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The XPS 410, with Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6600 inside, is one speedy entertainment machine. Although not thrifty by any means at $2,405, this unit comes with a 20-inch widescreen LCD and lots of gamer and power-user components inside. The GeForce7900 graphics card, dual TV Tuner, dual-port Firewire Card, and dual 320GB Serial ATA hard…
We spoke to a Motorola iDEN devices rep and confirmed that the Motorola i880 and i885 we posted about are NOT cross platform, dual-mode phones. They’re only iDEN with PTT functionality that work on Nextel’s service. https://gizmodo.com/nextel-getting-two-megapixel-cameraphones-from-motorola-189777 However, the Motorola ic502 and ic902, with the “c” monicker, are dual-mode and work with CDMA and have…
Our own resident editor, Emmy winner, knower of all things gadgety, and all around bad dude Charlie White sat down to do an interview with The Blog Reader. In it Chuck talks about how he came to Gizmodo, what he’s doing when he’s not Gizmodo-ing, and how he killed a monkey with his bare hands.…
For the anything-but-iPod crowd, there’s the Insignia Amigo flash-based MP3 player, which looks nice and has some decent features to boot. It comes in 1 and 2GB sizes, has a built in FM tuner, color OLED screen, MP3/WMA/WMA-DRM/Audible/JPEG support, 18 hours of playback time, and even album art display. The Amigo is both PC and…
The official Microsoft Zune blog, the same one used to disseminate information to other blogs, says the Zune is going to come with “some content” on it—no what, who, or how much of it. Wow, could you tell us less? Maybe not even mention the name Zune at all? Perhaps go back to denying that…
Customs agents already have the power now to search your luggage when you cross borders, thanks to a circuit court ruling, they have the power to inspect the data on your laptops as well. The decision was handed down relating to this case: Stuart Romm boarded a plane in Las Vegas on February 1, 2004.…
The Slice-o-rama is just a design prototype for now, but this cutting board table saw has rails to guide the built-in table saw into your lettuce, potatoes, apples and yams. It uses the kind of saw that removes casts from your arm, so it supposedly won’t cut into your fingers. I haven’t been lucky enough…
This black slider from Samsung has Bluetooth, MP3 player, two-megapixel camera and 320×240 display. It’s 1.4-inches thick and has the popular Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) that’s found on most cellphones and media players released in Korea. No word on a US launch, but the UI supports English as well as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, so…
This USB key can display how much space you’ve eaten up, using either a pie chart or digits. The screen also has an 11-character readout to help you remember what you stored. It’s not an LCD, but a “Bi-stable Cholesteric” Display, which doesn’t need power to maintain its image. Comes in capacities of 1 and…
Pharrell’s 18-karat Blackberry has one up on Just Blaze who scored a K1 KRZR before it was even announced in the States. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-canary-in-the-wild-185898 P’s may not be skinny, blue or flip open, but it’s made out of gold, son! And he can text message loads faster than on the KRZR. The gold BB was designed…
Tomorrow Sony will be launching PlayStation Spot. This is a network of Wi-Fi hotspots that will allows PSP users to download demos, songs, games, videos and pictures and also play the games with other PSP users. Access to the wireless network itself will be free, but expect to pay out the wazoo for any kind…
There are only so many stunts you can pull in a car before you worry about getting yourself killed. So UK auto show Top Gear rigged some with remote controls, and raced them past a swinging wrecking ball, through a dirt track, and over ramps.– Brian Lam Top Gear Video: Full-Sized Remote Controlled Cars [via…
Popular Photography first took the Alpha 100 into Alaska for a boat-test. Sony’s on-board image stabilization meant he didn’t need to take an image-stabilized lens with him, as it effectively added that feature to every lens used. The seven features he found great with the Alpha 100 were: anti-blurring, the 10.2 megapixel sensor, the LCD,…
It is day four of our Shure Thing Scavenger Hunt. If you are just tuning in we are giving away a pair of $550 Shure E500PTH Sound Isolating Earphones. Everyday we are giving a clue that requires deep digging inside of the Gizmodo vault to find a specific product or a post. Once you figure…
A Microsoft Project Manager for their eHome division got sick and tired of people complaining that there weren’t any “new features” in Vista over MCE 2005. So tired, in fact, he compiled a huge list of all the 32 new features that will improve your life. Some of the ones that we know you’re looking…
We’re suckers for flying cars around here. I mean, just look at that picture above. It is so cool. Who wouldn’t want to fly above the daily traffic jam, pulling back on the steering wheel and rotating above the fray? https://gizmodo.com/transition-personal-air-vehicle-to-fly-by-2009-155483 Meanwhile, back on terra firma, Mike Elegan at Personal Tech Pipeline talks some sense…
So, earlier this week Apple released the updated Bluetooth Mighty Mouse and Nick Starr was one of the first guys to document the unboxing. Gizmodo has kind of declared itself as unofficial Mighty Mouse haters, but unboxing pr0n is always fun to see, even if it is crap. https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-released-189646 According to Nick there is no…
We first saw Sharp Lumiwall technology in solar-powered streetlights, and now the company is offering the thin-film transparent solar panels sandwiched between pieces of glass. https://gizmodo.com/sharps-solar-powered-street-lamp-lumiwall-18520 During the day, the glass panels store energy using the solar arrays. While the sunlight shines on them, they look like smoked glass windows, but then at night they…
At the Interactive Television Emmy Awards, TiVo will be taking home the hardware for Outstanding Achievement in Enhanced Television Programming. The PVR software and hardware developer beat out all the other finalists in that category, including AOL Music on Demand, CNN Enhanced and DirecTV Interactive Sports. “TiVo was the very first offering in the DVR…
Sony is the New Sorny By Brendan I. Koerner Many moons ago, when Low End Theory was still a metaphorical pup, I wrote a column about the principle of value spread—that is, the phenomenon of companies that manufacture both cheapo and ultra-expensive electronic goods. One of the true champs of value spread was Sony, which…