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Tech News Charlie White

Oregon Scientific Giovannoni Weather Station: Italian Designed Forecaster

Oregon Scientific hired famous (to someone) designer, Stefano Giovannoni, to come up with their latest of their 123423523452345998 weather monitoring clocks. The guy is a sci-fi fanatic, and you can see the influence on the front panel’s Star War-ish design. It reads off indoor and outdoor temperature, humidity, a forecast for the day, and your…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Victoria’s Secret Models Like MacBooks Too!

The two sexy Victoria’s secret ladies, Allesandra Ambrosio and Gisele Bundchen, were caught backstage at a Victoria’s Secret event woman-handling some Apple hardware. This picture is excruciatingly confusing for Apple fanboys. What are they supposed to look at, the women, or the black and white Apple MacBooks? Their brains—and pants—asplode at the possibilities. By the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Is This The GSM Treo?

Is this the new GSM Treo 700 that’s coming in Europe? Or is it a completely new model? We’re not sure, but the guy who posted these pics has a few things to say about this Palm OS-based Treo. https://gizmodo.com/palm-offers-up-gsm-treo-for-europe-through-vodafone-187157 He says there’s no right shift key, it has 64MB of internal memory, it’s the…

Tech News Jason Chen

T-Mobile Getting Two Slim Samsungs: T629 and T519

Two more anorexic phones are heading to the T-Mob, as the FCC has just cleared them for departure. The Samsung T629 is a slider with a microSD slot and 70MB of internal storage. It has a 2-megapixel camera and probably won’t have TV-out capabilities like the Samsung D840 it’s based off of, seeing as T-Mobile…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T50 Leaked Pics

Pics of the so far unannounced Sony DSC-T50 surfaced on i4u from an anonymous tipster. The T50 has the general form factor of the T-series, but features a 7.2 megapixel sensor and 3x optical zoom, combined with “Super SteadyShot”. There’s also a built in slideshow with music feature for annoying friends and family. The T50…

Tech News Jason Chen

Saitek Eclipse II Backlit Keyboards Shipping

The Eclipse II we saw at E3 from Saitek is finally shipping. The keyboard features a backlight, similar to the ones people love on the MacBook Pro laptops, but in three different colors: purple, red and blue. There’s a dimmer switch on the keyboard to switch colors and adjust the intensity. https://gizmodo.com/e3-2006-saitek-round-up-172994 In addition to…

Tech News Jason Chen

Hitachi DZ-HS303 DVD and HDD Camcorder

This DVD-HDD Hybridcam is only available in Japan as part of their “Wooo” line, but damn if it doesn’t make us say Wooo too. The disc accepts 8cm DVDs as well as SD cards for removable memory. However, it has a bonus of having an 8GB hard disk in there in order to seamlessly transition…

Tech News Jason Chen

Soloist Universal Media Dock for SIRIUS, Etc

Oh god, oh god, oh god. I am wetting my pants over here. (No, I’m not a satellite radio fanboy, I promise) This is the Soloist Universal Media Dock. It’s beautiful, isn’t it? This dock will utilize the universal dock adapter that SIRIUS has began using on their current Sportster 4 receivers and all future…

Tech News Travis Hudson

TransGaming’s Cider Lets Enhanced Windows Games Run On Mac

No rebooting with Boot Camp and no Parallels software required to make these Cider-enhanced Windows games run on Mac. The only requirement is for game developers to include the Cider software in their game-builds for Windows, and Cider will handle all the translation between Windows and OS X. No major rebuild and development required on…

Tech News Jason Chen

Criminals use Cameraphones to Assist in Robbing

Gang members in Port Elizbeth, South Africa are using cameraphones for a different purpose. In the past we have heard of criminals being caught by cameraphoning bystanders, but this is a whole new ballgame. The criminals are photographing possible victims inside of banks who withdraw a lot of money. They are then sending the photo…

Tech News Travis Hudson

iPodweek – The Best of iLounge

This week at iLounge: Two of Bose’s most famous iPod-compatible products have been challenged by aggressive new alternatives. Still the top-selling iPod speaker dock despite its price, Bose’s $300 all-in-one speaker system SoundDock has two new competitors, both of which we’ve reviewed. Altec Lansing’s M602 is a bigger dock with bass and treble controls, plus…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Roll-Up Mousepad … What?

