basically a Glowing Pane of Glass

T-Mobile At Home VoIP Router/Cellphone Box Pictures

OS X Leopard: Expose + Spaces Demo

Epson PowerLite Cinema 400 Projector: LCD-Driven, and HD Ready

TiVo Finally Gets Wireless Adapter With WPA Support

Ban Beater Recycles Your Bathwater For Plant Watering/Car Washing

Firmware Update Management Object Standard Published, Can Someday Update Your Phone’s Firmware Over The Air

Naneu Pro u120 Bag Reviewed (Verdict: Baggy, But In A Good Way)

HP hw6900 Smartphone Releasing This Weekend On Cingular/T-Mobile?

Tangleless Earbuds with the earBuddy

SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway Update

Sony PS3 GPU Gets Downgraded

Battlestar Galactica Story-Recap Available on Xbox Live Marketplace

Dash.Net Cellular/WiFi/GPS Networked Driving Device

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Dyson V8 Cordless Vacuum Holds Its Lowest Price Even After Amazon’s Spring Sale Ends, Likely a Clearance Move

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Richard Branson Is Still Trying to Make Space Tourism Happen, Selling Tickets at $750,000

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Google Pixel 9a Hits a Record Low on Clearance, With Trade-In Making It Nearly Half the Price of Pixel Buds Pro 2

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