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A lot of you have been asking about putting a Digg button underneath our posts. Well, if you click on the little [+] sign at the bottom right of each entry, there it is. So go ahead and give us the link-love. I know, I know, our interface isn’t as “cute” as Digg’s UI. But…
Here’s one of those pieces of techno-goodness that serves as foreshadowing to what we might be seeing in the not-too-distant future. Samsung has just created the first 3-inch LCD panel that not only has enough pixels for 640×480 (VGA) resolution, but also has the industry-standard interface needed to fit into digital still cameras. Until now,…
More remote controlled goodness! This little Mario action figure walks when you mash on the joypad—a Japanese NES (or Famicon) replica controller. He knows how to go forward, backward, left and right. No fireballs or jumping, unfortunately. There’s a picture of the Toad version, and a video of the toy in action, after the jump.…
As nearly everyone and his brother tries to figure out how to monetize a video site on the Interwebs like YouTube, in comes Viddler, an idea that just might work. Its major innovation is its searchable video, where uploaders tag certain sections of a video and then viewers can search within it, finding whatever spot…
ShackWatch: Music Has the Right to Children By Brendan I. Koerner The biz-school adage I’m about to drop isn’t quite a classic on the order of “Buy low, sell high.” But it’s a good’un nonetheless, and I hope you budding entrepreneurs out there will take note: When you can no longer compete on price, it’s…
The Klegg Mini is a micro-sized flash mp3 player that includes a tiny LCD display. The unit itself measures 1.8 inches by 1.6 inches by .5 inches. This player is available in 128MB, 256MB and 512MB capacities—the free model being given away is likely 128MB. There is a bit of a catch to getting this…
Don’t Break the Bottle is designed to exasperate your guests, making them work for their opportunity to imbibe. It fits on any standard wine bottle, and nobody drinks until that puzzle is solved, one way or another. Please, don’t invite me to any parties where I must somehow solve a puzzle to get to the…
This is the latest PMP from Korean manufacturer, Curon. It is a pretty average PMP that is powered by AMD’s Alchemy chipset. It includes a 30GB hard drive and supports a variety of video and audio files, includes a T-DMB receiver and supports “HD quality TV out,” whatever the hell that means. There is also…
At first glance, we thought these door handles made by supplier of door handles to yachts free:go were the same as the lighted door handles we’ve mentioned before, but no, these unusual knobs have a dual purpose: they’re soft and elastic to the touch, and they also emit an allegedly pleasant aroma. https://gizmodo.com/lighted-door-handle-189021 Ahh, aromatherapy,…
Alltel has announced a deal with XM to bring 20 of their popular satellite radio stations straight to consumers via their cellphone. The deal will cost an additional $7.99 a month, which is a little more than half of what full XM service costs. This is similar to the deal that Sprint and SIRIUS inked…
Take a look at the Jukebox Station, a 3-foot-tall iPod-ready music machine with FM radio, CD player, and an attractive array of LEDs designed by Saffire USA. There’s a universal docking cradle inside for any iPod accepting such connections, and you can also hook up your video iPod to a TV using SVideo or composite…
This bright blue and green Barney shopping cart is a little more than meets the eye. It is equipped with a small LCD television that can play Barney, Bob the Builder or The Wiggles for the kiddos while the parents shop. The child seats on this cart are in the front closer to the ground…
This hard drive enclosure from Planex may be the ultimate do-it-all peripheral for your desk. It will replace the plethora of wires and hubs humping your already cramped work space. The PL-35UXA is initially a 3.5-inch hard drive enclosure that accepts drives up to 750GB in size, but the fun doesn’t end there. This beauty…
Projection clocks are dime a dozen, but this one’s different, tossing a good old-fashioned analog clock face onto the wall that can be up to 3 feet in diameter. It has an 80-watt halogen bulb doing the shining, which must mean it’s too bright to be destined for your nightstand. It’s actually not a bad-looking…
Intrepid Gizmodo friend, Sean Captain explores all the legal options we have for downloading and then burning movies to disc. His finds? Vivid does it first, CinemaNow and MovieLink follow suit. It takes about an 1.5 hours to download on fast broadband, and burning takes a button click. And then, your new movie-on-a-disc looks no…
Now here’s a smartphone that’s getting even smarter, in fact, the Orange SPV M3100 does so much stuff the company’s calling it a connected PDA. Running Windows Mobile 5.0, Orange says the phone is the first to support HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), an offshoot of the 3G wireless protocol that’s the latest attempt…
Blue Ant is now shipping the SuperTooth II, a hands-free speakerphone that you snap onto your car’s sun visor using a magnetic clip. It’s got a lithium-ion battery that the company says will give you 20 hours of talk time 800 hours of standby. Another key spec is its full duplex capability, allowing you to…
We reported Tuesday about Sprint Nextel’s WiMax broadband wireless network it was planning to build using WiMax technology. Now, the company says it’s going to start laying down some serious money to make this happen, vowing to spend $3 billion over the next two years to build the WiMax network. The advantage for us? Nothing…
Playing video games for too long can give you a hunched back. Appropriately named arcade cabinet maker, Quasimoto, has updated their many buttoned, many joystick’d model with an “HD” designation. That’s a thinner profile, thanks to the wide-aspect flatscreen LCD that replaces the CRT in previous models we’ve written about. Also new are the removable…
This, my friend, is the Vapor Tracer, a device being used in the drug wars to sniff out narcotics. Its nose is a mass spectrometry sensor, which finds little bags of cocaine in your ass by detecting the “mass-to-charge ratio of ions”. Yeah, neither do we. Anyhow, it’s the coolest of all the hardware in…