The Red Ferret guys said it right. Aren’t all mousepads roll-up versions? Regardless this mousepad is designed for the heavy travelers who desperately need the company of a mousepad but think that regular mousepads take up too much room. This $20 pad lies on the desk, pulls out when needed and sucks back up when…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Circuit City Violates DMCA For $10

Not content with just ripping you off with their high hardware prices, Circuit City is now robbing you via a DVD transfer service. For $10, you can get one of your precious DVD movies—that you “own”—ripped into iPod format. For $20, they’ll do three, and for $30 they’ll do five. This service is all fine…

Tech News Jason Chen

Show Us Your ‘Pod Quick Update

Just letting you folks know that our Show Us Your Pod Giveaway is still going on. Gizmodo, with a little help from Belkin, is giving away an iPod accessory package. Hit up the link here to find out what you need to do to win. Thanks to Kiel for his submission above. Big props for…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Enhanced Version of Manoi AT01 Robot Announced

Over in Japan, Kyosho has announced the upcoming availability of an enhanced, roided-up version of its Manoi AT01 robot, the Manoi PF01. Compared to the previous Manoi, this version will be better in every aspect: taller, heavier and with more bells and whistles than ever before to keep you entertained. Part of this is because…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

XM ParkingLink Officialized, Kind of

Remember that phatty—yeah, I said phatty, deal with it—Lexus that we saw at CES back in January? Yeah, the one that had the XM ParkingLink system that could locate empty stalls. Well eight months later some information has finally surfaced regarding the system. Our hombres at Orbitcast have word that ParkingLink will be available later…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

DIY Car Cup Holder Cellphone Mount

Here is a quick and handy way to mount almost any cellphone into a car cup holder. All you need is an angle brace, three neoprene washers, a threaded rod, cable ties, one of those cheapy universal cellphone belt clips, a cup holder and plaster of paris. It may seem like a lot, but a…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Dr. Who Cyberman Helmet Video Review

More a gimmick or Halloween prop than anything, the Dr. Who Cyberman Helmet changes has three voice settings and makes you look like a Cyberman from Dr. Who—we’ve never actually seen the show. The product’s okay, but the review was so cute we couldn’t not show it. This is the same reviewer Susi from Shiny…

Gadgets Jason Chen

YoTank Mililtary-Grade MP3 Player Cases

Surely everyone out there accidentally detonates their MP3 player from time to time, right? I know I do. The YoTank MP3 player cases are milled from solid blocks of aluminum and can stand a RPG or mortar shell explosion 85 percent of the time. Jokes aside this is actually a good invention for our troops…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Other Bits & Bytes

Oregon Scientific Giovannoni Weather Station: Italian Designed Forecaster

Victoria’s Secret Models Like MacBooks Too!

Is This The GSM Treo?

T-Mobile Getting Two Slim Samsungs: T629 and T519

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T50 Leaked Pics

Saitek Eclipse II Backlit Keyboards Shipping

Hitachi DZ-HS303 DVD and HDD Camcorder

Soloist Universal Media Dock for SIRIUS, Etc

TransGaming’s Cider Lets Enhanced Windows Games Run On Mac

Criminals use Cameraphones to Assist in Robbing

iPodweek – The Best of iLounge

Roll-Up Mousepad … What?

Circuit City Violates DMCA For $10

Show Us Your ‘Pod Quick Update

Enhanced Version of Manoi AT01 Robot Announced

XM ParkingLink Officialized, Kind of

DIY Car Cup Holder Cellphone Mount

Dr. Who Cyberman Helmet Video Review

YoTank Mililtary-Grade MP3 Player Cases

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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