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•Nikon D80 DSLR Hits the Streets, Web Goes Wild •Sony TA-DA3200ES Receiver Brings Serious Power •Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition •The Litter Robot Turns Cat Litter Into Easter Eggs •Credit Card-Sized Wrench For Your Wallet https://gizmodo.com/nikon-d80-dslr-hits-the-streets-web-goes-wild-193017
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This remote controlled car looks like a little Moller Skycar for a reason. It zooms over grass, concrete, and dirt. But at 20MPH, it goes airborne. Whoosh! During flight, the vehicle can reach heights of 20 stories at 30MPH. And the racer only costs 60 bucks (plus $20 for a rechargeable battery that’ll last 10…
Glenn Reynolds is a law professor at the University of Tennessee, Instapundit blogger, and author of Army of Davids. He’s also a musician, and audio geek, and waaaaay smarter than everyone at the Gizmodo staff put together. So we had him take a looksie at the Edirol R-09 audio recorder, which we wrote about in…
The Sony Ericsson GC86 quad-band GSM/EDGE PC card just got FCC approval to be shoved violently into your laptop. The card is available on all GSM networks, which means Cingular and T-mobilites can get their slow-speed mobile browsing wherever they have signal. And if the EDGE rates on my T-Mobile MDA is any indication, you’re…
Here’s a live video on what the Nikon D80 looks like in the hands of a real person. At least we think she’s real—we’ve never actually seen a female in person before. She mostly restates the features we listed before, but it’s nice to see how big the screen, body, and lens is in case…
It isn’t as fancy as an IP based camera from D-Link. But this security camera keeps an eye on your property, using only power from the sun. The solar driven device only transmits A/V when it senses movement (up to 26 feet away.) Its video stream transmits over the crowded 2.4Ghz range, which means it…
Fujifilm’s announced a 2GB xD-Picture card for digital camera and camcorders—mostly Olympus and Fujifilm cameras, plus Olympus’s voice recorders. The press release says the 2GB card can store 1,640 5-megapixel pictures of sorority girls gone wild, or up to 58 minutes of drunkenly filmed 320×240 resolution movies. Add to that hours and hours of your…
This dual-ended cellphone power connector from Korea seems a bit weird. You plug one end into a cellphone that’s run out of power, and the other end into a cellphone full-up on juice. Once you hook it up, the downed phone will draw current from the other phone to immediately power it up. Other than…
If you’re always looking to loosen bolts wherever you go, but hate that bulky wrench-pocket look, here’s the credit-card sized wrench substitute from the UK. Easy to carry and easy to use (sort of), the card works on metric sizes ranging from M6 to M14. Does that mean it won’t work on bolts in the…
Sharp throws out some more flash-based MP3 players as if this was 2002. The MP-S700 has 512MB of storage, is powered by an AAA battery, and supports MP3/WMA/WMA-DRM. The S800 is the same except for having 1GB of storage. Other than being available in black, red, and white, the players are sort of lackluster and…
Reader Michael sent in this link to some web-based Java airport monitoring app. Just go to the site, pick an airport, and see a real-time display on planes flying in and out of your local hub. So far only major airports like Boston Logan International, LaGuardia, LAX, and my local San Jose International airport have…
If you’ve got a cat that weighs more than 5 pounds, this Litter Robot will turn his waste into little pre-packaged eggs for you to easily throw away—no more pee covered hands. Your cat goes into the spaceship-like ball to do his business, steps out, and his droppings automatically get turned into little red and…
Skype and iSkoot just launched a new co-marketing agreement to allow Java-enabled phones and higher-end smartphones to make Skype calls through the regular cellphone network. While it’s true that using iSkoot will allow you to make calls on the Skype network by going through an iSkoot gateway first, it does not eliminate cellphone fees that…
Not content with just the Aston Martin Edition of their 8800, Nokia is producing a Sirocco Edition of it as well. Besides having a 2 megapixel camera and a 831.20 Euros ($1069) price tag, there’s a redesigned keypad and a new grooved sliding cover. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-8800-aston-martin-edition-166805 Available in silver and black, the phone should delight heiresses…
Microsoft’s still being coy about the HD DVD drive they showed off at the DVD Forum in Los Angeles. Despite the tight-lipped policy about not giving out price or launch date, we do know a few more things. The drive is about the size of a large hardcover book, and around half the size of…
Five bladeded scissors just wasn’t enough for the Japanese. They’ve went and upped the ante to NINE. Nine blades to help you shred your papers nine times as fast as a normal pair, and 1.8 times as fast as the five-bladed model. Available for $19.80. https://gizmodo.com/shredding-scissors-178128 Do kids these days know who Lorena Bobbitt is?…
A recent Associated Content article is suggesting that XM and Microsoft are working together on some kind of satellite radio functionality for the Zune. Unfortunately their logic is a bit flawed. The WiFi antenna also will help Microsoft to support XM radio on the Zune, something they’ve been looking into. Both XM and Sirius have…
Ford has announced their Capless Fuel Filler. Basically meaning that stupid cap that you have to unscrew will be no more. No more forgetting to screw it back in. Their new Capless Fuel Filler eliminates the need for a cap and prevents gas fume escapes. The new filler will be deployed in the 2008 Ford…
The Comfort Sphere was designed by Volkswagen for trade shows, but might be a great idea to enhance the work and concentration required of writers, think-tankers, and hey, maybe even a blogger or two. Winner of a RedDot Design Award for 2006, it’s a self-contained audio and video womb which invites you into it innocently…