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The Dream’eo Enza just had its prices slashed to $169, which makes it a very cheap option for Windows Media Center ’05 owners to take their recorded shows on the go. The low, low price is $139 cheaper than a 30GB iPod Video, which requires re-encoding of files if you want to watch your shows…
Samsung’s pumping out phones in Korea and Europe faster than Britney’s popping out kids for Kevin. The latest is their near RAZR-thin SGH-Z560 HSDPA phone with 1.8Mbps data throughput. The phone has 30MB of internal memory plus a microSD slot for expanded memory. https://gizmodo.com/sandisk-releases-2gb-microsd-cards-191054 In addition to HSDPA, the SGH-Z560 also supports edge, has a…
Normally when we show these cool robot things they’re in the design phase, but this one is actually up for sale in Japan for $315,000! The Land Walker was made by Masaaki Nagumo, measures 11 feet tall, weighs one ton, and sprays bullets from air guns mounted outside the cockpit. Unfortunately they’re only sponge bullets,…
These Altec Lansing M602 iPod speakers look like they’re much better than the little tiny iPod speakers we got off Woot one drunken night. The M602 has a wireless remote, wall-mount kit, universal iPod dock that can hook up to your computer, and composite video out for 5G iPod TV hookup. There’s even a headphone…
Swank design mag Metropolis profiles Transit Design, and makes mention of Syntes Design of Stockholm and their Sit Different Chair. As cleanly designed as a Macbook, with a swivel tray for namesake laptop. And the all white leather seat sits on a metal base, complete with Apple logo. Syntes is, “In negotiations with a handful…
A do-it-yourselfer noticed that the LED on the new Mighty Mouse “would blink when it is not in sync with a computer. Once sync’ed, the LED would go OFF if the mouse is moving and it would be continually ON when the mouse is NOT moving.” He then made it his duty to take out…
The latest non-competitor to the iPod Nano takes some of its control-design cues from the Toshiba Gigabeat, but with only five hours of battery life, it’s not going to do any dethroning anytime soon. Ignoring how engineers could possibly allow a flash-based player to get five hours of life where others are getting up to…
If you’re as sick as us of doing the “I’m going this way, you go that way” shuffle whenever you run into a guy on the street, try the Indicatears—candidate for one one of the most ridiculous gadgets we’ve ever seen. The lights fit behind your ears and are tied to a belt/shirt clip attachment…
Scoble says there’s tons of junk headed our way from WWDC next week. What do you think is the most likely product to be launched? https://gizmodo.com/robert-scoble-says-there-will-be-a-dizzying-amount-of-n-191572 iVoting after the jump. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.
T-Mobile just released their 2.26 update for the MDA on their official site. If you go to your my.t-mobile.com account, log in, click “support for MDA”, then click on “System Upgrade”, you’ll be taken to the download site for their new upgrade. The link didn’t show up for me last night, but it shows up…
Two noise reducing headphones from Turtle Beach, the company that trailed Creative in the sound card business as far as we can remember. Their ANR-10 and ANR-20 puts their extensive sound expertise into helping make that loud “foreign” couple on the plane just a little bit more bearable. The ANR-10 are of the wrap-around kind,…
Sure, when I was a kid I rocked out Ninja Turtles and G.I. Joe, but if I could have had action figures of these two I would have tossed out Donatello in a heartbeat—he was pretty weak with that staff, anyway. These miniature Kugg toys are modeled after none other than Bill Gates and Steve…
Sergio Trujillo of Spain took the time to make an entire demo movie of what a possible can opener attachment to the iPod shuffle would look like. We praise him for the time it took to make this movie, but the practicality of the thing leaves something to be desired. Plus, we think the iPod…
This is just a quick reminder that our Show Us Your ‘Pod contest is still alive and kicking. Belkin has a sweet iPod accessory package up for grabs. Follow the linkage below to get the full details on what you need to do to win and hit the jump to see some of our entries…
Plextor is planning on releasing a CD/DVD drive soon that will erase all the data on a disc, making data recovery impossible—or so they claim. We’re surprised we haven’t seen this type of drive sooner. Most people have been sticking their discs in the microwave and frying it in six seconds, not six minutes. We…
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Some good news today for T-Mobile customers. The cellphone provider is planning to launch their “5” plan later this year, which is currently in testing in the Portland, Oregon region. The “5” is a new rate plan that allows you to pick five numbers that you make and receive calls to and from the most,…
Canon fired back at Sony, announcing the HV 10, its first consumer-level HD camcorder. It records high-definition footage in the low-cost HDV format at Canon’s so-called “full HD 1920x1080i.” Consumers will also like its ability to take stills at 3.1 megapixels, and store them on a mini-SD card. https://gizmodo.com/sony-hdr-hc3-hdv-camcorder-to-debut-150849 Canon says the HV 10 is…
There’s only one week left until Apple’s WWDC and the rumors are already flooding in about what’s going to be released. Robert Scoble, former Microsoft blogger, throws out this very interesting nugget on his blog: Speaking of Apple, they are readying a dizzying amount of new products. I wish I could camp out at an…
